WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.240 Your fake posts and your fake pretend life and your fakeness and all those are all your fig leaves you trying to cover up and 2 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:10.180 You're utterly wretched and naked without me so confess that 3 00:00:10.680 --> 00:00:16.600 Show me your need and then I'll meet you there so there has to be a cry Lord. I need you 4 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:17.840 I want you 5 00:00:17.840 --> 00:00:22.240 I need you more than the air that I breathe more than the food that I eat come God 6 00:00:22.240 --> 00:00:25.920 I'm nothing apart from you. You are my life. You are my everything 7 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:33.280 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's word and discover the hope and 8 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:40.880 Truth that he has for us. If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com 9 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:44.000 That's citylightnyc.com 10 00:00:44.720 --> 00:00:51.760 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds 11 00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:56.720 As you listen to today's teaching remember that you are deeply loved by God 12 00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:02.480 That you are surrounded by his grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you 13 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:09.440 Welcome to City Light Church welcome to those of you joining us online 14 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:12.800 Hallelujah 15 00:01:12.800 --> 00:01:13.920 2025 16 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:17.520 It's going to be a monumental year 17 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:25.040 2025 is going to be a year of advancement of taking new ground and 18 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:28.000 possessing the land 19 00:01:28.880 --> 00:01:33.920 If you've been around City Light for a while you know that I don't declare this at the start of every new year 20 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.400 I'm positive at the start of every new year 21 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:40.720 I have a faith goal at the start of every new year, but this is different 22 00:01:40.800 --> 00:01:46.320 This is something that I feel like the Lord spoke directly to me and many of my friends and ministry 23 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:51.280 They sense the same exact thing and also he's doing it already 24 00:01:51.360 --> 00:01:54.960 It's almost like he started preheating the oven in October, November 25 00:01:56.080 --> 00:02:01.440 And now it's going to be the bake off in 2025. It's going to be incredible. It's not going to be a 350 26 00:02:01.440 --> 00:02:03.440 That thing's going right up to 600 27 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:07.120 It is going to be listen. It is going to be a year 28 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:13.920 Where those things that that have been like invisible obstacles in front of you where the Lord is going to tear them down 29 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:23.600 A year where years will happen in weeks and months will happen in days a year of tremendous advancement 30 00:02:25.440 --> 00:02:30.560 In order for us to realize that because I'm describing a supernatural year 31 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:33.680 In order for us to realize that 32 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:40.960 We have to be a supernatural people and we have to be a people that are familiar with the supernatural 33 00:02:41.040 --> 00:02:46.080 Amen and even when I say that word supernatural for some that has a negative connotation 34 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:48.160 who 35 00:02:48.160 --> 00:02:50.000 Supernatural. I say supernatural 36 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:56.000 So it has a negative connotation people think of some history channel documentary that we're there discussing poltergeist activity 37 00:02:57.760 --> 00:03:02.400 God is supernatural. He's not natural. He's above. He's supernatural 38 00:03:03.920 --> 00:03:06.720 I don't want a natural life. I want a supernatural life 39 00:03:06.880 --> 00:03:09.840 So I have to know the God of the supernatural 40 00:03:10.640 --> 00:03:12.880 And the way we do that is through the Holy Spirit 41 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:15.520 So the Holy Spirit 42 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:20.320 Has to be our friend now from his side. He is but many of us we just don't know him in that way 43 00:03:21.440 --> 00:03:23.200 There's a scary 44 00:03:23.200 --> 00:03:24.880 Statue, you know, I don't know you know stats 45 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:27.840 Stats are made up oh 46 00:03:28.320 --> 00:03:32.320 Like 85% of all stats are made up at least 50% of the time 47 00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:35.200 But 48 00:03:35.200 --> 00:03:43.680 I've heard it and it resonates and it goes something like this that if the Holy Spirit were to leave and go back to have a 90% of the Church would keep functioning business as usual 49 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:46.400 And that resonates with me. I'm like, yeah 50 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:52.960 Because they got their programs. It's like Disneyland but church style you got your coffee and lasers or fog machine 51 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:59.360 You got the little system pro you get the people you plug them in and they just and the Holy Spirit can leave and it just keeps on running 52 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:04.400 If the Holy Spirit left city light I'd be in the corner in the fetal position going help me help me take me too 53 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:07.040 I don't know what to do next. We need the Holy Spirit 54 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:13.200 But it's sad that some people wouldn't recognize the Holy Spirit if he wrote it in on a city bike and the loops around the sanctuary 55 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.080 You got to know him 56 00:04:16.640 --> 00:04:18.800 He's not God's active force on earth 57 00:04:19.760 --> 00:04:21.520 And he's not a fire 58 00:04:21.520 --> 00:04:25.120 He's not a wind those assembles of him. He's a person 59 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:31.600 He is God. He is God Almighty. The Holy Spirit is as much God as Jesus is God 60 00:04:31.840 --> 00:04:39.600 That's why the Holy Spirit is known as the Spirit of Jesus or the Spirit of Christ the Holy Spirit is as much God as the Father is God 61 00:04:40.960 --> 00:04:42.160 Hallelujah 62 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:48.240 That's why the angel told Mary that she would be found with child of the Holy Spirit 63 00:04:48.320 --> 00:04:53.760 Oh, I thought the Father was Jesus's father. Yes. Well, you just said the Holy Spirit now a quarter of the Scripture and the answer is still yes 64 00:04:55.920 --> 00:05:01.040 Jesus was a child of the Holy Spirit. It's his spirit. We have to know him 65 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:04.800 I'm after you 66 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:07.600 I want you to have the best year of your life 67 00:05:08.640 --> 00:05:11.680 But that's not going to happen if you have a frontal obe in Christianity 68 00:05:13.440 --> 00:05:16.960 If you have a merely intellectual Christianity 69 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:22.000 You won't have a supernatural year because everything's got to fit into your neat little paradigm 70 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:24.880 And God wants to take that paradigm and blow it away 71 00:05:25.760 --> 00:05:27.760 Yeah 72 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:30.560 He's the Holy Spirit 73 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:32.560 He's not the Holy brain 74 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:37.840 The Holy Spirit will deal with you in your spirit and communicate to you in your spirit 75 00:05:38.400 --> 00:05:41.600 And so we must be a spiritual people open to spiritual things 76 00:05:42.640 --> 00:05:44.640 In fellowship with the Holy Spirit 77 00:05:45.200 --> 00:05:47.040 Now I'm grateful 78 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:52.880 For my history with the Lord in that I started off that way in 1992 when I got saved 79 00:05:53.440 --> 00:05:55.440 I didn't I wasn't saved 80 00:05:55.840 --> 00:05:59.280 By a miracle in some religious church because people can't get saved in religious churches 81 00:05:59.280 --> 00:06:01.520 But man, it's like a miracle when you hear their story 82 00:06:02.080 --> 00:06:07.440 They're like I was told this and I was told that and the Lord navigated them through this maze of religiosity 83 00:06:07.520 --> 00:06:09.200 And they still found him that's a miracle 84 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:12.480 But I was saved in a church that was filled with the Holy Spirit 85 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:16.000 Why they believed in the power of the Holy Spirit. I visited that church came late 86 00:06:16.960 --> 00:06:18.960 I'm just kidding 87 00:06:18.960 --> 00:06:22.320 You're so early for second service you guys were like the first ones here 88 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:28.640 They came in the first third of the first service just to have front row seats and be on time for second service 89 00:06:29.200 --> 00:06:31.200 That that's the kind of hunger I'm talking about 90 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:38.960 A 16 years old I'm invited to this church 91 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:46.640 I go to the church I show up like 10 minutes before the service is over 92 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:52.400 What I see is wild to me people were spinning around dancing just happy praising God 93 00:06:52.400 --> 00:06:57.040 But for me and my my background it just seemed like the mother ship had landed 94 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:01.600 And then a fella comes up and he shakes my hand 95 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:05.520 Great guy we later became great friends 96 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:09.280 But I didn't know him when he shook my hand he didn't want to do these things he took my hand and went 97 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:16.000 Like he was both sucking out my soul and reading it at the same time 98 00:07:16.880 --> 00:07:20.960 Do you know that we can take the spook out of things like we get to choose how weird we are 99 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:25.840 I'm just saying he's less weird now just as powerful but less weird 100 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:30.880 You know you you actually get like I can speak in tongues right now 101 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:36.160 And then I'd be weird I can go Easter a lot of custom on tour to do but I can also go 102 00:07:42.960 --> 00:07:44.960 Yeah 103 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:49.040 You get to decide right 104 00:07:50.320 --> 00:07:53.600 You can pray for someone like with a normal face gently 105 00:07:54.400 --> 00:07:56.400 Or you can look like a runaway steam train 106 00:07:56.640 --> 00:07:58.640 Oh 107 00:07:58.640 --> 00:08:00.560 And just freak someone out for no reason 108 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:03.360 Just being weird for the sake of being weird 109 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:07.120 Anyway, he should take my hand 110 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.720 I was already I'm on guard as it is now I'm going all great 111 00:08:13.760 --> 00:08:17.200 What cult have they brought me into and how weird is this going to get 112 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:19.280 Is this brother can I talk to you? 113 00:08:20.080 --> 00:08:23.120 I said yeah, he said meet me at the Burger King across the street 114 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:25.920 I'll go good it's not going to be in this place it'll be safe in public 115 00:08:26.400 --> 00:08:28.400 I go to the Burger King across the street 116 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:32.160 And he shares several things with me. He shares the gospel 117 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:36.080 He shares just general 118 00:08:36.400 --> 00:08:40.480 General stories about God and then he starts talking to me about my life 119 00:08:41.520 --> 00:08:45.920 Things that he couldn't have possibly known things that my friend who brought me to church didn't know things 120 00:08:45.920 --> 00:08:49.120 That nobody really knew it wasn't so so specific 121 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:54.480 But it was specific enough that it really got my attention. He was operating in the gifts of the Holy Spirit 122 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:57.440 And as he spoke these things 123 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:06.240 The only way I can describe it is I I felt what he was saying like stuff started moving and shifting inside of me 124 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:11.280 I just felt I felt like I was touching the spiritual realm 125 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:15.040 Through this and meeting with him through him ministering 126 00:09:15.920 --> 00:09:17.920 To me and then he said 127 00:09:18.400 --> 00:09:20.400 Repeat after me 128 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:22.400 And he said say the blood of Jesus 129 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:26.960 And I actually I was so silly and I'm 16 and I have no scripture in me at all 130 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:32.720 I thought is he mocking the Lord is he mocking the I was keep waiting for the trick because he was so kind and so nice 131 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:34.640 I mean nobody's this kind nobody's this nice 132 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:37.680 You know when he's gonna ask me for my money. How's he gonna trick me 133 00:09:38.560 --> 00:09:43.760 Said say the blood of Jesus and I thought is he mocking the cross but really no when you say the blood of Jesus 134 00:09:43.760 --> 00:09:45.280 It's a declaration 135 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:49.600 It's a declaration to every entity in the spirit realm and the natural realm that you 136 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:55.040 Have been purchased you no longer are your own you belong to the Lord all of your sins are taken away 137 00:09:55.280 --> 00:10:00.800 And you your god's own special people your his he's causing his peculiar possession 138 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:03.360 I'm glad the scripture called me peculiar 139 00:10:06.160 --> 00:10:09.600 So he says say the blood of Jesus and I say it and it's a say it again 140 00:10:10.160 --> 00:10:12.880 And I say it again and he says now this time say with all your heart 141 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:19.200 So the third time I just I go the blood of Jesus and when I said it that third time 142 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:22.880 I felt like something snap over me and I got old woozy 143 00:10:23.280 --> 00:10:25.280 oh 144 00:10:25.280 --> 00:10:27.680 And I look up and I just see him 145 00:10:27.680 --> 00:10:31.600 Smiling I had already cried my gut side as he was just sharing things about my life 146 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:37.760 I cried and I cried and like not normal crying I cried for over an hour this whole encounter was three hours long 147 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:41.520 I cried for over an hour. I went I'll never forget 148 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:45.120 I went through a whole canister of those Burger King napkins 149 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:50.080 You know the flimsy cheap napkins, but still a whole canister to where he had to reach over to the other table 150 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:53.840 Get another one of those can't tell you don't have those canisters anymore now you got to go see 151 00:10:54.640 --> 00:11:00.720 Stose green people you got to go all they're trying to limit because then you boy-ons would come in and use up a whole canister 152 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:06.240 Now you got to go all the way to the front you know and they give you two napkins and can I get some ketchup with that? 153 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:08.240 Yeah, here's one 154 00:11:08.400 --> 00:11:10.400 Give it to me like it's the 90s 155 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:21.200 So I look up after saying the blood of Jesus I I don't even know what's happening 156 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:24.560 I'd never encountered anything spiritual all I knew was something was happening 157 00:11:24.560 --> 00:11:29.360 I felt different I felt lighter I felt freer I opened my eyes and it goes how do you feel? 158 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:33.680 I go really really good and he says I just saw two spirits fly off of your head 159 00:11:33.760 --> 00:11:38.160 I believed him and I do believe him to this day because I know something happened in me 160 00:11:38.160 --> 00:11:41.200 And the fruit of that is evidence this day because several months later 161 00:11:41.760 --> 00:11:46.960 I went back to that church and made a decision to give my life to Jesus 162 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:52.000 Hallelujah now this was a church that believed in 163 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:56.800 not just 164 00:11:56.800 --> 00:11:58.800 praying Jesus into your heart 165 00:11:59.680 --> 00:12:02.480 Which by the way is really found nowhere in the scriptures 166 00:12:02.640 --> 00:12:07.680 We we cheapen the gospel and we present it as we'll just say this little prayer and pray Jesus into your heart 167 00:12:07.680 --> 00:12:11.760 That's not that's not the gospel the gospel is give your whole life to Jesus 168 00:12:12.160 --> 00:12:19.040 surrender to him and trust in him for his righteousness and now his righteousness is on you 169 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:23.920 And when God the Father looks at you he sees you without any spot or speckle of sin 170 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:27.360 Just as clean just as righteous as Jesus. Amen 171 00:12:28.880 --> 00:12:30.320 Well when you 172 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:33.600 Got saved when you got born again when you receive Jesus 173 00:12:34.160 --> 00:12:38.320 They then baptized you right then in the service. He was an old school church service 174 00:12:38.400 --> 00:12:40.560 This is where like three to four hours long 175 00:12:40.560 --> 00:12:44.720 So you give your life to Jesus and then there's a changing room upstairs with fresh clothes 176 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:48.000 You put on the fresh clothes and you get water baptized you think they're done no 177 00:12:48.400 --> 00:12:53.680 They're doing it book of act style after you get baptized you put you put on your your clothes 178 00:12:53.680 --> 00:12:57.360 You came in with and then they pray with you for the baptism in the Holy Spirit 179 00:12:58.160 --> 00:12:59.840 They weren't weird 180 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:01.920 churches who don't do it that way are weird 181 00:13:01.920 --> 00:13:04.240 That's actually the book of acts model 182 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:07.200 We split up the whole salvation package into three parts 183 00:13:07.760 --> 00:13:12.480 Get saved then maybe if you filled out the connection card and you really feel it 184 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:17.280 I don't feel to get baptized who cares how you feel the words says get baptized 185 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:22.720 I feel I'm waiting for a sign you got like 20 signs and the new testament telling you to get baptized 186 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:24.960 And what are you waiting for sparkles in the air 187 00:13:25.520 --> 00:13:29.680 Traffic lights to go backwards what the word is telling you do it 188 00:13:32.640 --> 00:13:37.920 So you get saved you get baptized in water and then there's a third part that is essential that is key 189 00:13:38.880 --> 00:13:44.960 That many churches just leave it open for people to stumble upon and that's the baptism in the Holy Spirit 190 00:13:45.760 --> 00:13:47.920 We don't leave it open for people to stumble upon 191 00:13:48.880 --> 00:13:53.360 You come into our sanctuary the first books you're greeted with mini books are about this subject 192 00:13:53.760 --> 00:13:59.760 We have a ministry team at the end of every service who will lead you into the baptism of the Holy Spirit if you desire 193 00:14:00.560 --> 00:14:05.760 We devote several services a year where the whole service is devoted to people getting baptized in the Holy Spirit 194 00:14:06.160 --> 00:14:13.520 The baptism in the Holy Spirit just like baptism in waters you're immersed in water now you're immersed in the Holy Spirit 195 00:14:14.560 --> 00:14:20.400 And he fills you the words or the terms baptized in the Holy Spirit filled with the Holy Spirit 196 00:14:20.560 --> 00:14:24.560 Receive the Holy Spirit those are all interchangeable terms you'll find in the book of Acts 197 00:14:24.880 --> 00:14:28.080 And you'll find that every time someone's baptized in the Holy Spirit 198 00:14:28.640 --> 00:14:30.640 something happens 199 00:14:30.640 --> 00:14:32.640 There actually is a 200 00:14:32.800 --> 00:14:34.800 physical evidence 201 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:36.960 A response call it a 202 00:14:37.760 --> 00:14:39.760 manifestation 203 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:45.920 And the evidence the physical response the manifestation is speaking in other languages 204 00:14:46.640 --> 00:14:52.240 speaking in tongues a language you never heard of nobody ever taught you you didn't go to school to learn you 205 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:54.960 supernaturally speak it it's biblical 206 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:00.800 Jesus prophesied it in Mark 16 he said those that believe in me they'll speak in new tongues 207 00:15:00.800 --> 00:15:06.000 It didn't mean they're they're going to get dualingo and learn because they're going to be missionaries supernaturally 208 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:08.720 You'll speak in tongues 209 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:12.080 So I'm 16 years old I've been baptized about half an hour 210 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:18.800 But on my dry clothes they pray for me to receive the Holy Spirit 211 00:15:18.800 --> 00:15:24.400 I remember speaking in over three definitely least three specific languages. I just took off 212 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:30.960 Brain and other tongues as I was filled with the Holy Spirit. I had a supernatural experience and that I'd 213 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:34.800 Grateful for because that's how my journey with the Lord began 214 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:40.720 Hallelujah and it was all a big setup because two weeks later he called me into ministry 215 00:15:41.040 --> 00:15:44.560 That wasn't fulfilled until a decade later, but when I was 16 216 00:15:44.800 --> 00:15:49.680 It's the last thing I was ever thinking about I've never thought about God never thought about Jesus the last thing 217 00:15:49.680 --> 00:15:51.440 I'd be thinking about was being in ministry 218 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:54.960 When I when you even mentioned ministry the only thing I would think of was some TV 219 00:15:55.840 --> 00:16:01.440 But like 80s TV like like like the the priest and little house on the prairie I joke about the little house on the prayer 220 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:03.440 I used to watch little house on the prayer 221 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:07.200 The priest you know there they're always like these Matt 222 00:16:07.520 --> 00:16:09.520 Um 223 00:16:09.520 --> 00:16:11.520 Just emasculated guys 224 00:16:12.400 --> 00:16:15.360 The week where the TV preachers are never strong 225 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:18.240 They're never dangerous 226 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:22.160 Preacher should be dangerous. You know why because Jesus was dangerous 227 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:28.080 Yeah, you don't kill someone after just three years of ministry if they're not dangerous 228 00:16:28.400 --> 00:16:30.400 Jesus was the opposite of harmless 229 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:32.400 Hallelujah 230 00:16:32.400 --> 00:16:34.400 Anyway, it's another story that's 231 00:16:38.160 --> 00:16:40.160 He calls me into ministry 232 00:16:40.880 --> 00:16:44.400 Then two years later. I'm just growing in the things of God 233 00:16:46.800 --> 00:16:53.120 First two years were rough and tough because you know when you first get saved Satan wants to he wants to cut you off 234 00:16:53.760 --> 00:17:01.920 He's terrified of a person who's just gotten saved and I dare say that the biggest attack you you'll ever have is your first year or two of 235 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:03.600 Of walking with the Lord 236 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:07.680 It's because Satan's a pervert. He has no shame. He you see looking throughout the scriptures 237 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:10.320 He doesn't mind killing babies loves killing babies actually 238 00:17:10.800 --> 00:17:14.080 I wanted to kill Moses as a baby. I wanted to kill Jesus as a baby 239 00:17:14.800 --> 00:17:16.000 He wants to 240 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:19.840 Crush that acorn before it becomes a giant oak tree. So he's raging 241 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:25.040 Thank God by the mercy of God and good people around me. I made it through now. I'm 18 242 00:17:25.600 --> 00:17:28.640 I'm going out to college in Long Island at Stony Brook University 243 00:17:29.040 --> 00:17:32.880 It's November of 1994. Don't do the math. I'll be 49 next week 244 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:39.600 And I'm told that there is a man coming a man of God 245 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:45.120 Who's most used powerfully by the Holy Spirit this man was only 33 years old at the time 246 00:17:45.360 --> 00:17:50.000 He would a few years later become my pastor and I studied under him and went to the Bible school that he founded 247 00:17:50.800 --> 00:17:53.760 It was the largest church in Long Island that he was visiting who was doing a week 248 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:57.600 Two services a day each service was four to five hours 249 00:17:59.600 --> 00:18:02.000 Yeah, we like the quick version, you know, we want 250 00:18:03.040 --> 00:18:05.200 snappy express 251 00:18:05.280 --> 00:18:09.040 One hour dry cleaning lord will come in and come out and change my whole life 252 00:18:09.600 --> 00:18:14.640 But just do it real quickly because I get bored easy because I fried my dopamine receptors from too much scrolling 253 00:18:20.320 --> 00:18:22.320 So I go to those services 254 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:24.960 He's talking about the Holy Spirit 255 00:18:25.040 --> 00:18:27.040 He's talking about the Holy Spirit 256 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:31.200 And fellowship with the Holy Spirit. He's talking about the anointing 257 00:18:32.080 --> 00:18:37.520 And it's the first time I really heard any preaching on the anointing which by the way that's strange 258 00:18:39.760 --> 00:18:45.680 Jesus his last name isn't Christ. Did you know that if you try to look him up online or on the phone book 259 00:18:46.320 --> 00:18:49.760 You don't look under sea for Christ. That's actually his title 260 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:52.880 Christos. It means the anointed one 261 00:18:53.840 --> 00:18:57.040 It's Jesus the anointed one because Jesus 262 00:18:57.840 --> 00:19:00.240 Everything he did he did by the anointing 263 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:06.240 He had a very touchy ministry laying hands on people he was transmitting the anointing 264 00:19:08.080 --> 00:19:12.800 They pressed in just to get some of that anointing. What is the anointing? It's the good stuff 265 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:17.440 It's the presence of God the manifest presence of God 266 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:24.400 The active dynamic presence of God because people say God is God is everywhere. Yeah, but not in his anointing 267 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:28.160 You can say God is omnipresent, but he's not everywhere the same 268 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:32.160 He was everywhere in Jerusalem in Acts chapter two, but in up a room. That was different 269 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:34.720 That's where the anointing was 270 00:19:35.120 --> 00:19:42.640 That's why you can be sitting next to someone and you're like under a waterfall of the anointing and they can be totally thinking about what they're gonna get for lunch 271 00:19:43.360 --> 00:19:48.000 One is experiencing the manifest presence of God one is thinking of Chick-fil-A 272 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:51.200 In the omnipresence of God 273 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:00.960 So that week changed me 274 00:20:02.320 --> 00:20:04.320 I had experienced a fresh touch from God 275 00:20:05.360 --> 00:20:12.240 I experienced revival and what revival does is it it softens your heart and it makes you susceptible to the things of God 276 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:18.080 And there is when you're in a spirit of revival there's no pressing into God's presence 277 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:20.880 You just go Jesus and he's right there 278 00:20:21.600 --> 00:20:24.080 You don't have to work yourself up to anything you don't have to 279 00:20:25.280 --> 00:20:27.520 struggle the striving is taken away 280 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:31.280 And that's how he really he won me over and 281 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:35.440 His spirit always comes with his love because he is love 282 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:41.840 And I started to experience healing. I noticed that the more I was under the anointing the more I changed 283 00:20:42.800 --> 00:20:47.360 And I became very aware as he was changing me as I was experiencing the touch from heaven 284 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:52.400 I became very aware of my own brokenness and I realized ah 285 00:20:53.520 --> 00:20:56.480 I messed up. I got a lot of baggage 286 00:21:01.520 --> 00:21:07.920 I've got insecurities I got anxieties and fears and complexes and all this stuff that 287 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:11.280 I just picked up by being alive in this fallen world 288 00:21:12.800 --> 00:21:18.320 And I noticed whenever I'd be with the Lord that I would have less of that and that he was working on you know 289 00:21:18.320 --> 00:21:20.560 The Lord will do when you what no therapist can ever do 290 00:21:21.520 --> 00:21:27.440 The Lord will can heal years and years of trauma of abuse. That's what his anointing is for in fact 291 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:29.440 Let's look at Isaiah 61 292 00:21:29.600 --> 00:21:32.320 This is Jesus's number one sermon 293 00:21:33.520 --> 00:21:37.520 We know this from the gospels because it says Jesus as was his custom 294 00:21:37.840 --> 00:21:43.040 He went into the synagogue and he asked for the book the scroll of the prophet Isaiah 295 00:21:43.440 --> 00:21:47.200 And he would read look at Luke chapter four. He reads from Isaiah 61 296 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:51.120 Which is really awesome because he's reading a scripture about himself 297 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:56.160 And because he knew some of his listeners were too dull of hearing they wouldn't figure that out 298 00:21:58.480 --> 00:22:03.760 He said this day the scripture is fulfilled in your ears. I'm the guy that that's talking about 299 00:22:04.560 --> 00:22:11.440 He said the spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me 300 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:15.600 And then there's the description about what the anointing does 301 00:22:18.320 --> 00:22:21.200 This is no joke actually felt right in worship 302 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:24.240 Before the second service 303 00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:29.680 Lives hang in the balance here your life hangs in the balance here 304 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:35.920 2025 can go one way or it can go an entirely different way and there's actually people 305 00:22:36.560 --> 00:22:40.560 And events that are dependent on you getting a fresh touch of God 306 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:43.360 There's people and events dependent on you 307 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:50.240 Being a friend of the holy spirit and having a god encounter you got to have a god encounters that had one when 308 00:22:50.560 --> 00:22:52.720 30 years ago have another one 309 00:22:53.360 --> 00:22:55.200 He doesn't limit you to just one 310 00:22:55.200 --> 00:23:02.400 But you got to have one anyone whoever did anything in the scriptures of any significance that had a god encounter 311 00:23:03.600 --> 00:23:10.320 Abraham had a god encounter Isaac had a god encounter Jacob had a god encounter Moses had a god encounter 312 00:23:10.560 --> 00:23:16.480 David had a god encounter hey after Moses we saw Joshua couldn't even go into the promised land until he first 313 00:23:17.520 --> 00:23:19.520 Had a god encounter 314 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:21.680 Solomon had a god encounter 315 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:22.880 You 316 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:28.160 You get to have a god encounter. Hey, it's already been purchased. It's been purchased with the blood of Jesus 317 00:23:28.320 --> 00:23:34.240 You say okay. I won't what does it require requires you being open you being hungry and asking for one 318 00:23:34.800 --> 00:23:36.800 And really being hungry 319 00:23:37.840 --> 00:23:40.720 The anointing is attracted to true hunger 320 00:23:41.840 --> 00:23:47.280 Hunger out of the heart of man and it comes in the form of God. I need you. I need you 321 00:23:47.360 --> 00:23:53.120 I'm not self-sufficient. I'm not independent. I need you. I need you more than the air that I breathe 322 00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:56.240 You know what Solomon said the touch of God's heart so much 323 00:23:56.880 --> 00:24:00.720 He said I don't know how to come in or go out unless you lead me 324 00:24:01.280 --> 00:24:04.640 He was already a prince. He was already successful. He was an adult 325 00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:08.160 And he said I don't know how to come in and out of a door 326 00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:14.080 Unless you lead me and God said I like that and then he said because you've asked for you 327 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:21.600 You haven't asked for riches or fame but you asked for wisdom now. I'm going to give you wisdom and riches and fame because you humbled yourself so much 328 00:24:21.600 --> 00:24:28.480 It's that humble lord. I need you cry coming to my life that activates the power of God. You see it all throughout the gospels 329 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:35.840 Hallelujah. I want your 2025 to be an overflow year a supernatural year 330 00:24:36.560 --> 00:24:40.240 But it's not going to be a supernatural year if you're closed off to the supernatural 331 00:24:44.480 --> 00:24:50.480 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor 332 00:24:51.040 --> 00:24:53.680 And then I came across this and I had a broken heart 333 00:24:55.120 --> 00:24:57.120 I knew it was but I 334 00:24:57.120 --> 00:25:01.920 I don't know. I just knew I was messed up whenever I would check inside. Oh, it's like a horror show 335 00:25:02.800 --> 00:25:06.560 And I didn't really even have that bad of a past but for me was a horror show 336 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:12.640 He has sent me to heal the broken hearted the anointing will first 337 00:25:13.600 --> 00:25:19.440 Patch you up so you stop sabotaging yourself and getting in your own way 338 00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:26.240 It's very hard to make good advance healthy advancements in life when you're just a walking wound 339 00:25:27.760 --> 00:25:36.160 The anointing will heal the broken hearted the anointing is to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to those who are bound verse two 340 00:25:37.120 --> 00:25:43.440 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God to comfort all who mourn 341 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:48.000 To console those who mourn in Zion to give them 342 00:25:48.800 --> 00:25:50.560 beauty 343 00:25:50.560 --> 00:25:55.200 For ashes the Lord has a wonderful divine exchange program 344 00:25:55.520 --> 00:26:00.560 He takes our trash our crud our ashes and he gives us beauty by the anointing 345 00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:04.960 There is nothing that you're facing right now that more of God's anointing can't solve 346 00:26:06.320 --> 00:26:08.320 Hallelujah 347 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:12.160 Hallelujah 348 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:24.960 You can go to so many churches and never even hear the word of anoint never even hear the word anointing 349 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:28.240 And go for years 350 00:26:29.040 --> 00:26:31.040 That's criminal 351 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:34.000 Because it was Jesus number one subject 352 00:26:35.280 --> 00:26:37.280 It was in his last name 353 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:44.560 In fact to be a Christian it means little Christ you're a little anointed one 354 00:26:46.800 --> 00:26:48.800 Hallelujah 355 00:26:49.040 --> 00:26:52.080 In fact when that new car comes in that's what the license plate will say 356 00:26:53.360 --> 00:26:55.360 I will 357 00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:58.000 Depends which one they let me have 358 00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:02.800 It'll be anointed or it can be an N 359 00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:05.200 Ointed one 360 00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:07.440 I've given this some thought I didn't just say that right now 361 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:10.960 I've given this some thought 362 00:27:16.640 --> 00:27:22.480 I hope I hope nobody skids nobody skids driving behind me in that anointed vehicle 363 00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:35.040 To give them beauty for ashes the oil of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness 364 00:27:35.360 --> 00:27:40.960 That they may be called trees of righteousness the planting of the Lord that he may be glorified 365 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:43.200 This is all the results of the anointing 366 00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:46.000 so 367 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:48.880 I'm 18 for the first time. I'm reading Isaiah 61 368 00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:53.840 I sense the Lord coming to me. I sense him changing me. I sense him healing me 369 00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:58.080 And I'm falling in love with him. I went from loving God to being in love with him 370 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:07.520 And two years later I go to a church in Toronto 371 00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:14.000 This church had four million visitors in several years in the mid 90s 372 00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:19.040 It was a little church at the end of the airport runway in Toronto 373 00:28:19.600 --> 00:28:23.760 A little church of several hundred people that when revival hit them quickly 374 00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:29.360 Outgrew that and they bought a giant warehouse and became a church. I became a church turned it into a church 375 00:28:31.760 --> 00:28:35.200 The pastor of that church is going to be with us next weekend 376 00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:40.080 Friday night Saturday night and Sunday morning. Do not miss any of those services 377 00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:42.960 a mighty man of God 378 00:28:43.360 --> 00:28:45.360 I actually didn't ask him to come 379 00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:49.920 You'd mention I didn't he said I want to minister and bless your people 380 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:55.360 I don't think that's coincidental at the start of 2025 when 381 00:28:55.920 --> 00:28:59.360 Somebody of that caliber says I want to minister. I want to bless your people 382 00:28:59.520 --> 00:29:07.520 He's coming here at 83 years old for no other reason than to see you go further in God and get positioned right for 2025 383 00:29:10.560 --> 00:29:12.560 So there is an outpouring 384 00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:14.720 In this church 385 00:29:15.520 --> 00:29:22.480 Started January 20th in 1994. I'm visiting it in January of 1996 just two years later 386 00:29:23.280 --> 00:29:26.160 And any given night they have 15 nations in the service 387 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:31.120 They all have headsets. I know today that might not look so cool, but back in the mid 90s 388 00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:33.840 Everybody had translation headsets those from another nation 389 00:29:33.840 --> 00:29:37.920 They could you look like the United Nations and people other translators speaking so people could understand 390 00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:46.560 But that's not the good part the good part is the presence of God was there in a way that I had never seen before or experienced before 391 00:29:46.800 --> 00:29:51.120 When you walked into the church it was like walking into a bubble of heaven 392 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:53.360 It just 393 00:29:53.360 --> 00:29:56.480 felt like an open heaven you felt alive and you I mean 394 00:29:57.120 --> 00:29:59.600 People would walk in and instantly start weeping 395 00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:06.080 Because of the presence of God in fact even before you walked in there was some people that would be on all force 396 00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:09.040 Crawling into the building because of the glory of God 397 00:30:09.760 --> 00:30:12.400 This is in January in Toronto. It's like minus 10 398 00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:16.720 Hallelujah 399 00:30:17.280 --> 00:30:23.120 And I'm hungry. I know the anointing is the good stuff and I want more and I want more Jesus and more the Holy Spirit 400 00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:26.400 So that first night I go 401 00:30:27.520 --> 00:30:30.240 I go to the service and it's wonderful. It's awesome 402 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:36.720 And then announced after the service if you want prayer there's a ministry team that will pray for you 403 00:30:37.520 --> 00:30:39.520 But I'm one definitely one prayer 404 00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:43.360 But I didn't know about this ministry team. I've never seen that model before 405 00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:48.800 If ever I visited a church it was in my own church. I wanted the senior pastor to pray for me 406 00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:52.400 That's not right. It's just how I was 407 00:30:53.120 --> 00:30:58.480 I just figured this guy seems like he knows more about what he's talking about than everyone else. I want that guy 408 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:04.400 And I had this ministry team which communicated something that it wasn't about the person 409 00:31:05.040 --> 00:31:07.040 It was about God 410 00:31:07.040 --> 00:31:09.040 It was a bug out God using anyone 411 00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:12.960 So I stood on this line and there was just this 412 00:31:13.520 --> 00:31:18.160 Regular people on the ministry team and the guy with his wife that came up to me look like a hitchhiker 413 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:20.400 He had a hiking backpack on 414 00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:24.720 Like with the metal frame and everything like he had three bags stacked up on top of each other 415 00:31:25.360 --> 00:31:30.720 But they all seem to glow with this love and peace like otherworldly creatures like they had been in that anointing for so long 416 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:36.880 I just remember staring and I'm going they look different they move different these people are in the holy presence all the time 417 00:31:37.840 --> 00:31:43.600 And they come up to me on the first thing I noticed was they weren't yelling because I came from a church where everything was a yell 418 00:31:45.840 --> 00:31:47.840 If you weren't shouting 419 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:49.840 You weren't anointed 420 00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:55.920 Anointing was a factor of decibel level they weren't they were real quiet in fact it was the opposite and then 421 00:31:57.040 --> 00:32:04.080 Church I was a part of really really when they laid hands on you they lay their whole hand on you and their elbow and their shoulder with a hip movement 422 00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:08.640 They believed in the leaning on of hands not the laying on of hands. I don't like that 423 00:32:10.080 --> 00:32:12.080 In fact, if ever there's a heavy-handed 424 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:18.400 Ministry team member let us know right away so we can have a talk with them nobody should be moonwalking backwards when getting prayed for 425 00:32:20.800 --> 00:32:25.920 I want the real and you by the way you might ask what is this all about there's catchers and why would 426 00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:32.400 Why do people fall down? There's a very spiritual reason for why people fall down sometimes you're ready for the answer 427 00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:34.400 It's because they can't stand anymore 428 00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:37.680 It's that deep 429 00:32:37.760 --> 00:32:44.080 Why do people fall down they can't stand anymore? Well, I don't see that anywhere in the Bible. That's because you haven't read the Bible 430 00:32:45.040 --> 00:32:48.320 That's not my fault go read the Bible and you find it in the Bible 431 00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:55.360 You'll read in Chronicles how they dedicated the temple and the glory of God came down and says nobody was able to stand 432 00:32:55.920 --> 00:32:59.600 You'll read all the time how Jesus had to pick people up how people were lifted up 433 00:32:59.840 --> 00:33:02.960 You'll see how in the garden of Gethsemane they came to arrest Jesus 434 00:33:03.280 --> 00:33:09.440 They said where is he and he just said I am he within that he said the name of God I am and every they don't show you this in the movies 435 00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:11.840 Even in the good ones like 436 00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:13.920 Passion of the Christ they don't show this scene 437 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:19.200 But it's in the scriptures. He says I am he and all those soldiers that came to arrest him they fell down 438 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:26.160 Why they fall down because they couldn't stand anymore because when this mortal finite body touches the supernatural 439 00:33:26.800 --> 00:33:29.040 Something's going to give out and it's not going to be God 440 00:33:30.560 --> 00:33:34.960 Hallelujah so they come up to me and they're whispering they go they only put two fingers 441 00:33:35.760 --> 00:33:37.520 Towards my forehead 442 00:33:37.520 --> 00:33:42.560 Dear Jesus won't you just come and touch just touch this young man 443 00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:48.160 Just Lord and then it just more holy spirit and they didn't even touch me 444 00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:51.680 I didn't feel anything, but when they said more holy spirit I crumble I just 445 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:58.720 I didn't nicely fall back for the ushers to catch me. I just crumbled like a bag like a bag of rocks just 446 00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:01.280 Crumbled down 447 00:34:01.280 --> 00:34:06.880 I'm shaking under the power of God. I'm crying. I'm laughing. I'm crying laughing and I'm laughing crying 448 00:34:07.360 --> 00:34:09.360 There is a response 449 00:34:10.240 --> 00:34:12.240 Now if you're struggling with control 450 00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:18.720 You're gonna come to God like he's Burger King and you're gonna demand to be your way right away 451 00:34:19.680 --> 00:34:23.920 You're gonna say God I want you to touch me, but nothing weird or strange see 452 00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:27.600 I don't mind one 453 00:34:27.600 --> 00:34:31.120 Like really cinematic teardrops slowly coming down my cheek 454 00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:36.880 But I don't want to cry cry. I don't want to laugh laugh. I don't want to shake. I definitely don't want to fall down 455 00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:43.600 Can I be cool and you touch me and the divine response is no you cannot 456 00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:52.320 Nobody nobody in the scriptures was cool when Jesus touched them 457 00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:56.320 Find me a scripture where someone was cool. No 458 00:34:57.840 --> 00:35:00.720 They went walking and leaping and praising God 459 00:35:01.680 --> 00:35:03.920 Walking and leaping and praising God 460 00:35:05.600 --> 00:35:10.480 They lost their marbles when Jesus rolled into town rushing towards them because of the anointing 461 00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:16.800 He said well Jesus never acted that way true. He's God, but everyone he touched did 462 00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:19.600 Hallelujah 463 00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:23.840 So I crumbled to the ground and I feel like a fireman standing over me with a fire hose 464 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:28.320 Just dousing me like a high-pressure washer 465 00:35:28.640 --> 00:35:34.720 Just getting rid of all the debris and the cobwebs and the hurts and the pains and those things that were binding me and 466 00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:37.280 causing me to 467 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:41.200 Be miserable and feeling out of sync with God. It was all coming off 468 00:35:41.600 --> 00:35:43.920 Look, there's a picture of this in the scriptures 469 00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:49.280 When Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead. That's a type of the new birth. It's a type 470 00:35:50.240 --> 00:35:52.240 Of getting saved 471 00:35:52.240 --> 00:35:54.240 Lazarus is raised from the dead 472 00:35:54.560 --> 00:35:55.840 but 473 00:35:55.840 --> 00:35:57.840 Lazarus is still in his grave clothes 474 00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:01.760 He's mummified. So the next words Jesus says is 475 00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:03.520 Loose him 476 00:36:03.520 --> 00:36:10.000 Loose him release him and let him go. I was raised from the dead, but I wasn't loose yet. I was still 477 00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:17.680 God do something with my life. Why do I keep falling? Because your feet are all tripped up tied together 478 00:36:19.200 --> 00:36:21.680 I felt anointing coming and doing an operation on me 479 00:36:23.200 --> 00:36:25.200 Which set me really on a path 480 00:36:26.560 --> 00:36:31.840 To having an experiential Christianity that for some people when you say experiential Christianity 481 00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:35.840 They hear different things. They might hear not a word or scripture-based Christianity 482 00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:40.080 No, no, you can only have an experiential Christianity if you have a word-based 483 00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:45.600 Scriptural Christianity. Doesn't mean getting goofy getting flaky getting weird 484 00:36:46.240 --> 00:36:54.240 Some people for the first time they're hearing that you can have an experiential Christianity. What else is it? 485 00:36:55.680 --> 00:36:57.680 I didn't give my whole life for religion 486 00:36:59.680 --> 00:37:01.680 That would be the saddest story ever 487 00:37:03.680 --> 00:37:09.520 Definitely not for some frontal lobe in Christianity where I try to understand the ways of God with my intellect 488 00:37:10.240 --> 00:37:17.120 No, Paul he prayed for the Ephesians. He said I pray that you would know the love of God which can't be known 489 00:37:17.680 --> 00:37:19.920 How do you know the love of God that can't be known? 490 00:37:20.640 --> 00:37:26.720 You experience it. He said it can't be known. You look at the two different Greek words one is I pray that you would know 491 00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:31.200 Experience the love of God that cannot be known intellectually 492 00:37:32.160 --> 00:37:36.000 And that's what he wants for you because your 2025 is dependent on it 493 00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:41.680 There is a grace upon us. How many of you just by a show of hands you feel like the last full few years 494 00:37:41.680 --> 00:37:44.880 You've been like in a holding pattern of sorts like things just are 495 00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:50.240 Yeah, I have even though so much has changed for me personally still. I feel like this isn't it 496 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:57.120 But when God butters your steps things just start crack a lacking and snapping in place 497 00:37:57.440 --> 00:38:03.120 pop pop pop pop and and I'm telling you years happen in weeks and months happen in days 498 00:38:03.120 --> 00:38:05.120 You just he puts you on that accelerated lane 499 00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:09.840 Hallelujah 500 00:38:10.080 --> 00:38:16.320 Let's read Revelation. Thank you for the three people clapping. I appreciate that you're gonna have I believe a very good year. Amen 501 00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:21.440 Thank you Jesus 502 00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:25.520 There has to be a hunger and you can't be happy with where you are 503 00:38:27.200 --> 00:38:31.920 Now this this passage here became very real to me. This is Jesus addressing the church 504 00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:35.920 He addresses 505 00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:41.600 Seven different church ages in Revelation. This is the church age the wherein the leo de cnh 506 00:38:42.240 --> 00:38:44.880 And to the angel of the church of the leo de cn's right 507 00:38:45.520 --> 00:38:51.520 These things says the amen the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation of God 508 00:38:52.240 --> 00:38:55.360 I know your works that you are neither cold nor hot 509 00:38:55.920 --> 00:38:57.920 I could wish you were cold or hot 510 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:03.360 So then because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot. I will vomit you out of my mouth 511 00:39:04.160 --> 00:39:06.160 Well, what does it mean to be lukewarm? 512 00:39:07.120 --> 00:39:09.120 Well, he defines it in the next verse 513 00:39:10.080 --> 00:39:16.560 Because you say you say I am rich have become wealthy and have need of nothing 514 00:39:17.120 --> 00:39:19.120 That's a very dangerous place to be 515 00:39:20.720 --> 00:39:22.720 To be independent 516 00:39:23.120 --> 00:39:26.320 Self-sufficient and I'm really raging against 517 00:39:27.040 --> 00:39:31.120 Obviously the way mankind and humanity is since day one which is proud 518 00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:33.360 But especially against the current culture 519 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:37.040 That's all about empowerment this and just 520 00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:44.000 Who are you who I'm high nothing apart from Jesus nothing 521 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:51.680 And that kind of humility that kind of desperation that kind of hunger is like a magnet for the Holy Spirit 522 00:39:51.680 --> 00:39:53.920 When you get to the place where you can say like Solomon 523 00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:58.000 I am not all that far from it put the mask down 524 00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:03.360 Drop it you're only hurting yourself and you're not even fooling anyone 525 00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:09.840 I don't know who that was for but that was for somebody. I yelled at you in love 526 00:40:12.160 --> 00:40:14.160 The mask has to fall 527 00:40:16.240 --> 00:40:18.480 Because men people are professional hiders 528 00:40:18.640 --> 00:40:24.080 What did Adam and Eve do right after they sent they hid 529 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:28.800 You ever wonder why Jesus cursed the fig tree 530 00:40:29.680 --> 00:40:33.600 Here's all these theories of seasons and I just believe he doesn't like fig trees 531 00:40:36.240 --> 00:40:41.760 He doesn't like fig because fig leaves is what man used to hide and cover themselves with is 532 00:40:42.720 --> 00:40:49.920 Those are the things that you do your fake posts and your fake pretend life and your fakeness and all those are all your fig leaves 533 00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:55.040 You're trying to cover up and you're utterly wretched and naked without me so confess that 534 00:40:55.920 --> 00:40:59.200 Show me your need and then I'll meet you there. Yes 535 00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:04.400 So there has to be a cry lord. I need you. I want you 536 00:41:04.560 --> 00:41:10.000 I need you more than the air that I breathe more than the food that I eat the water that I drink. I need you 537 00:41:10.160 --> 00:41:15.680 I need you come. God. I'm nothing apart from you. You are my life. You are my everything 538 00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:22.800 That's what causes the holy ghost to come and drop on your life a cry from your heart where you need him 539 00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:30.880 To the proud arrogant mask fig leaf wearer. They're saying oh, I'm okay. I'm rich. I've become wealthy 540 00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:34.000 I have need a nothing wake up. Don't you know 541 00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:47.520 That you are wretched miserable poor bind and naked. I counsel you to buy from your gold refine in the fire that you may be rich and white garments that you may be clothed 542 00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:54.640 That the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed and anoint your eyes with eyes south 543 00:41:55.920 --> 00:41:57.920 That you may see 544 00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:00.000 Hallelujah 545 00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:02.000 Hallelujah 546 00:42:02.720 --> 00:42:05.040 Are you ready for more of the Holy Spirit in 2025? 547 00:42:07.520 --> 00:42:09.520 Thank you Jesus 548 00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:12.320 So there 549 00:42:12.720 --> 00:42:22.240 There are hindrances to receiving from the Holy Spirit a big hindrance is religion and tradition 550 00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:33.760 You see that really evidence in the ministry of Jesus because the number one people that opposed them were the Pharisees and they were also the most religious and most traditional 551 00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:38.320 He's the one that he said you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God you should know both 552 00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:44.400 Sad is those people a lot of times people who claim to know the power of God they don't read the word 553 00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:47.200 And they're swinging from the light bulbs and get goofy 554 00:42:48.160 --> 00:42:52.720 And then there's those who are only reading the word so they don't know the power of God, but they know the scriptures 555 00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:55.760 Eat some bread and drink some wine they go great together 556 00:42:58.560 --> 00:43:05.440 Yeah both together all spirit you blow up all word you dry up 557 00:43:06.560 --> 00:43:11.040 Put the two together and you grow up and where's church on Sunday you'll show up 558 00:43:12.720 --> 00:43:14.720 And when the QR code flashes you'll pay up 559 00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:16.320 Yeah 560 00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:18.560 And when the trumpet sounds you'll go up 561 00:43:20.560 --> 00:43:22.560 Hallelujah 562 00:43:23.520 --> 00:43:25.520 Thank you lord 563 00:43:26.080 --> 00:43:29.680 Where was I in my preaching what was I just talking about 564 00:43:34.720 --> 00:43:42.160 hindrances religion and tradition the Pharisees opposed can you imagine you spend your whole life studying the scriptures 565 00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:44.800 That all have to do with the Messiah 566 00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:51.760 So you're the one who's supposed to recognize him when he comes and yet they not only didn't recognize him 567 00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:56.400 They were his primary opposition and they crucified him that is what religion and tradition is 568 00:43:56.960 --> 00:43:59.040 You know what Jesus called him white washed 569 00:43:59.040 --> 00:44:04.880 Sepulchers pretty and clean on the outside he said inside you're full of dead man's bones 570 00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:07.840 That's what religion and tradition is I hate it 571 00:44:08.640 --> 00:44:12.000 I hate it because I see how it robs people from the life of God 572 00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:15.760 He gives them the appearance of godliness, but it denies the power thereof 573 00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:20.800 And so religion will say things like well, I don't know about the Holy Spirit 574 00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:23.600 I don't know about the supernatural I've never seen that happen 575 00:44:24.240 --> 00:44:29.520 Well what you're saying is you've seen every which way the Lord moves every possible way the Lord can move you've seen it and 576 00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:32.720 It doesn't compute for you how arrogant can you be 577 00:44:33.600 --> 00:44:35.600 Well, he's never touched me that way 578 00:44:35.600 --> 00:44:39.200 So then he just doesn't touch people that way because he's never touched you that way 579 00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:41.840 Did it ever occur to you that maybe you're the one missing out? 580 00:44:43.040 --> 00:44:46.160 No, it couldn't be me. It's everyone's the whole world not me 581 00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:50.400 Hallelujah 582 00:44:51.520 --> 00:44:54.880 One of the biggest hindrances is people's need to be in control 583 00:44:56.320 --> 00:44:58.320 I want to be in control 584 00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:04.560 And you got to give up control to the Lord even in the context of getting touched from God 585 00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:07.280 When he first would come upon me, I would freeze up 586 00:45:09.680 --> 00:45:11.200 I freeze up 587 00:45:11.200 --> 00:45:15.440 And I muted I could see my brain scrambling trying to process and compute in my spirit 588 00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:19.040 I feel the Lord's it just let go just let me do a work and you just trust me 589 00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:24.400 You know, I don't want I don't want to fake it 590 00:45:24.800 --> 00:45:26.640 You know and it always comes so like 591 00:45:27.600 --> 00:45:34.000 Not just proud, but the these excuses that keep you away from the Lord come masquerading as something noble 592 00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:38.480 Like well, I don't want to I don't want to fake it. I don't want to be deceived by the devil 593 00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:44.720 Okay, so I'm putting more faith in Satan's ability to to deceive than in God's ability to bless what 594 00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:48.080 That's a hindrance 595 00:45:48.080 --> 00:45:52.160 Jesus knew about that hindrance. That's why he specifically said if you ask your father for bread 596 00:45:52.240 --> 00:45:57.600 You're gonna get bread. You're gonna get an egg. You're not gonna get a snake. You're gonna get a fish. You won't get a scorpion 597 00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:04.240 In other words when you want the Holy Spirit you'll just get Holy Spirit some other weird spirit isn't gonna sneak in there 598 00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:07.440 You have Jesus's word on that 599 00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:10.080 But people want to be in control for other reasons 600 00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:12.800 usually because of pride 601 00:46:13.120 --> 00:46:15.120 Sometimes it's just fear 602 00:46:15.120 --> 00:46:17.360 Fear of the unknown fear of crossing over 603 00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:22.720 But when you do cross over you'll realize you're more at home over there than you are here 604 00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:26.000 That's the real place 605 00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:30.320 Yeah, people come to him with a menu 606 00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:36.800 I'll receive you Lord, but in this way 607 00:46:38.640 --> 00:46:42.320 No crying no laughing no exuberant worship 608 00:46:44.080 --> 00:46:46.320 Anything you gotta let go and be willing for anything 609 00:46:47.680 --> 00:46:52.800 There's people who come up for prayer. They're so in control. It's like they're wearing cleats and then they actually brace themselves 610 00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:55.520 All right 611 00:46:55.520 --> 00:46:57.520 Pray for me 612 00:46:57.600 --> 00:46:59.600 People like that. I don't even touch. It's gonna be blessed 613 00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:05.040 I see you're so terrified. You're so terrified of falling down 614 00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:08.400 Let me not mess with you. Be blessed from afar 615 00:47:11.600 --> 00:47:13.600 Hallelujah 616 00:47:13.600 --> 00:47:15.600 Hallelujah 617 00:47:15.600 --> 00:47:17.600 Hallelujah 618 00:47:18.960 --> 00:47:20.960 Hallelujah 619 00:47:23.040 --> 00:47:25.040 Hallelujah 620 00:47:25.040 --> 00:47:27.040 Hallelujah 621 00:47:27.040 --> 00:47:30.160 Yes, some people are afraid even of speaking in tongues 622 00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:33.440 Or could it be the devil 623 00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:39.520 There's a lot of things that could be the devil you know these people who are afraid of losing control 624 00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:43.920 I remember witnessing back in college people. Oh, I don't want to lose control bro 625 00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:49.360 You just spent 48 hours partying you got drunk out of your mind 626 00:47:49.600 --> 00:47:53.360 You can't even remember the last 24 hour. You're telling me now you're afraid to lose control 627 00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:57.120 People who drop six gummies go get bottle service 628 00:47:57.520 --> 00:48:01.760 Swing from the light bulbs and party and then coming into shwale. You know, I don't want to lose control 629 00:48:02.080 --> 00:48:04.080 Your life is out of control as it is 630 00:48:05.200 --> 00:48:07.520 Lose control. It'd be good for you to the Lord 631 00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:12.640 And then they want to get all this well could it be the devil could speaking in tongues be the devil 632 00:48:12.640 --> 00:48:16.000 It's speaking in tongues. It's from the devil. How come the mafia doesn't do it 633 00:48:18.080 --> 00:48:20.720 How can you never hear Vinny say? Hey, Luigi 634 00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:25.840 Go bring out that 45 and ramata kashala rabos tatata 635 00:48:27.600 --> 00:48:31.680 How come at the how come at the head of the pride parade there isn't like 10 people going 636 00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:45.360 Oh 637 00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:47.360 Worship team, why don't you come on up 638 00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:51.440 Thank you Jesus 639 00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:56.480 Hey, some people their hindrance their hindrance is a fear of love 640 00:48:57.760 --> 00:49:02.880 There's people and right now I know in my spirit. There's people here. You actually are afraid of God's love 641 00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:07.040 You don't even know you argue with me, but really I've been doing this a while 642 00:49:07.520 --> 00:49:11.360 You're afraid of God's love because people have hurt you 643 00:49:12.080 --> 00:49:15.680 People that were close to you have hurt you so you put walls around to keep them out 644 00:49:17.040 --> 00:49:20.640 But that same wall that you put to keep people out is going to keep God out too 645 00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:27.040 This is the ask that I'm asking you is to open up your heart 646 00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:32.160 It's surrender to the Lord into his anointing 647 00:49:33.040 --> 00:49:34.160 Come 648 00:49:34.160 --> 00:49:37.840 For as I know you can maybe make it to all three, but a majority of you can 649 00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:42.720 This is a journey you need to go on a quick hit won't do you 650 00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:46.560 A Friday night a Saturday of deep marination 651 00:49:47.680 --> 00:49:50.720 Asking the Lord to bring his supernatural touch into your life 652 00:49:52.240 --> 00:49:55.760 hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah 653 00:49:56.560 --> 00:50:02.320 And then be on the lookout for the Lord doing things in your day to day 654 00:50:04.560 --> 00:50:06.720 As you go to sleep as you wake up 655 00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:09.920 You're going for a walk 656 00:50:11.040 --> 00:50:13.840 When the Lord first started touching me I'd be on the Long Island Railroad 657 00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:18.880 I'd have to hide my head so people wouldn't think I'm insane. I just start thinking about Jesus. I'd start weeping 658 00:50:20.080 --> 00:50:23.600 I just hide my head because I didn't want him to think I was like having an episode or something 659 00:50:24.240 --> 00:50:27.360 But what I'm saying is I could get touched on the train 660 00:50:29.280 --> 00:50:33.120 Be on the lookout for him in prayer open up your heart 661 00:50:35.040 --> 00:50:37.040 Because this year is going to be here the supernatural 662 00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:39.920 hallelujah 663 00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:42.800 hallelujah 664 00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:45.200 Thank you Lord 665 00:50:45.200 --> 00:50:48.160 Listen when when you're flowing in the Holy Spirit 666 00:50:49.040 --> 00:50:51.200 You're in this relationship with him 667 00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:55.600 He'll give you instructions weird things will happen he'll speak to you at funny times 668 00:50:56.880 --> 00:50:58.880 Tell you what to do next 669 00:50:59.040 --> 00:51:02.800 When he speaks pay attention do what he tells you to do success is attached to it 670 00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:08.000 This morning as I'm driving Brian I saw your face 671 00:51:10.160 --> 00:51:13.680 And and I heard something I haven't heard ever 672 00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:18.960 And he he said I he showed me some things about you 673 00:51:19.520 --> 00:51:24.080 About your future and he said I want him to preach on a Sunday 674 00:51:25.440 --> 00:51:28.160 Amen and I sense it needs to be before Easter 675 00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:34.640 So and what and the head the Lord's hand will come up. This is in you. He's put it in you 676 00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:37.200 And I know you know that he's been as I'm saying that right now 677 00:51:38.240 --> 00:51:40.240 But you're going to preach and it's going to be like fire 678 00:51:41.200 --> 00:51:43.200 You 679 00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:46.000 It's going to be awesome 680 00:51:46.960 --> 00:51:49.600 I was just minding my business with my son singing worship 681 00:51:50.800 --> 00:51:52.800 hallelujah hallelujah 682 00:51:53.600 --> 00:51:55.600 Just close your eyes 683 00:52:10.320 --> 00:52:17.120 Halla rava shingha dararara suntanta hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah 684 00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:20.160 hallelujah 685 00:52:20.160 --> 00:52:25.920 Pendasta serim pola la lanta la raveva vava vanga dararasta support for 686 00:52:27.680 --> 00:52:29.680 hallelujah hallelujah 687 00:52:30.560 --> 00:52:32.560 A blessed 2025 688 00:52:33.120 --> 00:52:36.160 A year that's stopping soaking wet with the presence of God 689 00:52:37.520 --> 00:52:39.520 hallelujah 690 00:52:39.520 --> 00:52:41.520 Thank you, Jesus 691 00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:44.800 Thank you, Jesus 692 00:52:44.800 --> 00:52:46.800 Thank you, Jesus 693 00:52:47.200 --> 00:52:48.480 hallelujah 694 00:52:48.480 --> 00:52:50.880 ministry team, I want you to go to my left 695 00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:55.680 You're right. That's the ministry area beyond those lights if you want prayer for anything 696 00:52:57.040 --> 00:52:59.200 Our ministry team 697 00:52:59.200 --> 00:53:01.200 Including the hitchhikers and campers 698 00:53:02.640 --> 00:53:04.640 We'll meet you there 699 00:53:05.360 --> 00:53:09.040 The people who love the Lord and people who want to see you blessed 700 00:53:09.840 --> 00:53:11.840 Let's all stand 701 00:53:12.080 --> 00:53:15.680 If you want prayer go and meet them meet them in that ministry area 702 00:53:18.160 --> 00:53:21.920 We'll see you every night at 7 p.m. For our prayer meetings 703 00:53:22.640 --> 00:53:27.440 And then do not miss next Friday and also know next Friday won't be here. It's all on our website 704 00:53:28.160 --> 00:53:31.040 It's all in the email you'll receive and have received 705 00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:37.120 Lift up your hands and just say this holy spirit 706 00:53:38.160 --> 00:53:40.160 Whatever you want 707 00:53:40.720 --> 00:53:48.720 Do it in my life. I'm hungry. I'm desperate for more of you and your will 708 00:53:49.920 --> 00:53:51.920 In Jesus name 709 00:53:52.240 --> 00:53:54.240 Shouting amen 710 00:53:55.200 --> 00:53:57.200 hallelujah 711 00:53:57.600 --> 00:54:03.360 This is the city light church podcast if you've missed any part of today's message 712 00:54:03.440 --> 00:54:07.680 Or if you would like to find out more about pastor boy on jansik and city light church 713 00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:13.360 Visit us at citylightnyc.com. That's city light NYC.com 714 00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:19.120 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. 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