Are You a Saint? Breaking Free from Lies and Embracing Truth | Inherit Your Freedom | Pastor Mike Signorelli

How many of you ever heard gossip about yourself from somebody

else?

How many of you?

You ever hear and you found out.

A friend or a loved one was talking about you?

How many?

Okay.

And how many of you, when you heard it, your initial response was,

I'm mad now.

Oh, I'm mad now.

I am.

I can't believe that.

Say it to my face.

This Thanksgiving, when we're together.

Say it at the table.

Say it over the turkey.

And the yams and the greens and say, you know, or you or how

many of you ever heard somebody's talking about you on the

job and you find out that one of your co workers, that you hooked

them up with an extra break and you did whatever they were talking

about you?

And how did that make you feel?

Here's the question I have for you.

How do you think it feels when.

God hears the way you talk about yourself?

Oh, y'all aren't ready for this.

Like, you get more upset about somebody else's gossip than you do

about your self talk.

You, oh, I'm coming for you today.

You talk about yourself worse than they talked about you.

And you would never tolerate gossip while why are you tolerating

the voice that.

Is narrating your life and your identity.

In your own head?

So I'm here to stop the self gossip today.

Oh, I'm speaking in you.

Because the only gossip that works is the gossip you believe.

The only gossip that works is the stuff that you believe.

And the only reason why you would.

Entertain the gossip is because you believe.

There'S some facet of truth to it.

And so the most poisonous gossip is the way we talk about ourselves,

but it's the one we get the least angry about.

So I wish something on the inside of you would start to get

righteously indignant and say, I'm going to get mad when the old

me talks about the new me.

I'm going to get mad when the old me starts talking about the new

me.

Because what we need is to come into alignment with the voice

of the Father about who we are.

You know what?

The Lord's been showing me something.

And what the Lord's been telling me is that I have to look

at Pastor Jocelyn and I have to see what's inside of Pastor Jocelyn.

And I have to dignify her as a woman of God.

And I have to treat her greater than even the people she

holds in high esteem.

Pastor Eddie and I are getting ready to embark on an adventure to

go teach in Reformation sites in Germany and Switzerland.

But you know what?

Pastor Eddie, for me to treat you any less than Luther is sin,

because this world needs somebody greater than Luther.

For me to treat you any less than Spurgeon is now a sin, because

the world needs greater than Spurgeon.

This is.

Oh, come on.

I'm speaking.

We hold these men of God.

Oh, the David Wilkerson.

But to treat me less than David is a sin, because we need greater

than David Wilkerson for the times we're in.

And so I'm breaking that spirit of familiarity in our midst,

and I'm calling out your greatness, and I'm speaking into.

Your identity, and I'm calling forth an upgrade, because the world

needs greater than Luther.

It needs greater than Spurgeon.

It needs.

It needs greater than Wilkerson.

It needs you.

It's your time to rise up.

It's your time to go into the gang infested neighborhoods.

It's your time to go into the workplace, Gen Z.

It's your time to go into that school and turn it upside down with

the revival that comes from preaching and unapologetic, energetic

gospel of Jesus Christ.

But you can't upgrade your reality until you allow him to upgrade

your identity.

Oh, y'all ain't gonna help me preach this one.

Why don't you just stand to your feet right now?

Cause we're gonna do something together.

And we're gonna let every demon in.

Hell hear us do this.

Up on every screen at every location.

Right now is Ephesians, chapter one, verses three through

14.

And what we're gonna do as a church is we're going to declare

the word of God out loud together.

But before we do that, let me just tell you.

When it changes in your thinking, it changes in your living.

Oh, I'm trying to help you.

When it changes in your thinking, it changes in your living.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.

And so God is trying to change something.

Listen, there's a reason why my book keeps perpetually hitting

bestseller list.

Because it's virtually zero marketing.

It's people reading the book, getting free and buying copies for

everybody they know.

There's a woman who wrote me last night who said, I am now buying

copies of your book for every incarcerated friend I have.

And we're sending it into the prison system so that they can experience

freedom while they're on the inside.

Because freedom happens here.

It's not the absence of bars.

It's the presence of Jesus Christ.

And so we've got to begin to be people of the Word.

And let me While you're standing on.

Your feet with me, Let me just tell you this.

We're in the time before the time.

And right now everybody thinks, oh, the election went smoothly.

We're not having riots in our streets.

They didn't burn down our cities, we'll be okay.

And they're chilling.

Oh, I guess we're all, I guess everything's going to get better.

Oh, Putin and, you know, Zelensky are having conversations

with Trump and maybe the global, you know, wars are about

to subside.

But let me just tell you in wisdom, don't be unwise.

Don't be so easily deceived.

We're in the time before the time.

What does that mean?

It means that God is trying to do something in your identity before

what's next.

God is trying to bring you into the cocoon so that he can transform

you from a caterpillar to a butterfly.

And the word of the Lord for this house is, be still and know

that I am God.

But be still is a much harder test to pass than the warfare test

for a whole bunch of warriors.

And some of you see, we were, we were raised in churches where

they.

Said, put on the full armor of God.

Well, I have seven locations where the people that need to learn

how to take it off sometimes, because David knew how to war, but

he didn't know how to rest.

The Bible says that when it came.

Time for kings to go to war, he was on the rooftop.

He stayed back home, and that's when he fell into infidelity.

Because it's not because he didn't know how to kill giants.

It's because he didn't know how to rest.

And so sometimes what will happen is you'll have the armor of

God on for so long, fighting so many exploits, so many battles,

taking territory, winning souls, praying for your family, that

you never let the Lord intercede for you.

Jesus is in heaven interceding for us.

And so David had to learn how to rest.

He didn't learn how to rest.

It turned into infidelity.

And so the Lord is speaking over.

Our house that we need to begin to come into a time of identity

forming.

And it's identity upgrade.

Whatever you think you are, dream bigger.

Whatever you think you can do, dream bigger.

Whatever you think God can do in.

Your lifetime, dream bigger.

This is an identity upgrade.

You're not.

Some of you just went from a sinner to a saint, but he's trying.

To define more what that means.

And, but it's going to require you staying still.

Somebody say, stay still, because it's about the process.

It's about being willing to go through the journey.

And so right now, you're here in a prophetic swirl.

Do you feel it?

You pass the warfare test, but will you.

Will you pass the rest test?

Because if you don't pass the rest.

Test, you won't see the rest.

What does that mean?

I already prayed.

Smith Wigglesworth.

Actually, people would come into the line to receive prayer for

their sickness, and Smith would say, I prayed for you the first

time.

If you're in the line a second time, it means you didn't believe.

Get out of the line.

And some of you keep going into the same line.

And it's not the evidence of your faith.

It's the evidence of your doubt.

There comes a time where you say.

Your prayer and then you rest in what you said.

And you say, God, I'm not asking you again because I'm not

a beggar.

I'm your son.

I'm not a beggar.

I'm your daughter.

I asked you once, and I don't have to ask again.

It may not have happened when I wanted it to, but you're never

late.

And the evidence of my faith is I'm not begging you.

I know that you're going to do this thing.

Oh, I'm speaking.

Who took my scripture down?

Okay, so here's what we're going to do.

And I'm.

I'm bringing you through a process of spiritual formation.

Read the Bible out loud in your own life.

Read it out loud.

Pastor Mike, I want to go to the next level.

What's missing?

You don't read the Bible out loud.

You listen to the Bible.

You listen to other people, teach the Bible, but it has to come

out of your mouth.

It has to come out of your mouth.

The power doesn't happen from hearing.

The power happens from doing.

And so get it out through your mouth.

So read the Bible out loud and put it in the atmospheres of your

home and annoy.

And by the way, some of you can quote more worship songs than

you can scriptures.

And that's your problem.

Some of you sing, but you don't declare.

Some of you sing, but you don't.

Speak the word of God.

Some of you got melody, but you don't have authority.

Come on, I'm trying to talk to somebody right now.

You got the melody, but you don't have the authority.

Because the authority doesn't come from somebody's lyrics.

It comes from, thus saith the Lord.

God said this thing, and I'm repeating what he said.

I'm a messenger.

Okay.

You with me?

Okay, so we're going to try to read this in a cadence together.

And we're doing this now.

I want you to hear the voices of all seven locations joining together.

I want you to hear the voices in Canada.

I want you to hear the voices in San Diego.

I want you to hear the voices in Miami.

We're doing this all together.

Okay?

So you ready?

And I want you to read this out loud.

But then while you're reading it, you should also be letting it

go into your spirit and thinking about what you're reading.

Okay?

So thinking about what you're reading.

So let's do this together.

I'll kick it off.

And we're just going to release this out of our mouth.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has

blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly

places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the

world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love.

He predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons through Jesus

Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise

of his glorious grace with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness

of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace which

he lavished upon us in all wisdom and insight, making known

to us the mystery of his will according to his purpose, which he

set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time to unite

all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

In him we have obtained an inheritance.

Having been predestined according to the purpose of him who

works all things according.

To the counsel of his will, so.

That we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the.

Praise of his glory in Him.

You also, when you heard the word.

Of truth, the gospel of your salvation.

And believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession

of it to the praise of his glory.

Now, somebody magnify Jesus and worship him and praise him for

his word in this place.

Come on.

I felt a shift.

I felt a shift.

Who do you feel the weight of his presence right now?

See, what happened when you read that out loud is you destroyed

every lie.

You started destroying every.

I mean, oh, there's so much just.

In that chunk of scripture.

Try to take your seat for a moment.

So I keep on preaching this thing because we're about to go into

a Revival on accident.

Oh.

One of the observations I'll make is what we just read sounds

very different than how most Christians sound.

Christian.

YouTube doesn't sound like that.

The local church doesn't sound like that.

But this is how God sounds.

So the obligation that we have as believers in this generation is

to start sounding like scripture.

Because when you sound like scripture, you sound like a son of

God.

See, this, to me, just brought.

How much peace did that just bring to you?

Oh, I just felt an overwhelming amount of peace.

I want to talk to you about my identity for a little while.

I've been through many different phases in my life.

Short hair, crew cut, long hair, curly dreadlocks, blue hair,

green hair, no hair, praise God.

Gray hair, brown hair, black hair.

I've been through many different phases.

Skinny jeans, jnco, wide legs, big pants, little pants, sweatpants,

gangster pants, punk rock pants.

I've been through it all.

I've been through every phase of shoes.

I've been through the Jordans, the Vans, the Nikes, the running

shoes, the Birkenstocks, no shoes.

Anybody know what I'm talking about?

I've had many identities, many different things that I've allowed

to define me.

But.

And life for me has been very hard to figure out what I am.

And if you're anything like me, you've struggled with your identity.

I have social anxiety.

And so it's very.

I get weird when I'm around a lot of people because I don't know

what to say.

I'm scared of people.

When I talk to people, I hope I say the right thing.

I hope they like me.

I sweat a lot when I talk.

My posture is not that good.

I struggle a little bit with my eating.

I eat for pleasure.

I eat when I'm stressed.

I'm big sometimes of the year and I'm skinny the other times of

the year.

One thing I've never had is a six pack.

Praise God.

Maybe one of these days that happen, you know?

But identity for me has been something I've wrestled with my whole

life.

I don't.

Quite frankly, I don't feel like I fit in most of the time.

I never really have.

I'm too Pentecostal for the cessationist theologians, and I'm

too theological for the Pentecostals.

I get canceled by a different faction of Christianity every week,

and nobody can decide who owns me and what I'm about.

And I've struggled, man.

I've struggled.

I've struggled.

When I was a sinner, I was a bad sinner.

Because I had a Holy Ghost consciousness, and I was doing the

sin with the sinners, but they enjoyed it more than me because I

always felt guilty every time I was doing.

Anybody know what I'm talking about?

Come on.

Don't raise your hand.

Don't raise your hand.

But, you know, I was a bad.

I was a bad.

I was good at sinning, but I was bad at enjoying it, you know?

And then you come into the faith and, like, man, you know how

to pray.

But then there's a condemnation culture in your own

heart, and am I enough?

And so this is this for me, this thing about identity.

I didn't know how to be a husband because I never saw a good

one.

Didn't know how to be a dad because I never saw a good one.

Didn't know how to be a man because I never saw a good one.

Then I came into the church, and everybody who should have led

me failed.

And they.

And so I thought, oh, man.

The only difference between them and my father was they spoke

in tongues and still cheated on their wife.

And my dad didn't speak in tongues and cheated on his.

And so sometimes it's like, pick your poison.

Sometimes it's like, what am I?

What.

What is my identity?

And so I think if you're.

If you've ever gotten close to me, what you feel is the wrestling.

You feel me wrestling?

You feel me fighting?

You feel me trying to violate what.

What should have been in hope of something more.

And I don't preach finding your destiny.

I preach changing it.

Because I don't want what I was supposed to have.

I want something different.

I want something better.

You know, the American Church teaches how to find your purpose.

I'm teaching you how to change it.

Because I don't know what I was supposed to be, but I know what

I want to be.

And is somebody feeling this in their stomach right now?

I don't know what I was supposed.

To be, but I know what I want to be.

I look around at all my family.

I look at all of them, those.

Degenerates, they're drinking themselves to death, smoking themselves

to death, snorting themselves to death, cussing themselves out

of relationships, gossiping themselves out of unity.

And I looked at all that, and I said, and I don't know what I was

supposed to be, but I know what I want to be.

And it's not that.

Sometimes, in the lack of mentorship, the best you can do is

define yourself by what you don't want to be.

I'm speaking to somebody I thought of myself, I don't know how

to be a good.

A good man.

But if I'm the opposite of what I've seen, that's probably close.

I'm just setting the stage for this message.

Are you with me?

Okay.

I want to give you our true identity in Christ, because this

is the journey that I've been on, and this is the journey I'm still

on.

I have not figured it out, but I'm a much further along than I used

to be.

I'm getting better.

Anybody know what I'm talking about?

So I want you to write these down.

I'm going to give you A through J, and we're going to start

with A, because these are the truths that are gonna buck up against

the lies.

So the truth is, if you've confessed Christ as your Savior,

you're a new creation.

That's 2nd Corinthians 5:17.

2nd Corinthians 5:17.

That's the truth.

The truth is, you feel like a new creation.

What's the lie?

The lie is you're the old thing.

You're never gonna get better.

You're never gonna be totally free.

You're always gonna be a sham.

You know, most people, they struggle with a feeling of counterfeit.

I feel like I'm fake.

I feel like imposter syndrome.

You know, I don't.

I dare not tell their story, but I have.

I'm friends with some of the most prominent preachers of our day,

and I can't tell you how many times they've messaged me after we've

done an event together, and they've said, pastor Mike, I'm in

my hotel room.

All the emotion has worn off.

I'm weeping uncontrollably because I feel like an imposter.

Who am I to draw those crowds?

Who am I to preach the way I preach?

Who am I to say what I say?

I know where I come from.

Who am I?

And in the quiet and the stillness of their hotel room, they're

crying under the weight of an identity crisis.

And so if you think that accomplishment is going to actually

remediate the problem in your identity, I just want to tell you,

on behalf of all of us who have accomplished a few things in

our life, accomplishment does not give you an identity.

Matter of fact, accomplishment on top of identity confusion will

exasperate the confusion.

Accomplishment on top of identity confusion will inflame the

confusion.

Because identity is not supposed to be achieved.

Identity is only supposed to be received.

And if you achieve your identity and that's the basis for

forming your identity, then you create a competition.

But if you receive your identity, then that is the basis

for celebration.

And so when we read the scripture in the book of Ephesians,

the reason why I cried is because I felt I spent my entire

life fighting.

The reason why I actually named my book inherit your freedom

is because what the publisher wanted me to do is to write the book

for our generation on deliverance.

And they said, we believe you're the Derek Prince.

We believe that you're the next generation, that you're to write

the, you know, the perennial book on deliverance.

And, you know, if you look at Derek Prince's book, it's called

they shall expel demons.

That's a tough title.

That'll fire you up.

They shall expel demons.

Isn't that empowering?

They shall expel demons.

So when I was thinking about this book and I was thinking about

my life, and I've cast demons all over the world, of course, initially

I went to all these titles where I was like, I want to.

I want it to be an empowering title.

I want it to be something that commissions people.

I want.

But then all of a sudden, as I went deeper, I realized my story

is a story of inheritance.

And the way that deliverance flows from this house is an impartation

of identity.

And because I've never gone looking for demons.

But what I try to do is impart to people what the Holy Spirit imparted

to me, an identity.

And usually as that begins to happen, every demon that contradicts

the truth of what God is saying about their identity starts

to get so intimidated in that environment, they start manifesting.

And then we cast him out.

And so the title of the book had to be inherit your freedom because

the truth is, the hero of the story was not David, because you

don't kill a giant with a sling and a stone, but an anointed

stone will kill a giant.

The hero of the story is not Elijah, because anybody can call

for fire, but only the one that God anointed will be graced

with that fire actually falling.

So the hero of the story is not Moses, because no man has the

ability to part the Red Sea.

The hero of the story is actually God Almighty who graces

a mortal man, because it really was about Israel the whole

time.

It wasn't about Moses.

It was about Israel, and it was about God.

It wasn't about David.

It was about Israel and it was about God.

And it's not about.

And I think the humility of understanding it's not about Mike

Signorelli.

It's about the church, and it's about God's interacting with

the church.

And if I've ever done anything great, it was me taking the futility

of my stone and my sling.

But the Lord putting anointing on the.

You don't fill up Times Square.

You don't sell out stadiums.

You don't launch seven locations.

You don't write bestselling books where I come from.

But if the anointing gets put on that thing, he'll use the foolish

things of the world to confound the wise.

And he'll say, it was never about David.

It was never about the stone.

But if I put my anointing on that stone, it'll go and accomplish

its mission.

If I put my anointing on that staff, when he puts it down, it'll

turn into a stake.

If I put my anointing upon those words, fire will fall.

And that's why you increase in your humility as you increase in

kingdom accomplishments, because you know, it's the mysterious

inner working of God with his people, and you are a broker and

a conduit for his will.

Well, I'm preaching deep today, so you don't have the luxury

of choosing whether you believe you're a new creation or

not.

The body of Christ needs you to believe it so that we can accomplish

what he has for us.

It's not about you.

It's about who you're here for.

You don't have the luxury of not believing it.

You have to believe it for the sake of the body of Christ.

That's why men typically turn into real men when they have children,

because something about having a child for a man.

Forces us to stop being selfish.

It makes us think about somebody other than ourselves.

And you say, I got to get my act together.

Because now it's not about me.

It's about Bella.

Now it's not about me.

It's about Everly.

But let me just tell you, you have children in the spiritual realm,

and they're the children of the body of Christ.

And, homie, they need you to get your act together.

They need you to.

They need you to declare the word of God.

I'm telling you, this thing's got to get out there, and I'm calling

you for it today.

You don't have the luxury to be.

Like, I don't know who I am.

When he told you who you are.

The question is not ignorance.

It's will you believe it by faith?

B.

We are children of God, we are children of God.

John, chapter 1, verse 12 and 1st John chapter 3, verse 1.

John 1:12 John 3:1

We are children of God.

You know what?

When I grew up, I wasn't getting nothing even if I asked for

it because my mom couldn't give it.

But when I got a little bit older, I don't know how I did it,

but I faked my daughters out into believing that I could do anything

for them.

And they beg me for stuff and they ask me and they bother me.

And quite frankly, it's annoying.

If you're listening right now, Bella, Neverly.

And I'll be in another country ministering over thousands of people

and Everly, be like, dad, can I download this app?

Dad, I've already looked on Google and it says it's appropriate

for 10 year olds.

Dad, dad, can I do the two dollar AD?

And I'm literally in front of 5,000 people ministering my guts

out.

And she's like, can I have this mobile app, dad?

And one day I was annoyed with that and I was like, is she spoiled?

And the Lord said, no, she's healthy because she trusts you.

And this is how kids act with a dad they believe is a good provider.

And the Lord said, mike, I wish you treated me like how Everly

treats you.

I wish you asked me for more.

You have not.

Because you ask not your identity.

You're an orphan.

And if you understood how much he has, if you would ask me for the

nations, I would give the nations.

I said, this is why.

This is why.

I said, lord, Lord, give me a stadium.

Lord, give me more.

I've been.

It's not out of pride.

It's actually out of the sufficiency of Christ to say, lord,

I know that if I can provide a $2 app on the App Store for Everly,

how much more you can provide for me.

You have not, because you ask not.

You can't be a child of God without getting benefits from the

beneficiary.

Who's your daddy?

Come on.

You like that.

When we were in elementary school, everybody in my elementary

school used to lie about their dad because we were too ashamed to

admit that our dads were nobodies.

And we would say, well, my dad did this, my dad did that.

I remember lying in elementary school about my dad telling fake

stories about my dad so I didn't feel well.

Why doesn't he come to Boy Scouts with you?

Why doesn't he come here?

Why?

I remember.

See, this is the thing.

When you get a revelation of being a child of God, please don't

get to heaven and see roads paved with gold.

Don't get to heaven and see the opulence and the grandeur of

his creation and realize that you accepted less than God's best

because you didn't understand what it meant to be his child.

Whatever you need, he'll give it to you.

I was thinking about the fact that there's 7 billion people on

the planet.

I've been hooked on that scripture that says, I called.

And he answered, oh, what a precious privilege.

When Moses said, who am I that you would be mindful of me.

It was because Moses was looking at the multitudes of Israelites

and he was saying, why would you meet with me?

But see, the Bible says that Moses was called a friend of God.

Some of you need an upgrade in your identity.

Some of you need to realize that out of 7 billion people, when

you call, he'll answer.

When you call, he'll answer.

This is why celebrities are getting saved.

Because when Russell Brand called, the Lord said, russell, you

got what's his name?

Russell Brand, right when he called.

Russell had all kinds of stuff in his past.

He didn't even have a religious framework.

He didn't even understand.

But when he called, the Lord answered.

It keeps happening over and over and over again.

We're children of God, see?

We are chosen and we are adopted.

Now, I want to.

I want to emphasize Ephesians chapter 1, verse 4.

Ephesians 1:4

We read it at the beginning of this sermon.

But I want to.

I want to actually highlight one aspect of this.

We are chosen and we are adopted.

And the reason why I can't hardly hold back from crying this

whole sermon is because this is the core of my Christian faith,

is identity.

Identity.

And this is what the Lord's been doing in me for many, many years.

And I'm choked up because I used to be so angry reading the New

Testament every time I saw the word adopted.

And I would say, I have stepdads.

I don't want to be adopted.

I want to be a blood son.

I want to be a Jew, not a gentile.

A crusty, dusty, hairy, bald gentile.

Come on, you can laugh.

I want to be blood.

You know, I would read the Bible.

Mad every time I saw adoption.

And I'd be like, lord, I don't want to be adopted.

I want the features.

I want to look like you.

I want to sound like you.

I want the genetics.

You know what I'm saying?

Not all of us can be blessed to have the Perez genetics.

I look at their sons.

They're both models.

Look at the mom and dad, you'll see why they grow this campus

off of looks.

Look at their sons.

They're both studs.

Then I look at myself.

It's like that movie Twins with Arnold schwarzenegger.

I'm Danny DeVito.

Is that the other guy?

I'm like, lord, how did this happen?

How did this happen?

I'm your servant.

But let me just tell you.

I've been in orphanages in different countries of the world,

and one day the Lord gave me a revelation about the word adoption.

And the Lord said, the word adoption is more powerful because

when you have a kid that's your own, you have to take care of

the kid.

But when you go into an orphanage and you adopt, you chose.

You chose them.

You say, I choose you.

See, when you have a kid, you can't choose.

You don't know what they're going to be like.

You don't know their personality.

You don't know if they're going to be a bad kid or a good kid.

You know if they're going to be a rebellious kid or not.

A short kid, tall kid.

You don't know.

You don't know what you're getting.

But when you go into an orphanage and you look at all those

children and you say, I choose that one.

See, the Lord says, mike, adoption is a more powerful term

because I knew every way you would fall.

I knew every way you would sin.

I knew every way you would fall short.

And while you were yet a sinner, I put my love out on the

line and I said, I choose him.

I adopt him.

I want that one.

And there's something that I now celebrate, adoption.

Because I say, lord, that to me shows me the great extent of your

love.

You didn't have to, but you wanted to.

Some of you still don't even believe that God wants to be with

you.

You want to be with God, but you don't still understand that he

wants to be with you.

He longs to hear your voice.

He longs to hear some of you are so mad at yourself for not praying

enough.

But his posture towards you is not anger.

It's actually longing.

It's, I want to have a conversation with you.

I want to talk to you.

It's because you're.

I chose you.

And I adopted you.

D We are forgiven and we are redeemed.

Colossians, chapter.

Colossians, chapter 1, verse 13.

Colossians 1:13

We are forgiven and we are redeemed.

And I want to explain why both of those terms matter.

The other day, somebody close to me was celebrating 70 days sober.

And this person was saying, I am so sorry for everything I did

to you while I was using drugs.

I am so sorry for what I said.

I'm so sorry for what I put you through.

I'm so sorry.

And while they were talking, the Lord spoke to me and said, treat

her like I treat you.

And I said, well, how do you treat me, Lord?

And this while she's explaining, he said, tell her you

don't remember anything she's talking about.

So I looked at her and I said, what are you talking about?

I don't remember those conversations.

What do you.

I don't remember when you did that.

What do you.

What do you mean?

You were on drugs?

I don't remember.

And I just began to say that I don't.

And the more I said it, she just started weeping.

She was getting a revelation.

I said, I don't even remember what you're talking about.

It was like.

Because, see, the thing about God's forgiveness is his love keeps

no records.

So as soon as he forgives you, he burns the whole file.

And then you're referencing and be like, lord, I'm so sorry.

The Lord's like, what are you talking about?

I don't remember when you did that.

Because I made a promise that I can't remember as far as the east

is from the West.

And then the word redeemed means bought with a price.

Bought with a price.

We've been forgiven, but we haven't just been forgiven and released.

We've been forgiven and redeemed.

That means that he wants you to live in his house and he's not

kicking you out when you turn 18, and he wants you to be with him,

and he redeems you so that you can be in his family.

Let's go to E.

And I'm going to blow up a lot of bad theology with E.

First Corinthians, chapter 1, verse 2.

1 Corinthians 1:2

We are saints, not sinners.

We are saints, not sinners.

There's a lot of churches where the pastor preaches, we are

all sinners.

If you've confessed Christ as your Savior, you are not a sinner.

That doesn't mean you don't sin, but it means that sin is not

your nature and sin is not your destiny, that heaven is your

home, that you will experience the resurrection of the saints and

the renewal of all things, that you will rule and reign in the

new heaven and new earth, and that you've received an inheritance

and you should not ever make your identity around.

Oh, I'm a Sinner.

And the reason why that bad theology was propagated in the body

of Christ is partly because the pastors are sinning so much that

they're speaking out of their own insecurity, and they're trying

to create a conduit of empathy so that if you find out what they're

doing and they find out what you're doing, that you're all cool.

But the other reason why that bad theology has been espoused from

many pulpits in this nation is partly because people are doing it

to signal humility.

Right?

And so they just want you to understand, hey, I'm, you know, we're

all sinners.

I sin, you sin.

It's like, no, we're actually saints who sometimes, occasionally

sin.

And we're going through a process called sanctification, where

eventually we do not sin like that anymore.

And if we do not remediate that sin and deal with it and go

to the root of it, that sin will turn into repeated behavior,

which is iniquity.

And that iniquity would be visited with a curse.

And that curse will be enforced by a demon.

And then you're going to need a lot of deliverance.

And then we're going to have to go back to where we started.

Does this make sense?

So I do not want us to be the church that says I'm a sinner, because

when you say I'm a sinner, you're giving yourself license to

sin.

When you say I am a saint, it's an affirmation of what scripture

calls you.

And by the way, for those of you who came out of Catholicism,

I just want to apologize.

And the reason why I want to apologize is because in that structure

of that religious institution, you were conditioned most likely

to believe that saints are them, but not us.

So.

And the Bible does not teach that, okay?

The Bible does not teach that.

As a matter of fact, when you look at First Corinthians, chapter

one, verse two, it's very clear that if you are a believer

and you have accepted Christ, you are a saint immediately.

And this is why I want to go back to the title.

That identity is received, not achieved.

Because in the Catholic Church, sainthood is achieved.

So there's a millennial saint in the Vatican and you can actually

go and visit, and this poor kid died prematurely.

But there are actually some post mortem miracles that occurred

and various things that the Catholic Church claims substantiates

him as a saint.

Okay?

So in the Catholic tradition, in order to achieve sainthood, you

have to achieve a certain Metric, there's, like, identifiable

things.

But biblically, this violates the heart of God, because being a

saint is a status that you receive from what Christ did on the

cross, not something that is the result of some sort of spiritual

accomplishment.

Does this make sense?

And I want to make sure that you get that.

You are a saint.

Go ahead and just say it.

I am a saint.

Some of you, when you said that out loud, it felt weird.

Am I right?

Keep saying it until it stops feeling weird.

Because oftentimes what's weird is your next level.

When you go into the gym and you're lifting, you're like, man,

this feels weird.

Yeah, because you're growing.

You know when you get up in.

Front of people and you do what.

God's called you to do, it'll feel weird.

Yeah, because you're breaking another level.

So when you said, I am a saint, say it one more time.

I am a saint.

Your family ain't going to like you talking like that.

Am I right?

Your friends are going.

If you go and go into Thanksgiving dinner and be like,

I am a saint, they be like, pastor Mike told me.

Say it again.

I am a saint.

The devil is a liar.

You are who he says you are.

And you keep saying it, even if they don't believe it.

And you keep declaring it, even if.

They don't receive it.

And stop letting people who know your past but don't know your

future determine how you think about yourself in your present.

Oh, yeah, you might be right if you're referencing a past that

God forgot about.

But I'm referencing a future where he sees me in a perfected state,

and I'm on my way.

Y'all with me.

Okay, I'm gonna go a little bit faster because I only got two

more hours on this thing.

F.

We are more than conquerors.

More than conquerors.

Somebody say more.

Romans 8:37.

Romans 8:37

God did not bring you here just to get by.

We're going from surviving to thriving.

We're going from surviving to thriving.

We're more than conquerors.

Conquerors just survive.

But more than conquerors thrive.

Here's the next one.

Gee.

We have the mind of Christ.

You have it.

It's just whether or not you use it.

You have the mind of Christ.

Do you use the mind of Christ?

Oh, come on.

That'll talk to somebody.

Next time you're talking to somebody, ask them, which mind are

you using?

Come on.

I'm talking to the leaders right now.

Somebody on your team is talking all crazy.

Which mind are you using?

Use the Mind of Christ.

You'll see what I'm seeing.

You'll think what I'm thinking.

Which mind are you using, H?

We are the righteousness of God in Christ.

We are the righteousness of God in Christ.

Think about this.

We are a physical embodiment of the righteousness of God in Christ.

That's second Corinthians 5.

21.

We are the righteousness of God.

I mean, that in and of itself means that we are an ambassador.

We are a representation.

When I'm walking in that cvs, when I'm walking in that Barnes and

Noble, when I'm walking down the street, I am.

Think about this.

The righteousness of God in Christ.

Even the demons know when we walk up in that room, the angels

know.

That's the righteousness of Christ.

There's something about that revelation about who you are.

You all know what you are wearing in the physical realm, but

what clothes are you wearing in the spiritual realm?

Can you see the insignia?

Can you see it?

Do you know what you look?

How are you dressed in the spiritual realm?

Because when you walk in, man, the devil sees the full armor of

Christ.

The devil sees the crown of royal priesthood.

That's the next one.

We are royal priests.

First Peter, chapter two, verse nine.

We are royal priests.

We ain't no basic priests.

We ain't no wish.com priests.

We ain't no Temu priests.

Is that how you say it?

Is that how you say it?

Temu?

I ain't no Teemo Teemu priest.

I ain't no wish.com priest.

What's that other site that Bella uses?

Sheen.

I ain't no Sheen priest.

Come on.

Helping me preach this today.

Who you think I am, devil?

One of those sheen priests?

You think I ordered this off of Temu?

I'm a royal priest.

I got this ephod from Jesus Christ himself.

You better recognize, devil.

You better back up off me, devil.

This scepter in the spirit I'm holding, this ain't no Teemu shepherd's

rod.

I'm a royal priest.

And some of you are living like a rip off and not living like

a royal.

You're a royal.

I ain't no rip off.

You gotta bend your knee, demon.

I'm coming on behalf of the King.

I'm not a ripoff.

I'm a royal.

Where do you think I got this garment?

This garment was given.

Recognize this garment.

Look at what I'm wearing in the spirit realm.

Shut your mouth, you little punk demon.

I'm here to pimp you in Jesus Name.

That's how you got to act.

Some of you are walking around like you're in a sheen royal outfit.

Recognize these stitches?

This ain't no fake, Louie.

This is the real thing.

Some of you have been wearing Gucci so long that you've transferred

that mindset in the spiritual realm.

Acting like you're wearing rip off garbs.

You're actually wearing the real thing.

I'm a royal priest.

This is the same thing that Aaron and the sons of Aaron.

I'm a priest of my home, Devil.

You are not going to take my home.

I'm the priest up in this home and we offer incense to heaven.

Come here, Julie.

Let me prophesy over you, girl.

This is why I'm telling y'all.

Some of you know how to yell in your marriage, but you haven't

learned how to yell.

A prophet, prophecy.

Some of you know how to cut everybody down but the devil.

So I'm talking to somebody.

You can cut your spouse down.

Turn that tongue on the devil and you'll be a warrior.

You know how to tear your spouse down.

Tear a stronghold down some.

I don't know how to be a priest.

Shut your mouth, you liar.

You know what I'm talking about.

Some of these men.

You were bold enough to have sex with her.

You better be bold enough to procure creating the spirit.

Now you know how to make every move but a spiritual move.

The devil is a lie.

I don't know how to pray.

You know how to argue.

You know how to fight.

You know how to cuss.

Then you know how to bless.

You know how to prophesy and you know how to speak.

Come on, Stop telling me you don't know what you're doing.

You know what you're doing and the evidence that you feel timid.

You can go sleep with 17 women.

But you can't pray for your wife.

The evidence is that's your true identity because you're most

afraid to do the thing he called you to do.

The most talking to somebody.

Right now, all these men.

I don't know enough of the Bible.

Well, you know enough about pornography.

You know enough about ufc.

You knew enough about the fight.

Coming up.

If you can learn stats in a.

Baseball game, you can learn scriptures.

And some of you know more stats.

Than scriptures and that's why your life is a wreck.

The devil is a liar.

I'm calling you up.

This is an identity upgrade.

You are the priest.

Just because Catholicism told you there's one priest per parish,

I'm here to tell you there's one priest per home.

It's you bro.

It's you bro.

Stand up.

Stand up.

Stand up and make the devil stand down.

Stand up and make the devil sit down.

Stand up and make the devil crawl.

Make him get on his knees knees.

Make him bow down.

Make him be the one that submits.

This time.

This is who I'm talking to.

This is an identity upgrade.

This is why I say we've got more authority than the mayor of

a city.

Because I'm royal priesthood up in here.

You might be the president, but I'm the son of the king and my

dad owns everything.

And so you listen to the word of the Lord.

Somebody's shouting to God, come on, jump up to your feet with

me.

Everybody else across every location the battle attack of the

enemy will will be to distort your identity will be the the lies

and the accusations.

You have to stop entertaining the lies.

Stop entertaining the accusations.

You know who you are now be it.

Walk it out.

Shame and condemnation be broken off of you.

It's time to walk up out of that.

You are not what you did.

You are not, I'm telling you, are not what you did and you're not.

What happened to you.

You're more through Christ Jesus, comparison and envy.

Listen, if you could get a revelation of what God wants to do

with your life, you wouldn't want their life.

Comparison is a lack of vision.

It's you.

Seeing imparts what God did in someone else's life, but not seeing

in fullness.

What he wants to do with your own.

See, comparison is only possible for those.

Who are not seeing in the spiritual realm.

Because if you see what God is trying to show you, you'll say I

don't even want their future because that would be a reduction

of what he.

Wants for my life.

I.

Come on.

And as long as you're trapped in comparison, what actually happens

is you limit God because you're not giving God the ability

to accept.

Exceed what you see.

And God wants to exceed what you see.

Some of you like, oh, I wish.

I had a marriage like theirs.

No, God wants you to exceed what you see.

Oh, I wish I had finances like him.

No, God wants you to exceed what you see.

There's something I'm trying to tell you.

Comparison is only possible if you're willing to tell God that he

can't exceed what you see.

No God do exceedingly, abundantly more than I can can think,

ask or imagine.

Come on.

Is somebody getting a revelation of identity?

Come on.

This message is why I Didn't kill myself.

This message is why I don't quit when the people who watch our

live stream just to catch me up make a video.

This message is why I don't quit when people talk mess this read.

This is why I didn't quit when I was beat in my home as a child

growing up.

This is why I didn't quit when I was hungry at night.

Because I knew that God has more.

And I had to come into alignment with what he says about

who I am.

It's not about how many people you hear.

It's about which one you choose to believe.

I can't stop from hearing them on YouTube.

I can't stop from hearing them in the comments.

I can't stop from hearing them in the congregation.

I can't stop from hearing them at the dinner table.

You can't stop what you hear, but you can choose what you believe.

And I keep going back to this at every stage of my life and saying,

God, I believe.

I believe.

I don't know why you would choose me.

I wouldn't choose me, but put me in the fight, coach.

Put me in the fight, coach.

Put me out there, God, I'll do it.

I don't know.

I would have.

Put me on the third string.

I don't know why you're calling me an all Star, but there's

something that you see that I don't see.

Put me in, God, I'll do it.

I'll say it.

I will become what you've called me to.

I will inherit freedom.

I feel the power of God being released.

Harvey.

Can God give you Miami?

Can God give you South Florida?

Marion Randall.

Can God give you the entire state of New Jersey?

Jason Haley.

Can God give you Northwest Indiana?

Oh, come on.

I'm asking a question.

Danny and Exica.

Can God not give you Long Island?

Can God change a nation in a day?

Can God change a nation in a day?

Did he do it with Nineveh?

Will he do it with us?

It's about what we believe, about who we are.

So across every location right now, I want you to just put your

hands in the air as a sign of surrender right now.

And this right now is going to be a moment.

Some of you have never believed you can be healed.

But by faith, your physical body can be healed from every sickness

and disease.

Some of you have never believed that your marriage can be

whole, but.

But God can actually do it.

Some of you never believe that you can be fertile because you have

infertility.

So this is an identity issue.

You can be fertile.

You will have a baby and hold it in your hand.

You will maybe even adopt some of somebody else's baby as your own.

Because that message of adoption, some of you never see yourself

being out of lack and poverty, but God's showing you the vision

of yourself as being in abundance.

Come on.

Yeah.

Right now, I feel it being released as your hands are open.

The Lord said, when you open your hands, you release what you

had.

You released your identity.

And now I will fill your hands with my identity.

I will fill your hands with my identity, says the Lord.

Be still and know that I am God.

What happened in your life to this point was a result of your warfare.

But now what happens will be the result of your rest.

For I, the Lord, will do it on your behalf to show you that you

are one that inherits, not just one that receives after the

warfare.

Whoa.

I feel like the Lord's shifting something in many of you

right now because you're so used to fighting for yourself and

you've always gotten what you fought for.

But I hear the Lord saying, what.

I'm about to do next is going to exceed your level of warfare.

And it's going to prove to you that you're my child.

And it's going to be something you never were going to be.

Power enough.

Powerful enough to fight for.

But it's going to prove my sovereign sovereignty in your life.

Come on.

Just take a few minutes right now because the Lord is moving in

a mighty way.

Yeah.

Come on.

Come on.

Play that.

Encounter us, God.

Encounter us.

God, encounter us.

God, change us.

Mold us.

Shape us.

Rearrange.

Break it off of us.

The old ways of thinking, the old ways of believing, the old ways

of understanding, the old ways.

Come on.

I want you to begin to say these things with me now because

we're.

Going to make declaration declarations across every location.

I want you to say this with me.

I am a saint.

I am a priest.

I am a blessing.

I am a friend of God.

I am a royal priesthood.

Come on, declare it.

I am powerful through Christ.

I am a conduit.

I am a prophet.

I am an evangelist.

I am a disciple maker.

Come on.

I am a leader.

I am a leader.

I am a leader.

Whoa.

It's being released.

It's being released.

It's being released.

Wow.

I feel it being released right now.

Some lies from previous churches are being broken off of

you right now in the name of Jesus.

Somebody needs to say, I am a revivalist.

Come on.

Some lies are being broken off when somebody said, I Am a prophet.

Some lies were broken off from a previous church when somebody said,

I am a leader, some lies are broken off.

Wow.

Come on.

Two more minutes.

Somebody needs to say, I am valuable.

My life matters.

I have a destiny in Christ.

Yeah.

Come on.

Come on.

Some of you just feel like you jumped into a pool of fresh water.

And you're swimming around a pool right.

Now because you're free.

You're free.

You're free.

You're free.

You're free.

You're free.

You're free.

You're free.

I'm gonna bring our campus pastors up in a few moments, and

we're gonna tag team preach at every campus.

So at every location right now.

The campus pastors are going to come up in a moment and tag team

preach off of this.

But I just want to say this right now.

The Lord told me to tell somebody.

You are not a lesbian.

I don't know who that's for.

You are not a lesbian.

And I heard the Lord say, you.

Will be married and you will have a family.

I'm telling you, he's restoring identity right now.

I don't know who I'm talking.

I just had to say that because it's redemptive.

It's a vision thing.

Because you've done lesbian acts doesn't make you a lesbian.

You are not what you did.

God is actually going to bring you out of that identity into wholeness

and healing in Jesus name.

You are not on the shelf.

I don't know who I'm talking to.

You are not on the shelf.

You're just being still when somebody's like, I thought you.

Why are you not in ministry?

I am in ministry.

I'm waiting on the Lord.

My job is to wait on him.

I'm being still in his presence.

I feel the power of God.

I feel the anointing for somebody right now.

Father, we thank you for what you're doing right now.

I thank you for what you're doing right now.

I thank you for what you're doing.

And Long Island, I thank you for what you're doing right now.

Break off generational lies.

Break off generational lies.

Break off lies from our past.

Break off lies from our lineage.

Oh, generational lies will be broken off of y'all right now.

Come on.

Yeah, come on.

This is why we got to go through the book.

It's identity.

It's time.

It's identity time.

Oh, aren't you a caterpillar?

I used to be a caterpillar.

I'm in a cocoon right now I used to crawl around?

I used.

But I'm getting ready to fly?

I'm.

I'm getting ready to fly?

I used to be a caterpillar?

But I'm going through a metamorphosis?

I'm changing?

I'm changing?

You better take my picture?

You better remember me like this?

Because I'm not always going to be like this.

This is not the best version of me?

This is not the best version of me?

This is not the best version of me?

You better take a good look?

Because I'm not gonna look like this for long?

I'm not destined to be a caterpillar?

I was destined to be a butterfly?

You better take a closer look?

This is not who I'm always gonna be.

Hallelujah.

Come on.

Come on.

Campus pastors just tap tagging off at every location.

Jump up on that stage and keep this minute street flowing.