WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.520 Your identity and Christ make you worthy of everything God has promised, including your dream life. 2 00:00:07.520 --> 00:00:12.480 So when you see the devil coming attacking you or trying to introduce you to something that is not 3 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:18.480 a dream life, you say, no, I resist you and I rebuke that in the name of Jesus. 4 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:22.960 I'm going to have with the Father promised me that all the promise of God are what? Yes, 5 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:30.080 amen in Christ Jesus. Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today, 6 00:00:30.080 --> 00:00:34.960 as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us. 7 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:41.360 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com 8 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:49.280 that citylightnyc.com. Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit 9 00:00:49.360 --> 00:00:54.400 is already working in our hearts and minds. As you listen to today's teaching, 10 00:00:54.400 --> 00:00:59.120 remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace, 11 00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:02.480 and that He has a real hope and a future for you. 12 00:01:05.600 --> 00:01:11.520 First of all, I want to thank Pastor Boyan for having me in. He's an amazing pastor, isn't he? 13 00:01:12.320 --> 00:01:18.640 Praise God. I told we've been friends for over 20 years. I told him I see his fatherhood in his 14 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:26.320 children. Their laughter, their freedom, and their happiness tells me how great of a father he is. 15 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:32.480 Now, so I said, oh, that's because of the mom. Yes, it is because of the mom, 16 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:36.960 but even when the mom is good and the dad is a jerk, you're going to see it on the kid's face. 17 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:44.160 So this dad is amazing. I know we celebrated the fathers last week. Thank God for all the fathers 18 00:01:44.160 --> 00:01:50.400 who are doing a great job. Amen. We honor you. Thank God for Pastor Moe and Pastor James. 19 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:59.040 Amazing associate pastors. This guy right here is full of gregarious love. Amen. 20 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:06.480 Soon as you come, you feel like, oh, man, I'm hugging the teddy bear heaven. Praise God. Hallelujah. 21 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:12.960 No, I'm serious because he's so full of love and he's tall and he's big. It's an amazing thing 22 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:19.920 to have a pastor like Pastor Moe in the midst of city like church. Amen. I was telling Pastor Sam, 23 00:02:19.920 --> 00:02:26.240 I said, this man is so full of words. I mean, his speech is like perfect. She said, I was thinking 24 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:31.840 the same thing. I mean, the way he expresses himself is like, we need to do a course on how to express 25 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:38.480 kingdom words. I told Pastor Boyer last time, I would say, he's so elegant, so great. He says, 26 00:02:39.440 --> 00:02:44.960 you're right. He's all of that. I love you, Pastor James. God bless you. Thank God for your 27 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:55.440 expertise, your character, and your experience that you brought to this church. As bless this church 28 00:02:55.440 --> 00:03:00.480 to the ministry, you know, I want you to shout out to all the volunteers. Come on. 29 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:06.320 Ministry of Helps. You're in the Bible. Paul talks about the Ministry of Helps. 30 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:14.400 So you're in this, you're in the book. Amen. And you're blessed for what you're doing, you know, 31 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:17.600 for this church. This is a great church. I talk about you all the time. You're going to full of 32 00:03:17.600 --> 00:03:24.960 excitement. You're growing. You're really one of the churches that we need in this city. And I thank 33 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:30.400 God for you, amen. And thank God for having me and receiving me. And let's just get into the word 34 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:37.440 of God again. We'll just stick with that message that I already started. Call about your dream life. 35 00:03:37.440 --> 00:03:43.600 How many of you have some dreams in your heart? How many of you have a dream you have for yourself 36 00:03:43.600 --> 00:03:48.880 and for your family? Amen. And if you don't have a dream, you need to start dreaming. Amen. So 37 00:03:48.880 --> 00:03:55.520 to imagine in your life as it could be, as it should be. Amen. Last year in July, I was waking 38 00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:00.880 up and I heard this word from the Lord. And the word was your dream life is around the corner. 39 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:08.000 And with it came the feeling not to give up. And so when I encourage you, whatever your dreams are, 40 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:14.000 whatever God is putting your heart, do not give up. You must be a person of perseverance. Amen. 41 00:04:14.480 --> 00:04:19.200 Hallelujah. Just like with your healing, you don't give up until you are fully healed until you 42 00:04:19.200 --> 00:04:25.360 get exactly what you want from Father God. Amen. We got too many Christians that give up too soon. 43 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:31.120 You'll be like, no, I'm not giving up. Father, this is not working. Why is it not working? What should 44 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:35.520 I do to make it work? What is the wisdom that I need? The Bible says, if any of you lacks wisdom, 45 00:04:35.520 --> 00:04:42.320 if some of us lack wisdom, we don't know what to do. Ask of God. And he will give you the wisdom. 46 00:04:42.320 --> 00:04:47.440 And the Bible actually says, ask of God who does not upgrade. You know what, upgrade means he's 47 00:04:47.440 --> 00:04:51.120 not going to seal you with abusive words. Or remember, you did this. Why should I give you wisdom? 48 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:54.480 Remember, you did that. Why should I bless you? The Bible says, God is not like that. 49 00:04:55.520 --> 00:05:00.000 God is not going to bring up your past where you ask him about something. He's going to love you 50 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.000 and he's going to bless you with what you ask him for. Amen. He wants you to have your dream life. 51 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:09.200 Do you know that? The Bible says that God gives us the desires of our heart. The Bible says, 52 00:05:09.200 --> 00:05:14.960 feed on his faithfulness, trust in the Lord and he will bring it to pass. Praise God. Are you 53 00:05:14.960 --> 00:05:19.600 saying about that? Paul says, all things are working together for your good because you love God 54 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:27.200 and you have the cold according to his purpose. Somebody say this with me. I am always in the right 55 00:05:27.200 --> 00:05:36.640 place at the right time experiencing the favor of God. Come on somebody. Somebody say, I am 56 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:46.640 always in the right place at the right time experiencing the favor of God. That kind of 57 00:05:46.640 --> 00:05:54.560 confession will push you into your dream life. So I say, I'm ready for my dream life. I want it 58 00:05:54.560 --> 00:06:02.320 now. Praise God. Hallelujah. Is somebody, I think that you're problem in your knee back, back 59 00:06:02.400 --> 00:06:10.000 on your right leg. Just move your leg like that. Jesus is healing you. Amen. In your leg, praise God. 60 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:20.000 Jesus loves healing people. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise God. Jesus, we praise you. 61 00:06:20.880 --> 00:06:28.400 So the first thing that I want to address is the fact that number one, if you're ready notes, 62 00:06:28.400 --> 00:06:36.960 but by the way, let me say this, the purpose of teaching is to give you beliefs or to strengthen the 63 00:06:36.960 --> 00:06:43.520 beliefs you already have. Those are the two purpose of teaching to give you beliefs, transmit 64 00:06:43.520 --> 00:06:48.960 something to you that that for you to believe or to strengthen what you already believe. Amen. 65 00:06:49.520 --> 00:06:53.520 So one of those two things are going to happen while you hear this message. Number one, 66 00:06:54.160 --> 00:07:00.960 you must believe that God is pro pleasure. I told the earlier service that God is about you 67 00:07:00.960 --> 00:07:07.760 having a good time. Hello, somebody. Do you believe that? Now, okay, I know it was into the 68 00:07:07.760 --> 00:07:13.840 spirit. You can switch it to laughter. It's okay. Yeah. Here's about you having a good time. He 69 00:07:13.840 --> 00:07:22.320 wants you to have a good time. He wants you to enjoy your life. Look at me at first Timothy. 70 00:07:24.400 --> 00:07:32.640 Chapter six, verse 17. And it says, command those who are rich in this present age, not to be 71 00:07:32.640 --> 00:07:37.520 horny. In other words, don't be conceited because you got money. No, it's a trust and uncertainty 72 00:07:37.520 --> 00:07:42.720 and riches. So if you have money, don't trust in it. Because that same Bitcoin that went up can go 73 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:51.280 down. Hello, somebody. Those same stocks that made you a lot of money can be at a dollar overnight. 74 00:07:52.080 --> 00:07:57.600 In other words, thank you God for these investments. Thank you God for this money. But I trust you. 75 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:08.880 Hallelujah. But in the living God, he's alive who gives us richly all things to enjoy. And 76 00:08:08.880 --> 00:08:14.320 that word richly means lavishly in the King James. And it means abundance. It means a lot. 77 00:08:14.320 --> 00:08:17.040 God's not just giving you, okay, here's just one little toy. Play with that. 78 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:22.080 No, he gives you a lot. You know how sometimes parents complain about their children? 79 00:08:23.200 --> 00:08:26.480 You know, at Christmas, oh, we give them all these gifts and they just play with this toy for five minutes 80 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:29.280 and they go to next toy five minutes. Anybody ever complain about that about your kids? 81 00:08:29.840 --> 00:08:32.800 You ever see your grandkids of kids do that? Guess what? It's okay. 82 00:08:34.560 --> 00:08:39.600 Oh, they don't, they don't, they don't appreciate nothing. No, no, no. That's the reason why we do it 83 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:45.200 because we're acting like God. God gives us a lot. And if you play with this for five minutes, 84 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:49.280 or you go to the next thing for five minutes, the next thing, it's okay because he gives us an abundance. 85 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:55.920 There's no limit. Don't be bothered by that because there is no limit. Whenever you bother by that, 86 00:08:55.920 --> 00:09:04.160 you're putting a limit on your mind. God is unlimited. Do you understand that God is not concrete? 87 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:13.200 He's not a physical Jesus became flesh, but God the Father is spirit unlimited. He's not a 88 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:22.240 trillionaire. He's not a zillionaire. He is existence. Oh, my God. He is existence itself. 89 00:09:23.280 --> 00:09:28.880 When this may help somebody, when I was a young person, this spirit would come to me, think around the 90 00:09:28.880 --> 00:09:33.680 ages, because I was always very inquisitive. Very, I'm still out, but I was really inquisitive as a kid. 91 00:09:33.680 --> 00:09:38.080 Send his school, ask him all the questions. When I was in Catholic school, I asked the principal, 92 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:43.120 sister, read, I remember, where did God come from? I'm 10 years old and fifth grade. And she 93 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:48.800 gives me something. I don't remember, but it wasn't satisfying to me. But the spirit comes to me 94 00:09:49.760 --> 00:09:53.520 at age of 16. I'm in a shower and basically trying to tell me, this is all fake. It's not real. 95 00:09:53.520 --> 00:09:59.200 There's no God. And I'm just like going to a little panic attack and then I shake myself and I 96 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:03.600 realize, okay, this is the devil. Okay, I'm here. So I must be real. But I always had this 97 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:08.000 inquisitiveness of where did God come from. But this spirit would come. Sometimes I would be 98 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:13.440 sleeping. I'll wake up. I'm in a panic. This is not real. This is all fake. And so I understand 99 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:18.320 what atheists and agnostic go through is not just their thinking. It's a spirit that comes. 100 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:24.720 But I am able to get rid of it. So this is going on for some time. And then one day, 101 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:30.400 the Lord said, Maurice, let me give you an answer that's going to help you and you won't be bothered 102 00:10:30.400 --> 00:10:34.400 by that demon. I mean, you always cast it out. But I'm going to give you something that's going to 103 00:10:34.400 --> 00:10:44.080 going to help you. You don't have to wonder where I came from. I am existence. I never heard 104 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:49.280 nobody tell me that. The Lord told me that. So when you, he says, there is no come from. I am come from. 105 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:56.480 See, saying he's the beginning of the ending wasn't good enough for me. But when he said, I am 106 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:02.000 existence. I got it. My soul. So the spirit doesn't even bother me no more. I can't bother him 107 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:09.120 no more. He got it. Amen. Hallelujah. So I prayed, prayed, prayed God for revelation knowledge. Amen. 108 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:17.440 But this God who's alive, who is existence wants to give you all things 109 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:22.320 to enjoy every part of your life should be enjoying your food. You should be enjoying your house. 110 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:26.080 You should be enjoying your spouse. You should be enjoying your children are for enjoyment, 111 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:31.200 not just for responsibility. I'm raising a generation. Can I be real smart? I'm going to go to the best 112 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:37.120 school. That's not why God gave you kids. So your kids can be NYU graduates and give you a 113 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:42.400 smile on your face. And you tell your friends, my kid graduated from NYU. Did you enjoy your kids 114 00:11:42.400 --> 00:11:47.600 from the day they were born? Are you having fun with your kids? Are you having fun with your 115 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:52.560 kids? You're not married. You can say, I got a man. I got a woman. No, you're there to enjoy 116 00:11:52.560 --> 00:11:57.760 them. So the way you enjoy them is not look at their imperfections and say, you're a gift from 117 00:11:57.760 --> 00:12:05.920 heaven. Let me have fun with you. Amen. Right? You have a happy marriage if you do that. One day, 118 00:12:05.920 --> 00:12:10.720 I was really frustrated with my church. I mean, it was going on for a minute. And we was having 119 00:12:10.800 --> 00:12:17.440 21 days of prayer. And I was laying across my bed. This is many years ago. I'll never forget. I heard 120 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:22.640 the voice of God. I mean, crystal clear. That's why I say crystal clear. And he said this, 121 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:32.240 take your eyes off of human failure. And I was stunned by I heard his voice. 122 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:44.720 In the middle of me praying, he said, take your eyes off of human failure. And I knew, oh, 123 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:48.800 that's my answer. I mean, I haven't done it perfectly. But everything about your friend, 124 00:12:48.800 --> 00:12:53.120 would I tell you? And then the Lord has helped me over the years realizing, 125 00:12:53.120 --> 00:13:00.640 he said, your sheep is my people. Chill out. Enter into rest. You're just a servant and a son 126 00:13:01.520 --> 00:13:04.640 delivering a message. Passionate people. I'll give you the pastor. But it's not your strength. 127 00:13:04.640 --> 00:13:09.360 It's not your grace. It's not your calling. It's mine. So whenever I go for, hey, 128 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:14.880 these AMI people, take care of your people, Lord. Deal with your saints. Deal with your sheep. 129 00:13:14.880 --> 00:13:23.600 They ain't mine. So much freedom. Amen. So what happens is I can enjoy the church more when I 130 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:30.640 realize they ain't mine. It's humbling. But guess what? It gives you more grace. 131 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:36.880 It gives you more grace to pastor and it's giving me more grace. The Amplifier says, 132 00:13:36.880 --> 00:13:42.640 who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for enjoyment. So God doesn't stop giving 133 00:13:42.640 --> 00:13:51.440 you good things to enjoy. You know, Ephesians, Ephesians, James chapter 1 verse 17 says, every good 134 00:13:51.440 --> 00:14:00.320 and every perfect gift comes down. Comes down. You know, comes down means in the Greek, it means 135 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:07.360 continually coming down like a waterfall. You ever see a waterfall stop? Keeps going from the 136 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:10.480 father of lights and whom there's no veril, but there's neither shadow of turning. Otherwise, 137 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:15.200 God's going to change his mind about the coming down of good and perfect gifts. The Bible says in 138 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:23.280 the Old Testament, blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits. Daily, every day, give 139 00:14:23.280 --> 00:14:34.720 us this day our what? Oh, our what? Our what? Bread. The point of bread is to satisfy. Jesus wants you 140 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:43.040 to live in daily satisfaction. Your vacation time should not be the time I'm living my dream life. 141 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:49.200 No, your dream life should be every day your vacation time or they call it holiday in Europe. That 142 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:54.800 should be part of your dream life, but your life should be miserable. I can't wait to go on vacation. 143 00:14:56.240 --> 00:15:02.320 That's what the father is going to be. Oh, I hate my job. I can't wait to go home and eat some dinner 144 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:10.560 and watch Netflix. No, no, every ounce of your day is meant to be filled with joy, 145 00:15:11.520 --> 00:15:19.600 filled with peace, filled with productivity, filled with happiness. Somebody say, I'm going to be happy 146 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:28.000 no matter what. I'm going to leave my dream life no matter what. You know, the Holy Spirit is here to 147 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:33.040 help you to live your dream life. Holy Spirit is not just here for fire and wind and healing 148 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:40.000 miracles. You know, one time the Lord told me to tell my best friend this because the Lord said, 149 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:43.200 this is what a lot of people think. They think the Holy Spirit is always there to correct you. 150 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:48.960 So he said, tell him this and I tell my best friend, the Lord told me to tell you the Holy Spirit 151 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:53.680 loves you. He was there to fire, the loves me, Jesus loves me, but you ever heard somebody say 152 00:15:53.680 --> 00:15:57.920 the Holy Spirit loves you? Some people think the Holy Spirit is tolerating you. 153 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:04.640 I agree with him today. He's not happy. No, the Holy Spirit loves you. He is the spirit of the Father 154 00:16:04.640 --> 00:16:11.840 and of the Son. And he's here to guide you into what your dream life. Jesus said, when I leave, 155 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:19.280 I'm sending you another comforter that word another means one of the same kind. He's the spirit of 156 00:16:19.280 --> 00:16:26.400 Christ. So you're the spirit of Jesus living inside of you, resting upon you, guiding you, helping 157 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:33.600 you to live this wonderful life that God has for you. Amen. What did you say? The thief comes 158 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:39.520 back to steal to kill him to destroy him. But I have come that you have what? Life and having what? 159 00:16:39.520 --> 00:16:50.800 More, more what? One of them says to the full. Somebody say, I will live the abundant life. 160 00:16:51.520 --> 00:16:58.800 All right. But you got to know that God is it's pro pleasure. So I gave the last service five 161 00:16:58.800 --> 00:17:03.600 proofs that God is pro pleasure. I'm going to give you these five. I'm going to do it fast. 162 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:11.040 Number one, you have taste buds. You don't need taste buds to eat and be healthy. You can just have 163 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:16.720 no taste buds. Anybody like during COVID, a lot of people lost their taste, but they were still eating. 164 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:25.360 I've got to live. Let me get this green smoothie on. Let me get this spaghetti and meatballs on, 165 00:17:25.360 --> 00:17:31.440 but they can't taste anything. They can smell anything. Do you really? I didn't even add that. Do 166 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:38.080 you know that your your taste buds and your smelling senses is all given to you from the father so that 167 00:17:38.080 --> 00:17:46.240 you can have pleasure. Even while you're eating, even when you're walking down the street, 168 00:17:47.280 --> 00:17:51.840 he wants you to smell beautiful things. It's not God's fault they were living a concrete jungle. 169 00:17:53.680 --> 00:18:02.080 He put us in a garden. We chose to have the concrete, but he wants you to smell it in the flowers 170 00:18:02.080 --> 00:18:10.400 and things with beautiful sense because he wants you to be pleased. We a lot of preaching about 171 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:14.880 please God, please God, please God, but do you realize the father wants you to be pleased, please, please? 172 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:26.000 Come on, somebody. Two, your sex drive. Hello. Your sex drive wasn't there to frustrate you 173 00:18:27.280 --> 00:18:31.760 and be the thing that keeps you in sin and keep you repenting. I'm sending. Now, if for marriage, 174 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:36.800 and it's for you to enjoy your spouse, not just to procreate with your spouse, but to enjoy them 175 00:18:36.800 --> 00:18:45.040 because after the kids, is the sex game still going on? It should be because it's for pleasure, 176 00:18:45.040 --> 00:18:51.360 not just for procreation. Come on, somebody. There ain't no kids in here, are there? Well, maybe they are. 177 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:56.800 I didn't say it's gonna last service. I'm gonna say this. Your orgasms are to come from the devil. 178 00:18:57.760 --> 00:19:02.480 It comes from Jesus. I was afraid to say it in the first place. I'm not afraid now. 179 00:19:04.800 --> 00:19:09.920 They come from Jesus. Yeah, we won't see Jesus. They think, oh, sex is the devil of the flood. No, 180 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:15.040 no, no, it's God. The devil wants to take credit for it. He wants to create the point and all that stuff. 181 00:19:15.040 --> 00:19:24.080 Make a thing is, no, sex comes from heaven. Amen. Your body parts that you use for this activity 182 00:19:24.800 --> 00:19:30.800 came from Jesus. Yes, the Christ, the Son of the Living God, the Passover Lamb. 183 00:19:33.120 --> 00:19:37.280 Hello, you got to take that religious spirit off of the Jesus. 184 00:19:39.280 --> 00:19:44.960 What do you think speed and velocity came from all you science people? The Father, Jesus, 185 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:50.320 He created speed. He wants you to have a speeding ticket. Yeah, go ahead. Now, I'm joking, I'm joking, 186 00:19:50.320 --> 00:19:54.880 I'm joking. He said, obey the law of the land. But they're corny. They're 25 miles per hour. Come on, 187 00:19:54.880 --> 00:20:04.640 man. Come on. I'm in the oven. I'm like, my God, dry faster. I can't. It's 25. Oh, my God. The city. 188 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:14.240 Now I see why people go to the country. You drive a lot of men. They love speed. It brings 189 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:21.840 pleasure to them. God created that. That comes from the Father. Okay, I don't want to get no 190 00:20:21.840 --> 00:20:26.160 men in trouble that I see the passes out the speed. No, no, no, no. Father, Lord, the land. 191 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:31.280 Three, the variety of food, spices and natural flavors that exist in the earth. All that comes 192 00:20:31.280 --> 00:20:37.360 from the Father. Four, music is proof that God is pro pleasure. How many people love music? 193 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:43.120 Throw some of your favorite groups. Everybody scared again? Like the first group? 194 00:20:43.840 --> 00:20:48.080 We know you all wasn't always saying, go ahead, throw out your first groups. Pastor James said 195 00:20:48.080 --> 00:20:59.520 Michael Jackson. Yeah. Anybody else? You too. You too. Okay. Look, Craig, 196 00:20:59.520 --> 00:21:04.400 Cass and Crowns. Okay. Give me some secular people so we can really have a good Wu Tang. 197 00:21:07.840 --> 00:21:11.760 Anybody else? Usher. I said usher. Okay. All right. Come on. 198 00:21:13.360 --> 00:21:18.800 Cold play. Yes. Now I don't like all those other people, but listen. 199 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:23.280 I don't like no Led Zeppelin. I don't like no you too. 200 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:34.080 I'm black. So, you know, give me some R&B. Some, some, my brother's like hip hop. 201 00:21:34.080 --> 00:21:40.160 Huh? Earth when the fire. Come on. Yeah, they're good. They're good. Oh, everybody's happy for that. Okay. 202 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:48.640 I brought that up for this because every culture has their music. See, Pastor Sam, she's Haitian. 203 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:52.080 She went to a party yesterday that had Haitian music. I don't like Haitian music. Why? 204 00:21:52.080 --> 00:21:55.600 I ain't Haitian. I mean, it's not used to here, but I ain't buying Haitian music. I ain't playing 205 00:21:55.600 --> 00:22:03.280 it on my radio. I'm not Haitian. But every culture has their music that makes them happy, 206 00:22:03.280 --> 00:22:11.360 and God is pleased with that. Come on, somebody. Five comedy is proof. I mean, like comedy. 207 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:19.760 Anybody like that new guy, Jokal? It isn't me Jokal? J-O-K-O-Y? That guy's hilarious. 208 00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:24.800 I'm like, uh-oh, Kevin Hart, he's about to take your throne, man. This guy, especially 209 00:22:24.800 --> 00:22:32.960 when he does all the Asian voices, Japanese. Oh, anybody saw that? Okay, no, never mind. Never mind. 210 00:22:34.560 --> 00:22:40.000 He mimicked all the different, because he's Asian himself, all the different Asian voices. It was 211 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:45.280 super. Okay, never mind. Comedy, I like comedy. I don't watch comedy. Amen. It's good to lie. The 212 00:22:45.280 --> 00:22:51.360 Bible says laughter does good like what? Medicine. So if you want to be healthy and live a long time, 213 00:22:51.360 --> 00:22:58.880 learn to laugh. Amen. Look at your name. It's a neighbor learned to laugh. Everything's not that 214 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:06.720 serious. Praise God. Including my sermons, not that serious. Praise God. Okay, my time is going. Let 215 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:12.240 me go quick. Number two, you must believe your dream life has always been waiting for you. 216 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:18.560 The Bible says that his divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness. 217 00:23:18.560 --> 00:23:25.040 That's impeter. So everything that you want, everything that you desire, everything that you need 218 00:23:25.040 --> 00:23:30.240 has already been provided for you. When he created Adam and Eve, he didn't say, hey, 219 00:23:31.760 --> 00:23:36.080 what are we going to do with you guys? Get a plan and a purpose before he even created them. 220 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:40.560 He created a word, the Bible says in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. He created 221 00:23:40.560 --> 00:23:47.920 the planet and all the things in it for them before they were made. And then the Bible says he created 222 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:57.520 a garden and put Adam in it. The garden represents your dream life. The Bible says he gave him, 223 00:23:57.520 --> 00:24:03.360 he created a garden of what? Eden. What is the word? Somebody just said it. What does the word 224 00:24:03.360 --> 00:24:10.720 Eden mean? Pleasure, delight. So we can prove from even the beginning of creation that God is what 225 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:19.840 propleasure. He wanted them to live in freedom. Did you realize that there's only one commander 226 00:24:19.840 --> 00:24:28.880 God gave Adam and Eve? Not 10, not 20, not 100, not a thousand. How many? One. Don't eat 227 00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:34.720 of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But you above all the trees, you may freely eat. 228 00:24:35.600 --> 00:24:40.480 Part of your dream life is having freedom. If you feel that you don't have freedom, that you 229 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:45.840 restricted, that you're nosy to the grindstone, you need to leave that job, leave that career, leave 230 00:24:45.840 --> 00:24:52.640 that life. Your life should be a life of what? Freedom. I don't mean irresponsibility, but freedom. 231 00:24:53.600 --> 00:25:00.560 When you wake up, you should be like, praise the Lord, another day, to prosper and be productive. 232 00:25:01.920 --> 00:25:10.080 There's no blue Mondays in heaven. Oh my God, it's Monday. Time to make the donuts. 233 00:25:13.120 --> 00:25:20.000 Now that's not God. God wants you to jump up and say, woo, I'm going to have a amazing day. 234 00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:24.720 I'm about to make some money. I'm about to eat some good food. I'm about to pray for somebody. 235 00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:30.640 I'm about to get a healed. I'm about to see a life change. I'm going to be smiling all day long. 236 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:38.480 I don't care what's going in this world. Amen. Hallelujah. This is what it means to be sanctified, 237 00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:45.440 not long dresses and a dolly over your head and white ruffled shirts. I'm sanctified. 238 00:25:46.320 --> 00:25:49.760 You know, sanctified means separated from the world. When the world is down, you are up. 239 00:25:50.800 --> 00:25:56.000 When the world is sad, you are smiling. When the world is depressed, you're rejoicing and singing praise 240 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:04.400 to God because He gives what? Beauty for ashes and a spirit of praise for the spirit of heaviness, 241 00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:13.920 right? Come on somebody. So your dream life has already been established. This is what it says. 242 00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:17.920 It says in Genesis 2.89, the Lord got planted a garden, 243 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:23.360 Evelyn eating, and there he put the man whom he had formed, and out of the ground, the Lord 244 00:26:23.360 --> 00:26:32.240 God made every tree grow that is what? Pleasant to the sight and good for food. 245 00:26:32.320 --> 00:26:39.440 And I said in a lot of service, if it's not pleasant and good, it's not God. 246 00:26:45.520 --> 00:26:47.920 Everything in your life should be measured by pleasant and good. 247 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:52.880 Am I supposed to be pleasant and good? Well, you're in a covenant. You can't leave them. 248 00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:59.280 You got to pray that it becomes pleasant and good. But everything in your life is not pleasant 249 00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:05.600 and good. Get rid of it. Everything. You know, I made a smoothie yesterday, you know, 250 00:27:05.600 --> 00:27:09.200 being greedy, I made a smoothie, added some spinach to make you feel like it's going to be healthy, 251 00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:13.600 you know? And I was like, and I added extra banana. I said, this isn't taste good. 252 00:27:14.800 --> 00:27:19.440 Now the old school me, because you know how we've been raised, you make it, you finish it. 253 00:27:21.040 --> 00:27:27.600 That philosophy is long gone. I recently have really started saying, if I don't like something, 254 00:27:27.600 --> 00:27:31.280 I don't care if I just made it, it goes into garbage. And everybody knows it goes to the restaurant 255 00:27:31.280 --> 00:27:34.560 with me. I said, do you like what you're eating? They're like, yeah, yeah, but I don't really like it. 256 00:27:34.560 --> 00:27:39.600 Go get something else. No, no, I can't do that because that's how we've been trained. I can't make 257 00:27:39.600 --> 00:27:45.840 a switch. No, when Jesus fed the five thousand, but I said, they ate as much as they wanted. 258 00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:52.560 And so am I like, so you know what I did with that green smoothie? I ate it and I was praying 259 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:57.120 for you guys today. And I was like, nah, I don't like this crap. I do that thing right in the sink. 260 00:27:58.480 --> 00:28:02.160 It's not good. It's not pleasant to my mouth. Bye bye. 261 00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:08.960 Now that's a small something that's really silly, but that's what you do with everything in your 262 00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:16.960 life. I have clothes. I had just, I'm going to lie. One of my members, their daughter, I was 263 00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:22.320 wearing a shirt. It's a nice shirt. Pastor Sam said it was nice. Other people said it was nice. 264 00:28:22.320 --> 00:28:26.480 They were like, yo, it's a nice shirt. This little teenage girl said, that looks like a 265 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:32.640 dad shirt. You know what a dad shirt is, right? You're like a old, say that, tell us something, 266 00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:39.360 my grandfather would wear. I said, okay, this is going in the garbage. I tell them to 267 00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:44.000 young for those comments. She's even your jeans. My grandfather with jeans like that. I said, what? 268 00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:52.800 That was savage. So you know that shirt and a whole bunch of other shirts and I just bought 269 00:28:52.800 --> 00:28:59.760 them. We're right into Salvation Army. Bye bye. I'm not hearing that comment about dad shirt, okay? 270 00:28:59.760 --> 00:29:08.720 But if it's not good, if it's not pleasant, get rid of it. Amen. 271 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:21.280 Three, you must believe you deserve it. There's a book out called You Deserved by a doctor, 272 00:29:21.280 --> 00:29:28.640 a psychologist in New York City, and he said he did a lot of research and did a lot of counseling. 273 00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:37.280 He's counseled, the rich, poor, all these people, and people he noticed that struggled to get to 274 00:29:37.760 --> 00:29:44.160 their next or a certain goal. He was trying to figure out what is it? What is the common denominator, 275 00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:50.800 the denominator of all the people that I've counseled, all the people that said in my chair, 276 00:29:51.600 --> 00:30:01.120 and he discovered the feeling of worthiness. Those who are making it, felt worthy, and those who 277 00:30:01.120 --> 00:30:10.400 weren't making it felt unworthy. If you want to have your dream life, your dream job, your dream 278 00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:16.880 husband, your dream wife, if you receive your healing, you have to believe that you deserve it. 279 00:30:17.600 --> 00:30:28.400 We don't have time to go to it, but Jesus, in Luke 13, talked about the woman who's bowed over. 280 00:30:28.400 --> 00:30:33.600 Remember her? 18 years bowed over, and the religious leaders would get mad because you're healing on 281 00:30:33.600 --> 00:30:37.200 the Sabbath day. He's like, hypocrite. He didn't say hypocrite. He screamed it out. 282 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:42.720 Hypocrite! You want to take your animal to get some water on the Sabbath, but the woman can't 283 00:30:42.800 --> 00:30:52.400 be healed. He says, think of it. She's been bound by Satan, not God, Satan, low these 18 years. 284 00:30:53.840 --> 00:31:04.640 Look, think about it. 18 years. He said, she ought to be healed seeing that she's a daughter of Abraham. 285 00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:20.480 Your sonship in Christ makes you worthy of anything you want. He said, her healing, she deserves 286 00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:25.280 it, not because I'm the son of God, I'm here, I'm about to show my power. He said, no, because she's 287 00:31:25.280 --> 00:31:33.280 the daughter of Abraham. Her identity made her worthy. Your identity in Christ as sons and daughters 288 00:31:33.280 --> 00:31:40.960 of Abraham make you worthy of everything God has promised, including your dream life. 289 00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:46.720 So when you see the devil coming attacking you or trying to introduce you to something that is 290 00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:52.720 not a dream life, you say, no, I resist you and I rebuke that in the name of Jesus. 291 00:31:53.840 --> 00:31:57.920 I'm going to have with the father promise me, the father says, all the promise of God are what? 292 00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:03.120 Yes and amen in Christ Jesus. Paul said, I didn't come preaching, yes and no, 293 00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:07.920 like some preachers do. Oh, yeah, yeah, God will hear you, but no, in this case, no, no, no. 294 00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:13.600 No, there's no yes and no one God is yes, yes, yes, yes. Amen. 295 00:32:15.360 --> 00:32:24.000 Hello, somebody. Hello, somebody. Get excited about your future. Get excited about your life. 296 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:29.200 You're going to have an amazing life in the name of Jesus and by the spread of all God. 297 00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:34.640 But you have to believe that you deserve it. So I say, I deserve it. Look at them and say, 298 00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:41.680 name, but you deserve it. You deserve. But George, George, George, my brother wrote a book called, 299 00:32:43.280 --> 00:32:48.800 by the dress and eat the cookie. And it was about woman. How are they? I can't buy that. 300 00:32:48.800 --> 00:32:54.160 I'm on a budget. Stop with the budget. Budget ain't in the Bible. I know you, Dave Ramsey, 301 00:32:54.160 --> 00:33:01.280 people on the budget. I got you. Praise God. And you should. But I like something. 302 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:07.120 Tony Roberts says, he says, I'd rather use the word spending plan. It's more positive. 303 00:33:08.080 --> 00:33:11.680 Budget is more like, uh, spending plan is like, okay, this is what you do. 304 00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:18.800 But the reality is, don't let your budget or your spending plan limit your thinking. 305 00:33:19.760 --> 00:33:25.520 Dream big. Dream large and say, God, can you fulfill my dreams? Yes, he can. 306 00:33:26.640 --> 00:33:34.000 Can you bring it to pass? Yes, I can. I said, feed on his faithfulness. Not feed on your salary. 307 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:44.960 God is faithful. He can bring new income flows to you. He can bring new people into your life. 308 00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:51.040 He can really bless you big time. My sister just recently applied for a new job. 309 00:33:51.040 --> 00:33:55.680 She left her old one. She was really doing great there, but she's playing. And before, 310 00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:59.920 she went to different interviews, different people wanted her, but she gave this position as a 311 00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:05.680 director. And her former assistant and her last job said, I had a dream about you. 312 00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:11.440 I saw that you got the job at this school. And I saw you in black. I saw you're here. 313 00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:15.760 And our here was the way that she described it. And she said, I saw that you were very happy. 314 00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:19.840 She says, well, they haven't called me yet. She says, well, that's what I dreamed. 315 00:34:21.520 --> 00:34:27.360 45 minutes later, the school caller said, uh, we would like you to take the position. 316 00:34:28.160 --> 00:34:35.200 Glory to God. She got something that's going to make her happy, working in the environment 317 00:34:35.200 --> 00:34:39.840 because the last environment wasn't good, causing her stress, but this is going to make her happy. 318 00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:47.840 That is God's will for you, amen? Praise God. The last point, and it's it, and I'm done, is 319 00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:58.640 you must claim what is yours. And I told the, um, right, write this down, because I don't have time 320 00:34:58.640 --> 00:35:10.000 to read it. Numbers 27 to 1 to 11. This is about Zilofa dad's daughters. Um, and so they're giving 321 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:14.800 out land to all the men and doda doda, all the narratives. And the daughters said, well, I'll 322 00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:22.320 die. You know, he died. And um, he has no sons. So that land ain't going nobody else. It's going 323 00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:27.520 to us. Now, what's interesting is they came before Moses. Now, Moses is a great prophet, great 324 00:35:27.520 --> 00:35:32.480 deliverer who were you females, especially in that culture, to walk up to Moses and tell him what 325 00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:38.640 you, what, what, what belongs to you? But they were bold and Moses humbly enough to hear their 326 00:35:38.640 --> 00:35:45.040 requests. And he went to the Lord. And the Lord said to Moses, read it. He said, what the daughters 327 00:35:45.040 --> 00:35:53.600 of Zilofa dad says is right. Give them that land, manufacture, make this an ordinance forever in 328 00:35:53.600 --> 00:35:59.280 Israel. If there's no sons, the land then heritans go straight to the daughters. Here's the point. 329 00:36:00.240 --> 00:36:08.880 They spoke up. They claimed what was theirs. Notice, like I said last service. God, the father 330 00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:13.520 didn't pinpoint, hey, girls, um, they're about to take your land. You need to go and get that. 331 00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:21.520 They swore for themselves. It was something that belonged to them and they went and claimed it 332 00:36:21.520 --> 00:36:28.560 and God backed them up. And I said, it reminds me of what Jesus said, whatever you bind on earth, 333 00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:36.480 should be bound in heaven, whatever you want, loose on earth, should be what? Loose the heaven 334 00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:46.720 backs up your decision and your claim to fame. You want something, go get it. You want something, 335 00:36:46.720 --> 00:36:54.720 go get it. And heaven will back you up. Amen. Aren't you excited about that? So I said, I can have 336 00:36:55.680 --> 00:37:04.800 my dream life. It's not impossible. All the good things I see other people have, I'm worthy of it. 337 00:37:05.600 --> 00:37:13.440 And I lay claim to it. Amen. I told this story. I told this and then I'm done. I was at this 338 00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:18.240 Jamaican restaurant, the grocery street from my complex called The Door. And many, many years ago, 339 00:37:19.200 --> 00:37:25.440 this family was sitting there with their little boy and they brought, you know, the appetizers and 340 00:37:25.440 --> 00:37:30.400 I think it was like some cornbread or whatever they had. And I remember him jumping up because I was 341 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:35.680 looking at him from from a distance. And he jumped up and he said and he put his hand on the table 342 00:37:35.680 --> 00:37:44.080 and said, hey, that's mine. And God burned that memory in my mind. And the Lord showed me that's 343 00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:52.000 how my children should be with what I lay out for them on the table. Hey, that's mine. 344 00:37:54.400 --> 00:38:00.880 So once you shut it right now, hey, that's mine. Think of something you want. Just think of it right 345 00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:10.000 now. Now say, hey, that's mine. See, so grabbing that luxury car. Grabbing that car and 346 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:14.720 throw that pin house. Hello, somebody that good looking husband, that good looking wife. Those 347 00:38:14.720 --> 00:38:25.360 kids you want say, hey, that's mine. In Jesus name. Amen. Glory to God. Praise God. 348 00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:31.920 I want to do one thing I didn't do in the last service. I just want to give an alter call. 349 00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:36.640 If you're here, by the way, anybody experienced more healing that I have prayed for that that 350 00:38:36.640 --> 00:38:40.800 didn't stand before just raise your hand. If you felt something happened to your body that I 351 00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:47.280 prayed for, praise God. All right. So if you're here in this place and you don't know Jesus, you've 352 00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:55.840 not been born again by your heads and say, Pastor Maurice, I want the dream life, but I don't want to 353 00:38:55.840 --> 00:39:00.880 go to hell. I want to go to heaven. I want to be born again. I want to receive the forgiveness of 354 00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:05.680 sins. And I want to receive this abundant life that Jesus has for me. I want him. 355 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:15.440 And Jesus says, I'm here. I'm here to forgive you. I'm here to cleanse you. I died for you. 356 00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:22.080 I don't want religion, but I want Jesus. If that's you, you've never been born again. You never 357 00:39:22.080 --> 00:39:26.640 confessed to me as your savior. Raise your hand high. I'm going to pray with you to be saved. 358 00:39:26.640 --> 00:39:31.600 Raise your hand high. Anybody in the place. Pastor Maurice, that's me. I want to be saved. 359 00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:37.200 I want to be born again. I want to receive the forgiveness of sins. If that's you, raise your hand 360 00:39:37.200 --> 00:39:43.280 high. Pastor Maurice, that's me. High. So I can see it. Praise God. Now, I ask you to join the church 361 00:39:44.080 --> 00:39:51.200 where offering salvation to you. If that's you, raise your hand. Praise God. Okay. We're all 362 00:39:51.200 --> 00:39:56.480 family here. Praise God. Amen. Well, God bless you. I mean, I was going to win this church, my church. 363 00:39:56.480 --> 00:40:01.520 God bless you, city light church. Thank you for the opportunity to be here with you. I love you 364 00:40:01.520 --> 00:40:06.880 in Jesus' name. This is the city light church podcast. 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