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Faith is connected to love, and faith works through love.

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That means that if I have tons of faith in my heart, and I'm speaking it out,

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but I'm not walking in love, my faith won't be working.

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This is essential to me receiving from the Lord in prayer in my love more.

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Because when you don't have love, your faith is like two wires that sometimes connect.

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But the rest of the time there's no life, there's no current flowing.

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Welcome to the CityLight Church podcast.

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Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us.

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If you want to connect with CityLight Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com.

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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

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in our hearts and minds. As you listen to today's teaching,

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remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace,

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and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

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It's so good to have you with us, good to have those of you joining us online with us as well.

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We're going to start off this morning with an ordination.

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I'm really excited to have Brian Anderson here, his wife Heidi, his kids are here.

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You came to support Dad. It's so good.

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And so Brian has been with us since 2019. Many have heard his testimony of how he was horrendously

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backslidden. Not looking for God, ended up in one of our services. The Lord touched them,

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brought him back to himself, and we've been meeting for a while now, and actually it's got to be

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over two years where you said, you know, I love the Lord and He's done such a work in my heart,

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and I really feel ministry on my heart as well if there's anything. And if anybody comes and says

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that to me, I have the same thing. I tell them because we don't have like a plug-and-play operation.

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The council you get for me is going to be, well, start ministering right where you are.

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Wherever you are now, let those gifts flow out of you, start loving people, start receiving from

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the Lord and giving what you receive to the people. And Brian did exactly that.

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And many of you know him because his house is always open hosting life groups, going to life groups,

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and he never asked to be ordained, but I felt strongly, strongly, over the course of multiple months

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that he needs to be ordained, he needs to be in ministry, and he's going to serve along with the

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city light elders in the governance of this church. And so we're excited about that.

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I want to just go to Acts chapter 13. Hallelujah. He is an attorney full-time and owns his own legal

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practice, runs it. And so when we say go into ministry, he's not, if you still have a legal problem,

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he's your guy. He's going to be bivocational.

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But one thing that impressed me about him that I noticed is that although the law is a love of his,

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it's not his first love. He's fallen madly in love with Jesus and wants to see Jesus as kingdom come.

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And so in Acts 13, one, we have the early apostles, and it says now in the church that was at

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Antioch, there were certain prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon, who was called Niger,

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Lucius of Cyrene, Manain, who had been brought up with Herod, the Tetrarch, and Saul, verse two.

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As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, by the way, ministering to the Lord is something that

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activates the voice of the Holy Spirit. Say, what's ministering to the Lord? Well, what we just did,

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we're serving him with our praise and worship. We just had to praise and worship. That's ministering

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to the Lord. You're serving him. We're spring to him, talking to him, waiting on him, praising him,

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singing him. As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, why don't you combine fasting when ministering

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to the Lord? Is it any wonder the Holy Spirit said on the heels of them ministering to the Lord

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and fasting? And I love the Holy Spirit said, if you heard my message last week, I can do anything if

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I had a Holy Spirit said on the topic. The Holy Spirit said, now separate to me Barnabas and Saul

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for the work to which I have called them. So, what's happening here is separation.

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There is calling. Brian was called before he was in his mother's womb. But there is separation.

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And so he's being separated for the work of the ministry. And I'm going to ask Pastor Rob and

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Pastor Mota to come and join me. And Brian, once you come stand and you can stand right there.

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And congregation, I'd like you, you can face me. And congregation, once you stretch your hands

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towards him and go ahead, lay your hands upon him. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Father, we thank you for

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the holiness of this moment. Thank you, Lord, that your hand comes upon Brian mightily.

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Lord, he's being separated, you've ordained it so, separated to your work. Now, Lord, Father,

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we ask that you put a mighty mantle upon him that he would move in the gifts of the spirit,

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that he would be mighty in the scriptures and fully a word. Lord, that he would love fiercely

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and vigorously all who are around him. Lord, that you would work miracles by his hands. Lord,

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that many people would come into the kingdom as a result of him and what his family say and do

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and proclaim. We bless the Anderson's and Brian right now and welcome him. Lord, into the

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eldership of city light church, in Jesus' name, shout a big amen, amen, amen, hey, and thank you

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for the anointing upon him. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

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Thank you, Lord. I said this at the end of the second service, I'm going to say it in the beginning

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of this one. How many of you remember when Trump was called, called them all fine people on both

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sides? Remember that? It was all over the media. Fine, fine people on both sides. It's a big white

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supremacist rally. I don't remember what was happening. A lot of red necks, a lot of red supremacists,

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a lot of anger, torches. I said fine, fine, fine people on both sides. And I've heard it as recently

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as just six months ago. And people believe this with all of their hearts. Okay, you listen to that clip,

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not a half an hour later, not an hour later. Right after he says, fine people on both sides,

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five seconds later, five seconds later, he says, I'm not talking about the white supremacists.

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Okay, yet people to this day will argue with you and say he said fine people, the information

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is out there. People don't want to hear it. Your algorithm knows you. Its job is to keep you engaged

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and its job is to keep you angry. Pacified, happy people don't doom scroll 12 hours a day.

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Angry, anxious people do. And that's how the machine wants you. You're more profitable that way.

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Why am I talking about this this morning? Because I'm seeing the same nonsense with Charlie Kirk.

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If you're getting your worldview from memes, I love you, but you're going to have a difficult 2020s.

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You're going to have a difficult time finding reality and prospering in reality.

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If you're getting your information in your worldview from memes, from sound bites that are cut off

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at just the right time, sentences taken out of context, it won't be well for you.

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So whatever you see online about Charlie Kirk or whatever you hear, do yourself a favor and don't

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just go off on that 22nd snippet that you heard that gets you enraged, but actually listen to what

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he's saying. Find the original, listen to the whole thing in context.

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And you'll find a man who loved Jesus, who loved his family, who loved America,

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who wanted to see people rise up, who wanted to see men rise up and become fathers,

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and woman rise up and become mothers. And if you're even upset at me for saying this, ask yourself,

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why? When you can't, you can't refute me, not with a meme, you can't.

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But one guy reposted, another guy's reposted, and it had the big bold block lettering.

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It was really 72 point fun, so it must be true.

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This is how we ended up all masked up, getting booster after booster, because people just,

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you know, right now when people behave that way, I just want to say, you know, you're programming

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you're showing. We're careful there, you're programming you're showing. You're programming is

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sticking out a bit. Hallelujah. But what happened was very, very significant. I still don't know

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to what degree it was significant, but it was obviously a tragic event. But what what people,

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no matter what side of the political spectrum they're on, when you see so many people moved,

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so many people engaging, when people are having vigils overseas, some things up.

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I know exactly where I was. I know exactly who I was talking to when I found out he died.

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I can only say that about one other event in my life, and that's 9-11, and I'm not comparing

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the death of one man to 9-11, but these are things that shift the zeitgeist. These are things that

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ripple and you realize things will be different after this. 9-11, COVID.

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So my prayer for you is, and what your prayer for you should be, that you be positioned under

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the Lord's banner, that you're not being moved by what your phone screen tells you.

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But this can only mean that there's going to be shifts happening. Something is up.

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And I want to be right underneath the Lord's wing, I'll assault 9-11,

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under his opinions and his feathers. Amen. Hallelujah.

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Well on that note, I want to talk to you about love this morning.

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Because when I first got saved, I was saved because of a lot, a lot of loving people in my life.

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I didn't know a lot of loving people prior except my media family because I was a teenager.

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I was 16 when I came to the Lord. Your average teenager, I wouldn't describe him as exactly loving.

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Was that just in Queens where I was a teenager? I don't know, such silence.

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Yeah, you're rough. And you don't care who you hurt. And all of a sudden, I ended up in church,

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and the people leading me to the Lord are teenagers. They're actually very kind, loving people.

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And then the adults are loving people. And then I met Bishop Wilbur Jones, and he walked into the room,

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and you know what the first thing I felt was love. His face radiated with love.

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I was mesmerized. I would look at him and go,

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like, where's the flash of anger, of the checked outlook, of just kind of just

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peered at the whole world from his bothering, like most adults, not on him.

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And recently the Lord's been reminding me of that, and I remember when I first became a Christian,

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the badge of authority that you could have was very closely linked to your love walk.

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In other words, the one who had authority was really loving people, and had a strong love walk.

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In fact, that term love walk, you don't even hear it in modern times so much.

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Back in the 90s, it was a constant thing. How's your love walk? How's your love walk?

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Right now you can have a large ministry and be influential, but have zero love walk for some reason.

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And here's what Jesus said in John, chapter 13, verse 35,

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by this all will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another.

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So Jesus said, the proof of you belonging to me, the proof that you're my disciple,

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is that you have love, heavenly love, fierce love, that you have it first for one another.

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That means within the church, your brothers and sisters who are Christian, and then to those who

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are outside of the church. But love should be the definition of a Christian. The measure of maturity

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in Christ is not how much you know how well you preach or how successful you appear.

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It's how well you love. Hey, men.

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Knowledge, Paul said, knowledge puffs up because he's talking to Greeks who are used to great

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debate and the smarter you are, the more well-read you are, the higher person you are,

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and Paul said, knowledge that just makes you arrogant and puffs you up,

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said knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. Now, go to Galatians. I want to show you why this is

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so important to you. Do you know that everything you'll ever receive from the Lord you'll receive

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by faith? It doesn't just drop on you like ripe cherries off a tree. Faith is a force.

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Jesus talked and taught about faith all the time. Why? Because faith is the unseen hand that goes

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into the invisible realm and brings down the thing that you need. Jesus said, according to your faith,

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I love that excited me. That means I get to decide. I'm not just a pre-programmed robot and

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everything's been written out, everything I'll ever do, everything I'll ever be, everything I'll

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ever have. It'll come in proportion to my faith, to your faith. Hallelujah. You were saved by grace

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through faith. You're healed by faith. Doors of opportunity will open up to you. How one,

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when you're depressed and lulligagging about nothing good ever happens to me? No, by faith. When you

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get up in the morning, it's a God. Today's a great day. This is the day you've made. I'll rejoice

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and be glad in it. And although I don't feel like it, I'm going to say hallelujah and I believe you're

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moving in the invisible realm. You're orchestrating my day. Your favors all around me. In fact,

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I decree good things happen to me today. Amen. Now you're utilizing your faith. Hallelujah.

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I shared about my breakthrough, my testimony financially with Bitcoin and all that. What I didn't

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emphasize so much is how my wife and the kids, we had a saying we'd say dozens of times a day.

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All the time. High five each other throughout the house. Just the faith proclamation of what God's

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going to do. And he did it. He did it. Jesus and Mark, this is very different from the first

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service. Jesus and Mark 11. He said, you can have what you say. You can't take it out of the

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Bible. You can have what you say. You can have what you say. You know how you got saved by saying

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if you confess with your mouth, the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart. So faith is one half

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in your heart, one half in your mouth. If it's one half or totally in your heart, that's nice.

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That's sweet, but it needs to come out of your heart through the words that you speak. Amen.

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And you'll always know what you're believing by what you're saying. So faith is powerful.

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And faith is like a tool that should be used. And in Galatians it says, when it's not on screen

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saver, it says, for in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything. It

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doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you're a Gentile or Jew, but faith working through love.

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This is a major key in how our faith operates. Faith is connected to love and faith works through love.

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That means that if I have tons of faith in my heart and I'm speaking it out, but I'm not walking

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in love, my faith won't be working. This is essential to me receiving from the Lord in prayer

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in my love walk. That's why this is so important. I mean, really it's important because Jesus commanded

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us and it's important because it's the very nature of God, God said, I am love. But if you're

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scratching it, I'm wondering, I don't feel like I'm getting all the benefits from the claims of

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Christ. Like I see Christianity shows this glorious life of victory, but I'm not living it. I would

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examine your love walk because when you don't have love your faith, it's like two wires that

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sometimes connect, but the rest of the time there's no life, there's no current flowing.

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Why do you think the enemy is working over time to get you better, to get you angry,

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to get you easy to be offended? In fact, as I'm talking about love and loving others, if you

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thought of someone, if you saw their face flash in your mind, that's the person you need to release,

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forgive and love. So, me, the Lord just do a little inspection, but sometimes we just need to

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just do an inspection. Just look at the man in the mirror and make a change. Look at the man in

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the mirror and go, you know, I haven't been that loving. How are you with that coworker that really

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annoys you? Can we not lock eyes next time I say that? I was so awkward. I feel like we should hug

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it out now. Everybody knows we're talking about Sarah, right? Of course, it's Sean we were talking about.

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How about with immediate family? There's people who are very, very lovingly put on their best

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face for those on the outside, but your immediate family. You might say, how can I love? Because

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there are annoyances out there, aren't there? Yeah, thank you one, one honest person.

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Let's go to Romans 5.5. I mean, and I'll tell you what, can I tell you something? I used to

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make a lot of New York jokes, lived in New York City for 43 years, then I moved to Long Island,

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and can I be honest with you? I find out the nice people are actually in the five boroughs.

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Oh, it's true. It's true. The Long Islanders are always like always ready to fight to me.

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Oh, wait, what are you looking at? It's my coffee. Give me my coffee. Whenever I go to the

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and I live in the fancy neighborhood, they come out of a Bentley. What did that have to do?

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Where was that going with that? I guess talking about unlovable people.

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If I had a greater point, it's gone now. How to love the unlovable. Now, hope does not disappoint,

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because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

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So the question is, how do I love someone who's really annoying me? How do I love someone

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who's just a jerk? How do I love someone who's hurt me? How do I love the unlovable?

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The answer is, not oh God, give me more love, but acknowledging that the love of God has already

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past tense been poured out. The King James Version says, shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.

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When I've been confronted with bitterness, unforgiveness, I'm wrestling with just liking someone,

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and their faces in the back of my mind. I close my eyes, I see a flash of that face.

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My confession is, Lord, the love of God has been shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Spirit.

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And I feel like I'll go from 98 level offence to 96.

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And then in Hill Real Deep again, Lord, I thank you that the love of God has been shed abroad in my heart

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by the Holy Spirit. Oh, we'll drop down to 91. All right. Lord, I just receive your love.

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And then listen, you begin meditating on the love of God for you. The only reason Christians

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may not be loving is because they forgot who they are in Christ. Peter talks about this. He

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lists all these bad characteristics. And he says, it's because you forgot, you were cleansed from

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your former lifestyle. And it's easy to forget. You go about your life, you just go to church,

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but then it's pretty carnal in between, and you're just running on steam, and then months go by,

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and you actually forget what happened to you. So I like to remind myself, I remember where I was

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when I was 16 years old, lost, lost, lost. And I think, God, back then, I was not looking for you.

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You came looking for me. And Lord, you opened my eyes. I was blind. I couldn't see my need for

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a savior, but you opened my eyes. Lord, my heart was hard. Didn't want the things of God. I was

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dabbling in the new age in witchcraft. I wanted the spiritual, but I didn't want to go to the cross

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and receive you as my Lord. I didn't want to surrender my life, but you still, you moved past all

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that and still brought me to yourself. And Lord, you went to the cross and suffered so that I could

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be forgiven. The penalty for my sin was paid by you with your own blood. Lord, and I've been adopted

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into the family of God with all the same privileges of a natural born son. I can call you brother,

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Jesus, because we have the same heavenly Father. Wow, hallelujah. And the Bible says, I have access

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with confidence. I don't have to be sheepish and shy, but I have access with confidence into the

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very throne room of God. Hallelujah. Lord, it says I have a covenant with you that can't be broke.

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And now, hallelujah, hallelujah. And I'm reminded of the God's great love for me. And that helps me

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and allows me to be a lot more loving to you. Amen. How many of you want to increase in your love

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walk? Oh, thank you for participating in that survey. I really, that was very loving of you to

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participate, very considerate and kind. We used to have these things now. There's a lot of,

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there's a, there's, there is a lot of love in our church. Wouldn't you say, so those of you

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have been coming for a while, but we shouldn't get, I would, there's some churches, it's like the

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chosen frozen. It's, it's, you know, you can come and hobbling, bleeding out, and I'd be like,

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be warmed and be filled. I'm going to pray for you. It's brunch time. But we can always increase the

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love, increase the love in our home groups, increase the love when we not meet each other,

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increase the love. We used to have this thing. This is like over 15 years ago, where people,

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I encourage people to just give each other angel gifts, which are just gifts that are anonymous.

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But you know, the, we were a lot smaller. This was kind of easier to do because everybody knew

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what everybody liked, you know, when you got a group of 50 people. But people would just get gifts

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for each other. We get them off Amazon and just leave it in anonymous boxes with the person's name

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on it. Love, when the, when love spread through the church like that, when generosity and giving

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and care, do you know the anointing flowed like a river? The services were alive, people were

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getting saved. The foundation of everything the Lord does is love. Hallelujah, hallelujah.

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First Corinthians 13-8. I'm preaching this because faith works by love. I'm preaching this because

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love never fails. That means if you're walking in God's love, you will never fail.

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Can I get a hug? Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. You know what? Just for fun. Can we see the rest of that

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verse? No, nothing next verse. But the rest of that one. I'm sorry. I had mentioned that in the first

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service. Oh, so it might be a while. Can I, do you have that in the, at least I can read it?

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Kind of losing the flow here. It was just going to be in a side. I thought maybe an important

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aside. But if you're trying to find it, because I just wanted you to see this because some people don't,

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it's a funny little thing we had this first service. Because I just wanted to focus on

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love never fails, but accidentally they included the rest of the verse. But then I took the time

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to go into the rest of the verse because it'll help, it'll help you understand the Bible,

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it'll help you learn how to interpret the Bible. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,

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they will cease. Who? Where there are tongues, they will be stilled. They will be silenced. See,

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anybody who doesn't believe in speaking in tongues, this is their favorite verse. They have it on a

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bronze plaque right over their mantle. Where there, where there are tongues, they will be stilled,

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where there is knowledge, it will pass away. What's happening here? Paul is contrasting heaven

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to earth. And he's saying, once you're in heaven, there won't be a need for a prophetic word. You

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won't need to be edified, encouraged, and exalted in heaven. You're going to be just fine. When you're

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in heaven, you won't need the gift of tongues or the interpretation. And he ends his passage,

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he's teaching on love by saying, there are three things. Faith, hope, and love, but the greatest

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of these is love. Why? Because in heaven, as awesome as faith is in heaven, you're not going to need

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any. He's right there. Amen. You're not going to need hope in heaven. Are you going to have a

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bad day in heaven? I hope tomorrow is better. My back is killed. Where's that angelic chiropractor?

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Maybe tomorrow will be better. No. You're always operating at 100%. So faith will go bye bye.

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Hope will go bye bye. What'll remain? Love, because God is love and even in heaven,

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everything will be love. Amen. And love never fails. Hallelujah. Now, I just want to read this

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in Matthew 539, because with my tough, tough long island crew, a lot of pontificators in my crew,

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street philosophers, I should call them golf course philosophers. And we were talking about one of them

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got robbed. We got on the topic of home security. And one of them had a break in and just got

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burglarized during the day. And I just, you know, we talked about break ins in the middle of the

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night, which they have been some. And that's a home invasion. I just mentioned, hey, I have

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legal. This is online too. Legal license to everything. Firearms in my home.

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In fact, no matter what floor of the house I am. And I've never less than 1.5 seconds away from

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crack. And one of them, one of them, oh, you're a pastor. How are you? And I said, I said what?

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I mean, if somebody comes into my home at 3am, what would you like me to do? Make them a sandwich?

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Come on in. My wife's in the master bedroom, kids across the hall. I'm going to defend myself.

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And he's not even Christian. He's Jewish, but he knew the one verse. He said, bo bo bo bo bo.

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What about turning the other cheek, aren't you supposed to tart? And this is the kind of

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specified version of love that has kept some men away from Christianity. Because a man,

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just with a genetic fingerprint, God put in man, it's to provide and protect that court. I mean,

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like take our elder team. All right. You don't want to mess with your kids or their wives. They're

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very, very loving sweet people, but you have not seen a T1000 indestructible robot like you would

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if you meant, and that's good. That's who I want. I feel like I need to preach this. I want dangerous

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men. Yeah. I want strong men. This whole specification that Christians ought to be harmless,

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Satan drools over that. Satan loves quiet, go in the corner and just roll over when anyone demands

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anything of you, justified. And some men will be like, hey, so am I just supposed to take

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abuse, slide down whenever somebody wants to stomp all over me? Hey, Jesus said turn the other

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cheek. Here's what Jesus is saying, but I tell you not to resist an evil person, but whoever

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slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. Most people are right handed.

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That means this side is the right side. How do I slap someone on the right side of the cheek?

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He specifically says on the right cheek, because that kind of slap is not a modern invention.

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Some of you know what that's called in today's vernacular. It actually goes back thousands of years.

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And in Jewish custom, it was an insult. One of the worst insults you can give was to backslap,

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so it was actually reserved for slaves and servants. And Jesus, if someone insults you,

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someone insults you, turn the other cheek over an insult. You don't go to war with them.

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You don't fight them. In other words, take an insult. You don't have to defend. You don't have

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to defend. Let God be your defense in those kinds of things. And God is a great judge, and he's just,

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and he said vengeance is mine, I will repay, and I'm going to give it over into the hands of God.

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But it has nothing to do with self-defense, protecting you when you're loved ones.

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If somebody wants to rob you out of a contract, and it's costing you life changing money,

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then you do go to battle. Amen. Listen, the Lord also said, David, the son said,

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Blessed be the Lord, my God, who teaches my hands to war. Hallelujah.

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He said, you're contradicting yourself. No, I'm flowing perfectly. You can love, because listen,

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real love protects. Real love actually takes a stand. Real love doesn't just allow and tolerate

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anything. Hallelujah. That's real love. But the world seems to have defined love for Christians,

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and if you notice, the kind of love the world would like us to love with, always results in our

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demise. I want to just strip you of everything, put you in handcuffs, tell you to be quiet there,

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now you're a nice Kumbaya loving Christian that I can abuse and take rights away from.

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I mean, if this was a definition of love, Christianity wouldn't have even made it past the

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9th century. The Ottoman Empire would have come in right through the Balkans where they came in

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and taken up all of Europe would have been under Islam. If we should, oh, you're coming in,

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30,000 of you with your curved swords will come right in. Would you like a cathedral to turn

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into a mosque? They didn't do that. Amen. It's my microphone on. Amen. Jesus was addressing

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personal pride and retaliation, not life-threatening violence, revelation 220 and worship team

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will be coming up soon. I want to encourage you to love. I want to encourage you to forgive.

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I want to encourage you to release your faith to have an even greater love walk while at the same

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time and there is attention in this. Because I said it, I said it before. The Satan loves harmless

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men. The disciples were not harmless men. They were very, very dangerous men. They looked at

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Paul and they said, these men who've turned the whole world upside down have come here also.

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You know, people seem like, Mr. Ten to think Mr. Rogers was how a typical Christian should be.

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Ned Flanders, Oakley, Dockley, neighbor. Nevertheless, this is Jesus speaking to a church

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in the book of Revelation. He says, I have this against you. You tolerate that woman,

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Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. So here, Jesus' problem isn't just with Jezebel,

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it's with this church who tolerated Jezebel. And what have we been hearing for 10 years now?

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You should be more tolerant. The greatest sin is to be intolerant. Right as in a tie for the greatest

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sin is that you judge people. That is like the unpardonable sin for the world, that you're judgmental.

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Yet Jesus said, judge with righteous judgment. What's righteous judgment? The standard of his word.

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So we've been told as a church to roll over, allow whatever the world has cooked up, whatever the devil

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has cooked up to come into the church. Why do my kids when watching the Disney Channel in the

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month of June, there's a whole separate section for children, LGBTQ plus why? Because we were taught,

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oh, you got to be more tolerant. Don't worry. Hey, 10 years ago, just bake a cake and now look

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where we ended up. It is not loving to tolerate somebody who's hell bent on heading straight to

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hell. And if you try to bring that hell into my life, that is not loving. If I don't protect my

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wife, my kids, for me as a pastor, it wouldn't be loving if I didn't protect you in the spirit.

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If I allowed, and in fact, we just had an elders meeting before Pastor Brian's

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ordination. And the one thing we just reiterated that one of the primary roles of the elders is to

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make sure the gospel is never compromised, that there's doctrinal purity, that no deception has

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come in, that we're not tossed around by every wind of doctrine, by how the world wants us to

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think right now. No, how does the Bible want us thinking? How does the Bible want us acting?

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What is God's desire? Not what's the world's desire? Hallelujah. First Corinthians 136.

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Cultural tolerance rejoices in anything that feels inclusive.

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Biblical love rejoices when people walk in truth and holiness. So here's what the Bible says to

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rejoice and love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. Hallelujah.

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If someone ever calls you intolerant, say no, I just love God. I love myself too.

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I love you too. I love this country. And so I have a stand.

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And if you have a problem with my stand, might I suggest that you're the intolerant one?

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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I want you to just put your eyes on Jesus, the one who gave himself for you,

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blood for you, exchange places with you, the one who is with you,

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and say, Lord Jesus, fill me with even more love. It's shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Spirit.

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Move through me, Lord, and love through me. Teach me how to be strong and unbending when I need to be,

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and also very flexible and mobile like a drop of water in your hand when I need to be that.

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Help me to never compromise. Lord Jesus, you said concerning the end times over and over again,

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take heed that no man deceive you. Take heed that no man deceive you. Protect us from deception.

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Let our eyes be anointed with I, so that we may see.

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Thank you, Lord. I want you to turn this next song to sing to Jesus, but also release anyone

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who's hurt you, you owe it to yourself. Jesus tells the parable of a man who's forgiven a great

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debt, and then he wouldn't forgive someone who owed him money. The king then found out about that

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and commanded that unforgiving man to be handed over to the torturers. That's a picture of what

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happens to us when we don't forgive. We're handed over to the torturers. We're living here on

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earth. It doesn't seem like we're in prison, but the torturers are torturing us. Release, cancel

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the debts, and forgive. Sing to him this song, and love the people who have hurt you. Right now,

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in your spirit, you can love them. There's no distance in the spirit. Just bless them.

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If my heart is overwhelmed and I cannot hear your voice, I hold on to what is true, though I cannot see.

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If the storms of life they come, and the road ahead gets steep, I will lift these hands in faith,

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I will believe, and I remind myself of all that you've done.

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And the life I have, because of your son, love came down and rescued me. Love came down and

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said me free. I am yours. I am forever yours. Mountain high of aloe low. I see now remind my soul.

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I am yours. I am forever yours. When my heart is filled with hope, every promise comes my way,

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when I fill your hands of grace, rest upon me. Stay in debt before we do God. Stay in humble

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that you're free. I will lift these hands in praise. I will believe, and I remind myself,

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all that you've done. And the life I have, because of your son, love came down and rescued me. Love came

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down and said me free. I am yours. I am forever yours. Mountain high of aloe low. I see now remind my soul.

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I am forever yours. Love came down and love came down. You said me free. I am yours.

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When we see the Father's love, yeah mountain high of aloe low. I see now remind my soul that I am yours.

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I am forever yours. And I am yours. I am yours. For all my days, Jesus I am yours.

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And I am yours. I am yours. And all my days, Jesus I am yours.

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Love came down and rescued me. Love came down and said me free. I am yours. I am forever yours.

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Thank you for your love. Mountain high of aloe low. I see now remind my soul that I am yours.

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I am forever yours. Love came down and rescued me. Love came down and said me free. I am yours.

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I am forever yours. Mountain high of aloe low. I see now remind my soul that I am yours.

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I am forever yours. It's time in yours. I am yours. For all my days, Jesus I am yours.

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I am yours. I am yours. For all my days, Jesus I am yours.

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For all my days, Jesus I am yours. For all my days, Jesus I am yours.

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I just remember life groups start in a couple of weeks, September the 29th. That's in two weeks.

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It's really important to be a part of them. And it's only 12 week commitment.

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The life groups themselves are 75 minutes long. And remember that in their early church, they met in a corporate setting like this.

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It says they met in the temple and then daily house to house. So you need both.

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The temple setting, when we're all together in one place, and then the house to house, where the gifts of ministry will actually be activated inside of you.

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You can help other people. It's where you learn how the Holy Spirit will prompt you and how you can be a blessing to others.

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While you're ready to honor the Lord with your tides and offerings. Praise God.

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Yes, give with a glad heart and given faith, believing that he's going to recompense you back.

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I make a living by my giving. The giving information is on the screens to either side of me.

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And the ministry team after that will make their way to the ministry area.

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Thank you, Lord.

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A lot of weird stuff happening. Call me just a skeptic, but I'm having a hard time believing that kid.

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That skinny, scrawny kid is the one who killed Charlie Kirk.

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How come the butler shooting this? None of these both cases. 20 somethings that have almost zero digital footprint.

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My son is 11. He's got a digital footprint a mile long.

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All I would ask you to do is just I don't want to say beyond high alert.

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But if you if you feel like you're being messed with all of a sudden, like if in a week from now,

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you're thinking completely differently than how you've been thinking and a more negatively radical way,

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it could be that you were programmed. It happens. Why is everyone so quiet?

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Guys, you're acting like five years ago people were screaming at people not wearing masks, calling cops on them if they had a party.

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Ah, ah, normal woman were, ah, get away from me, you grandma killer. What happened there?

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Programmed. So don't look at me. Like I'm the one with the overactive imagination.

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I just didn't forget. Never forget. Amen.

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All right, if you need prayer for anything going over to that blue lit area for anything at all,

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you want prayer, you want hands laid on you, you want to be ministered too.

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We want to minister to you and pray with you and for you. Let's all stand.

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May you go in the love of God and in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit,

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be blessed city light church in Jesus name. Amen.

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This is the city light church podcast. If you've missed any part of today's message,

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or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansik in city light church,

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visit us at citylightnyc.com. That's citylightnyc.com.

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Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. We would love to connect with you.

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We pray that you have been encouraged today, that you have been reminded how much God loves you,

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and that you are surrounded by grace. Thank you for listening.

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