WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.252 --> 00:00:03.333 The fruit of the spirit is love. 2 00:00:03.834 --> 00:00:08.176 When the Holy Spirit resides on the inside of you, what he's growing is God. 3 00:00:08.416 --> 00:00:10.358 Because the Bible says that God is love. 4 00:00:10.378 --> 00:00:15.221 So when his spirit rests on the inside of you, what's being grown is more God. 5 00:00:15.681 --> 00:00:18.823 All the other things are byproducts of the love that is grown. 6 00:00:19.063 --> 00:00:20.884 For the fruit of the spirit is love. 7 00:00:21.104 --> 00:00:24.286 Joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, long-suffering. 8 00:00:24.306 --> 00:00:25.147 You get what I'm saying? 9 00:00:26.335 --> 00:00:28.457 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 10 00:00:28.677 --> 00:00:35.044 Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us. 11 00:00:35.724 --> 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 --> 00:00:43.472 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 --> 00:01:02.542 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 00:01:05.223 --> 00:01:06.104 God is amazing. 16 00:01:06.304 --> 00:01:08.625 He's been flowing in this place for weeks. 17 00:01:11.098 --> 00:01:16.541 And I feel like there's this beautiful compounding of the presence and the anointing of God. 18 00:01:16.801 --> 00:01:18.022 Have you taken notice of that? 19 00:01:19.242 --> 00:01:20.723 Have you felt it in the worship? 20 00:01:22.124 --> 00:01:25.626 Like I even feel like there are some people like they came here to be moderate. 21 00:01:26.887 --> 00:01:29.328 It's like, all right, I'm going to give them the one hand. 22 00:01:29.368 --> 00:01:29.948 It's going to go up. 23 00:01:30.008 --> 00:01:30.388 Boom. 24 00:01:30.428 --> 00:01:30.769 Gotcha. 25 00:01:30.789 --> 00:01:32.229 Jesus got you everything you need. 26 00:01:32.830 --> 00:01:35.591 And the thing is, I literally feel it in worship. 27 00:01:35.611 --> 00:01:38.493 I feel like him pulling and drawing us deeper. 28 00:01:41.189 --> 00:01:42.310 I would say this today. 29 00:01:43.491 --> 00:01:50.276 Give up your control and let that intimate time of worship be whatever he wants it to be. 30 00:01:51.137 --> 00:01:59.243 And I say intimate because it really is, he's asking us to go beyond what we see in the natural. 31 00:02:01.084 --> 00:02:04.587 I feel like I can literally hear him like, yeah, come on, just like that. 32 00:02:04.627 --> 00:02:05.208 Put your hand up. 33 00:02:05.248 --> 00:02:05.648 It's all right. 34 00:02:06.228 --> 00:02:07.869 Yeah, okay. 35 00:02:07.909 --> 00:02:08.810 Come on, a little bit more. 36 00:02:09.370 --> 00:02:10.251 You're like, come on, Jesus. 37 00:02:10.331 --> 00:02:11.712 There's a whole bunch of people around. 38 00:02:11.732 --> 00:02:12.792 Stop. 39 00:02:17.195 --> 00:02:20.277 Because he's trying to get you out of rote religion. 40 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:28.043 This idea of, I came to church today, and I've praised God with a song, and now I'm ready to leave. 41 00:02:29.443 --> 00:02:32.005 And he's like, you didn't come here for religion. 42 00:02:32.025 --> 00:02:33.186 You didn't come to sing a song. 43 00:02:33.206 --> 00:02:34.547 You came to meet with a lover. 44 00:02:37.056 --> 00:02:41.279 So don't be surprised when you see some people fall to their knees or you see some people begin to cry. 45 00:02:41.559 --> 00:02:44.261 It's because they're connecting with the lover of their soul. 46 00:02:46.302 --> 00:02:48.544 And that's a beautiful and wondrous thing. 47 00:02:49.225 --> 00:02:51.806 Because that's when Christianity gets real. 48 00:02:52.647 --> 00:02:54.348 And it's not just something you read about. 49 00:02:54.408 --> 00:02:57.130 It's something that you actually live right now. 50 00:02:58.331 --> 00:03:02.454 Because you get to meet the God of the Bible and walk in his ways. 51 00:03:02.534 --> 00:03:02.894 Amen? 52 00:03:04.895 --> 00:03:05.216 Hallelujah. 53 00:03:05.256 --> 00:03:05.536 Hallelujah. 54 00:03:09.186 --> 00:03:10.927 Before we get started, I want to give a big shout out. 55 00:03:11.367 --> 00:03:14.468 So as you can see, some of our people are not here today. 56 00:03:15.588 --> 00:03:19.949 And unfortunately, these Christians, they out here, they for the streets. 57 00:03:21.790 --> 00:03:22.050 All right. 58 00:03:22.070 --> 00:03:22.330 All right. 59 00:03:22.370 --> 00:03:24.771 They're not for the streets, but they're running the streets. 60 00:03:26.371 --> 00:03:27.932 That doesn't make it that much better, but still. 61 00:03:28.312 --> 00:03:32.413 So what I mean is some of the saints today are actually running the New York City Marathon. 62 00:03:34.288 --> 00:03:34.548 Amen. 63 00:03:34.568 --> 00:03:35.108 Praise God. 64 00:03:35.328 --> 00:03:35.808 Praise God. 65 00:03:35.828 --> 00:03:36.549 They skipping church. 66 00:03:36.589 --> 00:03:37.289 That's what they doing. 67 00:03:38.569 --> 00:03:39.329 That's what they doing. 68 00:03:39.369 --> 00:03:41.070 And they get a medal for skipping church. 69 00:03:43.191 --> 00:03:48.732 But a big shout out to Tony, Movitsa, Frenchie, Cynthia too. 70 00:03:48.892 --> 00:03:49.172 Amen. 71 00:03:49.632 --> 00:03:49.913 Amen. 72 00:03:50.733 --> 00:03:54.034 I didn't want to include too many female names talking about running for the streets. 73 00:03:54.414 --> 00:03:55.254 They not for the streets. 74 00:03:55.334 --> 00:03:56.314 They just run in the streets. 75 00:03:58.695 --> 00:03:59.455 But we bless them. 76 00:03:59.835 --> 00:04:01.616 We pray for them that they would more than just 77 00:04:02.273 --> 00:04:03.914 succeed in finishing, Lord. 78 00:04:03.934 --> 00:04:06.016 We rebuke all cramping. 79 00:04:07.857 --> 00:04:13.060 We empower them that they would have strength and finish the race in Jesus' name. 80 00:04:15.242 --> 00:04:17.163 Whoever thought I'd be praying for people to skip church? 81 00:04:17.303 --> 00:04:17.683 I don't know. 82 00:04:20.946 --> 00:04:21.806 The God is good here. 83 00:04:22.747 --> 00:04:31.813 So over the past few weeks, though, I feel like, again, the Lord has been prepping us, pouring out more of his spirit because he really wants to get us to a new place, and I 84 00:04:32.713 --> 00:04:33.594 I've sensed that. 85 00:04:33.714 --> 00:04:34.274 I've felt it. 86 00:04:34.314 --> 00:04:35.475 I've experienced it for myself. 87 00:04:35.535 --> 00:04:36.375 And it's not just me. 88 00:04:36.395 --> 00:04:37.836 Like it's been in the air. 89 00:04:38.657 --> 00:04:43.980 For those of you who have been here over the past month and a half, you can sense like God is doing a little bit extra. 90 00:04:47.102 --> 00:04:50.524 He's been interrupting our plans with his presence. 91 00:04:50.544 --> 00:04:52.406 And I believe he is not finished. 92 00:04:53.566 --> 00:04:58.129 He's calling us deeper, not just to encounter the spirit on Sunday, but get this. 93 00:04:58.209 --> 00:04:58.950 He wants to. 94 00:05:00.817 --> 00:05:03.540 walk in the spirit every day of the week. 95 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:05.221 That's what he wants for us. 96 00:05:07.123 --> 00:05:09.325 So today we're going to talk about walking in the spirit. 97 00:05:12.488 --> 00:05:17.613 I think the verse that we're going to use is the charge for the hour is Galatians 5, 16. 98 00:05:19.855 --> 00:05:26.221 I say then, walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 99 00:05:27.392 --> 00:05:28.753 Mind you, this is not a suggestion. 100 00:05:29.193 --> 00:05:31.654 This is a command with a promise attached. 101 00:05:32.194 --> 00:05:35.416 Walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the flesh. 102 00:05:36.677 --> 00:05:39.718 The spirit and the flesh, they're in open conflict. 103 00:05:41.419 --> 00:05:42.060 One will rule. 104 00:05:42.620 --> 00:05:46.662 The question that you really have to ask for your life is which one is going to take the lead? 105 00:05:51.829 --> 00:05:56.812 And there's like a great contrast in this, but Paul doesn't leave us guessing about which side is which. 106 00:05:57.493 --> 00:06:00.655 He draws a very clear delineation line. 107 00:06:02.736 --> 00:06:04.897 Galatians 5.19 talks about the works of the flesh. 108 00:06:04.917 --> 00:06:09.220 It says, now the works of the flesh are evident, which are adultery. 109 00:06:09.916 --> 00:06:30.613 fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like. 110 00:06:31.442 --> 00:06:40.445 Of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 111 00:06:42.785 --> 00:06:50.187 Now, all those things that I read, and it's so funny because there are certain preachers over history who they would literally avoid reading that scripture because of how depressing it is. 112 00:06:51.428 --> 00:06:58.450 Thankfully, you have a pastor that's not afraid to get you a little bit depressed so that we can lift you up and get you a little bit higher. 113 00:06:58.490 --> 00:06:59.150 Come on, somebody. 114 00:07:00.708 --> 00:07:08.075 But these things that we read about, those are the natural byproducts of a life lived according to the old nature, according to the flesh. 115 00:07:09.055 --> 00:07:11.437 The flesh is not neutral by any standard. 116 00:07:13.659 --> 00:07:18.123 The Bible says that the flesh is hostile to God, according to Romans 8, 7. 117 00:07:18.504 --> 00:07:19.865 It cannot please him. 118 00:07:20.711 --> 00:07:30.254 It will always pull towards self, always pull towards comfort, always pull towards control, always pull toward temporary satisfaction. 119 00:07:30.954 --> 00:07:36.035 But the thing is, that type of temporary satisfaction, it always leaves you emptier than before. 120 00:07:38.136 --> 00:07:38.856 Let me ask you a question. 121 00:07:39.176 --> 00:07:43.378 How many of you have known what you were going to have for dinner? 122 00:07:43.398 --> 00:07:44.698 I mean, like a well-cooked dinner. 123 00:07:44.778 --> 00:07:45.378 It was ready. 124 00:07:45.458 --> 00:07:46.499 It was prepared for you. 125 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:47.939 You were coming home to it. 126 00:07:49.486 --> 00:07:54.347 And somehow, some way you convinced yourself that it would be okay to stop and get a snack. 127 00:07:58.708 --> 00:07:59.628 The meal is ready. 128 00:08:00.048 --> 00:08:02.688 We don't know who's cooking it, but we know the meal is ready. 129 00:08:03.108 --> 00:08:04.209 Some of you, it was your mom. 130 00:08:04.849 --> 00:08:06.389 First service, I'm going to spill the tea. 131 00:08:07.589 --> 00:08:09.110 First service, I said this. 132 00:08:10.830 --> 00:08:16.651 A young boy sitting next to his mother, I said, you know, how many of you have ever had a home-cooked meal just waiting for you at home? 133 00:08:16.671 --> 00:08:17.191 He's like, mm-hmm. 134 00:08:21.349 --> 00:08:22.070 I was shocked. 135 00:08:22.930 --> 00:08:24.191 And she's just looking straight at her. 136 00:08:24.231 --> 00:08:26.994 He's like, he shook his head. 137 00:08:27.034 --> 00:08:28.595 I was like, let me just go stand over here. 138 00:08:28.615 --> 00:08:32.178 Cause if like, if she picks up a chair and throws it at him, I don't want to get like the blowback. 139 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:37.502 And even now I said it, I said it here today. 140 00:08:37.542 --> 00:08:39.984 And I saw a couple of people go, hmm, home cooked meal. 141 00:08:40.024 --> 00:08:41.826 What's, what's that? 142 00:08:41.846 --> 00:08:42.687 It's foreign to me. 143 00:08:43.908 --> 00:08:45.189 You guys don't have home cooked meals. 144 00:08:45.209 --> 00:08:45.289 Yes. 145 00:08:48.187 --> 00:08:51.269 This is not a part of the sermon, but McDonald's can't be your life, church. 146 00:08:53.110 --> 00:09:01.115 If my role as a pastor is to help you and to shepherd you into that which is holy, righteous, and pure, Panera Bed is not it. 147 00:09:06.418 --> 00:09:06.898 I'm shocked. 148 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:08.339 Home-cooked meals, nobody. 149 00:09:08.619 --> 00:09:15.043 But regardless, if you had a good home-cooked meal, the thing is, if you begin to snack, 150 00:09:16.082 --> 00:09:22.923 Let's say you go to a 7-Eleven, you stop, you're in the car with all your people, you're like, listen, we're gonna go home for this home cooked meal, but just let me get something real quick. 151 00:09:24.103 --> 00:09:27.884 You go in there and everybody thinks, how about this, everybody thinks that they're leaving the running life group. 152 00:09:27.904 --> 00:09:29.484 They think you're gonna grab a protein bar. 153 00:09:30.204 --> 00:09:34.525 Maybe an Oikos, get a little protein shake and you come out with a chocolate cake. 154 00:09:37.746 --> 00:09:38.346 It's a snack. 155 00:09:39.366 --> 00:09:40.686 Don't judge me, it's a snack. 156 00:09:42.207 --> 00:09:44.467 How many people know that when you get home to dinner, 157 00:09:45.465 --> 00:09:47.326 you're not going to be as satisfied. 158 00:09:50.287 --> 00:09:57.670 These temporary things that we do, they rob us of the true satisfaction that God is trying to offer us. 159 00:09:58.671 --> 00:10:01.632 See, it's that, we're not talking about food anymore, by the way. 160 00:10:02.637 --> 00:10:11.620 We're talking about that carnal appetite that only, only satisfies for a brief moment, but it harms you in the long run because you're not holding out. 161 00:10:12.401 --> 00:10:14.061 It's called delayed gratification. 162 00:10:14.101 --> 00:10:16.422 Sometimes that's what the Lord calls us to as believers. 163 00:10:16.722 --> 00:10:19.743 And we shirk that and we go, well, this feels good for right now. 164 00:10:21.364 --> 00:10:22.464 Oh, come on, fornicators. 165 00:10:22.484 --> 00:10:23.565 Don't act like you don't hear me. 166 00:10:27.266 --> 00:10:29.707 Yeah, I was waiting for marriage, but this feels good now. 167 00:10:31.375 --> 00:10:34.377 And you don't know that you're robbing yourself and you're robbing your spouse. 168 00:10:34.597 --> 00:10:36.218 Oh, come on, guys, don't judge. 169 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:39.760 Come on, alcoholics, you don't got to judge them. 170 00:10:39.780 --> 00:10:43.743 Yeah, because the Lord said that he would give you a new wine. 171 00:10:43.763 --> 00:10:47.165 He would give you a new way to be inebriated, a new way to have joy overflowing. 172 00:10:47.325 --> 00:10:49.407 You wouldn't have to rely on chemicals and stuff. 173 00:10:49.427 --> 00:10:49.807 All right. 174 00:10:55.050 --> 00:10:57.812 So moving by the carnal, that's just, it's temporary. 175 00:10:57.832 --> 00:10:59.333 And the Lord doesn't want you to do that. 176 00:11:00.403 --> 00:11:06.627 And here's why, because yes, there are the works of the flesh, but there's also the fruit of the spirit. 177 00:11:08.188 --> 00:11:10.030 Galatians 5, 22 and 23. 178 00:11:10.290 --> 00:11:20.577 But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. 179 00:11:20.897 --> 00:11:23.279 Against such there is no law. 180 00:11:25.581 --> 00:11:26.241 Notice the difference. 181 00:11:27.142 --> 00:11:28.303 The flesh has works. 182 00:11:29.128 --> 00:11:30.309 The spirit has fruit. 183 00:11:32.130 --> 00:11:32.970 Notice I didn't say fruits. 184 00:11:33.010 --> 00:11:33.631 I said fruit. 185 00:11:36.692 --> 00:11:37.113 I won't lie. 186 00:11:37.133 --> 00:11:37.993 It's a little pet peeve of mine. 187 00:11:38.013 --> 00:11:41.895 I don't know if it's because I'm a preacher and a pastor, but it gives me a feeling, you know, the fruits of the spirit. 188 00:11:41.915 --> 00:11:43.456 The Bible never says the fruits of the spirit. 189 00:11:44.377 --> 00:11:45.497 It is the fruit. 190 00:11:46.098 --> 00:11:47.278 And why is that significant? 191 00:11:47.298 --> 00:11:50.640 Because works are manufactured. 192 00:11:51.721 --> 00:11:53.582 Fruit is grown. 193 00:11:54.443 --> 00:11:56.384 The Bible says that this is so good. 194 00:11:56.404 --> 00:11:56.824 Thank you, Lord. 195 00:11:57.987 --> 00:12:00.108 The fruit of the spirit is love. 196 00:12:01.729 --> 00:12:06.092 When the Holy Spirit resides on the inside of you, what he's growing is God. 197 00:12:06.872 --> 00:12:08.813 Because the Bible says that God is love. 198 00:12:08.833 --> 00:12:13.736 So when his spirit rests on the inside of you, what's being grown is more God. 199 00:12:15.497 --> 00:12:18.699 All the other things are byproducts of the love that is grown. 200 00:12:18.899 --> 00:12:20.760 For the fruit of the spirit is love. 201 00:12:22.441 --> 00:12:25.622 Joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, long-suffering. 202 00:12:25.642 --> 00:12:26.423 You get what I'm saying? 203 00:12:26.443 --> 00:12:26.543 Yeah. 204 00:12:27.462 --> 00:12:29.384 So we're not trying to manufacture something. 205 00:12:29.404 --> 00:12:31.445 We're allowing the Lord to grow something. 206 00:12:32.526 --> 00:12:36.149 And the thing about growth is that sometimes it doesn't happen overnight. 207 00:12:38.011 --> 00:12:38.952 Oh, am I talking about it? 208 00:12:39.172 --> 00:12:39.972 Talking to somebody yet? 209 00:12:40.773 --> 00:12:47.679 Because sometimes we get discouraged by the fact that we claim and we say that we want more of God, but then we don't see it happen right away. 210 00:12:47.699 --> 00:12:51.022 Because when you're manufacturing something, boop, boop, boop, boop, done. 211 00:12:52.383 --> 00:12:54.765 And God said, that's not exactly what I'm looking for. 212 00:12:56.534 --> 00:13:10.359 There is a slow burn to this thing where God is raising you up and looking for something to be grown on the inside of you that is different from everything that you've ever known, better than everything that you've ever known. 213 00:13:20.122 --> 00:13:23.283 Works are manufactured, fruit is produced or grown. 214 00:13:24.901 --> 00:13:28.964 Because think about it, you can strive to act loving and still be full of bitterness. 215 00:13:31.366 --> 00:13:33.268 You can force a smile and still have no joy. 216 00:13:35.490 --> 00:13:41.475 But when the Holy Spirit is in control, the fruit grows naturally because the life of Christ is flowing through you. 217 00:13:41.915 --> 00:13:46.259 What we are not talking about when we say walking in the spirit is behavior modification. 218 00:13:47.300 --> 00:13:50.022 Nobody's trying to make the Christian T-Bot 3000 robot. 219 00:13:51.803 --> 00:13:52.884 Hallelujah. 220 00:13:53.184 --> 00:13:57.647 All is well, well, well, well with my soul. 221 00:13:57.667 --> 00:14:00.129 No, no, no, no. 222 00:14:00.149 --> 00:14:01.330 We want genuine fruit. 223 00:14:05.213 --> 00:14:07.074 Romans 8 makes the divide even sharper. 224 00:14:08.307 --> 00:14:13.550 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh. 225 00:14:14.131 --> 00:14:17.352 But those who live according to the spirit, the things of the spirit. 226 00:14:17.973 --> 00:14:23.936 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 227 00:14:25.517 --> 00:14:26.898 One path leads to death. 228 00:14:27.619 --> 00:14:29.800 The other path produces life and peace. 229 00:14:30.781 --> 00:14:31.981 There is no third option. 230 00:14:35.503 --> 00:14:38.025 But what does it actually mean to walk in the spirit? 231 00:14:40.055 --> 00:14:44.437 Walking implies continuous, deliberate movement. 232 00:14:46.858 --> 00:14:48.498 It's not a one-time experience. 233 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:49.919 It's a daily dependence. 234 00:14:51.800 --> 00:14:58.943 Now, for some reason, the Lord saw fit to bless me with a wife who likes to do things outside. 235 00:15:02.104 --> 00:15:02.584 Praise God. 236 00:15:04.594 --> 00:15:05.755 She wants to go for walks. 237 00:15:07.256 --> 00:15:08.317 She wants to go sailing. 238 00:15:09.497 --> 00:15:11.639 She wants to go running on Thanksgiving Day. 239 00:15:16.682 --> 00:15:19.824 Now, what would it look like if I said, hey, babe, let's go for a walk. 240 00:15:20.444 --> 00:15:21.945 And we got outside and I did one of these. 241 00:15:24.367 --> 00:15:25.968 And then I turned and went back into the house. 242 00:15:27.749 --> 00:15:30.391 She might be a little confused because I took a step. 243 00:15:31.892 --> 00:15:33.133 And that is not walking. 244 00:15:33.153 --> 00:15:33.333 Walking. 245 00:15:35.692 --> 00:15:37.013 Walking is continuous. 246 00:15:38.313 --> 00:15:42.656 And this is the problem why some of us get discouraged because we've taken a first great step. 247 00:15:44.096 --> 00:15:46.457 You know that friend that's been hounding you to come to church? 248 00:15:48.278 --> 00:15:49.599 You've taken that first step. 249 00:15:49.619 --> 00:15:51.580 You say, okay, okay, brother, I'm coming. 250 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:56.522 And you enter the place, I'm here. 251 00:15:58.043 --> 00:16:00.645 Christian T-Bot 3000, and I raise my hand. 252 00:16:00.805 --> 00:16:01.385 What? 253 00:16:04.977 --> 00:16:06.298 But God is asking for more. 254 00:16:08.160 --> 00:16:09.020 He wants more. 255 00:16:09.621 --> 00:16:10.381 He wants you. 256 00:16:11.682 --> 00:16:13.344 He wants to walk with you. 257 00:16:15.486 --> 00:16:16.947 It's not just the one step. 258 00:16:18.348 --> 00:16:19.369 He wants to keep stepping. 259 00:16:22.992 --> 00:16:24.473 Does anybody want to walk with God? 260 00:16:36.112 --> 00:16:38.513 Well, if you want to walk with God, I'll tell you this. 261 00:16:38.674 --> 00:16:41.375 It begins with surrender and not striving. 262 00:16:42.596 --> 00:16:45.798 Ephesians 5.18 says, be filled with the spirit. 263 00:16:47.419 --> 00:16:49.820 The Greek tense here is a continuous one. 264 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:55.223 And the reason I even bring this up is because there are certain things and get a little Bible nerdy on you. 265 00:16:55.984 --> 00:16:59.686 The English language is it pales in comparison to Greek. 266 00:17:00.550 --> 00:17:05.232 Because for English, we use the same word that we use to describe our most intimate relationship. 267 00:17:05.472 --> 00:17:07.193 We use on our desire for ice cream. 268 00:17:09.014 --> 00:17:09.694 Think about it. 269 00:17:09.714 --> 00:17:10.554 I love ice cream. 270 00:17:10.874 --> 00:17:11.955 Tiff, I love you. 271 00:17:13.015 --> 00:17:13.716 Like ice cream? 272 00:17:17.857 --> 00:17:19.778 In Greek, there are four different words for love. 273 00:17:21.459 --> 00:17:28.322 And then they have different words where if you say it in one way, it means that it's a perpetual text, meaning that it's never supposed to stop. 274 00:17:29.848 --> 00:17:37.749 So when he says, be filled with the spirit, he's saying, continuously keep on being filled. 275 00:17:39.850 --> 00:17:42.070 You do not fill yourself, and this is gonna be important. 276 00:17:42.330 --> 00:17:43.230 You yield. 277 00:17:44.531 --> 00:17:46.671 Because we're talking about how do you walk in the spirit? 278 00:17:46.911 --> 00:17:49.111 You don't walk in the spirit through behavior modification. 279 00:17:49.851 --> 00:17:53.792 Well, I'm a Christian now, so I'm just gonna stand my ground and I'm gonna be like this all day and I'm gonna be serious. 280 00:17:55.933 --> 00:17:57.473 Look at my life is much better now. 281 00:17:57.613 --> 00:17:58.353 I look so happy. 282 00:18:00.321 --> 00:18:01.441 I read my Bible today. 283 00:18:01.461 --> 00:18:01.521 No. 284 00:18:07.864 --> 00:18:09.764 And the only problem is, you know, some people like that. 285 00:18:10.784 --> 00:18:13.765 They got saved and they turned into something. 286 00:18:17.907 --> 00:18:21.328 No, this is an everyday thing where you yield to him. 287 00:18:22.318 --> 00:18:25.999 Every morning you present your body as a living sacrifice like Romans 12 says. 288 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:29.039 You say, Holy Spirit, this day is yours. 289 00:18:29.099 --> 00:18:29.919 You lead me. 290 00:18:29.999 --> 00:18:30.840 You correct me. 291 00:18:31.040 --> 00:18:31.940 You empower me. 292 00:18:31.980 --> 00:18:34.740 You fill me again and again and again. 293 00:18:38.761 --> 00:18:42.422 Walking in the spirit also requires sensitivity to his voice. 294 00:18:44.042 --> 00:18:48.863 Jesus said in John 16, 13 that the spirit of truth will guide you into all truth. 295 00:18:50.997 --> 00:18:59.480 You know, he doesn't only speak in the loud moments like you come on a Sunday morning and Pastor Bo is up here preaching and boom, he says something just hits you. 296 00:18:59.500 --> 00:19:00.981 You know, it's for me, man. 297 00:19:01.161 --> 00:19:02.761 Why does Pastor Bo got to put me on front street? 298 00:19:07.023 --> 00:19:10.564 He speaks the Holy Spirit in the quiet promptings as well. 299 00:19:11.985 --> 00:19:18.047 When you feel that check in your spirit about a conversation, when you feel that check in your spirit about a decision, 300 00:19:19.828 --> 00:19:30.555 When you feel the bitterness that you've been nursing, you know, when you have that argument with somebody, that disagreement, and instead of actually talking to the person, you've just been replaying it over in your head for the last 36 hours. 301 00:19:33.697 --> 00:19:34.437 No amens. 302 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:43.663 When you are considering a compromise, but you feel the spirit checking you, telling you that's not the way. 303 00:19:45.424 --> 00:19:48.126 Walking in the spirit means you do not ignore that check. 304 00:19:48.306 --> 00:19:49.367 It means that you obey. 305 00:19:51.898 --> 00:19:57.020 Walking in the spirit produces visible fruit and produces supernatural power. 306 00:20:00.541 --> 00:20:01.042 Here's the thing. 307 00:20:02.442 --> 00:20:07.524 The Bible says in Romans 8, 11, the same spirit who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. 308 00:20:09.165 --> 00:20:11.626 God is not only concerned with making you a nicer person. 309 00:20:13.887 --> 00:20:16.908 God is actually concerned about giving you the power to testify. 310 00:20:20.667 --> 00:20:22.328 He wants to make you powerful for the kingdom. 311 00:20:22.348 --> 00:20:23.389 He wants to give you boldness. 312 00:20:23.409 --> 00:20:28.872 He wants to give you discernment in your relationships, strengthen your weakness, love that overcomes offense. 313 00:20:31.013 --> 00:20:41.359 When you walk in the spirit, people should be able to see the difference and not because you're trying harder, but because there's another person living on the inside of you. 314 00:20:42.980 --> 00:20:43.700 Now I get it just now. 315 00:20:45.004 --> 00:20:50.727 you were tempted to think about a fat joke because I said that there was another person living on the inside of you and you need to relax. 316 00:20:52.808 --> 00:20:55.890 When I said there was another person living on the inside of me, that's not your reason to go. 317 00:20:56.010 --> 00:20:56.850 Oh, that makes sense. 318 00:20:56.870 --> 00:20:58.651 That's why he's, you know, no, no, no. 319 00:20:58.812 --> 00:21:00.753 That means the Holy Spirit is living in me. 320 00:21:00.873 --> 00:21:01.333 Praise God. 321 00:21:02.454 --> 00:21:06.436 See, the fruit that I'm bearing right now is, see, I know in real time. 322 00:21:07.716 --> 00:21:12.099 I have evidence that God is real because I feel him in me every day working. 323 00:21:13.459 --> 00:21:14.300 Can we get real for a minute? 324 00:21:16.125 --> 00:21:17.525 How many of you still curse in your head? 325 00:21:19.786 --> 00:21:21.166 Okay, thank you real Christians. 326 00:21:23.746 --> 00:21:25.167 Listen, the Lord has brought me a long way. 327 00:21:27.167 --> 00:21:31.548 I have what some might say a very verbose vernacular. 328 00:21:32.788 --> 00:21:37.129 And it wasn't always used in service to the Lord because I didn't know the Lord. 329 00:21:37.969 --> 00:21:39.269 And then I got saved. 330 00:21:39.969 --> 00:21:43.970 And then I would have to find new ways to insult people that didn't involve... 331 00:21:44.751 --> 00:22:11.642 cursing so then i would be speaking to people and then the lord was like you didn't curse but that was mean and you need to switch it up i said praise god thank you for working in me dear lord merciful father amen but the lord is working anika i think we need to get real and show them i used anika for an illustration without her permission in the first service and it was hilarious 332 00:22:13.425 --> 00:22:19.687 I almost feel bad doing it now, but the reason that I know God is real is because I have experienced him. 333 00:22:19.707 --> 00:22:22.788 I see him from day to day. 334 00:22:23.149 --> 00:22:26.950 Help me not do the things that I am naturally inclined to do. 335 00:22:28.252 --> 00:22:39.617 Like when I'm driving and somebody incessantly is just beeping their horn at me and there's nowhere to go because we're in traffic and it's a red light and I don't exactly know where I'm supposed to go. 336 00:22:39.817 --> 00:22:41.878 So what exactly are you beeping at me for? 337 00:22:42.118 --> 00:22:43.999 Is there something that you'd like to talk about? 338 00:22:46.641 --> 00:22:51.723 And in that moment, because the Lord has been so gracious to give me a praying wife, she just looks over and she's shook up. 339 00:22:53.391 --> 00:22:55.492 She's praying because she already know where this is going. 340 00:22:55.712 --> 00:23:01.675 Listen, I'm the type where I will get out of my car and come this close to your window and go, what's up? 341 00:23:02.776 --> 00:23:05.617 You clearly needed my attention for some reason. 342 00:23:06.878 --> 00:23:08.298 So what do you need from me? 343 00:23:09.819 --> 00:23:11.440 Is there something that you like from me? 344 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:13.741 Because I got nowhere to go because it's a red light. 345 00:23:19.293 --> 00:23:20.133 Oh, there's nothing? 346 00:23:20.233 --> 00:23:22.874 Did you want to know about Jesus Christ, your Lord and Savior? 347 00:23:22.894 --> 00:23:24.174 Did you want to meet him today? 348 00:23:25.595 --> 00:23:25.875 No? 349 00:23:26.495 --> 00:23:26.895 Okay. 350 00:23:26.915 --> 00:23:28.975 I'm going to go back to my car now. 351 00:23:34.297 --> 00:23:36.497 You see, that's my natural inclination. 352 00:23:38.378 --> 00:23:40.358 But then the Lord has grown me. 353 00:23:41.379 --> 00:23:47.160 So then now that I'm driving and things happen, and I admit it, I don't curse. 354 00:23:48.837 --> 00:23:55.918 But in my mind, listen, it shouldn't only be on Tiffany to pray for my sanctification. 355 00:23:55.938 --> 00:23:57.018 Y'all be praying to church. 356 00:24:00.419 --> 00:24:01.499 But I felt the difference. 357 00:24:01.579 --> 00:24:06.420 I felt the Lord beginning to move because I've yielded and given him the controls. 358 00:24:08.940 --> 00:24:10.301 Because this is a daily battle. 359 00:24:12.501 --> 00:24:14.361 Walking in the spirit is not automatic. 360 00:24:16.302 --> 00:24:18.122 The flesh does not die quietly. 361 00:24:18.955 --> 00:24:19.956 Every day is a choice. 362 00:24:22.197 --> 00:24:25.279 Will I respond in the flesh or in the spirit when I'm offended? 363 00:24:27.201 --> 00:24:30.003 Will I feed anxiety or feed faith when the pressure comes? 364 00:24:32.244 --> 00:24:36.187 Will I run to entertainment and distraction or will I run to the secret place? 365 00:24:37.868 --> 00:24:40.110 I'm going to tell you right now, and this is going to baffle some of you. 366 00:24:40.590 --> 00:24:47.175 The breakthrough that you've been waiting on and praying for, you don't have right now because you're distracted. 367 00:24:47.195 --> 00:24:47.495 Right? 368 00:24:48.830 --> 00:24:58.697 I don't know what happened where you thought that you were going to get the revelation by scrolling on your phone endlessly with your thumb versus spending time in the secret place. 369 00:25:02.080 --> 00:25:03.401 Because I know God is going to do it. 370 00:25:03.421 --> 00:25:04.521 He's going to give me breakthrough. 371 00:25:04.882 --> 00:25:05.562 Oh, that's dope. 372 00:25:06.203 --> 00:25:07.423 You prayed about it, huh? 373 00:25:11.426 --> 00:25:13.268 Well, I heard I heard a pastor on TikTok. 374 00:25:13.328 --> 00:25:13.448 Oh. 375 00:25:15.345 --> 00:25:19.287 In between the 40 other TikToks that had nothing to do with anything that was going to bring me closer to Jesus. 376 00:25:23.449 --> 00:25:27.711 The revelation, the insight and the breakthrough that God wants to give you half of you. 377 00:25:27.851 --> 00:25:33.254 I have no doubt that you would get it within a week if you would actually take the time to just spend time with God. 378 00:25:36.195 --> 00:25:38.997 You know, being a Christian attending church is a misnomer because. 379 00:25:41.025 --> 00:25:45.531 You can be nominally called a Christian but actually have no real relationship with Jesus. 380 00:25:45.571 --> 00:25:46.973 That's a real thing that happens. 381 00:25:49.016 --> 00:25:54.003 In order to be intimate with God or intimate with anyone, you have to spend time with them. 382 00:25:59.388 --> 00:26:06.993 And I'm not saying that you have to be the super Christian robot in 23 hours of your day you spend in a monastery on your knees. 383 00:26:07.193 --> 00:26:13.316 But there is something to keeping a relationship that is pure and actually alive. 384 00:26:16.478 --> 00:26:21.341 Where you spend time talking with God, conversing with the one who made you. 385 00:26:23.942 --> 00:26:27.783 My wife, she'll tell you, there are certain things that sometimes we're like struggling with. 386 00:26:27.803 --> 00:26:28.764 Well, how's this going to happen? 387 00:26:28.784 --> 00:26:29.484 How's this going to happen? 388 00:26:29.744 --> 00:26:33.685 And we don't know how exactly to get the plan or the finances or to do what. 389 00:26:33.885 --> 00:26:37.387 But the one thing that we stay consistent with is, well, we're just going to keep walking with him. 390 00:26:38.547 --> 00:26:44.069 And as we keep walking with him, keep in relationship with him, all of a sudden finances show up. 391 00:26:44.129 --> 00:26:47.050 Witty invention and ideas and breakthrough starts happening. 392 00:26:48.090 --> 00:26:48.830 I'm not going to lie to you. 393 00:26:49.651 --> 00:26:51.892 Sometimes I love getting random emails from my wife. 394 00:26:51.912 --> 00:26:53.152 She'd be like, what do you think about this? 395 00:26:54.229 --> 00:26:57.051 You'll be like, damn, I'm mad I ain't thinking about that. 396 00:26:57.091 --> 00:26:57.932 All right, praise God. 397 00:26:59.433 --> 00:27:02.915 The Lord will just give you insight if you would be willing to spend time with him. 398 00:27:11.321 --> 00:27:17.666 Again, you gotta ask the question, will I speak words that tear down or will I speak words that give life? 399 00:27:20.127 --> 00:27:23.510 Am I gonna run to entertainment and distraction or will I run to the secret place? 400 00:27:26.967 --> 00:27:28.668 Galatians 5, 24. 401 00:27:30.389 --> 00:27:34.671 And those who are Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 402 00:27:34.931 --> 00:27:39.934 If we live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit. 403 00:27:41.875 --> 00:27:43.936 Crucifixion is not a feeling. 404 00:27:44.676 --> 00:27:45.737 It's a decision. 405 00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:52.361 You reckon the old man dead and you keep in step with the spirit. 406 00:27:52.541 --> 00:27:55.022 Step by step, moment by moment. 407 00:27:56.616 --> 00:27:59.737 And mind you, that word reckon is an old accounting term. 408 00:27:59.777 --> 00:28:01.557 You find it in Romans 6, 11. 409 00:28:01.597 --> 00:28:10.359 It says, likewise, you also reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 410 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:12.580 What does that mean? 411 00:28:13.100 --> 00:28:13.820 Reckon yourself. 412 00:28:14.020 --> 00:28:15.860 Well, like I said, it's an accounting term. 413 00:28:16.140 --> 00:28:22.342 So in accounting, there are certain things that you just put a metric for and you go, this goes here and this belongs to this. 414 00:28:23.532 --> 00:28:25.413 These finances go in this particular year. 415 00:28:25.613 --> 00:28:30.295 This is where this bill is gonna get paid and it's gonna go to this and this and this and this. 416 00:28:30.555 --> 00:28:36.318 And the Bible says that you need to, in an accounting way, reckon that you are dead to sin. 417 00:28:36.338 --> 00:28:40.620 Well, what does that look like, Pastor? 418 00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:41.920 Well, let me ask you the question. 419 00:28:41.940 --> 00:28:47.643 The last time you went to a funeral, was the person in the casket sinning that day? 420 00:28:51.104 --> 00:28:52.405 Was the guy who was laid out 421 00:28:53.812 --> 00:28:59.095 In the casket, was he fawning in lust over everybody who was leaning over the casket? 422 00:29:01.017 --> 00:29:02.097 Oh, yeah, baby. 423 00:29:02.998 --> 00:29:03.758 Oh, I like that. 424 00:29:03.798 --> 00:29:05.059 Come on, come on, come on. 425 00:29:05.539 --> 00:29:06.100 Oh, smile. 426 00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:06.920 Oh, yeah. 427 00:29:06.940 --> 00:29:07.841 She got tears too. 428 00:29:07.881 --> 00:29:08.301 Praise God. 429 00:29:08.501 --> 00:29:08.822 Oh, look. 430 00:29:08.902 --> 00:29:09.662 Is that a D cup? 431 00:29:10.783 --> 00:29:14.625 When was the last time you went to a funeral and you heard that out of the person in the casket? 432 00:29:15.466 --> 00:29:17.087 No, no, no, you didn't because they were dead. 433 00:29:17.107 --> 00:29:17.207 Okay. 434 00:29:18.365 --> 00:29:23.667 And the Bible says you need to reckon yourself dead to sin, but alive unto God. 435 00:29:25.727 --> 00:29:27.448 Oh, I'm preaching better than you saying amen. 436 00:29:33.830 --> 00:29:34.130 All right. 437 00:29:35.150 --> 00:29:35.930 Got some takeaways. 438 00:29:39.131 --> 00:29:40.992 And worship team, you can start getting yourselves ready. 439 00:29:43.829 --> 00:29:47.290 You cannot walk in the spirit while feeding the flesh. 440 00:29:47.911 --> 00:29:51.632 And I know that sounds like rocket science, but believe me, it's true. 441 00:29:53.873 --> 00:29:56.354 What you feed grows. 442 00:29:58.435 --> 00:30:00.316 What you starve dies. 443 00:30:01.716 --> 00:30:08.119 If social media, certain relationships, or private habits are feeding the flesh, you have to cut them off. 444 00:30:09.460 --> 00:30:12.421 The spirit will not share the throne with anyone. 445 00:30:14.157 --> 00:30:20.122 You yourself know that there are certain relationships in your life that are not leading you closer to God. 446 00:30:21.162 --> 00:30:24.845 Every time you get around these people, you feel your flesh riled up. 447 00:30:24.885 --> 00:30:30.189 You feel more like the person you used to be than the person that God is cultivating and crafting over time. 448 00:30:31.470 --> 00:30:32.491 You have to be honest. 449 00:30:32.511 --> 00:30:34.613 Certain relationships are not for you anymore. 450 00:30:37.094 --> 00:30:40.097 Listen, I was a drug dealer when I got saved. 451 00:30:40.117 --> 00:30:40.537 I was a drug dealer. 452 00:30:43.366 --> 00:30:46.829 90% of my friends were drug dealers and con men. 453 00:30:48.351 --> 00:30:58.500 I had to find a new circle because if I wanted to in love, and this happened for many months, in love, I just wanted to be around my friends and share the love of God. 454 00:30:58.740 --> 00:31:04.105 That would often lead me to be hanging out in drug dens because that's where my friends were. 455 00:31:06.635 --> 00:31:09.276 And that means that I was subject to everything that would happen in that. 456 00:31:09.476 --> 00:31:13.778 I can't tell you how many times the cops came in on a raid and busted the place where I was. 457 00:31:13.798 --> 00:31:14.898 And they're like, what are you doing here? 458 00:31:15.158 --> 00:31:16.318 It's just saying hi to my friends. 459 00:31:18.199 --> 00:31:19.660 Like, sir, something is different about you. 460 00:31:19.740 --> 00:31:20.740 Why are you here? 461 00:31:21.180 --> 00:31:21.940 I'm being serious. 462 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:23.301 I will arrest you, sir. 463 00:31:23.341 --> 00:31:25.522 I just came here to share the love of Jesus Christ. 464 00:31:30.043 --> 00:31:32.844 Sir, I'm going to ask you one more time. 465 00:31:32.904 --> 00:31:35.085 I said, if you smell me, sir, I don't smell like them. 466 00:31:37.729 --> 00:31:59.675 had one cop literally go how are you in this place and don't smell like weed I said because I'm not of this place I'm in this place but I'm not of this place I literally am just here to see my friends I'm trying to win them back for the Lord the way God snatched me out 467 00:32:01.084 --> 00:32:06.068 I don't know if this officer had a background in Christianity, but he had a look of revelation and insight. 468 00:32:06.088 --> 00:32:09.231 Like, I probably need to go back to church if the drug dealers are talking to me like this. 469 00:32:19.760 --> 00:32:21.762 You know, the things that are drawing you away from him. 470 00:32:23.243 --> 00:32:27.647 What I need you to do if you're going to walk in the spirit is be honest about when he's asking you to let it go. 471 00:32:31.979 --> 00:32:33.579 The spirit is not going to share this throne. 472 00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:35.280 The throne is your heart. 473 00:32:38.320 --> 00:32:40.321 Walking in the spirit is not about perfection. 474 00:32:41.181 --> 00:32:42.241 It's about direction. 475 00:32:45.362 --> 00:32:47.962 Yes, you will stumble often, just like me. 476 00:32:50.383 --> 00:32:53.264 But the question is, which way are your feet pointed when you get up? 477 00:32:54.964 --> 00:32:56.544 Are you just running back to your sin? 478 00:32:56.564 --> 00:32:59.525 Or are you running to Jesus as you stumble? 479 00:33:05.893 --> 00:33:06.913 Run towards the Lord. 480 00:33:08.334 --> 00:33:10.855 Run towards the spirit in dependence on God. 481 00:33:12.655 --> 00:33:18.617 Because the same spirit who's been moving in the services wants to walk with you, not just on a Sunday morning, but on a Monday morning. 482 00:33:21.138 --> 00:33:25.639 He's not confined to the altar when we call people up to receive prayer like we will do later. 483 00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:28.560 He's at the grocery store. 484 00:33:30.100 --> 00:33:31.120 He's at the bus stop. 485 00:33:31.140 --> 00:33:32.161 He's at the subway. 486 00:33:33.161 --> 00:33:36.883 He's in the late night conversations and the quiet places of struggle. 487 00:33:39.124 --> 00:33:47.468 You know, there was a guy here first service and it made me laugh because, you know, he is the God of the bus stops. 488 00:33:49.849 --> 00:33:53.751 I remember one night, it's actually the night that we had our guest minister, David Wagner. 489 00:33:53.771 --> 00:33:54.711 He's a prophet for the Lord. 490 00:33:54.731 --> 00:33:58.713 He was here on a Saturday and that night I took public transportation home. 491 00:33:59.813 --> 00:34:00.854 My wife came to the meeting. 492 00:34:00.974 --> 00:34:01.835 She had all she could take. 493 00:34:01.855 --> 00:34:02.616 She received from the Lord. 494 00:34:02.636 --> 00:34:03.517 She's like, all right, I'm out. 495 00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:08.002 Oh, mind you, we got kids at home, so you can just be gallivanting in the Lord. 496 00:34:08.022 --> 00:34:09.643 We had a babysitter that needed to be handled. 497 00:34:10.684 --> 00:34:14.308 So I took public transportation home, took the train, took the bus. 498 00:34:16.030 --> 00:34:21.196 And then one of the saints who couldn't make it to the meeting because they were at work, they came and they saw me. 499 00:34:22.108 --> 00:34:23.689 But I'm a New Yorker. 500 00:34:24.230 --> 00:34:31.495 So if I don't know you, my resting face is a protective face of I dare you to say something to me. 501 00:34:33.797 --> 00:34:37.580 And it's not because I'm not filled with the joy of the Lord and the niceties that God has brought upon me. 502 00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:40.822 But I also am very aware like I was raised in a hood and I know what it is. 503 00:34:41.062 --> 00:34:44.045 I know what a mark is and I know what a Vic is and I am neither. 504 00:34:46.546 --> 00:34:47.627 So the saint walked up on me. 505 00:34:47.647 --> 00:34:50.469 He was like, you know, you really are as you preach. 506 00:34:50.589 --> 00:34:51.190 I was like, huh? 507 00:34:51.742 --> 00:34:52.342 Oh, brother. 508 00:34:52.442 --> 00:34:53.023 Hey, how are you? 509 00:34:53.043 --> 00:34:55.304 He's like, your face just now. 510 00:34:55.324 --> 00:34:56.164 I said, what about my face? 511 00:34:56.204 --> 00:34:58.705 He said, you look like you were ready. 512 00:34:58.765 --> 00:35:01.386 And I'm like, listen, you play stupid games. 513 00:35:01.406 --> 00:35:02.587 You get stupid prizes. 514 00:35:02.627 --> 00:35:09.890 Like just making people aware, like, but I've learned that God wants to be in every facet of that. 515 00:35:12.631 --> 00:35:16.073 He's every day working on not just my insides, but even my affect. 516 00:35:18.080 --> 00:35:21.862 That's why I seem so bubbly when you meet me in the hallways on the way to the bathroom. 517 00:35:22.242 --> 00:35:23.123 Praise God, saints. 518 00:35:24.183 --> 00:35:24.523 Hello. 519 00:35:26.945 --> 00:35:30.766 The Lord can change you if you give him the wheel. 520 00:35:32.687 --> 00:35:34.448 Who's running the vehicle of your life? 521 00:35:35.649 --> 00:35:37.470 Do you still have your hand on the wheel? 522 00:35:39.631 --> 00:35:42.553 Or are you in faith allowing him to drive? 523 00:35:44.614 --> 00:35:45.274 I can tell you. 524 00:35:47.165 --> 00:35:49.226 He is the best pilot ever. 525 00:35:50.027 --> 00:35:51.668 He is not going to shipwreck you. 526 00:35:51.708 --> 00:35:54.710 He is not going to put you into a 12 car crash. 527 00:35:56.351 --> 00:36:03.636 He's going to lead you to the most pleasant places, but it does require faith and for you to let go thinking that you can do it better than him. 528 00:36:07.018 --> 00:36:09.500 You guys can hand out the elements for communion. 529 00:36:09.520 --> 00:36:13.982 This is important. 530 00:36:14.003 --> 00:36:14.623 This is important. 531 00:36:20.864 --> 00:36:24.007 Pursuit is the evidence of hunger. 532 00:36:26.769 --> 00:36:31.893 The thing is, I want you to leave here today more hungry for God than when you walked in. 533 00:36:35.095 --> 00:36:39.699 More hungry for the Holy Spirit, more hungry for a dynamic experience that would change your life. 534 00:36:40.980 --> 00:36:42.301 And that hunger is a good sign. 535 00:36:44.863 --> 00:36:47.365 Be willing to ask for more of God. 536 00:36:48.786 --> 00:36:51.087 Don't be content to say, well, I showed up to church. 537 00:36:51.187 --> 00:36:51.847 It was nice. 538 00:36:52.268 --> 00:36:53.308 I'll see you next week. 539 00:36:54.228 --> 00:37:00.191 I dare you to say, God, meet me tomorrow because I need more of you. 540 00:37:02.392 --> 00:37:05.774 Ask him to increase your capacity for the things of God. 541 00:37:07.635 --> 00:37:10.376 Ask him to make you more sensitive to the sound of his voice. 542 00:37:12.197 --> 00:37:14.718 Ask him to fill every empty part of your life 543 00:37:20.457 --> 00:37:23.800 Because again, we've tasted of his presence. 544 00:37:25.321 --> 00:37:30.406 And I have this burning just understanding that he wants to do even more. 545 00:37:32.467 --> 00:37:38.893 But that takes for a certain realignment so that we could be in the path to receive what he wants to get poured out. 546 00:37:40.694 --> 00:37:41.835 Because he's not done with us. 547 00:37:44.077 --> 00:37:45.078 He's calling us deeper. 548 00:37:45.158 --> 00:37:46.860 He does not want us to leave the same. 549 00:37:54.683 --> 00:37:57.064 This actually flows right in line with this message. 550 00:37:58.584 --> 00:38:02.986 The Bible says that every time we take communion, we proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 551 00:38:06.107 --> 00:38:09.989 Just take a moment at the matzah in your hand, unleavened bread. 552 00:38:11.850 --> 00:38:12.450 And look at it. 553 00:38:13.030 --> 00:38:13.730 Take the time. 554 00:38:15.011 --> 00:38:15.871 It is pierced. 555 00:38:16.411 --> 00:38:18.212 It is striped and it is burnt. 556 00:38:20.113 --> 00:38:31.738 When Jesus took our place as us, that divine exchange that happened at the cross, the fiery wrath of God that we, that should have been on us fell on him. 557 00:38:32.938 --> 00:38:34.078 And he was pierced. 558 00:38:35.399 --> 00:38:37.660 He was whipped and beaten and striped. 559 00:38:40.221 --> 00:38:45.663 You see, what happened at the cross wasn't just for the forgiveness of sins, it was for the wholeness of all that we are. 560 00:38:46.995 --> 00:38:50.577 When he was on the cross, he was naked, having nothing to his name. 561 00:38:50.757 --> 00:38:55.059 The Bible literally says that he became poor, that through his poverty, we would gain riches. 562 00:38:56.780 --> 00:39:12.088 When he's in the garden of Gethsemane, tortured about seeing the cross prophetically, dripping great drops of blood under mental anguish so that the anxiety and the depression that you face would now fall on him. 563 00:39:14.363 --> 00:39:24.305 You see, at the cross, he did everything so that you would get the benefit, that you would have emotional health, that you would have physical healing, that you would have financial wealth and breakthrough. 564 00:39:25.925 --> 00:39:32.347 He was alone on the cross so that you would never have to be, so that you would have accountability and community and friendship. 565 00:39:33.827 --> 00:39:37.408 But the thing is, you have to look at that by faith and you have to receive that by faith. 566 00:39:39.628 --> 00:39:46.651 Part of walking in the spirit is every day you believing all of what God said about you and that he's willing to walk alongside you. 567 00:39:51.533 --> 00:39:56.795 So I want you to eat, but I want you to eat in faith. 568 00:39:57.952 --> 00:40:02.113 Because the Bible says if you proclaim the Lord, you proclaim the Lord's death till he comes. 569 00:40:02.413 --> 00:40:05.574 That means you are proclaiming all of the things that are supposed to happen. 570 00:40:06.174 --> 00:40:06.974 Look at your life. 571 00:40:07.134 --> 00:40:13.995 Anything that is not congruent with the blessings that belong to you through the cross, you need to address it with the Lord in prayer by faith. 572 00:40:15.496 --> 00:40:21.797 God, you died so that I would have finances, so that I would have peace of mind, so that I would have healing in my body. 573 00:40:25.338 --> 00:40:25.918 I don't see it. 574 00:40:27.046 --> 00:40:27.446 I'm broke. 575 00:40:27.506 --> 00:40:28.227 My body hurts. 576 00:40:31.028 --> 00:40:31.809 Eat to your health. 577 00:40:32.149 --> 00:40:32.929 Eat to your wealth. 578 00:40:33.870 --> 00:40:35.851 Eat in faith, believing that he's with you. 579 00:40:35.951 --> 00:40:36.311 Amen? 580 00:40:37.532 --> 00:40:42.615 Drink to the forgiveness of your sins, for his blood has been shed abroad for the world. 581 00:40:43.995 --> 00:40:44.776 Eat and drink, saints. 582 00:40:56.868 --> 00:41:03.453 Before we unleash the worship team, we're gonna receive our weekly tithes and offerings. 583 00:41:05.655 --> 00:41:17.625 And with the same spirit that we were gonna sing of worship in, the same spirit that we worshiped as we sat under the word of God, I want you to give in faith with that same spirit of worship because that's what giving is. 584 00:41:19.226 --> 00:41:21.088 It's not you thinking about an organization. 585 00:41:21.128 --> 00:41:22.629 It's not you thinking about a need. 586 00:41:22.909 --> 00:41:24.931 It's about you doing what we did just now 587 00:41:25.627 --> 00:41:29.248 In communion, you looking in faith and acting. 588 00:41:31.448 --> 00:41:33.369 I count the Lord as worthy of all things. 589 00:41:33.409 --> 00:41:38.169 I'm going to do as the scripture says because it says it is more blessed to give than to receive. 590 00:41:39.430 --> 00:41:40.510 And I'm going to honor God. 591 00:41:43.531 --> 00:41:44.931 And watch what he does with that. 592 00:41:48.531 --> 00:41:51.012 All I can ask is that you would give as worship. 593 00:41:52.869 --> 00:41:53.309 Amen. 594 00:41:54.750 --> 00:41:55.651 Stand to your feet. 595 00:41:55.691 --> 00:42:00.413 And if any of you want to receive ministry through the laying on of hands, you come to the front. 596 00:42:05.736 --> 00:42:07.117 But have a tremendous week. 597 00:42:07.857 --> 00:42:10.979 If you've never been baptized, make sure to sign up for water baptisms. 598 00:42:12.419 --> 00:42:13.880 Sign up for child dedication. 599 00:42:16.642 --> 00:42:20.844 And take the time to invite God in so that you can walk in the spirit this week. 600 00:42:22.098 --> 00:42:26.162 Because I don't want you to get all jazzed up on a Sunday morning and then be dry all week. 601 00:42:29.306 --> 00:42:33.590 Be full of God in every single area of your life. 602 00:42:33.951 --> 00:42:34.972 Receive. 603 00:42:38.295 --> 00:42:39.116 In Jesus name. 604 00:42:40.638 --> 00:42:41.459 Be blessed church. 605 00:42:43.255 --> 00:42:45.437 This is the City Light Church podcast. 606 00:42:45.837 --> 00:42:55.143 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. 607 00:42:55.464 --> 00:42:58.186 That's citylightnyc.com. 608 00:42:58.646 --> 00:43:01.688 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. 609 00:43:02.148 --> 00:43:03.670 We would love to connect with you. 610 00:43:04.590 --> 00:43:12.200 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. 611 00:43:12.981 --> 00:43:13.923 Thank you for listening. 612 00:43:14.403 --> 00:43:19.911 Make sure that you subscribe to City Light Church Podcast wherever you find your favorite podcasts worldwide.