WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.500 When Christ has met your spiritual need, and you're generous, and you're a giver, then you're not materialistic. 2 00:00:06.500 --> 00:00:12.000 But you know what, say luxury things will do for you then, they'll actually take you up a level higher. 3 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:15.000 And then they'll attract more of those things into your life. 4 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:18.000 I know this is sounding a little bit, but it does. 5 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:23.000 It'll attract luxurious and beautiful and prosperous things in your life. 6 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:26.000 Just don't get into debt when accumulating those things. 7 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:35.000 Welcome to the CityLight 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. 8 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:44.000 If you want to connect with CityLight Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com, that's citylightnyc.com. 9 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:52.000 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 10 00:00:52.000 --> 00:01:06.000 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. 11 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:09.000 It is good to be here. 12 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:17.000 I was not here last Sunday, I heard you had a great time though, with evangelist Nathaniel St. Alloy. 13 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:25.000 I took my son on a trip, and we still kind of feel like we're on it, huh? 14 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:35.000 We got back yesterday, and the ladies are gone. They're celebrating a birthday in Pennsylvania, so it's just the boys in the house still. 15 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:41.000 Yeah, yeah, we've been grunting, making sounds, fist bumping a lot. 16 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:43.000 What a time we had. 17 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:45.000 Took him to Belize. 18 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:49.000 It was unbelievable. 19 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:58.000 I guess every country has their thing, like we go on mission strips, and then every souvenir shop has that shirt, WhatsApp. 20 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:02.000 Well, in Belize, it's unbelievable. 21 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:08.000 And we were on an island called Emburgersky, and we just had the time. 22 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:12.000 I've been wanting to just have a moment with him. 23 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:16.000 We prize family, we prize Emily and I, our kids. 24 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:21.000 We've heard too many nightmare stories of preachers losing their families. 25 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:26.000 What is it profit, a minister to win the whole world, and his own children go to hell? 26 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:32.000 And so we've implemented early on, certain rules, you know, we have dinner together every night. 27 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:35.000 That's the exception. That's the rule. 28 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:41.000 There's sometimes the exception, if I'm out of town or something, but, and we pray together and we laugh together, 29 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:49.000 but I wanted to just take him for a week where it could be some father and son time and give us a week that we'll never forget, right, buddy? 30 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:51.000 It's awesome. 31 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.000 I'm proud of him. 32 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.000 It's no joke over there. 33 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:03.000 You know, they got the richest marine life in the world, and so they got everything. 34 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:07.000 And he was right in the water, and then they have a place called Shark Ray Alley. 35 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:11.000 You know, who lives there? Yeah, sharks. 36 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:19.000 And here's the thing, they're nurse sharks, so they're pretty much, there's always some odd case of them biting someone. 37 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:22.000 But they're pretty much harmless. 38 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:26.000 You can check out my social media. There's like 20 or 30 of them that gather by the boat. 39 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:32.000 And they don't come there by themselves, you know, guys pouring chum right in the water that come in 20 or 30 of them. 40 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:39.000 And so even though you're told they're harmless, you know, you see this giant thing swirling about, and there's 20 of them in the water, 41 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:42.000 you might second guess what you're going to do next. 42 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:48.000 Well, I was proud of my boy, not him, he just jumped right in there, he's diving underneath, he's touching him. 43 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.000 Hallelujah. 44 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:54.000 Maybe the Lord will call you into ministry, who knows. 45 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:59.000 But swimming with the sharks, that's a good prep. That's a good starter. 46 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:06.000 So we are on week five. 47 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:18.000 And I'm going to close our series on manifested abundance, but of course it's not something that we'll stop talking about because you can't separate God from abundance. 48 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:22.000 You can't separate God from prosperity because that's who he is, amen. 49 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:29.000 It's not something that he has in his pocket, that he can take out, forget at home, or say it's part of his nature, just like healing. 50 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:37.000 He is the healer. He is abundance. He is deliverance. He is salvation. 51 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:45.000 And so let's go to Ecclesiastes 10, 19. I've opened up every one of these sermons with this verse because it's important that we know it. 52 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:51.000 Because God is a God of abundance. He's a God of prosperity. He's a God of more than enough. 53 00:04:51.000 --> 00:05:00.000 You just look at the miracles of Jesus, the provisional miracles. You'll see that he never gave just enough. He always gave too much. He's the too much God. 54 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:06.000 And for some reason, Christians reject this. Christians pull away from this. 55 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:13.000 Somehow they believe that there's a holiness to poverty and that there's just an inherent sin to prosperity. 56 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:22.000 Well, the devil laughs when a Christian has that mindset because now that Christian is locked up and they can't be influential. 57 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:28.000 They can't expand the kingdom because they're too busy worrying about what they're going to eat tomorrow. Amen. 58 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:40.000 And so here's what the scripture says. It's actually in the word, a feast is made for laughter and wine makes merry, but money answers everything. Amen. 59 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:52.000 Money answers everything. If you look at the problems that you encounter, money will answer those problems. 60 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:59.000 Obviously, the sin problem money can't answer. Aloneliness problem money can't answer. 61 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:11.000 But money is the anointing of the world. Just like the anointing is God's power in the spirit realm and makes the spirit realm go around and it affects the earthly realm. 62 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:23.000 Money is its counterpart and it's not inherently evil. It's a wonderful servant, a terrible master. 63 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:29.000 And so a Christian can live in prosperity is called to be blessed. 64 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:34.000 And let me just define prosperity because when I say prosperity, people get so many different ideas. 65 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:40.000 What that means, but it means that you have more than enough to fulfill your divine assignment here on earth. 66 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:47.000 According to Psalms 23, you have a cup. The good shepherd makes your cup to overflow. Hallelujah. 67 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:55.000 I have to say all these things and I know I've said this in the beginning of every sermon, but I'm always cautious and aware of new people. 68 00:06:55.000 --> 00:07:04.000 And new people come in and the pastor comes up and says, we're going to talk part five about money and they're like, I knew it to the person who brought them to church. 69 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:11.000 Because it's like everybody's greatest fear if I come to church. Is it one of those money churches? No, where Jesus church. 70 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:25.000 And everything we do, it's about Jesus and a relationship with him. But I would be doing the people of God a horrific and terrible disservice if I didn't talk about something as important as money. 71 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:34.000 And Jesus talked about it all the time. You say, I never saw that in the gospels. That's because you read too fast. 72 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:43.000 He talked about hell twice as much as he did about heaven, but he talked about money, land, stewardship, giving more than heaven and hell combined. Why? 73 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:55.000 Because he was a televangelist that comes on channel 56 at 3 a.m. No, because he knew that that would affect your life here on earth. And God has something to say about it. 74 00:07:55.000 --> 00:08:04.000 So let me read you these quick statistics if you're still not convinced why I would take up five Sundays to talk about personal finances. 75 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:17.000 And what God's word says about it, total household debt right now. Right now is of Q124. So a year ago, it's only increased 17.987 trillion. 76 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:28.000 Just call it 18 trillion total household debt. Do not confuse this with the 36 plus trillion that the country is in the national debt. 77 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:35.000 This is separate. This is if you combine all of the people that live in the United States, how much they owe. It's more than ever before. 78 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:45.000 We have a huge debt problem, a debt crisis. And let me just tell you right now, God hates debt. Hates it. Is it a sin to be in debt? 79 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:56.000 No, it's not a sin to be in debt because the Bible says that you will be the lender and not the borer. So if you're a lender, then you're putting someone else in sin. It's not sin. 80 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:08.000 But it's not God's best. You get it? There is a higher way. I was once swimming eyebrows, deep in debt, had 16 credit cards all maxed out. 81 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:20.000 The same time I had 17 mice. That's how I remember these numbers. In one afternoon, I caught 17 mice. At that time, I had 16 credit cards, was maxed out. 82 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:30.000 A very bad way to live. It caused a lot of shame. And God brought me out because the Bible says that God is the liberator. 83 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:39.000 And it says that the one who is in debt is in bondage and actually fell to my knees. And first of all, I apologize to the Lord. I had to be real. 84 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:47.000 There was only one person to blame and it was me. So I said, I'm sorry, Lord, for my poor stewardship. I'm sorry, Lord, for my out of control spending. 85 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:56.000 I'm sorry. Lord, forgive me and now help me. Help me get out of this mess. And he did. Amen. And my wife and I have been debt-free since we got married. 86 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:04.000 We bought a house a year and a half ago, got into debt for that. I was like, oh, my testimonies ruined. And then in less than a year, that was paid off. 87 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:10.000 Can you shout out to Hallelujah, amen. Thank you, Jesus. 88 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:25.000 So total household debt is 18 trillion. This overwhelming debt can lead to a pervasive sense of hopelessness and anxiety about financial security, particularly when individuals see no end to their personal debt in sight. 89 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:44.000 Average debt per person is $104,215. That sheer amount can cost significant stress with individuals feeling trapped by their financial obligations leading to depression and a lower sense of self-worth. I fought with that. 90 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:53.000 But when I was so in debt, I could barely stand my own image in the mirror. I just thought, what have I done? And how will I ever get out of this? 91 00:10:53.000 --> 00:11:03.000 And the voice of the accuser was so loud in my mind. And right now, according to these statistics, we are as a people more indebted than ever before in history. 92 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:13.000 So this message on biblical finances and God's abundance couldn't be more timely, because it shall not be so with us. Amen. 93 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:24.000 In 2009, right after the 2008 financial crisis, I decreed over our church, we're not going that route. Everybody was saying recession, recession, and we had a mantra at City Light. 94 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:41.000 We are not participating in this recession. We are not going backwards. We're going forwards. And in 2009, and then in 2010, we saw the most marriages, most people get married, most businesses started, and most people buy property, buying condos, buying houses. 95 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:55.000 We don't have to be subject to what's happening out there. Amen. Our citizenship is in heaven. So we're ambassadors. I can live here on planet earth, but as an ambassador of God, I'm receiving from heaven. 96 00:11:55.000 --> 00:12:17.000 Credit card debt is 1.166 trillion. So total is 18 trillion. A lot of that is mortgages, student loans, the loan shark down the street, but a chunk of it 1.6 trillion, 1.16 trillion is just credit card debt higher than it's ever been in history. 97 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:33.000 High credit card balances often lead to constant reminders of financial strain through interest rates and minimum payments. This can result in emotional turmoil. This is why I'm preaching this so that you don't live an emotional turmoil. 98 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:57.000 Jeremiah said, I have no peace. I forgot prosperity. Well, I want here to remind you. So you have peace. People forget the benefits package. People forget who God is. God will help you with that. God is a provider at his core. Hallelujah. 99 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:18.000 Delinquency rates. This is a problem. 8.9% of credit card balances and 7.9% of auto loans became seriously delinquent in Q1, 2024. What does that mean? It means that people are looking at their credit card statement after trying to pay it off, being unable to pay it off, and eventually look at their credit card. 100 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:38.000 They say, I'm going to go, nah, and just stop paying. And that's now at its highest level. And you know why that's a problem? Because if that continues eventually, then some bank somewhere is going to fail. Pay attention for that. And when that bank fails, two or three other banks are going to fail. 101 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:52.000 And if that keeps going on, a major bank is going to fall. There'll be a run on the banks. And then it's going to be 2008 on steroids. But it will not be so here. Amen. Hallelujah. 102 00:13:52.000 --> 00:14:13.000 And that growth 4.3% increase in household debt from 2023 to 2024. So we need to hear this. We need to get this in our spirits. The word produces faith. So I want to minister to you this morning. This was just the precursor. I just basically have to do this. 103 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:31.000 This thing where I explained to you why I'm talking about this. And why it's so important. But today I want to talk to you about this spirit of poverty. Because there is a spirit of poverty. God's Holy Spirit is the spirit of abundance. The spirit of prosperity. 104 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:50.000 Satan is the God of poverty. He'll offer you riches. But he's the God of poverty. And this spirit has particular characteristics. And I would say that most people, if not all people, are to one degree or another affected or influenced by this. 105 00:14:50.000 --> 00:15:10.000 I hate this spirit of poverty. Why do I hate it? Because it keeps Christians bound. God is a God of growth. God is a God of advancement. He wants to take you from glory to glory. Your life shouldn't be glory to glory. Glory to glory. You should always have a better year than the previous one. 106 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:20.000 I believe that with all of my heart. But the spirit of poverty comes in and sabotages that and wraps people and keeps them from experiencing God's best. 107 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:30.000 So let's talk about some of the characteristics to the spirit so that you get identified when you see it in your own life. The temptation when going through this list is to say, oh, I know someone just like that. 108 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:46.000 Oh, this is for my friends or my family. But God and his infinite wisdom started good to have you here this morning. So open up your heart and see how you relate to this. And let's dissect this spirit of poverty and eliminated from our lives. 109 00:15:46.000 --> 00:16:04.000 And see what kind of characteristics does it have? Number one, the spirit of poverty, one of its characteristics is that it resents wealthy people, resents success. 110 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:16.000 So subtle, huh? And it's been introduced into our culture, into our collective psyche, at an alarming rate, more and more in the last 10 to 15 years. 111 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:28.000 For example, I'm sure you've heard this thing, this saying that's been said, well, the wealthy and the elite need to pay their fair share. 112 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:38.000 About half of you, I'm upsetting right now and I'm so glad because I love you. And because I say this would love in my heart, total love in my heart. 113 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:56.000 You're messed up. You're messed up in the head. And I pray the Holy Spirit come with his love and is anointing and un-mess you up. You open your mouth and you think you're being smart. And I can tell how programmed you are from your scrolling, from the little sound bites you get and what you get angry at. 114 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:10.000 You're programmed. Well, the wealthy ought to pay their fair share. They do. I just got wealthy. I've never paid so much taxes. The truth is, I never paid taxes. I mean, I paid that there was nothing. 115 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:20.000 How are the wealthy not paying taxes? You look, the dollar amount they're paying and percentage wise they're paying. But you've just heard this saying they ought to pay their fair share. 116 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:30.000 What is their fair share? I've heard people say, well Elon Musk is worth like 400 billion. He could easily give 200 billion of that. Oh, that would be the fair share. Awesome. 117 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:39.000 America now where we punish success. I'm sure that's going to motivate other entrepreneurs and other people to take risks in business. So quiet in here. 118 00:17:39.000 --> 00:18:01.000 Do you know there's 700 around 780 billionaires in America. If you confiscate all of their wealth, all of it, not just tax them, confiscate it all of their wealth, it wouldn't even make a dent in the national debt. 119 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:13.000 Since it's not a problem of getting more money, it's a problem of waste. Do you know when we were in Belize, we went to see some Mayan ruins, but only 5% of the Mayan ruins. 120 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:25.000 You can have a talk with him about this afterwards. Please have the talk. 121 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:37.000 This guy comes in like Tom Cruise in risky business with sunglasses on sliding in. Some people. I'm in the middle of a point. Let me go to this side. 122 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:55.000 Listen to this. We're in the Mayan ruins in Belize. They've only uncovered 5% of them. And a tour guide says, and it's probably only going to be 5%. So somebody on a tour group says, why? I was shocked. No more help from the US, the archaeologist. 123 00:18:55.000 --> 00:19:06.000 I didn't want to start that in Belize. I'm on vacation. I'm going to chill. I just thought, I didn't know my tax money was going to help uncover ruins in Belize. I didn't know that. 124 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:28.000 Like someone should get to the bottom of that. There should be some organization that checks governmental efficiency. Like there should be a department that looks into why is my tax money going to uncover ruins in Belize. Also from my mother country of Serbia. There was like this transgender teaching thing in Serbia that I was paying for. What? Why? 125 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:48.000 But that spirit of poverty will cause you to hate and resent wealthy success. They're not your problem. They weren't my problem. This is not the 1880s gilded age. Back then it was a problem. You had several families. You had no rules, no laws concerning. 126 00:19:48.000 --> 00:20:06.000 We were in the industrial age. All of a sudden there's factories. People are working 70, 80 hours, no vacation time, no overtime. You get your arm cut off at work. You don't get to sue. You just, you don't, you get sent home and fired. That was bad. We're not in that age anymore. What did a billionaire ever do to you? 127 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:18.000 Nothing, but you were brainwashed and told that they're hurting you in some way. They're not. They weren't hurting me. The only person hurting me was me. 128 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:36.000 I apologize. I'm robbing this great excuse for your mediocrity. I apologize that I'm robbing. I know you love to point at this bezels so whoever it is and there, there you're bait. They're not your problem. 129 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:46.000 Amen. You can hear the squealing in the spirit. You know what that is? The spirit of poverty. 130 00:20:46.000 --> 00:21:00.000 How are you going to get God's prosperity if you resent and hate anyone who has prosperity? Hallelujah. 131 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:20.000 Oh, thank you Lord for the Holy Ghost. You know when the world begins to make a lot of sense is when you realize that socialism, which is communism, has been trying to get into our country from the beginning but especially in the last 10, 15 years. 132 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:48.000 Then you realize that your eyes are open to everything. Yeah. Then you realize that what we've been hearing the last 10, 15 years is a giant siop, a communist socialist siop designed to incite class warfare, class struggle and hatred between different groups. Why? Because a disunited people are easily conquered. Yeah. 133 00:21:48.000 --> 00:22:12.000 I have a 10 more points so I'll get off this one. Wait, one more point. These people, you know them. Maybe you are them. You know what's funny? They want wealth. If you had keys to a fancy card, you go, who wants this? 134 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:42.000 They want to be climbing over chairs just to get it. They're the same person who yesterday was complaining about all those wealthy people, but secretly they want it. They want it with everything with them, but they don't feel that they can get it so they blame someone who has it. So you know what that really is? You think you got some kind of virtue and you're, no, you're full of envy and covetousness. And that's all it is, but you feel so stripped of power and you let the devil deceive you so you don't admit your covetousness. You just, those mean old bad billionaires 135 00:22:42.000 --> 00:23:11.960 and anything to you. We're only on one characteristic, the first character. You know, I know this so well because my whole country is like this, my former country. If anyone has, if anyone's successful, they must have gotten it through illicit means. I was taking a boat ride from the shore, Montenegro, and then you get to see all the beautiful houses, 136 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:41.960 beautiful villas, and I was like, who does that house belong to in the Budapest? Mafia. Who does that house belong to? Mafia. I'm like, man, the Mafia controls 80% of the coastline. Later I'm reading on the flight back home, I'm reading a magazine, and it was one of those houses, and it was a woman's house who had this whole cosmetics and perfume line. Then it looked like a Mafioso at all. Nice lady. Nice quaffed lady. But there, under such a spirit of poverty, 137 00:23:41.960 --> 00:24:11.920 success, oh, they must be evil somehow. Oh, Lord, all right. Number two, we're talking about characteristics of the spirit of poverty. Number two is a false, call it a false generosity. The spirit of poverty loves to tell you what to do with your money. For example, you get something nice like you get a nice car. 138 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:41.920 And the spirit of poverty will come through another person and say, oh, how could you do that? Don't you know there are hungry people in the world? How can you do that? You could have fed so many people. You know who said something like that? Judas, in the Bible, when the woman came with the alabaster box and broke it, and she took perfume that was an annual salary and poured it over Jesus' feet, Jesus smiled and said, leave her alone. She's doing a good thing. 139 00:24:41.920 --> 00:25:11.880 Judas said, this could have been sold. And the proceeds given to feed the poor. And the Bible says not that he cared about the poor. And neither do those people who tell you those things, because they've told me those things. And I'll say, I know what I have done for the poor. I know what I'm doing for the poor. What have you done for the poor? I gave a homeless man a dollar in 2017. Why with that nonsense? 140 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:25.920 Every day, city light church feeds 2,000 people via the gray center in Bajudari, Ethiopia. If you're a tither at city light church, that's what you're connected to. That's how you're helping the poor. Amen. 141 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:53.920 I've given, I don't even want to save the amount over my career to the poor. But have you noticed that? That spirit of Judas, that spirit of poverty? Don't give heat to it. Don't bend the knee to it. Be a giver, be a lover of Jesus. And when you're a tither and when you're a giver, yes, you can get yourself something nice. 142 00:25:53.920 --> 00:26:09.920 You can get yourself lots of things that are nice. Yeah. In fact, you should get yourself nice things. We have a saying back in the mother country, I'm not rich enough to buy cheap things. It's a joke. 143 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:21.920 Because when you're constantly buying cheap things, they're falling apart all the time anyway. So you're renting your clothing, you're renting your car, you're renting your watch, you're always having a buy. 144 00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:32.920 When you buy quality, you can last forever. And I'll tell you something, something that even secular people like Susi Orman, other financial gurus, what they've said, and I believe it wholeheartedly. 145 00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:47.920 There's beautiful things, beautiful objects. By the way, you shouldn't want things. Here's what materialism is. Most people don't know how to define materialism. It's not having things. It's wanting things to fill a spiritual need. 146 00:26:48.920 --> 00:27:00.920 When Christ has met your spiritual need and your generous and your giver, then you're not materialistic. But you know what, say luxury things will do for you then, they'll actually take you up a level higher. 147 00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:11.920 And then they'll attract more of those things into your life. I know this is sounding a little, but it does. It'll attract luxurious and beautiful and prosperous things in your life. 148 00:27:12.920 --> 00:27:26.920 Just don't get into debt when accumulating those things. I bought my wife a purse in 2014. You know, women love their purses. And this purse was, wow, I still, you just remember buying it. 149 00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:44.920 But you know, that was a 2000, that was, you were six months old when we took you to Hawaii and I bought my wife that purse. I still see that purse. It looks like she used to use it every day for years. It still looks exactly the same as when we took it out of the store. The quality of it. 150 00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:58.920 Is this helping anybody? All right. You could let me know occasionally just nod your head or something. Amen. But you don't want to get into debt over it. You don't want to be that guy in the trailer park. 151 00:27:58.920 --> 00:28:08.920 Brand you four deaf 150 outside the trailers. Kids are running around with no pants. 152 00:28:08.920 --> 00:28:16.920 Number three. A characteristic of the spirit of poverty. 153 00:28:16.920 --> 00:28:25.920 Blame and excuses. A victim mentality. 154 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:43.920 A victim mentality. That always finds blame. Not with themselves, but someone else. And we have a saying in our house, I taught my son. I learned it in Bible school. All excuses are lies. Amen. 155 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:55.920 And do not let anybody ever get you to believe your victim in any way. It's cheap. You know why it's cheap because it temporarily actually makes us feel good. 156 00:28:55.920 --> 00:29:05.920 Oh, there's a reason why I haven't succeeded. Like I thought I should, but it actually it's the devil and then it locks you up and keeps you from rising up to where God wants you. 157 00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:18.920 Reject victimhood in all its ways. And have you noticed in last 10 to 15 years, that's exactly it's like the victim Olympics with different groups trying to out victimize each other. 158 00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:30.920 Oh, you think you're a victim? You don't know what I've gone through. Meanwhile, they're from the suburbs. They're talking about like three generations ago. You don't you don't know what I've gone through. I'm from Serbia. 159 00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:39.920 600 years of Turkish occupation. They made half my country Muslim. That's why I'm such a bad preacher. 160 00:29:44.920 --> 00:29:56.920 That's why I got a pastor in a building with a 1970s chandelier dangling from the ceiling. It's because I'm a victim of those Turks for 600 years. 161 00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:09.920 Rejected those excuses are lies. Amen. I had a friend. He lived above me. Christians filled with a Holy Spirit in college. He was on the third floor. I was on the second floor. We went to basic brothers and sisters in Christ together. 162 00:30:10.920 --> 00:30:32.920 My friend for many years and he was pre-med. I was just taking some science classes and got very close with him. Great guy. He was from Ghana. And he was brilliant. And he in biology in those hard physics organic chemistry. He just got straight A's. The guy never got a minus in a life. 163 00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:49.920 And he was applying to Harvard to their MD PhD program, which he got accepted to and went on. You know what? I didn't even know what that was. I was like, what is that? MD and PhD was like over a decade worth of education. They were going to condense in seven years. 164 00:30:49.920 --> 00:31:18.920 He's from Ghana and we're walking out of the student union. Now I get it. He's not black American. I get it. Different set of experiences. But just listen to what he said. Because as we were coming out of the student union, there was a bunch of American black group to my right. And they were chanting black power. And he looks to me and he says, I do not understand this. What is this? What does it mean? He said, I go to Harvard. I get MD PhD. Then I show them black power. 165 00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:32.920 I was like, I like the spirit of that. And he did. Hallelujah. Oh, if you're upset with me, email past your mouth, please. 166 00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:46.920 He's been such a good friend. He takes those hits over and over again for me. So number five. 167 00:31:47.920 --> 00:32:08.920 As a characteristic of the spirit of poverty, laziness, slackness and love of sleep, proverb six, 10 through 11, a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man. 168 00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:24.920 Proverbs 2013, do not love sleep or you will grow poor. Stay awake and you will have food to spare slackness, laziness, love of, so what is slackness? The Bible says if you have a slack hand, you will end up in poverty. 169 00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:33.920 Something my son, my daughter, she's not here, they're having a girls party in Pennsylvania with my wife and my daughter, but I want success for him. 170 00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:45.920 Obviously number one, real success knowing Jesus, having a relationship with him, but also I want the world to look at him and be jealous. I want him to go, oh, he's successful. 171 00:32:45.920 --> 00:33:01.920 So I want to root out slackness out of his life. Like for example, I don't like lights on in my house in rooms that aren't being occupied. Now, here's the thing though, I got LED bulbs everywhere. 172 00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:08.920 Like that light can stay on all day, cost me about six cents. So it's not about money. It's about slackness. 173 00:33:09.920 --> 00:33:16.920 I don't want you to be slack. I want you to be excellent. When you come home, what's the first thing I tell you to do? You come home. 174 00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:20.920 You take off your shoes and wash your hands. 175 00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:34.920 They didn't even prep them. Take off your shoes. Wash your hands. Don't throw your bag just in the corner and you'll line it up straight. I want you to have a spirit of excellence. 176 00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:45.920 Hallelujah. Testino bag. You roll it up after then eating. Just put it in the corner. I see how slowly opens up that I'm eating stale chips the next day. Use that chip clip. That's why I bought it. 177 00:33:46.920 --> 00:34:01.920 Be excellent. Amen. Say no to slackness. Listen, you look. I've hung around with enough broke people and enough successful people. You look inside a successful person's car. It's clean. It's excellent. It's organized. 178 00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:14.920 Hang around a broke person. Check their car every single time. It's like the Salvation Army met the Dollar General Store shoved in one car. You got to get a shovel to shovel all the crap out of there. Yeah. 179 00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:25.920 Love you. I really do. Here's what Paul said. Have I become your enemy because I've told you the truth. 180 00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:37.920 Jesus. This leads into number six. It's actually a characteristic of the poverty spirit. Sloppiness and disorganization. 181 00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:49.920 Do we have Daniel 512? Did I give you that? If not, could you put up Daniel 512? Sloppiness and disorganization. Be organized. Be neat. Be clean. 182 00:34:49.920 --> 00:35:13.920 Even with what little you have. The Bible says this. Be diligent. As she looks at up, I'll quote it to you. Not Daniel, but another verse. Be diligent to know the state of your flocks. It means, let me paraphrase, handle your business. No, a good shepherd knows how many goats he has, how many sheep he has, how many oxen he has. 183 00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:29.920 Be organized. When it comes to credit card debt, when I help people financially, the first question I ask them is how much debt do you have? Do you know what the most frequent, most common answer to that is? I don't know. Why don't you know? 184 00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:43.920 Because two years ago, I got afraid of that number. And like an emu bird. You know that emu bird sticks its head in a hole? You know what? Does that? Because it thinks if its predators can't see it. If it can't see its predators, its predators can't see it. 185 00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:50.920 So it's like, if I can't see my credit card debt, it can't see me. But it can. 186 00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:57.920 My son is correcting me saying it's ostrich, not an emu bird. 187 00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:14.920 Inasmuch as an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting dreams, solving riddles, and explaining an igmas were found in this Daniel whom the king named Beltazar now let Daniel be called and he will give their interpretation. 188 00:36:14.920 --> 00:36:33.920 An excellent spirit. It starts with how we handle our life day to day. Amen. Kenneth Hagen, he tells the story of a minister in a Bible school who would just randomly and spontaneously visit Bible school students dorms, houses, whatever it was. 189 00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:49.920 He just knocked and just like, may I come in and just look around. And he said those that were sloppy, those that were disorganized, those who had the corner of the room was a hamper and he said not one of those that I ever see succeed in ministry. 190 00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:58.920 Hallelujah. 191 00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:15.920 Proverbs 27, 23, I quoted it, let them just see it so they know I'm not making scriptures up. 192 00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:28.920 You know, when you're in the psych ward, what, never been? One of the first signs. 193 00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:36.920 One of the first signs that you're ready to go home is that you request a mirror. 194 00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:49.920 And you actually start like carrying about your appearance. Maybe you asked your beard to be trimmed and you start, this is helping anybody. 195 00:37:49.920 --> 00:38:04.920 And now can you see why the picture of Jesus that they've painted for us is such a lie? Because it shows him as a dirty hippie. Walkin' around, broke, wearin' rags, someone's in the back. 196 00:38:04.920 --> 00:38:14.920 I thought he did wear rags. No, he didn't wear rags. Roman soldiers don't gamble over rags. Amen. 197 00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:24.920 They gamble over clothes whose designers' last names end with a vowel. 198 00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:34.920 Number seven, characteristic of the spirit of poverty. Yeah, we're getting somewhere here. At least you're learning. 199 00:38:34.920 --> 00:38:45.920 Hey, by the way, this sermon goes both ways because maybe you're not fully convinced that God is a God of abundance and prosperity. Maybe you really believe in poverty. Maybe you really like poverty. 200 00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:56.920 So I'm so glad I can present to you a list of what to embrace in your life. Like if you really dig poverty and you're like, oh awesome, I'll be more disorganized, I'll be sloppy, I'll get into debt. 201 00:38:56.920 --> 00:39:15.920 So this is, if you believe in abundance and prosperity, then you shun these 10 characteristics. And if you believe in poverty, embrace them. But whichever path you choose, do it with your whole heart. Don't halfway it. Do it with your whole heart. Really, really lean into it. Amen. 202 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:39.920 Number seven, hating correction and instruction. Proverbs chapter five verses 11 through three. This is a huge part of the spirit of poverty. Again, successful people. 203 00:39:39.920 --> 00:40:00.920 And when I say successful, let me have to define all this. Don't think Bentley 56 room mansion. It could be that, but doesn't have to be here's what the definition of successes. A desired outcome. You're successful when your desires hit bullseye and what you actually want to take place. Amen. 204 00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:26.920 And so I've seen successful people and I found guys that have more degrees than a thermometer. Very intelligent, high IQ people, very successful, yet very, very teachable. And they're the ones who actually pay money for outside consulting. They recognize the value of being teachable and being taught. And then you have broke people and you can't tell them anything. 205 00:40:26.920 --> 00:40:55.920 Nothing. They know it all. They will not be moved. Stubborn. It's like a cinder block here. Thick. Cannot penetrate. One of the things I've tried with my kids is to make them very easy and susceptible and open to correction. Not to lies, but to good correction. The word of God. It corrects us. Your parents who love you and on your side. They correct you. Amen. Good friends. You need people who will bring sweet correction in your life. 206 00:40:55.920 --> 00:41:15.920 A pastor. You know what one of my main jobs is to correct you. He said, but you never ever called me up to correct me. What do you think I'm doing right now? I'm correcting you. And that's actually when you get to know the real person. I'm not afraid of a lot of things, but I'm afraid of a particular person. 207 00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:29.920 They come in every once in a while. And they tell me they love me. They come in and first Sunday. Oh, past your bow. Here's the greatest preacher I've ever heard. I'm ready. 208 00:41:29.920 --> 00:41:42.920 Next week, they're sitting in the second row. Tell me, I'm never seen a church like City Light. I love this church. I'm getting scared now because I know what comes next. This is how it works out. They keep coming. I love you. Too many compliments. Not good. 209 00:41:42.920 --> 00:41:57.920 Eventually, I'm going to correct them. That's going to happen. I'm either going to correct them if you have a counseling call with me or say or through my preaching. And when you correct them, you've never seen such a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. High transformation. 210 00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:07.920 It could be five foot three sweet little lady who loves me. But when you bring correction, the metamorphosis takes place. 211 00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:18.920 It's easy to submit and easy to agree with someone when they tell you everything they want to hear. Tell them the opposite of what they want to hear and then you meet the real person. Amen. 212 00:42:18.920 --> 00:42:35.920 Did we read the whole thing from Proverbs? Oh, how I hated it. Let's read it. Proverbs 5, 11, 13, and you mourn at last when your flesh and your body are consumed and say how I have hated instruction and my heart despised correction. 213 00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:51.920 I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me. The madman of Guiderra, the demoniac known as Legion. 214 00:42:51.920 --> 00:43:07.920 In the first service, I said he had 5,000 demons. And I thought I was kind of to a lot of people because it didn't explain that an arbitrary number. How did I know it was 5,000? Because his name was Legion. A Legion is a Roman garrison of three to 5,000 troops. He had a lot of demons. 215 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:36.920 And you know how they knew he was delivered. The Bible is very specific. It says that as they came, they looked at the one who was the madman of Guiderra and they saw him sitting clothed and in his right mind. He was sitting. That's the posture of a teachable disciple. And there was Jesus, Rabbi, Rabbony, standing, teaching. And now instead of running around, cutting himself in the tombs, he's sitting. Amen. I still sit, you know. There's people that I submit to. 216 00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:48.920 Yeah, you will never ever be an authority until you've learned how to be under authority. You will never have got given authority until you've embraced authority in your life. Be teachable, hallelujah. 217 00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:55.920 Thank you, Jesus. Number eight, as a characteristic of the spirit of poverty. 218 00:43:55.920 --> 00:44:14.920 Excuses. Proverbs 22 and verse 13. Say it with me, all excuses are lies. All of them. The lazy man says, don't tell me the Bible doesn't have great comedy in it. Look at this verse. 219 00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:25.920 The lazy man says, there is a line outside. I shall be slain in the streets. We laugh at that, but today the lazy man says, oh, I can't get a job. The economy is bad. 220 00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:38.920 Oh, I can't do this. Oh, it was easier for the boomer generation. Oh, there's always some kind of excuse. By the way, there is a sideop right now that's just trying to hurt the young generation right now. 221 00:44:38.920 --> 00:44:53.920 The millennial still engine Z by just making it out like America's already been stripped of all its wealth. The boomers have just destroyed it all sucked it all dry. Now you're just stuck and you'll never own say no to that nonsense. 222 00:44:53.920 --> 00:45:07.920 Say no. You do not know that the media hates you. They hate you. They do not like you. They hate you. I have no respect for you. How could you live through 2020 and not realize that? 223 00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:17.920 And they don't care as long as they're putting out their stuff and getting paid for it. And then want to afflict your mind and rob you of hope. 224 00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:32.920 Through a civil war, through World War I, through World War II, through all of the messes we've gone through. There was always haves and have nots. There was always people who busted through and there were always Christians who said, I serve the God of abundance. 225 00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:46.920 And I don't care what's happening out there. It's different for me because I am different. Yes, I am special. I am unique because my heavenly father says it so. Hallelujah. 226 00:45:47.920 --> 00:46:02.920 Number nine, as a characteristic of the spirit of poverty, addictive behaviors and lack of temperance, what's temperance self-control? 227 00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:15.920 Probably at the top of my list there, I would put social media for addictive behaviors. I guess that's just me. 228 00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:28.920 But it's something you want to run from. Stay away from. Maybe it's a necessary evil in today's society. Do it quickly. And then be done with it. 229 00:46:28.920 --> 00:46:48.920 God will rob you of joy, rob you of your creativity, fry your dopamine receptors up in your brain. Let's read that verse. Proverbs 23-21, addictive behaviors and lack of self-control. 230 00:46:48.920 --> 00:47:00.920 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags. 231 00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:24.920 Number 10, following frivolous people and pursuits, Proverbs 28-19, he who tells his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows frivolity will have poverty enough. 232 00:47:25.920 --> 00:47:36.920 So frivolity, that's a characteristic of the poverty spirit. Run from it, shun it. Don't let that nonsense enter your life. You don't have to be all serious. 233 00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:45.920 But you know there's just some people that everything about them is frivolous. They're not going to raise you up. I don't know if I said this in the first service or the second service, but it all gets... 234 00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:52.920 But since I moved to Long Island, so if you don't know, I've been in New Yorkers since 1981. 235 00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:59.920 Last place I lived in was Brooklyn the last 15 years and I moved to Long Island for the last year and a half. And it really is different out there. 236 00:47:59.920 --> 00:48:08.920 Like I knew there were wealthy people out there, but I really didn't know. Like Beverly Hills, what? Forget that. It's just more, I guess, worn in Beverly Hills. 237 00:48:08.920 --> 00:48:15.920 But, sir, when I said that, I merely just thought of big lips and you know... 238 00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:26.920 You have some of that in Long Island too, but there really is great wealth and meeting these people and hanging out with them has really changed. 239 00:48:26.920 --> 00:48:35.920 I didn't know what I didn't know and it's helped me and it's changed me and I'm having conversations that I never had before and it's actually helped me and pulled me up. 240 00:48:36.920 --> 00:48:42.920 And if I just hung out with people filled with frivolity, well then I would be frivolous. 241 00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:50.920 And so I'm not recommending that you hang out with people based on their net worth, but make sure that the people in your life are bringing you up and not dragging you down. 242 00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:56.920 And stay away from frivolity, especially I find in your 20s, the 20s... 243 00:48:57.920 --> 00:49:10.920 I would go ahead and say they're your most important decade as an adult because that's the decade that's going to determine how you spend your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and God bless 90s. 244 00:49:10.920 --> 00:49:19.920 And I've noticed in that decade called the 20s, there's two groups of 20s and things. There's those that are filled with frivolity. 245 00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:23.920 They think their life is like an episode of friends or something. 246 00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:27.920 Let's go from this bar to that bar and what are we doing tonight? 247 00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:33.920 And there is no introspection, there's no serving of God and there's no building of self and growth. 248 00:49:33.920 --> 00:49:40.920 And then the stuff I've been doing this for a while here and by the way, city light church for the first 10 years was all 20s and things. 249 00:49:40.920 --> 00:49:46.920 The biggest critique of the church wasn't how offensive my preaching was, it was that our church was too young. 250 00:49:46.920 --> 00:49:49.920 People with all your churches are too young, your kid leading kids. 251 00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:52.920 It was all 20s and things. 252 00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:59.920 And I saw two different kinds of people, those who just thought their 20s were a giant party, they're suffered in their 30s. 253 00:49:59.920 --> 00:50:01.920 Some were able to snap out of it, thank God. 254 00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:05.920 And then with those who realized, wow, you know an archer? 255 00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:08.920 An archer when he pulls back the arrow. 256 00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:15.920 If he lifts that arrow up a millimeter, that makes a difference of about a yard or a meter in the target. 257 00:50:15.920 --> 00:50:17.920 That's how important your 20s are. 258 00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:22.920 If you're off by just a few degrees where your arrow hits can be off by yards and yards. 259 00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:26.920 So your 20s is a time to actually do the work. 260 00:50:26.920 --> 00:50:33.920 Build yourself, build your life and then your 30s will be easier, your 40s will be better and 50s can then be a cakewalk. 261 00:50:33.920 --> 00:50:34.920 Amen. 262 00:50:34.920 --> 00:50:37.920 Worship team, come on up. 263 00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:42.920 Father, I thank you that you are the God of abundance. 264 00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:46.920 Somebody here, you might be thinking, how? 265 00:50:46.920 --> 00:50:50.920 How will I experience this? You don't know where I'm at. 266 00:50:50.920 --> 00:50:53.920 How? How will this happen? 267 00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:58.920 It gums through Jesus and Jesus only. 268 00:50:58.920 --> 00:51:05.920 Make him your great quest, make knowing him in your relationship with him, your pursuit in life. 269 00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:07.920 And then trust him. 270 00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:11.920 You're not supposed to see the whole plan right now. 271 00:51:11.920 --> 00:51:13.920 That's what may be stopping it right now. 272 00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:16.920 How will he do it and I messed up my life? 273 00:51:16.920 --> 00:51:17.920 How will he do it? 274 00:51:17.920 --> 00:51:19.920 Outline it for me, preacher, I can. 275 00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:20.920 I don't know. 276 00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:23.920 I was surprised by how he did it in my life. 277 00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:27.920 You know, this is what the word says about the word in Psalms 119. 278 00:51:27.920 --> 00:51:29.920 Listen to this, this will help you. 279 00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:35.920 The Psalmist said, your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. 280 00:51:35.920 --> 00:51:42.920 That's very cute in English, but when you understand how they lived back then, it's way more than cute. 281 00:51:42.920 --> 00:51:46.920 They actually had these shoes with a wooden extension that came out from them. 282 00:51:46.920 --> 00:51:50.920 And they would stick candles on the end that allow them to work at night. 283 00:51:50.920 --> 00:51:57.920 So, you know, your house is 100 feet away, 200 feet away, but you can be in the barn working. 284 00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:01.920 And the glow, what a cool pair of kicks that must have been, huh? 285 00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:02.920 The wooden thing and the can. 286 00:52:02.920 --> 00:52:07.920 The glow from the candle lit up an area and you were able to work. 287 00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:12.920 So you couldn't see a mile down the road, but you could see five, six feet away from you. 288 00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:16.920 And as you walked, your way was illuminated. 289 00:52:16.920 --> 00:52:18.920 And that's what his word does. 290 00:52:18.920 --> 00:52:20.920 And so it is with you. 291 00:52:20.920 --> 00:52:25.920 You cannot know what's a mile or a hundred miles down the road. 292 00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:26.920 The Lord does. 293 00:52:26.920 --> 00:52:30.920 And he asked you to take his hand and trust him and take one step after another. 294 00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:36.920 And his word and the Holy Spirit within you will illuminate you for a few feet and then another few feet. 295 00:52:36.920 --> 00:52:40.920 And you just keep trusting and won't he do it in your life? Come on. 296 00:52:40.920 --> 00:52:42.920 Yes, he will. 297 00:52:42.920 --> 00:52:44.920 Hallelujah. 298 00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:47.920 Let's all stand. 299 00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:51.920 Say this, lift your hands. 300 00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:54.920 Lord Jesus, I love you. 301 00:52:54.920 --> 00:52:56.920 I trust you. 302 00:52:56.920 --> 00:53:01.920 And I believe that my sins are forgiven through the blood of Jesus. 303 00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:05.920 I am a new creature because of the cross of Christ. 304 00:53:05.920 --> 00:53:12.920 And I believe that I receive all of the benefits of the cross. 305 00:53:13.920 --> 00:53:21.920 And one of those benefits is provision, abundance, and prosperity in Jesus' name. 306 00:53:21.920 --> 00:53:23.920 Amen. 307 00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:26.920 This is the City Light Church podcast. 308 00:53:26.920 --> 00:53:33.920 If you've missed any part of today's message or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansik in City Light Church, 309 00:53:33.920 --> 00:53:39.920 visit us at citylightnyc.com that's citylightnyc.com. 310 00:53:39.920 --> 00:53:45.920 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime we would love to connect with you. 311 00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:50.920 We pray that you have been encouraged today, that you have been reminded how much God loves you, 312 00:53:50.920 --> 00:53:53.920 and that you are surrounded by grace. 313 00:53:53.920 --> 00:53:55.920 Thank you for listening. 314 00:53:55.920 --> 00:54:01.920 Make sure that you subscribe to City Light Church podcast wherever you find your favorite podcasts worldwide.