WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.840 Do not believe the lie that you cannot hear his voice. 2 00:00:03.840 --> 00:00:10.560 Jesus said, my sheep, they hear my voice and the voice of a stranger, they will not follow. 3 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:14.080 And if you have not sensed the leading and the guiding of the Lord, 4 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:19.920 begin there the words of Jesus and begin saying Jesus' words out loud. 5 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:22.800 Lord, I believe that you are a good shepherd. 6 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:24.880 I am your sheep. I hear your voice. 7 00:00:25.840 --> 00:00:28.560 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 8 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:35.520 Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. 9 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:41.360 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com 10 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:44.480 that citylightnyc.com. 11 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:52.400 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 12 00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:57.280 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, 13 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:02.480 that you are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you. 14 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:09.040 Why don't you just be seated for a moment? 15 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:12.640 God bless Zellas City Lighters. 16 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:16.720 Open and hungry City Lighters. 17 00:01:18.080 --> 00:01:19.120 I'm hungry for you. 18 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:26.240 I'm famished for you. 19 00:01:26.240 --> 00:01:29.600 I'm hungry for your breakthrough. 20 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:32.960 Hallelujah. 21 00:01:32.960 --> 00:01:46.880 And I'm not working that up if I could, because it's a delight to sense, because really when I say, 22 00:01:46.880 --> 00:01:49.840 I'm hungry for you, what I'm sensing is the Lord's desire for you. 23 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:51.200 It's resting on me. 24 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:58.960 I sense His desire to bless you, to come to you, to shake you out of a static place. 25 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:03.440 Static place is a euphemism for pit of despair. 26 00:02:05.520 --> 00:02:07.360 Very boring, man-eventful place. 27 00:02:09.920 --> 00:02:10.640 I sense it. 28 00:02:11.600 --> 00:02:17.520 I feel like what Paul cried out in Romans 1, I longed to come to you, to impart unto you some 29 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:23.360 spiritual gift he said to the Romans, along for the Holy Spirit who's moving in our midst of the 30 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:23.920 common hall. 31 00:02:26.160 --> 00:02:27.760 And that's what he wants to do. 32 00:02:27.760 --> 00:02:30.000 It's not because I'm such a good pastor that I long. 33 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:31.360 It's him. 34 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:33.040 He longs for you. 35 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:36.320 Hallelujah. 36 00:02:36.720 --> 00:02:39.520 Now, what a good song. 37 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:47.920 That song, the lyrics of that song, would confound 80% of theologians who got their Ph.D. 38 00:02:50.320 --> 00:02:54.960 Because it talks about the goodness of God, and over and over again says God is good. 39 00:02:55.440 --> 00:03:09.520 To confound 80% of all theologians, just let them know that your core belief is that God is good, 40 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:10.720 and the devil is bad. 41 00:03:13.440 --> 00:03:16.560 But wait, let me bring some nuance. 42 00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:19.200 Keep your nuance. 43 00:03:19.760 --> 00:03:21.760 And I'll stick to the word. 44 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:28.640 Because the Bible says that Jesus Christ was made manifest to destroy the works of the devil. 45 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:34.000 And you look at what the works of the devil are throughout the gospels, the Jesus destroyed. 46 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:37.040 Everywhere there was sick people, he healed them. 47 00:03:37.760 --> 00:03:40.480 Where there was despair, he brought hope. 48 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:43.440 Where there was poverty, he brought provision. 49 00:03:44.720 --> 00:03:46.800 Where there were broken hearts, he healed them. 50 00:03:49.440 --> 00:03:54.960 And then in case anybody was confused up until that point, then he said, 51 00:03:56.160 --> 00:04:00.160 the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy, devil bad. 52 00:04:00.880 --> 00:04:05.520 I have come to give life, and that you would have it in abundance, God good. 53 00:04:06.320 --> 00:04:13.680 And still 2000 years later, eggheads come around, educated far beyond their intellect. 54 00:04:15.440 --> 00:04:16.640 And they want to mix the two. 55 00:04:17.440 --> 00:04:18.720 Because you know why that happens? 56 00:04:19.440 --> 00:04:24.480 People change their theology based on their experiences and what they're going through. 57 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:27.520 How do I know? 58 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:29.520 Because I know what the devil tried to do with me. 59 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:34.720 Whenever I go through a pit, or a valley, or there's difference, you know, there's valleys. 60 00:04:35.280 --> 00:04:38.080 That's just a passing point between mountain tops. 61 00:04:38.080 --> 00:04:40.320 Then there's the pit, the pit's no joke. 62 00:04:41.280 --> 00:04:46.080 The pit's when you're tempted not to come to church, and you're tempted not to pray. 63 00:04:46.080 --> 00:04:49.360 And maybe you even stop and the pit is where you want to jump out of your own skin. 64 00:04:50.080 --> 00:04:50.960 I've been in the pit. 65 00:04:53.200 --> 00:04:59.440 And in the pit, God seems distant, he's not, but he seems that way. 66 00:04:59.440 --> 00:05:02.160 And then you're tempted to rework your theology. 67 00:05:03.280 --> 00:05:06.000 Well, the word of God is the word of God. 68 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:11.040 And I'm not going to adjust biblical truth because I'm going through something. 69 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:14.560 Never doubt in the darkness what God has spoken in the light. 70 00:05:16.400 --> 00:05:17.280 Hallelujah. 71 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:28.800 I think this is just a shaking up service. 72 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:33.440 For some of you, you still can't get past that I walk down the aisle, 73 00:05:33.440 --> 00:05:34.320 stinging in tongues. 74 00:05:35.280 --> 00:05:36.640 Why are you giving me... 75 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:47.360 You know, God will offend your head to expose your heart. 76 00:05:49.200 --> 00:05:52.160 In fact, that's why Jesus ministered the way he ministered. 77 00:05:53.760 --> 00:05:57.280 You look at some of the miracles, he actually touched the guy's tongue. 78 00:05:58.720 --> 00:05:59.680 Like, why would he do that? 79 00:06:00.400 --> 00:06:02.000 I mean, if I did that, you could sue me. 80 00:06:04.400 --> 00:06:08.080 I pray for you, I just went, just, you don't know if he grabbed it. 81 00:06:09.200 --> 00:06:12.800 Maybe the guy was a mouth breather, and Jesus didn't have to do so much work. 82 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:15.200 But he touched his tongue. 83 00:06:19.760 --> 00:06:22.160 Another guy, Jesus put Spital in his ears. 84 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:27.760 Another guy, he put Spital in the clay and put the clay, Spital clay. 85 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:34.160 Just saying, people don't like to talk about such things, 86 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:37.040 but Jesus was a hundred percent man. 87 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:41.200 On a hundred percent God, he was a man. 88 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:45.600 I had a joke there, I'm not even going to go with my head. 89 00:06:47.200 --> 00:06:48.960 I'm already pushing some people too much. 90 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:53.440 I'm just saying they didn't have Listerine back in those days. 91 00:06:53.760 --> 00:06:57.600 I smell religion. 92 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:03.840 He would offend their heads to expose their hearts. 93 00:07:04.960 --> 00:07:07.840 Naman, the capture of the Syrian army, the general, 94 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:12.000 it was covered in leprosy, came to Elijah. 95 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:17.360 Elijah said, go dip in the Jordan River seven times. 96 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:18.800 Naman flipped out. 97 00:07:19.760 --> 00:07:22.080 Jordan is muddy, nasty, ugly. 98 00:07:22.080 --> 00:07:24.400 Said, we have pristine clear waters back in Syria. 99 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:26.000 And you're telling me to 100 00:07:27.840 --> 00:07:31.440 it offended his head, exposed his heart, 101 00:07:31.440 --> 00:07:36.160 and he humbled himself and went and dipped down in that Jordan River seven times the seven time. 102 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:37.360 Bible says he came out. 103 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:39.280 His skin was lily white. 104 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:51.920 Smith Wiggles worked. 105 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:52.880 He would punch people. 106 00:07:56.960 --> 00:07:58.240 I always wondered about that. 107 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:00.240 I read all the books, the accounts, 108 00:08:00.880 --> 00:08:02.160 trying to figure. 109 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:04.160 And then if you really figure out what he was doing, 110 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:06.160 yes, it was prompted by the Holy Spirit. 111 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:08.960 But you know, people get so bound up in their head 112 00:08:09.840 --> 00:08:13.600 and they have a preconceived, cemented idea of how God's going to do it. 113 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:17.120 And there's such control freaks that they just, 114 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:20.800 they need a good whack so he could sneak the anointing in. 115 00:08:21.440 --> 00:08:24.240 Because in that moment of, the preacher just hit me. 116 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:24.880 God heals them. 117 00:08:26.400 --> 00:08:27.360 Get the past that. 118 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:35.680 Hallelujah. 119 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:40.080 You know what you preach about, you bring about. 120 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:42.560 And I just preach about, I feel that anointing. 121 00:08:42.560 --> 00:08:48.000 Oh God's after you. 122 00:08:50.160 --> 00:08:51.520 He wants to bless you so. 123 00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:56.160 Hallelujah. 124 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:00.160 Hallelujah. 125 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:07.440 This journey is going to begin with a quality decision, as they say. 126 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:11.680 A quality decision that the God is good. 127 00:09:12.640 --> 00:09:13.760 And the devil is bad. 128 00:09:15.520 --> 00:09:16.720 And the two won't meet. 129 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:17.200 Amen. 130 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:20.480 And that God is good to you. 131 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:24.080 And that he wants to show himself strong on your behalf. 132 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:28.800 And that he is the good shepherd. 133 00:09:29.680 --> 00:09:33.440 And he has promised to lead you and to guide you 134 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:35.760 in all the affairs of life. 135 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:39.280 That he would as the good shepherd take you by the hand 136 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:42.000 and guide you. 137 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:43.680 And go before you. 138 00:09:45.680 --> 00:09:48.880 Years ago I read a survey that was conducted nationally 139 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:52.160 about what the number one question is that pastors guess. 140 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:58.240 Excuse me, get the number one question pastors across the country. 141 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:02.000 And that's how can I know the will of God. 142 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:05.360 And there was a cry for the word of God. 143 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:08.480 And rightly so because with the word of God you can do anything. 144 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:13.360 I've often said that I can do anything with the word of God. 145 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:15.920 If I have the word of God on the subject, 146 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:23.520 the word of the Lord came and the word of the Lord for my life was pack your bags. 147 00:10:23.520 --> 00:10:27.840 They're going to live in a tent in the Amazon river in the forest. 148 00:10:28.800 --> 00:10:31.520 I need two or three solid confirmations of that word. 149 00:10:33.760 --> 00:10:37.440 Confirmed by my Presbyteria as well and the closest around me. 150 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:39.600 But if it came, I'd be like, yeah, game on. 151 00:10:40.880 --> 00:10:44.160 Because if the word of is there, I have a foundation. 152 00:10:44.640 --> 00:10:46.640 I can do anything with the word of God. 153 00:10:46.640 --> 00:10:50.960 Peter when he saw Jesus walking on the water, Peter wanted to walk on water. 154 00:10:51.520 --> 00:10:52.720 You know what he said to Jesus? 155 00:10:53.280 --> 00:10:58.800 Master, bid me to come, give me the word and I will join you. 156 00:10:58.800 --> 00:11:02.160 So Jesus gave him one word, come, come. 157 00:11:02.880 --> 00:11:06.480 And Peter didn't really walk on the water, he walked on the word. 158 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:10.080 One word, come, join me. 159 00:11:11.760 --> 00:11:13.520 And as long as his eyes were on Jesus, 160 00:11:15.760 --> 00:11:16.800 stayed on top. 161 00:11:16.800 --> 00:11:19.680 When he looked at the wind, the boisterous began to sink. 162 00:11:19.680 --> 00:11:22.400 But gentle Jesus helped him. 163 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:29.840 And so I can do anything with the word from heaven. 164 00:11:31.040 --> 00:11:33.280 We should be hungry for a word from heaven. 165 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:37.520 And you see that particularly in charismatic circles. 166 00:11:37.520 --> 00:11:42.160 Whenever there's a prophetic voice, every seed is full. 167 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:45.440 Everybody wants the word. 168 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:49.920 But the reality is, and while I love the gifts of the Holy Spirit, 169 00:11:49.920 --> 00:11:53.280 and a dear friend of mine is David Wagner and he'll be joining us in the fall. 170 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:55.680 A prophet of the Lord. 171 00:11:55.680 --> 00:12:00.800 But the reality is, is that the Lord has promised to lead you to guide you in all the affairs of life. 172 00:12:00.880 --> 00:12:03.440 And his counsel, it shouldn't be strange to you. 173 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:07.440 Do not believe the lie that you cannot hear his voice. 174 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:11.680 Jesus said, my sheep, they hear my voice. 175 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.080 And the voice of a stranger, they will not follow. 176 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:19.680 And if you have not sensed the leading and the guiding of the Lord, 177 00:12:19.680 --> 00:12:22.080 begin there, the words of Jesus. 178 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:28.560 And begin saying, Jesus' words out loud, Lord, I believe, 179 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:34.240 that you are a good shepherd, I am your sheep, I hear your voice. 180 00:12:36.880 --> 00:12:37.600 Hallelujah. 181 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:43.760 You know, my problem, the first few years I was a Christian, was, 182 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:48.880 Christians were flaky in describing how they heard from God. 183 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:52.320 So I was expecting something spectacular, 184 00:12:52.400 --> 00:12:55.440 like an audible voice, 185 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:00.640 like a charcoal in the hesson on top of Mount Sinai. 186 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:03.200 This is God. 187 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:06.640 And it never came. 188 00:13:06.640 --> 00:13:09.600 And I kept trying to hear God with these floppy things on the side of my head. 189 00:13:12.800 --> 00:13:15.760 When he talks to your spirit, he is the Holy Spirit. 190 00:13:15.760 --> 00:13:17.760 He talks to your spirits. 191 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:21.600 You have a soul, but you are a spirit. 192 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:25.280 You have a soul, Greek, suitcase, where we get psyche from. 193 00:13:25.280 --> 00:13:26.080 Mind. 194 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:30.320 Your mind is a cocktail with a lot of ingredients. 195 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:37.840 Your past experiences, current biases, your fears, your hopes, your dreams. 196 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.200 You see the whole world through a filter of your psyche. 197 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:46.720 But your spirit man has been born again into the image of Jesus. 198 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:49.120 And your spirit is the real you. 199 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:53.120 And he is not the Holy Brain who's going to talk to your brain. 200 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:56.480 He is the Holy Spirit who's going to talk to your spirit. 201 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:59.520 And it took a good four years from 92 to 96. 202 00:13:59.520 --> 00:14:02.080 The summer of 96 was when it crystallized for me. 203 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:10.560 That he will talk to me in my spirit through the still small voice, the inward witness. 204 00:14:10.560 --> 00:14:13.520 Yes, there's all these other ways, just like over 25 ways, 205 00:14:13.520 --> 00:14:15.760 just in the book of Acts that God speaks to His people. 206 00:14:17.040 --> 00:14:22.960 But I've heard men of God who have shaken nation say the primary way, 207 00:14:23.680 --> 00:14:32.080 over 95% of the time, the way he speaks to me is that still small voice in my spirit. 208 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:38.080 The red light, green light, the room and the thumb that he's put inside of me. 209 00:14:40.560 --> 00:14:44.080 You know, those are actual stones back in Old Testament that the High Priest had. 210 00:14:44.880 --> 00:14:46.160 They would light up different colors. 211 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:51.200 When it says that David inquired of the Lord, 212 00:14:52.160 --> 00:14:55.920 oftentimes you'll see they bring out the stones, they were in the thumb and they would light 213 00:14:55.920 --> 00:14:59.120 up different colors to show the will of God. 214 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:01.920 Everything in the Old Testament is physical. 215 00:15:01.920 --> 00:15:05.760 We have the spiritual and the Old Testament is outward and the new is inward. 216 00:15:05.760 --> 00:15:06.800 What was that? 217 00:15:06.800 --> 00:15:10.560 It was forecasting the primary way that the Lord would deal with His people. 218 00:15:11.520 --> 00:15:14.000 You don't now come into city light and say where the stone's at. 219 00:15:16.160 --> 00:15:18.080 Because He's put His Holy Spirit inside of you. 220 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:20.880 He'll guide you from the inside out. 221 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:27.680 Paul and Roman said, as many as are led by the Spirit of God, 222 00:15:28.160 --> 00:15:30.000 these are the children of God. 223 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:36.080 So one of the keys in this year Christian life is learning how to live out of your spirit, 224 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:38.960 living out of your spirit man. 225 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:43.280 Being, as the old-timers used to say, belly led. 226 00:15:43.280 --> 00:15:47.840 I feel like I'm an object lesson as I preach that truth. 227 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:52.480 You agreed way too loud. 228 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:58.560 Being belly led. 229 00:15:58.560 --> 00:16:01.120 You're inner man. 230 00:16:07.040 --> 00:16:08.240 You're spirit man. 231 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:11.200 That's where the good stuff is. 232 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:14.240 Hallelujah. 233 00:16:14.880 --> 00:16:16.320 Man, I'm happy this morning. 234 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:24.560 The Lord is up to something. 235 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:27.680 What was the last time you saw me like this? 236 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:30.320 You were just saying that? 237 00:16:31.680 --> 00:16:35.760 I mean, if I could do this whenever I wanted, I'd hit that button every Sunday. 238 00:16:35.760 --> 00:16:36.480 I love this. 239 00:16:37.680 --> 00:16:38.160 I can't. 240 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:39.760 The Lord is. 241 00:16:43.760 --> 00:16:45.280 Something's cooking and we're going to. 242 00:16:46.160 --> 00:16:51.680 My job is to figure out what is the up to and ignite that thing. 243 00:16:53.520 --> 00:16:56.640 Well, Lord, but what I sense is the movement. 244 00:17:02.800 --> 00:17:04.240 You know, I hear the word of the Lord. 245 00:17:05.840 --> 00:17:09.440 Out of the book of Job, when he said to Satan, 246 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:10.800 there was a line drawn and he said, 247 00:17:10.800 --> 00:17:13.120 this far and no further. 248 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:15.760 Hallelujah. 249 00:17:15.760 --> 00:17:17.840 This far and no further. 250 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:24.000 Hallelujah. 251 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:27.600 He's good. 252 00:17:27.600 --> 00:17:28.160 He's good. 253 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:32.000 So, I want to show you one of my favorite. 254 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:33.280 Did I do that already? 255 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:37.040 Let's show that we should have quoted a lot of scriptures, 256 00:17:37.040 --> 00:17:39.360 but I want you to see those of you who are guests. 257 00:17:39.360 --> 00:17:40.880 I'm not just making it up. 258 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:42.640 Let's put that scripture on the screen. 259 00:17:46.080 --> 00:17:47.120 Hallelujah. 260 00:17:48.560 --> 00:17:51.360 We had this video of the picnic to show you. 261 00:17:53.120 --> 00:17:56.160 And you're going to have to go on our social media now to see it. 262 00:17:58.560 --> 00:17:59.040 Trust. 263 00:17:59.920 --> 00:18:01.040 No, not that one. 264 00:18:01.040 --> 00:18:02.080 Although that's a great verse. 265 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:07.360 The first verse I sent. 266 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:12.800 Take me back to the beginning. 267 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:19.840 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. 268 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:23.760 I will guide you with my eye. 269 00:18:25.280 --> 00:18:29.280 If you resonated when I said that the number one question pastors get is, 270 00:18:29.280 --> 00:18:30.880 how can I know the will of God? 271 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:32.640 You need to memorize this verse. 272 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:33.760 Say it out loud. 273 00:18:33.760 --> 00:18:35.520 No matter what you feel like. 274 00:18:36.080 --> 00:18:36.800 Say it. 275 00:18:36.800 --> 00:18:37.600 Believe it. 276 00:18:37.600 --> 00:18:38.560 Confess it. 277 00:18:38.560 --> 00:18:43.200 Make this part of your identity that the Lord is good. 278 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:45.200 And that he promised in his word. 279 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:48.080 Does this seem like a distant far off God? 280 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:51.520 This is a close loving intimate God. 281 00:18:51.520 --> 00:18:52.400 This is dad. 282 00:18:53.120 --> 00:18:55.200 This is something I will instruct you. 283 00:18:55.760 --> 00:18:56.320 I love you. 284 00:18:56.320 --> 00:18:59.440 I will teach you in the way you should go. 285 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:01.520 I'm going to guide you with my eye. 286 00:19:01.520 --> 00:19:02.960 Let's look at it in the NIV. 287 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:08.640 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. 288 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:13.680 I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. 289 00:19:15.040 --> 00:19:15.840 Hallelujah. 290 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:21.280 Something that's happening in this service is that 291 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:24.480 many of you you're hearing from the Lord. 292 00:19:25.120 --> 00:19:28.320 Others you've come in with a lot of spiritual ear wax. 293 00:19:28.320 --> 00:19:31.360 And the Lord has taken a divine Q-tip to you. 294 00:19:34.320 --> 00:19:36.000 A lot, a lot of shoveling out. 295 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:39.200 It's all right. 296 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:40.000 He doesn't mind. 297 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:40.640 He's still loving. 298 00:19:43.840 --> 00:19:45.440 And just causing you to hear once again. 299 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:50.000 Some of you are going to hear for the first time. 300 00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:52.240 He's talking to you about you. 301 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:53.120 Your favorite subject. 302 00:19:53.120 --> 00:19:53.360 Hey. 303 00:19:58.720 --> 00:19:59.920 Talking to you about your life. 304 00:20:02.800 --> 00:20:04.320 Talking to you about what's up ahead? 305 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:09.200 How many of you would say I feel like the Lord has been speaking to me since I came 306 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:09.680 in this place? 307 00:20:09.680 --> 00:20:10.320 Let me see your hand. 308 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:13.680 Look, that's what the Lord is doing. 309 00:20:13.840 --> 00:20:28.400 When the Word of the Lord came to Zachariah, 310 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:37.120 that's Elizabeth's husband, Elizabeth the cousin of Mary. 311 00:20:37.840 --> 00:20:45.840 He said, with God nothing shall be impossible, 312 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:48.720 which is the great verse. 313 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:55.760 But it's even greater when you break it down and understand that when he said with God no 314 00:20:55.760 --> 00:21:01.680 thing shall be impossible, what he was saying was before with God no word that he speaks will 315 00:21:01.680 --> 00:21:03.280 be impossible for him to perform. 316 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:04.720 Do you know why? 317 00:21:05.360 --> 00:21:08.080 Because the Hebrew word for word is the same word for thing. 318 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:11.120 Because the Hebrew is understood that words create things. 319 00:21:13.840 --> 00:21:16.240 That God created this universe with the words of his mouth. 320 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:23.040 In fact, what is that? 321 00:21:23.040 --> 00:21:27.840 Luke 117, that's a good guess. 322 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:30.240 138. 323 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:36.400 I want you to see it. 324 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:38.560 Worship, look at that. 325 00:21:39.120 --> 00:21:40.560 Lord, they have all forsaken me. 326 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:42.880 None is left. 327 00:21:47.040 --> 00:21:51.040 Worship team sends you text messages out, use the bathroom, get some water. 328 00:21:52.560 --> 00:21:53.840 The party's continuing. 329 00:21:57.920 --> 00:21:58.880 I love the worship team. 330 00:21:59.600 --> 00:22:00.240 Love them. 331 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:02.000 This church wouldn't be what it is without them. 332 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:06.000 But I got to know how many jobs do they have? 333 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:08.720 They are, I mean, the level of text they send. 334 00:22:20.800 --> 00:22:21.040 What? 335 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:24.640 No, hey, not just start, look at them. 336 00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:29.760 Hey, guys, I love you, but it is, it is a meme around the whole country, you know. 337 00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:36.240 He's got it. 338 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:42.160 We got a stereotype as pastors. 339 00:22:43.280 --> 00:22:44.400 Anyone in the worship team? 340 00:22:45.600 --> 00:22:47.840 It's your normal SMS level timestamp. 341 00:22:47.840 --> 00:22:48.480 What's going on? 342 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:49.280 I don't know. 343 00:22:49.280 --> 00:22:51.840 I'm not on the worship team, but something, 344 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:53.920 something is happening there. 345 00:22:59.920 --> 00:23:01.840 Hey, those are my second guests. 346 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:05.040 Didn't I? 347 00:23:05.040 --> 00:23:05.840 117? 348 00:23:05.840 --> 00:23:07.280 I said 138ish, right? 349 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:09.120 Look at that. 350 00:23:13.760 --> 00:23:16.080 Because that's a good verse, but not the one I'm talking about. 351 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:18.080 Great verse. 352 00:23:18.320 --> 00:23:25.200 No, this is Zachariah and the angel. 353 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:31.760 All right, you're going to have to take my word for it. 354 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:38.480 And those of you who are guests come back next Sunday, I'm going to have a sermon so polished. 355 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:43.680 We're going to have every second of the service programmed. 356 00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:47.840 It's going to be, it's going to go right to schedule. 357 00:23:50.320 --> 00:24:02.480 It'll be very comfortable and you'll feel safe. 358 00:24:13.760 --> 00:24:23.280 Why don't you just begin in Genesis and we'll all go through it. 359 00:24:29.280 --> 00:24:31.440 You know, Hester and I are very, very close. 360 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:33.120 No, we really are. 361 00:24:33.120 --> 00:24:36.000 Hester and I go back from the beginning. 362 00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:40.960 And she's really a friend of our family and I'm so blessed by her number one 363 00:24:41.760 --> 00:24:48.320 that she can handle me and then we've continued to stay close with her 364 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:50.400 in media. 365 00:24:51.760 --> 00:24:54.080 There's a very, very tender forgiving heart. 366 00:24:55.040 --> 00:25:15.680 You know, back in my day, the preacher, as the Lord spoke to him, he would have to find the 367 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:18.880 verse and there was so much quiet time in the church. 368 00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:22.000 Do any of you remember those days? 369 00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:27.200 And you go, okay, and then you would have to thumb through and like three minutes will go by 370 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:28.240 and nobody would mind. 371 00:25:29.280 --> 00:25:33.840 But now if there's any law in a service, like, you know, we typically have the verses, 372 00:25:35.680 --> 00:25:39.040 we can condense so much material in 35 minutes. 373 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:43.840 Well, that's nice, but what's missing sometimes is the law. 374 00:25:43.920 --> 00:25:45.520 That's why I don't mind the law right now. 375 00:25:45.520 --> 00:25:47.840 I believe the law is actually what the Lord is after. 376 00:25:49.760 --> 00:25:51.600 He's after, he's after meeting with you. 377 00:25:51.600 --> 00:25:54.480 It also separates people who aren't hungry from those who are. 378 00:25:56.400 --> 00:25:59.840 You know, they ask Jesus, why do you talk in parables? 379 00:26:01.360 --> 00:26:02.320 You know what Jesus said? 380 00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:05.280 So seeing them may not see and hearing them may not hear. 381 00:26:06.560 --> 00:26:10.000 Jesus actually say I speak in stories that are kind of like riddles and the 382 00:26:10.080 --> 00:26:15.600 heart to understand so that those who are lucky lose and just kind of hanging out on the outskirts 383 00:26:15.600 --> 00:26:17.120 that they wouldn't get what I'm saying. 384 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:23.360 I'm making it hard on purpose so the hungry and thirsty who dig for it, 385 00:26:23.360 --> 00:26:26.000 it's not hidden from them, but it's hidden for them. 386 00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:33.040 And so a service like this that really divides the ones who have faith and who are hungry 387 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:35.040 and those who just are like, 388 00:26:35.040 --> 00:26:41.120 I'm letting you know what's happening here. 389 00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:44.480 Hallelujah. 390 00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:58.800 I need spectacles for the full effect. 391 00:26:59.040 --> 00:27:14.480 I just want to know if you have one, is the answer yes, is he nodding? 392 00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:19.040 I forgot my in-ear, what's the answer? 393 00:27:19.040 --> 00:27:20.160 He has one, okay. 394 00:27:25.120 --> 00:27:26.720 You know, I could have googled it by now. 395 00:27:28.800 --> 00:27:50.320 That's also a good verse, but not the one I was looking for. 396 00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:53.440 For with God, nothing shall be impossible. 397 00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:55.040 I mean, it's, it's, it's, we're, look why? 398 00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:58.720 137, what did I say before? 399 00:28:01.120 --> 00:28:03.040 Because you know why? 400 00:28:03.760 --> 00:28:09.200 Because it was with Mary, not with Zechariah, like Mauricio said, like Matt. 401 00:28:14.560 --> 00:28:17.520 I'm just, I'm just imitating modern media. 402 00:28:17.760 --> 00:28:27.840 I'm just imitating the gaslighting and scapegoating and brazen lying of modern media. 403 00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:32.080 Because it wasn't, Mauricio, and not me. 404 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:36.640 If you hear that lie four more times, you'll actually believe what I'm saying. 405 00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:42.320 For with God, nothing will be impossible. 406 00:28:43.120 --> 00:28:47.520 For with God, no thing, for with God, no, the word there is Rema. 407 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:54.000 Rema, for with God, no spoken word, for with God, no promise that he speaks to you, 408 00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:56.400 will be impossible for him to perform. 409 00:28:57.760 --> 00:29:06.320 Now, God, in order to produce fruit in your life, has to, don't wince, 410 00:29:07.040 --> 00:29:10.400 has to impregnate you with the seed of his word. 411 00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:12.880 That's how you become fruitful. 412 00:29:14.320 --> 00:29:19.840 He whispers a promise to you in your spirit, and you have a choice to make. 413 00:29:19.840 --> 00:29:24.080 You can believe it, and then that spirit will come into that seed, excuse me, 414 00:29:24.080 --> 00:29:29.120 will come into good soil and produce fruit, or you can doubt and not believe it in which case 415 00:29:29.120 --> 00:29:31.040 you perform a spiritual abortion. 416 00:29:31.840 --> 00:29:36.160 And he's trying to impregnate you with his word with a promise to produce great fruit in your 417 00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:40.320 life, and you go, oh, how can these things be? I don't know, Lord, would you, could you really, 418 00:29:40.320 --> 00:29:45.520 are you really that good? Would you really do that in my life? And you, you terminate the pregnancy. 419 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:50.480 Be believing, be not unbelieving. 420 00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:59.200 So he's going to speak to people, let them speak to you about your current situation, 421 00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:02.880 let them speak to you about what he's doing in your life, let him speak to you about whatever 422 00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:09.040 he wants, but just to receive that word and let it hit the soil of your hearts 423 00:30:11.120 --> 00:30:19.280 and pour some faith on it. And say, Lord, I don't know how these things will be, but I believe. 424 00:30:19.840 --> 00:30:26.160 Now if Mary could say that to Gabriel, how great is your promise that a 15-year-old girl could say, 425 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:35.120 okay, I'll believe. Is yours greater than that you're going to have your virgin and you'll 426 00:30:35.120 --> 00:30:51.600 give birth to God incarnate? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. For with God, no thing, no word that he says that 427 00:30:51.600 --> 00:30:59.120 he gives to you will be impossible for him to perform because innate in the word of God is the 428 00:30:59.120 --> 00:31:08.640 power to fulfill itself. Hallelujah. Just close your eyes with me. 429 00:31:11.840 --> 00:31:20.240 Say this, dear Lord Jesus, I know that you love me. I believe you went to the cross. 430 00:31:21.600 --> 00:31:31.600 And became sin so that I could become righteous. You took sin out of the way and you made me new. 431 00:31:32.800 --> 00:31:41.520 I am forgiven. I'm a child of God. You have good plans for me. I give you my life. I surrender to 432 00:31:41.520 --> 00:31:49.440 your Lordship. Show your goodness to me. Whatever you want to do, do it in my life. 433 00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:58.080 Now put your eyes on Jesus and the worship team is going to sing and they're going to play. 434 00:31:58.080 --> 00:32:04.480 You can sing along if you want, but I encourage you to open up your heart and let him speak to you. 435 00:32:05.200 --> 00:32:09.120 Let him plant the seed of his promise. 436 00:32:11.120 --> 00:32:11.920 Hallelujah. 437 00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:40.080 We pray that you have been encouraged today. That you have been reminded how much God loves you 438 00:32:40.080 --> 00:32:45.600 and that you are surrounded by grace. Thank you for listening. Make sure that you subscribe 439 00:32:45.600 --> 00:32:53.520 to City Light Church podcast wherever you find your favorite podcasts worldwide.