WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.920 I got a twenty point list for you on what you need to know it's not that 2 00:00:03.920 --> 00:00:10.880 complicated believe on the Lord Jesus Christ with your whole heart give your 3 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:15.360 life to him you can get born again in a prayer that last five seconds and he 4 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:21.000 will take the old spirit out and the Bible says put a brand new spirit inside of 5 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:27.240 you it's the only way to be acceptable in heaven by the way welcome to the city 6 00:00:27.240 --> 00:00:32.040 light church podcast thanks for joining us today as we look into God's word and 7 00:00:32.040 --> 00:00:36.740 discover the hope and truth that he has for us if you want to connect with 8 00:00:36.740 --> 00:00:42.080 city light church feel free to visit us at city light NYC dot com that city 9 00:00:42.080 --> 00:00:48.160 light NYC dot com faster boy on Jansk and his team believe that the power of 10 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:53.360 the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds as you listen to 11 00:00:53.360 --> 00:00:57.880 today's teaching remember that you are deeply loved by God that you are 12 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:06.160 surrounded by his grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you I want 13 00:01:06.160 --> 00:01:10.360 to minister to you this morning from Psalm 23 14 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:18.720 such a rich Psalm the most popular Psalm there's a reason why it's the most 15 00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:25.380 popular Psalm there's a reason why every household with a median age of 60 16 00:01:25.380 --> 00:01:30.200 plus has a plaque of Psalm 23 somewhere if you're in a long island it's in the 17 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:40.000 bathroom next to the decorator soap right above footprints on the sand there's a 18 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:53.360 plaque of Psalm 23 me growing up in Queens in a one bedroom apartment we didn't 19 00:01:53.360 --> 00:01:57.660 know what decorator soap was so I remember the first time I saw this is so 20 00:01:57.660 --> 00:02:01.920 pretty there's a little bar of Irish spring and then off to the side of 21 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:07.880 dish with these like seashell pink I'm like this is the one I want to use my 22 00:02:07.880 --> 00:02:13.920 friend can you use those nobody ever uses those I didn't know they called out to 23 00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:20.440 me it seemed more appetizing than that worn out bar of Irish spring with three 24 00:02:20.440 --> 00:02:31.740 hairs in it I wanted the pink Rosie seashell and of course it is a very 25 00:02:31.740 --> 00:02:35.120 popular Psalm and then when you look at its popularity it's usually in the 26 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:43.100 movies at what time in the movie do you hear Psalm 23 the funeral how did a 27 00:02:43.100 --> 00:02:49.960 Psalm full of victory full of prosperity become the death Psalm that's most 28 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:55.640 closely associated with a funeral always in a very depressing scenario raining 29 00:02:55.640 --> 00:03:01.720 like it is today everybody wearing black like I am today and then you have 30 00:03:01.720 --> 00:03:08.680 the depressed morose minister come out and yeah I walk through the valley of 31 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:16.480 the shadow of death and you get more depressed listening to Psalm 23 let's 32 00:03:16.480 --> 00:03:21.160 renew our minds it's not a funeral Psalm it's not a death Psalm it's a 33 00:03:21.160 --> 00:03:27.720 prosperity Psalm it's a victory Psalm it's a Psalm full of the goodness of God 34 00:03:27.720 --> 00:03:38.120 and this is our reality and this is who the Lord is showing us he is amen David 35 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:45.600 and by the way most people think that this was young David young David because 36 00:03:45.600 --> 00:03:50.160 he's talking about you know he's got this pastoral theme of meadows and sheep 37 00:03:50.160 --> 00:03:53.600 and he's talking about the Lord being a shepherd so they assume this was David 38 00:03:53.600 --> 00:04:00.160 like as a teenager when he'd be playing on a harp or a liar and 39 00:04:00.160 --> 00:04:06.400 tending sheep but this isn't this is one of David's old isoms oldest I mean in 40 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:12.360 terms of his age this was him in other words later in life after he had seen the 41 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:18.480 ups and downs of life after he had had mileage with the Lord and experiences 42 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:23.960 with the Lord and history with the Lord this is his testimony after a lifetime 43 00:04:23.960 --> 00:04:31.680 of serving Yahweh God and he says the Lord is my shepherd and that is key 44 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:38.000 because he doesn't say the Lord is us shepherd he personalizes it he 45 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:43.720 appropriates this quality of the Lord for himself which is vital it's so 46 00:04:43.760 --> 00:04:51.720 important because I found that most people don't doubt God's ability most 47 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:55.680 people who come to faith in God or believe in God don't doubt his ability also 48 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:01.240 yeah God can do anything God is almighty but they doubt his willingness especially 49 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:05.640 when they're under guilt and shame and condemnation they doubt his 50 00:05:05.640 --> 00:05:11.560 willingness for themselves so that quickly mentally a cent oh yeah the Lord 51 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:17.760 is us shepherd yes but is he your shepherd I don't know is he my shepherd maybe 52 00:05:17.760 --> 00:05:23.600 better people's shepherd but not my but it's whosoever will when you claim 53 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:28.520 him as your shepherd then he'll release his shepherd in qualities to you the 54 00:05:28.520 --> 00:05:34.360 Lord is my shepherd I shall not want now when I first got saved and I did this 55 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:37.880 in the first service and several people immediately agreed when I first got 56 00:05:37.880 --> 00:05:41.120 saved I thought that just man you shouldn't want anything you know be Christian 57 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:46.920 don't have any desires other than for crust of bread and maybe covering over 58 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:51.840 your head and don't don't be somebody who wants stuff you know like I want peace 59 00:05:51.840 --> 00:05:57.880 no no no I'd like my bills paid no no don't want anything and of course want 60 00:05:57.880 --> 00:06:07.600 means lack I shall not lack because the Lord himself is my shepherd to feed 61 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:15.720 guide shield and protect me I will not lack now I came face to face with this 62 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:21.880 scripture when city light was just a couple of months old and I'm gonna tell you 63 00:06:21.880 --> 00:06:27.400 how the enemy tried to work in my head and maybe you can relate of course city 64 00:06:27.400 --> 00:06:32.000 light first started in the hotel ballroom in Midtown Manhattan and you know 65 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:38.400 you never forget the early numbers and that ballroom back in two thousand and 66 00:06:38.400 --> 00:06:42.080 two cost five hundred dollars and don't think ballroom like like this size 67 00:06:42.080 --> 00:06:46.880 ballroom that fits 75 people on the 14th floor like we really made people work 68 00:06:46.880 --> 00:06:51.320 and try to find us if you showed up on the 14th floor of the courtyard by 69 00:06:51.320 --> 00:06:56.440 Marriott on 3rd Avenue between 50 second and 53rd you really wanted to be 70 00:06:56.440 --> 00:07:01.960 there it was five hundred dollars and then with taxes and whatever other 71 00:07:01.960 --> 00:07:06.880 fees it was five fifty and the church was a couple of dozen people that was 72 00:07:06.880 --> 00:07:12.200 a great Sunday would go down and it's low as to three people a few months in so 73 00:07:12.200 --> 00:07:20.560 it was a poorly attended life group and the offerings 74 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:30.600 or a life group of three people is fine but okay well it's he said no it ain't 75 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:38.200 but it's certainly finer than a church of three people I'll never forget that 76 00:07:38.200 --> 00:07:45.720 Sunday when we had three people but they're all digress let me not I felt like I 77 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:52.960 was preaching and dying at the same time and while I'm dying and preaching the 78 00:07:52.960 --> 00:08:00.400 Lord the whole time just saying I'm with you I'm with you I will do it I'm my 79 00:08:00.400 --> 00:08:07.560 mind is scrambling on how will you how can you possibly do it but he did it he 80 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:11.560 did it to where we grew to four locations and six weekend services and 81 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:15.880 thousands of people have come in and you know New York City such a transient 82 00:08:15.880 --> 00:08:20.400 place so it is harder to build people because people come in they do a few years 83 00:08:20.400 --> 00:08:24.560 and they leave but we've baptized thousands and thousands have been baptized in 84 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:28.280 the Holy Spirit and we still get letters of people who remember us 10 85 00:08:28.280 --> 00:08:34.360 15 years ago how they came in and got transformed their lives hallelujah but 86 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:45.880 back to me with the 550 and offerings were usually about $600 eight people 87 00:08:45.880 --> 00:08:51.520 come offering $600 30 people come offerings 600 and I was couldn't be 88 00:08:51.520 --> 00:08:56.200 happier like because the whole the ballroom cost 550 so the Lord met the 89 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:01.040 ballroom cost you know I wasn't thinking well we should be nice if we had 90 00:09:01.040 --> 00:09:06.920 staff if we had a worship leader because it was an iPod that was doing the 91 00:09:06.920 --> 00:09:12.080 worship you know I couldn't even get my faith at that place I was just so so 92 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:17.360 touched that people believed in our vision so much that somehow $600 appeared 93 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:25.200 on a Sunday and after a few months of that I realized this is not a sustainable 94 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:28.560 model I mean I knew it but I wanted to celebrate a victory but then reality 95 00:09:28.560 --> 00:09:34.240 hits you and here's how the enemy came to me he would show me Christians who 96 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:41.080 were suffering so you have the Lord is my shepherd I shall not lack and then he 97 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:45.800 would go to work I mean my mind show me Christians who did lack and taught me 98 00:09:45.800 --> 00:09:51.680 and go out what about them where is your God who says you will not lack where is 99 00:09:51.680 --> 00:09:59.240 he in their life which is a fair question when you see the tension of who God is 100 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:03.280 and how he said he'd reveal himself to you in a practical way but then there's 101 00:10:03.280 --> 00:10:09.440 people not living that way a fair question is why and so I asked the Lord why and 102 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:16.480 I heard the glorious divine response deep in my spirit he said none of your 103 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:23.520 business you don't know you don't know where they are and they're 104 00:10:23.520 --> 00:10:28.000 walk with me you don't know where their faith level is you don't know what 105 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:32.920 they're believing before you don't know there's the whole story you don't know but 106 00:10:32.920 --> 00:10:37.960 here's what you can know you and the decision that you've made so what are you 107 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:43.080 going to believe son and then say that moment where I had to decide once and 108 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:47.480 for all well no matter what I'm seeing around me here's what I believe the 109 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:53.440 Lord is my shepherd I shall not want I shall not lack I don't care what I see 110 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:58.400 going on around me I can't go in and diagnose everyone else's problems but I 111 00:10:58.400 --> 00:11:03.440 can for me and my family make a stand that whatever's happening I'm not going 112 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:08.240 to let my circumstances form my theology I'm going to make sure that my 113 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:12.120 theology is based on one thing and one thing only not my feelings they change 114 00:11:12.160 --> 00:11:17.600 not my circumstances they change but the unchangeable word of God and that 115 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:23.280 tension between what God said he do and who he said he is the tension between 116 00:11:23.280 --> 00:11:27.920 that and what you're actually experiencing the gap lessons and becomes 117 00:11:27.920 --> 00:11:34.320 non-existent as you stubbornly cling to the truth of God's word can you say amen 118 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:41.240 so let's just say that the Lord is my shepherd I shall not lack 119 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:51.200 amen he makes me to lie down in green pastures you see the prosperity there 120 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:58.600 it doesn't say a bunch of dried out and tumbled down weeds it's fresh tender 121 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:07.120 juicy green pastures he makes me to lie down in green pastures he leads me 122 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:18.160 beside the still waters he makes me to lie down that's prosperity that's 123 00:12:18.160 --> 00:12:23.440 his abundance that's where his provisional care is and then he leads you 124 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:30.320 beside the still waters now the Hebrews they had a relationship with the 125 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:35.000 waters and tempestuous or tumultuous waters were considered a very bad 126 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:39.520 omen that's why the scriptures will always highlight if the sea was rough 127 00:12:39.520 --> 00:12:45.560 that's why the Bible says in Revelation God before he's thrown there is a sea as 128 00:12:45.560 --> 00:12:51.800 of glass it doesn't really say sea of glass that would be weird because you 129 00:12:51.800 --> 00:12:58.520 couldn't wear high heels if you tried to walk on that sea but it just means 130 00:12:58.520 --> 00:13:04.960 it's a still sea not a ripple not a wave what does that mean that means in the 131 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:11.280 presence of God there there there is no tempestuous no tumultuous problems there 132 00:13:11.280 --> 00:13:23.080 is peace there is no drama hallelujah hallelujah so we can believe God and lean 133 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:27.360 into him and trust Lord you come into my life you bring me into green pastures 134 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:32.760 this is a Psalm to stand on a Psalm to memorize a Psalm to whisper when you get 135 00:13:32.760 --> 00:13:36.960 up in the morning and when you go to bed at night Lord you take me to green 136 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:42.920 pastures and then your will for me is to lead me beside still waters where 137 00:13:42.920 --> 00:13:50.720 there's no drama hallelujah hallelujah how many would you would you like a 138 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:59.760 quieter life with no drama I've been contemplating that lately how my 139 00:13:59.760 --> 00:14:07.040 greatest promotions my greatest growth spurts with the Lord or financially in 140 00:14:07.040 --> 00:14:12.680 the natural or in other areas of life they came always after period of stillness 141 00:14:12.680 --> 00:14:18.320 and no drama and then I just started thinking about how our lives just the 142 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:23.800 way culture has shifted with us having all the information of the world and the 143 00:14:23.800 --> 00:14:30.240 amount of screen time and the way we relate to one another it's shifted to 144 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:38.600 everything is louder exaggerated and more brazen everything like to really 145 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:44.240 help the church grow my personality should be different like that guy on 146 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:48.760 YouTube hey my name is chas go ahead smash that like button hit subscribe we're 147 00:14:48.760 --> 00:14:54.080 gonna go right now to you know I should be always in your feet he past your 148 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:59.880 bow bow bow bow here we got to freshen you an exciting thing happening at 149 00:14:59.880 --> 00:15:03.720 city light and then okay it's your time for a breakthrough next Sunday we 150 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:07.960 got an even fresher fresher more fresher more exciting thing happening this 151 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:12.880 Sunday you thought last Sunday I mean how many times can you there is something 152 00:15:12.880 --> 00:15:18.160 about stillness that our culture wants us to reject but there is a glory in 153 00:15:18.160 --> 00:15:22.800 the stillness in the peace that's where your roots grow deep that's where the 154 00:15:22.800 --> 00:15:27.440 Lord can come and work on you that's when you can get comfortable actually just 155 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:39.400 existing and being yourself yeah hallelujah hallelujah the greatest financial 156 00:15:39.400 --> 00:15:49.000 breakthrough in my life came in 2020 when things got way quieter of course I don't 157 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:57.280 agree with the way things got way quieter but the Lord used it he used it and I 158 00:15:57.280 --> 00:16:03.040 took that time out to seek the Lord to really get more hands on with my kids 159 00:16:03.040 --> 00:16:13.960 play with my kids and we were just bonding as a family and to study Bitcoin and I 160 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:23.560 already put any responsible amount into it didn't even fully understand it did 161 00:16:23.560 --> 00:16:27.280 that in 2019 and then in 2020 I started going down the rabbit hole and then 162 00:16:27.280 --> 00:16:30.760 that stillness began studying it in the natural and going to the Lord and 163 00:16:30.760 --> 00:16:35.480 saying Lord could this really be could this really be a financial solution the 164 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:39.080 world has been looking for and didn't even know it could this be really be an 165 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:43.120 answer to corrupt bankers and the corrupt Fed and the devaluation of the 166 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:47.600 dollar and of true store value and your word says that false balances are an 167 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:51.600 abomination to you and what they're doing to our currency which is really our 168 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:56.720 currency encapsulates our energy it's stored energy it's your life's work and 169 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:02.000 then they just debase it we've experienced 40% plus inflation since this 170 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:06.960 period of 2020 the lie they'll say 17 or 20 I'll throw out all sort remember 171 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:10.520 when they were calling it Putin's inflation what does he got to do with us 172 00:17:10.520 --> 00:17:19.080 printing dollars and now your your dollars are worth 40% less than in 2020 173 00:17:19.080 --> 00:17:32.960 huh anyway I digress again but it was in that place of stillness hallelujah let 174 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:39.320 him take you to a place of no drama and everybody says I'm moving in silence 175 00:17:39.320 --> 00:17:43.640 I love it when people post I'm moving I got quiet moves and so why are you 176 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:49.840 telling me 35 times how you're moving in silence go move in silence come 177 00:17:49.840 --> 00:17:54.640 but emerge back up and let us all admire what the Lord has done but can't you see 178 00:17:54.640 --> 00:18:00.920 I'm moving in silence you know does anybody want to notice how I'm moving in 179 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:13.620 silence verse three he restores my soul now this is precious because you're 180 00:18:13.620 --> 00:18:20.380 soul is your mind your will and your emotions your spirit if you've named 181 00:18:20.380 --> 00:18:25.300 Jesus and received him as your Lord and Savior your spirit is cleansed your 182 00:18:25.300 --> 00:18:29.800 spirit is brand new your spirit is sinless and get comfortable saying that my 183 00:18:29.800 --> 00:18:35.460 spirit is perfect my spirit is cleansed we didn't come into this world with a 184 00:18:35.460 --> 00:18:39.420 perfect spirit we came into this world with a spirit stained with sin that's 185 00:18:39.420 --> 00:18:44.740 why Jesus said you must be born again and now that we've received him as our 186 00:18:44.740 --> 00:18:48.420 Lord and Savior we've got born again by the way if you're wondering how do I get 187 00:18:48.420 --> 00:18:52.980 born again I got a 20 point list for you on what you need to know it's not that 188 00:18:52.980 --> 00:18:59.940 complicated believe on the Lord Jesus Christ with your whole heart give your 189 00:18:59.940 --> 00:19:04.620 life to him you can get born again in a prayer that last five seconds and he will 190 00:19:04.620 --> 00:19:10.100 take the old spirit out and the Bible says put a brand new spirit inside of 191 00:19:10.100 --> 00:19:16.600 you it's the only way to be acceptable in heaven by the way you have to be 192 00:19:16.600 --> 00:19:21.900 perfect to enter into heaven you heard me that's what the scripture says well how 193 00:19:21.900 --> 00:19:27.020 can a man be perfect exactly that's the conundrum that's why Jesus came died on 194 00:19:27.020 --> 00:19:32.580 the cross removed your sin from you if you receive him and give your life to 195 00:19:32.740 --> 00:19:37.700 him and you got a brand new spirit but the soul and people use soul and spirit 196 00:19:37.700 --> 00:19:43.980 interchangeably often and they're not interchangeable the soul is your mind you're 197 00:19:43.980 --> 00:19:49.180 willing you're the soul is where baggage is the soul is where our hurts are our 198 00:19:49.180 --> 00:19:55.620 fears our paranoias when enemy comes to deceive us it's in the soul realm the 199 00:19:55.620 --> 00:20:04.440 Greek word suke our psyche and the Bible says that he is a soul-restorer thank 200 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:10.560 God amen I'm gonna be a lot less crazy today than when you gave your life yeah 201 00:20:10.560 --> 00:20:16.500 amen I mean I'm not where I need to be but thank God I'm not where I used to be 202 00:20:16.500 --> 00:20:25.560 amen he restores myself he leads me this is key he leads me in the paths of 203 00:20:25.560 --> 00:20:31.860 righteousness for his name sake now this is a little bit of a different take we 204 00:20:31.860 --> 00:20:35.720 know that he will lead us we know that he'll give us a victory because he loves 205 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:38.760 us the scriptures clear on that but this is a little different angle that I want 206 00:20:38.760 --> 00:20:44.680 you to get now he'll do it for his name sake in other words he's got a 207 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:51.020 reputation and he's got a vested interest in seeing you come through and 208 00:20:51.020 --> 00:20:57.860 succeed and he will not let you fail when you trust that he will lead you he'll 209 00:20:57.860 --> 00:21:02.940 give you the thing for his name sake his name won't be blasphemed among the 210 00:21:02.940 --> 00:21:10.340 heathen he'll do it for his name sake verse four yay though I walk through the 211 00:21:10.340 --> 00:21:20.260 valley of the shadow of death the valley of the shadow of death is Steinway it 212 00:21:20.260 --> 00:21:26.100 is Broadway it is whatever street you live on that's the valley of the 213 00:21:26.100 --> 00:21:30.820 shadow of death please note that it's not called the valley of death it's called 214 00:21:30.820 --> 00:21:37.860 the valley of the shadow of death and this actually was a literal valley in those 215 00:21:37.860 --> 00:21:45.740 times a valley with all sorts of oral sorts of rock formations boulders 216 00:21:45.740 --> 00:21:52.100 jutting out that will cause animals to cast bizarre shadows so it was a known 217 00:21:52.100 --> 00:21:56.940 thing that shepherds would go and they would see what appeared to be a ravenous 218 00:21:56.940 --> 00:22:01.700 wolf or a mountain lion mountain cat something that could really hurt them and 219 00:22:01.700 --> 00:22:04.980 they would flee and terror than someone else would check it out and it was just a 220 00:22:04.980 --> 00:22:12.340 desert hair a jackrabbit a bunny but the shadow it cast looked like a ravenous 221 00:22:12.340 --> 00:22:19.220 lion so what is the Lord trying to get across to us that 99% of the things you're 222 00:22:19.220 --> 00:22:25.700 afraid of are a mirage and an illusion a fantasy you think a lion is coming to 223 00:22:25.700 --> 00:22:32.980 devour you and it's actually bugs bunny amen hey some of the things you were 224 00:22:32.980 --> 00:22:38.580 terrified of from five years ago do you ever chuckle today nobody you're here 225 00:22:38.580 --> 00:22:42.860 you're breathing you're alive some of you you know what I'd love the Lord it's 226 00:22:42.860 --> 00:22:47.820 just a quickly like play a video clip of some things that you were dreading 227 00:22:47.820 --> 00:22:54.620 and terrorized by five years ago and show you how alive and well you are what 228 00:22:54.620 --> 00:22:58.940 was it that was the valley of the shadow of death it was casting an ominous 229 00:22:58.940 --> 00:23:05.380 shadow but the reality wasn't there amen praise god look people got so not me 230 00:23:05.380 --> 00:23:09.300 some of you were walking around with three masks on a wrap around like the 231 00:23:09.300 --> 00:23:18.580 Michelin man purple gloves up to your elbows you're fine 232 00:23:19.100 --> 00:23:28.100 someone likes to talk about that hallelujah we had communion here and some 233 00:23:28.100 --> 00:23:38.580 people skipped communion it's an oh no but be good I'll be good I'll behave 234 00:23:38.580 --> 00:23:45.140 could I have a clinically preserved communion please no we're breaking the 235 00:23:45.140 --> 00:23:48.740 Lord's body together 236 00:23:51.420 --> 00:23:54.580 please don't be uncomfortable because that makes me want to just talk about it 237 00:23:54.580 --> 00:24:03.500 more how many how many of you here you've had your ninth booster well if you 238 00:24:03.500 --> 00:24:08.740 haven't had your ninth booster you're not vaccinated some of you you tapped out 239 00:24:08.740 --> 00:24:16.820 after the fourth one didn't you when when you started seeing triple you said 240 00:24:16.820 --> 00:24:24.580 maybe I'll stop with these experimental cocktails that don't even work and you 241 00:24:24.580 --> 00:24:32.220 didn't Jesus you didn't but who but if you haven't had your ninth booster you're 242 00:24:32.220 --> 00:24:36.180 not vaccinated it's no longer working you do know that people don't want to 243 00:24:36.180 --> 00:24:46.220 admit this am I excuse me in this church we trust the science so am I saying 244 00:24:46.220 --> 00:24:50.180 anything unscientific if you haven't been boosted in the last six months 245 00:24:50.180 --> 00:24:54.700 your last booster stop working see what you didn't know was you were gonna get 246 00:24:54.700 --> 00:25:01.040 the forever lifetime subscription service you go into Pfizer's headquarters and 247 00:25:01.040 --> 00:25:05.960 you see the marble when the hanging chandel it's you say how did it get that 248 00:25:05.960 --> 00:25:22.280 money yeah from you praise God hallelujah we just need to hear this I'm still 249 00:25:22.280 --> 00:25:28.480 trying to find a good doctor the last few I went to the initial visit it's a 250 00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:36.400 half-hour commercial for the flu vaccine whatever happened to the good old 251 00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:40.900 days where they examine you talk to you about your diet about your sleep about 252 00:25:40.900 --> 00:25:47.400 your stress no just there can be anything doctor my left leg is falling off have 253 00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:51.880 you got your flu vaccine this year it's very very important that you get 254 00:25:51.880 --> 00:26:02.220 vaccinated for the flu I will fear no evil for you are with me I want you to see 255 00:26:02.220 --> 00:26:06.640 that the number one reason to not fear is because he is with you yay the way 256 00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:11.800 walk through this valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for you are 257 00:26:11.800 --> 00:26:18.640 with me your rod and your staff they comfort me hallelujah does anyone have an 258 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:25.280 umbrella today's a good day for an object lesson thank you with the crook the 259 00:26:25.280 --> 00:26:37.520 handle so I feel very charlie chaplainess up here now this this part would have 260 00:26:37.520 --> 00:26:43.440 a bulbous end but here's just what I want you to see that the Lord in this 261 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:46.880 metaphor of him being a shepherd it says that his rod and his staff there's 262 00:26:46.880 --> 00:26:51.360 something that bring us comfort and a lot of times the way people see the 263 00:26:51.360 --> 00:26:55.000 Lord that it wouldn't make sense that this bring them comfort because they 264 00:26:55.000 --> 00:27:00.760 believe that he beats us with this now I actually when I was a victor's age 10 265 00:27:00.760 --> 00:27:06.960 years old I did some shepherding back in the mother country and I was so proud 266 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:11.760 when it was time to move the sheep and the goats because it would be like a 267 00:27:11.760 --> 00:27:16.760 three-mile distance and it made me feel so big and so adult but really I could 268 00:27:16.760 --> 00:27:19.640 do it even as a ten-year-old because these sheep and goats have been doing 269 00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:22.120 this all they're actually not dumb they're very smart they've been doing this 270 00:27:22.120 --> 00:27:26.680 they're for several years or their whole life so all I had to do was just kind 271 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:31.160 of just be there and they went from one field three miles away to another one 272 00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:36.520 sign I like a bunch of reindeer you know they all had the bells and of course 273 00:27:36.520 --> 00:27:41.320 I would grab a stick because I wanted to feel more authoritative and I was 274 00:27:41.320 --> 00:27:46.040 and they knew exactly how to go from one field around all the different bends 275 00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:50.840 and the the the rock roads to the other to the other field but occasionally one 276 00:27:50.840 --> 00:27:55.640 of them would go astray just a little bit now when my grandpa was teaching me 277 00:27:55.640 --> 00:27:59.880 how to shepherd the first thing I did was start running and yelling at that 278 00:27:59.880 --> 00:28:04.840 sheep come back here of course with my stick feeling all authoritative 279 00:28:04.840 --> 00:28:11.320 but come back here this one's wet too in the name of the father the son and the 280 00:28:11.320 --> 00:28:16.440 holy 281 00:28:17.080 --> 00:28:22.360 this is the $3 special isn't it it is see they changed it used to be the 282 00:28:22.360 --> 00:28:29.320 littler ones and we should have if we got our props from dollar general like 283 00:28:29.320 --> 00:28:34.840 Bonnie Anderson Bonnie Andrews excuse me okay 284 00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:43.160 I would come chasing the sheep to hit and grandpa said no no no you just 285 00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:47.240 need to come next to that wandering sheep and just just very lightly 286 00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:51.080 yeah most of the time you don't even have to touch it you just come and 287 00:28:51.080 --> 00:28:54.680 go like this and it'll immediately straighten up and clear up and go into 288 00:28:54.680 --> 00:28:58.120 direction it's supposed to go sometimes you just have to gently touch it 289 00:28:58.200 --> 00:29:04.200 that's how the Lord deals with us the bulb is end that's not for the sheep 290 00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:09.000 that's for the wolves the wolves he beats 291 00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:15.080 amen not the sheep that's why Jesus told Peter can you put the three 292 00:29:15.080 --> 00:29:21.000 dollars on my tab thank you 293 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:27.240 we'll we'll work that out the accounting of all that after service 294 00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:31.160 let's say clean accounting makes for good friendships good and long 295 00:29:31.160 --> 00:29:35.240 friendships so we'll work that out 296 00:29:36.360 --> 00:29:41.960 the bulb is end is for the wolves for the enemies of God 297 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:47.400 you the Lord will treat gently hallelujah 298 00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:51.560 you are with me you're right on your staff they comfort me you prepare a 299 00:29:51.560 --> 00:29:57.400 table before me in the presence of my enemies 300 00:29:57.400 --> 00:30:01.800 note that he prepares a table a table of provision 301 00:30:01.800 --> 00:30:06.760 but it's still in the presence of your enemies 302 00:30:06.760 --> 00:30:12.520 sometimes we wish that we cannot be in the present the presence of our enemies 303 00:30:12.520 --> 00:30:15.560 is just this side of heaven no matter where you are it's in the presence of 304 00:30:15.560 --> 00:30:19.240 your enemies until you get to heaven where you have no enemies 305 00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:24.680 and some of us we have this desire to experience heaven on earth and we will 306 00:30:24.680 --> 00:30:29.560 and we can and we should but it will be in the presence of our enemies 307 00:30:29.560 --> 00:30:33.240 that's both a victory and something that should give you pause 308 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:38.200 because they're there still but you'll be the one having victory you'll be the 309 00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:43.800 one supping you anoint my head with oil this is what shepherds did to sheep 310 00:30:43.800 --> 00:30:48.600 to keep the mites and the ticks away olive oil would be rubbed into their 311 00:30:48.600 --> 00:30:51.240 scalping into their body to give them physical relief 312 00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:54.280 but this is a picture with the Lord does to us when we're in his presence 313 00:30:54.280 --> 00:30:57.640 when we read his word when we pray when we worship 314 00:30:57.640 --> 00:31:01.960 heavenly oil comes upon us and there's not a one of us here 315 00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:06.760 that doesn't have some ticks a man sheep a man 316 00:31:06.760 --> 00:31:11.240 we have our twig ticks we have our quirks we have our mites 317 00:31:11.320 --> 00:31:17.400 but the oil of the holy spirit comes in with a heavenly barrier 318 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:22.760 and brings healing in that area and then one of my favorite scriptures my cup 319 00:31:22.760 --> 00:31:30.200 runs over this is God's way this is God's style i've shared with you many times whenever 320 00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:36.520 you see Jesus to a miracle of provision it's always more than is necessary 321 00:31:36.520 --> 00:31:41.720 can you catch that in your spirit the water to wine 322 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:45.960 that's it gives you the math right there it's not by accident the scripture says 323 00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:51.880 every jug was 20 to 30 gallons and there was six jugs six water pots 324 00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:56.040 so even if it was an army they couldn't have drunk all that 150 gallons of wine 325 00:31:56.040 --> 00:32:00.440 i know the Hebrews like to get down but give me a break 326 00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:05.560 how many times can you McGillah Hava until you fall over that was overkill 327 00:32:05.560 --> 00:32:10.920 there was so much wine when Jesus fed the 5,000 there were 12 baskets of what 328 00:32:10.920 --> 00:32:16.680 leftovers when he blessed Peter with the fish another boat had to come and help 329 00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:21.560 because Peter's nets were breaking and his boats were sinking he's a too much God 330 00:32:21.560 --> 00:32:25.000 and when he fills up the cup me and my son have this thing he doesn't do it 331 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:28.680 anymore but come up here i just want them because i don't i don't want i don't 332 00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:31.400 want you to feel like i'm embarrassing you so i just want you to see 333 00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:35.640 what a what a young awesome man a god this guy is such a blessing to me 334 00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:38.440 you can sit down so but remember when we used to go through that thing of how 335 00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:42.520 you'd fill the Pepsi glass all the way to the top 336 00:32:42.520 --> 00:32:47.880 it's like dad this is how you get young kids to backslide if you're 337 00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:52.520 watching you make an example no i'm kidding kidding i'm joking 338 00:32:52.520 --> 00:32:56.120 every kid does this right they feel they don't know that you can make 339 00:32:56.120 --> 00:33:01.240 two trips that you can fill up the cup halfway 340 00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:04.760 drink half and then make another trip right they always fill it up it's like i 341 00:33:04.760 --> 00:33:07.400 don't want to get ripped off so i'm going to fill it all the way up and then 342 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:10.120 you're walking and it's filling everywhere 343 00:33:10.120 --> 00:33:13.720 god didn't even say he'd fill it up all the way to the tippy top 344 00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:18.920 god said i'm going to make it run over the world calls that waste what that's 345 00:33:18.920 --> 00:33:23.400 waste and god says no no no this is the way i do do things this is my 346 00:33:24.360 --> 00:33:29.320 this is my style i we have to get this in our spirits because so many of us have 347 00:33:29.320 --> 00:33:33.960 belittled god into the stingy minji tightwad 348 00:33:33.960 --> 00:33:38.840 reflection maybe of the scarcity of our own hearts but really he is big 349 00:33:38.840 --> 00:33:42.200 he is abundant and he is generous and when you receive him as you're 350 00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:47.560 shepherd your cup will bubble and tumble and pour forth hallelujah it'll run 351 00:33:47.560 --> 00:33:55.080 over and finally he ends with surely it's a declaration of faith worship 352 00:33:55.080 --> 00:34:00.920 team you can come on up surely say this with me surely goodness and mercy 353 00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:07.080 shall follow me all the days of my life and i will dwell in the house of the 354 00:34:07.080 --> 00:34:13.640 lord forever so many people have faith for negative things to follow them 355 00:34:13.640 --> 00:34:17.000 when i look in the rearview mirror of my life i see who's following me it's 356 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:22.680 goodness and mercy amen goodness and mercy follow me 357 00:34:22.680 --> 00:34:26.280 and i will dwell in the house of the lord what is the house of the lord it's the 358 00:34:26.280 --> 00:34:30.360 presence of god today under the new covenant the presence of god 359 00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:33.400 back then for david and meant the physical house of the lord 360 00:34:33.400 --> 00:34:36.600 some of you know i used to live in the church building for the first five and a half 361 00:34:36.600 --> 00:34:42.280 years and so i would read this and go no lord deliver me i didn't want to live 362 00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:46.200 in a church building and to comfort myself i'd read some 23 and always say you 363 00:34:46.200 --> 00:34:51.960 know what i mean lord i'm not gonna dwell in the church building forever 364 00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:57.080 you know what in the new covenant context i'll dwell in the presence in the 365 00:34:57.080 --> 00:35:03.160 bosom of Jesus forever all the days of my life hallelujah 366 00:35:03.160 --> 00:35:11.400 i want you just to borrow your heads and i pray that the realities of Psalm 23 367 00:35:11.400 --> 00:35:18.280 reign upon your life this week that you receive him as the good shepherd 368 00:35:18.280 --> 00:35:23.880 he will shield you he will feed you he will protect you he will be there for you 369 00:35:23.880 --> 00:35:30.920 he loves you he'll take you to a place of no drama 370 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:35.400 and a place of abundant provision called green pastures 371 00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:42.440 hallelujah he'll restore your mind give you stability of soul 372 00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:51.320 yes hallelujah he will restore your soul 373 00:35:51.320 --> 00:35:55.160 and he may lead you and walk with you through the valley of the shadow of death 374 00:35:55.160 --> 00:35:58.600 but you will fear no evil because you know he is with you 375 00:35:58.600 --> 00:36:02.760 and then he'll lead you through the valley into the paths of righteousness 376 00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:09.000 because he's so great for his name sake hallelujah 377 00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:13.080 the holy spirit come with no man can do 378 00:36:13.080 --> 00:36:17.320 and pour forth the miraculous and people's lives in Jesus name 379 00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:21.560 this is the city light church podcast if you've missed any part of today's 380 00:36:21.560 --> 00:36:25.400 message or if you would like to find out more about pastor boy on janskick and 381 00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:32.680 city 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