Sermon
Vision Sunday 2025 Part 2 | Apostle Mike Signorelli
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Transcript
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But we're going to be primarily in Proverbs, chapter 29,
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verse 18.
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And I'm going to read you this version of that.
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It says, where there is no prophetic vision, the people cast
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off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
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Say this verse together.
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This is Proverbs, chapter 29, verse 18.
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And let's say all together across all of our locations.
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Repeat after me.
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Where there is no prophetic vision, the people cast off restraint.
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But blessed is he who keeps the law.
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Okay, let's pray.
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Heavenly Father, we come before you as a church.
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Every age and every stage of life, from the youngest to the oldest,
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God.
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We come to you and we ask that you would humble us, Lord God.
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Lord, that we would submit and surrender our selfish ambitions,
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our carnal desires to you, God.
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We get up on the cross and we die to self right now.
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We die to our own vain imaginations about the way things
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should be.
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God and Lord, we say, have your way, God.
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We decrease so that you would increase, God.
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We submit and surrender to your mighty hand, God.
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We are under your authority, God.
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And all, every single one of us.
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We lay aside the pride of life, the pride of knowledge, God.
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And we say, teach us, Lord.
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Break us, mold us, shape us, God.
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And we, Lord, as a church, we come before you and say, we don't
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want to be a haughty, prideful church.
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We want to be a humble church, a contrite and broken church before
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you, God and Lord, in a time where everybody is obsessed with
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their opinions, God, may we be people of prayer and intercession.
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Lord, I'm asking that you would make us a people of prayer.
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That you would birth in us a desire to pray.
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That we would wake up wanting to pray and go to bed wanting to
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pray.
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That we would pray in the midday, God.
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That we would be known as a praying church, God.
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There's social media churches that are posting churches.
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But I want us to be a praying church more than we post we pray,
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God.
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I want us to be known as a church that prays.
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So I'm coming before you, Lord, and I'm saying, let every past
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season die.
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All the bad programming of the religions and traditions of men,
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we submit it to you, God.
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Oh God, we come before you asking, free us from the chains that
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bind us.
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Free us, God, from Leviathan Pride.
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Free us, God.
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From Jezebel and Ahab's control and their manipulative spirit
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that's always wanting to rob relationships.
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Free us, God.
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We cry out as a people, Lord, y'all.
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Some of Y'all gonna have to learn how to pray with me right now
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because it sounds way too quiet in Brooklyn right now.
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It sounds way too quiet in New Jersey.
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God, we come before you and how we exit is how we enter.
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And we want to exit 2024 submitted.
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We want to exit 2024 humble.
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We want to exit 2024 empty.
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God, where we gave all that we were to give.
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And Lord, I ask you, Lord, that you would just use us in a great
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mighty way to establish your kingdom.
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Lord, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in
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heaven.
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Lord.
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Oh, God, I'm so are sorry for bringing our own agenda.
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We are sorry for bringing our own opinion.
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God, we want to know your word.
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Give us a hunger to read your word.
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Give us a hunger to eat the scroll.
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Oh, God, that we would read the Bible on our work break.
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That we would read the Bible on our coffee break.
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That we would read the Bible before we go to bed.
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God, that your word will be on our lips.
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God, that we would speak your word in a season.
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Oh, God, we cry out as a church that you would make us people
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of prayer and people of the word.
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God.
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O Lord, in a generation that's obsessed with music, they're obsessed
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with songs, make us true worshippers.
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God, in a generation that's obsessed with production, they're
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obsessed with the sound.
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God, let our worship be pure.
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God, that we would rise up as true worshipers.
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Jesus name.
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Father, we ask you.
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I come before you, Lord, asking.
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I commit these people to you, Father.
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I commit these people to you, God.
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Oh, Lord, forgive us for even entertaining the idea of divorce.
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Forgive us for even entertaining the idea of escaping
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and running away.
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Father, forgive us for.
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I just.
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We need to go through a time of repentance right now.
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Now, some of you are supposed to get divorced.
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It's permissible under certain conditions.
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I'm not judging you, but I'm talking about those.
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And you know who I'm talking to.
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There's many of you right now that there's been this desire to
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escape, this.
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Desire to run away.
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This desire.
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And right now we need to bring it up under the blood.
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We need to sanctify our minds.
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We need to sanctify our wills.
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So, Father, we submit it to you right now.
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And, Lord, forgive us.
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Wash us with your blood.
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Wash us.
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Make us pure and holy and acceptable before you, Father, that
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we can come boldly before the throne of grace right now and we
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can receive a fresh oil, a fresh anointing.
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God, Lord, that you would purify us.
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That you would sanctify our ears from all that we've entertained
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to listen to, and you would sanctify our eyes for all those things
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that we've entertained to see, God.
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And I pray, Lord God, that you would refresh and renew us right
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now.
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And wash us with your blood.
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Oh, God, that you would iron out.
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Every wrinkle in your bride right now.
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Iron out every wrinkle.
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That you would blot out everything, God, that you would make
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us pure, pure, pure right now, Jesus.
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And we lay it all before you, God.
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We lay it all before you.
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All gossip, all slander.
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Come on.
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All accusation.
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God, forgive us.
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Wash us, Lord God, as we get ready to step up over this threshold,
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as we get ready to step up over this threshold, God, may we
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not bring our filthy rags.
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May we not bring our past and bring all these things, God.
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But forgetting what was past and pressing forward towards the
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high calling, the high mark which you have for us, Lord.
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Forgetting what was past, forgetting our old pastors forgetting
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the way worship used to be.
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Forgetting how we used to do church.
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Forgetting what was past and pressing forward for the high mark,
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that calling that awaits us, Lord.
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Wow.
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Thank you, Jesus.
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Thank you, Jesus.
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We need supernatural vision.
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We need spiritual vision.
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In your mighty name.
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We in el nombre de Jesus, ye men.
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Yeah, man.
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Yes.
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Is it just me, or did it.
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Feel like it physically got brighter in the room?
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I'm not kidding.
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I'm not trying to be hokey or weird, but I'm like, wow, that was
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crazy.
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So I promised to preach.
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I promised to preach a short sermon, but I didn't promise to pray
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short.
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So, Jill, react.
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Relax, some of you.
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That's the longest you prayed all week.
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And that's why you had a bad week.
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All right?
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I love you.
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I love you.
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I love you.
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Come here, let me give you a hug.
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Now, you know that awkward moment where your parent beats you
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and then they ask you for a hug?
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Come over here.
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Give me a hug.
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You're like.
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Come over here.
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Give Papa 6 a hug.
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Oh, Santo.
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Proverbs 29:18.
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It says, where there is no prophetic vision, the Hebrew word
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there is kezzah.
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Everybody say kezzah.
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You're a Hebrew scholar.
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Isn't that amazing?
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Kaza means to see.
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It means to see.
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Now, many pastors have perverted this scripture to suit
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their own agenda.
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And there's a very high likelihood that you've heard this
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verse before but never heard it properly interpreted, because
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pastors use this scripture to convince people, well, where there's
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no vision, the people perish.
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And then what they proceed to tell you is their selfish vision
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that they need to employ all of you to do.
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And so what I want to do is I want to tell you what the Bible really
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says and what this is, this scripture is about, because I think
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it's even better, because let me just tell you, and I want to get
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this on record because we're filming right now, the vision of
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this church should not even be my vision as the lead pastor, because
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my vision will fail.
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But if it is God's vision, it cannot fail if it is God's vision,
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there's provision if it is God's vision, they can gossip, slander
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and accuse, but they can't stop it if it is God.
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So we need to know what God's vision is.
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Now, as I'm breaking this down, Kaza is to see it's a picture.
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And when you look at the original Hebrew, the language translation
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for Proverbs, chapter 29:18, it says, where there's no prophetic
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vision, the people cast off restraint.
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Do you all remember in the 80s when we didn't have to wear seatbelts?
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You remember that?
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Nobody wore seat belts in the 80s.
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We were just living on the edge every day.
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Right.
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I remember being in the back.
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We had a station wagon.
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You all remember those?
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And all of us would be.
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The kids would be in the back, no seatbelt hanging out.
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It was amazing.
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Bring that back.
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And so.
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But to cast off restraint is the equivalency of.
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To the Hebrew word means to loosen.
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So it would be like taking your seatbelt off.
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So it says, where there is no prophetic vision, the people, it's
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like they take off their seatbelt, they release their restraint,
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but blessed is he who keeps the law.
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Now let's go back to the old covenant, because what is prophetic
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vision?
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According to the Old Covenant, it is the prophet that would be designated
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by God to speak a word to the nation of Israel.
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And so think about the prophet Samuel.
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Samuel would get a vision from God and he would speak the vision
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and he would say, thus saith the Lord, this is from God.
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And then that would actually produce restraint, because vision
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produces restraint.
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What does that mean?
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Well, let me break it down for you.
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If you don't have a vision for your sexuality, you will.
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Your sexuality will be unrestrained.
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So.
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Or if you have a false vision for your sexuality, it will be unrestrained.
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But when you have a biblical vision for your sexuality, you will
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restrain it so that you only fulfill it within the context of
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a healthy marriage between a man and a woman.
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And that is the Bible.
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And so what happens is pornography is a false vision that
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will cause you to loose restraint off of the sexuality that
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God gave you.
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Oh, it's real quiet in here.
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Everyone's like, can we repent again or is that time over?
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Are we going to do that again before the end of service?
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Why do you think the phone is such a powerful device?
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Because the primary function of your phone is vision.
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And so there's a competing vision.
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There's the wrong vision, there's God's vision, there's Satan
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vision, then there's carnal vision.
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And so the reason why we started with prayer is we need to
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kill off our own selfish vision, which is carnal, but we also
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need to be have the demonic vision broken off of us so that way
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we can get down to the singular vision that God has.
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And so with these local churches and the pastor gets up and
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quotes this sermon or this scripture, trying to raise money.
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It's a perversion of the scripture because we are not here
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to fulfill my vision.
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We are here to all look at the Word together and come into agreement
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about what the scripture says is his vision.
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And if we can fulfill his vision, nobody can stop us.
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Right?
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Does this all make sense?
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So that is in all humility.
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Now listen, I pray that Jesus comes back in our generation because
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I'm tired.
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Maranatha.
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Lord, you can come today.
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You can come during this service.
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Lord, I'm ready.
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Some of them ain't ready, but I'm ready.
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Come on, take me home.
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Somebody just said take me home.
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Jesus, I'm tired.
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My kids on the way to church wore me out.
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I don't even care if some of them go anymore, but I'm gone.
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Don't clap over that.
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That's weird.
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That's weird.
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Oh, they're in V1 kids.
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You can clap.
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Nevermind.
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My point is, you know, my point is if Jesus doesn't come back
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in our generation, which, I mean, if you look at the signs of
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the times, it seems likely he will.
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And that's something.
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I had 15,000 people on my live stream on YouTube last night at one
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in the morning and led hundreds of people to Christ utilizing
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this drone situation.
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Talk about a holy ghost hijacking.
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I put up the video, 15,000 people came alive, by the way, that's
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one and a half breaker stadiums filled of people and they
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came in on the drone and I judo flipped it in the gospel and
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had hundreds of people saying, I'm weeping.
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I'm getting healed.
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I'm accepting.
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It was power.
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Yeah.
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Mims was there, you were up late.
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I know you didn't sleep enough because she was in the comment section.
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Come on, Pastor, the late night crew.
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Last night on the live stream.
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My point in saying all this though is if Jesus doesn't come back,
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then I want to establish today that this church and whoever becomes
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the lead pastor after me in subsequent generations ought not
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to ever bring their own vision.
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It must be God's vision.
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And that is the most important thing.
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And that's why last week I told you the story about going V1
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because I had to die to my own vision.
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And I said, God, I don't want to go to New York just to be a famous
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New York preacher.
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I don't want to go to New York just to have some selfish ambition
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because I don't like northwest Indiana anymore or whatever those
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stupid ideas are.
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I need to know.
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I believe you told me to go, but I need proof.
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And then God divinely provided that proof during that sermon.
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How many of you were here last week and you heard about going V1?
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Okay, so that was last week.
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And then we talked about how you need a ground crew and you need
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a flight crew and you need fuel.
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And we shipped out almost a thousand of the 365 day devotional
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journals all around the world, which is amazing.
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And we're going to continue to ship them out and you can get them
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today.
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And we are going to read the Bible every single day of 2025.
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How many of you are with me on that?
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All right, all right.
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And then we're gonna find two groups that we are going to be in
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deep discipleship with.
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And that's our ground crew and our flight crew.
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How many of you ready to find your people?
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Okay, so that was last week.
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Now we're moving on to this week and we're talking about the
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vision.
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The vision, the vision.
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And I don't know if you noticed this, but as our church is
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expanding, I'm actually reducing the vision.
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Because sometimes, just like when you go to Central park and you
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get a carriage ride with the horses there, they put blinders on
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the horse.
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But the blinders are not to make the horse blind to everything.
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It's just to make them blind to most things.
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And see, some of you have taken your blinders off and you need
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to put them on because.
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And I'm talking to my multipotentialities.
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Those of you are like, I don't.
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Know, life is life.
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I'm an artist, but I'M an entrepreneur, but I love the Lord,
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but I can do this.
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And I like.
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You know, it's like they're called multipotentialities.
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It's when you're good at everything but master nothing.
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And you're.
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And you can do a lot of things.
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So therefore you get paralyzed and do nothing.
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And that's.
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Multipotentialities have this problem.
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But I.
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But I like art.
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No, you don't like art.
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You just.
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You're a Crayola level artist.
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Just chill.
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But I'm a musician.
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No, you're not.
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You know six chords.
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Just relax a little bit, all right?
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You're not even that good.
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Your mom said you were good.
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She lied to you to make you feel better about yourself.
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Just give it up, right?
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Somebody from the worship team said, preach.
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But one of the biggest problems of.
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Our generation is being a multipotentiality.
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And what that means is you feel like, I can do a lot of things,
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and then because of the paralysis of analysis, you do nothing.
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And so that.
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And the reason why I spoke that with so much authority is because
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that's me.
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I was the guy who was like, I can lead worship.
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I can preach.
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I can do this.
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I'm an artist.
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I have this.
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I mean, I tried to do it all.
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And in doing everything, I diluted the vision.
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And so what this says is, where there is no prophetic vision,
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the people, loose restraints, and then they do everything, which
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ends up turning into a form of sin.
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So vision is a restraint.
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It's a limitation that's placed on you.
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And so I'm going to give you three things.
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That vision is for your notes.
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And then I'm going to be announcing what God's getting ready
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to do in this church.
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It's going to be powerful.
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But I want to help you understand vision because God, of
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course, you're a multi potentiality.
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But some of that stuff is supposed to be your hobby, not your
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career.
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And some of us get that mixed up where it's like, no, you play
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the guitar for fun, but God called you to something else.
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Oh, you draw for fun, but.
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Or sometimes you need to switch it and you gave up a dream
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for a career, and you need to go back to the dream.
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So this is when you delve into the realm of vision.
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But vision can be complicated because a lot of times we don't spend
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enough time dying so.
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So that we can receive his vision.
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And so we.
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That's why prayer is so important, because you must empty
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yourself and decrease in your.
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All of your selfish ambition and Then say, okay now, Lord.
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And sometimes he'll show you something you don't want to see.
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Like, I know y'all don't believe this, but I wanted to be
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a famous music artist.
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And my wife knows this.
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That's what I.
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That's what I wanted to be.
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That was my vision.
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And I thought, oh, I'll pastor when I'm super, like, way older.
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And after I'm done with this very successful, lucrative music
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career.
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Why are you laughing?
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And I toured all over the world, and I met all these famous
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people, and I had singles that charted on US Radio that none of
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you have ever heard.
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But you want to know why?
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Because the greatest grace is on God's vision, not on your own.
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And when I canceled my music career and then started loading in
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and loading out and join my ground crew to set up kids, the anointing
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started to flow in northwest Indiana.
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And I was in the place of.
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Of.
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Of most obscurity.
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But most anointing.
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And oftentimes you will find the greatest anointing in the greatest
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obscurity.
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Why?
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Because you're being tested.
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You're being tested over the vision.
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See, this.
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This is the thing, is the vision.
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There's a difference.
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And now, if you're taking notes, in Genesis chapter one, there's
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a distinction that needs to be made between create and made.
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In the beginning, God created, then he made.
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And if you pay attention to the words of the.
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Of Genesis 1 and the Hebrew account of creation, there's a distinction
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being made between create and made.
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And nobody even pays attention.
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You just assume that instantly, everything.
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No, God created it, then he made it.
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What is it?
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It's blueprint, and then it's product.
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So before God, Before God makes, He creates, there's a blueprint,
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then the blueprint becomes reality.
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And so let me give you some Old Old Testament examples of this.
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It's Joseph gets a dream.
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The dream is the blueprint.
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God created a future for Joseph, but the process is how God
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made it for him.
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And so watch this.
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The anointing had to touch the head of David before the crown touched
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the head of David.
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The anointing comes first.
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God created in him this king, but then he made him a king years
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later.
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Create is the blueprint and made is the product.
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But that only happens with a process.
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And so I got good news for you.
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If you've been wondering what God's been doing in 2024, he's been
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taking you through a process.
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And I believe, and I'm not saying this as hype, I'm saying this
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under a prophetic unction is that 2025 is when you cross from
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create to made.
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2025 is when you cross from the blueprint to actual physical
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reality.
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And I got some proof here today.
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I'm about to unload in a few moments, single people before you
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ever make them, before you ever make a marriage, you need to
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create a marriage.
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Have you created it?
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Have you thought more about your sex life than you did your spiritual
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intimacy with your spouse?
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So you have more vision for your physical intimacy than your
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spiritual intimacy, which is why you are not ready to make a marriage
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even though you've created one.
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Oh, come on.
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This is a principle.
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This is a principle.
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You've created a business, but you haven't made a business.
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And when you created the business, you spent more time determining
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how you're going to spend the money you haven't made than making
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the money, which is why you haven't made the business.
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So a lot of times when we're.
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Oh, come on.
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Everybody's like, can you hug me again?
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Do we get a hug yet?
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I'm telling on myself.
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Anytime you ever hear the oohs and.
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The ahs in the crowd, it's literally me preaching to a younger
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version of me and just telling me what I learned the hard way.
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So the pastoring is you getting an accelerated version of
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what I got the hard way.
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Is that a good deal?
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So the thing is create and made, and what God wants to do is.
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So sometimes demolition is necessary in the meanwhile.
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So he needs to destroy some.
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This is why prophets said that we need to pluck out and tear down,
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and then God will rebuild.
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So some of 2024, was God destroying false relationships to
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make room for the real ones.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Don't ever come back.
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Bye.
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I hope I never talk to you again.
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Maybe I'll see you in heaven.
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Probably not.
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Probably not.
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The way you act, the way you talk.
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Probably not.
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Not gonna lie and say, I'll pray for you.
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Cause I already did.
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It didn't work.
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Cause you don't.
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Cause you didn't respond to the will of the Lord.
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So, bye.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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See you later.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Abraham had to say goodbye to Lot so that he could get a lot.
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He had to say goodbye to Lot so God could increase him, because
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the land couldn't sustain that relationship.
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Bye.
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Bye, Lot.
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Bye.
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Oh, you're going to Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Oh, that's great.
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Bye.
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If you know the story.
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Oh, that's where you want to go by.
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Oh, you want to go back to.
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The clubs and drinking and smoking by?
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I'll be over here reading my 365.
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Day journal, filling it out.
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Over here secretly rebuilding my life.
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Secretly taking from create to made.
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I'll be over here in the prayer closet.
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I'll be over here serving in kids.
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I'll be over here.
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Oh, I'm good.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Oh, yeah, you're going on a cruise.
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You're going on.
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Yeah, it's the Titanic.
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Okay, bye.
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I'll stay here on the land.
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It's going to be fun till it sinks.
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Bye.
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I know I'm helping somebody.
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This is.
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This is vision.
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This is vision.
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Can you imagine being mad at your friend who got to go on the
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Titanic when you had to stay at home?
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Some of you are mad about somebody.
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Else'S blessing, not really realizing it's a curse.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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See you later.
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Leonardo's gonna play you.
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Bye.
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Y'All.
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Listen, there's one anointing that I have as your pastor, and it's
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the anointing to outlast.
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I've got the cockroach anointing.
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You can run your mouth, you can talk about me, you can slander
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me.
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The only thing you can't do is.
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Stop me because I don't want to be a pastor.
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I don't want to be a preacher.
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I don't want to start churches.
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I don't want to do this, but.
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I have to because he told me to do it.
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And when somebody submits and surrenders, hey, guess what?
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I'm already a dead man walking.
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What are you going to do?
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Kill me?
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I already killed myself for the sake of the gospel.
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What are you gonna do?
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Talk about a dead man that's in the grave?
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You're talking about a carcass.
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No longer it is I that live, but Christ in me, the hope of glory
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for the world.
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What you gonna do?
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Come on, somebody.
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Some of the pastors on Long island who said that this would never
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happen are not even pastors.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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And I'm not being mean a little bit, but I think you have
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to have this attitude because it says where there is no prophetic
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vision, the people cast off restraint.
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So what that means is, like when you get a vision and you know
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this vision is from God, then you don't expect people to see what
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you see all the time.
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None of them saw what Noah saw.
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So when the rain came, they were shocked, but he was rejoicing.
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Did you hear what I just said?
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It's like no one saw.
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They ridiculed him.
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They mocked him.
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The only thing they couldn't do is stop him.
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And as they were all gurgling on their last breath, this is the
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coloring book I want to make so bad for V1 kids.
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It's Noah going, bye, bye.
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I told you.
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I told you.
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But some of us would stop building the ark because of their
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criticism, instead of remaining focused on the vision,
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because you're more tuned to their voice than you are his.
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And some of you need to pick up your hammer and you need to build
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with us.
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And if you see what I see, then you're going to do what I do.
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You're going to build.
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And that's what this is all about.
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When I came to New York, I was like, hey, I don't have a vision.
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I already proved that I died to this vision.
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But the vision that I am telling you, I believe God is showing
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me.
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And if it is from God, he already showed you.
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So I'm not giving you information.
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I'm giving you confirmation.
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So I didn't have to sell anybody on our church because the
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Holy Spirit already showed them what he was going to do in their
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region.
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And then when I said it, they were like, that's what God told me.
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I said, me too.
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Do it together.
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And that's how this church has done.
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That's why I tell people, don't join this church under any
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compulsion or pressure.
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But here's the thing.
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If the Holy Spirit told you, you're in trouble if you don't, that's
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between you and the Holy Spirit.
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And I can't tell you how many people started reluctant and they
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obeyed the Holy Spirit.
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Then they get some distance and they say, that other church that
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I went to doesn't exist anymore.
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And all this stuff came out.
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And by the way, I didn't realize I had demons and I got delivered.
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And then, by the way, I've actually.
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This is the most I've ever prayed.
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And now that I think about it, this church actually helped me a
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lot.
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Even though I hated it when I first came.
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Can you imagine that?
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Wait a second.
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I was wrong.
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I was.
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And there's so many people who are.
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Like, I thought Pastor Mike was a certain way, and then I got
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to know him, and I was wrong about him.
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And all those people who make videos about him, they don't even
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know him.
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This is what I'm talking about.
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Go to the vision that God gave you.
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Go to the vision.
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Because YouTube is somebody else's vision.
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Instagram is somebody Else's vision.
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Go back to what God showed you.
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Okay, I'm going to give you three things and then we're going
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to, we're going to talk about what's next.
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Number one, Vision is a picture that God gives of what could
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be vision.
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Number one is a picture that God gives of what could be.
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It's a picture of what God gives that could be.
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This is vision.
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Vision.
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It's a picture.
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It's a picture.
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Everybody say it's a picture.
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So to put Proverbs chapter 29, verse 18 in its proper context, only
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a prophet in the old covenant would be able to say the picture
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that God gave them.
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And that was how that worked.
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And so it says where that picture is being released, people
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have restraint.
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But where there is no picture being released to the picture, to
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the people, they release their restraint and they do whatever they
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want to do.
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And my scripture reference for this is if you go to Exodus, chapter
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32, verse 25, what happens is Moses goes up Mount Sinai, he has
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this incredible encounter with God.
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It's a burning bush experience.
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He receives the tablets, which is the law, and he gets the vision.
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But then just in the time that he was gone, the people, because
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there was not vision being poured into them, they released their
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restraint.
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And then Aaron, who is a real bad campus pastor, I'm telling you,
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Aaron was like the worst campus pastor because all the people
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were like, we're going to melt down all of our jewelry and we're
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going to make this golden calf.
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And Aaron's like, I can't stop him.
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What am I going to do?
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You know, and there's a whole leadership lesson.
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And then we don't have time for.
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But you know, so then what happens is these people are having
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rampant, promiscuous sex.
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These people are full blown pagans, idolatry.
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And why it very simple.
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Moses, he.
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There was a time where he wasn't in their midst manually giving
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that vision.
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And so this is the reference for it.
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And so it's, they need this picture, a picture of what could
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be from God.
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So let me just say sort of how this has happened.
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In my experience, when I showed up to New York, I showed up
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with prophetic pictures.
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God wants to establish healthy church in these regions, in New Jersey,
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in Miami, in Brooklyn and Long island, in Indiana.
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But people needed to come into agreement with that picture.
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But the thing about it is when we say building the church, I don't
-
mean building buildings because the Bible says that the church
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is living stones that are jointly fit together.
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And those Stones are individual people.
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So I didn't come here to build buildings.
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I came here to build people.
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And you will need buildings to house the people.
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But our church has never been about a building.
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And so guess what?
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I looked at a man, Edwin Perez, and I said, I see a picture
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for you right now.
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You're estranged from the local church, haven't attended for
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years.
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You have no local church right now.
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You have hurt from past wounds, and you're living in isolation.
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But I see a picture that you're going to actually be the dean
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of the college, and you're going to come into V1 and you're
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going to thrive.
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And every single time I see Brooklyn surround him and they're
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loving on him, I brings tears in my eyes to think that he went
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from isolation to being embraced by the living stones that
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made the church together.
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And by the way, he's killing it with V1 College, and we're expanding
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every year when.
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Come on.
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That's all right.
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Yeah.
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I had a picture, and I had a vision for your campus pastors here
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on Long Island.
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And do you know the first time I ever gave that picture to Execa?
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She said, I don't want this picture.
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And she tried to do like Jonah and jump off the boat and do a swan
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dive.
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And she said, I don't want that picture.
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And I said, I didn't want this picture.
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And look what God did to me.
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Now it's your turn, you know, because.
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Your level of surrender is what you can call other people to.
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And some of y'all want your kids to be more surrendered than
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you are.
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So I looked at Exegol and I said, if I'm here on Long island
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and I'm surrendered, I'm calling you to full surrender.
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And guess what?
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Thankfully, she embraced it.
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She came back and said, I see the picture.
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I don't like it.
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Like you didn't like it.
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And I said, like father, like daughter.
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Come on, let's do this thing together.
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Danny came in, and guess what?
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Long island is thriving because they received the picture.
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That was the spiritual vision that went.
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From create to make.
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Create to make.
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Come on.
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And this is the apostolic and prophetic.
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How it converges is the prophet prophesies and the apostle
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builds it.
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And that's how the church was established, and that's how it's
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advancing 2,000 years later.
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There's a picture.
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There's a picture.
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I saw a picture for Miami, and all of a sudden, Harvey and Jess
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said, yes, I see that picture too, matter of fact.
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And I Haven't told this story publicly, but the very first time
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I met Harvey was in Indiana at our Indiana campus, when we were
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meeting at a bar, in a nightclub before they got a building.
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And all of a sudden I look at Harvey and I said, harvey, you're
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going to be a pastor.
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And now I did not think he was going to be a pastor at our church.
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And I said, you're going to be a pastor.
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And then Pastor Josh came and, you know, Josh said, yes, I see that
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you're called to be a pastor.
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And Harvey's real internal thoughts was like, I don't even like
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these people.
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Who does this guy think he is?
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Who does Mike think he is?
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I mean, literally, his first gut response was to rebel against
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it.
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But deep down inside, he knew it was true.
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And now fast forward, he's a campus pastor, him and his wife in
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Miami, and they're growing in disciples and they're reaching the
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lost in Miami.
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And so it's a picture of what could be.
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You know, sometimes God will give you a prophetic dream wave at
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me if you've ever had a prophetic dream.
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Okay?
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So many, many years ago.
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And because this picture can come by way of dream as well.
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Many years ago, I had a dream that I was.
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That I walked into this auditorium and I could see the drum
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risers were here, this was there.
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And then later on in this dream, I got up on this stage and
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it was stadium style seating filled with people, and I was conducting
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a mass deliverance.
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And all of a sudden, at that time, I was the number two for a
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very large church in northwest Indiana.
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And I said, we were going to go buy a building.
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And the actual realtor said, hey, this is the main auditorium.
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Let me open the door with my key.
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And I said, wait, wait, wait, wait, don't open it yet because.
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And I turned to the other pastors that were there and I said,
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hey, if we walk into this auditorium and this is the layout,
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the drum riser's here, this here, stadium style seating here,
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then I know that this is from God, because I've already had a dream
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about it.
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All of a sudden, the realtor opened the door and we walked in
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and it was exactly like I said, now here's the thing that's
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crazy.
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The realtor, he goes, hey, I just gotta give you credit, man,
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because the whole time you were describing the layout, he said,
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the drum risers were on the other side of the stage.
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And so I'm thinking to myself, you're gonna be wrong.
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And I walked in and realized since the last time we've been here,
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they moved him to the other side.
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And you were right.
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So that's.
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But then the rest of my dream was that I did this mass deliverance
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in this environment, but my job was not to minister from the
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stage when I was there serving.
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My job was to do all the behind the scenes.
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So I said, lord, you gave me that dream.
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How could you fulfill one part because we bought that building,
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but you didn't fulfill the other part.
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Then during the pandemic, that church starts to go through turmoil.
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And my apostolic oversight reaches out to me and says, mike,
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we believe that God has given you an assignment to be the lead
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pastor of both churches during a global pandemic.
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And I was like, mm.
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And they said, you need to help heal this church and take it
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through a process of restoration.
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And we want you to be the interim lead pastor there, as you're
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the lead pastor here and go back and forth.
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So during a global pandemic.
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And I remember it was funny because during a global pandemic,
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I would fly back and forth between regions and serving another
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man's field.
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Keep in mind what I just said.
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And then one day I came out on that stage because now I had to preach
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because I'm their interim lead pastor.
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And I get up on that stage and I start dealing with the demonic
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and I start speaking, and all of a sudden, deliverance starts breaking
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out.
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And I look and the Lord says, now you're in the last part of your
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dream.
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So this is what I'm trying to explain to you.
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Prophetic dreams are pictures that God gives you while you're sleeping
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because you wouldn't receive them while you're awake.
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Oh, I'm talking to somebody.
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Because he's trying to explain things to you that.
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And he.
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And you're resisting, but he's trying to get it through.
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And by the way, I know everybody's like, please, Pastor
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Mike, help me interpret my dream.
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But did you know in the Bible, the only people who needed help interpreting
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a dream were wicked?
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The righteous were the ones who always interpreted the dream,
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and the wicked were always the ones who needed the interpretation.
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Now, that doesn't mean that I want you to stop asking for interpretations,
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but the interpretation should confirm what the Holy Spirit already
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taught you.
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And that takes you from dependent to independent and submitted.
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So, of course, ask your pastors for dream interpretations.
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Ask.
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Submit it to different people, like Pastor Josh, who has a prophetic.
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But don't rely on them.
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You rely on the Holy Spirit.
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Amen.
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But but we have dreams, and God's given me many dreams.
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And I was telling my daughter Bella about how many things in our
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life were dreams that God showed me.
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In a dream, God showed my mom that I was going to have a yellow
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house.
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And she said, I see.
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I know this sounds crazy.
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I see a yellow house.
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Sure enough, we go to buy our first house in New York.
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And it is a yellow house.
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And all of a sudden.
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And all of a sudden, I'm like, my mom knew, but it's a dream.
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My mom looks at me when we're in a stadium and in the late 90s
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and says, I don't know how, I don't know when, but we're going
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to go from the stands to the stage.
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She was peeking a picture, but I had to come into agreement with
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that picture.
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And then when we came into agreement, that that becomes Moses
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and Aaron, Joshua and Caleb.
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Do you see how God works in twos?
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Even Jesus sent them out two by two.
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It was their ground crew and their flight crew.
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He joins you together, he pairs you together.
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And when you get a group of people together that believe when
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you get married, that's two coming together over a picture.
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We're going to make a family.
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And the devil comes in to distort that picture, to break that
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picture apart.
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But God comes to restore the picture, renew the picture, reinforce
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the picture.
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So, number one, it's a picture.
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Number two, is that true?
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Vision from God is a reduction of options.
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It's a reduction of options.
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Some of you, you're not confused, you're overwhelmed.
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You're not confused, you're overwhelmed.
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Do less, but better.
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I'm speaking to somebody.
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I'm helping you for the new year.
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You're not confused, you're overwhelmed.
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You're doing too much.
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Do less, but do better.
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What would happen if you'd made a singular devotion to one thing
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and did it with all your might?
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This is what the Lord is trying to focus you.
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Vision will focus you.
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You'll put your seatbelt back on and you'll lock in.
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It'll restrain you.
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It'll put blinders on your eyes.
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And by the way, for those of you who have lost your purity, who
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think, oh, I've already lost my purity, I had a vision of me being
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pure.
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Guess what?
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The Bible says that he makes all things new.
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He makes all things new, which means.
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He can restore the restraint on your purity.
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Just because you did it doesn't mean you have to keep on
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doing it.
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Just because you did it doesn't mean that's who you are.
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He will give you a fresh vision that will reinstall restraint.
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Everybody say restraint.
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Restraint is a good thing.
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Come on.
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Yeah, I gained 30 pounds.
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But when you restrain your diet, you lose weight.
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See, there's something about.
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But that requires vision.
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And whenever I start overeating, it's because I have a
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vision problem, not an eating problem.
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I'm overwhelmed, and I can't see my way out, but I can see my
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way into that McDonald's.
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I'll tell you what I see.
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That vision of that glowing M.
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Is.
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That my M for Michael?
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Come on.
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Is that M for mighty God?
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Yes.
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Those golden arches all over the world just beckoning me.
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I'm not going to tell you what Pastor Eddie ate in McDonald's when
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we were overseas, because that would be dishonoring.
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But I know he spent some extra time on the treadmill that week.
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But let me tell you, restrain.
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Everybody say restraint.
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You know, it's.
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It's the.
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God wants to give a vision to us that actually restrains us.
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And that's the golden calf of Exodus 32:25 is like, no, we can't
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just do every spiritual practice.
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You know, there's witchcraft, there's occult practices.
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Matter of fact, I'm just going to tell you straight up, when you
-
become a Christian, you can't just watch any movie you want to
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watch.
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And there are some movies that are popular, but they're problematic.
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And you got to understand, like, you might not have the maturity
-
level to be able to take that thing in.
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You might be seduced by something in that some of you can
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have social media and some of you shouldn't have it for a season
-
because you need to exercise restraint.
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I don't know if you know this, but having social media is a luxury,
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not a necessity.
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And so some of you, that's a luxury.
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It's like, you don't need social media.
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And some of you are like, but it's free.
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No, it's actually costing you your life and your purpose.
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The reason why they don't charge you.
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To use social media media is because you're the product.
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They're using you.
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And for some of you, for a season, you don't need it.
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It's restraint, limiting things down.
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And then number three, because I'm doing real good.
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Praise God.
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Hebrews chapter one, verse one and two says this.
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It says that in the past, God spoke through the prophets, but in
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these last days, he speaks through his Son, Jesus.
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So now let me put the scripture in proper placement.
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Now it says, and where there is no prophetic vision, the people
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cast off restraint.
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But blessed is he who keeps the law.
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So if in the old covenant the prophetic vision was spoken through
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prophets, but then in Hebrews chapter one, verses one and two,
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it says in the past God spoke through prophets, but in the last
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days he speaks through Jesus.
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Jesus is the vision.
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Not buying buildings, not starting conferences, not writing
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best selling books.
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Jesus is the vision.
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Jesus is the vision.
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And where there is no real Jesus, the people cast off restraint.
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That's why at your other church they had the Republican Jesus,
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the Democrat Jesus.
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They had blond haired, blue eyed, Kevin, white Jesus, Caucasian
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Jesus, honky Jesus.
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Is that all right that I said that?
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But where there is a false Jesus, sin's going to be running
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rampant.
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Where there's a false Jesus in certain.
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Denominations, they're going to actually allow for same sex marriage.
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Where there's the false Jesus, they're going to allow for the murder
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of unborn babies.
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But where the real Jesus is, he is the vision.
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And he said, I came that you might receive life and life more
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abundantly.
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And then people begin to conform to the image of Jesus, which
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is the image of God, which is the original image that they were
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created in.
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We are all image bearers.
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Look at your neighbor and say, you're an image bearer.
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You are an image bearer of God.
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But we got to go back to the original picture because the devil
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comes and he perverts the picture.
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In your sexuality.
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Did you learn about your sexuality from the Bible or pornography?
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Because if you learned it from pornography, the devil gave the image.
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But no, you are an image bearer of God.
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Go back to the blueprint.
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Destroy everything the devil built and rebuild your sexuality
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according to the blueprint of the design of the being.
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An image bearer of God.
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What about your finances?
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Do you know more about your finances from the world than you
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do from Scripture?
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That we've got to become people of the book, that go back
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and say, God, I want to do it your way.
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And sometimes he's got to destroy it before he rebuilds it.
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One of the reasons why some of you have extreme anxiety to log into
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your bank account is because of the picture you think you're going
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to see.
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It's a battle for vision.
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And God is saying, see yourself as a wise steward and those
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who are faithful with little become ruler over much.
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It's a picture he's trying to change.
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Go back to the original.
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And there people get mad at me.
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Oh, Pastor Mike, he's always talking about Islam.
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He's always talking About Hinduism.
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He's always talking about the LGBTQ+IA.
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He's always talking about gender.
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No.
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We live in a generation where instead of receiving a picture, we
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tried to create our own.
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And what I'm showing you is not Mike Signorelli's picture, but
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I am one that reveals the picture that God created.
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And I'm simply bringing the world back to the original design
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to say he created this for human flourishing.
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And anything else will result in a curse.
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But Jesus died on a cross to break that curse.
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He died on a cross to break that curse.
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And can be not conformed to the.
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World, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you
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may approve.
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Come on.
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And you may discern rather, the perfect will of God.
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How many of you want to know the perfect will of God in your life
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for this next year?
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Come on.
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We've got to become people of the book.
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We've got to go back to the image that he of the image of God.
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And we've got to conform to his image.
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Last but not least, we are a church where the true Jesus is welcome.
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Well, Pastor Mike, I'm offended when you say the republican
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Jesus.
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No, hear me.
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There are Republicans who serve the real Jesus, but then there
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are Republicans who use Jesus for their will.
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There are Democrats that serve the real Jesus.
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They're trying their best, but there are many that use religion
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and use Jesus for their own will.
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There's social justice warrior Jesus.
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There's Jesus of the good moral teacher that gives you suggestions
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instead of commands.
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And that is a false Jesus.
-
Jesus will give you a command, and.
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You have to obey that command.
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It's not a suggestion.
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He's more than a teacher.
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He was not just a rabbi.
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He is the king of all kings.
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Last night, when I had 15,000 people.
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On that YouTube live stream, I said, if you serve Jesus and you're
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submitting him to him now, put in the comment section.
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Jesus is king.
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Because I realize that this generation wants.
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A teacher, but they don't want a king.
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They want a comforter, but they don't want a king.
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This generation wants somebody to bless them, but they don't want
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a king.
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No, we come to bless you, Father.
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We come like wise men.
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We come to lavish you.
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We come bearing gifts everybody wants to receive, but we're
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here to reciprocate.
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I want to give to you God.
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I want to lay it down.
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Because when the real Jesus is in the room, nobody has to tell you
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to tithe because you'll break your alabaster box open.
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And lavish him with your finances.
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You don't have to give under compulsion, but something inside
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of you says, I want to give the king the best I can give.
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The issue of our generation is, have you received him as teacher
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or have you received him as king?
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Because some of y'all don't know how to treat a king.
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But when the king walks in the.
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Room, oh, oh, King, O king, O king, whatever you want.
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Not my will, but thy will.
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King.
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Some of y'all know how to stand on business, but you don't
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know how to kneel before the king.
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Give up your opinion and say, God, what is your will?
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That's what this church is about.
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So God number three.
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Vision is God's way of fighting for your future.
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Vision is God's way of fighting for your future.
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He knows that if you stay in that adulterous relationship, the
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end of it is death.
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So vision is him fighting for your future.
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He knows that if you don't deal with that addiction, that addiction
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is going to deal with you and it's going to end in death.
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Envision is him fighting for your future.
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And the Lord is trying to fight for your future.
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He's trying to fight for your kids future.
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And I feel this on the inside of me because I've been looking at
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our children lately and man, we had yesterday, I had a lot of
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the.
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Youth and the teens at my house and they were doing a Friends
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Christmas thing.
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I don't know what it's called.
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Huh.
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Friends miss.
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They're just inventing holidays now, making stuff up, stressing
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me out.
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And as I looked at those teenagers, I remembered what I was
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like.
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And I said, I didn't have a revival church.
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I didn't have a church taking stadiums over.
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I didn't have a church worshiping like this.
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I would have done anything to have this church.
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And I said, lord, I might not have had it when I was a teenager,
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but as an adult, I'm building it for our teenagers.
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And then I will.
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All of a sudden, I begin to see my daughter Everly with her friends.
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And I asked the little girl, how are you?
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And she says, I'm 10 years old.
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And I said to my daughter later, I said, that little girl's
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anointed.
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Your friend loves the Lord.
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And Everly said, oh, she loves the Lord so much.
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Every time I talk to her, all she's talking about is Jesus.
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And I said, lord, the true king is in V1 church.
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We're not a perfect church, but the King is here in the midst
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of our Imperfections, making all things new, aligning things,
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humbling, breaking things out.
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And I am honored to actually be a part of this thing for the sake
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of our children and if the Lord carries our children's children,
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because one.
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Of my favorite parts of the Bible.
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You got to understand, where I come from, I inherited nothing.
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No legacy.
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I have no pictures of my descendants.
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I never got anything in the material sense.
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So imagine I'm reading the Bible and.
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It says, God tells Joshua and that generation that everywhere,
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I give you a victory.
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I want you to get big stones.
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And make a huge pile of stones.
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And the stones are to be a remembrance for the generations.
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Because there's going to come a day when your kids are discouraged.
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There's going to come a day when your kids are feeling all kinds
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of ways where it seems like it's impossible.
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And then one day your kid is.
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Going to say, mommy, what are those stones over there?
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What's that big pile of stones?
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Because that's unnatural.
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What's that big pile of stones over there?
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Daddy, what's that?
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And then you'll tell them, life was not always like it is right
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now.
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And we didn't have what we have right now.
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But when we had nothing, we came together.
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Black and white, Hispanic, Asian, young and old.
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And when we didn't have nothing, we had each other.
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And when we didn't have biological family, we had spiritual
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family.
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And we gave our money and they gave their money.
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We brought all of our money together, and what we did is we sewed
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and we built this so that your life could be better than ours.
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And we leave an inheritance to our children's children.
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The Bible says a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's
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children.
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That's two generations.
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That's how you get qualified as a good man.
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Biblically, a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's
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children.
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You know what that inheritance is?
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The house of God, the church.
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That is the inheritance.
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That as the world is raging, as climate is out of control, whether
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it's manufactured or not, we don't know.
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While there's drones swirling, while there's nuclear warheads, there's
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a place that we have together where the living stones are jointly
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fit together, and we are safe and secure, and the presence of God
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is released.
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And so what I've been laboring for.
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And I want you to join in this labor with me today, is I've been
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laboring for a living stones moment.
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I've been laboring for the roots to go down.
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So I want to tell you right now let's play this, this first video.
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Let's kill the music for a second.
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And I want to show you guys this just this last year in review
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2024, 2015 people were discipled through the Connect group.
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2015 people discipled.
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We served the needy in Honduras, Ukraine and other cities.
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We trained over 60 pastors in Honduras.
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We equipped 750 leaders for the work of ministry.
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Guys, let's get loud for this.
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6,636 people were fed.
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760 people were baptized.
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And we reached 73 million people with the gospel online.
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Over 100,000 people attended services physically and digitally.
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Thousands of youth and kids have been discipled all this year.
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Breakers conference gathered 10,000 people as the stadium was
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filled.
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V1 youth studied the Bible in Alpha Connect groups.
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Two new locations were launched, New Jersey and Manhattan
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in just one year.
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Come on, can we celebrate what happened over just the last year?
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How many churches do you know that launched two campuses in one
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year?
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But here's the thing I want to tell you.
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How many of you remember when I showed you guys the picture of
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the empty stadium?
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Do you remember that picture?
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And then how many of you saw it completely filled?
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Create, made, create made.
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The blueprint, then the reality.
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But God doesn't create the blueprint by your butt prints.
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In other words, he's not going to drag you through life.
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You got to do it.
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You have to sign up and say, you know what, God, count me in.
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There's even when you speak in tongues, the Bible says that you
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speak mysteries.
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You have to open your mouth and begin to speak.
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And there's this mysterious intermingling with God where you're
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coming together with him because a lot of people think that
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God is going to possess you like a demon and control, you know,
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he's going to give you self control.
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Self control means that you're like, I don't feel like serving,
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but he's given me self control and I can serve.
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I don't feel like giving, but he's given me self control.
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I can control myself and I want to be greedy, but no, I'm going
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to give anyways.
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So the fruit of the spirit is control over yourself.
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And so that's why this church continues to advance.
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Because the Holy Spirit Espiritu Santa is is dwelling on
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the inside of us, giving us self control, saying, I want to leave
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so badly, but I'm going to stay.
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I want to be selfish and hoard, but I'm going to give.
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I want to relapse into the addiction.
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But I'm going to resist the devil until he flees.
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Self control.
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So as I was looking and I was writing out all of the things that
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we accomplished this year, I couldn't help but hold back the tears.
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Because when 6,000, 636 families are fed food, let me just
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put it like this.
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When more people are fed by your church than attend your church,
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you're doing church the right way.
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How many of you believe in leading, leading them and feeding
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them?
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And so we have been a move of God.
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And when the real Jesus is in the room, what happens is sometimes
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Jesus is feeding the 5,000.
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Sometimes Jesus is casting out demons, sometimes Jesus is making
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disciples.
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And what I can truly say when I look at V1 is I see Jesus everywhere.
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Jesus says, suffer not the little children, bring them to me.
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I see Jesus in every facet of what we're doing.
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And not some Jesus that we're using to fulfill our will, but Jesus
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saying, I'm going to empower you to fulfill God's will.
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So here's what I want to do.
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I want to show you a couple more announcements right now, and
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let's just take a look at the first one.
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Hey, this is Pastor Harvey and I am right here at the Regal Theaters
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where we meet weekly, every single Sunday.
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We have seen the miraculous happen here.
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We have seen entire families restored, people set free, delivered,
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healed.
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And these theaters are a womb.
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V1 Church was birthed from a theater.
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V1 New Jersey is in a theater right now.
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We have been praying and interceding for a space where we
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can grow and expand, but this is South Florida, this is Miami.
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This is hard.
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It just doesn't happen.
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And God has opened an unprecedented door.
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But we need your help.
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This is an incredible moment that I'm standing in right now.
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God has made a way and the red has parted.
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This is how we know that God is in it.
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I am right here at the venue, space that we will soon call home.
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This is not just walls and a roof.
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This is a testimony of God's faithfulness.
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This is a testimony of God's goodness and all that he can just
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make happen.
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And now we have an opportunity to prepare this space to be a beacon
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of hope and light to the community.
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But as we step into this next season, there's still work that needs
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to be done.
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We need to get the building ready to welcome everyone that'll
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come.
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And that's where you can come in.
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As you prepare your end of year gift, I want to invite you to
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prayfully consider how you can contribute to the mission.
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Your gift will impact and help us prepare this place for all that
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God has for it.
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And so here's the thing is that you're probably asking, what
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does this have to do with my campus?
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Well, here's the thing.
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I believe that if you sow into our soul soil, you will reap in your
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own.
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We truly are one house with many rooms.
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So let's come together as a church family.
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Believe that as we step out in faith, God will do exceedingly and
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abundantly more than we can ask or imagine.
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Come on.
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We love you, Miami.
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See, when he said party the red.
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See, getting a building like that in Miami is impossible.
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I just want to tell.
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It's actually impossible to get a building like that in Miami.
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And I've been praying and I actually prayed a selfish prayer.
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I said, God, if you're truly with me, if you, if you desire South
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Florida to go to this next level, open a door.
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And I'm telling you that door open.
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Now.
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Here's what has to do with all of us.
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Brooklyn listen, New Jersey listen, Indiana listen.
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And I'm being selfless to be selfish because when I saw that venue,
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I said, man, we just did Free Women Collective in Miami, which
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was amazing.
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I'm like an honorary free woman.
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I don't know if you know that, but we are going to be able to utilize
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that space.
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Instead of renting other people's facilities, we'll have our
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own.
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And Miami is going to continue to expand and by faith we're getting
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the LED wall and the remainder of the production.
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But we need your help to make that happen.
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But see, here's the thing.
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God is a God of double portions.
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I said, God is a God of double portions.
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He will do exceedingly, abundantly more than you can think,
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ask or imagine.
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So when he did it for Miami, I said, okay, God, now do it.
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For us here as well.
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So that's why I'm announcing after seven.
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Years of not being able to, to have our roots go down.
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After seven years of loading in and.
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Out and having leases v1 Long island got a building.
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Hallelujah.
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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
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Won't he do it?
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Won't he do it?
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Church, I need you to help me turn a soccer stadium on Long island
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into a habitation of the Holy Spirit.
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We're going to flip that building, we're going to come up
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into that place.
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Come on.
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And we're going to worship the Lord.
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And a sweet smelling aroma, the fragrance of our anointing.
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And the oil is going to be released from this house day and
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night.
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And we're going to dedicate this unto the Lord.
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Don't you just feel the anointing, seeing it?
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So here's the thing I want to.
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Announce, and I'm so excited.
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The closing on this building is this Tuesday.
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Tuesday.
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And you heard me prophesy keys.
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And guess what?
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I said it, I saw it.
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And now God's going to show it off.
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Because Tuesday and Wednesday we're closing on the building and
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the keys are our.
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Come on, somebody.
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Would you look at it?
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Come on.
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V1.
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Now listen, what.
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Here's what you.
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You're not looking at a building because the church is not
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a building.
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We're the church.
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That's why we survive.
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But what you're looking at is a stone for remembrance.
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Because when the children say, did we always have this building?
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Oh, no, there was a time when we were in the movie theater.
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There was a time where we were in that bar and there.
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But God Almighty, this is a stone for remembrance for the generations.
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Let me just tell you, this is new construction.
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New construction, $4.3 million building.
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And some of you are like, pastor Mike, our church must have
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a ton of money.
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I rebuke you.
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The truth is, and I'm saying this in all humility, our church
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is severely underfunded.
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And I think one of the biggest lies is that you see all the people
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who attend and you assume that they're all giving.
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Most people of our church give about 2 to 3% of their annual income
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or less.
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We're nowhere near to the 10% mark per person of their annual giving.
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And I'm not saying that as a rebuke because actually, my love
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for you as you've been going on this journey of generosity and
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maturity in the faith is evident that I saved our money for
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seven years so that I would have the down payment to get us into
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this building.
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Because what I.
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What?
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Yeah, come on.
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I have been saving and saving and saving.
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And we did a brief capital campaign during the pandemic, which
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is the worst time to do it.
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And a lot of those people ironically moved out of New York
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during the pandemic, but I just kept saving and saving.
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So here's the good news that we already got pre approved and I
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already have the down payment.
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So Tuesday and Wednesday, as we're closing, that we will get the
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keys.
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We will get the keys.
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That's the good news.
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But I want to ask you today if you would consider joining in this
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thing with me.
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And here's what that looks like.
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And I'm just going to shoot it to you straight because we've got
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one more vision I'm going to show you here in a second, but I
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want to leave some time where the Holy Spirit speaks to you.
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Now here's the thing.
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We're not under the law, but I do believe that Christ empowers us
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to fulfill the law.
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And so when I look at my finances, I've always asked God,
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how could I give reoccurring at least 10% of my income to the
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local church.
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So if you're somebody who doesn't do that, you might be thinking,
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I'm going to give one time a big gift.
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Actually, the most generous thing you can do is give on reoccurring.
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Why?
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Because the Bible says where your treasure is, your heart is also.
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So if your heart's in the house, then just give repeatedly,
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sign up for reoccurring.
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And I'm going to give you a moment to do that later.
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But then the Lord may be moving on some of you to give a large
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gift.
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And can I just cast a crazy vision to you right now?
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I know this sounds wild because all the odds are against
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it, but I keep going before the Lord saying, lord, you said according
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to the Abrahamic covenant that we are going to be the lender and
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not the borrower.
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And so I believe that we are going to have a mortgage burning
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service where we actually are not in debt.
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And how many of you believe that God can cause us to pay off
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$4.3 million so that we don't have.
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Debt as a church?
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And I'm just raising my faith up and I want this to be a sign.
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And just like those crusty, dusty, mean.
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Old hearted snake pastors, when I got here.
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Oh, sorry, sorry.
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When I got here, they didn't believe.
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You know what?
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I want to mature into the older pastor that when the new pastors
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come to Long island and they tell me a crazy vision, I look them
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in their eyes and I say, I believe it.
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I don't want to be one of those pastors that tell somebody
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it can't be done.
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And I believe that building that we.
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Showed you is going to be assigned to the Christians of Long
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Island.
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Even if you go to another church, God has taken over this law.
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This island, Long island belongs to the king.
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Long island, he come on.
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He's here to establish his kingdom that it's going to be assigned
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to everybody.
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So we're going to do this thing.
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But let me show you this last.
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Vision that counterbalances this.
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Do you like my Photoshop?
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So here's the thing.
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For all of you on Long island, after the new year, the.
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Ironically, the lease on this building is up.
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So we did.
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The timing is perfect.
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Literally, the lease on the building I'm standing in right now
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is up this month, and we literally close on a new building
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next week.
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You can't make that up.
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You can't make that up.
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But we need to go through a.
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Process of installing the equipment, installing the stage,
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and actually getting approval on Long island for occupancy.
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So what we're going to do is for several weeks after the new year,
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we are going to meet at a hotel, Ironically, the same hotel
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that we did the first Breakers Conference.
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So we're going to be meeting in the hotel where we did the very
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first Breakers Conference.
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It's here on Long Island.
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And we're going to be.
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Kim.
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We all join together and pray that occupancy will get approved,
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expedited, fast, that.
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We can get in there.
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Y'all pray, okay?
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And we're going to pray that God gets us in there sooner than
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later so we can transition.
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But what I'm showing you right now is we needed a box truck short
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term, so that way we can house some of our gear as this campus goes
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into transition before we move into the building.
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And I actually said, you know what?
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It was this guy wanting a box truck so bad.
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Aaron's like, dad, can we please have a box truck?
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He is my most expensive child.
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And we all have one always.
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We need a new LED wall.
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We need this, we need that.
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And so.
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But I said.
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I said, you know what's crazy, Aaron, about you asking me for a
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box truck?
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Is that as we got a building in Miami and we got a building in
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Long island, the Lord showed me a vision of us actually doing
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block parties where our different campuses take over neighborhoods.
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And instead of asking people to come to church, we bring church
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to them.
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And we have kids programming and we.
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Feed them, and we have a mobile church that is this.
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This is the mobile church.
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So in New Jersey and all the different locations, how many of
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you are ready to do block parties over the different regions
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where we have churches and lead the lost to the cross at any
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cost?
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So it's both.
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It's not just us getting a building.
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It'S us getting a box truck and us coming to them.
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So would you just take a seat for a second?
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I'm gonna.