WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.000 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. 2 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:19.000 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com, that's citylightnyc.com. 3 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:27.000 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 4 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:40.000 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. 5 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:49.000 We have been diving deep into the gospel of grace, which is the gospel. 6 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:59.000 It really is something that we keep front and center at City Light Church because we serve God under the new covenant, and it's the new covenant of His grace. 7 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:15.000 And we're done as Christians, a terrible disservice if the two covenants are mixed together. The Apostle Paul is clear that you cannot mix them together, and so you have to make a choice whether you're going to live under the old covenant of the law or under the new covenant of grace. 8 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:30.000 And natural man, as we're designed, universal man immediately gravitates towards the law. It's been like that since Genesis, since the eight of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that is the type of the law. 9 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:43.000 And so we need a mind renewing, and the best way you can enjoy Jesus and enjoy all of the benefits He's purchased with His blood, not just the best way, but the only ways to have a solid understanding of grace. 10 00:01:43.000 --> 00:02:00.000 So we've gone through Romans 6, 7, and 8. I'm going to be beginning the book of Galatians shortly. I'm just saying this as like a PS, a note, because I said I'd continue with Galatians right after we're done with Romans, but I feel from the Lord to put a pin in it. 11 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:15.000 And when will I do Galatians soon? But I wanted to just do some independent messages before we begin Galatians, of course, last Sunday we had Pentecost Sunday, where the Lord came in and filled so many people with the Holy Spirit. 12 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:38.000 It was a powerful service. But I love preaching about Jesus because He is grace. The Bible says that the law was given by or through Moses, but grace came in the person of Jesus Christ. 13 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:50.000 And I'm sure this is true for you. It's definitely true for me. I'm grateful for my salvation. It is the pearl of great price, and it's not something I take lightly. 14 00:02:50.000 --> 00:03:05.000 And you have your own story of how the Lord reached you. I remember very vividly to this day how He opened my eyes. I was not looking for Him. He came looking for me, and He plucked me out of darkness and put me in His marvelous light. 15 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:30.000 And I want to serve Him all of my days. And this is also why I said yes to the pastoral call on my life immediately, and haven't looked back since, because I prize my salvation, and I prize the opportunity to present the gospel with my life, and on a weekly basis, so that others too can come and drink of the fountain of salvation that will never run dry. 16 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:54.000 And God has blessed us with a powerful church, a united church, and one of my missions, something that's at the very forefront right now, is to do everything I can by the grace of God to ensure that you would stay on the straight and arrow, to ensure that you would be celebrating with me and my family on that day. 17 00:03:54.000 --> 00:04:00.000 Now I want to be very clear, because there's a lot of confusion about this. 18 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:16.000 You received eternal life. You received salvation by faith. You did not receive it by works. You didn't get salvation by something you did or didn't do. You received it by grace, but through faith. 19 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:28.000 And there's a question that arises, can I lose my salvation? And often it's presented in Christianity like you can very easily if you mess up in sin. 20 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:42.000 And it produces this shame and this guilt and this condemnation, and really this unhealthy fear, where Christians are constantly confessing their sins. I mean, their whole per life is just confession of sins. It really is like a religious neurosis. 21 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:51.000 And they feel they have to get born again, again and again and again. And whenever the pastor gives the altar call, the hands go right up and they're getting saved and resaved and resaved and I just want to be very clear. 22 00:04:51.000 --> 00:05:07.000 Your works did not save you and your works cannot unsave you. Amen. Now when you're genuinely saved, there's going to be, especially as the Holy Spirit has an outworking, there's going to be an outflow of good works. 23 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:17.000 And there will be a change from the inside out. Grace is not a message of compromise. Grace is an empowerment against sin. It's an empowerment to live holy before the Lord. 24 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:28.000 But can somebody's salvation be lost? If you look at the book of Hebrews in particular, really there's many warnings throughout the New Testament that your faith has saved you. 25 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:48.000 So how can you lose your salvation? Well, you're unfaith. You're unbelief. You're disbelief. And I'm not talking about just a random thought that casually goes through your mind. It is the outright rejecting of Jesus. After having been saved, can you imagine that? The outright rejecting of Jesus. 26 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:59.000 The forsaking him and the Bible calls it an apostasy. And you then become an apostate, not to be confused with an apostle. 27 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:17.000 An apostate is somebody who has once known Jesus and then has forsaken the faith. And that is a very, very dangerous, dangerous place to be in. It is a place to be utterly lost. And even in the book of Hebrews, there's a warnings that says if you have known him and if you have tasted of the powers of the kingdom to come. 28 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:28.000 And it pains this picture of somebody who knew the Lord intimately, knew his word intimately, was used by the Holy Spirit in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And then they reject Jesus. 29 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:38.000 There is no more coming back to Jesus. They really become of a reprobate mind. And you say, can they ever repent? They don't even want to. 30 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:53.000 The lights are on, but nobody's home. It's like asking, can Lucifer repent? Is it too late for him? He doesn't even think about that. He's not debating. It doesn't even register. And wow, it's getting real serious. Good. 31 00:06:54.000 --> 00:07:06.000 So what does that mean for us? Well, the Lord is amazing. I think in for saving power, I think in for keeping power. But you don't want to flirt with the things of the world. 32 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:19.000 You don't want to flirt with the ideologies that are going on out there. You don't want to get your programming from the world. And if you think you're not, you don't know the kind of world you're living in. 33 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:42.000 It is now more than ever. Your phone and the algorithms on your phone know you better than you know you. And there is an anti-God, anti-gospel, anti-Christ message that's constantly being hammered away at you to chip away at your mind so that you will just find yourself believing and find yourself doing things that are completely anti the word of God. 34 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:50.000 And so I just want to read to you several scriptures concerning the days that we're living in, the last days, the end times. 35 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:59.000 And see what Jesus has to say about them. Are you ready? Matthew 24 verses 3 through 4. 36 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:14.000 Now, as he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately saying, tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of your coming? And of the end of the age? 37 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:34.000 Verse 4. And Jesus answered and said to them, take heed that no one deceives you. This is not by accident that the very first thing that Jesus brings up when talking about the last days that we're living in right now. 38 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:46.000 The end times is deception and his warning is, in the last days, make sure, make doubly sure that nobody tricks you, that nobody deceives you. 39 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:53.000 And deception is so awful. Do you know why? Because it's so deceiving. 40 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:59.000 Deception is like bad breath. You're the last one to know you have it. 41 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:07.000 I have dealt with people who are in deception, and they never know they're in deception. 42 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:25.000 How does somebody get to a level and a place of deception where they don't even know that they're deceived, they don't even see a need to course correct, and you see them doing 90 miles an hour and the bridge is out? 43 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:37.000 It doesn't happen overnight. Little by little, you open up yourself to the other voices in the world. Little by little, you open up the door. 44 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:48.000 And you just dance with the world a little bit. And the ideologies of the world. And the thoughts of the world. And Satan then grabs you. 45 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:55.000 Satan always takes you further than you want to go, and keeps you longer than you want to stay. 46 00:09:55.000 --> 00:10:03.000 Let's read what the Apostle Paul, inspired by the Holy Spirit, said about these last times, 1 Timothy chapter 4 and verse 1. 47 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:17.000 Now, the Holy Spirit expressly says that in latter times, some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons. 48 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:26.000 The word doctrine means teaching. The Apostle Paul is talking about our time. And it doesn't even just say the Holy Spirit says, but the Holy Spirit expressly says. 49 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:38.000 The Holy Spirit clearly and is actively issuing a warning that in the last days, they will be doctrines that come from Satan himself, doctrines that are demonic in origin. 50 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:49.000 And they're designed to pervert. The word pervert means to distort, to pervert the truth of God and infiltrate God's people's minds. 51 00:10:49.000 --> 00:11:01.000 He calls them to slowly forsake the truth. He says, Satan, he's so tricky. And they're demons that have studied you your whole life. 52 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:17.000 And what does he want now that you are safe? He wants to get you to a place of compromise, a place of not leaning on the Word of God and trusting in the Word of God to where you allow a little lie to come in and then the lies multiply and then over time. 53 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:29.000 Anyway, I know I just almost heard it in the Spirit. I was going to say over time you forsake the faith, but what I almost heard in the Spirit was this attitude of not me. 54 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:40.000 That can never happen to me. And concerning this very attitude, the Apostle Paul said, take heed when you think you stand, lest you fall. 55 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:58.000 You should not be one of pride. Pride has nothing to do with the Christian. The doorway that we walked through and continually walked through is one of humility, which means we are needy, we are dependent and our heart attitude should be that could be me. Oh God, keep me. 56 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:18.000 Your word says that broad is the highway. It's a highway that leads to destruction. It's a highway to hell. But straight and narrow is the path that leads to life everlasting. Lord, you keep me, especially in this world where the lies are so rampant. You keep me on the straight and narrow. 57 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:30.000 Second Thessalonians chapter 2 verses 1 through 3. I'm going to read it out of 2 versions, the new living translation and then the amplified. 58 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:39.000 Now the brothers and sisters, let us clarify some things about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and how we will be gathered to meet him. 59 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:53.000 Don't be so easily shaken or alarmed by those who say the day of the Lord has already begun. Don't believe them, even if they claim to have a spiritual vision or revelation or even a letter supposedly from us. 60 00:12:53.000 --> 00:13:10.000 Don't be fooled by what they say. For that day will not come until there is a great rebellion against God, a great rebellion against God, a great forsaking of the faith, a great apostasy. 61 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:21.000 And the man of lawlessness is revealed, the one who brings destruction. Now let's just read that in the amplified. 62 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:50.000 As though I wasn't loud enough. Let's amplify it. Now in regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to meet him, we ask you brothers and sisters not to be quickly unsettled or alarmed, either by so-called prophetic revelation of a spirit or a message or a letter alleged to be from us to the effect that the day of the Lord has already come. 63 00:13:50.000 --> 00:14:04.000 Let no one in any way deceive. There's that word again. Let no one in any way deceive or entrap you. For that day will not come unless the apostasy, the forsaking of the faith. 64 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:16.000 I humbly submit this to you that we are living in a time of the greatest apostasy in the church that the church has ever known or seen. 65 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:36.000 Unless the apostasy comes first, that is the great rebellion, the abandonment of the faith, the professed Christians, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, the antichrist, the one who is destined to be destroyed. 66 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:57.000 Now there is a religion right now that is growing and being pushed. It is growing by millions of followers a day. It is a global religion. 67 00:14:57.000 --> 00:15:15.000 It is contrary to the word of God. It has many, many evangelists. It has taken every corporation over, every institution of government, every institution of education. 68 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:26.000 It is fierce and it is after you to pervert the word of God and rob you of the truth that you carry inside of you and the pearl of great price. 69 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:38.000 It is eternal life and salvation that Jesus purchased with his own blood and that religion is called wokeism and it is after you. 70 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:47.000 What is wokeism? 71 00:15:48.000 --> 00:16:02.000 If you are not paying attention and you just remember when you first heard the word woke, when was that for you? For me it was around 2014, 2015. 72 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:18.000 And back then the word meant being alert to racial prejudice, right? That is great. That is cool. But it has changed and it has been co-opted and it is different now. 73 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:36.000 And I said this in the first service, I will say it again. If I was black I would be pissed right now. I would be pissed because you have been abused by people who don't care about you. 74 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:49.000 They have been pushing and pressing on trauma and hurt to elicit a response to divide and to conquer to push their unbiblical ungodly agenda. Amen. 75 00:16:49.000 --> 00:17:05.000 This is like when the BLM were happening in 2020. Do you know where the worst BLM riots were happening in 2020? Do you know where? Portland, Oregon. 76 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:14.000 Do you know what place has almost zero black people? Portland, Oregon. 77 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:27.000 And I didn't understand back then completely what was happening and I'm watching the video clips and I'm watching a bunch of angry white blue hair with septum rings, suburban people. 78 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:40.000 And I'm going, what? What is going on here? And then we were in the poconos at the time and right at us cranted and I saw the same sight. I saw angry white people marching and I saw the spirit. It was a spirit. 79 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:53.000 It was a spirit they were under and I realized I am not privy to what they have been exposed to. They have been programmed. They have been pushed. They are on websites and listening to podcasts that I don't even know exist. 80 00:17:53.000 --> 00:18:05.000 They have a wholly completely different agenda. Nathaniel St. Eloy from Haiti who ministers here often went right when they were pulling down statue when BLM was pulling down statues in DC. 81 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:18.000 All I saw was white hippie people pulling them down. And I called up Nathaniel, I said Nathaniel. Are they just showing what's really happening? He was in DC when he said boy, it's all white people's eye. 82 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:28.000 I am the only black person here when just strolling through with the family. Yeah, we laugh about it now, but it's the same thing with wokeism. 83 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:40.000 Because wokeism comes like a wolf in sheep's clothing. It comes dressed in mercy and compassion, but inwardly it's a ravenous wolf. 84 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:53.000 What is wokeism? In short, it is identity-based Marxism. Now what in the world is Marxism? 85 00:18:54.000 --> 00:19:04.000 What is Marxism? For some of you haven't heard that word since eighth grade. And what does that have to do with the price of eggs and what's happening today? 86 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:15.000 Marxism was mainly at first an economic theory that was utilized heavily during the Bolshevik revolution that gave rise to socialism. 87 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:26.000 How was it used? It was used to incite warfare amongst the people. Class warfare. You cannot seize power. You cannot seize the people who will resist you. 88 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:34.000 But if you can divide and conquer the people and get different groups warring amongst themselves, then you can seize power. 89 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:42.000 And socialism coming, having immigrated from a socialist country. It also sounds so appealing. 90 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:50.000 Which is why I remember when Bernie Sanders was running back in 16. There was a bunch of our church that were like Bernie people. 91 00:19:50.000 --> 00:20:01.000 Mainly millennials. You know why? Because it sounds so nice, doesn't it? It's like we're all going to get the same and people, poor people, will be taken care of. 92 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:14.000 And let me tell you something. You look at socialism from the last 100 years, anywhere on earth. It has resulted in more poverty, more murders, more destruction than any other political ideology on planet earth. 93 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:29.000 And by the way, capitalism with its false, it's not perfect. But capitalism has produced more prosperity, has brought more people out of poverty, more literacy, more medical breakthrough than anywhere else on earth. 94 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:43.000 Equity sounds really great when you have nothing, when you're broke as a joke. And someone says, hey, we're going to help you. 95 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:52.000 We're just going to take from this person. And then you start working and you start accumulating. And then someone says, hey, you look like according to my judgment, you have a little bit too much. 96 00:20:52.000 --> 00:21:06.000 Let's just take that from you and redistribute it. Then you're like, what? If you want to know what so parents, if you want to know how socialism works, get your kids to work around the house. 97 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:18.000 You tell them you're going to pay them. Have one child working hour, have the other child work eight hours, and then pay them the same amount. And watch what happens. That's socialism. 98 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:38.000 I had several people hug me on the way out of the first service saying, thank you. I never knew. Some of you are like, I know something is up. I am feeling manipulated. I am feeling used. And you just can't put your finger on it. 99 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:45.000 By God's grace, we're going to put your finger on it this morning. And several people hug me and say, I didn't know anything that you were talking about until today. 100 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:48.000 So what is wokeism? 101 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:58.000 Wokeism is seeing the world through a single lens. It's seeing the world through only one lens, oppressor versus oppressed. 102 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:13.000 Guess who the oppressor is in the religion of wokeism? The number one oppressor. By the way, it's not the white male who's straight. That's there. But the number one oppressor is you, a Christian. 103 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:23.000 Christians are the number one oppressors. There is a war. I don't say this lightly. When I first got saved, I hated. I really disliked. No, I hated. 104 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:35.000 I hated like culture warrior pastors. I wanted to hear the gospel. I wanted to enjoy the Holy Spirit. I wanted to feel the anointing. And then some pastor, he was always angry. 105 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:52.000 The tie was buttoned too tight and he was railing. And I was just like, chill, man. Can I just enjoy Jesus? So this isn't like my stick. If you're a guest, this isn't my stick. But I have to say something. 106 00:22:52.000 --> 00:23:12.000 Where was I? Christians, something you don't hear. You're told there's all these other oppressed people groups. Right now the statistic is 13 Christians are excommunicated. They're murdered for their faith every single day. 107 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:35.000 Today, 13 Christians will be executed for their faith. But there's no, there's no tweets about that. No media coverage about that. No movies about that. That's silent. But you're called the oppressor. Why? Because you are the last stand. This is the last fortress against a takeover. 108 00:23:35.000 --> 00:24:03.000 What kind of takeover? Right? We in America, we're really spoiled. I immigrated here. Took me 18 years to become a citizen. I remember growing up under socialism. I remember singing songs to my president. As young as three years old, I remember we were indoctrinated very young. We would sing songs my president back then, dictator over 40 plus years. 109 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:17.000 We would sing. I pledge my eternal allegiance to you forever. I give you my heart. That's what I sang as a three, four and five year old. 110 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:32.000 We're spoiled here and we don't really think in a geopolitical way. We don't understand that there's entire nations outside of America that for 24 or seven, they live, eat and breathe America's destruction. 111 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:50.000 And guess what? They cannot do it militarily. It's impossible. It's impossible. We have not had a foreign invaders on our soil in over 150 years. It's just impossible to get that many people over the Pacific and over the Atlantic or through Mexico and Canada. 112 00:24:50.000 --> 00:25:01.000 And it's also impossible because per capita, we have the most guns out of any person, any nation. No, Emperor Hirohito, when asked, why didn't Japan physically invade America? 113 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:19.000 He said they would be an American with a gun behind every blade of grass. So they cannot. You're not going to be paratrooping down. They're not going to be sailing and storming the beach like at Normandy. They're storming the beach at Coney Island. They don't get obliterated. 114 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:36.000 So what are they going to do? They want to subvert. There are government officials right now that have been bought and paid for. They want to subvert through ideology and they want you out of the way because you are the nation's last stand. 115 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:52.000 You, an uncompromised, Bible believing, on Christ, the solid, rock-eye stand Christian. That's why whenever you hear wokeism, you know what's always in the background? I'm telling you, it's coming to the foreground. That I've known for over 10 years, really nearly 20. 116 00:25:52.000 --> 00:26:19.000 Whenever you hear anything woke related, what's always in the background is the churches should pay taxes. Take away their tax exempt status. And then they always show some mega church pastor with six cars living in a multi-million dollar home and they say, you see, he's abusing the system. That is not your everyday normal pastor. They exist. I understand that. That is not what the church is made up of in America. 117 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:40.000 Over 85% of churches in America are under 250 people. The norm is not a mega church pastor living in affluence. And what would happen if the churches lost their tax exemption status? This is a statistic, also 85%. Over 85% would shut down overnight. 118 00:26:40.000 --> 00:27:00.000 Why should a church pay taxes on taxes on money that you've already paid taxes on and then donated to the church? If we're selling stuff on the side, I understand. Most churches aren't. We're not. There is no city light, auto body shop, city light car wash, city light cafe, not even a city light bookstore. 119 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:13.000 City light cleaning service. We speak in tongues as we polish your furniture. And that is the agenda to take to hit the church. 120 00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:34.000 Socialism is destructive and it only benefits the people at the top. It only benefits the people who hold power. And you don't hear statistics. You weren't taught. I wasn't taught in American school. I was taught about Hitler for years. He was responsible for 13 million deaths. 121 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:54.000 I looked at the list of global genocide leaders. Number one, 80 million people. When during the socialist communist revolution, by the way, if you study that out, it's the same tactics as this global walk religion today. 122 00:27:54.000 --> 00:28:21.000 You invade, you lie, you subvert. And part of the whole line thing is that there is no truth. Truth is relative. There is no objective truth. Objective truth is truth that just is. Subjective truth. Well, that's subjective to my lived experience and my feelings. And what I believe at the time. And what has been programming me for days, months, years. 123 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:36.000 And that can be manipulated. And that's how we get to plus two equals five. Men can menstruate. Men can give birth. And people just start believing that. And then they'll believe anything and allow anything in. 124 00:28:36.000 --> 00:29:05.000 Oh, Hallelujah. We're having a good service here this morning. Why am I preaching this? Because you're going to make it. And you're going to rejoice in that day. And you will not allow lies. And you will not allow compromise into your spirit. And you're going to serve the Lord until either your last breath or you hear that trumpet sound. And you and your whole family is going to make it. Amen. Hallelujah. 125 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:20.000 Let's take a look at John 17, 17. 126 00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:46.000 John 17, 17 speaking of subjective truth and objective truth. And that's why woke is on gave birth to that phrase my truth. Sorry, you don't have your truth. You have an opinion. Everybody's got them. They're like armpits and some of them stink. But it's not truth. There is one definition for truth. Jesus said it in John 17, 17. 127 00:29:46.000 --> 00:30:00.000 So sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth. The word of God is truth. And so something we as city light have to have in our heart. And listen. 128 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:21.000 The world is after this right now. We have to have in our heart a love for God's word, a love for God's standards. And an internal fortitude granted to us by the Holy Spirit that says, I will not cave in. I don't care if I'm disliked. I don't care if I'm unpopular. I don't care if I'm shunned. 129 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:49.000 What's most important to me is Jesus and this pearl of great price, the salvation that he's given. Amen. And guess what? We can do that and be loving. I know the church has missed it before because they were really nasty and jerky about it. But you can do that. See, somebody somebody might have commented. They were like, where am I the other week. He was preaching how I'm perfect in Christ and God's grace and it was love, love, love. These are not too contradictory messages, by the way. 130 00:30:49.000 --> 00:31:04.000 These are not. You look at Jesus' messages. He preached like this. He's both the lion and the lamb. And most people are just giving the lamb. Amen. No. It's love. But there is a standard for the love. 131 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:19.000 Great. If you're remaining, you're going to love this next part because in order for wokeism to work, truth must be bent in order for there to be a takeover. You say, yeah, are you serious? Do you really believe? I want to ask you, are you so naive? 132 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:34.000 That you don't believe that there is outside governmental and political forces seeking to shake America and its institutions to the ground so that then they could quote, build back better? 133 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:55.000 So the army whose fundamental doctrine is relative truth, two plus two equals five, men can give birth, et cetera, et cetera, is the LGBTQIA plus army. 134 00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:56.000 And I will say this right now, I realize I've been doing this a while. Our first location was in the East Village. I've pastored hundreds of people either struggling with homosexuality or full on identifying as gay. I've worked with them. I've loved them. There is no hate attached to this message. In fact, if I didn't love and truly love, I'd be quiet and I'd be tickling your ears right now. And if you are struggling with same sex attraction, or wherever you think you 135 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:37.000 are on the spectrum, I want you to know you are loved. We love you and we say all are welcome, but all are welcome to be loved and to hear the word of truth. Amen. And there is hope in Jesus. 136 00:32:37.000 --> 00:33:04.000 So what is it about the LGBTQIA plus I get the letters mixed up? It is a direct opposite to Christianity. It stands in direct opposition. There is attention. The greatest tension with Christianity right now is this movement. 137 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:27.000 And I believe the greatest persecution that's going to come will be as these two movements clash. Why is it the opposite? Let me show you right now. The LGBT religions. It celebrates self expression. Self expression on this side. Christianity is about self denial. 138 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:45.000 The LGBT religion celebrates and encourages man becoming God. Christianity God became man. The LGBT religion is we celebrate pride. Christianity is we celebrate humility. 139 00:33:45.000 --> 00:34:04.000 The LGBT religion is your born this way. The gospel is you must be born again. The LGBT religion is I'm perfect just the way that I am. The gospel is I'm a sinner in need of a savior. 140 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:26.000 The LGBT religion worship sex Christianity worship God. The LGBT religion says love is love. The Bible says God is love. You cannot use the word to define the same word. That's one of the first things I learned in fourth grade. 141 00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:55.000 Like what does what does hungry mean? Well teacher, that's when I'm very hungry. And she's like you can't use a word to define the same word. Love is love. That can mean anything. But God is love. God, the nature and character of God as revealed through the Holy Scriptures, his standard, his righteousness, his person. That is love. 142 00:34:55.000 --> 00:35:23.000 You know what the greatest sin in the LGBT religion is? Judging. Judgment. Come on, you know this. What's the worst thing you could ever do? Be judgmental. You can't judge. When I touched on this last summer somebody immediately from that community came and said, but pastor, you can't judge. And I said, watch me. 143 00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:53.000 I go, my father keeps a place in Miami Beach. We visit him, my mother and my father and Miami. He's right on Miami Beach. That's party central, right? And sometimes we come on Memorial Day and the whole country goes there to have like this deboucher party. I remember standing there watching one time. Do you know what every third tattoo was? A tattoo said God can only God can judge me. I'm like, you keep on using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means. Like that should scare you. 144 00:35:53.000 --> 00:36:17.000 But judgment, being judgmental is the worst thing that you could ever be. And in John, excuse me, Matthew chapter seven, that is probably the main scripture of this ideology and this religion. And it's completely taken out of context. By the way, most of you, you came into the 1130 service. You made 50 judgments in your life before you even came to the 1130 service. 145 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:31.000 You judged whether you were going to get up when you felt like it or when your alarm went off. You judge whether you were going to eat when you were hungry or now you were just going to do brunch or lunch afterwards. If you were driving here, you made a judgment at a red light, a good one to stop. 146 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:52.000 When Jesus in this context says, well, let me first read what he says, then I'll break it down. But this, of course, is celebrated judge not judge not. So if you dare say boo, I mean, you're judgmental. What if somebody breaks into your house with a gun? Don't judge him. 147 00:36:52.000 --> 00:37:10.000 Just let him go right in. You don't want to be judgmental now. Do you judge not that you be not judged. Let me tell you something. If I see, yes, I'm a pastor. I'm a man of God. If I see a woman being assaulted or threatened on the subway, I'm going to get down very quickly. 148 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:28.000 I'll be praying the whole way, but I'm going to get down. I'm going to help that woman out immediately. I will make a judgment in that decision in that moment. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 149 00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:42.000 Pastor, I know you're the same way, right? I've been out with you. I know that, amen, there is going to be holiness, righteousness and order when you're around. Amen. 150 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:57.000 What I don't want to ever happen is for me and you to be involved in anything like that at the same time. That will make the news. That will keep that scripture up. 151 00:37:57.000 --> 00:38:08.000 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. Amen. 152 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:22.000 Now we know there are no contradictions in the Bible, so let's just look at John chapter 7. Jesus says this, do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment. 153 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:36.000 Is he contradicting himself that he forget what he said in Matthew 7? What is judging with righteous judgment? Two things. One, making a judgment according to the word of God. 154 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:51.000 If the word of God says God is not for this, then I can say with confidence God is not for this. If the word of God says this is an abomination, it is not judgmental when I say, okay, I don't want to be involved in this, this is an abomination. 155 00:38:51.000 --> 00:39:11.000 And again, where Christians have missed it is that they are harsh and have been nasty and condemning. And what Jesus is saying in Matthew 7 is, don't be condemning. Don't have a pointy finger if you're guilty of doing the same thing. That's what Matthew 7 is about. 156 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:24.000 Matthew 7, he's saying, if you're struggling with alcohol abuse, don't, which by the way, most people who are struggling a sin, any sin they're persecuting in someone else is usually the sin they're struggling in, if they're pointy finger Christian. 157 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:32.000 So that's what Jesus is saying. If you're struggling with alcohol abuse, don't point to somebody else and lecture them on how they shouldn't be drinking alcohol in excess. 158 00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:45.000 Take care of the forest, the beam that's in your own eye. If you're struggling with lust, don't be pointing a finger at someone else who confessed you they're struggling with lust and now you're wagon at them. 159 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:57.000 But if you're free in an area, the Lord has worked out his holiness in you and there's victory in your life. Still don't be proud about that. It's not you with him. And still don't be condemning and proudfully wagging your finger at someone. 160 00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:14.000 But it is okay to say this is not of God. And I won't partake in it. And guess what? We can do that with love without being nasty, without being jerky, without being awful about it. And yes, I will say the church in the past has failed at that. 161 00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:34.000 And I'm on a mission to see that it can happen in New York City. And it can happen here at City Light Church. And that we can be a church of grace and a church of love, a church where we see life transformation happen. And at the same time, not compromise, stand on the truth. Amen. 162 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:43.000 And prize the Bible as what it indeed is the holy word of God. Amen. 163 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:53.000 What is so we realize the greatest sin in the woke slash LGBT religion is judging. What is the greatest virtue? 164 00:40:54.000 --> 00:41:02.000 Any takers? You said acceptance. Very good. Tolerance. Tolerance. 165 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:13.000 The number one virtue is tolerance even though they are completely intolerant of anybody who themselves does not woke. But what's espoused is this virtue of complete tolerance. 166 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:20.000 Let's look at this scripture in Revelation where Jesus addresses that. Hallelujah. 167 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:25.000 Let God be true in every man a liar. 168 00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:39.000 And to the angel of the church, here Jesus is addressing various churches. Most of them are doing pretty well, but Jesus is just coarse correcting and just pointing out some issues that they may have. This church is doing great. 169 00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:50.000 The church in Theatira. Right. The words of the, the words of the Son of God who has eyes like a flame of fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze. 170 00:41:50.000 --> 00:42:05.000 I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance. And that your latter works succeed the first. They're doing good. This is a church on fire. 171 00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:12.000 But I have this against you. He's saying I still got a problem. That you tolerate. 172 00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:25.000 You're not being merciful. See, it's one thing to be merciful. It's another thing to then cross the line into an area of unsanctified mercy. And now you're tolerating that thing that the word of God calls an abomination. 173 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:41.000 But I have this against you that you tolerate that woman, Jessabelle, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat foods, food, sacrifice to idols. 174 00:42:41.000 --> 00:43:00.000 Worship team, come on up. And so there is a place where you don't have to tolerate that which the Lord doesn't tolerate. And once again, you cannot tolerate something with a smile on your face. 175 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:17.000 You cannot tolerate something while being loving. You cannot tolerate something while having enough respect for yourself, where your stance is, I will not compromise because the word of God is too holy and the word of God is too precious. 176 00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:37.000 I'm not, I don't know, I'm making a decision. That's for me and my house we're going to serve the Lord. Nothing is going to get in the way of that. And by the way, and this is why I'm preaching this. Also, it's the first week of June. 177 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:56.000 But this is why I'm preaching this because there is something else coming down the road. And if you haven't figured out that the last three years and this whole COVID thing was related, you have been asleep. 178 00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:15.000 You have been asleep. Some of you, you have been programmed and you have been lulled. The Bible talks about a spirit of stupid. A spirit of stupid is the sandman demon. It puts you asleep. The spirit of stupid is cousins with the spirit of stupid. 179 00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:33.000 You just fall asleep and all these things are happening around you. You just like Lala, you don't even remember that three years ago, people were hating each other and violent with each other over a mask. Some people are still wearing masks underneath their chins. 180 00:44:34.000 --> 00:45:02.000 People were, I chose not to get vaccinated. I'm very, my family made many of you, by the way, as a church, we gave out, we tried to help in any way. We gave out religious exemptions. If you don't want to get vaccinated, we were very strong in that stance. We knew that, listen, you don't have to be a genius when you realize, you know, cancer has been around a long time, no vaccine. AIDS has been around a long time, no vaccine. 181 00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:30.000 Common cold has been around a long time, no vaccine. COVID comes around with an 18 months, wow, a breakthrough vaccine, totally experimental, never been tested and the propaganda to get it. And people out of state still don't understand, they don't remember it because they weren't subjected to it like in New York City. I could not get a cup of coffee with my wife for over seven months without flashing a card. So I chose no thank you. 182 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:44.000 I grew up on my granddaddy's knee, hearing about the stories with their fight against the Nazis. I know what it's like living in a two-tier society where it's done papid and bitter. Show me your papers. I'm not showing you my papers. 183 00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:56.000 It is all connected and I know I know I could see some of you in your heart. You're so sweet. You want to believe that you want to believe that the government is going to rescue you. 184 00:45:57.000 --> 00:46:09.000 You want to believe that this is all that everything you want to still live in 2019 and there isn't a subversive agenda by people who hate you and all they want is global dominion. 185 00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:21.000 By the way, the Bible talks about this. When the Bible says that when the mark of the beast comes, which, well, I'll put that aside. 186 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:29.000 Should I go there? Let me just finish my thought. Let me just finish my thought. It's a personal opinion, but I'll go there. 187 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:40.000 When the mark of the beast comes, it says the whole world will not be able to buy or sell without the mark. That was 2000 years ago. 188 00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:48.000 That's when early Christians said, wow, something's going to happen where the whole world is ruled by the same hand. 189 00:46:49.000 --> 00:47:01.000 And then we started seeing it. My friends in Europe think completely different than my American friends. You say globalism and globalist in American are like, oh, conspiracy theorists. 190 00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:14.000 Over there, average people, atheists are talking about it to them. It's an established fact. There are forces and they want a one-world government and they want to control the entire world. 191 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:21.000 Now about the mark of the beast. You know how Paul said, I don't say this by the Holy Spirit, but it's just my pain. 192 00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:30.000 And I believe I have the Holy Spirit on this personally. I don't believe. I don't believe it'll be a physical mark. 193 00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:34.000 I would still be prepared for that and I wouldn't take anything. 194 00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:41.000 But the mark of the beast, I believe, is a spiritual mark. Have you ever met somebody? 195 00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:48.000 And you just know that they're like, they're marked. And then you say, hey, do you go to church? 196 00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:56.000 And then you want to make sure they're just not a cultural Christian and you dig deeper and you realize they're saved. You're saved. I'm saved. And you just know why they had a mark. 197 00:47:56.000 --> 00:48:03.000 They had the mark of Christ. They were sealed with the Holy Spirit on their head. The mark of the beast is an anti-Christ anointing. 198 00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:14.000 When I marched and I did march in 2020, there were groups that had that spirit on them. They had that anti-Christ spirit where I felt like I needed a shower after hanging with them. 199 00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:22.000 It's that mark. And you know what it is? And what? It is the mark of a giant middle finger to God. 200 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:32.000 It is, I don't want you. I will not submit to you and the order that you established for the universe and the way things should run, I'm going to run completely contrary to it. 201 00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:38.000 That's the mark. Nevertheless, if somebody comes in with microchips, I'll say, gracias, but no. 202 00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:44.000 Just my personal opinion. Hallelujah. 203 00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:55.000 So we're about to receive communion, but I just want you to hopefully we have the high resolution quality. I want you just to watch this video and maybe this was a lot for you. 204 00:48:56.000 --> 00:49:07.000 You put you underneath the waterfall this morning and you weren't split fed, rewatched the video, but just know that this whole thing that we've been through the last three years, it wasn't by accident. 205 00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:13.000 And way too many of you still think, well, you know, it was just the government kind of trying its best. Let me just also say this. 206 00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:19.000 In March of 2020, March 11th, look at our social media for city light church. 207 00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:28.000 We did our research and we posted about COVID when nobody quote knew what was happening. In March 11th, we posted, this is what we found. 208 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:36.000 It is a virus that particularly and mainly affects people who are over 80 years old. 209 00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:54.000 It is an airborne virus and the stuff that we posted. There is nothing new that's come out in three years. That's different from the stuff that we posted March 11th of 2020. 210 00:49:54.000 --> 00:50:06.000 And it's still people that lost their minds. You said, what was the purpose? Was that the agenda? No. That was implemented to accelerate the agenda. 211 00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:17.000 And that was implemented to note and mark your reaction. And unfortunately, some of us were ready to throw our mothers under the bus just to be the virtuous one. 212 00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:28.000 And that was revealed how easily and how quickly we could get programmed. You've all heard that expression that you'll believe a lie if it's repeated often enough. 213 00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:38.000 For some of us, it took just a day of being glued to the TV screen and watching the deathometer run. And immediately we became COVID hysterics. 214 00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:47.000 We're not saying all this to be prepared for the future, no matter what may come. Not to insight panic. No, we're not a panicky church. We're not a fearful church. 215 00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:57.000 We're not a worrying church. On Christ, the solid rock, we stand. All of the ground is sinking sand. But we're going to be alert. 216 00:50:57.000 --> 00:51:08.000 No, holy ghost woke. We're going to be alert to the programming and the schemes of the enemy that are around us. Let's watch this video. 217 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:15.000 Crank it up. 218 00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:24.000 Breaking news. The president declaring a national emergency. The news staying at home ordered. We will shut you down. Don't think you can get on a plane or a trade. 219 00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:34.000 This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. And we will take you to jail. We've got to get them vaccinated. We will keep you in a facility long. 220 00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:43.000 As the world was descending in the synchronized tyranny, I began to ask myself, how did they get everyone to go along with this? 221 00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:46.000 No, it feels so good, I know. 222 00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:55.000 Obsessed with finding the answer, I began studying every moment in recorded history where masses of people acted against their own self-interest. 223 00:51:55.000 --> 00:52:00.000 The only mechanism that could explain what was happening in society. 224 00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:06.000 Screw you three, though. Either schmuck was what is usually referred to as mass formation. 225 00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:10.000 You're right now with an economy crisis, but with an incredible opportunity. 226 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:16.000 Unprecedented opportunity for a visa. The royal highnesses, distinguished heads of state and government. 227 00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:21.000 The future is built by us. We need a great visa. 228 00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:28.000 When they say, you'll be happy. What they mean is, you'll be enslaved. 229 00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:34.000 Today, we have the technology to hack human beings on a massive scale. 230 00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:39.000 The mass of those technologies will be the mass of the world. 231 00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:48.000 Those who control the data, control the future, not just of humanity, but the future of life itself. 232 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:54.000 Every aspect of our life has been infiltrated by people that do not have our best interests or hearts. 233 00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:58.000 There are forces using fear and isolation to induce mass psychosis. 234 00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:00.000 I don't want you to be hopeful. 235 00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:02.000 I'm an old devil, virus. I want you to panic. 236 00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:06.000 Storms. It will kill your children. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. 237 00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:10.000 People are starting to wake up. They're starting to wake us. The world. 238 00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:16.000 I'm seeing people coming together from all walks of life. 239 00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:18.000 Finally saying enough is enough. 240 00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:21.000 We didn't come here for no reason. We have a voice. We're here to share it. 241 00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:26.000 We have to be the solution. We cannot rely on media, the president, or whoever to fix these problems. 242 00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:31.000 I would rather pick up cans on the side of the highway than to live out of alignment with my truth. 243 00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:34.000 We're all being driven back to the dream. 244 00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:40.000 As you see in the audience, Democrats, Republicans, white, black, everyone all in between. 245 00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:45.000 This is the example that they do not want to see, but they have no choice. 246 00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:49.000 The mass of the humanity have been slapped or awake. 247 00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:53.000 Open your eyes. It's time to wake up. 248 00:53:57.000 --> 00:54:00.000 This is the great awakening. 249 00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:06.000 People cannot go back into the matrix now. 250 00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:10.000 A lot of people are trying to. They can't. 251 00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:15.000 Amen. 252 00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:24.000 Let's put up Matthew 7 as we pass out the communion elements. 253 00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:27.000 Matthew 7 verses 24 through 27. 254 00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:37.000 We are awakened, but not woke. 255 00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:43.000 We are committed to Jesus and to His Word. 256 00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:49.000 And we have our feet on a sure foundation. 257 00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:59.000 Jesus said everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 258 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:07.000 And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat on that house. 259 00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:12.000 But it did not fall because it had been founded on the rock. 260 00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:21.000 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 261 00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:28.000 And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house. 262 00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:34.000 And it fell and great was the fall of it. 263 00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:39.000 As communion elements are being passed out, I want you to just say this. 264 00:55:39.000 --> 00:55:43.000 Jesus, I put my trust in you. 265 00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:55.000 I believe in you. You hold my life in your hand. Your Word says that in destruction and famine, I shall laugh. 266 00:55:55.000 --> 00:56:02.000 You furnish a table for me in the wilderness. 267 00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:07.000 I partake of you, Jesus. I receive communion right now. 268 00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:13.000 I believe that as I do, the covenant with you is affirmed. 269 00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:18.000 It's a new covenant of your grace, ratified by your own blood. 270 00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:27.000 And all of the benefits of the cross are mine in Jesus' name. Amen. 271 00:56:57.000 --> 00:57:04.000 Thank you for listening.