WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.000 Rare will change America. 2 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:04.000 I believe with all of my heart, 3 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:06.000 with all of my heart our greatest days 4 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:08.000 as a country are up ahead. 5 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:10.000 God can do it, God will do it. 6 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:12.000 He's going to show his mercy 7 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:14.000 for our fevery, for our lying, 8 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:16.000 for all of the innumerable sins we've done 9 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:18.000 individually and collectively as a nation. 10 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:20.000 We deserve the righteousness of God. 11 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:22.000 But the cross of Jesus is there saying, 12 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:26.000 I will give you what you don't deserve. 13 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:28.000 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 14 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:30.000 Thanks for joining us today 15 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.000 as we look into God's word 16 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:34.000 and discover the hope and truth 17 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:36.000 that he has for us. 18 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:00.000 He's surrounded by his grace 19 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:02.000 and that he has a real hope 20 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:04.000 and a future for you. 21 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:08.000 Thank you, Jesus. 22 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:10.000 It is good to be back home. 23 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:12.000 Vacation was wonderful. 24 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:16.000 Traveling is nice, 25 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.000 but there's no place like home. 26 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:22.000 One thing that 27 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:24.000 hold on. 28 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:26.000 I have the sweat, 29 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:28.000 the wet wiping cloth 30 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:30.000 and then the nose blowing, 31 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:32.000 whatever this is. 32 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.000 Burn that. Usher is burn that. 33 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:36.000 Please. 34 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:38.000 Take a torch to it. 35 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:44.000 Whenever I go 36 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:46.000 to Montenegro, 37 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.000 the Adriatic is beautiful. 38 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:54.000 The weather is lovely. 39 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:56.000 It's awesome. 40 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.000 But you just see that you're 41 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:00.000 in a spiritual wasteland, 42 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.000 a desert. 43 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:04.000 There's no spiritual curiosity. 44 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:06.000 There's no church I can go to, 45 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:08.000 not where I was. 46 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:12.000 An entire city of 30,000 people. 47 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:14.000 Nobody's seeking after God. 48 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:16.000 And you know when I say nobody, 49 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:18.000 maybe there's somebody hiding 50 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:20.000 in a bush under a rock, 51 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:22.000 online trying to figure it out. 52 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:24.000 99% of the population secular humanism 53 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:26.000 is their God. 54 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.000 Greed is their God. 55 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:32.000 A lot of that stems 56 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:34.000 because we were under communism 57 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:36.000 for so long, 58 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.000 and faith was squashed. 59 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:40.000 Communism also declares 60 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:42.000 there'll be no other gods before me. 61 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:44.000 And it just makes me love 62 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:46.000 this nation so much more. 63 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:48.000 I came here in 1981. 64 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:50.000 I was five years old. 65 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:54.000 I heard the gospel here. 66 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.000 I got saved here. 67 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.000 America is a place 68 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:02.000 despite its problems. 69 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:04.000 It's still a place 70 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:06.000 where the gospel 71 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:08.000 has free course. 72 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:10.000 It's still a place 73 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:12.000 where hundreds of thousands of people 74 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.000 get saved every year. 75 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:18.000 Other nations can't say the same thing. 76 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:20.000 You can focus so much 77 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:22.000 on the negative, 78 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:24.000 and there's been 79 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.000 an intentional 80 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:28.000 attack on all of us 81 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.000 on our psyches 82 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:32.000 to only look at the negative. 83 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:34.000 To actually try to get us 84 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:36.000 to hate our own country. 85 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:38.000 There's a reason why 86 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:40.000 still over 50% 87 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:42.000 of all global immigrants 88 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:44.000 they want to come here. 89 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:46.000 Amen. There's a reason. 90 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:50.000 The upward mobility. 91 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:54.000 The freedom. 92 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:02.000 I'm grateful for America. 93 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:06.000 You know, there've been times 94 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:08.000 where we just let my mind wander. 95 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:10.000 Because I don't like 96 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:14.000 obviously some things that I'm seeing in America. 97 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.000 Can I confess some things to you? 98 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.000 You ever let your mind wander? 99 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:22.000 See, I am in chains of love to the Lord. 100 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:24.000 And I can't let my mind wander too much. 101 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:26.000 I am chained to my calling. 102 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:28.000 I'm here. I've been here 103 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:30.000 over 20 years serving the Lord. 104 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:32.000 It's pastor of city light. 105 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:34.000 And from everything that I can tell, 106 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:38.000 I'll be doing that till he raptures me up. 107 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:42.000 Or I fall asleep. 108 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:44.000 Paul said that I'm a bond servant of the Lord. 109 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.000 That's a willful servant 110 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:50.000 in the chain of love. 111 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:52.000 But I let my mind wander when 112 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:54.000 they had the whole vaccine passes here 113 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:56.000 and it was such a darkness over New York City 114 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:58.000 and a lot of the country had opened up 115 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.000 and you go out in New York City 116 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.000 people still can't look each other in the eyes. 117 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:04.000 They're all walking around like ninjas 118 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:06.000 all covered up. 119 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:08.000 And I thought, you know, I wonder 120 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:10.000 if I had to go where would I go? 121 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:12.000 So I started thinking of all the countries. 122 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:14.000 Where could I escape to? 123 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:16.000 And then very quickly hit me. 124 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:18.000 There is no escape here. 125 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:20.000 Where am I going to go? 126 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:22.000 America is the last bastion. 127 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:26.000 If America falls, what will happen to the world? 128 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:30.000 And a lot of people who have been born in America 129 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.000 or have been too long in America, 130 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:34.000 they take for granted 131 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:38.000 what we actually have in America. 132 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:40.000 They think that 133 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:42.000 this is the default state of the world 134 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:44.000 and it's not the default state. 135 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:46.000 Freedom being able 136 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.000 to have upward mobility 137 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:50.000 being able to preach the gospel 138 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:52.000 that is not the default state of the world. 139 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:54.000 For the majority of the world, 140 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:56.000 the default state is one level of tyranny or another. 141 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:58.000 Are you aware of that? 142 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:02.000 So I'm grateful for America. 143 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:06.000 Other countries that go through passport control in 20 minutes. 144 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.000 I landed JFK hour and a half line. 145 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:10.000 I still say, 146 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:12.000 hallelujah, I love JFK. 147 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:16.000 I love that woman yelling at me to stay in line. 148 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:22.000 I love that I'm in this unrenovated part. 149 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:26.000 Looks like a freak show from the 60s. 150 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:30.000 But God bless America. 151 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:34.000 And because of what happened 152 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:36.000 with the attempted 153 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:40.000 assassination of former president Trump yesterday, 154 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:42.000 I just couldn't go on 155 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:46.000 with business as usual in this service. 156 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:48.000 As soon as it happened, 157 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:50.000 I'm like, I can't now just 158 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:52.000 we're going to do a few songs of worship 159 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:54.000 and then I preach the word 160 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:58.000 and then we need to pray for our country. 161 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:00.000 Understand. 162 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:06.000 Confirmation and urgency in my spirit and a gravity in my spirit. 163 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:10.000 Do you remember when we were in 21 days of prayer and fasting 164 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:14.000 in beginning of 2024? 165 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:16.000 And I began to say do you think. 166 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:18.000 I asked you a rhetorical question. 167 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:20.000 Do you think this whole year, 168 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:22.000 it's an election year, 169 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:23.000 do you think it's just 170 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:25.000 going to go on 171 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:26.000 without any major event? 172 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:28.000 It's going to be an individual 173 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:32.120 And the majority of you, you knew exactly what I was talking about, you said something 174 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:35.800 is going to happen. 175 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:40.400 What happened yesterday is no small thing. 176 00:07:40.400 --> 00:07:51.760 My father, who's so, he's so well tempered, he's not extreme in his thinking, he's not 177 00:07:51.760 --> 00:07:52.960 emotional. 178 00:07:53.760 --> 00:07:58.720 And a few months ago, he told me with his face pale, he said, you know, a lot of the reasons 179 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:05.080 why we left former Yugoslavia, that's, that's the, those same things I'm seeing here right 180 00:08:05.080 --> 00:08:13.080 now. 181 00:08:13.080 --> 00:08:19.000 Some kind of phony, baloney, bogus convictions, you can't even tell me what he was convicted 182 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:20.000 of. 183 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:21.000 That was 30 plus, though. 184 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:22.000 Yeah, what were they? 185 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:29.480 Well, orange man, bad. 186 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:33.920 Can you, you know, the talking points are all the same, he's going to be a dictator. 187 00:08:33.920 --> 00:08:38.760 I wish we had a test run where we could try him out to see if he was going to be a dictator. 188 00:08:38.760 --> 00:08:47.600 I wish, I wish we had like, I wish he like, we can look at past history. 189 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:51.720 There's a lot of, I'll say this would love, but there's a lot of brainwashed muppets 190 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:58.920 around, especially New York City, muppets, just muppets, tiktok brain, muppets, just doing 191 00:08:58.920 --> 00:09:04.560 whatever the media, your, the enemy of America is the media. 192 00:09:04.560 --> 00:09:10.440 And just, just programmed in their heads, well, I don't like him, okay, tell me specifically 193 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:13.880 what policy in his four years, did you not like? 194 00:09:14.520 --> 00:09:18.520 Me tweet, hurt my feelings. 195 00:09:18.520 --> 00:09:23.760 You don't even know that the reason you don't like him is because of the media. 196 00:09:23.760 --> 00:09:30.240 I mean, imagine you, you actually had a crush on someone, but every time you looked at 197 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:37.640 them, someone came in your ear and went, and he was looking at him, yeah, pretty soon 198 00:09:37.640 --> 00:09:42.840 you started to associate that person you had a crush on with this harsh screech. 199 00:09:43.400 --> 00:09:46.520 You know, I kind of, I don't like him anymore, I don't know why. 200 00:09:46.520 --> 00:09:48.520 Well, that's why. 201 00:09:55.720 --> 00:10:03.160 But it's not just what happened, what happened yesterday, it's, it's the where the pivotal, 202 00:10:03.160 --> 00:10:09.520 pivotal time, and I feel that America can go in any direction, and I sense, I sense that 203 00:10:09.520 --> 00:10:16.520 we can experience something of a golden age, that God will come and have mercy on us and 204 00:10:16.520 --> 00:10:27.800 give us another chance and visit us again, hallelujah. 205 00:10:27.800 --> 00:10:32.600 I was in, I said earlier, I was in Montenegro, I was actually in Rome, I remember because I 206 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:37.480 woke up, I just woke up when the debates began. 207 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:43.240 There's 3 a.m. debates began here at 9 p.m., and I woke up at 3 a.m. I started watching debates 208 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:48.960 in my hotel room, and I could only take like 25 minutes, I was like, all right, that's, 209 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.560 that's enough, that's enough for me. 210 00:10:52.560 --> 00:10:57.320 And then when I woke up morning, my time, I was shocked. 211 00:10:57.320 --> 00:11:05.440 I'm looking at my phone and every media outlet, all of a sudden, realized that Biden's 212 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:14.000 a Satoshi short of a Bitcoin upstairs, that he's, the lights are on, but no one's home. 213 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:19.680 All of a sudden, they all realized, oh, his cognitive process, he's must, hmm, it looks 214 00:11:19.680 --> 00:11:23.680 like they've slowed down, and we're like, this is what we've been saying. 215 00:11:23.680 --> 00:11:31.360 It's not they just slowed down, they've gotten worse, but four years ago, when Trump was 216 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:36.000 filling up stadiums, Biden was in his room with little circles drawn around him and 12 217 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:40.280 other people, barely riding his bicycle eating ice cream. 218 00:11:40.280 --> 00:11:48.520 Jack, it's no joke, Jack. 219 00:11:48.520 --> 00:11:53.120 That didn't actually make me happy, it made me nervous when the media, you got to wonder, 220 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:55.840 where do they get their orders from? 221 00:11:55.840 --> 00:12:01.520 What do you think of the orders from the, in lockstep, every outlet, celebrities that 222 00:12:01.520 --> 00:12:04.280 adored him, all of a sudden, it was like somebody just hit the button. 223 00:12:04.280 --> 00:12:14.240 And change of plans, this is the way now. 224 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:19.160 And it is concerning, you can look at him and, you can't look at him and believe that 225 00:12:19.160 --> 00:12:21.800 he's running the country. 226 00:12:21.800 --> 00:12:25.120 But then the question becomes, who is? 227 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:26.120 Who is? 228 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:28.480 Who's making the decisions? 229 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.680 And please don't confuse me. 230 00:12:31.680 --> 00:12:36.000 Don't confuse me with the whack-a-do Christian Trump supporters, please. 231 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:40.640 Some of you, you only know two extremes. 232 00:12:40.640 --> 00:12:46.160 Don't confuse me with, I know who he is, we all know who he is. 233 00:12:46.160 --> 00:12:51.040 I'm not calling him God's prince, I'm not, we all know his character, we all know his 234 00:12:51.040 --> 00:13:00.480 personality, we all, we also know that God can speak through donkeys, amen. 235 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:01.720 And he did in the Bible. 236 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:09.160 I'm not voting for Trump because I want him to be my apostle, you're not voting for him 237 00:13:09.160 --> 00:13:13.000 because you want him to be your pastor. 238 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:22.720 Say I wish we had a better option, go ahead and wish, wish away, I too wish. 239 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:30.800 But here's where we're at, hallelujah. 240 00:13:30.800 --> 00:13:38.520 So I want us to pray church, we're going to worship, we're going to pray if you're a guest, 241 00:13:38.520 --> 00:13:39.520 it's a bit of a different service. 242 00:13:39.520 --> 00:13:45.680 And so like I have to say, I make no apologies for it, we flow with the Holy Spirit here. 243 00:13:45.680 --> 00:13:51.720 And we need to, as a body, listen, we as a body, we need to pray for our country, prayer 244 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:53.240 changes everything. 245 00:13:53.240 --> 00:14:02.040 Back when I was in Bible school, old fiery man of God, he said this, he said, every failure 246 00:14:02.040 --> 00:14:08.520 in my life has been a prayer failure. 247 00:14:08.520 --> 00:14:14.760 And I don't want to wake up in 2030, 2035, and it's Mad Max beyond Thunderdome in America. 248 00:14:14.760 --> 00:14:17.080 And I go, Lord, how did you allow this to happen? 249 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:18.560 And he says, how often did you pray? 250 00:14:18.560 --> 00:14:24.240 I mean, really pray, son, and I go, that's for the others. 251 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:26.840 That's for the Southern grandmas to do. 252 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:30.720 They're the ones who pray and hold up the nation, we got to pray. 253 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:34.000 We're commanding in the Scriptures to pray. 254 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:38.520 And it says why that the word of God may have free course and be multiplied and that we 255 00:14:38.520 --> 00:14:41.560 would be in live at peace. 256 00:14:41.560 --> 00:14:49.960 So I want us to pray for the strength of America that God would be merciful to the United States. 257 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:52.880 We need mercy. 258 00:14:52.880 --> 00:14:57.160 You know, King Hezekiah, judgment came upon him and he cried out to the Lord, Lord, give 259 00:14:57.160 --> 00:15:05.560 me 15 more years, please, and God said, 15 more years, He's a merciful God. 260 00:15:05.560 --> 00:15:09.720 And I want us to pray for revival because what we need is a move of God. 261 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:15.920 Some of you, you've come in and you can just read about revival in books, I've tasted 262 00:15:15.920 --> 00:15:22.160 it, I've seen what the Lord did in the 90s and how He would shake entire regions. 263 00:15:22.160 --> 00:15:30.280 When revival comes, even the stonchist opponents to God, their hearts are warmed, their eyes 264 00:15:30.280 --> 00:15:37.880 are opened, the presence of God is on full display, that God would flex on New York City 265 00:15:37.880 --> 00:15:45.560 on this country that He would raise us up as the city on a hill that our light would 266 00:15:45.560 --> 00:15:48.480 so shine before men that God would get glory in heaven. 267 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:49.920 Do you believe it can happen? 268 00:15:49.920 --> 00:15:53.240 I believe it can happen, I believe with all my heart, it will happen. 269 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:57.000 I believe we're closer right now than we were even just a few months ago. 270 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:58.000 Hallelujah. 271 00:15:58.000 --> 00:15:59.000 Hallelujah. 272 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:00.000 Hallelujah. 273 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:01.000 Hallelujah. 274 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:02.000 Hallelujah. 275 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:13.160 Let me read this to you, numbers. 276 00:16:13.160 --> 00:16:18.480 Numbers chapter 16 verses 41 through 48. 277 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:42.120 I shared this one, Pastor James and I did the series in God we trust with a question 278 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:46.160 mark. 279 00:16:46.160 --> 00:16:59.120 I shared how apolitical I was because I was young and ignorant and I realized, you know, 280 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:08.720 I'm saying this in New York City, a little different politically here. 281 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:19.160 You have to ask yourself, why was he so universally hated when he was a media darling for decades? 282 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:26.080 Then all of a sudden you have this outsider who comes in and he's hated by the left and 283 00:17:26.080 --> 00:17:36.480 the right because he threatens to expose them and shake up the system. 284 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:42.400 I don't want to see America turn into a banana republic. 285 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:47.520 I come from a country like that. 286 00:17:47.520 --> 00:17:50.840 The government changed three times in the last two years. 287 00:17:50.840 --> 00:17:52.920 How do you build in a nation like that? 288 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:56.040 I was on the beach and I said, that restaurant, it was like half built. 289 00:17:56.040 --> 00:18:01.080 I'm like, I asked my friend, why? 290 00:18:01.080 --> 00:18:05.800 Like you guys work around here or what, what was going on here? 291 00:18:05.800 --> 00:18:13.320 Like your country, 95% of your GDP's from tourism and the restaurant hasn't even been 292 00:18:13.320 --> 00:18:17.960 built and it's summertime again, it doesn't look like anything happened. 293 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:21.780 He said, look, the reason for that is, there's been a governmental change three times in 294 00:18:21.780 --> 00:18:22.780 two years. 295 00:18:22.780 --> 00:18:25.860 Nobody knows what's happening, who's coming or who's going so you can't build, you can 296 00:18:25.860 --> 00:18:33.320 invest and then when you look at what happened with that assassination attempt yesterday, 297 00:18:33.320 --> 00:18:38.680 that was a major, major failure of his security team. 298 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:44.580 On such a level where you have to swim and wonder, I don't wonder too much, but you at least 299 00:18:44.580 --> 00:18:49.080 should wonder whether it was an inside job or not. 300 00:18:49.080 --> 00:18:51.480 Is that the country you want to live in? 301 00:18:51.480 --> 00:19:00.040 Not me, I have kids, I'm going to have grandkids. 302 00:19:00.040 --> 00:19:05.000 I've passed your church, I want the church to be blessed. 303 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:09.160 I want couples to be able to get married in their 20s and I'd say, oh, we've got to 304 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:12.760 wait till our 30s until we're more financially stable. 305 00:19:12.760 --> 00:19:17.360 I want moms to be able to stay home with their kids, should they choose to. 306 00:19:17.360 --> 00:19:22.960 Not this warped economic system that we've fallen into, we're both parents up to work 307 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:26.360 50, 60 hours a week just to make ends meet. 308 00:19:27.360 --> 00:19:35.800 Hallelujah, let's read, on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel 309 00:19:35.800 --> 00:19:42.880 complained against Moses and Aaron saying, you have killed the people of the Lord. 310 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:45.080 They were always complaining. 311 00:19:45.080 --> 00:19:51.000 Now it happened when the congregation had gathered against Moses and Aaron that they turned 312 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:56.700 toward the tabernacle of meeting and suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the 313 00:19:56.700 --> 00:19:59.000 Lord appeared. 314 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:05.040 Then Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of meeting and the Lord spoke to Moses saying, 315 00:20:05.040 --> 00:20:11.440 get away from this congregation that I may consume them in a moment. 316 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:17.320 You may wonder why was the judgment of God so swift and so harsh because it says some 317 00:20:17.320 --> 00:20:21.800 Hebrews complained, yeah, those were the same Hebrews that saw the 10 plagues come upon 318 00:20:21.800 --> 00:20:22.800 Egypt. 319 00:20:22.800 --> 00:20:27.440 Those were the same Hebrews that saw the Lord with a mighty and outstretched arm, bring 320 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:33.520 them out of Egypt and split the red sea open and bring them through unto dry ground. 321 00:20:33.520 --> 00:20:36.080 They witnessed firsthand his glory. 322 00:20:36.080 --> 00:20:39.720 They witnessed his provision in the form of a pillar of fire by night and a cloud of 323 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:44.320 covering by day so they should have known better, yet give it some time and they start 324 00:20:44.320 --> 00:20:50.160 complaining and the Lord says, this calls for my righteous judgment. 325 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:53.960 But Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in intercession. 326 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:59.720 Some Moses said to Aaron, take a censor and put fire in it from the altar, put incense 327 00:20:59.720 --> 00:21:00.720 on it. 328 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:03.960 What is incense a symbol of throughout the Bible? 329 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:12.720 Yes, good job, city lights, say louder, prayer and take it quickly to the congregation 330 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:17.800 and make atonement for them, atonement they're simply means covering. 331 00:21:17.800 --> 00:21:21.920 For wrath has gone out from the Lord, the plague has begun. 332 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:26.160 Are you seeing the connection here? 333 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:32.480 Prayer avert's judgment, prayer releases the mercy of God, prayer brings the glory of 334 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:39.280 God, prayer will change America, yeah, I believe with all of my heart, with all of my heart 335 00:21:39.280 --> 00:21:43.560 greatest days as a country are up ahead. 336 00:21:43.560 --> 00:21:45.600 God can do it, God will do it. 337 00:21:45.600 --> 00:21:47.440 He's going to show his mercy. 338 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:52.400 What do we deserve for our thievery, for our lying, for all of the innumerable sins we've 339 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:55.080 done individually and collectively as a nation? 340 00:21:55.080 --> 00:21:57.280 We deserve the righteousness of God. 341 00:21:57.280 --> 00:22:03.960 But the cross of Jesus is there saying, I will give you what you don't deserve. 342 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:05.560 We were forgiven all of our sins. 343 00:22:05.560 --> 00:22:13.160 We didn't deserve that, but the blood of Jesus grants us that which we do not deserve. 344 00:22:13.160 --> 00:22:19.720 Verse 47, then Aaron took it as Moses commanded and ran into the midst of the assembly and 345 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:22.760 already the plague had begun among the people. 346 00:22:22.760 --> 00:22:27.520 So he put in the incense and made atonement for the people. 347 00:22:27.520 --> 00:22:31.960 And he stood between the dead and the living and that's what we're called to do, that's 348 00:22:31.960 --> 00:22:33.960 what we're going to do in this service. 349 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:39.360 Hey, I want you to plug in with your whole heart. 350 00:22:39.360 --> 00:22:43.360 Oftentimes when it's just like a Sunday service, people get into consumer mode, like they 351 00:22:43.360 --> 00:22:48.440 want to kick up their feet, get a bowl of popcorn and watch Netflix. 352 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:53.880 And yes, something is required of you and it's worth it. 353 00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:59.520 And this is one of the few opportunities we get where we're all together under one roof. 354 00:22:59.520 --> 00:23:01.640 And in the first service, we saw something shift. 355 00:23:01.640 --> 00:23:02.640 It was glorious. 356 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:03.640 How many of you, you're still in there? 357 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:04.640 Wasn't that something? 358 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:06.640 It was like something just shh. 359 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:11.080 Hallelujah. 360 00:23:11.080 --> 00:23:13.280 And he stood between the dead and the living. 361 00:23:13.280 --> 00:23:19.560 So the plague was stopped, amen. 362 00:23:19.560 --> 00:23:25.040 Father in the name of Jesus, you're a good, good God, a God who's abundant and mercy and 363 00:23:25.040 --> 00:23:27.600 tender loving kindness. 364 00:23:27.600 --> 00:23:33.120 So we bring up this country, our country, the United States of America. 365 00:23:33.120 --> 00:23:35.040 And we ask for another chance. 366 00:23:35.040 --> 00:23:39.400 Like Hezekiah cried and said, give me 15 more years, we cry on behalf of the nation. 367 00:23:39.400 --> 00:23:41.480 Give us more years. 368 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:48.480 Let there be a turnaround and a change, a turnaround like there was in Samaria. 369 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:53.760 Where the God of the turnaround shows up, that we do a complete 180, that there will be 370 00:23:53.760 --> 00:24:00.040 a holy and reverential fear of the Lord, that hearts would be turned back to you, O God. 371 00:24:00.040 --> 00:24:04.640 Lord that righteousness and holiness would reign in the land, that we would be a shining 372 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:14.920 example of myriads of countries coming together and us fearing the Lord and loving one another. 373 00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:23.720 Father that the gospel would go forth, that you disrupt every system. 374 00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:29.200 Every system that's found its way throughout this country that is an offence to you, that 375 00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:34.200 you would disrupt it and raise it to the ground. 376 00:24:34.200 --> 00:24:39.800 Father that if you should carry in sending Jesus, that America be set up for centuries 377 00:24:39.800 --> 00:24:47.880 to come as a global lighthouse for the glory of God, in Jesus' name. 378 00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:48.880 Amen. 379 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:51.440 This is the City Light Church podcast. 380 00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:55.400 If you've missed any part of today's message, or if you would like to find out more about 381 00:24:55.400 --> 00:25:04.320 Pastor Boyan Jansik in City Light Church, visit us at citylightnyc.com, that's citylightnyc.com. 382 00:25:04.320 --> 00:25:07.760 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. 383 00:25:07.760 --> 00:25:10.200 We would love to connect with you. 384 00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:14.560 We pray that you have been encouraged today, that you have been reminded how much God 385 00:25:14.560 --> 00:25:18.520 loves you, and that you are surrounded by grace. 386 00:25:18.520 --> 00:25:20.080 Thank you for listening. 387 00:25:20.080 --> 00:25:24.040 Make sure that you subscribe to City Light Church podcast wherever you find your favorite 388 00:25:24.040 --> 00:25:25.520 podcasts worldwide.