Sermon
The Turning Point | HOMECOMING | Apostle Mike Signorelli
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Turning Point.
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Can you say that with me?
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It's a turning point.
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And for those of you who are ignorant enough, or you discern from
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the soulless realm of your feelings, or you define what God's
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doing through a cultural lens and miss the supernatural.
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Can I just help you for a moment?
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I was on a ship retracing Paul's apostolic journeys.
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I was going from island to island and teaching the scriptures
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that were literally written on those islands.
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And in the midst of that travel, I'm on the ship.
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And last Sunday, the Holy Spirit said, mike, I know that you
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have your sermon written, but if you would give me permission,
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I'll give you the sermon you're supposed to be preaching.
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Hello.
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And he said, mike, I want you to just trash that sermon, and I
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want you to name this sermon the Turning Point.
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And he began to download this message.
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So before it was black versus White, before it was Republican versus
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Democrat.
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Oh, come on, somebody.
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I'm gonna speak right into it today.
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Before that ever happened, on Sunday, before the assassination,
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the Lord spoke to me and said, I need you to preach this message
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on a ship called the Turning Point.
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How else do you explain the sovereign plan of an almighty God
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that in his foreknowledge downloaded to me the very language
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now that has become international news?
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The Turning Point is the name of Charlie Kirk's organization and
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movement.
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There's no way I would have ever made the connection, but God
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was already on the move.
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So if I could warn you, you should have learned something in
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2020.
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You should have matured past the immaturity and the foolishness
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of racial division and pride.
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If you.
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I'm telling you, this is gonna be a test of who's on the meat of
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the word and who's still on the milk.
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This is gonna be a test of who Learned in the 2020s or who is still
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circling that mountain.
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Why?
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Because this is our finest hour.
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Don't get so caught up on something that Charlie Kirk disagree
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with that you miss the prophetic symbol of what's happening
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through Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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Because guess what?
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I love this country.
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I love the United States.
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But kings and kingdoms will all pass away.
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There's a bigger plan.
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And that plan is for the Lamb that was slain to be glorified and
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magnified.
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And I'm telling you, heaven is my destination.
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Even if America is temporarily my home, I'll never hide the cross
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underneath the.
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Flag of Jesus Christ.
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So don't come into this church with your political propaganda.
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Whether it's Republican or Democrat, Jesus Ministered in the
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context of Rome.
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Rome no longer exists.
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Choose your battles wisely.
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Jesus didn't fight Satan with political propaganda.
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He said it is written.
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Oh, I'll tell you what kind of church v1 church is.
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I'm not gonna parrot some politician, but I'm gonna sound like
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my heavenly Father.
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And if you want to know my opinion, you could read Genesis to
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Revelation.
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That's what I think about it.
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I'm a Bible believing Christian and I'm here to tell you
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the word of God.
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It is, it is written.
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I learned my lesson in the 2000 and twenties.
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This is a church for those who want to mature.
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Go find another church that'll give you milk and change your poopy
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diapers.
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But I'm not a hospital.
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We're an army.
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Come out the nicu.
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Come out the nicu.
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It's time to get on the meat of the word.
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Come on, soldier, lock in.
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Put on the full armor of God.
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It's time to do what he called you to do.
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Stop playing games in the comment section and start playing
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warfare on the battlefield.
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It's time to lock in.
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Somebody shout It's a turning point, It's.
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A turning point I'm turning from immature to mature.
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I'm turning from milk to meat.
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I'm turning from perversion to purity or.
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Oh, somebody help me.
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It's a turning point.
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It's a turning point.
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People who never cared about righteousness and holiness are suddenly
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buying Bibles.
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Gen Z are now statistically the highest proportion of our population
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attending church, which means many of them are going to church
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without their own parents.
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Listen, millennials, listen, Gen Xers.
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You can have your criticisms, you can be a naysayer, but God is
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raising up a generation.
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Who says I got a job to do?
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I might only be 18, but how old was David when he killed a giant?
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Come on, somebody, let's stop playing games.
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This is a JOL2 movement.
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All of us got to be on that door.
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Let Gen Z lead.
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Come on, old folks.
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This is for all of us.
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And I feel this in my spirit because before the assassination,
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the Lord said, it's a turning point.
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It's a turning point.
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And that's how I know that this thing is greater than politics.
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It's a spiritual battle between good and evil.
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It's not left versus right, it's up versus down.
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Which one do you choose?
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As for me and my house?
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Come on.
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The scripture says in Deuteronomy I present before you
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today blessing or cursing, you choose.
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It's a turning point.
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It's a turning point.
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Oftentimes God conceals good news inside of bad news.
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This is how the Father has always worked.
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That's why we don't think it's strange when we hear these things
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in the news, because he always hides good news inside of bad news.
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It's when you hear the taunts of Goliath, it's when he's literally
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shouting, your God is not the true God.
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That those shouts, those taunts are going to draw out a David
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who's been destined for that moment.
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And so you don't get a David without a Goliath.
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It's literally when the.
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There's a famine in the land and it's.
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It's this.
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The economy is completely wrecked and people are starving to
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death.
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That God had been meticulously and miraculously moving a man named
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Joseph through the structures of an Egyptian prison for the right
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time at the right moment.
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And if you don't have a famine, you don't have a Joseph.
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So for those of you who are still scared right now, can I just
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remind you, is when fear gets brought broadcast from Satan, all
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it reveals is his desperation.
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And Satan's desperation is revealing God's mission in the earth.
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What is the devil fighting so hard right now?
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What does he see getting ready to take place?
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Could it be an international revival?
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Could it be the generations being won?
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Could it be college campuses coming to him in droves?
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Why is he so desperate?
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He, God's always got good news wrapped up in bad news.
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Oh, Pastor Mike, it's so expensive here in New York.
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No, no, no, no.
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The most expensive place you can ever live is outside of the will
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of God.
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It's not expensive in New York.
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It's expensive out of his will.
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Because if you get into his will, if it's his will, it's his
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bill.
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He'll make a way where there seems to be no way.
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He'll.
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He'll open up a door that nobody can shut.
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There's good news inside of the bad news.
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The bad news is it's expensive here.
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The good news is your dad owns a cattle on a thousand hill and everything
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that's his is yours.
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It's time to lock in church.
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It's time to say it's a turning point.
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And I made up my mind.
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I will follow Jesus.
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Done.
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None go with me if I gotta go alone on work.
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I'm not drinking on my lunch break like they drink on their lunch
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break.
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I'm praying on my lunch break because.
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I'm not at my work.
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Alone.
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He said he'll never leave me nor forsake me.
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And I take him everywhere I go.
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Gen Z, put your Bible on top.
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Of your textbooks this school year so.
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That you shine your light in the middle of that school and you
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say, there ain't no spirit but the Holy Spirit up in this school.
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And I'm here to be a light in the darkness.
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Gen Z, are you with me?
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If everybody else is coming out of the closet, why don't you
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come out, too?
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Demons are real bold about their doctrines.
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Why don't you learn doctrine, too?
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See, this is a.
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This is a dividing line.
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It's.
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I'm gonna get into the text, but I've been preaching scriptures
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for those who have ears to hear.
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This is a turning point.
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This is the turning point because, see, for a long time, the
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grace of God was represented in an intellectualized middle for
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a lot of pastors.
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He gave pastors a lot of time to figure out how they're gonna communicate
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it.
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He gave ministers a lot of time to be on the fence.
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But I'm telling you, something happened just days ago where it is.
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You can't ignore this.
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You can't not talk about it.
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You can't act like it doesn't exist.
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It's time to say the word of God.
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It's time to say, I'm a man of God.
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I know the truth.
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And when they hear the truth, the truth will set them free and
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the middle ground is over.
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And let me just tell you, there's only two teams, according
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to Jesus Christ.
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He said you were either a son of Satan or you are a son of the
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Savior.
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You're a son of God.
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There's only two teams here on Long Island.
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You talk to people.
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Are you a Christian?
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Yeah, I'm a Christian.
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I went to Catholic school.
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Yeah, I'm a Christian.
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I was baptized and went through confirmation.
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Yeah, I'm a Christian.
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I watch YouTube.
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I watch Christian YouTube.
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No, no, I didn't ask you your title.
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I asked you your identity.
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Christians have fruit.
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And you will know them not by their subscriptions.
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Come on, somebody.
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And you will know them not because of their education.
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And you will know them not because they're Sicilian Catholic
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family.
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And you will know them by their fruit.
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So the thing that I'm going to be watching is who has love and peace
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and patience and joy and long suffering in the midst of the next
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couple years, I want to know who's going to bear fruit.
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Fruit.
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So that the world can eat of your fruit.
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Somebody shout, it's a Turning point.
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So let me jump into the text.
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If you have your Bibles, please go to Acts, the 27th chapter.
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And although I don't have the privilege of being able to teach
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all 26 chapters, to get you caught up, I'll try to summarize.
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Is that all right?
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No.
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You want to fast and just stay here all day?
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Okay, great.
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We'll do that in the 27th chapter of the book of Acts.
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Paul has been going to region to region, and he's been whooped,
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bullied, persecuted.
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He's been cast out from their midst, and he's on these apostolic
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journeys trying to preach the Gospel and establish the church.
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And he's a prisoner of Rome.
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He's a prisoner of Rome, and they're taking him on this journey.
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And it's.
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We're going to see how this plays out.
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Now that I got you caught up.
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It says in verse eight.
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So skip down to verse eight.
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It says coasting along with difficulty.
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Everybody say difficulty.
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We came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of
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Lycia.
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So what happens is Paul is on this journey that he's being forced
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on.
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That's a really important part of the text.
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And this journey is this difficult.
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It's difficult.
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Now, what does Crete, this island, represent for you?
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Because for him, it was a physical location.
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But how many of you know that there's a parallel between the physical
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and the spiritual?
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He says there's even a place that's in this geography called,
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look at the word Fair Havens.
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Have you ever heard that term safe haven't?
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So what Crete represented was safe, yet difficult.
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The thing that I'm here to prophetically tell you, and this
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is one of the most important sermons you'll ever hear in your
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life, and I can bank on that, is that you are leaving the island
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of Crete now.
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Because up until now, your life has been safe but difficult.
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I'm not undermining all of the situations you've encountered.
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I'm not undermining all of the difficulties.
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It is difficult.
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But there was a turning point days ago that are now going to take
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you by the sovereign God's hand into the next season of your
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life, this next era.
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And we are now going to shift.
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Come on.
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Do you feel the shift from difficult past this turning point,
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past Fairhaven, where it's safe, into something more perilous?
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But remember, I already promised you that God cloaks good
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news inside of bad news.
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Are you following me?
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The assassination of Charlie Kurt.
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It represented persecution to Christians in the form of Physical
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violence coming to America.
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I have.
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I did a news interview just two days ago that has almost half
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a million views already on YouTube.
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Because I have personally, even though I'm nowhere near the
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influence of Charlie Kirk, I've personally sustained over five
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years of consistent death threats.
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Not because of a political position, if you follow my ministry.
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I've been very politically agnostic, but because a biblical
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stance in a world full of sinners that don't know our Savior.
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This book is foolishness to those who are dead in their sin.
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And so I think we were in Crete.
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I think we were in Crete.
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Do you remember life before 9 11?
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Those are.
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There's these times in our life where it's difficult, but it's
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safer than where you're headed.
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So the Apostle Paul, some of you are saying, preacher, please
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get to the good news.
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You said there was good news.
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I'm going there.
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Then in verse 9.
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So Acts 27, verse 9.
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Since much time has passed and the voyage was now dangerous, everybody
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say dangerous.
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Because even the fast was already over.
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Paul advised them, saying, sirs, I perceive.
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Everybody say perceive.
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I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss,
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not only of the cargo of the ship, but also of our lives.
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So what Paul is saying is.
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Paul is saying, when we were in Crete, it was difficult sailing,
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but it was safe.
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But I perceive if we go to this next destination, we're in a
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turning point.
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And if you choose wrong, we are going to lose our ship and we're
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also going to lose our lives.
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And we've transitioned from difficult to dangerous.
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There are demonized people who are not okay with you having a biblical
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opinion.
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It was difficult in this nation to be a Christian before last
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week.
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It is now dangerous.
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Mark my words.
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Mark my words.
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I got good news for you.
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We were built for danger.
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The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, but the violent take it
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by force.
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I may not be physically violent.
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The weapons of my warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty through
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God.
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To the pulling down of strongholds and Satan.
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I'm here to take your neck.
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I'm built for this.
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Somebody shout unto God we were built for this.
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We were built for this.
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When I started V1 Church, I used to pray every Sunday.
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God, I don't want to build a 21st century church.
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The 21st century church is full of consumers.
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They need a cup of coffee and a bagel.
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The 21st century church doesn't read their Bible.
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They me to post it on the Internet.
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The 21st century church doesn't give their finances because
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their God is mammon.
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God, help me build a church like the first century church on
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the blood of the martyrs.
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And I'm here to tell you we're not in a six million dollar building
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because this is a prosperity church.
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We're in this building today because a sacrifice was poured out
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and people said, God, I'm here to serve you on this island.
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And I will give and pour my life to build your kingdom.
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That's what we're doing here.
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When I you peel the sticker back that says V1 church, it better
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say the kingdom of heaven.
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And if it doesn't, I'll be the first person to leave the church.
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Why, Pastor Mike?
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Why are you so serious?
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Let me tell you why.
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When Jesus first called his disciples, the first miracle was
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what?
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Come on.
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Biblical scholars.
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Turning water into wine.
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Oh, that was a good time.
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They were turning up.
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It was probably sangria.
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You know what I mean?
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Probably sangria.
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No.
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That'S how they started their journey with Jesus.
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See, when you first start following Jesus, there's this phase
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that you're in of celebration, the joy of your salvation.
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He turned water into wine for you.
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But right before Gethsemane, something changes.
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Jesus says, can't you just stay up one more hour?
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Can't you watch?
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Can't you pray?
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See, it's a different.
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He's saying there's been a transition.
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There was a turning point.
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We're going from celebration to concentration.
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There's a turning point.
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We're supposed to be shifting.
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I mean, yeah, we started this thing with wine, but we're gonna
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end it with blood.
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There's a transition.
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There's a turning point.
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And I'm here to tell you, get out of the nicu.
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Some of you have been in the infant stage for too long.
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Some of you gotta get off the milk of the word and shift into the
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meat of the word.
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Some of you have been nursing old wounds of church hurt.
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And it's been 15 years.
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It's time to armor up.
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We're going into Gethsemane and.
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And trade the wine for blood.
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It's a turning point.
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Does anybody hear me?
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Are you ready to be mature, lacking in nothing, unoffendable?
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Are you ready to say, God, I will do what you called me to do.
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This is going off way better than I thought it would because I'm
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preaching real mean and you're taking it.
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Y' all must be for real.
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Everybody's like.
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Wow, is he not coming back?
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For a bride without spot and without.
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Wrinkle and without blemish.
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God, do your work.
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You got to do in me.
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Get the wrinkles out, get the spots out.
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I may have started wrong, but I'm going to finish strong.
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God, I'm here for you.
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You're bright.
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So they go from Crete, and then from Crete they make the wrong
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decision.
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It wasn't Paul's fault.
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Let me just tell you.
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Some of you are subjected to somebody else's bad decision, but
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God will be sovereign in your life.
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Your husband may not have made the right decision, but God will
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take a crooked way and make it straight.
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Come on, I'm talking to a single mother right now.
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Sometimes the people on the boat with you make the wrong decision,
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but they can't control the wind.
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God is still going to get you where he wants to get you.
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And that's the story of Paul.
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I wish you heard me today.
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See, Paul gave them a warning.
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Paul says in verse nine through 12.
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Sirs, I perceived that this voyage will be with injury.
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But they didn't listen.
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The centurion soldiers of Rome were more content with listening
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to the pilot than they were Paul.
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We pray for our president, but don't listen to our president more
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than you listen to Paul.
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Oh, y' all don't hear me?
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Y' all don't hear me?
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There's only one perfect.
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There's only one that's perfect.
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There's only.
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Come on, I'm talking to somebody right now.
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There's going to be delusion in the last days.
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There's going to be confusion in the last days.
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But the saints that have discernment are going to know.
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They might have said it wrong.
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But I'm standing on a solid foundation upon this rock and I am
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stable.
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I am certain I am not confused because the lamp is actually lighting
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the path.
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This is all.
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Come on.
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So Proverbs chapter 14, verse 12 says, There's a way that seems
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right.
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There's a way that seems right.
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There's a way that seems right to man, but the end of it is death.
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Pastor Mike.
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Some of my earliest memories of attraction were same sex attraction.
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It seems right to me.
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Heterosexuality doesn't seem right to me.
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Pastor Mike.
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I never felt like a man.
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I felt like a woman trapped in a man's body.
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It seems right for me to wear these women's clothes.
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It seems right.
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The Bible says, there is a way that seems right, but the end of
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it is death.
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See, everything in scripture is for human flourishing.
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And the more you understand the wisdom of God, you'll see that
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he's doing nothing to hurt You.
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His plans for you are not evil, but his plans for you are good.
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You have a hope and a future through him.
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But culture, lies, sexual abuse and trauma, confusing your
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sexual identity.
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Some people say, well, I was born with this.
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You can be born under a generational curse.
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Demons coming to inhabit your body before you're even old enough
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to make memories.
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Be born again.
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Be born again.
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Why would I say this so boldly knowing that I could offend you?
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I'll tell you why.
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Because the cross of Jesus Christ is.
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Offense to those who are in sin.
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It's offensive to demons.
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But I have to tell you the truth.
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Because if you can hear the truth.
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You can be free.
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The man who killed Charlie Kirk was.
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A 22 year old who's in a relationship with a transgender man,
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a 22 year old Mormon.
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I don't know if you know this, but this is a demonic battle.
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This is a demonic battle.
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Last night I was seeking God and I was saying, God, you've been
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so merciful to give me the right things to say when it needs
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to be said.
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And I said, I've cast demons out of people all over the world.
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And I feel like.
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And I've studied historically, even from the archaeological record,
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demons and pagan gods.
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And I'm struggling because you hear in the news that phrase senseless
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murder, senseless act of violence, senseless.
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And I know that it's.
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It's seemingly senseless, but there is a reason.
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There is a principality, there is a demon over America.
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And I cannot fully discern what it is.
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Clear as day, the Lord spoke to me and he said, it's Luciferianism.
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Luciferianism, Luciferianism.
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Is it all right if I come up off my notes for a little bit and
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just speak from my heart?
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I'll be honest, I thought, what a weird thing, especially with
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thousands in attendance to talk about Luciferianism.
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And then I was watching my friend Mark.
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He has a Saturday night service.
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And so as I was going through my notes, I had his sermon on just
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watching him.
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And all of a sudden he gets towards the end of his sermon and
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he says, I asked the Lord to show me what is the spirit, what
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is the demon that's over all of what's happening in our nation,
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this murderous spirit, this spirit of destruction.
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And he said, the Lord spoke to me and said it was Luciferianism.
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When those words came out of Mark's mouth, I. I mean, it dropped
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my jaw.
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And I literally, I was the most stunned I've been in a long
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time because it was just like how the Lord told me to actually
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preach a sermon.
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The turning point two days before Charlie Kirk's murder.
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Or just like how he told me to change the name of this sermon or
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this service from Ignite Sunday to Homecoming, not knowing
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that many unsafe people would come.
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It's like the Lord was doing something.
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And I was texting Mark last night and I was like, mark, one of
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the greatest moments of confirmation in my life was hearing
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you speak the phrase Luciferianism as the diagnosis for
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what we're dealing with.
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But there's many of you who are confused about what that means.
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And because of my in depth studies of demonology, I started
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to go back and review notes and rehearse and sort of refresh
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my memory.
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And it's very simple.
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That serpent that came into the garden, way back in Genesis,
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he looked at Adam and Eve and he said, I know God gave you a command.
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I know God gave you a plan.
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But you can make your own plan.
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And if you do, you won't die.
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You can live life the way you want to do it, and you're not going
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to die.
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And so the question right now, it's not, are you a Republican or
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are you a Democrat?
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The question right now is not white versus black.
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The question is this, do you believe in God or do you believe
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that you are God?
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It's not Christianity versus Atheism.
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It's Luciferianism versus Christianity.
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And here's the difference.
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Do you believe in the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, or do.
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You believe that you are a God?
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Transgenderism is a demonic spirit.
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When you study the pagan representations of demons, you see
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that these demons chose to represent themselves as transgender
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throughout history.
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But what is the root?
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The root is my identity is not received.
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My identity is achieved.
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I achieve it with surgeries.
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I achieve it with hormone replacement.
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I achieve it.
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Come on.
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I'm speaking into the core of a demonic infrastructure structure.
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And let me just tell you, for those of you who are saying, well,
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I'm not transgendered, what does this have to do with me?
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Depression and anxiety is also connected to Luciferian thought.
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Why?
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One of the most Luciferian questions you can be asked is very
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simply, what are you going to be when you grow up?
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See, Americans ask that question in our public education
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systems.
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What are you going to be when you grow up?
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What are you going to be when you grow up?
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What?
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And how many of us grew up and still didn't know what we're going
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to be?
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Why is that elusive question?
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Adam didn't have to figure out what he did with his life.
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Adam didn't have to figure out what was he going to be when he grew
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up.
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Identity was given to him by Abba, his father.
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Assignment was given.
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His wife was given.
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His life was given.
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And so what happens when you feel like you are God with a lowercase
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g?
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You feel the weight of anxiety, of always having to figure
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out how to be a good God over your life.
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But the gospel is that for all have sinned and fallen short of the
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glory.
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And I was a bad God over my life.
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It led to infidelity and adultery and alcoholism and shame
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and God, I'm done being in charge.
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I want you to be my Lord and Savior.
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Here's the thing.
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Right now, the world wants a savior.
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In your if you're on your deathbed with cancer, who wouldn't
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want the cure?
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If you're having an anxiety.
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Anxiety attack.
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That doesn't make sense.
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Who wouldn't want it to immediately stop?
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Everybody wants a savior.
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But In Romans chapter 10, verse 9, it says that we must confess
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with our mouth and believe in our heart that he is Lord and Savior.
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And let me tell you the difference.
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The difference is simply this.
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I praise you when it works out the way I want it to, and I praise
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you when I don't understand what you're doing.
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I am not just here for your help hand.
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I am here for your face.
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I want to know you.
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I want to be submitted to you.
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You are the Lord.
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Let pure word.
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I wish somebody would jump to their feet and give them some pure
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worship that says God, no matter what, I worship you.
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You're not just my savior.
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My you're my Lord.
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Somebody shout, you're my Lord.
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This is.
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I believe that when Gen Z goes into the school systems and they
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see their friends dressed as furries, when there's dog bowls in
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the corner to accommodate that demonic delusion.
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We're at a turning point.
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We're at a turning point.
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Do I say this to condemn?
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No, it's quite the opposite.
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I say that the freedom of the gospel is that you will receive an
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identity that you could never achieve.
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That you don't have to be filled with anxiety, you don't have
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to be filled with fear.
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You can simply say yes to Jesus.
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But here's the thing.
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Hear me.
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You have to make him Lord.
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What is Lord?
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Lord is my heterosexual sin is going to send me to hell, just like
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homosexual sin will send me to hell.
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And so I don't just need a savior.
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I need to submit Lord and say, I'm not going to try to get into
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the ring and fight a battle with lust I'll never win.
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I'm going to flee from sexual immorality.
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I'm going to run in the other direction.
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I'm going to find accountability in a group, in the
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church.
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I'm going to show up to the Bible studies.
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I'm going to show up to the meetings.
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I'm going to go.
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I'm going to be accountable.
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I need a Lord over my life.
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I've been a rebel my whole life.
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But now it's time to submit to him as Lord.
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Somebody shout.
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It's a turning point.
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So to continue the story of Acts, chapter 27, they don't listen.
Acts 27 chapter mention
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It's late fall, probably late November, and they try to traverse
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an impossible distance of water out of sheer foolishness.
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They wanted to go to another destination.
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How many of you know some of your friends and family, no matter
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how much you try to save them from destruction, keep heading in
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that direction.
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But I got good news for you.
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The result is on God.
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The obligation to tell them the truth is on you, but the results
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on God.
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There's going to be people who hear.
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This message and want to end my.
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Life, too, because of my stance on transgenderism.
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And yet there's going to be others.
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In the transgender community that the gospel of Jesus Christ causes
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the scales to fall off.
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And they say, I once was blind, but now I see.
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I once was lost, and now I'm found.
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And the only way that happens is I got to be faithful not to give
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my opinion, but to give the truth of the word of God.
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There's a man in the Bible named Samson, and you don't know
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this because you got the coloring book version, but when he
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pushed the pillars down, he was in a temple of Dagon.
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It was a hybrid of a human and a creature.
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See, these spirits are playing the same playbook, and it's working
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over and over again.
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But when Samson pushed the pillars down of the temple of Dagon
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and destroyed all the priests of Dagon, what it was saying was
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lust and perversion almost took me out.
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But God has given me grace to take this demon out, and he pushed
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those pillars down.
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And I'm here to tell you, there's going to be people like Richard
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that begin to rise up like a Samson.
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In our generation that says LGBTQ ia, you don't have to achieve
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your identity.
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You receive your identity as a son and daughter and push those pillars
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down.
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It's a turning point, America.
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It's a turning point.
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Samson's are going to arise.
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Esthers and Mordecai's are going to arise.
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But the good news, cloaked in the bad news, is it has to get darker
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so that our light can shine brighter.
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I want to ask you this last question as I end this sermon.
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Acts 20:7.
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Paul literally is in this massive shipwreck.
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The lives of those on board were preserved because we serve the
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God of second chances.
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Even though they listened to the pilot and not Paul, Even though
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they could have stayed in Crete, but they intended to go to
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another destination God didn't design.
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I'm telling you, God was merciful and said, the ship will
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be destroyed, but your lives will be saved because He's God of
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second chances.
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There's many of you who, under the sound of my voice, who have not
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been to church in years and years and years.
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And you should have stayed in Crete, but you went on a journey
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and you've experienced shipwreck after shipwreck.
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But in God's mercy, he said, son, if you're not dead, it's because
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you're not done.
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Daughter, you may have left me, but I will never leave you and
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never forsake you.
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And I'll be with you to the ends of the earth.
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But the question I have for you is, do you want to be saved from
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a shipwreck, or do you want to receive him as Lord of your.
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Life and say, I now will submit to you?
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Do what you will with me, break these demonic spirits off of
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me and free me from this false identity so I can step up into the
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real.
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I want to be a part of the turning point.
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So on the count of three, here's what we're going to do.
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And I don't care if you're up there.
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I don't care if you're in the overflow room.
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We have to do this because the Bible does not say, make a private
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decision and do it from the comfort of your seat.
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The Bible says that if you will deny Christ before man, that
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when you get to heaven for Judgment Day, he will deny you before
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His Father.
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So on the count of three, the question I have is, do you want to
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receive Jesus as your Savior, but do you also want to submit to
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him as Lord and say God, in this turning point, I don't want
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to miss what you have.
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I'm ready to lock in.
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I'm ready to submit to you.
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I'm ready to receive you, and I'm ready to come home for homecoming.
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And I want us to run and fill these altars on the count of three.
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And I want you to do it in front of your friends and family.
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And I want you to show them I've decided I'll never be the same
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if that's you right now.
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Heaven has been waiting for this moment.
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Heaven has been waiting for the moment where you stop being lukewarm
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and you actually become fiery hot.
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And you say, God, I'm going all the way in one.
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If that's you, God's dealing with your heart.
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Don't resist the Holy Spirit.
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It's not about the emotion of the moment.
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It's about him drawing you.
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Two, if that's you, I want you to grab the hand of somebody with
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you.
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Give them your courage.
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Number three.
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Come right now.
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Just come.
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Come, come, come.
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Come on.
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It's time.
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If you want to.
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If you want to receive Christ as your savior, come.
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Come on, church.
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Just come up front.
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Come on, young people, come up closer.
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Come on.
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They're coming.
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Come on.
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They're coming.
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Come on.
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Heaven is rejoicing.
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The angels are rejoicing.
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Yeah.
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Come on.
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Every gener.
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Come on.
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I'm going to give a little bit more time for those who are in the
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overflow if you need to come, come.
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They're still coming, by the way.
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People are still coming.
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Wow.
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
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Wow.
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I'm proud of you.
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I'm proud of you.
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I'm proud of you.
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Come on.
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This man in the green.
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This green and blue striped shirt.
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The power of God is all over you.
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The power.
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And I want to encourage you.
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When you made the decision to come up, the Lord told me, your entire
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family is next.
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Your entire family is next.
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Your entire family is next.
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The Lord said, it starts with you.
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It starts with you, but it doesn't end with you.
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Somebody help me.
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Ask for me in my house.
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Come on.
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We're going to pray in a moment.
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If you're watching online, this is for you too.
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It's a beautiful thing that you would be right there with your
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children.
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I got a vision of a mother just holding their kids right now,
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weeping.
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If I'm talking to you right now, this moment is for you.
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I don't believe in accidents, whether they're digital or physical.
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And God will take the blood of his son, Jesus, and wash us, make
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us clean.
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It's a turning point.
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I want you to make a commitment to be discipled.
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I want you to make a commitment to walk the narrow road.
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I want you to make a commitment to read your Bible.
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Gen Z, are you ready to lock in?
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Are you ready to lock in.
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It's time.
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This Luciferian spirit is going to be broken off of this generation.
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And we're going to be free to say, God's got this, God's in control.
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How many of you just feel the peace of God just rushing over this
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place right now?
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We're going to pray.
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We're going to pray in a moment.
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Romans chapter 10 says, Confess your mouth with your mouth.
Romans 10 chapter mention
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Believe in your heart that he is your Lord and Satan savior and
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you will be saved.
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Tonight at 7pm we're gonna have a revival service here.
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It's gonna be different than the morning service at 5pm I'm gonna
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be available.
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I want to meet you, want to take a picture, wanna, you know,
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just hang with you guys.
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And there's gonna be something very special that happens tonight.
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But for every single one of you that accepted Christ today, I
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want you to make a commitment to go home, to get your friends,
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to get your family and bring them back to tonight.
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Because some of what God wants to do, he wants to do it today.
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This is the day of salvation.
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This is the day.
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How many of you believe that?
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So tonight, get him back here for 7pm it's the only service we
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have that even has room left.
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But come back here tonight at 7pm let's reverence the presence
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of God.
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He's here.
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He's here.
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I hear somebody's heart and you've been crying out, God, when
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is it going to change?
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I can't take this anymore.
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I can't live like this anymore.
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I see a woman silently crying on her pillow.
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And you have these late night tears that nobody knows about.
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I see you waking up at 2 and 3 and 4 in the morning and just weeping,
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crying.
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You're on your phone, you can't sleep.
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And the Lord says, I give you my peace.
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Peace that surpasses all understanding.
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Some of you have been bearing this heavy burden of your family.
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And I see you weeping for your family, weeping for your friends.
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But I want to tell you it's Jesus Christ crying through you because
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he's giving you a burden for the lost.
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And your heart's going to be moved with compassion for those who
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are lost.
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And you're going to feel what he feels and you're going to think
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what he thinks because you've received the mind of Christ.
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When we pray this prayer, the Bible says that the old has passed
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away and behold all, all things become new.
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There's somebody that one of the biggest regrets of their life
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was not being a virgin when they got married.
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And you felt ashamed.
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And you had made a promise that you broke.
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And I heard the Lord saying, daughter, behold, I make all things
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new.
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But also to the men, I make all things new.
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There's some of you that your purity was taken by sexual abuse,
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and it perverted and distorted your identity.
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And you've been saying, I just feel like I can never be normal.
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There's some of you that found pornography at such a young age that
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it destroyed your imagination.
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And you've said, I just don't know that I could ever be normal.
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But God is not going to make you normal.
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He's going to make you new.
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And then you'll never be normal because you're a royal priesthood,
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a chosen generation.
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Come on.
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And this is when.
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This is the turnaround.
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This is the transition.
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This is the turning point.
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Some of you got so hurt by another church that one of the scariest
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things that you could do is even step into a church.
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And I honor the fact that you tried again.
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And I honor Girl.
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I know there's skepticism.
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I know that there's a little bit of skepticism.
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But I also believe that God will take you to the place where
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you were hurt to heal you.
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And so this isn't about playing church games.
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This is about destiny.
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This is about the afterlife.
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This is about eternity.
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Are you ready to pray?
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Because when you pray this prayer, it's all going to be done
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in a moment.
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Lift your hands towards heaven.
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Let's do this together.
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From the front to the back.
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This is the universal sign of surrender.
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Everybody on the fringes here, everybody in overflow, and I want
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you to pray this because they're just weeping and there's
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so many tears.
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But these tears are like seeds that fall into the soil of your life,
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and they're gonna bear much fruit, and you will reap a harvest
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of joy.
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So shout this out with me and say it boldly.
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Heavenly Father, I thank you for the cross where my sins were
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forgiven.
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I repent for every sin.
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Wash me with your blood, Father.
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I will follow you all the days of my life.
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I will serve you.
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You are Lord and Savior.
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I will walk the narrow road because it's a turning point.
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And I turn to in Jesus name Someone shout Amen.
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Come on, let's sing.
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Sam.