WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.311 --> 00:00:03.072 Ask the Holy Spirit to give you illumination as you read the scriptures. 2 00:00:03.092 --> 00:00:04.593 Don't just pass over it. 3 00:00:04.813 --> 00:00:08.654 If there's ever a portion of scripture that you don't understand, stop and ask. 4 00:00:09.114 --> 00:00:10.555 Remember, you are filled with fire. 5 00:00:11.055 --> 00:00:15.496 You are, see, see, this is why the Old Testament saints are jealous, because they would have to go to the king. 6 00:00:16.057 --> 00:00:18.217 They would have to go to the priest and go to the high priest. 7 00:00:18.237 --> 00:00:23.139 And all you have to do is go, hey, what's the, God living on the inside of you can give you insight. 8 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:25.920 Did you know that you have the cure for cancer on the inside of you? 9 00:00:26.338 --> 00:00:28.460 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 10 00:00:28.680 --> 00:00:35.045 Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us. 11 00:00:35.726 --> 00:00:41.190 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com. 12 00:00:41.510 --> 00:00:43.412 That's citylightnyc.com. 13 00:00:44.833 --> 00:00:51.937 Pastor Boyan Jancic and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 14 00:00:52.657 --> 00:01:02.543 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you. 15 00:01:06.185 --> 00:01:07.946 Again, for all our guests, my name is Mohammed. 16 00:01:07.986 --> 00:01:09.907 I'm one of the pastors here at City Light Church. 17 00:01:10.668 --> 00:01:11.048 Welcome. 18 00:01:12.850 --> 00:01:14.331 We are a rambunctious bunch. 19 00:01:14.391 --> 00:01:15.632 We are here at City Lights. 20 00:01:18.633 --> 00:01:20.154 I thought about something the other day. 21 00:01:21.655 --> 00:01:24.036 And tell me, I feel like I'm not the only one who's ever had this thought. 22 00:01:24.236 --> 00:01:30.320 You ever think about the fact that we're going to get to heaven and be able to interact with the characters from the Old Testament? 23 00:01:30.340 --> 00:01:32.781 Like, they're not just characters in a story. 24 00:01:32.801 --> 00:01:35.243 Like, these are actual people that live. 25 00:01:35.263 --> 00:01:37.984 Like, we have archaeological evidence and things like that. 26 00:01:38.004 --> 00:01:39.165 Like, these people existed. 27 00:01:39.185 --> 00:01:40.406 They're not just stories. 28 00:01:40.466 --> 00:01:40.606 And... 29 00:01:41.246 --> 00:01:44.728 The culmination of our faith is going to be that we are going to be with Jesus forever. 30 00:01:44.768 --> 00:01:53.293 But there's also this thing of these same people that we've read about that have been immortalized in the scriptures are people and we're going to actually live with them. 31 00:01:54.353 --> 00:01:57.395 So have you ever had the thought like, what is some of those conversations look like? 32 00:01:58.095 --> 00:02:00.578 You got to understand some of them are going to be like rock stars in heaven. 33 00:02:00.598 --> 00:02:02.620 Like you get like a David, like, oh, my God, David. 34 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:04.501 You're so like you slew giant. 35 00:02:04.882 --> 00:02:09.687 Like you stood in the midst of, you know, all these people and men and everybody was wussing out. 36 00:02:09.727 --> 00:02:11.228 And you were just like, what, son? 37 00:02:11.248 --> 00:02:11.689 I got it. 38 00:02:14.211 --> 00:02:15.092 What was that like? 39 00:02:15.112 --> 00:02:17.955 Like, like, did the Lord, like, give you like a sharpshooter scope? 40 00:02:17.995 --> 00:02:18.656 Like, what was it? 41 00:02:18.676 --> 00:02:19.777 Did you just fling it by hand? 42 00:02:19.797 --> 00:02:20.658 Did you fling it by the sling? 43 00:02:21.078 --> 00:02:21.659 How was it? 44 00:02:23.421 --> 00:02:24.802 Wait, hold that thought, David. 45 00:02:24.923 --> 00:02:25.203 I see Eli. 46 00:02:25.323 --> 00:02:27.725 Elijah, come here, come here, come here, come here, come here. 47 00:02:27.865 --> 00:02:29.267 Yo, I've been waiting to talk to you, bro. 48 00:02:29.907 --> 00:02:36.794 What was it like when you called down a pillar of fire from heaven and it consumed all of the sacrifice? 49 00:02:36.914 --> 00:02:37.895 Like, what was that light? 50 00:02:38.016 --> 00:02:38.957 Like, did it feel tingly? 51 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:47.205 Now, here's the part that the Lord did something beautiful and he reminded me of. 52 00:02:48.852 --> 00:02:57.678 We're gonna be asking Old Testament saints what those stories were like, and they're going to be more excited to meet us than we are to meet them. 53 00:03:00.460 --> 00:03:05.824 Don't be surprised when you're walking down the block, streets of gold, like, man, this place is nice. 54 00:03:07.585 --> 00:03:08.506 Somebody just run up on you. 55 00:03:08.526 --> 00:03:10.107 Oh my God, it's Tiffany, Tiffany, Tiffany. 56 00:03:10.528 --> 00:03:12.609 Oh my, wow, this outfit is really cute. 57 00:03:12.709 --> 00:03:16.232 Okay, so what was it like? 58 00:03:18.906 --> 00:03:22.867 You were filled with God Almighty. 59 00:03:24.527 --> 00:03:28.528 The spirit of the living God literally rested on the inside of you. 60 00:03:28.568 --> 00:03:29.408 What was it like? 61 00:03:35.269 --> 00:03:40.410 And the sad part is, some Christians are gonna not know what to say. 62 00:03:42.351 --> 00:03:47.712 Well, he definitely did fill me, that is true. 63 00:03:49.399 --> 00:03:49.939 I know, I know. 64 00:03:50.979 --> 00:03:52.680 What did it cause you to do? 65 00:03:54.781 --> 00:04:00.522 Well, I definitely wore a Christian T-shirt so that I could bring attention to the name of Jesus. 66 00:04:07.185 --> 00:04:14.107 And in my mind's eye, I see the disappointment beginning to fall on the face of the Old Testament saints like, what year are you from? 67 00:04:14.127 --> 00:04:17.288 All right, maybe I need to go check out the 1900s. 68 00:04:21.225 --> 00:04:23.066 You want a New Testament, Old Testament? 69 00:04:23.126 --> 00:04:23.626 New Testament. 70 00:04:23.907 --> 00:04:27.969 What was it like to be indwelt with God Almighty? 71 00:04:28.889 --> 00:04:32.311 To be filled with the creator of all things? 72 00:04:34.873 --> 00:04:39.775 Well, I got great church attendance. 73 00:04:41.396 --> 00:04:43.998 Like I would go and then I would go home and then I would go and I would come home. 74 00:04:48.985 --> 00:04:57.389 Did you know that what we experience on a daily basis, the scriptures speak about the Old Testament saints longing for? 75 00:05:00.730 --> 00:05:03.632 Jesus himself says this, Luke 10, 23. 76 00:05:05.303 --> 00:05:11.908 Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, blessed are the eyes which see the things you see. 77 00:05:12.668 --> 00:05:21.074 For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desire to see what you see and have not seen it and to hear what you hear and have not heard it. 78 00:05:22.815 --> 00:05:25.217 Peter emphasizes this first Peter one verse 10. 79 00:05:28.107 --> 00:05:46.077 Of this salvation, the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when he testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. 80 00:05:46.857 --> 00:05:53.041 To them it was revealed that not to themselves, but to us, they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you, 81 00:05:54.322 --> 00:05:57.745 Through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. 82 00:05:58.225 --> 00:06:01.668 Things which angels desire to look into. 83 00:06:05.391 --> 00:06:08.133 Angels as powerful as they are. 84 00:06:09.454 --> 00:06:11.236 Principalities and powers. 85 00:06:11.636 --> 00:06:12.797 Rulers in the air. 86 00:06:14.658 --> 00:06:21.364 None of them know the feeling of being indwelt by the Holy Spirit. 87 00:06:23.077 --> 00:06:25.059 They look at you and they marvel. 88 00:06:27.941 --> 00:06:29.102 I wish I could have that. 89 00:06:33.505 --> 00:06:44.593 And the reason I bring it up is because I don't know that we've put enough gravity and understanding and weight to the fact that the God of heaven lives on the inside of us. 90 00:06:46.034 --> 00:06:47.816 And what that means for us. 91 00:06:53.512 --> 00:06:58.353 So today, I want to talk about the God of fire. 92 00:07:05.175 --> 00:07:06.196 Does that sound good to y'all? 93 00:07:07.096 --> 00:07:08.116 All right. 94 00:07:08.156 --> 00:07:09.557 Not to make it too somber, praise God. 95 00:07:11.517 --> 00:07:12.278 The God of fire. 96 00:07:15.299 --> 00:07:20.060 We have to be much more cognizant of who it is that we carry and what that means for us. 97 00:07:22.854 --> 00:07:29.057 Because in that vein, you know, we have at City Light always multiple audiences at one time. 98 00:07:30.117 --> 00:07:33.098 You got your OGs who've been saved two decades and more. 99 00:07:33.118 --> 00:07:36.400 You got your medium saints. 100 00:07:37.721 --> 00:07:42.964 five to ten, but then you got babies in the Lord who just have gotten saved. 101 00:07:43.565 --> 00:07:47.347 And some people who are rededicating their life after a time away from God. 102 00:07:47.927 --> 00:07:49.868 So there's always multiple audiences. 103 00:07:50.289 --> 00:07:59.594 And sometimes as you get a new crop of people who are just beginning to know the Lord, they need to be instructed in how to carry the fire. 104 00:08:01.395 --> 00:08:05.678 Because you might not be aware of it, but there is fire on the inside of you. 105 00:08:07.499 --> 00:08:10.401 But if you don't know what that means, then you would squander it. 106 00:08:13.303 --> 00:08:17.065 So today I have an undertaking from the Lord to talk about the God of fire. 107 00:08:17.866 --> 00:08:25.151 Have you ever noticed that in the scriptures that God is constantly aligning himself and comparing himself and symbolizing himself as fire? 108 00:08:26.592 --> 00:08:30.154 Like to the point that sometimes I'm like a little worried like Jesus, you okay? 109 00:08:30.174 --> 00:08:30.734 I don't want you to. 110 00:08:31.375 --> 00:08:32.455 You're not an arsonist, are you? 111 00:08:32.495 --> 00:08:33.936 And he's like, yeah, I very much am. 112 00:08:34.577 --> 00:08:35.738 I like things on fire all the time. 113 00:08:35.898 --> 00:08:36.238 Praise God. 114 00:08:38.417 --> 00:08:39.998 How many arsonists we got in the building today? 115 00:08:44.961 --> 00:08:46.582 Sound bites are going to be crazy today. 116 00:08:47.683 --> 00:08:48.964 Light yourself on fire. 117 00:08:49.104 --> 00:08:49.584 All right, stop. 118 00:08:51.786 --> 00:08:52.086 All right. 119 00:08:54.588 --> 00:08:57.590 We're going into a new place in the supernatural realm. 120 00:08:59.471 --> 00:09:00.592 Pastor Bo has been prepping. 121 00:09:02.025 --> 00:09:03.305 preening and getting us ready. 122 00:09:04.086 --> 00:09:08.227 First, it started with you understanding what you have the ability to do by speaking in tongues. 123 00:09:08.507 --> 00:09:14.049 And that opens the door so that you might take more steps into the supernatural. 124 00:09:14.289 --> 00:09:17.450 How many of you know it's not just about speaking in tongues? 125 00:09:18.811 --> 00:09:27.274 It's about you stepping into a level of ministry where heaven comes down to earth because you showed up. 126 00:09:29.042 --> 00:09:32.944 That is the reality of how much I want you walking in the supernatural. 127 00:09:33.184 --> 00:09:35.206 And I'm not talking about just being weird. 128 00:09:37.307 --> 00:09:43.110 Because there's been such a misappropriation by weird people on what the things of the spirit are meant to look like. 129 00:09:44.851 --> 00:09:48.594 The same way you were taught that speaking in tongues doesn't have to be weird. 130 00:09:48.614 --> 00:09:50.335 Speaking in tongues can be very beautiful. 131 00:09:51.202 --> 00:09:55.203 Because you're praying the perfect will of God over your life. 132 00:09:55.604 --> 00:09:57.744 There's no reason to have a loud decibel about it. 133 00:09:57.804 --> 00:09:59.125 No reason to run around crazy. 134 00:09:59.165 --> 00:10:00.205 No reason to grab snakes. 135 00:10:01.126 --> 00:10:02.386 I don't know why some people do it. 136 00:10:02.406 --> 00:10:02.966 Some people do it. 137 00:10:03.386 --> 00:10:04.327 That doesn't have to be you. 138 00:10:04.487 --> 00:10:04.787 Amen? 139 00:10:05.907 --> 00:10:13.810 But because you have the fire of God, because you get to walk in the supernatural, I need you to be more keenly aware of what that looks like. 140 00:10:16.331 --> 00:10:18.552 Did you know, you, Christian, you, 141 00:10:19.535 --> 00:10:22.216 You get to lay hands on the sick and watch them recover. 142 00:10:24.397 --> 00:10:27.498 Did you know that you've been a certified exorcist? 143 00:10:29.819 --> 00:10:32.400 Raise your hand today if you believe that you have the Holy Spirit inside of you. 144 00:10:32.420 --> 00:10:33.440 You've been washed in the blood. 145 00:10:33.460 --> 00:10:34.181 You're a Christian. 146 00:10:35.141 --> 00:10:36.702 Yeah, the Bible calls you an exorcist. 147 00:10:37.862 --> 00:10:40.603 The Bible says that you will cast out demons in his name. 148 00:10:41.083 --> 00:10:41.403 Huh? 149 00:10:42.204 --> 00:10:42.664 Moi? 150 00:10:43.704 --> 00:10:44.224 Twa? 151 00:10:53.248 --> 00:10:54.728 But we have to ask ourselves a question. 152 00:10:58.229 --> 00:11:00.850 Why does God keep showing up as fire in the scriptures? 153 00:11:03.751 --> 00:11:05.291 I believe many of you already know the answer. 154 00:11:05.411 --> 00:11:06.551 And I believe I said it already. 155 00:11:06.571 --> 00:11:08.312 But God is fire. 156 00:11:12.193 --> 00:11:14.133 There's two points that are going to run this whole thing. 157 00:11:14.153 --> 00:11:15.793 And I need you to keep both of them in your mind. 158 00:11:15.873 --> 00:11:16.614 God is fire. 159 00:11:17.674 --> 00:11:19.534 And you're called to walk a supernatural life. 160 00:11:21.115 --> 00:11:22.495 These two things need to be balanced. 161 00:11:24.622 --> 00:11:35.469 You have an invitation right now from God to leave a normal, secular, boring, dumb life for a supernatural one where you get to show the fruit of heaven. 162 00:11:39.352 --> 00:11:40.492 I got one person excited. 163 00:11:46.478 --> 00:11:49.700 Now, again, he says in the scriptures, he is the God of fire, right? 164 00:11:50.301 --> 00:11:51.021 And it's not occasional. 165 00:11:51.041 --> 00:11:51.822 Like, this is his thing. 166 00:11:52.042 --> 00:11:52.723 It's not random. 167 00:11:53.303 --> 00:11:57.266 In fact, it's God's signature move throughout the entire Bible from beginning to end. 168 00:11:57.486 --> 00:12:00.308 When the living God draws near, fire is there. 169 00:12:01.429 --> 00:12:02.430 Exodus 3, verse 2. 170 00:12:03.823 --> 00:12:07.564 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of the bush. 171 00:12:07.804 --> 00:12:11.686 So he looked and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. 172 00:12:11.926 --> 00:12:14.587 So Moses is just out in the wilderness, minding his own business. 173 00:12:14.827 --> 00:12:17.488 And the angel of the Lord appears to him as what? 174 00:12:17.868 --> 00:12:19.828 A flame in the midst of the bush. 175 00:12:21.109 --> 00:12:21.929 And he speaks to him. 176 00:12:21.949 --> 00:12:25.870 He has a dramatic encounter and his life is never the same again. 177 00:12:27.711 --> 00:12:28.611 We go further back. 178 00:12:28.651 --> 00:12:29.592 Let's go to Genesis 15 verse 17. 179 00:12:31.487 --> 00:12:38.992 And it came to pass when the sun went down and it was dark that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces. 180 00:12:39.393 --> 00:12:43.075 Now, I have to stop at this because number one, I'm a Bible nerd. 181 00:12:43.115 --> 00:12:44.276 And number two, I care about you. 182 00:12:45.457 --> 00:12:46.698 And here's what I mean. 183 00:12:47.278 --> 00:12:53.743 This is one of the most beautiful illustrations of the gospel foreshadowed in the Old Testament. 184 00:12:54.927 --> 00:12:59.369 And I would be remiss if we didn't just camp a little bit so that we could explore that. 185 00:12:59.589 --> 00:13:03.511 Because if there's ever a chance for you to share the gospel with somebody, you have to take it. 186 00:13:06.512 --> 00:13:12.955 Some people tell me sometimes, oh, well, you know, I was having a conversation with so-and-so, and it's a person that we both know that doesn't know the Lord. 187 00:13:12.975 --> 00:13:16.337 And then I ask them, hey, did you offer the gospel? 188 00:13:17.530 --> 00:13:22.893 And then sometimes sadly the person would tell me, ah, no, it didn't feel like the right moment. 189 00:13:22.913 --> 00:13:24.134 It's never the right moment. 190 00:13:26.276 --> 00:13:28.677 I can tell you right now, it's never the right moment. 191 00:13:29.157 --> 00:13:31.659 But that doesn't mean that we still shouldn't share. 192 00:13:33.680 --> 00:13:41.165 So many of us are so concerned with what it looks like to other people that we're sharing the gospel. 193 00:13:42.426 --> 00:13:45.288 As if it depends on us whether they get saved or not. 194 00:13:46.619 --> 00:13:50.021 Get it out of your mind, whether it depends on you. 195 00:13:50.081 --> 00:13:52.602 I'm telling you now, I'm giving you understanding and permission. 196 00:13:52.922 --> 00:13:54.282 It does not depend on you. 197 00:13:55.143 --> 00:13:56.964 Their salvation does not depend on you. 198 00:13:57.064 --> 00:13:58.865 But I will say this. 199 00:14:00.445 --> 00:14:02.686 Them hearing the message does depend on you. 200 00:14:04.427 --> 00:14:14.972 If God has opened the door to give you influence, to give you a circle of influence where you can speak into somebody's life, God forbid that you wouldn't share the gospel with them. 201 00:14:16.933 --> 00:14:17.253 Amen? 202 00:14:19.736 --> 00:14:23.419 So now I get to preach, but you can't get past the gospel. 203 00:14:23.439 --> 00:14:23.839 It's right there. 204 00:14:23.859 --> 00:14:24.300 Don't you see it? 205 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:26.321 You might say, well, what do you mean? 206 00:14:26.341 --> 00:14:27.723 I've read that before, Genesis 15. 207 00:14:27.743 --> 00:14:29.024 I've never seen the gospel in that. 208 00:14:29.284 --> 00:14:30.205 Well, here's what it was. 209 00:14:30.565 --> 00:14:32.207 Abram, and this is before he's Abraham. 210 00:14:34.415 --> 00:14:36.877 God comes to him and says, you right there? 211 00:14:36.917 --> 00:14:38.498 Yeah, I'm going to bless you. 212 00:14:39.219 --> 00:14:41.421 I'm going to bless you with so many kids, it's going to make a nation. 213 00:14:41.721 --> 00:14:46.966 I'm going to bless you with so many kids that even the stars in the sky won't add up to the number of kids I'm going to give you. 214 00:14:48.807 --> 00:14:50.508 And Abram's response was, bruh. 215 00:14:53.671 --> 00:14:54.432 I'm old. 216 00:14:55.833 --> 00:14:57.114 My wife is old. 217 00:14:57.194 --> 00:14:59.176 She's fine, but she's old. 218 00:15:02.343 --> 00:15:02.683 How? 219 00:15:02.863 --> 00:15:04.824 You remember the old Kanye? 220 00:15:06.584 --> 00:15:07.644 Everybody remembers the old Kanye. 221 00:15:07.664 --> 00:15:08.645 We like the old Kanye. 222 00:15:10.525 --> 00:15:14.506 He sat down for an interview with Sway and the great meme was born out of that. 223 00:15:14.546 --> 00:15:15.366 How, Sway? 224 00:15:15.826 --> 00:15:16.366 How? 225 00:15:17.947 --> 00:15:19.467 And I imagine that was Abram. 226 00:15:20.507 --> 00:15:22.108 You gonna bless me, mad kids? 227 00:15:22.208 --> 00:15:23.948 How, God, how? 228 00:15:27.109 --> 00:15:30.790 And God tells him, go get me a goat. 229 00:15:31.885 --> 00:15:34.387 Go get me a lamb and go get me a turtle dove. 230 00:15:35.467 --> 00:15:40.891 Now, it's funny, though, because immediately Abram is excited and he knows exactly what to do. 231 00:15:41.031 --> 00:15:45.254 We don't know what to do because we look at it from a very industrial side of living. 232 00:15:45.294 --> 00:15:46.675 They were a Gregorian style. 233 00:15:46.695 --> 00:15:50.837 They were farmers and caretakers of the land and animals. 234 00:15:51.398 --> 00:15:52.478 He knew exactly what to do. 235 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:57.722 He knew that when God said, go get these animals, he was going to write a covenant with him. 236 00:15:58.723 --> 00:16:02.084 That means an unbreakable promise between the two individuals. 237 00:16:03.244 --> 00:16:03.824 So he runs. 238 00:16:04.544 --> 00:16:05.385 You said, get what? 239 00:16:05.985 --> 00:16:06.585 Pew! 240 00:16:07.485 --> 00:16:08.765 Get the thing, get the thing, get the thing. 241 00:16:09.165 --> 00:16:10.466 And he lays the animals down. 242 00:16:12.066 --> 00:16:13.507 And he cuts them in half. 243 00:16:14.607 --> 00:16:15.507 And again, you're reading this. 244 00:16:15.527 --> 00:16:18.068 You probably read that before and thought, well, that's strange. 245 00:16:20.528 --> 00:16:23.289 Ask the Holy Spirit to give you illumination as you read the scriptures. 246 00:16:23.309 --> 00:16:24.809 Don't just pass over it. 247 00:16:25.029 --> 00:16:27.690 If there's ever a portion of scripture that you don't understand, stop. 248 00:16:28.770 --> 00:16:29.511 And ask. 249 00:16:29.831 --> 00:16:31.292 Remember, you are filled with fire. 250 00:16:32.493 --> 00:16:34.635 See, this is why the Old Testament saints are jealous. 251 00:16:35.496 --> 00:16:36.797 Because they would have to go to the king. 252 00:16:36.817 --> 00:16:38.478 And they would have to go to the priest. 253 00:16:38.779 --> 00:16:39.599 And go to the high priest. 254 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:42.522 And all you have to do is go, hey, what's that? 255 00:16:44.183 --> 00:16:46.465 God living on the inside of you can give you inside. 256 00:16:46.725 --> 00:16:49.268 Did you know that you have the cure for cancer on the inside of you? 257 00:16:51.369 --> 00:16:53.251 You got the cure for HIV on the inside of you. 258 00:16:54.812 --> 00:16:55.453 Oh, you didn't know. 259 00:16:57.526 --> 00:17:03.789 Did you know that you could lay your hands and any sick disease in a person's body would have to leave because of the presence of God that you release into them? 260 00:17:05.010 --> 00:17:06.050 I've seen it personally. 261 00:17:06.090 --> 00:17:11.913 This is something that is afforded to you as a believer because you carry the presence and the fire of God. 262 00:17:13.974 --> 00:17:15.075 So again, he knows what to do. 263 00:17:15.895 --> 00:17:17.376 He takes the pieces and he cuts it in half. 264 00:17:17.436 --> 00:17:20.938 And really, let me explain to you how they cut a covenant back then. 265 00:17:21.738 --> 00:17:24.860 They took an animal and they sliced it in half. 266 00:17:26.155 --> 00:17:29.396 And then they walked in between this waterfall of blood. 267 00:17:31.417 --> 00:17:33.077 And they did it holding hands. 268 00:17:33.937 --> 00:17:35.058 And the promise was this. 269 00:17:35.998 --> 00:17:41.099 If I don't hold up my end of the bargain, may I be cut in half as these animals. 270 00:17:43.420 --> 00:17:44.100 That is intense. 271 00:17:47.261 --> 00:17:50.502 And you might say, well, Pastor Mo, how is that the gospel? 272 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:58.703 That's the gospel because the gospel is this, the good news that we are not saved by our performance. 273 00:17:58.723 --> 00:18:00.824 We are saved by Jesus's sacrifice. 274 00:18:02.185 --> 00:18:03.825 You might say, well, I still don't see that. 275 00:18:03.865 --> 00:18:10.629 Well, what you see is that when these pieces were cut, it wasn't God and Abram who walked through the pieces. 276 00:18:11.009 --> 00:18:12.990 It was God, the father and God, the son. 277 00:18:13.270 --> 00:18:19.053 They made an agreement because they said they knew they was like, Abram, if you make this covenant, you're going to fail. 278 00:18:19.613 --> 00:18:21.294 Probably within the first five minutes. 279 00:18:22.832 --> 00:18:26.614 Because Abram is like me and I'm like you. 280 00:18:27.175 --> 00:18:29.496 Because don't think for a minute that you wouldn't have failed to. 281 00:18:32.058 --> 00:18:35.500 When we are given the opportunity to fail, we do. 282 00:18:36.060 --> 00:18:37.021 Because we are imperfect. 283 00:18:38.021 --> 00:18:40.863 So he says, Abram, go to sleep. 284 00:18:41.824 --> 00:18:42.664 It's like a magic trick. 285 00:18:44.766 --> 00:18:45.926 Abram falls to sleep. 286 00:18:45.946 --> 00:18:50.189 That means that he had no part in keeping the covenant alive. 287 00:18:51.003 --> 00:18:54.826 in the same way that you have no part in keeping your salvation afloat. 288 00:18:55.627 --> 00:18:56.527 I don't care how much you pray. 289 00:18:56.547 --> 00:18:57.928 I don't care how many times you attend church. 290 00:18:57.968 --> 00:18:59.710 I don't care how many life groups you go to. 291 00:19:00.130 --> 00:19:01.991 You cannot save yourself. 292 00:19:03.032 --> 00:19:05.594 You have to lean on God, amen? 293 00:19:06.795 --> 00:19:08.676 So then look what happens. 294 00:19:09.917 --> 00:19:19.465 The sun went down and it was dark that behold, there appeared a smoking oven, that's a pillar of cloud if you didn't know, and a burning torch, fire! 295 00:19:21.077 --> 00:19:23.018 That passed between the two pieces. 296 00:19:23.098 --> 00:19:30.861 God the Father took the hand of God the Son and says, we are going to make an unbreakable covenant that Abram is going to be blessed. 297 00:19:31.561 --> 00:19:35.182 Neither one of those perfect individuals was going to drop the ball like Abram was. 298 00:19:36.503 --> 00:19:44.886 In the same way an unbreakable covenant has been made between you and God, that you didn't do anything to maintain God. 299 00:19:46.235 --> 00:19:51.338 God makes this covenant between himself and with Jesus so that you might receive the benefit. 300 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:52.919 Can we praise God a little bit? 301 00:19:58.543 --> 00:20:01.545 But again, as the Bible nerd in me, I couldn't just let that go. 302 00:20:01.565 --> 00:20:02.906 Like, I needed you to be able to see that. 303 00:20:02.946 --> 00:20:04.847 Like, the gospel is there for you. 304 00:20:04.967 --> 00:20:05.228 Amen? 305 00:20:05.248 --> 00:20:10.431 I mean, for me, that's how I know I'm a Bible nerd. 306 00:20:10.471 --> 00:20:12.653 I'd be mad excited and everybody would be like, hmm, informative. 307 00:20:12.673 --> 00:20:13.093 Informative. 308 00:20:16.553 --> 00:20:17.314 So we fast forward. 309 00:20:17.334 --> 00:20:18.334 Let's go to Mount Sinai. 310 00:20:18.915 --> 00:20:21.677 The people of Israel, they just got delivered out of Egypt. 311 00:20:24.459 --> 00:20:27.261 Moses is now going to talk to God on their behalf. 312 00:20:28.002 --> 00:20:32.225 He has the people sanctified, gets them ready, fasting and prayer. 313 00:20:33.466 --> 00:20:34.227 And look what happens. 314 00:20:36.068 --> 00:20:37.469 Exodus 19, 18. 315 00:20:37.530 --> 00:20:44.155 Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke because the Lord descended upon it in... 316 00:20:48.945 --> 00:20:53.747 Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace and the whole mountain quaked greatly. 317 00:20:54.387 --> 00:20:56.688 Deuteronomy 424 does it very plainly. 318 00:20:56.708 --> 00:21:00.370 It says, for the Lord, your God is a consuming. 319 00:21:00.390 --> 00:21:07.373 And for context, let's not forget a jealous God. 320 00:21:09.654 --> 00:21:11.014 Well, Pastor Mo, why would you pick that verse? 321 00:21:11.034 --> 00:21:11.574 Well, here's the thing. 322 00:21:11.614 --> 00:21:12.355 I need you to see both. 323 00:21:13.256 --> 00:21:15.557 He is a consuming fire, but he is also a jealous God. 324 00:21:15.577 --> 00:21:16.737 Well, what does that mean? 325 00:21:17.037 --> 00:21:19.238 That means that he values your attention. 326 00:21:21.118 --> 00:21:28.960 And when you start giving your attention to things that, well, let me just say other things, because there are so many different things that we give our attention to. 327 00:21:28.980 --> 00:21:33.201 And here's the thing, not all of it is bad, but it's in relativity. 328 00:21:34.522 --> 00:21:37.082 It's in relation to, how about this? 329 00:21:37.463 --> 00:21:38.923 I'm a Knicks fan, right? 330 00:21:39.183 --> 00:21:39.863 Y'all all know it. 331 00:21:40.783 --> 00:21:42.664 The Knicks one, I was super obnoxious. 332 00:21:44.418 --> 00:21:45.018 I'm not going to lie. 333 00:21:45.098 --> 00:21:45.579 I own that. 334 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:48.760 The last time they won, I wasn't even alive. 335 00:21:48.800 --> 00:21:49.280 How about that? 336 00:21:49.560 --> 00:21:51.782 I've been waiting my entire life for this. 337 00:21:53.542 --> 00:21:54.363 My son is five. 338 00:21:54.383 --> 00:21:56.044 I said, son, we're going to the parade. 339 00:21:56.804 --> 00:21:58.885 I woke that boy up at three in the morning. 340 00:21:59.805 --> 00:22:01.226 He was like, I don't think I want to go anymore. 341 00:22:01.246 --> 00:22:01.946 I said, you coming? 342 00:22:03.087 --> 00:22:04.588 He's dragging him across the city like this. 343 00:22:04.608 --> 00:22:04.988 Let's go. 344 00:22:09.726 --> 00:22:11.588 Because I said, I waited my whole life for this. 345 00:22:11.628 --> 00:22:13.229 I'm going to make sure you get to have this experience. 346 00:22:13.289 --> 00:22:15.230 Even if you can't appreciate it, you'll be able to say you were there. 347 00:22:18.193 --> 00:22:18.893 Nixon 5. 348 00:22:20.354 --> 00:22:20.875 Guess what? 349 00:22:22.656 --> 00:22:25.198 I can't give more attention to Nixon 5 than I do Jesus in 3. 350 00:22:28.541 --> 00:22:30.803 I don't care what your affection is. 351 00:22:31.443 --> 00:22:36.247 If it supersedes the affection that you give to God, there's an issue with that particular thing. 352 00:22:37.378 --> 00:22:38.619 So, oh, you might be balling. 353 00:22:38.639 --> 00:22:40.560 The Lord opened the door for a second job. 354 00:22:40.580 --> 00:22:45.324 You got, if now you can't make it to the house of the Lord to worship with the saints. 355 00:22:45.604 --> 00:22:46.765 Now they invite you to life group. 356 00:22:46.785 --> 00:22:47.645 I'm sorry, I'm too busy. 357 00:22:47.685 --> 00:22:48.206 I got work. 358 00:22:49.847 --> 00:22:50.908 Oh, you got a new girlfriend. 359 00:22:50.928 --> 00:22:51.908 You got a new boyfriend. 360 00:22:51.928 --> 00:22:52.989 You got a new fiance. 361 00:22:53.009 --> 00:22:53.870 You got a new husband. 362 00:22:54.290 --> 00:22:56.872 Yeah, I was going to come fellowship with the saints, but you know. 363 00:22:57.472 --> 00:22:58.153 No, I don't. 364 00:23:01.658 --> 00:23:05.745 The Bible says, do not forsake the gathering together of the saints as some are in the habit of doing. 365 00:23:05.965 --> 00:23:08.449 You are in the habit right now that you need to break. 366 00:23:10.393 --> 00:23:11.314 Yeah, I'm that type of friend. 367 00:23:13.378 --> 00:23:14.680 My friends love me, but they don't like me. 368 00:23:23.126 --> 00:23:28.229 Later we find when Solomon dedicates the temple, fire comes down from heaven and consumes the burnt offering. 369 00:23:28.529 --> 00:23:33.252 And the glory of the Lord fills the house so thick that the priest cannot even stand to minister. 370 00:23:34.293 --> 00:23:35.794 Again, I need you to balance the two things. 371 00:23:35.834 --> 00:23:36.614 God is firebending. 372 00:23:36.634 --> 00:23:38.175 God is calling you to a supernatural life. 373 00:23:38.195 --> 00:23:42.377 Sometimes you're in the house of the Lord and you go, man, that person received prayer and they fell over. 374 00:23:42.958 --> 00:23:43.458 What happened? 375 00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:44.819 Well, they couldn't stand. 376 00:23:47.170 --> 00:23:53.015 I'm sorry, it's not more deeper than that, but they could not stand because the presence and the power of God in that moment was too much for them to stand. 377 00:23:54.056 --> 00:23:55.277 We even find that scripturally. 378 00:23:55.477 --> 00:23:55.598 Amen. 379 00:23:55.618 --> 00:23:57.479 Let me read this for you. 380 00:23:58.560 --> 00:23:59.961 First Kings 8, 10 to 11. 381 00:24:01.563 --> 00:24:12.593 And it came to pass when the priest came out of the holy place that the cloud filled the house of the Lord so that the priest could not continue ministering because of the cloud for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord. 382 00:24:14.274 --> 00:24:17.275 Now, some of you might say, well, that's a lot of Old Testament, praise God. 383 00:24:17.335 --> 00:24:18.535 No, it's not just Old Testament. 384 00:24:18.575 --> 00:24:19.195 It's New Testament. 385 00:24:19.375 --> 00:24:24.557 Because when we jump to the New Testament, in Revelation, the risen Jesus appears to John, his old fishing buddy. 386 00:24:24.857 --> 00:24:28.558 And John sees him and literally falls as dead. 387 00:24:29.778 --> 00:24:30.898 Because what does he see? 388 00:24:31.219 --> 00:24:33.759 He looks in Jesus' eyes and he sees fire. 389 00:24:38.140 --> 00:24:38.881 Let me not be dramatic. 390 00:24:38.901 --> 00:24:40.221 Let me just read you the experience. 391 00:24:40.541 --> 00:24:42.802 This is Revelation 1, 12 to 17. 392 00:24:44.818 --> 00:24:46.899 Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. 393 00:24:47.159 --> 00:24:49.560 And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands. 394 00:24:49.580 --> 00:24:56.424 And in the midst of the seven lampstands, one like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. 395 00:24:57.304 --> 00:25:02.107 I don't exactly understand the fashion choice, but it's symbolic of wealth and privilege. 396 00:25:02.147 --> 00:25:04.508 And praise God, I'll get me one too. 397 00:25:08.210 --> 00:25:08.850 Verse 14. 398 00:25:08.910 --> 00:25:12.332 His head and hair were like wool, as white as snow. 399 00:25:12.732 --> 00:25:13.593 And his eyes... 400 00:25:14.937 --> 00:25:16.218 Like a flame of fire. 401 00:25:17.338 --> 00:25:19.259 His feet were like fine brass. 402 00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:21.301 As if refined in a furnace. 403 00:25:21.341 --> 00:25:23.302 And his voice is the sound of many waters. 404 00:25:23.782 --> 00:25:25.803 He had in his right hand seven stars. 405 00:25:26.083 --> 00:25:28.324 Out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword. 406 00:25:28.565 --> 00:25:32.046 And his countenance was like the sun shining in strength. 407 00:25:32.187 --> 00:25:33.827 How many people know what the sun is? 408 00:25:34.768 --> 00:25:36.729 It's a big ball of gas and fire. 409 00:25:39.030 --> 00:25:40.971 He says, my Jesus, my best friend. 410 00:25:41.272 --> 00:25:43.473 The one on whose head I leaned. 411 00:25:45.031 --> 00:25:49.533 I turned around and I saw him and his eyes were on fire and his face was like the sun. 412 00:25:49.553 --> 00:25:53.235 And I fell like dead. 413 00:25:56.637 --> 00:26:01.079 I fell at his feet as dead, but he laid his right hand on me saying, do not be afraid. 414 00:26:01.179 --> 00:26:02.980 I am the first and the last. 415 00:26:04.140 --> 00:26:08.722 You go to Acts 2 on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit falls and what do they see? 416 00:26:11.404 --> 00:26:13.845 Then there appeared to them divided tongues as of. 417 00:26:15.625 --> 00:26:18.107 And one sat on each of them and they were all filled. 418 00:26:18.288 --> 00:26:18.888 Oh my God. 419 00:26:19.349 --> 00:26:20.049 Do you get this? 420 00:26:21.010 --> 00:26:22.612 The fire came and they were. 421 00:26:25.695 --> 00:26:27.296 When the fire comes, you will be. 422 00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:34.223 But if you're filled, what does it mean? 423 00:26:35.784 --> 00:26:37.025 What can you do now? 424 00:26:37.065 --> 00:26:38.407 What do you have access to? 425 00:26:40.338 --> 00:26:45.939 Because there's a great many things that the Bible says that you can now do because the spirit of God lives on the inside of you. 426 00:26:46.199 --> 00:26:52.420 The Bible makes mention that you have no need that anyone teach you because his anointing will guide you and lead you. 427 00:26:52.881 --> 00:26:57.742 I love the inner witness that comes from the Holy Spirit that lives on the inside of us. 428 00:26:59.242 --> 00:27:07.204 It's that thing when you know you're going the wrong way and all of a sudden you feel a certain, you're just arrested in your spirit and you go, I can't do that. 429 00:27:08.284 --> 00:27:09.324 That's not good for me. 430 00:27:11.414 --> 00:27:12.715 I'm the only one who's ever experienced that. 431 00:27:15.436 --> 00:27:16.317 You know that thing. 432 00:27:17.037 --> 00:27:17.878 Listen, singles. 433 00:27:22.280 --> 00:27:26.123 When he's talking to you and he got that smile, like, yo, I just want to get to know you. 434 00:27:26.783 --> 00:27:28.664 I just want to treat you real good. 435 00:27:28.724 --> 00:27:33.087 I just want to make sure that you got the value that you really carry, praise God. 436 00:27:34.467 --> 00:27:37.209 Being super charming and cringe all at the same time. 437 00:27:39.930 --> 00:27:41.950 And your spirit is like red lights, alarm. 438 00:27:42.091 --> 00:27:44.831 Danger, danger, danger, danger, danger, danger. 439 00:27:44.951 --> 00:27:46.252 Abort, danger, danger. 440 00:27:46.432 --> 00:27:46.852 Run! 441 00:27:46.872 --> 00:27:51.593 That's the Holy Ghost. 442 00:27:54.133 --> 00:27:58.014 Run, run, run, run, run. 443 00:27:58.314 --> 00:28:03.336 I'm doing it like this because the next time you start talking to that person, because here's the thing, the Lord been giving you red flags for three weeks. 444 00:28:04.816 --> 00:28:05.496 Three weeks! 445 00:28:06.636 --> 00:28:08.597 Well, I just, we just talking. 446 00:28:11.287 --> 00:28:12.148 Nothing wrong with talking. 447 00:28:13.929 --> 00:28:15.270 The Bible says be not drunk with wine. 448 00:28:15.290 --> 00:28:16.371 It ain't saying nothing about tipsy. 449 00:28:19.253 --> 00:28:21.415 Run, run, run, run. 450 00:28:21.735 --> 00:28:23.136 Abort, abort. 451 00:28:28.780 --> 00:28:29.621 Somebody say fire. 452 00:28:32.063 --> 00:28:38.468 So over and over again, Old Testament, New Testament, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, God reveals himself as fire. 453 00:28:42.209 --> 00:28:42.609 But why? 454 00:28:43.911 --> 00:28:44.531 Here's the answer. 455 00:28:45.212 --> 00:28:46.213 His presence is fire. 456 00:28:48.094 --> 00:28:53.359 The sign of a real encounter with the presence of God is not emotion. 457 00:28:56.542 --> 00:28:59.625 I have to say that because, again, we're developing a community community. 458 00:29:00.393 --> 00:29:03.196 of supernatural people who walk in the supernatural. 459 00:29:03.216 --> 00:29:04.737 And a lot of this might be new to you. 460 00:29:05.017 --> 00:29:06.799 So it's good that you get this instruction now. 461 00:29:07.239 --> 00:29:12.464 Just because there is emotion in something does not mean that that is the authentic presence of God. 462 00:29:13.145 --> 00:29:14.226 I'm teaching some of you right now. 463 00:29:19.571 --> 00:29:22.113 If you're newly saved one year, lock in. 464 00:29:23.711 --> 00:29:26.473 When you encounter God, you will often feel something. 465 00:29:27.233 --> 00:29:30.795 Emotion is frequently present, but emotion is not proof. 466 00:29:31.736 --> 00:29:34.497 Not all emotion is evidence that God has drawn near. 467 00:29:36.158 --> 00:29:40.441 You know, oh, there's a scripture in the Old Testament, specifically with Elijah. 468 00:29:42.862 --> 00:29:44.263 He goes to a cave. 469 00:29:45.567 --> 00:29:51.771 And fire comes by the cave and wind comes by the cave and the mountains are split and God is not any of those things. 470 00:29:51.811 --> 00:29:58.936 But then the still small voice comes and he recognizes the still small voice as God over all the other things. 471 00:30:01.818 --> 00:30:03.279 But Pastor Mo, you said God is fire. 472 00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:06.561 Yeah, God is fire, but he lives on the inside of you. 473 00:30:06.601 --> 00:30:10.184 So you have an understanding of who he is and who he's not. 474 00:30:11.608 --> 00:30:15.869 Just because you feel a tingle, a shake, and a shout doesn't mean it's God. 475 00:30:17.750 --> 00:30:21.031 Because we're telling you that we want you to walk in the supernatural. 476 00:30:21.051 --> 00:30:23.532 We're not telling you that that's all it is. 477 00:30:23.572 --> 00:30:25.132 It's not just a feeling. 478 00:30:26.373 --> 00:30:28.353 It's the truth of his word. 479 00:30:29.434 --> 00:30:30.314 Understand this. 480 00:30:30.834 --> 00:30:32.915 The feeling can lead you to certain things. 481 00:30:32.935 --> 00:30:39.057 But if the feeling ever leads you to something that is unscriptural, you need to check your feeling at the door. 482 00:30:41.457 --> 00:30:43.958 If the feeling ever tells you to hate, you've missed it. 483 00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:47.760 Your feeling ever tells you to sin, you've missed it. 484 00:30:48.701 --> 00:30:49.882 And it's okay to miss it. 485 00:30:50.422 --> 00:30:53.624 I would rather you miss it in a safe environment than wreck your life. 486 00:31:01.968 --> 00:31:10.853 It's funny, I learned as a young preacher not to equate emotional responses to the Holy Spirit. 487 00:31:13.432 --> 00:31:15.332 I got saved at a Spanish Pentecostal church. 488 00:31:17.853 --> 00:31:20.214 A little extra. 489 00:31:20.314 --> 00:31:21.414 Alelucha. 490 00:31:22.674 --> 00:31:23.715 Gloria a Dios. 491 00:31:26.155 --> 00:31:27.736 But I got saved in that atmosphere. 492 00:31:27.756 --> 00:31:29.416 And it was like, it was highly religious. 493 00:31:29.436 --> 00:31:30.516 It was Pentecostal church. 494 00:31:30.796 --> 00:31:33.497 All the ladies wore skirts, no makeup, no earrings. 495 00:31:33.517 --> 00:31:35.037 Get the chandeliers out your ears. 496 00:31:35.598 --> 00:31:36.638 It was that type of church. 497 00:31:37.618 --> 00:31:38.458 It was rough. 498 00:31:38.578 --> 00:31:41.019 But I learned how to sincerely love God there. 499 00:31:42.942 --> 00:31:46.905 And I was going to the church for a few months, and then the Lord called me to be the youth leader. 500 00:31:47.665 --> 00:31:49.166 And then he called me to be the youth pastor. 501 00:31:49.246 --> 00:31:53.549 And we would have these retreats, overnight retreats. 502 00:31:54.049 --> 00:31:55.350 Retiro, they call it. 503 00:31:58.392 --> 00:31:59.853 Ayuno y oración. 504 00:32:01.254 --> 00:32:02.535 Vigilias, they called it. 505 00:32:04.816 --> 00:32:08.479 And they were just prayer and fasting sessions that lasted for multiple days. 506 00:32:09.518 --> 00:32:14.623 Like you would go in in the evening like 6 p.m. And you would pray until like midnight. 507 00:32:16.064 --> 00:32:17.125 And then everybody would go to sleep. 508 00:32:17.185 --> 00:32:19.547 All the guys in one area, all the girls in the other area. 509 00:32:19.827 --> 00:32:24.972 And these kids, man, they emotionally dysregulated. 510 00:32:25.432 --> 00:32:28.275 Some of them hyped up on coffee and sugar because they couldn't eat. 511 00:32:28.315 --> 00:32:30.277 So they got to get anything that they could in their system. 512 00:32:31.458 --> 00:32:33.159 Coffee cup about this big. 513 00:32:33.360 --> 00:32:34.521 Sugar about this much. 514 00:32:34.601 --> 00:32:35.662 Coffee about this much. 515 00:32:37.456 --> 00:32:39.877 These kids, they're hungry. 516 00:32:40.957 --> 00:32:41.857 They're exhausted. 517 00:32:42.938 --> 00:32:44.298 Emotionally dysregulated. 518 00:32:44.718 --> 00:32:47.259 They got the little camp crush, little retreat crush. 519 00:32:47.679 --> 00:32:49.599 Because if you didn't grow up in the church, you don't know. 520 00:32:49.619 --> 00:32:55.881 But the way that you show that you're a man of God is the amount of chairs that you can lift from one area of the sanctuary into the next. 521 00:32:55.921 --> 00:32:58.342 So when it was time to go to sleep, all the young men go to sleep. 522 00:33:02.526 --> 00:33:05.888 And that showed how holy and attractive you were to the opposite sex. 523 00:33:06.488 --> 00:33:09.189 It's a little bit different now, but back in the day, that's what it was. 524 00:33:11.990 --> 00:33:25.676 And they would call me out on day three or day four, and I would come out there and I would have the most emotional illustrations, my best stories. 525 00:33:26.557 --> 00:33:27.497 And I'm not going to lie to you. 526 00:33:28.718 --> 00:33:31.159 I could get them to rededicate their life to the Easter bunny. 527 00:33:32.702 --> 00:33:34.703 Because their emotions were all over the place. 528 00:33:36.164 --> 00:33:40.186 The atmosphere was so charged that almost any emotional appeal would have worked. 529 00:33:40.466 --> 00:33:41.507 And that's a danger. 530 00:33:42.868 --> 00:33:43.568 I'll tell you this. 531 00:33:46.690 --> 00:33:53.094 As much as your emotions are involved, you should be careful on how accurate your ability to hear God is. 532 00:33:56.436 --> 00:34:00.418 I want you to be a supernatural people that is constantly hearing from God. 533 00:34:00.748 --> 00:34:02.448 being directed into the right thing. 534 00:34:03.389 --> 00:34:09.090 But I need you to make sure that you're hearing the Lord and not your flesh and not the voice of the enemy. 535 00:34:11.491 --> 00:34:12.191 This is important. 536 00:34:13.752 --> 00:34:22.414 Some people are wrecking their lives and when they double check, they're hearing deceiving spirits because they just wanna do what they wanna do. 537 00:34:25.835 --> 00:34:29.516 Because if it was really about the Lord, you would go to people that you trust have the Lord. 538 00:34:31.862 --> 00:34:34.304 The Bible says that in a multitude of counselors, there is safety. 539 00:34:35.044 --> 00:34:36.966 If I know in a multitude of counselors, there is safety. 540 00:34:36.986 --> 00:34:40.608 Why am I calling this unsaved joker to validate what I need him to say? 541 00:34:42.310 --> 00:34:43.370 I want to move to Texas. 542 00:34:43.651 --> 00:34:45.272 I'm not calling Tiffany about that. 543 00:34:45.292 --> 00:34:49.675 Because Tiffany's first question is going to be, man, what the Lord say about that? 544 00:34:49.695 --> 00:34:50.436 That's a big move. 545 00:34:51.356 --> 00:34:52.557 I knew I should have called you. 546 00:34:55.619 --> 00:34:56.380 Look at that jump shoe. 547 00:34:56.400 --> 00:34:57.241 You know, she holy. 548 00:35:00.833 --> 00:35:02.513 Let me call up Phil or something like that. 549 00:35:02.553 --> 00:35:03.534 Yo, Phil, what's good? 550 00:35:04.254 --> 00:35:05.994 My guy, what's good? 551 00:35:06.434 --> 00:35:07.295 Phil don't know the Lord. 552 00:35:09.175 --> 00:35:09.895 I'm joking. 553 00:35:09.915 --> 00:35:13.116 See, you forget how many names are in there. 554 00:35:13.576 --> 00:35:14.156 Donovan. 555 00:35:14.336 --> 00:35:15.156 Let's go with Donovan. 556 00:35:15.176 --> 00:35:15.877 You happy about that? 557 00:35:15.897 --> 00:35:17.697 All of a sudden, Donovan raises his hand in the back. 558 00:35:17.737 --> 00:35:21.538 Hey, Donnie. 559 00:35:21.961 --> 00:35:23.381 It was good, it was good, it was good. 560 00:35:23.421 --> 00:35:24.261 Donnie don't know the Lord. 561 00:35:24.902 --> 00:35:26.682 Yo, I wanna go down to Texas. 562 00:35:26.702 --> 00:35:28.802 Yo, I was on Zillow, son. 563 00:35:28.822 --> 00:35:30.302 They got them big properties. 564 00:35:30.322 --> 00:35:31.203 You should do it. 565 00:35:32.663 --> 00:35:33.763 I sleep in your basement. 566 00:35:35.043 --> 00:35:35.783 The basement's down here. 567 00:35:35.803 --> 00:35:36.684 It's gonna be super big. 568 00:35:37.464 --> 00:35:37.944 Let's do it. 569 00:35:39.204 --> 00:35:40.124 I got the confirmation. 570 00:35:40.544 --> 00:35:41.304 I sought the Lord. 571 00:35:41.564 --> 00:35:42.305 No, you didn't. 572 00:35:45.425 --> 00:35:50.206 We need to be people that are accustomed to moving in the spirit. 573 00:35:50.803 --> 00:35:52.343 But this is part of the problem. 574 00:35:52.383 --> 00:35:56.264 We don't acknowledge that there's a fire on the inside of us. 575 00:35:57.464 --> 00:35:58.264 Let me ask you a question. 576 00:35:59.745 --> 00:36:03.225 And everybody has gone through this before because everybody here has a birthday. 577 00:36:03.745 --> 00:36:06.786 Have you ever tried to transport fire from one place to the next? 578 00:36:07.266 --> 00:36:08.346 I don't know why we all do this. 579 00:36:08.386 --> 00:36:10.327 We don't light the candle right by the cake. 580 00:36:10.587 --> 00:36:14.668 We light the candle, mad fall, and then we try to make our way over to the cake. 581 00:36:16.168 --> 00:36:16.588 I'll do it again. 582 00:36:16.608 --> 00:36:17.108 I'll do it again. 583 00:36:25.423 --> 00:36:25.943 I got it. 584 00:36:26.083 --> 00:36:27.344 Guys, guys, guys, it's time. 585 00:36:27.424 --> 00:36:27.824 It's time. 586 00:36:41.510 --> 00:36:42.850 I mean, you could have. 587 00:36:42.870 --> 00:36:43.310 All right. 588 00:36:46.932 --> 00:36:54.095 If the presence of the Lord is on the inside of you and he's a fire, how ought your life to be? 589 00:36:56.524 --> 00:37:04.768 If you're cognizant of the flame, if I gave you a candle and I told you, don't let it go out, that would change the way you moved around. 590 00:37:06.289 --> 00:37:07.389 You wouldn't move so fast. 591 00:37:10.091 --> 00:37:11.551 You might take your time with certain things. 592 00:37:15.433 --> 00:37:21.776 You know, erroneously, people often equate the Lord as a dove or a bird. 593 00:37:23.097 --> 00:37:25.258 Any of you have ever heard me preach before know that I hate that. 594 00:37:26.566 --> 00:37:27.406 The Lord is not a bird. 595 00:37:28.406 --> 00:37:35.308 One time in the scripture it says that the Holy Spirit came down in bodily form as a dove because a dove knows how to ascent and land with wings. 596 00:37:35.428 --> 00:37:35.748 Amen. 597 00:37:37.568 --> 00:37:39.368 But even still, we'll use that analogy. 598 00:37:40.909 --> 00:37:53.191 If the spirit of the living God came in the form of a dove, planted on your shoulder and you knew it was him and you didn't want him to leave, when you moved around, 599 00:37:54.747 --> 00:37:57.908 And you didn't want the bird to be ruffled or upset or move away. 600 00:37:58.389 --> 00:38:02.831 You would actually move with a certain level of intentionality. 601 00:38:03.771 --> 00:38:04.111 Uh-huh. 602 00:38:04.732 --> 00:38:05.172 Here we go. 603 00:38:05.952 --> 00:38:06.692 Oh, you like it up there. 604 00:38:06.712 --> 00:38:07.093 Praise God. 605 00:38:08.433 --> 00:38:10.354 I don't know where we're going to get some crackers for you, but praise God. 606 00:38:10.674 --> 00:38:11.875 You would live a certain way. 607 00:38:13.012 --> 00:38:17.294 And I'm not saying that the Holy Spirit is a burden anyway, because he is not flustered by you. 608 00:38:17.994 --> 00:38:25.036 He's not easily provoked and scared and moving away from you because he's seen the worst of you and embraced you and said that you are accepted in the beloved. 609 00:38:27.797 --> 00:38:29.538 But it's like this thing you ever had friends. 610 00:38:32.299 --> 00:38:36.720 They curse up a storm and you meet people and they curse up a storm until they realize that you're a Christian. 611 00:38:37.481 --> 00:38:38.481 And then they backtrack. 612 00:38:39.658 --> 00:38:40.158 So how about this? 613 00:38:40.238 --> 00:38:44.100 Everybody, you have conversations, you meet new people, and then it comes up what you do for a living, right? 614 00:38:45.720 --> 00:38:47.581 Every time that happens with me, it's a problem. 615 00:38:48.461 --> 00:38:51.922 Because people are like, yo, this dude is mad, chill, talking, talking, talking. 616 00:38:52.202 --> 00:38:52.943 What do you do for a living? 617 00:38:52.963 --> 00:38:53.523 I'm a pastor. 618 00:38:55.753 --> 00:39:10.276 And then their face drops and they turn white because here it is, I'm so chill that they have dropped 15 F-bombs, three MFers, and then they hear, he's, my bad, my bad. 619 00:39:10.296 --> 00:39:12.997 Yo, Rev, bro. 620 00:39:14.597 --> 00:39:18.778 You don't know how many times, yo, yo, Rev, come on, man. 621 00:39:18.818 --> 00:39:19.798 This is their stance, by the way. 622 00:39:19.818 --> 00:39:21.258 Come on, Rev, chill. 623 00:39:21.958 --> 00:39:23.539 I didn't even know you was on it like that. 624 00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:23.919 And it's like, 625 00:39:24.647 --> 00:39:25.388 And I try to calm people. 626 00:39:25.448 --> 00:39:29.071 I go, hey, God was here long before I showed up. 627 00:39:31.513 --> 00:39:37.678 The reverence that you want to keep for me being a reverend, I pray that you would keep that reverence every day of your life. 628 00:39:37.698 --> 00:39:38.639 Like, what's the difference? 629 00:39:38.659 --> 00:39:39.740 God was already here. 630 00:39:42.182 --> 00:39:43.463 Oh, when you put it like that. 631 00:39:45.625 --> 00:39:49.949 How different would your life look if you were cognizant that you were carrying the fire? 632 00:39:51.906 --> 00:39:55.768 What places wouldn't you go because you know you carry the fire? 633 00:39:58.130 --> 00:40:04.213 You know one day you're going to have to give testimony to these Old Testament folks, and they're going to ask you, what was it like carrying the fire? 634 00:40:05.994 --> 00:40:08.395 Listen, I raised the dead. 635 00:40:08.435 --> 00:40:09.236 I healed the sick. 636 00:40:09.316 --> 00:40:10.217 I moved in power. 637 00:40:11.937 --> 00:40:17.741 Or I got really nervous and never witnessed to anybody because... 638 00:40:22.528 --> 00:40:23.388 Is that sufficient? 639 00:40:27.290 --> 00:40:28.571 Things that make you go. 640 00:40:28.591 --> 00:40:32.593 Yeah, you're coming off it, man. 641 00:40:32.613 --> 00:40:33.613 There's support right there. 642 00:40:37.575 --> 00:40:42.818 A lot of people confuse a surge of feeling with an encounter with God, but feeling is not the signature of God's presence. 643 00:40:43.738 --> 00:40:44.759 Transformation is. 644 00:40:46.600 --> 00:40:47.700 Do you remember chemistry class? 645 00:40:48.140 --> 00:40:49.121 Don't get PTSD now. 646 00:40:49.161 --> 00:40:50.321 Come on now, I'm just very quick. 647 00:40:50.341 --> 00:40:51.282 You remember chemistry class? 648 00:40:51.302 --> 00:40:51.382 Yes. 649 00:40:52.912 --> 00:40:54.433 My wife rolled her eyes hard. 650 00:40:54.493 --> 00:40:55.694 She's a nurse, so she remembers. 651 00:40:57.675 --> 00:41:00.897 When something burns, what happens? 652 00:41:01.437 --> 00:41:02.878 It doesn't just get warmer. 653 00:41:03.879 --> 00:41:07.301 It undergoes a chemical reconstruction down to the atomic level. 654 00:41:08.782 --> 00:41:11.824 What it was before the fire is not what it is after the fire. 655 00:41:12.044 --> 00:41:14.525 The fire changes the very nature of the substance. 656 00:41:15.506 --> 00:41:16.887 The old substance is gone. 657 00:41:17.347 --> 00:41:18.388 Something new remains. 658 00:41:19.369 --> 00:41:21.190 That's why God appears as fire. 659 00:41:21.770 --> 00:41:24.431 An encounter with him does not leave you the same. 660 00:41:24.791 --> 00:41:29.353 Truly running into the God of the Bible is like getting hit by a bus. 661 00:41:30.134 --> 00:41:32.014 You will never walk the same again. 662 00:41:32.034 --> 00:41:40.598 The true sign that you have met the living God is arranged or rearranged priorities. 663 00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:44.520 You want to carry the fire? 664 00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:46.981 You want to make sure that the fire is in you? 665 00:41:48.040 --> 00:41:49.641 It'll change the things that you love. 666 00:41:50.841 --> 00:41:52.522 And worship team, you can come up and I'll close with this. 667 00:41:54.202 --> 00:41:55.823 Before I met God, I loved the world. 668 00:41:56.643 --> 00:41:59.844 I love the things of the world, the applause of the world and fitting in with the world. 669 00:42:01.125 --> 00:42:02.345 Then I met a holy God. 670 00:42:04.406 --> 00:42:05.466 And now I love his word. 671 00:42:06.386 --> 00:42:07.927 I love obedience to his word. 672 00:42:08.527 --> 00:42:10.748 And knowing him through his word and his people. 673 00:42:12.755 --> 00:42:18.037 You don't, and sometimes you got to say this because people, they immediately gravitate toward religion. 674 00:42:18.497 --> 00:42:22.118 I'm not talking about behavior modification where now you are looking at yourself. 675 00:42:22.979 --> 00:42:23.779 But I will say this. 676 00:42:25.180 --> 00:42:30.442 The Bible says that you should work out your salvation with fear and trembling. 677 00:42:31.742 --> 00:42:32.642 Why would it say that? 678 00:42:35.904 --> 00:42:42.206 Because if you've encountered the fire and you don't see any change in your life, 679 00:42:43.752 --> 00:42:47.455 You need to question if you've actually met the fire. 680 00:42:48.997 --> 00:42:54.321 And the reason I bring it up is because some people right now, the enemy is all over their mind. 681 00:42:55.122 --> 00:42:55.662 Look at that. 682 00:42:56.243 --> 00:42:57.164 You still sin. 683 00:42:57.204 --> 00:42:59.526 You ain't got no fire on the inside of you. 684 00:43:01.447 --> 00:43:02.508 You a backslider. 685 00:43:02.528 --> 00:43:03.589 You don't know Jesus. 686 00:43:05.130 --> 00:43:06.912 I'm not talking about being perfect. 687 00:43:07.752 --> 00:43:10.034 You still struggling, but you know where you want to go. 688 00:43:10.135 --> 00:43:10.715 Praise God. 689 00:43:10.735 --> 00:43:11.416 You got fire. 690 00:43:12.341 --> 00:43:17.023 You got the conviction of the Holy Ghost that tells you that you are a believer, saved and sanctified. 691 00:43:17.643 --> 00:43:19.744 Because again, this is not about behavior modification. 692 00:43:19.964 --> 00:43:21.744 This is not about trying to do better. 693 00:43:21.764 --> 00:43:23.485 Well, I'll try to read more. 694 00:43:23.665 --> 00:43:24.325 I'll try to pray more. 695 00:43:24.545 --> 00:43:25.846 I'll try to go every day that they're open. 696 00:43:26.306 --> 00:43:27.486 We're not here for your attendance. 697 00:43:29.687 --> 00:43:32.148 We want you to know the living God for yourself. 698 00:43:33.828 --> 00:43:36.429 We want you to embrace him, but be careful. 699 00:43:37.169 --> 00:43:41.311 If you still recognize who you were and you don't feel any change, 700 00:43:42.469 --> 00:43:49.214 Reach out to those that you know know God so that they can work with you to break some of these strongholds about the way that you think about life. 701 00:43:56.139 --> 00:43:56.539 It's funny. 702 00:43:56.999 --> 00:43:58.300 The worship team is not behind me. 703 00:44:03.564 --> 00:44:06.226 I noticed the lack of a strum on that point. 704 00:44:06.246 --> 00:44:09.528 I was like, I needed a strum right there because that was a hard truth. 705 00:44:10.129 --> 00:44:11.590 The strum always makes it feel better. 706 00:44:18.758 --> 00:44:24.460 You don't have to force yourself to stop doing the old things and the way that you used to be. 707 00:44:25.140 --> 00:44:26.941 That, again, is behavior modification. 708 00:44:26.961 --> 00:44:28.141 That's not what we're talking about. 709 00:44:28.401 --> 00:44:34.963 We're talking about having an inward witness that leads you to wanting more of the things of God. 710 00:44:38.284 --> 00:44:41.545 Because Christ is in you changing who you used to be. 711 00:44:42.325 --> 00:44:43.786 That's when the fire does its work. 712 00:44:45.896 --> 00:44:47.557 The old you has been consumed. 713 00:44:47.618 --> 00:44:49.059 Something new has been formed. 714 00:44:49.519 --> 00:44:50.460 That is the evidence. 715 00:44:50.500 --> 00:44:51.581 Not how high you jumped. 716 00:44:52.802 --> 00:44:56.025 Not how loud you sang or how high you raised your hands. 717 00:44:57.006 --> 00:44:59.368 But whether your loves have been reordered. 718 00:44:59.988 --> 00:45:02.050 Whether your priorities have been rearranged. 719 00:45:02.090 --> 00:45:05.233 Whether the things that once controlled you have lost their grip. 720 00:45:05.933 --> 00:45:07.695 And the things of God have taken their place. 721 00:45:11.238 --> 00:45:13.500 So my prayer today is this. 722 00:45:15.843 --> 00:45:39.504 get burned father consume us not a little warmth no momentary sparks completely consume every one of us in the fire of god let our old priorities our old loves the old self let it go up in smoke lord 723 00:45:41.448 --> 00:45:44.389 Help us to be the new creation in Christ Jesus. 724 00:45:45.189 --> 00:45:51.571 Help us to walk this new supernatural life where we are hearing from you who lives on the inside of us. 725 00:45:52.971 --> 00:45:54.051 Give us direction. 726 00:45:56.712 --> 00:46:05.494 Because you're the same God who appeared in the bush, the same God who appeared at Mount Sinai, the same God who was in the divided tongues on the apostles. 727 00:46:06.155 --> 00:46:07.755 So now fill us with your fire. 728 00:46:09.155 --> 00:46:10.836 Help us to embrace this new life 729 00:46:14.057 --> 00:46:15.757 Father, we ask you in Jesus' name. 730 00:46:18.938 --> 00:46:23.939 For anyone in the room today, if you've not accepted Jesus Christ, I want to afford you this opportunity. 731 00:46:27.140 --> 00:46:40.203 I'm not calling you to the front, but I do want you to have a moment where you acknowledge your faith and not yourself and not your own ability to save yourself, but in Christ Jesus alone. 732 00:46:43.410 --> 00:46:48.836 The Bible says that the wage of sin is death and all have fallen short of the glory of God. 733 00:46:50.478 --> 00:46:53.101 Everyone, you, me, everyone. 734 00:46:54.843 --> 00:47:00.329 There is nothing that you can do to present yourself before a holy God and be deserving of his love. 735 00:47:01.470 --> 00:47:02.692 But you don't have to. 736 00:47:04.378 --> 00:47:11.841 Jesus died on the cross in your place for you and as you, so that all you had to do was cling to him. 737 00:47:12.602 --> 00:47:14.742 And there would be this beautiful divine exchange. 738 00:47:14.803 --> 00:47:19.404 He would take on your sinfulness, all of your sins that need to be punished. 739 00:47:20.385 --> 00:47:22.226 They were punished, but in his body. 740 00:47:23.266 --> 00:47:32.010 So now the divine exchange is the perfection that he is owed for having never sinned, he wants to give to you so that you can have perfect relationship with God. 741 00:47:34.150 --> 00:47:36.731 Does anybody in here want that type of salvation? 742 00:47:37.651 --> 00:47:38.611 Just raise your hand. 743 00:47:42.752 --> 00:47:43.572 I see that hand. 744 00:47:44.392 --> 00:47:45.112 Hallelujah. 745 00:47:46.052 --> 00:47:49.653 You know, I really love it when he does all of this and sometimes it's just for the one. 746 00:47:51.414 --> 00:47:52.214 Hallelujah. 747 00:47:53.314 --> 00:47:54.674 So everybody, stand to your feet with me. 748 00:47:57.315 --> 00:47:58.275 We're all gonna say this. 749 00:48:00.916 --> 00:48:02.716 But for the one in the back who raised his hand, 750 00:48:03.988 --> 00:48:05.929 I want you to say this with an extra loud voice. 751 00:48:05.969 --> 00:48:07.910 I want you to acknowledge this by faith. 752 00:48:08.791 --> 00:48:11.973 Father God, I am a sinner. 753 00:48:13.854 --> 00:48:15.254 I need a savior. 754 00:48:18.376 --> 00:48:19.777 And I'm resting on Jesus. 755 00:48:22.058 --> 00:48:23.199 On his perfect life. 756 00:48:24.620 --> 00:48:25.861 On his perfect record. 757 00:48:27.401 --> 00:48:28.482 On his sacrifice. 758 00:48:29.783 --> 00:48:30.743 Wash me clean. 759 00:48:32.384 --> 00:48:33.365 Fill me with fire. 760 00:48:34.632 --> 00:48:45.104 Transform my life and help me to know you so I can walk in the supernatural and love like you do. 761 00:48:46.666 --> 00:48:49.849 Father, wash your people today and fill them with your power. 762 00:48:50.330 --> 00:48:51.851 Fill them with more of your life. 763 00:48:52.953 --> 00:48:55.616 Let them know you in a way that they never have before. 764 00:48:57.108 --> 00:49:01.931 that they would embrace you and that they would feel the guiding and the leading from moment to moment. 765 00:49:01.971 --> 00:49:03.691 That's how real you are, Lord. 766 00:49:03.932 --> 00:49:07.914 As real as the feet, my God, hallelujah, that are touching the ground, Lord. 767 00:49:09.054 --> 00:49:13.957 Let them begin to experience your presence and lead and guide them in the way. 768 00:49:16.758 --> 00:49:23.482 Father, we thank you for that life and we thank you for the transformation that will take place from this day forward. 769 00:49:24.923 --> 00:49:25.623 Hallelujah. 770 00:49:26.807 --> 00:49:28.988 This is the City Light Church podcast. 771 00:49:29.388 --> 00:49:38.693 If you've missed any part of today's message, or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jancic and City Light Church, visit us at citylightnyc.com. 772 00:49:39.013 --> 00:49:41.715 That's citylightnyc.com. 773 00:49:42.175 --> 00:49:45.237 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. 774 00:49:45.677 --> 00:49:47.218 We would love to connect with you. 775 00:49:48.138 --> 00:49:55.725 We pray that you have been encouraged today, that you have been reminded how much God loves you, and that you are surrounded by grace. 776 00:49:56.526 --> 00:49:57.447 Thank you for listening. 777 00:49:57.947 --> 00:50:03.452 Make sure that you subscribe to City Light Church Podcast wherever you find your favorite podcasts worldwide.