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You ever feel like you're carrying something around, it's like you're nine months pregnant,

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why is it this baby coming? I've had that, and then I step out and finally do the stuff the Lord has

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been on me, but it's in his word, I should have been doing it, and I do that, and then it's unlocked,

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and the day loose comes. Babies popping up all over the place, and you have been carrying these

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guys for years. Oh, you were waiting for me to just do what the book says do, because I was always

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fond of saying, I'm waiting on you, Lord. It's actually, I'm waiting on you.

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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's word

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and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. If you want to connect with City Light Church,

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feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com, that's citylightnyc.com.

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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in

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our hearts and minds. As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God,

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that you are surrounded by his grace, and that he has a real hope and a future for you.

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So glad that you're with us, those of you joining us online, glad you're with us also.

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Hallelujah. I want to just make you aware of this connection card. If you're a guest,

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this is your first or second time, or you've never filled one of these connection cards out,

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encourage you to do so. It's the number one way. The best way that you can connect with us,

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ask us a question if you want to speak to anybody on our staff. If you want to get baptized,

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we have baptisms coming up very quickly. What is the actual baptism date? October,

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November the 4th. So we're six, seven weeks away from baptisms. So if you've never been water

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baptized, you can sign up to be baptized through the connection card. If you want to learn more about

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membership, through the connection card, you want to serve and volunteer. Through the connection card,

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you just want to say hi and drop a comment. They're actually read over every single one.

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Pray it over. Leave your phone number. You want to call. Some about human will call you, not an AI

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system. A caring individual, on full-time staff, to pray with you. And if you need a counseling

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appointment, they'll set one up for you. So if you're one of those out, you can give it to an

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usher, put it in the offering boxes. I suggest you bring it to the hospitality table,

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where they'll give you a gift in exchange for your data. No, but seriously, look, the whole

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data thing, you know, that really hasn't come to New York City because New York isn't going to

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put up with that. But across the border in Tennessee, I can't even buy a pillow. I went into

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Temper, Peter, I'm on one pillow. What's your email address? None you business at iCloud.com.

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Why can't I buy any, every store I go into wants my email. And then I get coupons three times a day

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and flash discounts. We're not going to do that to you. One maximum two emails a week and they're

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important. No discount code for next Sunday service. Well, we're concluding, as though you can

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really conclude it, but we're concluding specifically this series called the anointed one in his

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anointing. An impetus, what I sense from the Lord and why to begin this series is because the Lord

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has something up his sleeve for us. I feel it in my spiritual bones. We are in a place of strength now.

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And the Lord has some ground for us to take, some land for us to possess as we finish up 2023.

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And that was not the case just a few years ago that we were in a place of strength. A few years ago,

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COVID happened even as recently as two years ago. The lockdowns had subsided here, but really the

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Christian Church was devastated so many people left New York City. And then we had a lot of people

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pleasantly leave. They just said, Pastor, this church has meant the world to us. Thank you for your

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ministry, but our family is going to and you know where they went. The Carolinas, Florida, or Texas.

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So we had that. We all said some people leave because I did not bend the knee to Fauci.

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I did not wear three masks while preaching. And that was very upsetting.

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Can you believe that guy is still around? Squacking. I saw a clip even CNN was mocking him the other day.

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Well, one guy on CNN.

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And so we were weakened and we found ourselves hit hard. And the Lord quickly started to bring

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new people, but it took a while for new people to develop roots. So we had a lot of people get saved,

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as you can see from our baptisms, our baptisms twice a year. We have baptisms. They were full.

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We had a bunch of new people get saved. We had some others who came and they were already saved.

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But then what you have, you have a full church, but you have a disjointed church.

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But then those people began to develop roots. Those who weren't saved, God saved. They were baptized

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in water, baptized in the Holy Spirit, started coming regularly, even began to serve, joined a

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life group, and most importantly, connect with others. You cannot be an island in a church. You're

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not really then experiencing church as it was intended to be experienced by the Lord Himself.

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We're all body parts. We can't have an arm over here and a leg over there. We got to be connected.

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And people started to connect and relationships started to blossom. And now here we are wrapping up

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2023, we're in September. And I can honestly say, Pastor Modone Chuckle, but we're the strongest

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we've ever been. And it's true, we're the best we've ever been, we're the strongest we've ever

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been. The love that I sense amongst the people, the unity, the coming, not saying we've arrived,

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but we are at a place of strength. And by every metric, that's a good use.

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And so when you're at a place of strength, what do you do? You just make a hammock,

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lay it down, and that will be the comfortable thing to do, but that's not biblically what you're

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supposed to do. You then take ground for the Lord. And I believe we're in this series talking

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about the anointing because you can't expand the God's kingdom and work for the Lord, work for

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the Christ without understanding the Christos, the anointing, the power of God and the presence of

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God. And he wanted to marinate a bunch of you and set you ablaze and realign you and have

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you experiencing him because you can't give away that which you don't have. Paul said, as much

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as is in me, I'm ready to preach the gospel. Well, if nothing is in you, you can't preach the gospel.

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But if you're full of the Holy Spirit, you've got something to offer, something to give. And he's

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been filling us so that we have something to give. And I believe with all of my heart, I sense it,

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other pastors, because I don't believe this is unique to city light. Other pastors in the city

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have confirmed it. There was something in the air. And I believe we're in the cusp of seeing

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a major influx of souls come into the kingdom, a major like supernatural. Like I believe, I believe

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if we steward it well, it could turn into something like the Jesus movement where people who've

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experienced the Jesus movement, they would say people got saved by accident. It was the easiest

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thing to lead someone to the Lord. It was just like in the water. People were hungry and the Lord

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came through and turned the hearts of the people and it was like wholesale salvation by the truck

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load just coming in. If we steward it right, he always tests you first. You know, he could pour out

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his Holy Spirit on a campus and then if administration decides to shut it down prematurely,

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it could end that revival, hypothetically speaking, that could happen.

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So there's always a test. How are you going to steward what I've given you?

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And then if you pass the test, it gives you more. He who's faithful with a little, then he gives

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you more and then you're able to be faithful with the much. So that's where we are. And you get to

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play a part and have a role. No outpouring of God, no move of God, although that's usually

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associated with a human name or several names, that's just the people who get the recognition.

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It's always carried by the no-name people. It's always carried by tens of thousands of Christian

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laborers who actually steward the movement. So next week we have Nathaniel Sainte and Lloyd

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with us. You'll be with us Friday night because we've restarted our Friday night revival night.

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Do not miss that. I shared with someone. They said, oh, that's during Rosh Hashanah weekend. Yes,

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it's during Rosh Hashanah. We planned it that way.

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For those of you who are really Jewish, you're really in touch with the Abrahamic spiritual roots.

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It's on Rosh Hashanah weekend. Friday night, Saturday night at seven, not here, but in our other

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location, just a couple of blocks away. All of this information is online and on our social media.

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And then Sundays for two services here. So I just encourage you, don't miss out on Friday night at

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seven, Saturday night at seven and coming here for the landing. Like be there for the takeoff,

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the Ascent to 40,000 feet, eat some peanuts, drink the five ounce bottle of Poland spring,

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be on the whole ride and then land with us. Because the anointing builds, it compounds,

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it amplifies. So be on the whole journey. I have specifically asked Nathaniel to come. Have you,

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have you ever wondered why we don't have so many guest speakers? When in reality, it would be easy for

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us. I could go this route. I've never shared this. It's very easy for us to get the best guest speakers.

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Do you know why? We have the money. And two, we're in New York City. And every ministry wants to go

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to New York City at least once a year. And so we've done that. And what we found is, hey,

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there's some great people, but they don't really know who we are. They don't know me. They don't know

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my vision. They don't know my heart. And some of them don't really even care. It's just one of a

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hundred places they're going to minister during the year and we're just another stop along the way.

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And we've been there, done that. It always left me feeling empty. Like how you feel after you eat

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at McDonald's, you ate something and you're full, but really you're empty, starving for nutrition.

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And I thought, what? But I noticed people who I have a covenant relationship with, who know me,

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who are in my life, who love sincerely love this church, they will come and they will minister

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with no agenda, with no strings attached and what they deposit seems to last much longer. It's not

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just an evangelist blowing and blowing up and blowing out. So Nathaniel and I have been friends

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for nearly 15 years. And he's seen this church when it was just an acorn and now he's seeing it

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growing up into a mighty oak and he loves you. And I know that right now he's preparing for these

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services. They're not just another stop in his itinerary. He's praying for you. He's reading his

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spirit to bring something to you. The Apostle Paul said to the Romans, I long to come to you.

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That's so you could just hear pretty words out of my mouth. He said, I long to come to you that I may

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impart to you some spiritual gift. I want to leave a divine deposit with you. He'll be leaving a

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divine deposit here. So join us. Take this time out and say, look, I want to close out 2023

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with a bang. Lord, I'm going to position myself to receive from heaven Friday night at seven,

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Saturday night, and then here on Sunday. Amen. Amen. The anointed one and his anointing, which is

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the definition of Jesus' title, the Christ. Let's dive in starting at Isaiah 61, which is what

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Jesus would read from as he would visit synagogues. Jesus was Roboni, which means Rabbi,

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and he was a traveling rabbi. And as he would go from town to town, the Jewish custom was in the

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synagogue, whoever or whenever there would be a traveling rabbi, he would get the pulpit. I'm so

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glad that custom is nonexistent in America today whenever a traveling itinerant, thank you, no thank you.

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But back then it worked. And Jesus would come in and in Luke chapter 4, and we believe this is a

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pattern of his, he called for the scroll of the prophet Isaiah, and then he would read from Isaiah 61.

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Imagine that. God in the flesh, the Christ, the Messiah, anticipated long for, prayed for for

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centuries is there. He asked for the prophet Isaiah, the scroll to be brought, reads from Isaiah 61,

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and then says, today this scripture is fulfilled in your ears. I am the one whom the scriptures

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were talking about. In Luke 4, they didn't work out so well. They were so upset at that that they

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took him to throw him head long, says head long over a cliff. And then the next verse it says,

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but Jesus passing through the midst of them went his way. I don't know how that worked out,

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but it just wasn't Jesus's time yet. Did you ever catch that? They went to kill him. So you

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picture a mob of people going to throw him. This is like street justice. Throw him head long over a

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cliff, but Jesus passing through the midst of them just went his way. That just shows me that when

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you're walking in God's will and it's not your time yet, you're unkillable. How did he pass

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this a mob of people carrying off a cliff? He just said, you know what, no thanks. I'm not going to

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participate in today's execution. It's not my time yet. This is what Jesus read. The spirit of

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the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed and qualified me to preach the gospel.

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You know who's anointed and qualified besides Jesus? You are. That anointing and that qualification

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was released on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was poured out. And if you have received

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Jesus as your Lord and Savior, all of your sins have been forgiven you. They're completely

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blotted out and taken out of the way and you've been given the free gift of righteousness.

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You've been given the gift of justification and you've been pronounced not guilty. That's who you

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really are. And you've been filled with this Holy Spirit, which is the unction and the anointing

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of God. So you are qualified whether you feel like it or not. Listen, no matter where you are,

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I'm the spectrum. We have right now red hot fiery believers living for Jesus every second

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of the day or you could be beat up bruised. You came limping in here this morning. You're even

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suffering with shame and condemnation and you wish you could walk this Christian walk better

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if your faith is in Christ. I want you to know your sins are already forgiven you

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and you are not less qualified than that first person I mentioned.

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You don't get to sit this out. You are qualified and you can expand the kingdom of God.

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The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed and qualified me to

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preach the gospel of good tidings. What is the gospel? It's good news. What's the good news?

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Your sins are forgiven you. That's good news. Religion wraps it in bad news.

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Which is, well, Jesus, that for your sins, but here's what you have to do. Do, do, and then the

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list comes out. A 50 point list putting you back under the law and getting you in a state of works.

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That's not good news. That's a bait and switch. Good news is all of your sins. Every single one

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has been taken out of the way. John the Baptist saw Jesus coming and said,

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behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin. Sin, singular. The whole sin, the sin problem

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takes away the sin of the world. They just don't know it yet. I'll often say I got saved on August

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14, 1992, but the reality is, is that's the day I received my salvation. I was saved. You were saved

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2,000 years ago at his death, his burial and resurrection. That's when it was all paid for.

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That's when it was purchased. And then you were touched by the Holy Spirit. He opened up your heart

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to believe, but not just by the Holy Spirit. Somebody talked to you. Can we all agree on that?

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It's something that we all have in common. Somebody talked to us. It wasn't just the Holy Spirit.

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Nobody got led to Jesus, at least not here. Nobody got led to Jesus by a vision in a dream. There's

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always people. Even in the Scriptures, when Ananias, he receives an angelic visitation, the angel

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doesn't preach the gospel to him. He says, you're going to go meet a person. He's going to tell you

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the gospel. The preaching of the gospel has been delegated to man. And so man opens up their

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mouths. And all of us have that in common is that some person told us, maybe it was their parents.

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Usually, maybe it's a 50-50 split between parents and a friend, a coworker, someone you knew.

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Some people get a hodgepodge. Some people you can see, the Lord just plucks out. They watch a

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YouTube clip. Curiosity stirred up. And then all of a sudden they find themselves running into people

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who keep telling them the same thing, keep reiterating the gospel to them. And then they come to faith.

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But it's always through people. So we are here enjoying salvation as a result of people

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opening up their mouths and talking. When you think of it that way, you realize we have a

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responsibility. We have a responsibility to open up our mouths and talk. We do.

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We're not responsible for the whole world. But we're responsible for the people he's put in our lives.

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We're responsible for our circle of influence, our severe. Do you ever think about your salvation?

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I think about it every day. I don't want gratitude for my salvation to ever

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evade me and fall on the back burner. You're eternal being.

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There are people who don't go to church to not save, but they understand this. We tend to think

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if we're in the church, we tend to think everybody out there is just an atheist. They're not.

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There are billions, literally billions of people. They haven't submitted to Jesus,

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but they believe and they understand that we're eternal beings. They may not call God's name

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Jesus, but they believe in intelligent design. They look around in nature at the universe,

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and they've come to the logical conclusion that this isn't all a random act.

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some big bang. No, there was an intelligent personality, a creator behind this

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who put us here and he's eternal. And so he made us eternal beings and will go on forever.

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This is real to me. And then I think, Lord, I was made. I was born into sin. And sin cannot have

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fellowship with you. But you came to me, Lord. You came to me and you surrounded me with people

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who would talk and explain the gospel to me so that I could have all of my sins forgiven.

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Because Jesus came in my place and took on my sin for me. I'm so grateful for that.

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I'm so grateful that Jesus said, and this pains me every time I say, but this is a reality. He said,

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broad is the highway that leads to hell and destruction. It's a literal highway to hell.

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And short, excuse me, straight and narrow is the way that leads to life everlasting.

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And he put you on that straight and arrow. Aren't you grateful for that? Every day I'm so grateful for

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that. That he's opened up my eyes. I can't take any credit for it. He's opened up my eyes

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to understand what happened on the cross. And that now I'm pardoned and I'll spend eternity with

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him. One of the most powerful verses in the New Testament is Jesus. This is so succinct and so

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simple. He just says, whoever believes on me will never die, but will live forever. I'm grateful

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for that. So grateful. And then I'm also then aware of the responsibility. How horrible would it be

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if I just kept this to myself? It would be if there was famine and drought in the land and I have

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a whole wealth of food and water in my house. And I'm going out amongst the neighbors who are starving

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and thirsty and I'm going, yeah, it's terrible out here, isn't it? And we'll go back into my house.

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I've got to share a little bit. Go help out a little bit. Here you are, fees, you're eating steak and

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lobster. Drinking that fresh squeezed OJ. And they're thirsty. We have a responsibility to share

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with the hungry and thirsty. Amen. The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has

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anointed and qualified me and you to preach the gospel of good tidings to the meek, the poor

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and afflicted. And this is what the anointing that's on you does. And this is what the preaching

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of the gospel brings. He has sent me to bind up and heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty,

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to the physical and spiritual captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to those

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who are bound. I love the tense of that. Just go back to that one verse. He says, I've come to

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proclaim the prison doors have been opened. Hey, are you with me? This is important because Jesus

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opened the prison doors two thousand years ago. There's just a bunch of people in prison who don't

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know it yet. The door is closed, but it's unlocked. But they're too busy sitting around unaware

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that they're actually in prison in sackcloth and ashes, downcast, hungry, thirsty. They don't

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know that the prison door has been opened. Somebody needs to tell them just like I didn't know all my

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sins were forgiven. Somebody had to tell me. And then when I was 16 years old August the 14th,

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1992, I received that forgiveness. Somebody told me, hey, what are you doing riding in that prison cell?

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Well, how do I get out? Nobody told you? Jesus with a substitutionary death on the cross for you

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unlocked the prison gate. You can walk right through. Oh, and see, that's why we get it mixed up.

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do all these things and understand all these things when in reality they need to know that the

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prison door has been opened. There's sins are already forgiven them. The price has been paid.

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To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, the year of his favor and the day of vengeance of our God,

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to comfort all who mourn, to grant consolation and joy to those who mourn in Zion,

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this by the way was Jesus' mission. He's describing his mission.

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This is the Christ's mission. This I encourage you to memorize these three verses because it's your

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mission also. You are a Christian which means little Christ, a follower of Christ, an emulator of Christ,

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little Christ. This is just as much our mission as it was Jesus' mission.

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To grant consolation and joy to those who mourn in Zion, to give them an ornament, a garland or

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diadem of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment expressive

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of praise instead of a heavy burdened and failing spirit that they may be called oaks of righteousness,

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lofty, strong and magnificent, distinguished for uprightness, justice and right standing with God,

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the planting of the Lord that he may be glorified. This is Jesus' heart and this is our heart

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and this should be every Christian's heart. But I'm in the biz. As you know that,

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ministry can be a biz. It doesn't have to be, but it is, I'm joking, you know what I mean.

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I peaked under the hood. You know what I found? 2% of the church is actively engaging their

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surroundings with the gospel and that is depressing indeed. 2% of Christians are following the

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mission of Christ. What are the other 98% doing? I peaked under that hood too. I wanted to explore

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this thing. What's happening? What are the other 98%? I don't think that statistic is true here.

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I know there's other churches that throw off. I think it's much better here, but still we have a way

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to go. What are they doing? I peaked under the hood. I realized what they're doing is they're waiting

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for everything to settle down in their own life before they start evangelizing. They're waiting to

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get on steady ground. They have thoughts like, oh, I can't do it yet because I have problems.

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And when they're all fixed, I'll be perfect and I'll be a great advertisement for the Lord

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then. And then they end up waiting forever. And then they were in heaven where everything is

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perfect and everything is calm and then they're trying to evangelize in heaven and everybody's like,

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yeah, I know that. Some other guy told me way before you. No, but you do it when

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it doesn't seem like a good season to do it. That's how you get out of that season. This is what

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people have to get. You minister your way out of trouble and onto the next level. The promise from

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the Lord is if you build his house, he will build your house. If you seek first the kingdom of God,

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all those other things will be just added unto you. And so there's a lot of Christians there.

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They're wondering why isn't, you know, I've been to the seminars. I've gotten the eight keys

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to the nine doors that'll put me on the ten highways to greater increase and success in Jesus.

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But nothing seems to be changing. Why? Because people all around you are dying and going to hell.

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And you're waiting, you know, you're believing God to become dead free.

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I found the quickest way to activate the promises of God is to get busy with the simple mandates.

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Go into all the world. Hey, good news. You live in Queens. You don't have to go into all the world.

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The world went to eat. 161 nations in Queens, 2.4 million people. Go into Jackson Heights,

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go into Forest Hills, go into sunny side, share your faith and then watch how the promises,

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that there's latent promises. You ever feel like you're carrying something around?

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It's like you're nine months pregnant. Why isn't this baby coming? I've had that.

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And then I step out and finally do the stuff. The Lord has been on me. But it's in his word.

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I should have been doing it. And I do that. And then it's unlocked and the day loose comes.

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Babies popping up all over the place. I had six duplicates. Wow.

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Oh, you were waiting for me to just do what the book says, do.

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Okay. Because I was always fond of saying, Lord, I'm waiting on you, Lord.

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It's like, I'm actually, I'm waiting on you.

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I think, I think a lot of you don't know what you're capable of.

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You tried witnessing once, twice. You invited someone to church and

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that kind of fizzled out. And you're waiting for somebody to cross your path fall to their knees and

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say, what must I do to be saved? No, you still have to go out. And most people,

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they need you to be the conversation starter. But you're not aware what you're capable of.

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The enemy loves to come to believers and tell them they're not ready yet.

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But if you never reach the end of yourself, you won't activate the power of God. I'll never forget

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witnessing to my grandfather. I led my mother to the Lord and end the 92. My father then came

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in the spring of 1993. My mother got radically saved. Immediately started pursuing the things

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of God. My dad had a bit of a rough start. For a number of reasons, mainly because of his

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background, having immigrated from a communist country, you're just skeptical. You're not skeptical.

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They were cynical. And then Jesus says, no, thank you. But he was very cynical because under

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communism, if there's ever an assembly with more than three people and it's organized, it's corrupt.

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It's evil. So he didn't like churches. He didn't like pastors. He loved Jesus. Even to this day,

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I'm the only pastor he likes. Everyone else is a charlatan and a crook.

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So he had a bit of a rough start. I thought, I wonder if any of this is really penetrating.

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Until years later, I'm witnessing to my grandfather and I'm wrestling with him.

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Because all he's known is the Eastern Orthodox Church. What commonly here is just called

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Greek Orthodox. Our faith is identical to that. It's just called Serbian Orthodox because we're not

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in Greece. And that's how he was raised. And in his mind, if he made the sign of a cross and

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thought of God once a year, he was doing his duty. And that's all that he needed to do. Over there,

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those churches aren't even open every Sunday. They're only open half a dozen times a year

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for the high holy days. So I'm wrestling with him. And I can't penetrate. I've been wrestling

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with him for days. The slass wrestling match was right after dinner, so my parents were there.

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Now, here's my red hot on fire. Mom, she's just looking and she's wondering how can I help,

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but she's not doing anything. All of a sudden, my father, who I had completely put on pause,

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I just thought, Lord, you've got to give me a strategy. How do he opens up his mouth and presents

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the gospel for the next 120 seconds in such a way, my mouth hung open. And I thought, this is

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Billy Graham sitting right next to me. He went through everything, our sin condition,

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the necessity for blood sacrifice, Jesus' perfect death on the cross as our substitute and how

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faith in him causes our sins to be forgiven and presents us righteous and right standing before

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God. He said it all. I went, later, I said, wait, wait. I said, Dad, that was awesome. You

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said, I said, where did you get that from? And I'll never forget what he said. He said, oh, no.

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And when he said, oh, no, I said, oh, I know what happened. You, according to the Scriptures,

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opened your mouth and God filled it. And that's what the Bible says, open your mouth and I will fill

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it. Jesus, speaking of being persecuted, he said, don't even think about what you're going to say.

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Don't even have a strategy. Don't even plan it. Open your mouth. And in that hour, I will give you

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what to say. I saw my lukewarm so that I don't say back, doesn't let me be respectful, because sometimes

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he watches online. My mom definitely is watching. Not back, isn't lukewarm. Backslide.

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Backslide and that turned into the world's greatest evangelist, because he just surrendered and made

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himself available in that moment. And some of you don't know that is what you're capable of.

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Who can't yield and allow God to flow through them, but you never brought yourself to that place.

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But God wants to use you in a great way. And the only thing we can take with us to heaven is souls.

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That's our legacy. People talk about legacies and leaving a legacy on earth. Everybody wants to live

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forever. I'm building this business. It'll be my legacy. No, you're going to be forgotten about

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very quickly. No, if you remembered for 50 years, you're 0.001%. You just have grandkids, great

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grandkids that you're pictured to them. Oh, yeah, I heard. And they'll have a one sentence about

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your whole life. That's the reality. You think of the last 2,000 years, you can name, but 10 names.

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Right off the cuff is the name. 10 of the most influential names of the last 2,000 years.

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And you have to think of these names. And these are the most influential people.

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No, this time on earth is a vapor. We'll be forgotten, but what will truly live on

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and have an eternal consequence is the people we bring with us to heaven.

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When I first got a taste of soul winning, it was a couple of weeks after I got saved.

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There was something that filled me then. I still remember it.

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When you're doing what Jesus created you to do, he created you for two things. To know him,

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one and two, to make him known. This is not that complicated. Know him. And out of that overflow of

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knowing him, make him known, relieve suffering that doesn't mean do humanitarian work,

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relieve eternal suffering. Humanitarian work is fine, but social justice without the gospel is

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an injustice. Relieve suffering. Relieve people who are on their way to a devil's hell forever,

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where the worm doesn't die and their fire is an extinguished. Relieve that suffer. When I sense that,

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I got addicted to soul winning. This is what I want to do. Lord, I feel like I'm in the perfect

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center of your perfect well. And I had the privilege of leading someone to the Lord just a couple of

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weeks after getting saved. Part of that was just because all of my friends were unsaved,

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unlike now. We're the vast, vast overwhelming majority of Christians.

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And they were teenagers, hungry. And so I led that year dozens of people. I don't mean I set a

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prayer in a corner with them and I led them to the Lord. I mean, they came to Betts,

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with me. They got baptized in the same tank as me. They got filled with the Holy Spirit. They

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got disciples. And I saw them. There's several of them in full time ministry today. Yeah. Hallelujah.

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God is just looking for the available person. Let's read Luke.

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Oh, hallelujah. Yes, you. Someone said not me. Yes, you.

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Listen, there is this poem that I mentioned one of my majors was English.

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So I had this weighed patches. Remember this poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson called Charge of the Light

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Brigade. It was about the press, the Crimean War. I believe it was a Prussian army and it was this

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light brigade on horseback that valiantly charged into battle. Kenans to the left of them.

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Kenans to the right of them. They charged into battle every single one of them was slaughtered.

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And the story goes there was a French general also on horseback. I'm a cliff overlooking this scene.

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And he said, incredible. Incredible. Because we spectacular to behold what a show of bravery.

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He said, and Crayabra. Man. Senegal again. Incredible. But this is not war.

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I think that what's considered in the American church evangelism most of the time falls under

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the umbrella of and Crayabra. But it's not war. It's not really getting the job done.

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It's not effective. It's spectacular. It makes a good show. But nobody's really getting one.

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I'll give you an example. Every ministry when they want to reach New York City for Jesus that's

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outside of New York and they come in. Where do they go? Times Square. Where there are no New Yorkers.

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Nobody told them that the one place New Yorkers avoid like the plague is Times Square.

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If you want to be away from New Yorkers, go to Times Square and you'll trip over Texans on their

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way to Olive Garden and on their way to the M&M store to get an M&M hat for $50.

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But every one of them, and who do they phone up? They phone me up.

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Several minutes. Largely. Do you want to get involved? We're going to have this big wrap. No, I don't.

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I've seen what you do and it's incredible.

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It looks great on Instagram. It's going to make great short videos on TikTok and for YouTube.

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The only people who show up to that is a bunch of Christians.

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They should see the hands being raised for salvation. Yeah, I saw those same hands worshipping

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an hour before. And now they're getting resaved. And then you're going to have a baptismal service

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and they'll get baptized for the fifth time that year. I don't want to play Christian games.

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I want to get the job done. I want something that's really going to work. Amen. I want war.

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Real war. Real taking dominion.

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You know how people usually get saved? Someone invites them to church.

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They like it. They have some questions.

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You then meet with them for coffee or on a park bench or over the phone. You answer their questions.

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They come again. They like it. That's something happens. They don't come for three or four weeks.

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You give them a call to see how they're doing because you love them not just to see them get saved,

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but you love them with no strings attached. You love them just because they're a child of God.

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Then they come again. They hear the gospel. But you know, most people have to hear the gospel like it

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does in times before it registers. You did. I know I certainly did. So then you reiterate the

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gospel to them. They get saved. They come to church. They hear about baptism. They get baptized.

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They come to a revival night. They experience God's power. Not that you can only experience it

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on a revival night, but I'm just saying. They get baptized in the Holy Spirit.

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It doesn't really sound that spectacular, right? It's not Enquay Abba. It's boring.

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May say like air, but it's war. It's actually getting the job done.

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There's ladies. I remember one lady. She would win whole neighborhoods to the Lord with cookies.

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She made baked, baked fresh cookies. This obviously wouldn't work in New York,

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because no one's going to let you in no matter what cookies, cupcakes, or whatever you have.

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But would you believe there's parts of the country where if there's a smiling lady

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with a basket of fresh baked cookies, they'll actually let her in.

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And she went from house to house with fresh baked cookies. It's a can I share something with you?

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And she would share the she led thousands to the Lord. Is it Enquay Abba? No.

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But she was doing more, much more so than somebody doing some giant crusade and a lot of fluff,

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a lot of flair, but no real fruit. Something every Christian is capable of doing.

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You're capable of it, yes you are. Right where you're at.

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There are denominations

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that really cater to thoughtful people.

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I said thoughtful because I'm remaining exceedingly respectful. I used to call them Christian

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egg heads. Now we're going to call them thoughtful.

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You know they just relate to the scripture. It's what the Apostle Paul said about knowledge

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puffing up. It's that verse coming to life. They read every book, 50 translations of the Bible,

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and then they argue these points of the gospel and they present Christianity as though you had to

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have a Ph.D. to get saved. They even confuse me. Look what? If I had to understand all this to get

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saved, that would have never gotten saved. You know what really helped me as I was diving or exploring

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that world? It was around 2010 I visited our orphanage in Bajur Dar, Ethiopia, and then they took

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me out into the bush to preach, into the bush. I'm talking about mudhuts where eight people live

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in a mudhut. So never ever these people could be 30, 40 years old, never spent one day inside of a

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classroom. You understand what that does to an intellect. You need to go on some mission strips with

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this where you don't know how privileged we are here where nobody has been stimulated by a book

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or there's just a glaze in their eye. They're essentially on the intellectual level of a four or five

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year old. It's not even recommended that you preach the gospel as you would in America, but that you

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use a board and the dry race board and a marker and illustrate the gospel. And so I would give a

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simplest gospel presentation so that a four or five year old could understand it and you would see

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them get saved and salvation that would last. You know what that shows me? That shows me that the

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Lord designed the gospel fine. If you're a frontal lobe and egghead, I love you. I died for you.

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My gospel is so rich and so complex. You can debate about it for weeks on Twitter.

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Bring out the nuance. Beautiful. Also though, if you've never been into a classroom for a day,

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my gospel is so simple that even a child could understand it. That's also there and everything

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in between. Why am I saying this? I'm saying this so that you don't feel that you need to go to

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Bible school. You don't feel that there's all these hurdles in front of you when people out there

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are lost, they're on their way to hell, they're burning and they're just looking for a normal,

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a normal loving human being to talk to them about God. That's all they're looking for. I didn't

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know it. That's what I was looking for. A normal, a normal girl. She was my friend for years,

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Elena Chan. Since junior high, since seventh grade, now I'm in tenth grade and I see her in French

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class and she just looks behind the shoulder and waves hide at me and I look at her and I just

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her eyes to me seem like they were glowing. She looked different. I'm not saying this is always

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but for me, maybe the Lord did something to stir up my curiosity. We're walking to the next class

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and I said, what's going on? You look different. Why yesterday? I went and I got baptized at this

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church. I got excited because I thought you're not been wanting to get baptized.

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Because in the Eastern Orthodox faith, you're baptized as a child and I don't even know for whatever

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reason they didn't baptize me. I thought I should because otherwise I'm going to go to hell.

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This is not true, by the way, but that's what I thought. Because if I'm baptized as a kid,

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then I can live any which way I want and I still go to heaven. Again, not true, but that's what I

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believed. My mom phoned up. She phoned up the Serbian Orthodox church in Manhattan and I'd

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said $500 earlier in the service, but I believe it was $800 in the early 90s. It was a lot of money.

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They requested a fee, $800. In the first service when I shared this, some people went,

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you can feel the like, why would they charge? They're charging because no one's tithing. Do you know

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why no one's tithing? Here's a heavy revy. Unsafe people don't tithe. It's wonderful when safe people

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tithe, but unsafe people definitely don't tithe. In these churches where there's no power of God,

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where there's no actual gospel being presented, but the church still has to keep going. They charge

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for weddings. They charge for baptism. You have to charge. We've never charged for a wedding for

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anything in our lives because we have a church of safe folk who died. That was just a side,

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little church economics class. I wanted to present to you just so you know how the sausages are made.

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Anyway, $800, my parents couldn't afford it. So I always felt like something was missing. So she

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says, yeah, I got baptized. This is, she was saved one day. And she said, and now look what I can do.

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She starts speaking in tongues in the hallway. A forest tells high school in between classes.

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And I go, now I don't know what she was saying, but I felt something like, oh,

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I knew, I knew something supernatural was just activated. And I said, what was that Elena?

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And she said, that's the Holy Spirit. I said, what's that? And she said, he's like a guardian angel

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who lives inside of me. Very bad doctrine. She did not have all her teeth crossed and all of her

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eyes dotted. But notice that she was still saved. Notice that she was witnessing less than 24

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hours saved, doctrinal messed up. And notice that here I am as a result of her efforts serving the

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Lord 31 years later. That means that God can use anyone. He can use you. You don't need to go

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to Bible school. You don't need to have finished reading the whole Bible. I didn't even get to Matthew

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3 before I started witnessing. When I got saved a certain book of Matthew right around the part

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where I got to Matthew 3, I would have read it much faster, but the church I got saved and was a

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King James only church. So I had to really push my way. If I had known Pastor James back then,

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he would have turned me on to the NLT and I would have chapters a day. Let's read Luke.

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Oh yeah, you're qualified. Wait, before I read Luke, let me keep anew on the edge, listen.

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There always is this bit of a shift when I talk about evangelism. Do you know why this shift,

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I don't mean in a positive way, there's almost like this weirdness in the air. Similar to when you

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talk about tithes and offerings, similar, it's like oh, hmm, because you realize there's some

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responsibility that comes with your salvation. And it's weird how some people don't want that.

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They prefer to just sit and do no pastor, tell me more about what has already been bought for me

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and what I can just sit back and receive. That's most of the stuff, but there are some things that

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you have to do. And I realize I am the pastor who says you're a human being, not a human doing.

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And Christian, it isn't about do, do, do. It's about done, done, done. But for you,

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theologians out there specifically what I'm talking about is as concerns your salvation,

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your sins being forgiven, that's a finished work and you can't add to it. Your responsibility is

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done, but now that you are saved, now that you're holy, now that you've been declared not guilty,

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there is a responsibility. But the good news is he doesn't just send you out alone and say,

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now you've got to work for me. Go. Because that's some people think. Now, God saved you, now you've got

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to pay him back and he goes, go now, you labor for free. No, he goes alongside with you. He puts his

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hand over yours. It's not like father telling a son, get them on the lawn. It's a dad saying, hey,

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want to mow the lawn with me? Come on, put your hands over mine. Let's mow the lawn together.

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You are co-laborers with him and he pays you. And yes, I'm going to use that word. He pays,

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he pays you. Jesus gave the example of the vineyard and the laborers in the field and the master

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of the house will pay them. I found that when you are consumed with people and you love people

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and you actually want to see these souls come to Jesus, he pays very, very handsomely.

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Oh yeah, there's some things that God just likes. He doesn't cause him to love you more,

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but he just likes these things and they open up the windows over your life and evangelism,

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witnessing, whatever you want to call it, witnessing, evangelism and that sounds so aggressive.

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Sharing your faith, whatever you want to call it, I call it,

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plucking one out of the flames of hell and presenting them to Jesus. And I want that honor.

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And what I'm pressing for is, Lord, I know there's a move of God coming to New York City.

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Favor us as a church. Let us have an honor of bringing people to Jesus.

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I want, I want, and I don't want you to sometimes people, well, my job is just to so seed someone

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else will water someone else will harvest. People use that verse as an excuse all the time. Well,

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I just plant a seed. I gave it an invite to church to someone and I planted a seed.

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Someone else will water it. No, I want to plant a seed. I want to, Lord, use me. Use me to bring

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that person from zero to hero in Jesus Christ. Use this church and use our people and your

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relationship with the Lord will come alive. Your Christianity will come alive. And you will realize

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this is what I was created for to know him and to make him known. Hallelujah. I'm telling you,

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if you, if you have been saying no to this or if you've just, if you've just put this and

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assigned it to somebody else, you will, you will be trying to taste of Jesus. And it's like eating

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ice cream with saran wrap around your tongue. Your Christianity will be empty. It won't, it won't

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connect because you're not doing what he created you for. You're not fulfilling the great commission.

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I trust that nobody's under condemnation as I say this. But I hope you are under receiving end

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of a heavenly pinprick. Yes, right on your bottom. Wake up. They're dying all around you. Wake

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up and you get to leave them. And don't always think of the, the handful that rejected you. You

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really think about it. How many really rejected you? How often did you try to win someone and cast

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the wide net and trust the Lord to make you better? We should be growing. Learning from, there's

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some people, you know, you've all run into some street preachers. Nobody's getting saved. They've

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been on the same street corner, hollering for years and then ever go back to the drawing board and

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say, you know, maybe I should think about my strategy. They just believe everybody else should

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adopt around them. No, you learn something. Take some notes. Get better at it.

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And let me say this. A lot of times Christians think that their only responsibility is inviting

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someone to church. It is not so. That's just the beginning. Jesus didn't say you'll be witnesses

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onto a church. He said, you'll be witnesses onto me. Our responsibility isn't really inviting

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them to church. It's to talking to them about Jesus. Church just helps in that.

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Does this making sense? Oh, man. Hey, I got good news. Next week we have a guest speaker. He's

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going to be putting no responsibility on you whatsoever. It's just going to be, it's going to be

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like a buffet. All you can eat and it's about everything that you already have in Jesus.

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And I'm not talking to all of you. Yes, but I am messing with some of you.

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There is an anointing to mess with people. Did you know that?

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It came upon Elijah on Mount Carmel with the prophets of Baal. He said, where is your God? Maybe

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he's using the toilet? Is he relieving himself? Cut yourself more. Cry harder.

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It's the anointing of messin' and I feel it heavy upon me.

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I'm going to call it the mantle of messin'.

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Some people that we're not going to hear it under the wind until you poke them and provoke them

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and just tease them a little and say, hey, you got to think about what you're doing.

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And what will your life look like if you keep doing what you're doing in 20 years from now?

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And what could it look like if you align yourself with God's values and what God is requiring of you?

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Oh, hallelujah.

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Let's read this and we'll close with this. Jesus talks about who we're to be like.

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He said to him, what is written in the law? What is your reading of it?

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So he answered and said, you shall love the Lord.

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You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your

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strength and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself. And he said to him, you have answered

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rightly, do this and you will live, but he wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus,

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oh yeah, and who's my neighbor? This guy thinks he can outsmart Jesus.

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Then Jesus answered and said, a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell

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among thieves who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead.

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Now by chance, a certain priest, a priest, this is someone who's in the business of helping people

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or at least should be. A certain priest came down that road and when he saw him,

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he passed by on the other side. He couldn't even, he couldn't stand the messiness of it.

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You know, God loves ugly and he rescued us in our mess and he's calling us to not be afraid of

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the mess. Listen, just saying, I'll pass your telling you the witness. You don't know my

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spear of influence. My circle, it's a mess. God loves the mess. When I got saved, all the Christian

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that I didn't even know were Christians that I later found out because I tried to win them.

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I mean, they were telling me, no, I'm a Christian. No, no, but are you real? Do you understand

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that Jesus is like, oh yeah, yeah, no, I go every Friday, youth group, I know. Why didn't you ever

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tell me? And several of them said the exact same thing. You know how you are. We never thought

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you'd get saved. So you prejudged me. Because I was just total, just secular, humanist,

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hedonist, running around doing whatever I felt like doing. Did you want me to act like a Christian

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before I became a Christian and then you were going to witness to me? You wanted a clean fish

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before you even caught it. No, God loves the mess, but this priest he kept across the street,

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he couldn't stand the mess. Likewise, a Levite. So a priest and a Levite, that would be like

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today Jesus would say a priest and a pastor, people in ministry who should be seeking out to

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relieve suffering, they couldn't even stand to look at it. When he arrived at the place came and

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look and passed by on the other side, but a certain Samaritan and there was a great contention

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between the Jewish people and the Samaritans. There was a huge tension. So they really didn't have

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dealings with each other, but here's a Samaritan as he journeyed, came where he was and when he saw

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him he had compassion. You have to have compassion and think about daily how blessed you are,

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how privileged you are, that you're not on the highway, the broadway that leads to destruction

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that so many are on. But even if you're messed up right now and you feel like a patchwork job,

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you're saved because your faith is in Christ and you're looking to Jesus and here you are right

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now sitting under the anointing and his word. Be grateful that you're heaven bound and then have

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compassion on someone who isn't. That blows my mind. I think about people who rejected Jesus

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and they live in such suffering on earth and then they die and go on to real suffering.

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There it freezes my blood, real suffering that doesn't end. No, I want to intercept that.

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So he went to him and bandaged his wounds pouring on oil and wine in the natural.

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These were used as antiseptic ingredients for balm and the wine because of its alcohol content,

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but we all know what the scriptures are looting to here. Don't we?

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Oil, a type of the Holy Spirit, wine, a type of the Holy Spirit.

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That's what city light is. It's an oil and wine dispensary.

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And when you walk in in the spirit, all the ushers, all the greeters that have jugs of oil and wine,

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they pour it on people's heads and are sealing these hydraulic mechanisms holding 55 gallons

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drums of oil and wine come slashing down on people.

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Be one who pours in the oil and the wine. Oh, I'm not good at that. Just start and watch what the Lord

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does. I'm using this word and I don't want you to win set this word. It'll be addictive.

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It's addictive because it's one of the first times that you'll see and experience how God comes in

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and you step back and how God works and uses you and flows through and works on your behalf and then

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you actually become very impressed not with yourself but with how the Lord can just do that and you go,

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oh, now all those times when I hear the Lord can do anything through you now it's making sense

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because I'm saying things I haven't even really studied or thought of or they're in there

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but the Holy Spirit draws them out but only when you bungee jump and put yourself out there.

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He poured in the oil and the wine and he set him on his own animal, brought him to an end and took

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care of him. This is a meridon. He's the one who should have crossed the road but he didn't. He

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stopped. You know why? Because love stops. Listen, love stops. Another world is going at a

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quick pace. Your life is going at a quick pace but love stops. Compassion stops. He stopped.

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Who does the Lord want you to stop by? Just stop and make them a part of your everyday prayers.

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And genuinely love them with no strings attached. Not because you're trying to bring them to Jesus

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only. You love them because who they are and then bring them the gospel. Say how? Any which

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try a bunch of stuff? Try the simple stuff. You know what worked for me for years? Something as

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simple as, hey, can I don't know if you believe in the Bible or not? But will you read John chapter

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three with me? This is going to just read John chapter three with me. It takes like 10 minutes.

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I can't tell you how many people I've read to the Lord just by reading John chapter three with

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him. For many, it's the first time they're even exposed to Scripture. And you sit down and

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read John chapter three and Jesus is talking about the new birth and you're explaining it to them

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which opens up a window or a door to bring another parts of the gospel. Next thing you know,

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they understand the gospel. And you leave them then. You know what I find is a major problem?

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People don't know how to close the deal. Because, and they always quote that verse, well, you know,

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I saw someone else's waters. No, go for the jugular. Hit bulls eye. I've seen Christians

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where somebody's like, what must I do to be saved? And like, well, think about what I told you

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and walk away. Oh, don't worry. In a year from now someone will come and you know, I just

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planted a seed. What? That seed will be burnt and scorched in a year from now. You could have just

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reaped that whole thing. You do it, yes, you can. You can with his strength, with his wisdom.

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And you won't be doing it alone. On the next day when he departed, he took out two denari,

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gave them to the innkeeper and said to him, take care of him. And whatever more you spend when I

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come again, I will repay you. So which of these three do you think was neighbor to him who fell

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among the thieves? Worship team, which please come up. God is calling us to love our neighbor.

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There's some practical ways you can do that. I know you guys have friends. You know how I know,

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because when we have a church picnic with catered barbecue, you guys show me just what social

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butterflies you really are. You invite people, people come because a church picnic is easy to

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invite you. But extend it a little more. We have these, we have these physical cards for those of

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you who are into physical cards. This is a nice thing to leave with someone. You know what I find

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works really well? When you invite someone to church, just shoot them a link of the Google Maps

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link. We have right now 193 five star reviews. Maybe you will be the next seven right here. Bring

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us over 200. But it's a great advertisement for our church. We got a pictures, videos, our website,

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the times on there. People can read reviews and just shoot that over to friends. They want to come

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here with me this Sunday. This is where I've been going. But I'll never go to church. I know,

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come check it out. I never do a lot of things until I do them. Hallelujah. And this week as a start

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to this new season in our life, in the church's life, we want to give you this, I usually don't like

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church merch. It's always cheesy, always tacky. But this honestly, this looks like a key fob to a

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Lamborghini. This is a city light key chain. We'll give you one and one to give to a friend when

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you invite them on your way out. But let's pray right now. And let's trust. Let's trust that the Lord

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will use us. Those of you who right now you're saying, I want this so much. I want to take people with me.

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Release that compassion right now. Release that cry. Lean into it. Sometimes it's painful.

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John knocks. You know what his prayer was? Hundreds of years ago, he cried out to God. He said, Oh God,

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give me Scotland or I die. Give me Scotland or Lord, I'll die. I ache for their salvation. I ache for

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them to come. For your family, your parents, your children. Don't be afraid to be moved to where

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you say, Lord, give them to me or I die. I ache for them. Use me flow through me, open up my mouth,

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give me the right words at the right time. I will seek, I will seek the opportunity. But you also

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put me in an opportunity, Lord, whatever it takes, you have no hands on earth, you have mine,

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you have no feet on earth, you have mine, you have no mouth on earth, but you have mine. Use me,

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flow through me. Not my will, but yours be done. Father, the name of Jesus, let a mighty outpouring

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of your Holy Spirit and a special fire from heaven come upon us as a church. Lord, let this be a

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house of salvation from darkness to light, from the power of Satan unto God, raise us up 10 times

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more than before. Thank you for previous salvation and the baptisms. Lord, 10X in Jesus name.

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There's a million of us here in the five boroughs, Lord. We're asking for hundreds of thousands

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in Jesus' name that a mighty move of God would come and sweep New York City. Amen.

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Amen.

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We would love to connect with you. We pray that you have been encouraged today, that you have

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been reminded how much God loves you and that you are surrounded by grace. Thank you for listening.

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