WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 life is going to be hell on earth and hell when you get there without Jesus. 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:09.200 See, he didn't come to the earth and die on a horrible cross with a painful, 3 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:14.560 excruciating death because it would make a great movie. He did it was because it was 4 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:19.680 absolutely essential that something be done about your sin and mind. 5 00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:26.240 He paid my debt himself as a free gift and so all I had to do is be Lee and receive. 6 00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:31.920 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's word 7 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:37.840 and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. If you want to connect with City Light Church, 8 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:44.000 feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com, that's citylightnyc.com. 9 00:00:44.720 --> 00:00:50.560 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in 10 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:56.000 our hearts and minds. As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply 11 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:02.480 loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace and that He has a real hope and a future for you. 12 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:09.920 Put your hands together for John Arnett as he comes and blesses you. 13 00:01:14.160 --> 00:01:20.240 Thank you, Pastor. Well, this is just such a loving church. You know that, guys? 14 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:27.200 Here you are in the middle of New York City and we think, wow, like in the concrete jungle, 15 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:35.200 there are really living, caring, wonderful human beings. So turn and congratulate each other. 16 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:45.360 Well, you're for it. For being a trophy in New York City. It's so good. Wow. 17 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:53.360 Well, we've had a great time with you guys and let's see Friday night, Saturday night, 18 00:01:54.080 --> 00:01:59.840 Sunday morning, twice. This is good. Here we go the second time. And you know, the thing about 19 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:07.120 two services is you really feel like everything's condensed and there's so much more you would have 20 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:15.200 loved to have said, but hey, the next service is coming. So and even this one, you get classes 21 00:02:15.200 --> 00:02:22.800 after this and so we can't let you keep going until three. So what if the Holy Spirit wants to 22 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:32.080 move and He just falls on us and wipes everybody out and we get to break all the rules. Wouldn't that be 23 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:44.480 something? That's coming by the way. And today I want to talk to you about survival as a Christian, 24 00:02:44.480 --> 00:02:52.640 but more than that, learning the lessons that life and heaven have for you. But see, in order to 25 00:02:52.640 --> 00:03:01.520 make sense of the Word of God and the life experience as a Christian, you have to have the bigger 26 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:10.800 picture, including eternity. How many of you know that your life is not over when you die? 27 00:03:12.880 --> 00:03:20.400 And we use that term you die, but it's really just your body that dies. You carry on into a greater 28 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:28.880 and greater existence with Him. So you are already an eternal being. Does that make sense? 29 00:03:29.200 --> 00:03:40.720 Yes. It's like when I turned to 80, which was five years ago, I thought, oh my gosh, you're 80. 30 00:03:42.640 --> 00:03:51.600 And I got to admit, 80 is old. But then I started to think about it. Wait a minute. How old 31 00:03:51.600 --> 00:04:00.080 is old when you're going to live forever? Right? So tell me, how old is old? 32 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:09.280 How old is the ancient of days? See, if you're going to live forever, all that just kind of loses 33 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:16.560 its meaning. And so as long as I'm active and more or less healthy and going for it, I just plan on 34 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:24.560 doing this until I drop. Okay. Because a lot of people are so worried about growing old, 35 00:04:25.440 --> 00:04:32.800 that their life ends the minute they start worrying and thinking that way. I want you to think 36 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:40.480 about the fact that you are going to live forever. Watch some of these near death experience stories. 37 00:04:41.440 --> 00:04:48.480 And I watched one the other day and this young guy was saying, he saw his body over there and he 38 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:55.440 goes, huh, I think, yeah, I guess that's my body, but it's not me because I'm here and it's there. 39 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:03.360 And it's just don't on them, Ted. He's going to live forever. And so he's got a little 40 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:11.120 podcast going and all kinds of stuff and telling people, eternities on the horizon, everyone. 41 00:05:12.320 --> 00:05:16.080 So turn, tell your friend, it doesn't matter how old you are, you're going to live forever. 42 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:24.320 And that's a really good deal. Good deal. 43 00:05:34.320 --> 00:05:42.080 All right. I want to talk to you for a few minutes about what I call the convoluted or the random 44 00:05:42.080 --> 00:05:50.080 journey of life. Because life is full of ups and downs. How many found that? You have good days, 45 00:05:50.080 --> 00:05:56.880 you have bad days. And sometimes the bad days seem to be dominant. Isn't it funny how we really 46 00:05:56.880 --> 00:06:02.800 remember the bad days and the good days, you know, they're way back in the past somewhere. We 47 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:11.600 remember the good old days, but you know what, there's good days too. And don't let the bad days 48 00:06:12.640 --> 00:06:21.360 jade your perspective because God has a purpose in them. And what we want to talk about today is 49 00:06:22.080 --> 00:06:34.800 is the fact that a part of our preparation for eternity is learning to handle stress and trials. 50 00:06:36.960 --> 00:06:43.680 Remember the old song, my trials only helped to make me strong. I mean, you guys are all too young 51 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:50.960 to remember that Christian quartets and the way those guys used to sing and everything. But 52 00:06:51.520 --> 00:06:57.840 they sang all those kinds of songs. Through it all, through it all, I've learned to trust in Jesus, 53 00:06:57.840 --> 00:07:06.000 I've learned to trust in God. My trials only help to make me strong. And so adversity, when it comes, 54 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:15.440 it's going to do one of two things. It's going to make you bitter or better. That's your call 55 00:07:16.080 --> 00:07:22.640 and your choice and your reaction. How many want life to make you better and to nudge you along and 56 00:07:22.640 --> 00:07:30.560 make you more and more like Jesus who had his fair share of trials, by the way. And he was the 57 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:37.200 son of God and he did everything right. And so we want to talk about this journey because I think 58 00:07:37.280 --> 00:07:46.480 this message will help you. So let's look at Romans 828 as our verse. And I would encourage you to 59 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:52.400 print it out, stick it up in your bathroom mirror, and really get it into your spirit. 60 00:07:53.440 --> 00:08:00.720 But here's what it says, Romans chapter 8 verse 28. And we know, we know this, don't we? 61 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:10.320 That all things work together for good to those who love God and to those who were called according 62 00:08:10.320 --> 00:08:19.600 to his purpose. For who he for new, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son 63 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:26.800 that he Jesus might be the first born of many brothers and sisters. 64 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:35.840 So he wants you to be his sister and his brother. How many are up for that? 65 00:08:37.040 --> 00:08:44.480 Now there's no higher position in all of heaven, friends. The angels, they have to stand back and 66 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:53.920 say, well, those guys are family. He has adopted them into his kingdom. And these are the ones who are 67 00:08:53.920 --> 00:09:02.480 overcomers. How many want to be an overcomer in life? Put your hands up high. And heaven's counting to 68 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:11.120 see who's not putting their hand up. You want to be an overcomer? Wave at me. Say, yes, Lord, 69 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:19.840 I want to be an overcomer. I do with all my heart. I do. Okay, listen carefully. Overcomers 70 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:35.840 are going to need a few things to overcome. You get it? Just a few. Not a whole years and years and 71 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:42.080 years, hopefully, but a few things. But there are people who have struggled. You know, we had a guy 72 00:09:42.800 --> 00:09:50.480 a missionary, a man by the name of Warren Brent, who came to our little church when we first started 73 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:58.240 in Stratford. He was, I guess, a Y-Wam speaker and we got him. Richard Warren Brent. This man 74 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:06.800 was imprisoned in Romania for being a Lutheran Christian and he wouldn't stop. And so they put 75 00:10:06.800 --> 00:10:19.440 him in prison. And he was in there for, I believe it was 18 years. And he was in a cell that was four 76 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:28.240 feet long, two feet wide, and four feet high. So he couldn't even stand up. And he was a tall guy. 77 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:39.040 He was like over six feet. And I said, Richard, how on earth did you ever survive 18 years in those 78 00:10:39.040 --> 00:10:46.560 conditions? I mean, I'm a young Christian leader now and I'm trying to imagine what he's been 79 00:10:46.560 --> 00:10:54.160 through. And I asked him that question. Do you know what he said to me? He said, John, there are days 80 00:10:54.320 --> 00:11:06.000 when I wish I was back in my cell. I said, what? How can you possibly say that? He said, because the 81 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:16.400 presence of the Lord was so real in that miserable cell that I just loved to be in there with him, 82 00:11:17.040 --> 00:11:24.560 where all I could do was crouch down and weep and enjoy the goodness of God. 83 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:37.600 Oh man, it just left the mark on me. It really did. He learned that all things work together 84 00:11:37.680 --> 00:11:46.640 for good to those who love God, to those who were called according to his purpose. It was 85 00:11:46.640 --> 00:11:55.920 indelibly tattooed and written on his heart. But see, the problem with many of us as charismatic 86 00:11:55.920 --> 00:12:05.920 Christians is this. We have no theology for adversity, many of us. And it's not preached very 87 00:12:05.920 --> 00:12:15.360 often, as far as I know. I preached at one conference, one large conference, this message. I took 88 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:23.200 a lot of heat for it. What do you do in preaching discouragement? I wasn't preaching discouragement. 89 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:31.840 I'm preaching being an overcomer. See, I'm trying to connect reality like life is real. 90 00:12:32.560 --> 00:12:44.000 And your trials are real and they'll make you bitter or better and they will help you or hurt you 91 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:49.680 one or the other. Carol spoke about Joseph last night. How many were here last night? 92 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:57.040 Okay, how many want Joseph's anointing? You know how you get Joseph's anointing? 93 00:12:57.920 --> 00:13:04.480 You go through what Joseph went through. That's how. First of all, your family hates you. They want 94 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:11.680 to kill you, but they settled for selling you into slavery. And it wasn't just for a weekend. 95 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:19.440 It seems to me I tried to work it out roughly and we'll have to ask Chachi to pee to work it out. 96 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:28.720 The boy. It seems to me he was a slave for over 17 years. And it went okay at first, 97 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:34.000 didn't it? He's the right guy bottom and he's in a big house and it's okay. It could have been 98 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:40.320 worse. And so then he's made in charge of everything. But then when the lady of the house goes 99 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:48.160 for him and he says no thanks, she accused him of trying to rape her to save face he 100 00:13:48.160 --> 00:13:54.160 through Joseph in prison. I think if if he had a thought it was true he would have you know 101 00:13:54.160 --> 00:14:01.280 off with your head, but he settled for prison. And Joseph's in there is near as I can figure 102 00:14:01.280 --> 00:14:12.880 about 17 years. Think of that. God, what's up? What happened to all my dreams about 103 00:14:15.040 --> 00:14:20.960 being a leader and being a charge and my father wants this and wants that for me and everything 104 00:14:21.040 --> 00:14:34.240 else. What am I doing in this stinking prison? Well he's on a advanced course for how to be a 105 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:43.680 ruler over nations and how to learn adversity so you know how to handle problems. It's amazing, 106 00:14:43.680 --> 00:14:55.280 isn't it? Joseph, God bless you. And so we see in scripture the very same thing is true. 107 00:14:56.400 --> 00:15:02.800 And it was a shock to me when I first realized this but tell me who your favorite Bible character is. 108 00:15:03.040 --> 00:15:16.160 Just call it out. Come on. Who? John. Esther. David Deborah. Ruth. Jesus. 109 00:15:19.520 --> 00:15:27.680 And we all have our okay. Now pick one that had zero problems because they knew how to really 110 00:15:27.680 --> 00:15:37.520 work this Christian thing. They could overcome everything they just you know sailed through life 111 00:15:37.520 --> 00:15:43.760 because they prayed because they gave because they served because they believed because they studied 112 00:15:43.760 --> 00:15:59.280 because they did everything right. Who'd you pick? One guy said to me, Enoch. I said that's a good 113 00:15:59.280 --> 00:16:05.200 one. There's nothing in scripture that says Enoch had any trouble but wait a minute. He lived at 114 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:12.480 a time just before the flood when the Lord looked over humanity and he said, you know what? I am 115 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:18.480 sorry that I ever created man on the earth. This is so violent, so corrupt and so horrible. 116 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:29.520 So I don't think even Enoch had a good time on earth particularly. And so if all the greats of 117 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:40.560 the Bible had struggles to overcome, why are we so surprised when things go wrong from time to time? 118 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:49.520 Why do you think Romans 828 is in there to encourage you not to quit, not to give up? 119 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:59.680 And so these are the things that we want to set you at peace over because I have a suspicion 120 00:17:00.640 --> 00:17:09.120 that the enemy is whispering into your ear in saying things like it's not working for you, is it? 121 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:15.520 You can't seem to get on top of things. You can't make it work financially. The pastor said, 122 00:17:15.520 --> 00:17:24.720 if you tithe and financial blessing will come, when is it going to come? Health wise, healing is 123 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:31.200 in the word. Yes, it's the will about to heal you. Why am I not being healed? And what about my 124 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:36.400 family? And why did this happen? And why did my mother die when we prayed? And why did the 125 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:43.840 marriage fail when we prayed? And why is everything going wrong? And the devil says it's because 126 00:17:44.800 --> 00:17:51.600 it's not really for you. You can't make this work. Why don't you just pack it in? Why don't you quit? 127 00:17:52.240 --> 00:18:01.360 Go on out party and wine women in song and forget all this Christian stuff because you can't make 128 00:18:01.360 --> 00:18:11.600 it work. That's what he whispers in your ear. And I want to say to you, do not listen to that demonic 129 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:20.640 voice that is wanting to rob you of the only hope that we have. See, apart from Jesus, there is no hope. 130 00:18:21.840 --> 00:18:29.920 None. Life is going to be hell on earth and hell when you get there without Jesus. 131 00:18:31.360 --> 00:18:39.360 So he didn't come to the earth and die on a horrible cross with a painful excruciating death 132 00:18:40.320 --> 00:18:46.800 because it would make a great movie. That's not why he did it. He did it was because it was 133 00:18:46.800 --> 00:18:53.440 absolutely essential that something be done about your sin and mine. And since I had no way to 134 00:18:53.440 --> 00:19:02.080 repay him, he paid my debt himself as a free gift. It's all I had to do is believe and receive. 135 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:12.400 And as I become a Christian, now he wants to make me more and more like him. So my earthly 136 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:22.080 jaded personality has to go through transition, has to get squeezed, has to be conformed to be in 137 00:19:22.080 --> 00:19:30.320 the likeness of the dear son of God. That's the process, okay? So every day is not going to be a 138 00:19:30.320 --> 00:19:37.040 bed of roses. How many have had a good days? Some days, everything goes, well, have you ever had a 139 00:19:37.040 --> 00:19:45.120 great week? Wonderful week? Wow, we love those, don't we? Got a new car? Husband sent you a bouquet 140 00:19:45.120 --> 00:19:51.360 of flowers. I mean, you know, Carol loves it when for no reason, I just bring her flowers. 141 00:19:52.560 --> 00:19:56.640 Now, if it's a birthday or an anniversary and I forget it, that's a different thing. 142 00:19:57.120 --> 00:20:06.720 But you know what, there are days when we have good days, but there are also days when everything 143 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:13.840 goes wrong. And see, he knows that we all do pretty good when everything's going well, 144 00:20:15.600 --> 00:20:22.320 because we like it when things go well. I got to raise it work. Everybody's nice to me here. 145 00:20:23.040 --> 00:20:29.760 This, that, this, that. Even the policeman was nice. He, I was speeding, he had me for sure, 146 00:20:29.760 --> 00:20:37.040 but then he let me go and said, slow down, you know. Those are great days. We all do well during 147 00:20:37.040 --> 00:20:45.440 them, but he wants to know also how do you do when nothing is going your way? How do you do? 148 00:20:46.320 --> 00:20:55.360 Hmm, maybe not so good. See, the Bible characters are the very same. They had to face trials. 149 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:03.760 How many want Joseph's anointing again? I see. Didn't get hardly any hands that time. 150 00:21:06.320 --> 00:21:11.600 How many want David's anointing? Hey, David, you're going to be a king one day. 151 00:21:12.560 --> 00:21:20.320 You're, you're suspicious now, aren't you? You know, I would, if I'd asked that before, all the 152 00:21:20.320 --> 00:21:24.240 commentary, then, but every once and a while, yeah, I want David's anointing. 153 00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:36.000 You know, David got anointing in front of all his brothers and then quickly became an outlaw. 154 00:21:36.560 --> 00:21:44.240 His picture was up in all the post offices, you know. Most wanted guy. He's barely getting away 155 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:52.560 from Saul. All these close calls and finally he just gives up and says, come on, forget it. Saul's 156 00:21:52.560 --> 00:22:00.480 not going to rest until he takes me out. Let's go to the Philistines and make peace with them and 157 00:22:00.560 --> 00:22:08.640 that's what he did. Went to Zicklag. How did that work out for you, David? Well, the Philistines 158 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:14.240 expected us to go to battle with them, fight our own people. Okay, let's go guys. 159 00:22:15.280 --> 00:22:20.320 And then the other Philistine leader said, we're not taking those guys. No way. They'll, if the 160 00:22:20.320 --> 00:22:26.080 battle goes against us, they'll turn and join Israel. How better can they be reconciled to their 161 00:22:26.080 --> 00:22:34.480 leaders? So send them home. They all get up early in March home. Have you read this story? 162 00:22:35.520 --> 00:22:41.520 And when he got to Zicklag, what did they find? The place is burned to the ground. 163 00:22:42.320 --> 00:22:49.440 And the wives are gone and the kids are gone and the stuff is gone. And it was the worst day 164 00:22:49.520 --> 00:22:58.480 in David's life because his own men are saying, we're going to stone you because we've followed you, 165 00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:04.800 we trusted you, we believed in you and all the promises of God and look where it's got us. 166 00:23:05.520 --> 00:23:18.720 We've lost everything. Poor David, right? What's he do? He does the only thing that there is to do. 167 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:26.240 He gets alone and strengthens himself in the Lord. And he says, Lord, what do I do? 168 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:39.360 In the Lord says, pursue them and recover all. Recover all. Yeah. So he rallies his guys. 169 00:23:40.080 --> 00:23:44.000 Guys, here's what we're going to do. We're going to go after them and the Lord has told me we're 170 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:48.560 going to get everything back. So come on, those of you who are with me, let's go. 171 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:55.520 And off they go and they find the Amalekites all drunk and partying with all the spoil and everything 172 00:23:55.520 --> 00:24:02.480 they have and they fell upon them at night and they got everything back. It's like a country in 173 00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:09.120 Western. You know, we got my wife back and got my kids back and got my truck back. I mean, you know, 174 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:19.840 we're just really going here. And David got all this stuff back and he thought that's all we 175 00:24:19.840 --> 00:24:25.440 want. You know, we used to say that when COVID was ripping around, if we could just get back to where 176 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:32.880 we were, it feels like we lost so much ground and cost so much financially. Church was shut down for 177 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:40.560 a year. Oh my gosh. So many people died. We didn't have a lot. We had one or two, but 178 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:43.680 there was a lot died. 179 00:24:49.360 --> 00:24:58.560 David didn't realize that this wasn't just one more trial, but it was regime change 180 00:24:58.800 --> 00:25:05.680 because Saul was killed in the battle and the next thing, you know, the guys from Judah arrived 181 00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:11.360 said, David, you're our king. We want you to be king over Judah, which he was for seven years and then 182 00:25:12.080 --> 00:25:18.240 he became king over all the land of Israel according to the prophetic word of Samuel. 183 00:25:19.840 --> 00:25:24.720 How many of you have had a prophetic word that you've been hanging on too? Let's see. 184 00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:31.760 Let's see. Hang on, friends. The thing about prophetic words is hopefully they didn't put a 185 00:25:31.760 --> 00:25:41.040 timeline in there and tell you, oh yeah, by this time next week and that's where sometimes 186 00:25:41.040 --> 00:25:49.200 prophetic words go wrong. We tell our guys that no dates, no mates and no babies. 187 00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:56.400 Don't say you're going to meet a lovely girl or a wonderful young man who wants to marry you. 188 00:25:59.360 --> 00:26:08.000 You can say it but be careful and don't say when. Anyway, all of these things are 189 00:26:08.080 --> 00:26:09.920 trial. How many want David's anointing? 190 00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:24.080 I do. You mean David, the guy that got another man's wife pregnant and then had the guy killed and 191 00:26:24.080 --> 00:26:36.000 married the widow, that guy? Yeah, that guy. Wait a minute. Would you buy his book? 192 00:26:38.800 --> 00:26:48.640 Here comes the preacher by the way. He got another man's wife pregnant. 193 00:26:49.600 --> 00:26:53.920 Then he had that guy killed and he married the widow for crying out loud. 194 00:26:56.880 --> 00:27:03.280 Would you buy his book? Well, we do. I have a copy of it right here. 195 00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:11.440 Oh, no. Book of Psalms. You know, it's just a little rabbit hole here, but I said one day reading 196 00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:22.800 all this. I said, Lord, help me. Why would you choose David and then why would you choose 197 00:27:22.800 --> 00:27:38.560 Bathsheba? You know, Bathsheba was the ancestry mother of Jesus on two counts because she was 198 00:27:38.560 --> 00:27:50.080 the mother of Solomon, the son of David, and the mother of Nathan, another son of David through 199 00:27:50.080 --> 00:27:59.280 Bathsheba. David had kosher wives. Why would he choose Bathsheba? That was my question. Have you 200 00:27:59.280 --> 00:28:10.400 ever asked the Lord that? He said to me because when I forgive, my forgiveness is perfection. 201 00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:24.800 So here's another one for you. Saul and David, two young men, they're anointed 202 00:28:25.120 --> 00:28:40.800 with holy oil by Samuel, the mighty prophet. As that oil went over those two young men, the spirit 203 00:28:40.800 --> 00:28:46.960 of God came on them and they were given new hearts, both of them. They were anointed. 204 00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:58.240 What's the difference? Who's anointing? Would you like? How many want David's? How many want 205 00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:12.640 Saul's? Anybody want Saul's anointing? Besides Carol? See, they're identical. The question is, 206 00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:21.840 what will you do with the anointing he gives you? Very identical. See, Saul defaulted into 207 00:29:21.840 --> 00:29:28.960 blame shifting. It's not my fault. You turned up late. You're a day late. What was I to do? So 208 00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:36.640 the people, they made me do this, and it's blame shifting. Whereas David owned up to it. Nathan 209 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:47.360 said, you are the man. And David is like, I am. And he wept his way through to genuine repentance. 210 00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:55.200 And the Lord calls him a man after his own heart. See, Bible characters went through the 211 00:29:55.200 --> 00:30:06.320 testings of life just like you. So the bigger question I guess is, why does the Lord have a value 212 00:30:06.320 --> 00:30:18.800 on testing and adversity for us? What do you think? How many went to school and enjoyed exam time? 213 00:30:19.280 --> 00:30:27.840 Why don't I have to have exams, you know, that kids are asking. Because they want to know where 214 00:30:27.840 --> 00:30:33.040 you've been attention, did you learn anything so that we can move you on to the next grade? 215 00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:42.320 And your exam will tell that. Yeah, you remember it. Okay, good. You pass. Be promoted. 216 00:30:43.280 --> 00:30:48.880 But it's the stress of exams. Now Carol, she would go home from school and right away do her homework. 217 00:30:50.240 --> 00:30:58.880 And did well on her exams were me. I would leave homework to the last minute, you know. And 218 00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:07.520 cramming for exams when that time came along. Anybody else do that kind of thing? Anybody have? 219 00:31:07.600 --> 00:31:14.880 I'm not alone. Good. Carol was a good little girl. I want you to know that. And mother said, 220 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:21.520 do your homework. Yes, mom, she'll do it. My mom said, did you do your homework? Not yet, mom, 221 00:31:21.520 --> 00:31:30.400 but I'll get to it. Don't worry, you know. Yeah. Anyway, adversity, you know, it's biblical. 222 00:31:31.120 --> 00:31:39.120 Have adversity. And the problem is many of us as charismatic Christians, we have this notion 223 00:31:39.120 --> 00:31:46.640 that if we give enough, serve enough, read the word enough, believe enough, have faith enough 224 00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:52.720 that everything is going to just go smooth for us and better roses. 225 00:31:52.960 --> 00:32:04.320 And the problem is God builds into your lifetime in mind adversity because he wants to know, 226 00:32:05.040 --> 00:32:13.440 are you an overcomer or not? Because in the millennial kingdom, he wants people that have been 227 00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:22.320 tested and time tested and proven that they're going to make great rulers over cities for him. 228 00:32:22.320 --> 00:32:28.400 For the king of kings and lord of lords. And he says things like, well done, good and faithful 229 00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:35.760 servant. You've been faithful over a few things. I'm going to make you ruler over 10 cities. 230 00:32:53.040 --> 00:33:03.520 And I'm going to make you ruler over five cities because you passed the test, my dear. Well done. 231 00:33:05.840 --> 00:33:12.960 He wants you to be an overcomer. And like I said, to be an overcomer, you're going to need a few 232 00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:19.680 challenges for you to overcome. You're going to have to trust God, you're going to have to believe, 233 00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:26.160 you're going to have to this and you're going to have to that. I tell this story about 234 00:33:26.160 --> 00:33:35.840 Carol and I, two divorced singles. I had two girls, she had two boys. And we met each other along the 235 00:33:35.840 --> 00:33:43.440 way. And friends, even Benny hints at me that Johnny, you need to marry that Carol. I said, 236 00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:51.200 Benny, stop. I mean, I'm trying to rescue a failing marriage here. And he says, I know, but 237 00:33:52.400 --> 00:34:04.320 she's a good one. So okay, we eventually started dating when all hope was gone. I got my divorce 238 00:34:04.320 --> 00:34:12.240 in the mail. She had already had hers for a while. I remember one day walking along by the river, 239 00:34:12.240 --> 00:34:18.080 beautiful day in October. And I thought I'm going to ask her if she'd marry me. 240 00:34:19.600 --> 00:34:26.880 Do you remember that moment, girls? And so I stopped there. I looked into her beautiful blue eyes 241 00:34:26.960 --> 00:34:35.120 and I said, Carol, will you marry me? And she said, oh, yeah. 242 00:34:41.120 --> 00:34:48.080 I'm like, what? Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. How's it going to work? I've got two girls. 243 00:34:48.080 --> 00:34:54.560 You got two boys. And oh, God, I'll take care of us. Yeah, but we have no money. We got this 244 00:34:54.560 --> 00:35:01.360 struggling business and just in that. Oh, God, I'll take care of us. And there's about three or 245 00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:07.600 four of those. And I said, okay, well, if you think God's going to take care of us, let's do this then. 246 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:16.800 And so we got married about eight months later on June the 9th, 1979. It was a wonderful, wonderful, 247 00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:33.760 beautiful day. And by the way, we lived happily ever after. And that was almost 47 years ago. 248 00:35:36.640 --> 00:35:46.080 And we had no idea that we were being prepared and squeezed and tested to see how we would do. 249 00:35:46.080 --> 00:35:53.680 And then he's going to hand us a global revival to two broken pieces in life who couldn't even make 250 00:35:53.680 --> 00:36:04.640 marriage work really. His ways are not our ways, friends. So we felt disqualified to ever be pastors. 251 00:36:05.600 --> 00:36:11.040 I did. I'd been to Bible school, learned all that stuff. But I felt like, well, there goes my dream. 252 00:36:11.040 --> 00:36:16.880 Forget about that. You might as well just knuckle down and be in business, which I was trying to do. 253 00:36:17.600 --> 00:36:25.680 And it wasn't going all that great. It was scraping along. And now I know why. 254 00:36:26.320 --> 00:36:38.640 Your trials will only help to make you strong through it all. 255 00:36:41.360 --> 00:36:45.440 Romans 8, remember that verse, write it down. You're going to need it. Come through. 256 00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:53.200 Some of you are going through stuff right now. Health challenges, relational challenges, 257 00:36:53.200 --> 00:37:00.560 family challenges, and this and that and the other. And you're like, God, where are you? 258 00:37:00.560 --> 00:37:08.960 Like, I need you and I can't blind you. We need help. We need health. We need miracles. We need 259 00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:16.080 something. And he's like, yeah, keep pressing it. Keep trusting. Trust when all else fails. Trust 260 00:37:16.080 --> 00:37:23.040 when it seems like there's no more hope. And remember what he said to Abraham. 261 00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:27.840 The Lord showed up and said, and Sarah is going to have a son. 262 00:37:31.680 --> 00:37:37.920 And they both laughed, called the boy laughter, because that's what Isaac means. 263 00:37:39.520 --> 00:37:46.000 I want to give you one more example. Many are unprepared for adversity. 264 00:37:49.280 --> 00:38:01.200 John 16, 33 says, in this world, you will have tribulation, trouble. But be of good cheer. 265 00:38:01.200 --> 00:38:13.120 I've overcome the world. So he's got this thing. What your job is to hang in there and pass the test. 266 00:38:13.120 --> 00:38:23.600 Now, Hebrews 11 has got the list of champions. This guy overcame the fire and this guy overcame 267 00:38:23.600 --> 00:38:29.360 the lions and this guy overcame this and overcame that and overcame the other. How many love the 268 00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:39.840 hall of faith chapter in Hebrews? But it goes on to say, but others were saw in half and martyred 269 00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:48.480 and seemingly it didn't work out for them. No, they passed the test even though they died trying. 270 00:38:49.280 --> 00:39:00.720 See, the end is not the end with him. And some of us may get martyred. I don't know. 271 00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:10.400 Is that okay with you? I mean, I'm 85. It's okay with me now. Bring it on. You know, 272 00:39:11.360 --> 00:39:13.280 the martyrs get a better reward. 273 00:39:19.680 --> 00:39:27.840 Build your house on the rock, not on the sand. Because the rains descend and the floods come up 274 00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:34.640 on everybody. And if you've got a foundation unto you, that is the rock Christ Jesus, 275 00:39:35.120 --> 00:39:45.680 your life will stand the test one way or the other. This is the biblical basis for testing. 276 00:39:46.720 --> 00:39:52.720 In the world, you will have tribulation, trouble, pressure, but be of good cheer. Turn to your 277 00:39:52.720 --> 00:40:01.840 friends and say, be of good cheer. So we got all these characters in the Bible and every one of 278 00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:11.680 them had problems. What is your personal journey? Peter says the trial of your faith, 279 00:40:11.680 --> 00:40:23.840 1 Peter 1, 7, the trial of your faith is more precious than gold to him. He loves it when you 280 00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:34.160 hang on and say, I'm not going to quit. I'm going to keep going. That's what I did when I was 281 00:40:34.160 --> 00:40:38.720 going through and all is failing and the devil is telling me it's not working for you. Why don't you 282 00:40:38.720 --> 00:40:49.440 just forget this Christianity thing and go party on. And I had a long night of prayer 283 00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:57.680 and somewhere around four in the morning. I said, God, I've come too far with you to turn back now. 284 00:40:59.200 --> 00:41:07.600 So come what may I'm with you. You know, that was one of the smartest decisions I ever made. 285 00:41:07.600 --> 00:41:14.320 I passed the test that night and I ended up with Carol, my treasure. 286 00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:28.000 In one day, we were reading about the treasures and how we would be this peculiar King James 287 00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:36.800 were peculiar treasure unto him. Unusual special treasure. I stopped and I said, baby, 288 00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:43.280 I feel that way about you. Like some men, they drive it, some men, they hang it on the walls and 289 00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:50.880 others they invest it and they have it in the bank. I don't have that, but I have a living treasure 290 00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:57.040 and that's you. If you know what she did, she just burst into tears. I'm like, why didn't 291 00:41:57.040 --> 00:42:08.800 want to make you cry? See, the treasures in life that you really long for are not stuff or things, 292 00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:16.480 the relationships. And he wants to build relationships into your heart. That's why forgiveness is so 293 00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:23.200 important, everybody. Like last night, many of you came to the front and you forgave people. 294 00:42:23.200 --> 00:42:30.720 You gave them a gift. They do not deserve just like Jesus gave you that same gift that you did not 295 00:42:30.720 --> 00:42:39.520 deserve. His mercy, his forgiveness became a treasure for you and you got a relationship with 296 00:42:40.160 --> 00:42:46.720 the King of kings and the Lord of lords that is worth more to use than a world full of gold. 297 00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:55.120 Relationships. Now, I want you to see how this works. Paul the Apostle was praying, 298 00:42:57.120 --> 00:43:01.920 where do we go? When he's trying to go to Bethany and it's not opening up, he's trying to go 299 00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:12.720 here. He's trying to go there. And finally, he gets a dream. How many get a dreams? Let's see. 300 00:43:14.880 --> 00:43:21.600 Listen to your dreams. Write them down. Ask the Lord what they mean because God speaks through dreams. 301 00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:29.600 Paul got a dream. There's a man in Macedonia saying, hey, come over here and help us. He woke up 302 00:43:29.600 --> 00:43:35.680 Silas. I've got it. We're going to Macedonia. The Lord gave me a dream last night. Come on, 303 00:43:35.680 --> 00:43:43.920 down to the port on a ship, way they go. And they're in Meletus, I think it was, and then led into 304 00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:53.680 the city, the capital of Macedonia. And it went pretty good for a while. They met Lydia and she 305 00:43:53.680 --> 00:44:00.400 opened her home to them. She's a wealthy lady. Come on, stay here and fed them and carried on 306 00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:13.840 everything. And then one day, he saw this little demonized fortune telling girl that just got 307 00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:21.600 under his skin and he said to the spirit, come out of her in Jesus' name. And it did. But the owners 308 00:44:21.600 --> 00:44:27.760 of that little slave girl were so upset with them. They had him arrested and beaten with rods 309 00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:35.360 at the two of them and thrown into the inner dungeon in their prison and locked them down with 310 00:44:35.360 --> 00:44:40.960 their feet in the stocks. You know what stocks are, right? They're where you're sitting on a bench 311 00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:46.720 and this other thing comes down and there's room for your ankles, but you can't move your feet. 312 00:44:47.680 --> 00:44:56.160 And there they are, with their backs bleeding and hurting and they can't move. 313 00:44:57.680 --> 00:44:59.360 What do you think they're saying to each other? 314 00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:11.200 Silas and Paul. Silas is here. I got to go to the bathroom, I can't move. 315 00:45:11.280 --> 00:45:17.440 You and your dreams got us into this. 316 00:45:20.960 --> 00:45:27.120 I never did feel right about going to Mass at home. It just was kind of, you know, 317 00:45:30.560 --> 00:45:37.360 how many of you have ever had a prophetic word that kind of went wrong seemingly? 318 00:45:41.600 --> 00:45:46.640 You're going to be a pastor one day. There's going to be amazing, right? 319 00:45:52.240 --> 00:45:57.120 No, that wasn't what happened. One of them said, I feel like singing. 320 00:45:58.720 --> 00:46:04.240 What? Singing. It's midnight. We can't sing now. The place is all trying to sleep. 321 00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:16.640 I don't care. I want to sing. Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise him all creatures here below. 322 00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:28.480 Next thing you know, an earthquake. Everybody's chains fell off, all the prison doors flew open 323 00:46:29.200 --> 00:46:33.920 and the jailers like, what happened? The doors were open, the chains are off. 324 00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:39.760 Probably the prisoners have all run and where's my sword? I'm going to kill myself and they heard 325 00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:47.760 them. And Paul Christ said, do yourself no harm. We're all here. What do you mean? We're all here. 326 00:46:48.640 --> 00:46:55.840 None of the prisoners took off. If you were a prisoner at midnight, there's an earthquake and 327 00:46:55.840 --> 00:46:59.840 your chains fell off and the doors flew open. What would you do? 328 00:47:05.840 --> 00:47:18.160 Thank you, Lord. There's in such shock at the supernatural presence because those guys were no 329 00:47:18.160 --> 00:47:25.200 doubt singing the gospel to them, that this is the hand of God and they're all like 330 00:47:25.200 --> 00:47:31.760 broken. And the jailer came in, falls at their feet. What must I do to be saved? 331 00:47:33.840 --> 00:47:40.640 And he and his whole family came to Christ. The next thing you know, they bring him into their home. 332 00:47:41.600 --> 00:47:49.600 And it's, I don't know, two, three in the morning by this time. And the wife makes some food for them 333 00:47:49.600 --> 00:47:59.440 and they clean up their wounds, wash them with wine and oil, I guess. And there they are talking about 334 00:47:59.440 --> 00:48:06.480 the things of God till morning. And the next thing you know early in the morning, the word comes 335 00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:16.400 from the magistrates. Hey, those prisoners you have let those guys go. And Paul says, oh, 336 00:48:17.040 --> 00:48:24.160 just let those guys go. You go back and you tell those magistrates, listen here. We are Roman 337 00:48:24.160 --> 00:48:31.680 citizens. You beat us and imprisoned us without a trial. You better get your own butt out here and 338 00:48:31.680 --> 00:48:43.120 ask us nicely to leave. Oops. Here they come. We're so sorry. We had no idea we're a Roman citizen. 339 00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:53.120 Oh, please. Go away quietly. So Paul said, I'm going to take my time. I'm going to go say goodbye to 340 00:48:53.200 --> 00:49:02.160 Lydia and so on. And then maybe we'll leave after that. See, he turns it around. That's the point. 341 00:49:03.600 --> 00:49:08.400 He turns it around. Your trials will only help to make you strong. 342 00:49:11.040 --> 00:49:17.680 Even when you get a prophetic word, even when you get a dream, and it's clearly God, 343 00:49:18.160 --> 00:49:27.440 God. That doesn't mean it's going to be a cakewalk and a bed of roses. Why? Because he has a high 344 00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:37.680 value on testing. Looks your scripture. Everybody gets tested. Why? Because he wants to know how 345 00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:40.960 serious are you? How genuine are you? 346 00:49:41.040 --> 00:49:49.840 Not maybe that you're in the middle of stuff here and the enemy is whispering in your ear about 347 00:49:51.040 --> 00:49:56.880 we both know this Christianity. Things not working for you. It's not working for you financially. 348 00:49:56.880 --> 00:50:03.360 It's not working for you. Relationally, it's not working for you in any measurable way. Why don't 349 00:50:03.360 --> 00:50:11.600 you just forget this and pack it up and go play or go something? Don't listen to that, 350 00:50:11.600 --> 00:50:21.520 voice, friends. That's when we need to close ranks among ourselves and tell stories. I remember 351 00:50:21.520 --> 00:50:27.200 when the Lord delivered me. I remember when the Lord delivered Carol. She knew what Carol did 352 00:50:28.160 --> 00:50:37.440 about, I don't know, three or four years after we were married. Her ex-husband came down with cancer. 353 00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:47.040 She got a phone call from his current wife who used to be a girlfriend of hers. He left Carol 354 00:50:47.040 --> 00:50:55.920 to go and be with that one. She calls Carol. Carol. We don't know what to do. Bill's got cancer. 355 00:50:56.400 --> 00:51:05.760 And they're saying he only has a short time to live. Oh my gosh. She began to pray for her ex-husband. 356 00:51:07.120 --> 00:51:12.320 It wasn't too long after that where he's in the hospital and they've given him up. 357 00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:21.920 So she went into the hospital. She had to stick handle around all the family and the relatives 358 00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:26.880 and they knew wife and everything else. And she made it in there. And one of his friends was there 359 00:51:26.880 --> 00:51:36.640 and there was a Carol. I got a whoops. See you later. And her husband said, Carol, what are you doing 360 00:51:36.640 --> 00:51:42.800 here? You start saying, I'm sorry that I didn't really pay the money that I should have and I 361 00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:50.880 did something like that. She says, that's not why I came. He says, it's not, no, I came to ask this 362 00:51:50.880 --> 00:51:59.440 question where you're going to spend eternity. He says, well, heaven, I hope. He said, not good enough. 363 00:52:00.160 --> 00:52:10.640 Led him to Jesus. He told our oldest son, Rob. Rob, I've surrendered my life to Jesus. I'm going to 364 00:52:10.640 --> 00:52:19.200 be okay. And we knew it was genuine because he did that. That whole relief came on Rob at that time. 365 00:52:19.200 --> 00:52:28.080 And he was what? Nine, 10 maybe or 11? Something in there. I can't remember exactly how many years 366 00:52:28.080 --> 00:52:33.600 after we were married. He was nine when we were married, so he could have been 12. He was hugely 367 00:52:34.080 --> 00:52:42.560 relieved. And they sent him home to the hospital and then about six days later, he died. 368 00:52:44.320 --> 00:52:51.680 And she went to the hospital and led him to Jesus. See, that's what being an overcomer looks like 369 00:52:53.120 --> 00:52:58.720 when she could have said, ha, ha, life caught up with you, didn't it, my friend? I hope you enjoy 370 00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:05.760 your early death. But she, that was not in her heart at all. Because she was happy that she ended up 371 00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:23.680 with me. The stat. If you're going through stuff right now, I don't want you to hang your head 372 00:53:23.680 --> 00:53:38.560 in shame and feel like a failure because that's not the deal. The deal is he's wanting you to make 373 00:53:38.560 --> 00:53:47.200 right decisions and grow through this experience and through this encounter. How many of you are 374 00:53:47.200 --> 00:53:54.320 struggling right now? And you've been wondering, Lord, what the heck is going on? Where are you? 375 00:53:55.440 --> 00:54:03.440 Why aren't you helping me? Don't you care? The last thing you want to do is start accusing God. 376 00:54:04.320 --> 00:54:11.520 Don't, don't join hands with the accuser. Join hands with the comforter, the Holy Spirit. 377 00:54:12.240 --> 00:54:18.240 And say, Lord, I know that you're a good, good father. I know you have my best interest at heart. 378 00:54:18.240 --> 00:54:26.320 I don't understand why this, this thing is going on in my life right now except to say you're conforming 379 00:54:26.320 --> 00:54:40.480 me to be more like Jesus. And so come what may I'm with you. See, that's the appropriate thing. 380 00:54:40.560 --> 00:54:47.280 Now, if you're struggling, you need the family of God, the body of Christ to come and gather 381 00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:55.600 around you and be a comfort to you. So if you've been struggling with things, I won't, you know, 382 00:54:55.600 --> 00:55:02.000 you raised your hands a moment ago. I want you to come out of your seat and come and gather here 383 00:55:02.080 --> 00:55:13.840 at the front. And let's pray for you. And let's be family and believe God. Come on. 384 00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:22.880 All of you, don't hang back. And all of you on the ministry team here, raise your hands if you're 385 00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:32.160 on the ministry team here. Come on, wave, wave, wave. I want you to just come up and encourage 386 00:55:32.160 --> 00:55:44.720 these people. Because this scripture says, in this world, you will have tribulation, trouble, bot, 387 00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:54.320 bot, be of good cheer because I have overcome the world. You're just in school, that's all. 388 00:55:55.040 --> 00:56:04.240 You're taking a course about how to handle adversity. How many want to pass? You want to pass your 389 00:56:04.240 --> 00:56:16.800 advanced course? Wave excitedly. Here we are. It may be that some of you have actually fallen away. 390 00:56:18.800 --> 00:56:26.000 Or maybe you've never even surrendered to Jesus in the first place. You might be here and you're thinking, 391 00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:38.560 do I ever want to surrender my life to Christ? If that's you, I want you to admit it right now to 392 00:56:38.560 --> 00:56:53.280 yourself. I need a savior to rescue me. I do not, I don't want to pay my debt myself. I want 393 00:56:53.280 --> 00:57:07.280 Jesus to pay my debt for me. So, if that's you, I want you to unashamedly raise your hand right 394 00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:14.560 now and say, I want to, I'm not calling for people who have already decided yes for Jesus, but 395 00:57:14.640 --> 00:57:24.160 people who need a savior to choose. If that's you, if you need to get born again, wave raise your hand 396 00:57:24.160 --> 00:57:32.880 right now in the room. Unashamedly friends, because he's the only hope we have of ever having sins 397 00:57:32.880 --> 00:57:39.840 remitted because if he doesn't pay them, you will pay them and I'm telling you, you don't want that 398 00:57:39.840 --> 00:57:48.720 option because hell is real. If you're raising your hand for that, just say this quickly with me, 399 00:57:48.720 --> 00:57:59.440 Lord Jesus, come into my heart right now and forgive me of all my sins, my railing against you 400 00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:07.440 and come into my heart and wash me clean Lord with the precious blood that you shed. 401 00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:22.720 In all of you that came up, I want you to shrug off all the fear, shame, anger, hurt, pain, 402 00:58:22.720 --> 00:58:31.120 confusion and say, I'm going to trust in God. I'm going to pass this test. I'm going to get 403 00:58:31.120 --> 00:58:36.080 through it. I don't know where the money's coming from. I don't know where the help is coming from, 404 00:58:36.960 --> 00:58:42.480 but I don't need to know because I have a wonderful heavenly daddy who's got this thing 405 00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:47.920 and he's going to see me through. Does that make sense? 406 00:58:49.360 --> 00:58:56.000 Ministry team, I want you to come and we're going to run for the plane right now, but 407 00:58:56.560 --> 00:59:08.000 I want you to take all the time you need, so I'm going to pass it to Pastor Moe. Pastor Moe, 408 00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:14.560 take over. This is the City Light Church podcast. If you've missed any part of today's message 409 00:59:14.560 --> 00:59:19.040 or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boy on Janskik in City Light Church, 410 00:59:19.040 --> 00:59:28.560 visit us at citylightnyc.com. That's citylightnyc.com. Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. 411 00:59:28.560 --> 00:59:33.520 We would love to connect with you. We pray that you have been encouraged today, 412 00:59:33.520 --> 00:59:38.720 that you have been reminded how much God loves you, and that you are surrounded by grace. 413 00:59:39.440 --> 00:59:44.400 Thank you for listening. 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