WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.800 who you're trying to win the approval of so much, they're not going to be there at your side. 2 00:00:04.800 --> 00:00:08.800 You're going to appear naked before the Alpha and the Omega. 3 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:13.360 And you're either going to have the blood on you or you're going to be found without the blood. 4 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:16.960 And the scripture says, when I see the blood, I will pass over you. 5 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:21.200 His wrath will pass over to the One with the blood of the Lamb, the blood of Jesus, 6 00:00:21.200 --> 00:00:23.200 applied to the doorpost of their life. 7 00:00:23.200 --> 00:00:24.000 Amen. 8 00:00:24.240 --> 00:00:28.560 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 9 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:35.520 Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. 10 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 11 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:44.080 that's citylightnyc.com. 12 00:00:44.720 --> 00:00:49.280 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit 13 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:52.480 is already working in our hearts and minds. 14 00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:57.360 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, 15 00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:02.480 that you are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you. 16 00:01:05.520 --> 00:01:07.120 Let's begin this Palm Sunday. 17 00:01:08.320 --> 00:01:12.720 In Matthew chapter 21, verses 8 to 11, 18 00:01:13.440 --> 00:01:21.440 God is going to impart something to you, something you need, his anointing, 19 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:31.840 his carousel, his gifs, his grace, and you are going to leave here better than how you came in. 20 00:01:32.800 --> 00:01:36.800 So make your heart like a sponge and expect to receive. 21 00:01:36.800 --> 00:01:39.920 Last Sunday, we talked about how Jesus, multiple times, said, 22 00:01:40.720 --> 00:01:45.120 in proportion to your faith, according to your faith, be it unto you. 23 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:47.280 So I wouldn't have come all this way. 24 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:49.280 Those of you online, welcome. 25 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:51.360 I wouldn't have rolled out of bed and logged into YouTube. 26 00:01:52.320 --> 00:01:52.800 Just kidding. 27 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:54.960 Half. 28 00:01:56.320 --> 00:02:00.720 If I wasn't going to expect to receive something, you came all this way, 29 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:08.720 expect to receive from heaven, apart from the message that I'll preach, 30 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:12.160 which I believe is inspired by God, but He wants to get other stuff to you. 31 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:13.760 So be greedy. 32 00:02:13.760 --> 00:02:17.440 I want to give you permission to be greedy. 33 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:23.360 You know, the people who got miracles from Jesus in the Bible, they were greedy. 34 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:29.520 They were really greedier, hungrier than the others. 35 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:34.080 And Jesus never said, oh, look at you. 36 00:02:37.040 --> 00:02:37.600 Too much. 37 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:40.160 No, they're the ones who got a miracle from him. 38 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:45.280 The blind man shouted and cried and got God's attention. 39 00:02:46.160 --> 00:02:50.320 And the others quieted him down and the Bible says he cried out all the more. 40 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:52.880 He was just a bit hungrier than the rest. 41 00:02:54.720 --> 00:02:57.040 Zacchaeus, he dangled from a tree. 42 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:03.280 It's a short guy. 43 00:03:04.880 --> 00:03:08.480 It says that in poetic language, little of stature. 44 00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:12.720 So he climbed up a tree and then dangled from a branch to get to Jesus. 45 00:03:12.720 --> 00:03:15.920 And Jesus came and saw him and said, I'm going to have lunch with you today. 46 00:03:15.920 --> 00:03:18.000 What was it about Zacchaeus? 47 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:20.720 All the others were around Jesus, the multitude, 48 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:24.400 but had greedy. 49 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:25.920 You know, when I say greedy, what I mean. 50 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:29.600 Some of you want to get all the technical, the Bible says a greedy, 51 00:03:29.600 --> 00:03:30.400 you know what I mean. 52 00:03:32.640 --> 00:03:35.760 The good kind of greedy, not the Gordon Gekko kind, the good kind. 53 00:03:39.600 --> 00:03:41.440 This is the triumphal entry. 54 00:03:41.440 --> 00:03:45.600 Jesus is coming now after three to three and a half years of ministry. 55 00:03:46.640 --> 00:03:48.160 He's coming into the city of God. 56 00:03:48.160 --> 00:03:49.440 He's coming into Jerusalem. 57 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:55.600 It says in a very great multitude, spread their clothes on the road. 58 00:03:56.560 --> 00:03:58.160 Others cut down branches. 59 00:03:58.160 --> 00:03:59.520 These were palm branches. 60 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:05.200 This is why we celebrate Palm Sunday from the trees and spread them on the road. 61 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:09.200 Then the multitudes who went before 62 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:15.920 and those who followed cried out saying, just shout multitudes. 63 00:04:17.200 --> 00:04:21.360 I want you to understand that Jesus was now the most popular guy in town. 64 00:04:22.320 --> 00:04:23.360 A celebrity. 65 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:25.360 He was famous. 66 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:28.880 Multitudes, thousands and thousands. 67 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:33.600 Went before those who followed cried out saying, 68 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:39.520 Hosanna to the son of David, blessed as he who comes in the name of the Lord, 69 00:04:39.520 --> 00:04:40.960 Hosanna in the highest. 70 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:48.880 In another gospel it says that when the chief priests who were so jealous of Jesus' fame and 71 00:04:48.880 --> 00:04:54.720 influence, when they heard the people praising him that way, they quieted them. 72 00:04:55.280 --> 00:05:00.240 And Jesus' response was if they were to keep quiet, these rocks would cry out. 73 00:05:01.840 --> 00:05:05.920 And when he had come into Jerusalem, all the city, shout all the city. 74 00:05:07.200 --> 00:05:09.120 All the city was moved. 75 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:11.920 Once again, very popular. 76 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:14.880 An influencer. 77 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:18.240 All the city. 78 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:19.840 Was moved. 79 00:05:19.840 --> 00:05:20.880 Thing, who is this? 80 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:28.320 So the multitudes said, this is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee. 81 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:30.960 What an entry. 82 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:33.120 What a reception, amen. 83 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:39.200 Let's fast forward not five years from then, not even a year from then. 84 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:44.160 Let's fast forward just five days and see what happens. 85 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:48.640 Luke chapter 23, starting in verse 13. 86 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:54.480 Then pilot, when he had called together the chief priests, the rulers and the people, 87 00:05:54.480 --> 00:06:00.000 said to them, you have brought this man to me as one who misleads the people. 88 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:02.080 Now he's on trial. 89 00:06:03.840 --> 00:06:06.880 Just five days, you might say four and a half days later. 90 00:06:06.880 --> 00:06:10.320 This is late late Thursday night in the middle of the night, early Friday morning. 91 00:06:11.280 --> 00:06:17.360 You have brought this man to me as one who misleads the people and indeed having examined him in your presence. 92 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:22.080 I have found no fault in this man concerning those things of which you accuse him. 93 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:24.480 No, neither did Herod. 94 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:29.760 For I sense you back to him and indeed nothing deserving of death has been done by him. 95 00:06:30.320 --> 00:06:33.680 I will therefore chastise him and release him. 96 00:06:34.640 --> 00:06:38.720 For it was necessary for him to release one to them at the feast. 97 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:42.880 During the feast, the prisoner would be let go and they all, who's they? 98 00:06:43.440 --> 00:06:44.480 They all cried out. 99 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:45.680 Who's they? 100 00:06:47.200 --> 00:06:54.400 The same crowd, the same group that five days earlier was crying out. 101 00:06:54.400 --> 00:06:58.560 Hosanna, son of David, Jesus. 102 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:07.360 Who's taking off their clothes and laying it at his feet, cutting down palm branches, 103 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:08.800 to acknowledge his kingship. 104 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:15.280 That's what the palm branches, a symbol of royalty and victory and laying it at his feet. 105 00:07:15.280 --> 00:07:17.120 Now it's the same crowd. 106 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:17.920 What happened? 107 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:20.800 And they all cried out at once saying, 108 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:23.440 away with this man and released to us, 109 00:07:23.440 --> 00:07:24.080 Brabus. 110 00:07:24.880 --> 00:07:31.040 Brabus, what a character who had been thrown into prison for certain rebellion, 111 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:34.160 a riot made in the city and for murder. 112 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:40.080 Pilate, therefore, wishing to release Jesus again called out to them, 113 00:07:40.080 --> 00:07:44.560 but they shouted saying crucify him, crucify him. 114 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:46.320 What is going on here? 115 00:07:46.320 --> 00:07:50.960 This is a demonically incited mob mentality. 116 00:07:50.960 --> 00:07:56.240 This is a satanically induced mass formation psychosis. 117 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:58.960 The Bible has a lot to say about mobs. 118 00:07:58.960 --> 00:08:01.200 Look how easily they were changed. 119 00:08:01.200 --> 00:08:03.280 Look how easily they were swayed. 120 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:11.120 You know, you read this and you think this was crazy what happened back then in Biblical times. 121 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:13.280 Wow, that could never be me. 122 00:08:13.280 --> 00:08:16.240 Yet what short-term memories people have. 123 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:20.320 And so easily forget that four years ago, people lost their minds. 124 00:08:20.320 --> 00:08:24.800 Normally, healthy, emotionally healthy, 125 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:33.200 stable people, just from a couple of days of programming and watching CNN's death homies, 126 00:08:34.160 --> 00:08:36.000 just changed their whole personalities. 127 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:40.160 Sound team, can you turn my microphone back on? 128 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:51.200 Did I wish you a happy Palm Sunday already? 129 00:08:57.360 --> 00:08:58.880 Then he said to them the third time, 130 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:01.680 why what evil has he done? 131 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:05.120 I found no reason for death in him. 132 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:07.440 I will therefore chastise him and let him go. 133 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:13.120 But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices that he be crucified, 134 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.960 and the voices of these men and of the chief priests prevailed. 135 00:09:18.160 --> 00:09:22.640 So Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they requested and he released 136 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:29.920 to them the one they requested, who for rebellion and murder had been thrown into prison, 137 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:34.000 but he delivered Jesus to their will. 138 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:41.760 Other than this mob mass formation psychosis that was influenced by the enemy himself, 139 00:09:41.760 --> 00:09:43.120 what happened here? 140 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:46.080 Because just five days ago, they were adoring him. 141 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:49.600 What happened is that they were fans and they weren't followers. 142 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:54.000 And I want to ask you a question this morning, are you a fan or are you a follower? 143 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:56.080 Because Jesus is an interested in fans. 144 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:59.600 Have you ever noticed how actually he's so disinterested in fans? 145 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:01.680 He would just keep walking. 146 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:06.400 You get a picture of Jesus walking like a prize fighter coming down the aisle 147 00:10:06.400 --> 00:10:09.680 and all the fans, you know, they're not committed to the prize fighter. 148 00:10:09.680 --> 00:10:11.280 They just want to be there for the good time. 149 00:10:11.280 --> 00:10:14.880 They touch him, just to touch the liberty, touch fame, 150 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:19.360 and he didn't pay attention until somebody cried out and cried out with hunger. 151 00:10:19.680 --> 00:10:21.520 I don't want to be a fan. 152 00:10:21.520 --> 00:10:22.880 I want to be a follower. 153 00:10:22.880 --> 00:10:24.080 Amen. 154 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:27.840 I want to be committed, not a fair weather friend. 155 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:31.360 I was raised in Queens. 156 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:34.080 I remember when I became a met fan. 157 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:44.240 It was in 1986 when they won their last first series, nearly 40 years ago. 158 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:50.880 And I was, and all my friends, we would all wear the shirt, the bright blue, you know, 159 00:10:50.880 --> 00:10:54.720 I mean, you can't miss it, bright orange with the cap. 160 00:10:57.120 --> 00:11:00.160 And then they won and we were all like, met all the way. 161 00:11:01.040 --> 00:11:01.920 They hadn't won since. 162 00:11:03.920 --> 00:11:09.200 Next year, when they won the World Series, I was in fourth grade. 163 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:11.360 Next year in fifth grade, I was once again a met fan. 164 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:12.000 You're only 50. 165 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:13.280 You think they're going to do it again. 166 00:11:13.280 --> 00:11:14.240 They didn't do it again. 167 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:15.360 They never did it again. 168 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:18.720 And so by sixth grade, I forgot all about the mess. 169 00:11:20.880 --> 00:11:24.880 But, and wearing Queens right now, you will meet and you've met them. 170 00:11:25.520 --> 00:11:28.000 Not a met's fan, but a met's follower. 171 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:34.240 They wear that goofy bright blue orange insignia everywhere. 172 00:11:34.800 --> 00:11:37.840 They're sitting up whatever it's called now, city field. 173 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:38.800 I remember the Shay. 174 00:11:39.280 --> 00:11:42.960 You're committed. 175 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:45.200 They're met's followers. 176 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:47.200 They're not met's fans. 177 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:50.560 Mark 1450. 178 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:55.040 A follower is loyal. 179 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:58.000 No matter the ups or downs. 180 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:06.720 They don't just hang around for the benefits. 181 00:12:07.680 --> 00:12:15.520 After this, Peter famously denies him three times and disassociates from him three times. 182 00:12:15.520 --> 00:12:18.560 Peter, the one who boasted when Jesus prophesied 183 00:12:22.640 --> 00:12:25.360 that he would be betrayed. 184 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:30.640 Peter was the first one to say, I would not, not me, three times that very night. 185 00:12:32.800 --> 00:12:36.240 Peter had a little bit more of a fan than a follower in him too. 186 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:39.360 It wasn't until the day of Pentecost and he was filled with the Holy Spirit, 187 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:44.960 that that nonsense, that that lack of commitment, lack of loyalty was purged out of him. 188 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:46.800 He vicious serious to Jesus. 189 00:12:46.800 --> 00:12:48.720 That's why he talked about it so much. 190 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:56.000 He said anybody looking back, looking at their former life is not fit for the kingdom of heaven. 191 00:12:56.880 --> 00:13:01.600 Anyone who would commit, but there's still, there's a whole story as Genesis says, 192 00:13:01.680 --> 00:13:05.520 Lot fled Sodom and Lot's wife turned behind. 193 00:13:05.520 --> 00:13:09.600 She still wistfully looked back at the place of sin. 194 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:12.080 Her former life and turned into a pillar of salt. 195 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:13.280 That's therefore a reason. 196 00:13:14.400 --> 00:13:16.240 Jesus wants commitment. 197 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:17.440 He wants loyalty. 198 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:18.640 He doesn't want fans. 199 00:13:18.640 --> 00:13:19.760 He wants followers. 200 00:13:19.760 --> 00:13:23.120 So you had the whole crowd that was adoring him. 201 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:24.880 Turn their backs on him. 202 00:13:24.880 --> 00:13:28.400 You had Peter, one of the not just the 12 but the inner three. 203 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:30.560 He turned his back on him. 204 00:13:30.560 --> 00:13:37.120 And then according to Mark 14, 15, 50, they all foresaw him and fled. 205 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:37.760 All of them. 206 00:13:40.560 --> 00:13:42.160 May that not be us, amen. 207 00:13:44.160 --> 00:13:46.960 Colossians 1, 21 versus 23. 208 00:13:49.040 --> 00:13:52.160 You know, I love if you were here last Sunday, I was exhorting people. 209 00:13:52.160 --> 00:13:53.840 I love a good exhortational message. 210 00:13:54.800 --> 00:13:58.960 And really, that's by nature, I'm an empower. 211 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:02.240 I want to tell you who you are in Christ and what you have in Christ. 212 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:04.240 That's my favorite way to preach. 213 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:06.880 But that can't be all I preach. 214 00:14:07.760 --> 00:14:10.640 Paul said, teaching and warning everyone. 215 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:12.560 There has to be a warning. 216 00:14:14.400 --> 00:14:17.280 And Palm Sunday is usually pretty well attended. 217 00:14:17.280 --> 00:14:19.040 So I feel like the Lord said, warn them now. 218 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:21.840 Some people who wouldn't maybe be here. 219 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:22.400 Warn them. 220 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:27.280 Do you know that two-thirds of biblical preaching is corrective in nature. 221 00:14:27.280 --> 00:14:31.200 When Paul was writing young pasture Timothy, he said, 222 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:36.640 to approve, that's corrective, rebuke, that's corrective, and admonish, 223 00:14:38.800 --> 00:14:43.920 exhort, and then of course he said, with all long suffering, gently, but, 224 00:14:44.880 --> 00:14:50.720 approve, rebuke, get everybody alive, get everybody on the biblical same page. 225 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:54.160 So this is my loving morning, amen. 226 00:14:54.160 --> 00:14:56.320 Next week is Easter, we're going to celebrate. 227 00:14:56.320 --> 00:15:00.240 I'm going to tell you how all things are possible to him that believes, 228 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:04.080 amen, and you can do all things through Christ with a verse taken out of context. 229 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:04.880 No, with Christ. 230 00:15:08.880 --> 00:15:13.280 Some of you didn't get that, but of course I can do all things through Christ 231 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:14.240 to strengthen me. 232 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:17.760 But in context, Paul was talking about abasing and abounding. 233 00:15:17.760 --> 00:15:20.640 He was saying, I can go through the ups and downs of life. 234 00:15:20.640 --> 00:15:22.560 I can do this and still have joy. 235 00:15:22.560 --> 00:15:25.280 I can do all things through Christ to strengthen me. 236 00:15:25.280 --> 00:15:25.920 Amen. 237 00:15:25.920 --> 00:15:29.520 Some people gain a little weight and they're putting on their genes. 238 00:15:29.520 --> 00:15:31.520 I can do all things through Christ. 239 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:33.760 You want to kind of keep it. 240 00:15:34.800 --> 00:15:38.000 For Charismatics, I know we kind of like to stretch the scriptures 241 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:42.480 and how applicable they are, but you want to syntax matters, context matters. 242 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:49.440 All right, and you who once were alienated once, 243 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:55.600 and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now he has reconciled 244 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:01.520 in the body of his flesh through death to present you, 245 00:16:01.520 --> 00:16:06.720 Jesus did this at his crucifixion and subsequent resurrection. 246 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:08.480 He did this for everyone who would believe. 247 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:11.520 He did this for you to present you wholly. 248 00:16:11.520 --> 00:16:13.280 Say that out loud, I am holy. 249 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:16.320 You're not trying to be holy. 250 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:16.960 You're holy. 251 00:16:18.400 --> 00:16:21.600 In the eyes of God and in the mind of God, you're holy right now. 252 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:24.400 And blameless, shout and blameless. 253 00:16:25.760 --> 00:16:28.320 Shout, I am above reproach in his sight. 254 00:16:29.520 --> 00:16:30.720 Isn't that good news? 255 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:34.720 You could have fallen yesterday. 256 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:36.160 You could have fallen last week. 257 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:38.960 Your emotions are topsy-tiervy. 258 00:16:39.520 --> 00:16:44.240 Satan has come riding on you now and heaping shame and guilt and condemnation. 259 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:46.720 But in the eyes of God and in the mind of God, 260 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:50.720 if you're looking to Jesus and trusting in him for his righteousness, 261 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:51.760 you are holy now. 262 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:54.400 You are not trying to become blameless. 263 00:16:54.400 --> 00:16:55.600 You are blameless now. 264 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:57.760 You are above shame. 265 00:16:57.760 --> 00:16:59.120 You are above guilt. 266 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:00.640 Above condemnation. 267 00:17:00.640 --> 00:17:02.640 Above reproach, amen. 268 00:17:03.680 --> 00:17:04.560 Hallelujah. 269 00:17:05.120 --> 00:17:05.520 Yes. 270 00:17:07.120 --> 00:17:07.520 Yes. 271 00:17:08.320 --> 00:17:11.040 Let's continue this very empowering verse. 272 00:17:15.840 --> 00:17:17.200 There's that first word. 273 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:20.080 The conditional if. 274 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:28.320 Just taking you on an emotional roller coaster this morning, huh? 275 00:17:28.800 --> 00:17:35.440 If, indeed, you continue in the faith. 276 00:17:36.560 --> 00:17:42.160 So why is pastor preaching on loyalty and commitment and not being a fan, 277 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:45.280 but being a diehard follower on Palm Sunday? 278 00:17:45.280 --> 00:17:48.080 Well, number one, it's really the whole theme and message of Palm Sunday. 279 00:17:48.080 --> 00:17:52.720 You can't talk about Palm Sunday and what happened without addressing this. 280 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:56.000 But it's because you have to continue. 281 00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:58.400 You know what that tells me? 282 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:03.040 That Satan who comes to seal, kill and destroy and knows you and knows you by name 283 00:18:03.040 --> 00:18:05.040 and hates you and wants to destroy you. 284 00:18:05.040 --> 00:18:06.400 He has an assignment. 285 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:09.120 He wants to get you to discontinue. 286 00:18:10.080 --> 00:18:11.760 He wants to get you to stop. 287 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:18.640 If you continue in the faith, ground it instead fast and are not moved away. 288 00:18:19.280 --> 00:18:24.000 And I have seen too many people start off strong and then get moved away. 289 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:26.240 And discontinue. 290 00:18:27.600 --> 00:18:31.360 May that not be the story with people here at City Light Church. 291 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:35.440 In the name of Jesus, Lord, we thank you for your saving power. 292 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:40.880 We also thank you for your keeping power that you will wrap your arms of love tightly around us. 293 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:46.240 Oh, Lord, I say what Paul said that I have every confidence that you are able to commit 294 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:52.320 what I have entrusted to you until that day for everybody here and everybody watching online. 295 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:53.440 Hallelujah. 296 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:54.960 What a party we're going to have. 297 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:01.520 Hallelujah. 298 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:08.000 But Satan has this assignment to get you to just flake out. 299 00:19:09.520 --> 00:19:12.800 And so on this Blessed Palm Sunday, I want to present to you six ways, 300 00:19:13.840 --> 00:19:20.800 six tools of the enemy that Satan will use in your life to try to get you to discontinue 301 00:19:21.520 --> 00:19:25.040 and move from being a follower to just being a fan. 302 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:28.000 For those of you taking notes, let me let all six, 303 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:30.000 they're the six Fs. 304 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:32.240 Let me let them out of the bag now. 305 00:19:33.040 --> 00:19:39.040 Fame, family ties, three fiery trials, four failed prayers, 306 00:19:39.760 --> 00:19:43.680 five false doctrine, six fish. 307 00:19:46.080 --> 00:19:46.640 Number one. 308 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:49.280 Oh, yeah, you don't want to go fishing. 309 00:19:49.280 --> 00:19:50.560 It's not a God. 310 00:19:50.560 --> 00:19:52.560 Peasum. 311 00:19:52.560 --> 00:19:55.600 Matthew 10, 22. 312 00:19:55.600 --> 00:20:05.280 Fame, you know, deep down inside, really not that deep down inside, for some of us it's right on the surface. 313 00:20:05.280 --> 00:20:12.640 I'll be the first to admit, apart from Christ, we're like insecure attention-seeking, 314 00:20:13.600 --> 00:20:18.320 needing validation animals who will do anything for a like. 315 00:20:18.320 --> 00:20:19.840 And I don't just mean on social media. 316 00:20:19.840 --> 00:20:24.000 I just mean for a pat on the back, for a databoy, for a heart. 317 00:20:25.040 --> 00:20:26.240 I see something in you. 318 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:32.160 We're so depraved apart from Christ and so hungry just to be recognized as, 319 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:37.440 I exist and I'm important that we would sell our own soul for a little bit of popularity and a 320 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:38.160 little bit of fame. 321 00:20:38.800 --> 00:20:42.240 And Jesus addressed this over and over and over again, he said, 322 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:45.520 and you will be hated by all for my namesake. 323 00:20:46.800 --> 00:20:51.840 But he who endures, he who continues to the end will be saved. 324 00:20:52.560 --> 00:20:55.280 Jesus said something else, very, very provocative. 325 00:20:55.280 --> 00:20:59.760 He said, woe to you when all men speak well of you. 326 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:07.600 Any preacher that's preaching the Word of God, that's preaching the uncompromised Word of God, 327 00:21:07.600 --> 00:21:14.560 the world will hate him and there were preachers that the world liked and the media liked 328 00:21:14.560 --> 00:21:18.240 and then as soon as they came out with who they really were, they just weren't given a chance 329 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:24.000 before and they said God's word, all of a sudden black bolt, they're off, they're done. 330 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:29.520 Who cares? Who cares? 331 00:21:31.600 --> 00:21:36.000 When you stand before God, those people who don't even think about you, they're not going to be 332 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:40.880 with you. And even who you think is your close circle, who you're trying to win the approval of 333 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:47.040 so much, they're not going to be there at your side. You're going to appear naked before the alpha 334 00:21:47.040 --> 00:21:51.920 and the omega and you're either going to have the blood on you or you're going to be found 335 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:56.400 without the blood and the scripture says, when I see the blood, I will pass over you. 336 00:21:56.400 --> 00:22:00.560 His wrath will pass over to the one with the blood of the Lamb, the blood of Jesus, 337 00:22:00.560 --> 00:22:08.400 apply to the doorpost of their life. Amen. So this is something that I've seen 338 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:18.800 Satan used to cause people to lose their way very quickly. They let people at work know, 339 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:28.720 they let friends know and then the persecution comes, the teasing comes and then they go hide 340 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:31.920 in a closet. Jesus didn't die in a closet. He died on top of a mount. 341 00:22:33.760 --> 00:22:40.240 So just make your peace with that. That when you say yes to Jesus, you're not going to be winning any 342 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:48.320 popularity contest. Amen. Now granted for too long, there's always been Christians who realize this, 343 00:22:48.320 --> 00:22:53.840 but then they just make it their identity. So they figure the inner conversation goes something like, 344 00:22:53.840 --> 00:22:57.280 you know, Jesus said I'm going to be hated. So I might as well just give them something to hate 345 00:22:57.280 --> 00:23:02.960 me about and they become rude and obnoxious and jerky and then people hate them and they go, 346 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:08.000 you know, it's for Jesus to say, no, it's because you have a rotten personality, you're rude, 347 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:14.640 you're impolite. Is this thing even on? Nobody knows who I'm talking about. Yes, you do that guys 348 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:20.400 in your life group. You know you do. He's getting better. We're praying for him. Right, Pastor Moe, 349 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:28.640 you're interceding. We're all works in progress. We're all going to grow. Oh Lord. 350 00:23:31.120 --> 00:23:43.600 Number two, family ties. Luke 1426. If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, 351 00:23:43.600 --> 00:23:54.320 these are the words of Jesus. Of course, he means comparatively speaking. He's saying that your loyalty 352 00:23:54.320 --> 00:24:00.800 and your love to me would be so great that in comparison, it looks like you hate your father and your 353 00:24:00.800 --> 00:24:05.280 mother. I have to say that because I saw a few teenagers years per cup when I, and they were like, 354 00:24:05.360 --> 00:24:11.680 I knew I was walking biblically by hating mom and dad. I knew it. He means comparatively speaking. 355 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:26.960 Big daddy. What does your shirt say? Super dad. Do you all know the twin story? 356 00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:37.840 Pastor Moe's wife Tiffany just had a child. But they didn't have any scans that he wanted to know 357 00:24:37.840 --> 00:24:45.200 the sex of the baby. And so he texted that day to the staff. And in the text, he said something 358 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:53.840 like isn't it amazing? Two daughters with the same birthday. So what he meant was his daughter was 359 00:24:53.840 --> 00:25:01.120 just born at the same day as Isabella. But when I read it real quickly, excited for him, I thought 360 00:25:01.120 --> 00:25:10.720 that Tiffany had twins. So I texted everybody. I even texted Pastor Mike. I was like, he had twins. 361 00:25:10.720 --> 00:25:16.080 And then that seamless card we sent you. You know that was a twins amount, not a single amount. 362 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:22.960 And I mean, praise God for the error. But in case you wonder like, wow, they really sent a lot of 363 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:28.080 money. I sent them like, wow, twins and she didn't expect it. She's going to be out of commission. 364 00:25:28.080 --> 00:25:33.360 So we sent $1,000 seamless card. Like that takes a long time, right? But that's the twins amount, 365 00:25:33.360 --> 00:25:40.960 not the single amount. That's like, praise God. If Pastor Moe shows up to your life group with bags 366 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:48.480 of food, you know where it came from. That lasted for two days, by the way. I was celebrating you, 367 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:53.120 well, you having twins, you know, Tiffany having. Back to the Holy Word. 368 00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:59.760 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and 369 00:25:59.760 --> 00:26:06.960 sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. A couple of things. One, I hope you 370 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:13.200 see how serious Jesus is about commitment and loyalty. And this isn't like he's some mafia 371 00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:21.440 boss who demands total allegiance. This is God who made you, who formed you and he gave his all 372 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:28.800 for you and held nothing back. And yes, he requires the same in return. Amen. Second, 373 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:36.000 because we're talking about family ties. What Jesus is saying is your commitment to me, 374 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:42.960 Trump's even family. This was important to me because I was coming to Jesus at 16 years old 375 00:26:42.960 --> 00:26:48.240 and my parents forbid me. We were Greek Orthodox. I wanted to get baptized. They said, you cannot 376 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:52.160 go to that church. Don't you get baptized in that church that made fun of that church? Well, 377 00:26:54.160 --> 00:27:02.000 they saw it and, you know, it wasn't a fancy church with bells and spires and it was a giant 378 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:07.760 storefront with a neon sign that went in and out and said, Jesus saves. It's funny how the beautiful 379 00:27:07.760 --> 00:27:12.480 church externally never heard the gospel in, but the one with a neon sign that was fizzling in 380 00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:16.240 and out saying, Jesus saves. That's why I heard the whole council of God and God saved. Amen. 381 00:27:18.560 --> 00:27:23.600 You know, there's a lot more worse things for 16-year-old to get involved with 382 00:27:23.600 --> 00:27:29.440 than going to church and getting baptized. But they lost their minds. I was not like I was going to 383 00:27:29.600 --> 00:27:33.200 do drugs. They were acting like I just decided to join the hell angels and run away from home. 384 00:27:34.560 --> 00:27:43.040 So I rebelled in quotes. I put God above even family. Let me say that God is a God of order. 385 00:27:43.600 --> 00:27:49.280 God is a God of structure. He's a God of hierarchy. Yes, he is. Just look at the way he even 386 00:27:49.280 --> 00:27:57.920 organizes his own angels. Everything is organized. Jesus is neat, by the way. You know when Jesus 387 00:27:57.920 --> 00:28:03.360 was resurrected, it says they found his face cloth neatly folded in the corner. Amen. Right? 388 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:17.200 It's meticulous. But because he's a God of hierarchy in order, that means there is a way 389 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:23.760 in a family situation where to love one another. I know that I must love Jesus more than I love 390 00:28:23.760 --> 00:28:29.120 Emily. My commitment is to Jesus first. Emily knows that her commitment is to Jesus first. 391 00:28:29.120 --> 00:28:34.480 And when we have that first, then we'll have an overflowing amount of love for one another. 392 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:39.680 That's the order of God. The next one might challenge some people. A husband and wife, 393 00:28:39.680 --> 00:28:44.640 you are to love each other more than you do the kids, greater than you do the kids. 394 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:49.920 And this Satan loves to mess with us because he'll cause strife between the husband and wife 395 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:54.560 and then one of the parents or both of the parents will find their emotional outlet in the child 396 00:28:55.360 --> 00:28:58.720 and make that child their best friend. I just say, well, I don't like him anymore. I don't like 397 00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:02.800 her anymore, but at least I have the children. That is the doorway for Satan. 398 00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:11.040 I know that if I love Emily first, when I come into the house, the kids run, daddy, daddy, daddy. 399 00:29:11.040 --> 00:29:17.520 You know what I, what I say? Emily first. I do it with a smile. Emily gets the first one 400 00:29:17.520 --> 00:29:21.840 and I go and I kiss Emily. They're like, already jumping on me and I want them to see Emily 401 00:29:21.840 --> 00:29:25.760 gets the first kiss. Then I go and I kiss them a hundred times and take them to the floor and 402 00:29:25.760 --> 00:29:30.240 wrestle with them. But we made that agreement. You love each other. And when we love each other 403 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:38.000 first, the biblical way will have an overflowing amount of love for the children. Hallelujah. 404 00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:52.000 Yes. Number three, fiery trials. Mark chapter 10 verses 29 through 30, fiery trials. 405 00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:00.960 So Jesus answered and said, and let me just say this when I say fiery trials, I mean 406 00:30:01.040 --> 00:30:04.000 what the Bible calls a fiery trial, persecution. 407 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:15.040 So Jesus answered and said, or surely I say to you, there is no one who has left house 408 00:30:15.760 --> 00:30:23.840 or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands. For my sake and the 409 00:30:23.840 --> 00:30:31.600 gospels who shall not receive a hundredfold. Amen. A hundredfold. That means whatever you for 410 00:30:31.600 --> 00:30:38.640 sake or give up for Jesus, you're getting it back a hundredfold when in heaven someday. No, 411 00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:45.040 he said now, now in this time, is anybody hearing me? I don't know about you, but I counted the 412 00:30:45.040 --> 00:30:50.400 cost before I became a Christian. Real talk. One of the first things I told me is you can't have 413 00:30:50.640 --> 00:30:55.840 sex before you're married. I'm 16 years old. I said, what? Totally carnal, totally secular. 414 00:30:55.840 --> 00:31:01.600 That was like they told me that I had to walk on the moon. I was like, what? That's too much money. 415 00:31:05.600 --> 00:31:08.240 I'm 16. I'm like, I've been waiting half my life. 416 00:31:13.520 --> 00:31:17.200 And you know what the person leading me to the Lord then says that if you will, if you will 417 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:22.000 follow the word of the Lord, he will make sure you don't miss out on anything and you will get 418 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:26.160 back a hundredfold. And that filled me with faith. And that's what I mean. I said, all right, 419 00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:32.480 I can with his help. I can do that because I know I won't be at a loss. He's going to recompense me. 420 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:42.560 A hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children 421 00:31:42.560 --> 00:31:46.960 and lands, right? We celebrate that. This is a good stuff. But Jesus says there's going to be a 422 00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:53.520 little sprinkling. Remember that guy? Emerald's throwing soap, bam. Before there was salt bay, 423 00:31:54.320 --> 00:32:01.440 there was emerald who bam kicked it up a notch. And Jesus says there's going to be a sprinkling 424 00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:08.240 on your hundredfold return. It's all coming with persecution. It'll always come with people 425 00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:14.960 persecuting you. Jesus says the servant is not above his master. They persecuted me. They will 426 00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:21.440 persecute you. In fact, if there isn't somebody persecuting you, that's a sign that we need to 427 00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:26.880 crank up the fire a little bit more. But unfortunately, the way Christianity is being presented and the 428 00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:37.600 huge just cultural pressure is that we be liked. You know what the world wants? It wants a 429 00:32:37.600 --> 00:32:48.640 castrated, powerless Christianity that just behaves itself. As the whole world flaunts and parades 430 00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:52.960 its degeneracy around and wants the church, just be quiet and you behave yourself. Don't say anything. 431 00:32:55.040 --> 00:32:56.880 That's when the salt loses its savor. 432 00:32:56.960 --> 00:33:11.040 First Peter 412. By the way, if you're going through it right now, read first Peter. It's 433 00:33:11.040 --> 00:33:18.240 the great book on suffering. There's three distinct long passages that have to do with suffering 434 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:24.080 as a Christian. Now this changed my life when I got this revelation. In each of those three 435 00:33:24.080 --> 00:33:28.000 passages, and then you'll see in every other instance in the New Testament when he talks about 436 00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:33.760 suffering, it's actually talking about persecution. Every time I challenge you, study it out yourself 437 00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:40.560 because we're called to the sufferings of Christ. What's the sufferings of Christ? Persecution. 438 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:46.640 Why is this so important? Because I hear Christians all the time saying they're suffering for 439 00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:52.240 Jesus. I can't pay rent. I'm suffering for Jesus. I'm sticking my body. I'm suffering for Jesus. 440 00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:58.960 I went through my own thing. I wanted to work at Super Walmart. I didn't think I'm suffering for Jesus. 441 00:34:01.120 --> 00:34:04.880 I went to the gym and started eating steak two times and all of a sudden the demons left me. 442 00:34:16.160 --> 00:34:21.120 As Christians, we're so quick to rework our theology. Get into a freak accident. 443 00:34:21.200 --> 00:34:26.080 Having a bad week. Oh, gee, why are you having me go through this? And God's like this. 444 00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:34.080 I'm not having you anything. I'm waiting on you to activate my power that I purchased with my own 445 00:34:34.080 --> 00:34:44.480 blood. Amen. But the suffering that we are called to, we get to enjoy, is the sufferings of Jesus 446 00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:50.240 and that's persecution. Yet when that happens, we think it's strange. That's why Peter wrote, 447 00:34:50.240 --> 00:34:57.440 beloved, don't think it's strange. Concerning the fiery trial, which is to try you, as though some 448 00:34:57.440 --> 00:35:04.720 strange thing happened to you, but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings. 449 00:35:07.040 --> 00:35:13.600 So if they're Christ's sufferings, that means persecution, the following three categories, 450 00:35:13.600 --> 00:35:20.720 being envied, being persecuted, and being misunderstood. Those are the sufferings of Christ. 451 00:35:20.720 --> 00:35:26.400 If you're suffering in another way, well, then resist it with the word of God. If you're suffering 452 00:35:26.400 --> 00:35:29.600 in this way, you can rejoice. It doesn't tell you to resist. It says rejoice. 453 00:35:32.560 --> 00:35:38.000 Rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings that when his glory is revealed, 454 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:42.560 you may also be glad with exceeding joy. You say, how do you know, though, he's talking about 455 00:35:42.560 --> 00:35:47.040 persecution. I'm so glad you asked in the next verse. And then every one of those instances in 456 00:35:47.040 --> 00:35:53.520 Peter, he defines it, if you are reproached, if you are shamed, if you are bullied, if you are made 457 00:35:53.520 --> 00:36:01.440 fun of, for the name of Christ blessed are you, for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. 458 00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:08.720 On their part, he is blasphemed, but on your part, he is glorified. Hallelujah. 459 00:36:08.720 --> 00:36:19.440 We're talking about the tools that Satan uses, his weapons. Thank you, Lord. I don't know what 460 00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:23.600 just happened there. You went like this with your jacket. And I thought it was my laptop slipping 461 00:36:23.600 --> 00:36:27.840 off to the table. That's why I did that. That wasn't like me quickening under the anointing. That was 462 00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:41.840 me go my laptop. Oh, it's still right there. Number one, fame. Number two, family ties. Number three, 463 00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:49.760 fiery trials. Number four, this is a big one. Failed prayer. I didn't get what I asked. 464 00:36:50.720 --> 00:37:00.800 I didn't get what I wanted. I thought God was Santa and said I got a lump of coal. I thought 465 00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:06.240 he was a genie. He was going to do the whole song. And he never had a friend like me. 466 00:37:09.520 --> 00:37:14.160 Have you all heard, you know, the story of Kanye West? A few years back, he got saved. 467 00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:19.600 No, not that story of Kanye West, the saved story. He gave his life to Jesus, 468 00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:26.400 started doing Sunday morning service concerts all over the country. And just a couple of days ago, 469 00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:31.120 he said he had a problem with Jesus. Let me read to you in his own words. 470 00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:38.560 Quote, I have my issues with Jesus. Can you imagine saying that? Kanye West calls out God for not 471 00:37:38.560 --> 00:37:44.880 answering prayers while labeling himself a God. He refers to himself as a God. 472 00:37:46.560 --> 00:37:50.640 There's a lot of stuff. Listen to this. This is why Kanye West now has issues with Jesus. 473 00:37:52.160 --> 00:37:56.640 There's a lot of stuff I went through that I prayed about and I didn't see Jesus show up. 474 00:37:56.960 --> 00:38:05.760 So, Yeh said adding that he had to take the challenges of his personal and professional life 475 00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:16.800 into quote my own hands. So, and I love Kanye. I really do. 476 00:38:17.600 --> 00:38:26.480 I bless him. And I was excited when he got saved, but I held on because one thing I noticed was 477 00:38:27.680 --> 00:38:32.960 he wasn't really surrounding himself with Godly Christians. He wasn't submitted to a local 478 00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:38.320 church or a pastor. He never allowed the Lord to clean up his speech in his mouth, still referred 479 00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:43.120 to himself as a God, divorced his wife, married someone else and started posting nearly 480 00:38:43.120 --> 00:38:47.440 naked pictures of her online. God doesn't do exactly what he wants, 481 00:38:48.240 --> 00:38:52.320 thinking God's like Burger King, you're a way right away. And then he gets offended and saying, 482 00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:58.560 I have issues with Jesus. My mic has turned on, right? Crazy Kanye, right? 483 00:38:59.520 --> 00:39:03.680 You know how many people I know exactly like this? Do you know how many people have 484 00:39:03.680 --> 00:39:07.280 pastored that they come in excited? They're the ones hugging and kissing me when they come up 485 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:11.680 from the baptismal waters six months later. Where are they? Well, God didn't, 486 00:39:13.520 --> 00:39:24.160 are you a fan or a follower? Though he's claimed me yet will I praise him? Hallelujah. 487 00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:30.800 And yes, I'm still the same guy that last Sunday preached Mark 1124. And I believe that what's 488 00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:36.720 over and things we desire when we pray believe that you receive them and you shall have them. 489 00:39:36.720 --> 00:39:43.520 But some things don't always work out. Do you know what I found? The vast majority of unanswered 490 00:39:43.520 --> 00:39:49.680 prayers have to do when someone else's will is involved because God is not going to override 491 00:39:49.680 --> 00:39:54.720 somebody else's will. I receive quickest and I receive best from God when it's just me in the 492 00:39:54.720 --> 00:40:00.480 equation, like something for me and I have it in the word and I believe for myself. But what other 493 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:06.880 people's wills are involved? Now they got a he can push, he can move, he can influence but he's 494 00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:11.840 not going to possess someone on your behalf. Those of you believing God for a mate, take note. 495 00:40:13.520 --> 00:40:18.400 You can't get upset, you can't be praying the prayer, you know, God, I love him so much, 496 00:40:18.400 --> 00:40:24.960 make him love me. No, he's not going to, I mean if he can make someone do that, he'd make him get saved. 497 00:40:25.200 --> 00:40:28.720 Jesus. 498 00:40:33.120 --> 00:40:39.280 Whenever you start praying that God changed someone whose will, you could be bordering on 499 00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:44.480 witchcraft type prayers and you don't want to mess with that. That's what witchcraft is, 500 00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:52.480 it's the manipulation of other people's wills at its core. It's not green hags over a pot, 501 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:59.440 bubble, double toil and trouble or any of that stuff. Witchcraft is manipulation through 502 00:40:59.440 --> 00:41:08.000 demonic forces of somebody else's free will. Is this helping anybody? So some prayers also are 503 00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:16.480 subject to the timing of God. There's some things that I've wanted for years that and I believe 504 00:41:16.560 --> 00:41:21.760 but the, you know, God's FedEx system was, it seemed like it was taking its time but every time 505 00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:29.040 I check in I feel like, mm-hmm, you're good. I know what you say I'm good, it's easy for you to say 506 00:41:29.040 --> 00:41:34.000 because you're so good. You're just like a house, I really want it a house. 507 00:41:36.160 --> 00:41:43.280 Larger for years now and the Lord, I would check in and then it all came so quickly. 508 00:41:44.240 --> 00:41:49.840 It was like one thing after another, but during the year's process of waiting I didn't go, 509 00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:56.160 mm-hmm, God, what are you? You told me, you told me whatever I want I could have, I believe. 510 00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:07.200 I mean some of us we just got to grow up. I speak to myself grow up and be committed 511 00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:14.240 and that's scripture that I quoted. That was some crazy Job. Job, he lost his mind there, you know. 512 00:42:15.120 --> 00:42:19.280 Everything, the Bible is true but not everything everyone says in the Bible is true. 513 00:42:20.080 --> 00:42:25.680 You can't, you know, Job lost his whole family, lost his mind but he did say even in his insanity 514 00:42:25.680 --> 00:42:30.880 he said something wise though he slay me. That's not going to slay you but what he's, he's showing 515 00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:41.680 you to his heart though he slay me yet will I praise him. I wanted to say this, I didn't say it 516 00:42:41.680 --> 00:42:48.080 in the first service. I called my first ambulance in my life. One was that Friday, it was Friday, 517 00:42:48.080 --> 00:42:52.000 all the days are. Vivian had a temperature, that's where they're not here this morning, 518 00:42:52.000 --> 00:43:00.560 shit, temperature Thursday. Wednesday and Thursday, very high temperature. Victor woke up, 519 00:43:00.560 --> 00:43:08.880 I believe he had a 104 or 105. Then I left the house just for a little bit and Emily called up 520 00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:15.440 and said it's 106 and I found him passed out. She put him in our bed and he was in the middle of 521 00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:21.840 the rug passed out. That's it. I said call the ambulance right now. The ambulance comes quickly, 522 00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:26.720 never had to call an ambulance before. Now I'm trying to talk to him and he's like, he's 523 00:43:26.720 --> 00:43:33.600 burning up. So the ambulance comes, they take him away now. I'm alone with my five-year-old 524 00:43:33.600 --> 00:43:38.160 daughter, Emily's gone into ambulance with Victor. I guess the kind of thoughts that are going through 525 00:43:38.160 --> 00:43:46.880 my head. I'm just escalated quickly so of course I pray. I speak the word. I stay strong in the faith 526 00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:53.600 by his grace. But of course the enemy is raging right now and I have the thought like Satan would 527 00:43:53.600 --> 00:43:59.760 just love to take him out. What would you do? What would you do? It was like Satan was like, 528 00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:08.640 what would you do if I took your son? And I'm hearing it and I don't say this to both because God forbid 529 00:44:08.640 --> 00:44:15.680 we ever boast but I postured my heart as I will trust in the goodness of God. I don't care what 530 00:44:15.680 --> 00:44:24.480 happens. God is good all the time. Amen. And once again I don't say that I don't want to boast. 531 00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:28.720 You know who boasted? Peter boasted. Lord I'll never ever first thank you and he was the first 532 00:44:28.720 --> 00:44:34.560 one to do so. Never boast in your love for God. Boasting God's love for you. Amen. That's a key. 533 00:44:34.560 --> 00:44:38.960 So I'm not boasting. Oh Lord, I'm so committed. No Lord. You're still committed to me. So I'm 534 00:44:38.960 --> 00:44:48.880 going to have the right response. Hallelujah. Amen. By the way the reason why they crucified Jesus 535 00:44:48.880 --> 00:44:58.080 was because of failed prayer. They didn't get what they wanted. The Jews wanted a conquering king, 536 00:44:58.080 --> 00:45:05.280 a military leader who was going to redeem them from the Roman occupation. So God gives them that 537 00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:12.400 except different. He's going to redeem you from a worse terrorist than Rome was from the 538 00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:17.520 terrorism of Satan and your own sin. And I'll redeem you back to myself and they couldn't see it 539 00:45:17.520 --> 00:45:22.400 and they got upset and then they should have crucified him. So of all the reasons I've listed 540 00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:29.280 I'd say this one is probably should be the very, very top that people get upset that things are 541 00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:37.760 working out the way they hoped and then pout their lips at God and slowly, slowly move away 542 00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:43.760 but over time the heart grows cold and the faith wanes and that's a dangerous place to be in. 543 00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:51.120 Amen. Number five. This is a big one. False doctrine. 544 00:45:51.120 --> 00:46:05.760 Ephesians 4-14. How people become a proverb on the side of the road. How they lose their faith. 545 00:46:08.640 --> 00:46:16.480 How they discontinue. False doctrine is a big one. And I found that when people don't submit to 546 00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:22.880 the word of God they open themselves up for the enemy to bring a temptation to false doctrine. 547 00:46:23.600 --> 00:46:34.080 And it's a temptation. If we don't really love God's word but we see it as oppressive and burdensome 548 00:46:34.080 --> 00:46:41.360 there'll always be a door opened up where we will rationalize, we will compromise our way out 549 00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:50.240 really to do our own thing. And then we will get together with other like-minded, compromised people 550 00:46:50.240 --> 00:46:54.960 and we'll try to recreate God in our own image rather than submitting and saying, God, I'm created 551 00:46:54.960 --> 00:47:00.080 in your image and I'm your servant and I'll do what you tell me to do. Say what you want me to say. 552 00:47:00.080 --> 00:47:06.720 Go where you want me to go. No, no, no, that's too oppressive. So in my world, in my pretend fantasy 553 00:47:06.720 --> 00:47:13.440 world, God is okay with filling the blanks. And I'll just do what I want to do because after all, 554 00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:18.560 I love Jesus. No, you're a fan. He's got lots of those not interested. You've got to be a follower. 555 00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:28.480 That we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind 556 00:47:28.560 --> 00:47:35.680 of doctrine by the trickery of men in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting. 557 00:47:36.720 --> 00:47:41.440 The Bible says there's such a thing as a spirit of error. This was one of the biggest headaches to 558 00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:47.280 Paul was people would get caught up in false teachings and false doctrines. About 10 years ago, 559 00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:54.000 there was this attack on penal substitution. Don't check out on me because it sounds theological. 560 00:47:54.000 --> 00:48:00.640 Let me tell you a little over 10 years ago, almost 15 years ago now. Throughout Christianity, 561 00:48:00.640 --> 00:48:05.440 there was this attack on this 2000 year old doctrine called penal substitution. 562 00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:12.400 Penal just means punishment. Jesus became our substitute. He took on the punishment that we 563 00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:19.760 deserved, correct? Sound Brabiblical? Yeah. The Bible says he's the propitiation for our sins. 564 00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:24.240 Propitiation is the appeasement of God's wrath. This whole doctrine simply says that 565 00:48:24.240 --> 00:48:30.960 I am a sinner and as a sinner, I deserve the holy just wrath of God. What does that look like? 566 00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:37.920 It looks like forever in the lake of fire. However, God loved me so much that he came to earth in the 567 00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:44.720 person of Jesus and he stood there on my behalf and he received God's wrath. God the Father's 568 00:48:44.720 --> 00:48:49.680 just and holy wrath in my place as my substitute. That sounds good, right? 569 00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:57.760 But that was right around in the 2010s with the man-be-pambization of America. And that just 570 00:48:57.760 --> 00:49:03.840 sounded too violent to a lot of the younger Christians. Oh, no. Well, that makes me, oh, 571 00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:12.640 no, no, no. That makes me uncomfortable. And so you would ask, well, what happened at the cross? 572 00:49:12.640 --> 00:49:19.520 Well, God forgave the whole world. Yeah, He did forgive the whole world in potential format. You 573 00:49:19.520 --> 00:49:22.480 just have to receive that forgiveness. But according to them, no, no, no, everyone going to 574 00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:27.920 heaven, there's no such a thing as hell. So Jesus wasted all that time. He was warning people about 575 00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:33.280 hell. He was doing it for nothing. He should have known better. And they said that cross just 576 00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:44.880 became a great display of love. And we lost several people to that. You know, when there are 577 00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:51.760 doctrines that come and go, just ask yourself, is this a part? Has this been a part of 2000 years 578 00:49:51.760 --> 00:49:58.800 of Christian Orthodoxy? It wouldn't be strange if now 2000 years in somebody has a brand new way 579 00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:03.440 of doing things. It would be strange. And it is strange. And it's happening all the time. 580 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:10.560 Let God be true in every man alive. And so good doctrine matters. Good doctrine is important. 581 00:50:10.560 --> 00:50:17.360 We have an elder team here, one of the primary responsibilities of our elder, there's a lot of 582 00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:22.560 responsibilities. One of the primary ones is to make sure that city light church stays true to the 583 00:50:22.560 --> 00:50:28.320 word of God and stays doctrinally sound. I've told every single one of them. If I come up here and 584 00:50:28.320 --> 00:50:35.040 I start spewing unbiblical now, talk to me, challenge me. I want to know, hold me accountable 585 00:50:35.040 --> 00:50:41.920 because what has to come forth in this day and this hour is the uncompromise, eternal word of God. Amen. 586 00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:50.160 Hallelujah. Do you understand you only have one soul? Do you understand that you will appear before 587 00:50:50.160 --> 00:50:57.120 a holy God? If that doesn't cause you saved or not to shudder, you've got a problem. 588 00:50:57.680 --> 00:51:03.520 And I would rather you address it now than in that day. Right now, there's still hope. Right now, 589 00:51:03.520 --> 00:51:10.960 you have a chance. You're so opinionated. You think so highly of yourself. You think you're involved. 590 00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:16.320 You're proud. You're arrogant. You need to repent. And yes, I love you. And because I love you, 591 00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:22.560 I'm telling you that. Stop making a God in your own image to satisfy your own lustful desires. 592 00:51:23.680 --> 00:51:29.920 I'm telling my pure doctrine. In this church, we believe Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father 593 00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:35.920 because he said so. He said, I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except 594 00:51:35.920 --> 00:51:45.280 through me. We believe in the triumphant God. We believe that salvation is by grace through faith 595 00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:52.240 alone. Hallelujah. We believe that God created them in the beginning, male and female. 596 00:51:52.240 --> 00:51:58.800 And marriage is between a male and a female. You said, what about if two guys get married? 597 00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:03.680 What's that? I don't know what that is. It's something, but it's not marriage. Never was for 598 00:52:03.680 --> 00:52:09.760 2000 years. I know you're, oh, you've been scrolling on your TikTok 10 hours a day. You've 599 00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:15.120 been getting so brainwashed by this new current thing that's happening that you believe two plus two 600 00:52:15.120 --> 00:52:23.600 equals five, but the eternal Word of God still believes two plus two equals four. Amen. Yeah. 601 00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:30.560 And you know what? If you have a problem with me, your problem isn't really with me. Your problem 602 00:52:30.560 --> 00:52:36.560 is with God that you're insubordinate, that in your heart of hearts, you're rebellious. 603 00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:41.600 And somewhere in that brainer yours, you actually think you're more compassionate than Jesus. 604 00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:48.880 And you can't be more compassionate than Jesus. But what about inclusivity? You sound so cruel. 605 00:52:48.880 --> 00:52:52.960 You're a bigot. Call me that. I don't care. You're a racist. Call me that. I don't care. 606 00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:58.880 You can put whatever newvo neighbor label on me. I don't care. I know who I am and who 607 00:52:58.880 --> 00:53:08.240 may have believed. Amen. They will call you every name in the book. Jesus, I have mercy. 608 00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:19.120 They think they're more compassionate than Jesus. Hey, new splash, Christianity 609 00:53:19.200 --> 00:53:28.320 is now inclusive. It's actually very, very exclusive. Jesus couldn't have reiterated that more. 610 00:53:29.040 --> 00:53:37.120 You want inclusive? Be my guest. He said, broad is the highway that goes to hell. That's inclusive. 611 00:53:37.120 --> 00:53:43.360 He said, straight and narrow is the road that leads to life eternal. That's exclusive. 612 00:53:44.240 --> 00:53:47.840 He didn't say, oh, happen whatever boat you want. The Buddhist boats, the Confucius boats, 613 00:53:47.840 --> 00:53:52.000 the Muslim boats. And every boat goes across the lake and reaches the same shore. 614 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:58.000 He said, no one can come to the father except through me. My name, what I've done. That's 615 00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:05.520 exclusive. So you want to play with your eternal soul? Gamble the one soul that you have? 616 00:54:06.160 --> 00:54:11.520 Because you seem so evolved. So hip. You're so progressive. Wow. 617 00:54:18.880 --> 00:54:22.480 You've been brainwashed. Yeah, you have. 618 00:54:26.720 --> 00:54:33.520 When you have, listen to me. When the whole world, the Bible says you are at war with this world 619 00:54:33.520 --> 00:54:39.200 system. When the whole world agrees with you, think about it. You're the one who's wrong. 620 00:54:39.200 --> 00:54:43.840 You have a problem. When everything you believe the world would patch you on the back and say, 621 00:54:43.840 --> 00:54:51.200 say, that a boy, who do you think is in the wrong? Oh, hallelujah. 622 00:54:54.160 --> 00:54:55.920 What was I talking about? Oh, yeah, false doctrine. 623 00:54:56.880 --> 00:55:06.160 John 2115, the sixth weapon. Kind of want to camp around the fifth a little bit more, 624 00:55:06.160 --> 00:55:08.880 but let's go on to the sixth worship team. Won't you come on up? 625 00:55:12.160 --> 00:55:22.320 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I think we've just reached the tipping point and the breaking point. 626 00:55:22.400 --> 00:55:27.360 We actually are so patient and so tolerant. And I teach and preach love, love, love, 627 00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:32.800 but after a while, there is so much I can take when you're lying to me and punching me in the 628 00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:37.600 face and destroying this great country, this culture, this Christian culture that we have, 629 00:55:37.600 --> 00:55:42.480 while all the time telling me or not, the pendulum is swinging the other way. I'm telling you right 630 00:55:43.280 --> 00:55:48.240 now and there's going to come a loving but holy and righteous backlash. Amen. 631 00:55:52.480 --> 00:56:03.200 The sixth temptation is the fish because it's all about the fish. He's baby. What is the fish? 632 00:56:04.160 --> 00:56:11.200 Money and career. So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, 633 00:56:11.840 --> 00:56:18.240 Simon son of Jonah, do you love me more than these? What was he talking about? What are these? 634 00:56:18.240 --> 00:56:25.600 These fish? Because after the crucifixion when Peter thought, all right, well, that part is over. 635 00:56:26.320 --> 00:56:31.360 Didn't work out like, you know what his first words were? I go efficient. I'm going back to, 636 00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:35.440 I'm going to do what I know to do. I'm going back to my career and I'm going to make some money 637 00:56:35.440 --> 00:56:39.120 because there's a more Jesus to multiply the loaves and, you know, he was the one that everybody 638 00:56:39.120 --> 00:56:45.120 was giving the offerings to anyway. I'm not going to raise anything. So, it's biblical. 639 00:56:46.880 --> 00:56:51.920 Jesus was a money magnet. I said too many things to challenge some people. Let me go. 640 00:56:52.000 --> 00:57:04.080 But Jesus comes back and restores Peter, but he challenges him. Do you love me more than money 641 00:57:04.080 --> 00:57:10.000 and career? Do you love me more than these? And this is something we're talking about ways, 642 00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:16.800 the sixth steps, ways that Satan wants to cause you to discontinue. And one of those ways is 643 00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:24.720 especially New York City, that golden calf of career and money. One of the ways you can put that 644 00:57:24.720 --> 00:57:31.840 in check is consistently submitting your hopes, your dreams, your ambitions to the Lord. Submit them to 645 00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:39.520 him. Let him be Lord of every area of your life. Honor God with your finances. That's how you 646 00:57:39.520 --> 00:57:44.800 consistently convey to him that money doesn't have a hold on you, but you believe it all belongs to 647 00:57:44.800 --> 00:57:50.320 the Lord. And when you do that, he multiply you even more. And when your career isn't a God, 648 00:57:50.320 --> 00:57:54.480 he will bless you all the more. And then you never know, you could be going one way being 649 00:57:54.480 --> 00:58:01.360 successful and all of a totally different life change where you get a hundredfold return. Hallelujah. 650 00:58:04.880 --> 00:58:09.200 Just bow your heads with me and close your eyes. Let's say this with me, dear Lord Jesus, 651 00:58:10.160 --> 00:58:17.760 thank you for Palm Sunday. You came into Jerusalem. You preached the uncompromised word of God. 652 00:58:19.120 --> 00:58:26.640 You showed your love and you died on the cross to take away all my sins. I believe Jesus, 653 00:58:27.360 --> 00:58:36.320 you are my Lord, you are my Savior. Now help me, Lord. In these six areas and beyond that I would be 654 00:58:36.320 --> 00:58:46.320 a follower and not a fan that I would be loyal and committed. I can't do it alone. I need your help. 655 00:58:48.000 --> 00:59:00.320 Cause them to be fiery. Cause me to be fiery in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. 656 00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:07.520 This is the City Light Church podcast. If you've missed any part of today's message, 657 00:59:07.520 --> 00:59:12.000 or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansik in City Light Church, 658 00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:21.520 visit us at citylightnyc.com. That's citylightnyc.com. Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. 659 00:59:21.520 --> 00:59:26.480 We would love to connect with you. We pray that you have been encouraged today, 660 00:59:26.480 --> 00:59:31.680 that you have been reminded how much God loves you and that you are surrounded by grace. 661 00:59:32.400 --> 00:59:37.440 Thank you for listening. 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