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and as they would walk by they would throw the stone and it would serve as a memorial

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centuries later to recall the past victories. There is a power to that. You know every time we

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give a testimony we're recalling a past victory and the Bible says there's a power to our testimony

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and so we're going to spend the service recalling and remembering and building a memorial to God

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of the past victories we've had in the year 2023. Amen?

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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 citylightnyc.com. Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team

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believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. As you

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listen to today's teaching remember that you are deeply loved by God that you are surrounded by

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his grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you. Are you ready for the best year

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of your lives? This is what I'm believing for. I'm believing it for me, my family, for the people

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who call city light home and I want you to believe it for yourself. The best year we've ever had.

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Let's go to Joshua. Joshua chapter four verses one through three. I want to show you a powerful

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principle from the Word of God. This is after many many years, various trials and tribulations after

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the children of Israel were supernaturally delivered out of Egypt, wandered around in the wilderness

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for 40 years, highs, lows, temptations, finally crossed over the Jordan into the promised land and

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this is what God instructs them to do. This means that it's very important to God.

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When all the people had crossed the Jordan the Lord said to Joshua, now choose 12 men one from

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each tribe. Tell them take 12 stones from the very place where the priests are standing in the

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middle of the Jordan, carry them out and pile them up at the place where you will camp tonight.

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What were these stones? They were memorial stones. 12 men together 12 stones thrown in a pile.

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To anybody would have just looked like a pile of rocks. But to them it would have served as a reminder

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for them and for future generations a reminder of the goodness of God, a reminder of past faithful

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ness, a reminder of past victories and throughout the scriptures that's a common theme. The Lord says

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remember, remember, remember. Do you know why he says remember so often? Because we're so prone to

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forget. And this isn't the first time the children of Israel or a people of God were instructed to do

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this Jacob when he had that encounter with God at Bethel. He made a monument of stones over and

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over again throughout the scriptures after victory. Sometimes it was one person. Sometimes in this

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case it was 12. Sometimes it was in the tens of thousands. Each one was asked to pick up a stone.

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Imagine what that looked like and as they would walk by they would throw the stone and it would

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serve as a memorial centuries later to recall the past victories. There is a power to that. You know

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every time we give a testimony we're recalling a past victory and the Bible says there's a

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power to our testimony. And so we're going to spend the service recalling and remembering and

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building a memorial to God of the past victories we've had in the year 2023. Amen. And here's what I

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can encourage you to do. This is my wife and I we're going to do this as we ring in the new year.

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Takes all of 10 minutes but it's very powerful. Get a piece of paper and just write the months of

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the calendar year January, February, March, April, May. And next to each month just put down one

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victory, the best victory that the Lord gave you in that month. Think back. If the year seems like

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a blur like it does for many of us when you try to think back and if you don't journal I found if

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you just go through the camera roll of your phone. Have you ever done that? I forgot I even took

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that trip in February. Oh look at that. I was at such and such place and then that causes you to

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remember something great that the Lord did last February, March and just write that down

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and thank the Lord for every month and thank the Lord for what he's done and get yourself ready

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because I'm believing that 2024 is going to be our best year ever. Amen. Hallelujah.

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So Pastor Mo and Pastor James are going to be helping me today but I want to kick it off with some

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of our victories, some of our memorial stones for 2023 and how good the Lord has been to us as a

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church. Number one, we were able to partner with Yovitsa Pachmansky, a missionary whom we supported

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for nearly 10 years in Montenegro to plant an entirely different church in the country of Serbia

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and under-reached nation. There's plenty of beautiful buildings, church buildings there.

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There's plenty of people who will say that they're Christian but very few Bible believing churches

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and if you would interview people on the street you'd realize that the people who name Jesus as

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the Lord and Savior is less than 0.01% those who actually would say I'm saved because I've put my

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faith in Christ. So a lot of religion, very little relationship. So thanks to you, 15,000 plus

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dollars which goes very far in Serbia helped launch that church. Let's put our hands together for

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that victory and watch this video clip. Pastor Yovitsa sent us from his first service just a few

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weeks ago when he launched out. Critics and blessings from Mavisa, Serbia, from Christ, gospel church.

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In a few moments we are going to start with our new church meetings. I just wanted to share this

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moment with you. Much, much, much.

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Yeah, put your hands together. He's an awesome man of God. He reminds me a lot of the Apostle Paul. He's

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tough as nails and in these countries where I'm from you start preaching the gospel. It reminds me

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of the first century where the religious people. It says they nashed at the apostles with their teeth.

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We think people are angry in America when you preach the true gospel. When you start irritating

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that religious spirit though, there's just such a violence that comes out but he will not quit.

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He will not back down and we're trusting for big fruit. Great fruit to come from that ministry.

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Number two as a highlight from 2023, we were able to give 25,000 plus dollars that you raised

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for Bonnie Andrews and live jam the ministry that he has in reaching college campuses and people

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who haven't heard the gospel all across the country and college campuses. Let's put our hand

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together for that. And let's look at this video. Bonnie Andrews.

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But even though I focus on the brain, I know that the brain doesn't operate in isolation.

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So we still have to think about how we navigate through our lives, all the experiences that we have,

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how those impact our lives, how those impact our brains, and how our spiritual practice can also

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impact our brains as well. Give a warm welcome to the post-machina later.

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I don't know if any job that films your mistakes. And so a lot of people we had to talk about the

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pressure of making mistakes because if you make a mistake it's going to cost you. A lot of people

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run from God, but I'm telling you tonight you need to run to God. The only thing that's going to

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heal and help that brokenness is Jesus Christ.

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I like that the concept was direct and it was responsive. You wanted to engage it.

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They didn't avoid the gospel, they didn't avoid Jesus, they looked at real problems.

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It was easy to get saved in this meeting.

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Amen. The only thing that we can take to heaven with us is souls.

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And the most important thing on Jesus' heart is the salvation of new people.

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So I want that to be the most important thing on my heart. I don't want to tell you I'm privileged,

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I'm blessed that we have a church that can so seed and bless ministries and other nations,

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bless ministries here, bless the man of God like Bani Andrews who can go around now in college

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campuses and bring the uncompromised word of God and the gospel of power.

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And when I say I'm blessed and I'm privileged because without you it wouldn't be possible.

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I mean $25,000 is no no no, no chump change. And we just had to preach here once and we raised

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nearly 90% of it that first week. Didn't even, you know, when we raise money, we don't make a big

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push, we just say here's the need, do what the Lord says, do, do. And it came up, right, like 90%

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that first week and then I found them. I said, I can't it's awesome 23,000 came in and we were

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were all rejoicing. And then somebody said, no, it's going to be more than 25,000. Hallelujah.

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Number three, a memorial stone I want to put on that pillar of victories this year is our

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baptisms. We've baptized over 80 people in 2023. Amen. And baptisms are important. I personally

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feel like there's been an intentional diluting of the power of baptism and the doctrine of baptism.

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It's now treated kind of as an afterthought, like if you get around to it, get water baptized.

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But to Jesus, it was so important. Number one, he modeled it as our example. Number two,

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when he gave us the great commission, he mentioned baptism in there. Go preach the gospel,

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baptizing. Amen. And he said, those that believe and are baptized, baptized, when you truly

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believe in Jesus, it's the next step. When you truly give your life to Jesus, you want to do what

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his word says to do. And what his word says to do next immediately after you believe is show your

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faith with a work that you have faith in your heart and demonstrate and be baptized. So let's take

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a look at this video. Congratulations on making it here. How many of you you felt like something was

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resisting it to get you just from showing up to it? Yeah, that's usually the case. The enemy

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hates baptism. It does not want you getting baptized. It's solidifying your relationship with Jesus.

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It's solidifying the decision that you've made. I just wanted to encourage you to prepare your heart

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for what's going to happen. I want you to forget about this is keep forget about every other person

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who want to immortalize this moment. Just be thinking of one thing on your way to getting baptized.

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There's going to be people praying for you. I'll meet with you and ask you five questions.

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Do you believe that Jesus Christ was born in the Virgin Mary? I want you to just be thinking about

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Jesus. Do you believe that he walked this earth and never seen? Do you believe that he died of a

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block? What could come for you? And you just surrender your whole life. So that is coming back

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and power and glory to you. Do you wonder what should I be thinking about the render? Trust

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and let go, heal this surrender. In Jesus name, we welcome your presence. Jesus, because you're all

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personal. Lord, it's safe here. Oh, it's safe. I want you to give baptized the Jesus name.

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Something that universal man has always understood. And that's this, that there has to be a blood

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shed for the forgiveness of sins. In the scripture says that without the shedding of blood,

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there is no remission of sins. I thank you Father. In Jesus name, amen.

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Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. For such a victory. Praise God. I'm sorry. I just saw that video for the

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first time last service. And I still can't get past it. I cannot believe you let me out of the house

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like that, Emily. I'm looking like Tony soprano. Just miss it. Just miss it in the gold watch and

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gold chain. Good Lord. You were thinking it, right? I said out loud what you were thinking.

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They're cracking up in the front row. I wasn't feeling well. I almost couldn't make it to baptism.

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And I said, I'm going to dress comfortable. Pastor Mo and Pastor James. And then you see that.

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And it's just my wife is too supportive, too encouraging. Whenever I say, hey, you know,

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every house, how do I look? And she's, oh, you look great, babe. You got to stop doing that.

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You got to tell me the truth. This is not honesty before the Lord.

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Hallelujah. Number four, we preached through three series, the Book of Ephesians, Romans,

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chapter 6, 7, and 8. And the book of Galatians took us eight plus weeks to get through Galatians.

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And I count that as a victory because it was all expository preaching. Expository preaching

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is when you go line upon line, precept upon precept, and you go through entire verses of the Bible.

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It's actually how the majority of the preaching was done, historically speaking, at least in America

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from what I've studied. Topical preaching, also powerful. We do it all the time. The Lord lays a

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subject or a topic on your heart. And then you find various scriptures to open up and unpack that

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particular topic. But it just seems that topical preaching has wasted past expository preaching

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because it is so much easier and simpler on the people, which is also, unfortunately,

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facilitated a lot of biblical illiteracy in the body of Christ because sometimes you really

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got a deep deep there. And there's nobody juggling for you. The lasers are not. Nobody's

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entertaining you. You got to get in there and absorb the word of God. And I hope that as we

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went through these various series and went through entire books of the Bible that you're not

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only benefited from the subject matter that was preached, but that you also learned how to study

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the Bible and read the Bible for yourselves. That you can see that every single verse is pregnant

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with truth and revelation. There's no filler material in the Bible. Nothing is there by accident,

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but at the word of God gives us life, amen? So we celebrate these victories as we build a memorial

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to the Lord. I want to ask Pastor Moe, our volunteer and community pastor, to come and share

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some of the victories that he's seen this year. Happy New Year, church.

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So I want to give you guys a number to start off with. That number is 58.

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That was the number of life groups that we had this year alone at City Light Church.

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Oh yeah. So these are the home groups that meet from house to house. We had those in three

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different boroughs in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens, and also meeting digitally on Zoom. We had

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over 700 signups and attendees that attended these groups. No, you can clap and praise God for that.

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Because what you don't understand is there are two City Light churches. There's a City Light Church

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that meets on Sunday morning, and a guest might casually come and say, oh, this is a nice place,

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but then you miss out on the second City Light. And the second City Light, if you attend life

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group, you know exactly what I'm talking about. That's the place where you meet your friends.

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That's the place where you get prayer. That's the place where you get accountability and growth,

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and it's the kingdom of God, and it truly is the family of God. I've seen so many breakthroughs

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happen just this past semester alone. People walking in, distraught, broken, and hurting,

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and leaving out buoyant, joyful, and happy, eating fried chicken.

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Because listen, if you're life grouping out food, what are we really doing?

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No, literally, it's a place where there is fellowship, it's true friendship, it's true accountability.

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Have you ever gone through trouble and made the wrong decision because you were isolated in your own thoughts?

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I've learned this. Christianity is not meant to be done in isolation.

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Christianity is meant to be done in community with accountability, with friends that

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tell you don't wear that. Don't do that. See this red flag over here? Beaming? I need you to see

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that because sometimes we don't see the... All right, let me give it back behind the table. Let me read

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you a verse from the Bible. Acts 246 says, so continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking

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bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart. This is life

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groups. This is meeting together, growing together, and making sure that we're bearing fruit.

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Because on a Sunday morning, you don't really get to minister. You get minister too, but at a

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life group, you get to minister. You get to pray for people. You get to grow in your gifting.

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And it's a beautiful thing because we've seen our life groups explode and grow and we give God

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the glory for that. We've seen people heal that life groups. We had a couple. They actually went on

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a honeymoon trip and they left early to make sure that they were back in time for their life group.

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That should tell you the level of diligence because they understood, I don't want to miss out

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nothing. If God is showing up, I want to be there. And again, it's a beautiful thing when you can

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have somebody walk into a room that is despondent, hurting and broken and they sit down. They don't

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say a word and their life group members come alongside them and go, hey, what's going on?

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And then they can share and they can open up and then people can pray with them and build them up.

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That is such a powerful thing. In a city of isolation and loneliness,

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we celebrate that God has given us community and life groups. Amen. Praise God.

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Another thing that we're going to thank God for is the healing rooms. See, those sounds,

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those whoops that you hear, these are the people that have gone to healing rooms and they've

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received the ministry. Basically, the healing rooms, what we do is we endeavor to live out the

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scriptures. It says that we would lay our hands upon the sick as believers and they would recover.

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So on the second Saturday of every month, we pray for the sick at 4609 31st Avenue right

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around the corner where we'll be having church next Sunday. We've seen some amazing things,

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church. We've seen people, as a matter of fact, just this year, one of our members was diagnosed

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with cancer. So they received prayer, they also received their treatment and now they're cancer-free.

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Can we give God glory for that? I mean, we've seen blood diseases healed. We've literally seen

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people that, excuse me, one of their legs is shorter than the other and we've seen,

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actively seen with our own eyes, their leg grow out. They've had to get new orthopedic shoes and

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their doctor was like, where are you been? What are you doing? So the God that we serve,

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the Bible says that He's the same yesterday, today and forever. The same power and miracles

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that you see in the Bible that you have access to that today. So we celebrate. We prayed for over 75

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people this year. We've seen so many testimonies of people walking in one way, leaving out the other.

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I love when I see sometimes people walking with canes and then you got to chase them down the

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block when the appointment is over like, you forgot your cave and they're like, I don't want it.

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We've seen that at the healing room. So we celebrate God. We celebrate His healing power,

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His anointing, the blood of Jesus that gives us access to supernatural healing. We praise God.

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But another thing that we praise God for are volunteers. Oh yeah. So everything that you see here

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from the lights to the beautiful decorations, even my cloak. No, not my cloak. But everything

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that you see, you see because we have a team of people behind us. It is not just pastor,

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bull pastor, James and I that makes this church run. We are the leadership, but we have a team

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of people and really they are the answer to prayer. We prayed to God, help us to build your kingdom

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and He sent us amazing men and women that love Jesus and are willing to pull out of their time,

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their effort, their energy, their money to make sure that the kingdom of God and the gospel is

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going forth with power. Now knowing that that is the case that they give so selflessly to build

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up the kingdom, we always want to celebrate, acknowledge and just declare that God is doing a

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wonderful work. Now I'm the community pastor. If you don't know me, one thing you will know

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or get to know about me very quickly, I like to party. It's within my nature.

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More like it has to do with food, we're going to do it. And every year I'm responsible for

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making sure that we celebrate our volunteers. So basically this is what it looks like.

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I call it pastor bone. I say pastor bone, I want to have a party. And the first thing pastor

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bone says, what's the number? And I say, pastor, I want to have a party. He said, what's the number?

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I said, I want to have a party on a boat. And he said, what's the number? I said, it's a boat.

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But he did say yes. Let's take a look at this video.

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Some shining down on me all by the brand new day, nothing can bring me through.

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First stylist thought she was going to the Oscars. Instead, it's the civilized volunteer party.

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Hey, all right. We're celebrating today. Awesome.

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The faithful through the age of the war comes to us.

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Father, thank you for what's about to take place as Robin Yari Martino come on up because we're

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going to ordain them into the ministry today. So this isn't just a ceremony for the sake of a

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ceremony. Something special is happening here. The sweet psalmist award goes to

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Katherine Bennett.

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The kids and beat the award goes to Mr.

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Osset. The rookie of the year goes to another that.

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lucky of the year!

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The first service, everyone is laughing. I suppose, like, what's so funny though?

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It's you, my friends. It's you.

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So, again, we celebrate our volunteers. We give awards. We give thanks and appreciation for all

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that they do. We give thanks for them.

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AKA, you should join the volunteer team so we can give thanks for you.

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One of the last things that I do want to celebrate that the Lord has given us the privilege to do is

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we get to have church. And when I say that we get to have church, we get to have church in a

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way where church is actually church. Did you know that the four walls of this building is not

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what makes up the church? What makes up the church is every believer within this room.

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And so often we have in our personal lives and in our worlds people that if we invite them

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the church, they're not necessarily going to attend. So what we like to do is we like to

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put the church in an accessible place where people have access to it. Because although someone might

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not say yes to an invitation to church, they're probably not going to say no to a barbecue in a picnic.

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So what we like to do annually is we go to the streets really and we have this huge blowout

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of a party with one aim that we might bring the church and make it accessible to people who

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might not necessarily come to a service. You might say, well, what does that look like? It looks

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like we have a prayer table. It looks like we have different elements for the community,

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just letting people know what city-like church is about. And we have, yes, free food that we spend

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a great deal on because we want people to know that they are loved, they are welcomed.

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Matter of fact, just show the video. Let the people see what we're working with.

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It's just so amazing to be around people who also believe in the Savior's you believe,

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you know that Jesus died and rose and we get to share that belief with one another.

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It doesn't feel strange to talk about the love of somebody who's getting her off, you know.

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I am enjoying today's beautiful day. I didn't expect it was going to be so much, so many

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things for the children to do. This is my first time here and I was very surprised at how much unity

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there is and how everyone comes in part take. You need to eat all of the ribs, all of the ribs.

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All of this, it's really been a miracle. God's grace and just finding this beautiful community

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that loves God that is so passionate about reaching out to other people. This is the back of what I've

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been looking for when I say church communities. I've been looking for a church, we've never

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looked for a church family and I'm so glad that comes to city-like.

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I love it, it's the first time in this barbecue. I want a good work, I love the service,

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the people are very kind, a wonderful, thank you very much. So, if it's your first time,

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come play the ball, come here, Sunday's, you know, let's go, go, great!

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Let's give a round of applause to the Lord.

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So, again, we celebrate that God has privileged us and allowed us to take the gospel to the streets.

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Stand with me and join me as we worship through song.

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As we look back and celebrate 2023, General, that was one of our most

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song favorite songs in city-like. That's a good time, isn't it? Singing and celebrating the

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faithfulness of our God. What a great way to look back at 2023.

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And one of the things we got to start the year doing is with an anniversary celebration.

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You guys remember that? In January, we kicked off the year with a 21-year anniversary,

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we rented out the Melrose Ballroom and we packed it out and had a party.

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You remember that? Who got to join us for that? That was an incredible celebration

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of 21 years of God's faithfulness. Let's look at some of the highlights from that incredible

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Man, I am so excited to be celebrating 21 years of city-like church and this is the ultimate party.

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People said, yes, Pastor Boyan said, yes, the church said, yes,

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God, I'm showing up.

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I'm so glad that Pastor Boyan said, yes, 21 years ago and we're reaping the benefits

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as is our community. I hope you're getting as much out of it. God is good and he's not done yet.

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The best is still yet to come.

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Do you like that song that was playing behind that video?

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Do you know that's an original city-like song? That's good stuff.

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God has given us so many talented individuals. Hasn't our worship team done an incredible job?

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Let's give them some thanks. You guys have done a great job. Thank you for leading us.

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We got a lot of talent that God has blessed us with and we get to celebrate and you take it for

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granted to you. This is another church and you realize they don't have the talent.

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But it's a good time coming together and celebrating our God. And sneak peak next year,

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we're going to be able to celebrate a little bit more of those original songs.

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They got a city-like LP coming out with a good handful of five original songs that are going to

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bless you. It's going to be good. They've been sneaking them in and you guys don't even know.

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You're like, wow, that's a great new hillside. They're really burning it up.

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The city-like, it's good stuff. Isn't it being good? Now let me tell you, let me look at a passage

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here that I was thinking of in Psalm 118, verse 24 and 25. This is the day that the Lord is made.

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We will rejoice and be glad in it. Please, Lord, please save us. Please, Lord, please give us

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success, success. God's given us so many successes. We rejoice and celebrate those successes and that's

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the point of what we're doing today. Look at this in Proverbs 163. Commit your actions to the Lord

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and your plans will succeed. And that's what we've done here at city-like. We commit all that we do

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to the Lord and He is bringing us success. Let's put our hands together and let's thank you

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more more time because all the credit belongs to Jesus for all he has done.

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Earlier in the year, we created a brand new city-like logo and a new website so that it was

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easier for people to figure out what's going on around here. The website's kind of a

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taste and sea. That's the front door. You guys know that, right? You're going to check something out,

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a new place, a new store, a restaurant, a church. What do you do first? You go to their website.

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And so we wanted to have a fresh look that was easy to navigate that represented who we are that

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helps people get in through that front door. And so that was a lot, that was a labor of love, right?

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That was tough. Pastor Bo was looking at all these new logos that the designers were giving. He's

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like, nope, not that one, nope, not that one. That's not right. That's not right. And we finally had one

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that felt like city-like and we can use that to continue to show people who we are and what we're

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about. And that was incredible. Then we had an incredible revival weekend. You remember Nathaniel

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Saini-Loy came and ministered over the course of three days. Four services blessed and encouraged.

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Were you blessed by that? That was good stuff. He spoke prophetic words over so many people

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laid hands on just about everyone prayed for everyone. That was a powerful weekend. We got

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to celebrate. If you remember a couple of months ago, we actually shared that one of our partnerships

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with the Grace Center and Ethiopia through our mission initiatives was able to acquire more

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property in a neighboring community where they're going to be able to expand and create a whole

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other school orphanage center resource center to be more impactful in a neighboring community and

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expand their influence. Let's give God some praise for that because that's a big accomplishment.

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So why did Pastor Bo start city-like all those years ago, almost 22 years ago?

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There were other churches in NYC when you started, right? It wasn't like, oh my goodness,

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it's a waste land. There's no churches here. There's a lot of churches here. Why one more?

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Because he just like then and us now want to see a church alive with the power of the Holy Spirit.

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That's what he wanted to see and that's what we want to see today. So many churches they pale

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in comparison to what we read about in scripture, right? We read powerful stories of healing,

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Jesus touching people. We see the Holy Spirit alive and active. He was befriending the sinners

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and the prostitutes and he was frustrating the Pharisees, I like that. But then you see these kind

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of anemic sad, it looks like maybe you're at a funeral or awake. They're just very reverent.

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They're dead. We want a church that's alive where everyone is welcomed. Everyone can come in and

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experience the transformative power of Jesus and be changed. That's what we want at City Light

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Church where you can see power, you can see healing, you can find love and you can find grace

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and his mercy. We want a church that everyone is welcome to. Everyone is needed as Pastor Mo mentioned

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and a church where everyone is changed. You want to be changed or you want to stay the same?

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The right answer is to be changed. A lot of you were murmuring it and I appreciate it. I want to

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be changed because I'm a hot mess and I need to be better. And that's good and this is a place

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where we can experience Christ and be changed. Let's look at what we find in Acts chapter 2 beginning

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of verse 42. All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship and

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to sharing in meals including the Lord's Supper and to prayer. A deep sense of awe came over them all

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and the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders and all the believers met together in

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one place and shared everything they had. They sold their property and their possessions and they

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shared the money with those in need. They worshiped together at the temple each day. They met in

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homes for the Lord's Supper and they shared their meals with great joy and generosity all the while

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praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people and each day the Lord added to their

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fellowship those who were being saved. That sounds incredible. That's the kind of church I want to

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be a part of. Not some of these churches that are just kind of playing church going through the

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motions and really worshipping ritual but a church where we can come together and be fully devoted.

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I don't want a church that kind of seems consumeristic and just kind of going through the motions

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politically correct. I don't want to be a part of a church like that. What I just read sounds like

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a church full of people that were sold out and fully devoted to Christ. They were devoted to

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themselves. They were devoted to each other and everyone was filled with awe. You filled with awe

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when you come into this place when you hang around other city lighters. That's our hope for you.

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They weren't just going to church. They were the church. That's what we want to be a part of.

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They weren't just spiritual consumers. They were spiritual contributors and just like us here at

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city light we give, we worship, we study, we pray, we evangelize, we meet needs. We want to be

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a radically generous church full of generosity just like the passage in Acts where everyone gave

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together and no one had need. They had everything in common and they gave. You've heard all the recaps

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shared. All the wins and successes and the radical generosity of here at city light. The amazing

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things that we've been able to be a part of here in New York City and around the world,

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sharing the truth, the love, the life change of Jesus. Just like the church in the first century,

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I want us to be part of a radical movement of God devoted to each other and Jesus.

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As we continue to grow bigger on Sundays, look to your left and your right. There's a couple of empty

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seats. Let's fill them. You want to commit in 2024 to have no empty seats in our services?

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That'd be awesome. The solution is right here to you. Invite people. Invite them to come.

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Let's fill this place but we'll continue to grow smaller in our life groups. That's how

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a big church stays small. You have community in life groups. As Pastor Moe explained,

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that's we have relationship, accountability, food. I wish we had pizza and service on Sunday,

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but we don't. Gotta go to life group. The semester starts again in February. Make sure you're in one.

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We'll continue to launch new churches all around the world as we partner with other ministries

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through our initiatives and relationships as we continue to see God's good news spread.

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We're in leverage technology. We stream the services. Can we thank the production and tech teams

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right now? Thank you and great job. It takes money, time, and effort. I know a lot of people think

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that they're YouTube stars and it's not as easy as it sounds or looks. It takes a lot of work and a

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lot of preparation and a lot of energy, but it's worth it to us for more people to hear the good

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news of Jesus. So we stream the service. Did you know that hundreds more than sit in the seats

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on Sunday actually experience our services via the online stream? That's incredible. And we leverage

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Zoom. We have prayer meetings via Zoom every single week and tomorrow we start 21 days of prayer

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and fasting via Zoom and that is an incredible leveraging of technology. This year we have a special

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link just for kids so they can be involved in this process as well. We're going to continue to look

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for opportunities to redeem and leverage technology to reach more people for Jesus. That's what I want

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to be a part of. As long as there's breath in our bodies we're committed to be radically devoted

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to Jesus and to each other so that his will be done and his kingdom advanced. That's the kind of

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church we want to be part of in 2024. You excited to do it? Let's do it together. That's it.

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Awesome highlights and memorial stones that were laid down today.

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You know in my desire to see city lights really become what God has called it to be.

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I can actually put my eyes so much into where we need to be that I forget the victories.

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And maybe you're that way with your own life. I know I am. You know that there's still a way to go

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and you can get caught up by where you are and how much further you have to go but then you

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forget where you've come from and so we've just spent this service celebrating what amazing things

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God has done for us in the last year and really as we compiled this list I realized I had forgotten

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half of these things because I'm too busy thinking about where we still need to be and I encourage you

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to not get overwhelmed by where you need to go but celebrate what God has done for you in 2023.

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I really hope that as you enter in tonight that you'll make that list and you'll be reminded

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and you will remind the Lord now how good he's been and it'll build up your faith for 2024.

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We're going to say a confession of faith together in just a minute I just want to give you two

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announcements just to reiterate next Sunday we won't be meeting here how many of you knew that

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we'll be right five minutes away just down the street at the St. Andrews location all of that

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information is on our website and the emails that have been sent out on our social media

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and so we trust to see you there next Sunday and then number two is 21 days of prayer and fasting

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begin tomorrow and so how long you're going to fast that's between you and the Lord I encourage you

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to get a number from the Lord it could be the first week it could be the second week it can be

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one day it can be the full 21 days you do business with God and find out what he's putting on your

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heart but everyone can join us at 7 p.m. every night on zoom as we pray together how many of you

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will be joining us tomorrow don't miss out on praying together it's really one of my favorite times

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a year it is just powerful there was something about praying together in a community and so can't

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wait to see one zoom starting tomorrow for 21 days let's all stand the Bible says death and life

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are in the power of the tongue and they that love it will eat the fruit thereof

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God has put a power in an authority in your mouth and we're going to decree and declare this

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over 2024 are you ready say this out loud with me father in the name of Jesus as I enter 2024

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I know you're already there you've gone before me I believe your hand is upon me the holy spirit is

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within me your grace surrounds me 2024 is a year of victory it's my best year yet my cup runs

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over I experience your protection your prosperity your favor thank you Lord I go into the new year

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with faith optimism excitement you're going to do yourself Lord and I thank you for it

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in Jesus name hallelujah hallelujah and happy new year hallelujah

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a ministry theme won't you come on up we're going to worship the Lord with one more song I encourage

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you to give him your all as you sing to him and if you want prayer for anything anything at all

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our ministry team would love to lay hands on you and pray with you and for you you can come on

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up to the front whoever wants prayer but we're going to put our eyes on Jesus and sing sing him one

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more song right to his heart from yours amen we'll see you in 2024 tomorrow night as we

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kick off prayer bless you city light this is the city light church podcast if you've missed any

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part of today's message or if you would like to find out more about pastor boy on janskick and city

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light church visit us at citylightnyc.com that's citylightnyc.com you're free to visit us online

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or in person anytime we would love to connect with you we pray that you have been encouraged today

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that you have been reminded how much god loves you and that you are surrounded by grace

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