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Nobody here can be more loving than Jesus.

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Jesus is the express image the Bible says of the invisible God and God is love.

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But in love you must warn people.

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In love there is a call to repentance and a turning away from sin.

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In love there is the new birth experience.

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In love there is the blood of Jesus Christ which will cleanse you and the power of the Holy Spirit

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which will from the inside out transform you.

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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 citylightnyc.com.

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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit

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is already working in our hearts and minds.

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

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

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Well how many of you are ready for part two of our series?

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We began a series last week past James preached in God we trust but with a question mark.

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So my inflection was a bit off. In God we trust.

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And this is all in preparation for the book that we're going to be doing together in our summer

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life groups. We have regular life groups all throughout the year where the different groups

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all read a different book but in summer we all read the same book we get on one page and I really

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take time to ask the Lord because we're all going to be reading the same book and it's important.

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What we should be doing this year and I was seeking the Lord very clearly, very strongly.

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I sensed this book by Eric Metaxis letter to the American Church and it's a different kind of

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book than we're used to reading in groups and so I felt it would be wise that if we just did a

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two-part series and hopefully gave you some insight on why I would choose a book like that and why

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I believe the Lord wants to communicate some truths to you through that book and get us all

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on the same page. Amen. Are you ready for the word this morning? By the way life groups begin June

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the 24th but signups begin today so sign up they're only six weeks long in the summer.

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They're six weeks long and each group meets for total of 75 minutes and I've seen just such a

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distinct difference over the years in the believers who are plugged into life groups and those who

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aren't. The ones who are plugged into life groups there's just an acceleration in their spiritual

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development and growth there just is because you bring something others bring something

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and you're rubbing off on each other and there's this cross-pollination taking place

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of the anointing and of the wisdom of God and it's just conducive to spiritual growth.

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Let's begin in 1 Timothy chapter 2 verses 1 through 4.

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1 Timothy chapter 2 verses 1 through 4. Therefore the Apostle Paul writing to pass

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your Timothy teaching Timothy how we should pray. Therefore I exhort first of all first of all

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that supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men

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for kings and all who are in authority why why pray for kings and presidents and governors and

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mayors and all those who are in authority that we may live a quiet and peaceable life

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in all godliness and reverence. Now verse 3 it seems disconnected from this thought but it's not

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it's completely connected to what the Apostle Paul is saying here for this is good and acceptable

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in the sight of God our Savior why why is that good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior

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because God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth listen to this

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Paul is teaching young past your Timothy that first of all that means before you get to your own

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grocery list of prayers keep your country in mind keep political leaders in mind and pray for them

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and and have something vested in that why well so that you could live a peaceable life

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and so that the gospel can go forth in verse 3 says when you're doing this kind of praying not only

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will you have a peaceable life but then it'll clear the air so that there are laws and rules

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and restrictions and regulations that would come in and thwart the furtherance of the gospel

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amen let's look at that other verse two verses and Thessalonians second Thessalonians

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chapter three verses one through two oh man some of us who were born in this country I say this

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would love them at heart but you're spoiled a little bit you don't know what you got

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and I don't want to sing that old Cinderella song but you don't know what you got till it's

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gone passage aims after service at lunch with the pastor can you break that out

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finally brethren pray for us that the word of the Lord everyone over 50 laughing really allowed

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oh yes Cinderella finally brethren pray for us that the word of the Lord may run swiftly

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and be glorified in the King James it says that the word of God may have free course just as it is

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with you and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men for not all have faith

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so in another place the Apostle Paul is saying pray for us pray for what see the enemy is always

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against the word of God the word of God is a seed the word of God is power the enemy wants to thwart

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and stop the word of God because the word of God never returns to the Lord void but it accomplishes

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what he sends it out to do and so Satan hates the word of God and Satan's always trying to stop

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the word of God you look at the book of Acts specifically they kept coming at the apostles

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forbidding them to preach and teach in the name of Jesus Christ the enemy always wants to stop

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the proliferation of the gospel and many times he will come and he will do that through politicians

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through government through laws some of you don't even know what I'm talking about but I had the

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benefit of being born well benefit at least the experience of being born outside of America

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yes scratch benefit I had the experience I had the experience of being born in the social federal

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republic of Yugoslavia excuse me the socialist federal republic of Yugoslavia and it was a communist

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socialist nation and I know this that I never heard the gospel there none of my cousins heard the

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gospel there none of my family members heard the gospel there there was no gospel there why because

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churches were just suppressed and really church although the churches were allowed to exist most

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people didn't even go to church once a year many of my family members have never been to church

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in their lives church was seen as a place for very old widows to attend you'd see like six women

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coming to church all dressed in black lighting candles and crying on and that was what wasn't even

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attractive it's like what am I gonna get out of there I'm not even gonna go to that and communism

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socialism became the unofficial state religion and that's also why I love America I feel like the

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beginning seemed to the godfather you know the first scene and he goes I believe in America

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the guy approaching Don Carlyone as he stroking the cat I believe in America I believe in America

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I love the America I love the America because in America I heard the gospel yeah yeah I remember as a

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kid when I came to America the first thing I noticed was there was a lot of talk about God I didn't

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understand it but I was immediately greeted in New York City with subway preachers and people

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on corners remember in the 80s NYC was a battlefield I mean you can see a mugging on this side of

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the street and someone in the corner shouting about Jesus and handing out tracks and even though I

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didn't get saved till I was 16 I saw that there was something different here there was a freedom

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and a liberty and the word of God had a free course in my home nation it did not when I was 11 we

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were on Wall Street not because my parents worked on Wall Street because we were still kind of

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tourists at heart we were still settling in we were living in four stills queens and then on a

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Saturday for fun let's go look at Manhattan wow and we go down to Wall Street check out the

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bull and I was bored I remember I was leaning on a phone booth see some of you are so young you

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don't know why I was bored because I didn't have a device to zone me out if I was an 11-year-old

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kid who just wasn't you know I saw it already I was just as my parents were looking at

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something I was just leaning in a phone booth and also kids there used to be these things called

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phone booths you know two things you need to know it's not everybody had a phone in their pocket

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so you'd actually put money in and make a call I was leaning in the phone booth they were a dime

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all right it was ten cents back then and I'm leaning in the phone booth

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and I noticed like a piece of paper crumbled up in the slot where your change is supposed to come

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out of and I pulled out that piece of paper and it was a track someone handed it to someone

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that person and wanted crumbled it up and put it in the phone and I opened it up and you know

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those tracks they really Christians are so bad at marketing you know and so bad

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notoriously bad a graphic design and all I mean it was like two-point fonts you needed a magnifying

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glass to read it so I was immediately intimidated by that but then I turned to see the cover

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and it was a man surrounded in flames like falling into the pits of hell all right not exactly a

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message artistically speaking of mercy and love and grace but when I saw that at 11 years old

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something hit my spirit my spirit recognized there was something there's something true here

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and there was something deeply important and significant boy on because you know I didn't call

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myself both back then so boy on that you don't know I was aware that there was something and a seed

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was planted there and then when I was sixteen I heard the gospel and I responded and I got saved

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hallelujah and for a lot of Americans especially those who don't travel outside of America you don't

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know how wonderful of a country this is and you think that what we have here the freedom and the

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liberty is like the default state of the world and it's not this is not the norm this is the exception

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the majority this is statistically accurate the majority of the world lives under some kind of

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oppression and guess what the freedom and the liberty that we enjoy and I'm telling you we

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enjoy it see there is this attack on America you can point to anything and look at all the

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negatives look at the dark spots you can there's this attack on America which is very dangerous

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which is causing Americans to not prize where they live but go and do a little bit of traveling and

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I'm not talking about go to see Paris and go to London and although even I have friends and friends

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that are saying now upward mobility is absolutely dead in France you just can't out if you're born

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in a certain place that's just where you're going to stay you can't break out where in America you

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still can that is not the default state of the world we really enjoy it I remember back in former

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Yugoslavia because then we had in 90s we had a bloody civil war and it split up into a bunch of

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different nations Slovenia Macedonia Croatia Montenegro Bosnia and Herzegovina probably missed one or

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two there when a little nation gets chopped up into eight different nations remember what a

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dearth of the word of God there was and I remember going back every summer I spent my summers the

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whole summer there so I had this experience even though I spent the bulk of my time in America and

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I went to school in America my culture at home was Yugoslavia and I would spend my whole summers

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in Yugoslavia and so I felt like I had my foot in each country as a child growing up and I was

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able to see one way and another way and I was able to see the difference in former Yugoslavia we had

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a dictator president for four decades he killed 500,000 people his own countrymen to maintain power

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that's what he and his regime did what's interesting though is I was living in Yugoslavia when he

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died and I remember the whole country crying and mourning for three days that's a distinct memory

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that I have why why would they weep and cry well that's what mass formation psychosis does

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in private my grandparents my parents would speak against the regime very very quietly your neighbor

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couldn't even hear because there was this car called the black Maria sitting on marica I don't know

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why I was called black Maria but it was a black Maria and it was show up and if you saw that car

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someone was not coming back again that car would come at four or five a.m. they would knock on the

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doors they'll pull you away put you in the car and you were gone never to be heard from again

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somebody ratted on you because you spoke against the regime but when he died everybody wept

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because over time we as humans if we're not careful we're so easily programmed and we're so easily

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deceived like for example you know how in America we can take pictures of our politicians and catch

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them in awkward and goofy moments with them making a weird face you see you don't even notice you see

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that all the time growing up with president Hito every store had his photo and as always him as a

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general and just totally mint uniform with his hat on perfectly he looked like somebody who would

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aspire to be in here not even be like you couldn't even do that but be in here and people's minds

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were changed oh lord

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hallelujah anyway I came to America and as I'm growing up I asked my dad it was because

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they were watching on tv Reagan against Mondale and I said hey Dad so like who are we rooting for

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who's gonna win and my dad said stay away from this it's all nothing but lies and nothing but

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by propaganda. Politics is dirty. And that was just my dad's stance. So I adopted that

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stance. And then when I got saved at 16, I just stayed away from politics and buried

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myself in the Word. And I actually thought that I was being noble, that it was the right,

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right posture to have. I was so obsessed with the Lord, let me not even know, I mean,

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I was a complete ignoramus. Let me not even know what's happening in a major arena of life,

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as though the gospel doesn't touch every point and every arena of our life. So I, with this

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false sense of nobility, I pulled away for years and years and years, even as a Christian,

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even as a pastor, all up until around the last few years. Because in the last few years,

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in the last seven, eight, 10 years, there are two events that happened for all of us to

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see, which should have, I say this would love. But if you have more than a room temperature

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like you, it should have woken you up. And when you get woken up, it is a lot like coming

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out of the matrix. You come up, and you realize, I've been lied to my whole life. Some of

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you can sense that that there is this veneer that's being presented to us. And there

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is all sorts of ugly happening underneath the surface. And too often a lie is being presented

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to us as the truth. One of the things that should have woken every person up was 2015 when

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Trump began to run for president. That should have been a wake up call. Why? Because Trump,

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prior to 2015, I like when I say the T word, the whole place immediately, you see what they've

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done to us. Just the name Trump, spoken in New York City, where he's from, right? He's

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like, everybody's like, Oh, God, where's he going to go with this? What is he going to say?

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I really liked him. I've been coming for four weeks. I liked him, but now he said Trump,

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and he didn't immediately bash him. And I don't know how I feel about that. Where's he going

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to go? Just listen, just hang on for the ride. Just listen. 2013, 2014, I'm completely just unaware

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of anything that's happening. And when he announced, he was going to run. Remember when he came down

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the golden escalator? You know where I was? I was in Montenegro taking over for Pastor Yovitsa while

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he was on sabbatical and pastoring his church. And I saw and I literally laughed. I laughed out

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loud because I thought it was some publicity stunt. But just remember that before 2015,

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everybody in Hollywood loved Trump. The media loved Trump. He was the media darling.

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You know who else loved Trump? Rappers loved Trump. I did. I'm in the Trump international. Ask for me.

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Had to, Pastor Moe. Had to just slip it in there. It was in a bunch of other rap songs. He was

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just a darling. Nobody. And if you had anything against him, it was just because he was, you know,

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the rich, Cherigan, Goofy guy. But then in 2015, now I'm a complete political ignoramus,

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but I'm looking and I'm noticing that immediately there was this coordinated effort

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with every major institution that previously loved him, immediately coming against him. All of

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Hollywood immediately comes against him. All of academia immediately comes against him and all

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of government. Listen now. Both Republican and Democrat immediately coming. It's like overnight

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everybody hates him. And I'm scratching my head going, why? So he then gets elected and everything

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I just said is true. But now once he gets elected, it's all taken up to the end's degree.

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And there's this coordinated effort. And he just, he can do no, he can do no right. And it doesn't

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help that, you know, he has some foot and mouth disease thing going there. So he would word some

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things so clumsily and it wasn't hard to spin things that he said. Until later, as I'm just

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observing, and if you were part of City Light Church, you know, I never said anything. I was

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just observing and learning. I mean, honestly, what I should have been doing in my late teens and

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early 20s, now I'm doing in my late 30s because I just stayed away from that. And I'm observing

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and I'm piecing it together. I'm going, here is this guy who's a political outsider. He's not a

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part of the regime. He's not a part of the system. And he's threatening to come in and uncover

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things and shake things up. And now everybody hates him. Pay attention to who the enemies of God

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don't like. Also, by the way, just pay attention to that. How many of you know Hollywood is not a

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friend of God? It's just not. And when I say that, I don't say that, you know, because some Christians

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when they talk about Trump, they get, it's like their faces light up. Ah, Trump, like they've been

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praying so long for their Christian prints to come writing in on a whiteboard. He's not that.

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All right, he's not that. His character, very, I don't want to say dark, but if he, dark,

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you know, his personality, I never liked him even before he was president, just as a New Yorker,

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just as personality. But guess what? I'm not voting for a marriage partner. I'm not voting for

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my pastor. I'm voting for somebody who's going to kick butt and do what's best for the nation. Amen.

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That should have been, I'm just telling you how I woke up and I'm hoping that some of you

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had similar experiences that woke you up as well. If you didn't have a similar experience,

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pay attention to what memes you were reading, what media was going in your ears, that you stayed

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blind to what was actually happening right in front of us. Because there are some people,

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it's unbelievable, still in 2024. There's still just la la la la la la. The deaf and blind and

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don't want to pay attention to what's going on. Why am I talking about this? Why should you pay

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attention to what's going on? Because with all of its problems, there is a reason why over 50%

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of all global immigrants are coming to America. Over 50, we're still the number one immigrant

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destination. Why? Because it's a blessed country. It's a country of great opportunity. It's a great

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country. And the freedoms and liberties we enjoy are only one generation away from being lost.

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Some of you think this is not viable. Are you kidding me? You don't believe that Satan would love

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to squash America, to shove a sock in America's mouth, the nation that was at its height responsible

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for 93% of all missionaries being sent out globally, a place where the word of God has resounded,

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where churches are raised, deaf churches are planted. Millions of people come to Jesus Christ

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and receive Him as their Lord and Savior every year, where I got saved, where then I was able

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to lead my parents. If they stayed in Yugoslavia, never would have heard the gospel. I was able to

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lead my parents to the Lord. The enemy would love to snuff this nation out. That's why this is

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important. So 2015, 16 and all those years should have been somewhat of a wake up call. When you see

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all of media, I mean, it was just incessant, 24, 7, bashing, bashing, bashing. Just take a step back

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and go, huh. Because there's some people, this isn't about me telling you who to vote for. This is

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just, just notice some things. Because there are people who absolutely despise Trump. You say Trump

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and their head spins around 360. And then just quietly ask him, I know, right? Orange man, bad. Tell

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me, you go first. Tell me, what policy of his did you most disagree with? He's really his

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tweets. We're so inappropriate. I know. And he's got orange skin. I know. You said that. And he's

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really not, he doesn't seem like someone I'd want to hang with. I know. But like his policies,

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what policy did you feel? Can't name one over and over again. Me, I suggest that maybe you have

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been programmed. And you didn't even know it. He's a racist. I know. He's terrible. Tell me, what racist

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policy did he push? I'm going to, I can say a lot more after that, but I'm just,

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oh, Lord. So that should have woken you up. If that didn't wake you up, because that didn't fully

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wake me up, they just caught my attention. But the big wake up call was in the spring of 2020

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when COVID came in on the scene. And all of a sudden we went under lockdowns. And this church was

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declared nonessential. All churches were declared nonessential. Small businesses shut down.

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Home Depot was still open. Walmart was still open. We were told not to go to the gym. And here's

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the greatest mistake. If you don't know, this is a mistake by now. I don't know. We do have a

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ministry team at the end of the service. They will lay hands on your pray for you. Listen,

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the whole the masks and all the stuff. People were just terror, you were terrorized night and day.

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You turn on CNN and they have the deathometer going. This is how many died. Remember how terrified

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you were? Some people in this neighborhood, you see them. They're still wearing the mask sideways,

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one nostril sticking out. Mask is dirty. It's like a week old filled with mucus and it's still

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walking around like the walking dead. I want to just gently tap them on the shoulder. Go,

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April of 2020 called it once it's mask back.

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The greatest arrogance and greatest pride was believing that we could mitigate, that we could manage

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an airborne virus. Which doctors in the beginning were saying there is no mitigating this.

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And those doctors were quickly shut up and shut down. And then you were just presented with one

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side and one voice. Yeah, that happened to us. That happened to me for a bit. And we were

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presented with all these arbitrary rules. Do you remember the silliness? If you come within five feet,

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you're going to get COVID six feet. You're okay. When you walk through the restaurant,

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if you're standing up, you have to wear a mask. But when you sit down to eat, you're okay. Because

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COVID hovers at a height of around five feet. You sit down below that. It doesn't dip. On an

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airplane, you had to be masked up. But I found out if you ask for water, you can put your mask down.

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All right, now I'm okay. I quickly found out when I was in an airplane, I can ask for water,

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put my mask down and sip that water for the three hour flight. It was craziness.

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Why is this important? You go, why is this important? It's important because we were fed a lie.

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And if you think they didn't know, it was a lie. Oh, you know, they were just figuring it out.

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Now, today we know a lot more than we did back then. Listen, go on our church,

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Instagram or our church Facebook. In March, we researched what had happened in Italy. Remember,

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it was hitting Italy right before it came here. We researched what it hit in March of 2020.

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Excuse me, late February of 2020, we posted about COVID. And we posted that it was an airborne

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respiratory virus that it afflicts the elderly and those who are autoimmune, compromised the most.

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And we listed all the facts. None of which have changed. Nothing has been added. We don't know

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anything more about COVID now than when you back in February of 2020. So it's not like they didn't

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know when we're just this benevolent government that was trying to figure it out. And why is this

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important? Because it was a lie. And I will not live my life by lies. I didn't wear a mask.

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Not because I wanted to be a grandma killer. Not because I'm jerky. Not because I'm arrogant.

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But because it's a lie. It's a lie that this little piece of cloth or surgical mask is going to

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prevent a COVID virus from coming through or in. It's a lie. I don't want to live my life a lie.

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In any way. Amen. So what am I saying? I'm just saying. Do you know if we did nothing at all,

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if we didn't lock down, if we kept meeting, if we did nothing at all, the results would have been

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the same. That's proven now. What would you say? But people, we prevented people from dying.

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No, people still died. The only way, the only way with the only thing that could have made a

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difference is that each of us was hermetically sealed for a two week period in a bubble,

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like suspended animation, cryogenic freezing. For two weeks, every single person that could have

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done the trick. But we couldn't do that. Even if we're locked down, we couldn't do that.

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but I'm concerned that for too many of you, it wasn't because you were born in this country.

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I noticed with immigrants, they were hip to it right away. People born in this country,

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you just can't do the mental summer solitums and gymnastics to realize, huh,

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they're actually evil and nefarious powers at work that want to program you and get me thinking

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one way. And one of the easiest ways to program people is via fear.

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Hallelujah. I'm having a good time. How about you?

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Some of you, some of you are thinking, I should have brought my friend next week.

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Because it looks like he's just getting warmed up. I should have invited him.

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There is a third thing that if you haven't been woken up,

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the should have woken you up and it just happened last week, this week.

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And that's that he's been arrested and now he's been convicted.

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Now, hang on, if your gut response is, what's the saying everyone is using?

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Nobody's above the law. Nobody's above the law.

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Why is George Bush above the law? He should have been tried for war crimes for what happened in Iraq.

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He's above the law and all arrests. Why is Bill Clinton above the law?

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Do you know what happened under, under him? I know what happened under him.

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NATO bombed the tar out of where I'm from.

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Most Americans don't even know that happened. I still say, I still see where the missiles fell.

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Where pastor Yovitsa is right now, you go to Novisa, you still see the John Crater's

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in buildings because they don't have the money to repair it. Hospitals, why is he above the law?

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What about Hillary Clinton with a private server in the basement?

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Smashing up hard drives and pouring bleach on blackberries.

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Those are the blackberry days.

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So just coming from where I come from, when a political rival is imprisoned in an election year,

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it should cause you to pause and go, huh, because that's some banana republic level stuff right there.

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Hallelujah.

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Do you even know what he was convicted for, what he was arrested for?

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His other people started wars, killed millions of people.

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He messed with some money when stormy Daniels and I couldn't even keep track of it.

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My wife knows she'll explain it to me later. I mean she did and I know but I just

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in one year out the other because we know what's really happening.

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And by the way, Trump, as far as I'm concerned, I have a big question mark about him

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because he's still the father of the vaccine and he handed the country over to Fauci.

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I just want to say that.

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But at the same time, you know, I didn't say this in the first service, I got to say it in a second.

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At the same time, I know that he would be the best for the church.

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He just would be. I know that there's another side that is completely anti-god and anti-Christ

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and that abortion is not of God and that abortion is murder and it's demonic and I cannot put

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somebody in power is going to keep that going. I cannot put somebody in power who's going to keep

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these lies and these myths were two plus two equals five going.

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And that's why we still have to pray. Christians are hoping that this Christian delivering

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prince is going to come in quoting scripture. It's not going to happen. Jesus was that prince.

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He's the prince of God. He's the prince of peace. You're going to get a fallen mistake,

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laden, human being and you got to pray for them. We're just trying to select the one that is

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going to need the least amount of prayer and deliverance and demons expelled. Amen. Hallelujah.

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I can see some are attendance in the life groups just ramping right up.

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So there is, by the way, a new religion in America spreading like wildfire

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and this is what's coming against us. It is the religion of wokeism.

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You don't know, wokeism is a religion and it's catching America by storm. What is wokeism?

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Woke once upon a time about eight, nine years ago was a term that meant being alert to racism

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and racial prejudice. You know how long that lasted for about a minute and it was quickly co-opted

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and it was co-opted and what's at the heart of wokeism is making people just hang on with me.

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This is going to be key for you to understand. It's making people believe and see the entire world

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through one lens and that's oppressor versus oppressed. By the way, critical theory is not a new

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thing whether it's critical race theory or there's several other critical theories. It goes back

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over 150 years. What is critical theory? It's an entire system where you see the whole world

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through only one lens oppressor versus oppressed. Why? Because this is how communism took root in

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Russia. This is what happened during the Bolshevik revolution. You cannot have a united country

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if you're going to flip it around and change its government. Some of you don't even think this is

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happening. It's happening. It's real. You have a front row seat, dude. It's happening before

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your eyes. You have to have class warfare. You have to have a country that's divided and fighting

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amongst themselves. You don't think this is real to you. You know who the oppressor is? Well,

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if you're white, you're the oppressor. If you're male, you're the oppressor. There's one more

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kind of oppressor, though. If you're Christian, you're the oppressor. Oh, yes, you are.

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You're the oppressor. And you can see that. You can see that by the strong anti-Christian sentiment.

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You know what I'm talking about? I used to be able to say not thinking anything would hit me.

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Hey, I'm a Christian pastor. Oh, okay. That was 25 years ago. 20 years ago. Okay. Now I say,

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I'm a Christian pastor and I'm waiting for what's next. And it's really, it's really never very,

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rarely a neutral response. It's, oh, awesome. I didn't use to get that. Oh, awesome. Or like I said,

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I worked for the IRS or something. Lord, hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.

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Thank you, Lord.

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In order to subvert a nation, in case you're wondering where this is all going,

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am I, am I connecting this morning? You get it? Have you, have you been looking around lately?

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And are you, have you noticed that like this is a completely different time? This is totally

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different than when I've grown up. I meet these older fellows out in Long Island. They're in their

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70s, one is in his 80s. And I've asked them, have you ever experienced what we're experiencing now?

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Ever in your life? And they said, no way. And nowhere in our dreams. In fact, one of those guys,

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he's younger, he said his father is an ultra liberal judge in New York State. And even he said that

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what they were doing to Trump was just out of line in an election year.

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In order to subvert a nation, you have to make truth relative. Can we go to that scripture?

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I believe it's John 17, 17. Let me just see this. Yes. John 17, 17. Because in wokeism,

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there cannot be objective truth. That's why pay attention to what's introduced into the vernacular.

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That phrase, this is my truth, or I'm going to speak my truth. You notice about 10 years ago,

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it was around a little bit before that, but that was really injected into the vernacular.

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Anybody? You pay attention to this stuff? Now, yeah, nobody blinks. I'm going to speak my truth.

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You don't get your truth. There's a lot of stuff you don't get. Hey, guess what? You know what else

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you don't get? You don't get to pick your pronouns. You don't get to. You were born a certain way.

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You were born without your two ex chromosomes or an ex-wife chromosome. I could find a skeleton

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that's a thousand years old, and scientists can tell you whether it was male or female,

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because it goes down to the bone, to the molecular level. You don't get your own pronouns,

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just like I don't get my own adjectives. Like, what if I say, look, you need to respect my adjectives.

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They are brilliant and highly anointed. And every time you refer to Pastor Bo, please don't offend

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me. Use the proper adjectives. Please refer to me as brilliant and highly anointed.

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Or else, I'm going to call you a Pastor Fob.

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In order for wokeism to take root, truth has to be subverted. Jesus said, sanctify them by your truth.

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Your word, your word, the word of God is truth.

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Let me tell you something. Nobody here can be kinder than Jesus.

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Nobody here can be more loving than Jesus. Jesus is the express image the Bible says of the

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invisible God. And God is love. But in love, you must warn people. In love, there is a call to

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repentance and a turning away from sin. In love, there is the new birth experience. In love,

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there is the blood of Jesus Christ, which will cleanse you and the power of the Holy Spirit,

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which will from the inside out transform you. Amen. But under wokeism, truth has to be subverted.

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You got to read, George Orwell's 1984. I read that back in high school. I bought it. I re-read it

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again and we are reliving so much of it today. That's why we're living in an age now where a man

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can be a woman and a woman can be a man. And I just refuse. It doesn't mean I don't love you.

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I love you. Don't call me hateful. I actually love you. But I also love God and I love his word.

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And when I'm looking at a 50 year old man with a five o'clock shadow who's telling me that he's a

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woman, I'm not going to go along with the lie. You may think, but I know who you are. And it's not

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loving to pretend with you, to enter into that fantasy realm with you. So under wokeism,

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a man can be a woman, a woman can be a man. Men can menstruate. Men can be pregnant. Look at

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your emojis right now. If years ago I got an emoji of a pregnant man. I sent it to all my bros.

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I was just like, congratulations. When the moment it came, I just sent it out. I was like,

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bro, I heard the good news. Congratulations. And two plus two can equal five. Why? Because

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under wokeism, there is no objective truth. There is only subjective truth. Subjective truth is

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something that's subject to your own unique experiences. How many of you know that's not truth.

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Objective truth is just truth that always is. Always was and always will be. And it is the word

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of God. It is what God says. But in order to subvert a nation and lower the IQ of the people,

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lower the critical thinking of the people, you make truth blurry. And two plus two can be five.

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And men can get pregnant. And everybody's too afraid to say otherwise, less they'd be labeled

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a phobic racist bigot. The silence is just going to get me louder. Hallelujah.

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You know, I got a little bit more time. Let me just say this. Matthew 7, 1 through 3. I want to

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say this under wokeism. Wokeism has one main sin and one main virtue. The number one sin.

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Listen, this is a religion taken the country and the world by storm. You better know it's tenets.

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The main sin of wokeism is judgy. You cannot judge. And this is the key scripture. Matthew 7, 1.

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Judge not that you be not judged. Now let's just look at, okay, let's read the rest.

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For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged. And with the measure you use, it will be

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measured back to you. And why do you look at the spec in your brother's eye, but do not consider

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the plank in your own eye? Now let's go to John 724. By the way, there's several. I believe up to

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seven different Greek words for the word judge. All of you have made judge. How many of you locked

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your house when you left today? You made a judgment. Those of you who drove to churches,

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you stopped at the red lights. You made a judgment, didn't you? That's not the kind of judging

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Jesus is talking about. He's saying don't hatefully condemn. When you're struggling with something,

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don't hatefully condemn a person who's struggling with the same thing as you. But in another place,

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Jesus said, do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment. What is righteous

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judgment? What's the standard? Well, his word. His word is the standard. And so you, did you know

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that you can judge and not be a jerk? Did you know, and this is where Christians have blown it?

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They, you can, they're, they judge and they get into the flesh. It's almost like their flesh comes

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alive. And they love. They want to feel superior to somebody else. No, that's wrong. But did you

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know that you can judge and say, hey, I love you, but this is wrong. I don't, I mean, I don't

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endorse your behavior, but you want to do that. Knock yourself out. I recommend highly that you

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repent and come to Jesus. He loves you. His arms are open wide towards you. But, but this is a line

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in the sand and I won't cross it. Every single one of you need to be able to make that decision

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because the heat is only going to get cranked up. Do not bow. Do not. Do not. Do not do it.

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It's just the pronouns, bro. Just just use the pronouns, bro. No, I don't think I will.

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I don't get to use, I don't get to call you something that you're not. God decided that long before.

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I don't think of myself so highly to be the arbiter of that. Oh, hallelujah.

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And I just want to say this that the foot soldiers, the leaders and the foot, the army of the

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new religion of walkism is the LGBT movement. And as I'm saying this, do you know that we have

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people at City Light Church who are struggling with same sex attraction? And even though they know

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my stance, they've come to me. They know I love them. Listen, I had a gay worship leader for

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over a decade. I passed it in the East Village. I'm the gayest straight pastor you know.

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I passed it for 17 years in the East Village. I've said, listen, I've had a parade. I've heard

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every story, every confession, all the deep stuff I've heard. And I've learned and I've heard

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and I've wept and I've rejoiced and I've spoken. I just thought that was somebody who would,

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I would have wanted them to come up and say a few words. I can't see from the lights.

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But we've had people who've come out of homosexuality. Genuinely, set free, genuinely delivered.

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But the leaders of walkism, the army, the foot soldiers, is LGBT. And it's the most celebrated

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people group on the planet. You do know that, right? It's gay Christmas. Someone said they

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have a whole month for themselves. It's gay Christmas right now, June. In fact, when we were at the

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pool, I took my kids to the pool yesterday after the volunteer party and there was a fella standing

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in the pool, knee deep in the water and I'm not kidding. He had the rainbow tight speedos.

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Rainbow sunglasses and a rainbow hat and he was standing with both hands on his hips like Superman,

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just standing there. And I'm like, bro, I get it. You're very gay. I get it.

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But a whole month, a whole month of celebration, right? You don't want to talk. Did I already say

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that there's 13 Christians that die every day? Did I give that stat out? Oh, that was for service.

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That's the number. An average of 13 Christians are killed for their faith every day.

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Christians are the most persecuted people group on planet earth. The most celebrated people

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group on planet earth right now are people of the LGBT movement. And I'm just using the first four

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letters because I've lost track of all the other ones that come afterward. Hollywood, all the whole

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Hollywood entertainment complex celebrates all the corporations and now super gay all of a sudden.

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All government officials. Those are picture of Kamala Harris with the rainbow flag. All of them

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celebrating. But do you know why it's still not enough? A month. I mean, you're going to see flags

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and banners and parades and globally happening. Do you know why it's still not enough?

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Because 30 days of clapping and celebrating is still not enough when deep down on the inside,

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you know something's off kilter. You know that this is that you can come up higher, that there is a

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better way, that there is God's way, that there is the kingdom of God and that you can be set free

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from this darkness. So all the celebrating, all the applauding, it'll never be enough while somebody is

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not right with the Lord on the inside. And by the way, if you are here and you're just straight

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up gay or you're a Christian and you're strong, just know this. I know I can come across Jokey,

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but I'm dead very, very serious about this. And you may not believe it after some things I said,

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but I love you. I love you. I really do. I love you. Our whole staff loves you. And we're here to

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pray with you, work with you, plead with you, share with you, hear you, but we're also here to

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not compromise and not back off of the truth of God. It's something we won't bend on. We're not

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going to do it. It's a slippery slope and we've seen in the last few years just how slippery.

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I'll close with this worship team. Come on up. Let me just give you some ways that we are actually,

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if you look at it, the Christian church and the LGBT church, I'm calling it a church because it's

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like a religion now. If you actually look at a Nazi takeover, which you'll see, if you look at a

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Nazi street, you'll see all the flags. You're going to walk down some streets in New York this

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month. You're going to see some streets that look like it's been a foreign takeover.

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We are total opposite. This is why the greatest tension exists between the church. Listen,

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you see a gay pride parade. You know what you're going to see? I've seen it.

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Gay Jesus, somebody dressed up all flamboyantly as Jesus. Have you ever noticed how they don't have a

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gay Muhammad or a gay Buddha or gay Confucius? Because we Christianity is what's at odds,

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because we're polar opposites. The LGBT religion believes in self-expression. We believe in self-denial.

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The LGBT religion believes man can be like God. We believe God became man.

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The LGBT religion celebrates pride. We as Christ followers celebrate humility. They say you're born

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this way. We say you must be born again. The religion says I'm perfect just the way I am.

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The gospel is I'm a sinner. Every single person fallen short of the grace of God and I need a

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loving Savior. One worship sex, the other worships God. LGBT says love is love. Listen,

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that sounds so nice, right? By the way, a lot of wokeism comes under the cover of love and tolerance

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and compassion. But I cannot be more tolerant than Jesus. I can't be more compassionate than Jesus.

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Sometimes I've scolded my son, right, like once or twice in your life. Do you know, come here. I

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just want everybody to see how good-looking my 10-year-old is. He just turned 10. For his birthday,

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he got a smart watch and he leaned over during worship and said, Mom, it says my heart rate went

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up when I began to worship Jesus. But do you know what the Bible says? It says that a man who

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doesn't discipline his children hates his children. And so in my love, I've had to draw lines,

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right? And you're so grateful for that, I know. I wasn't either at 10, but later I went,

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oh, mom and dad, you should have used the belt more. And so saying what the word says is an

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expression of love. We're going to receive communion right now. I'd like every head bowed, every

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eye closed first. You know, Jesus, he's been touching your heart. The Bible says that sin,

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in order for it to be removed, it must be punished. That's why God came in the form of man as the

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person of Jesus. To live the life we should have lived. He lived perfectly and never sinned.

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And then he went to the cross in our place and received the wrath that we should receive for

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our sin. He received it in himself. He was punished for our crimes. And the Bible says, if you believe

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that, it's a faith thing. If you believe that he did that for you, you can receive him as your Lord

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and Savior. And you'll be born again. You'll be forgiven. You'll be made a new creature.

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If you want to receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, I want you to lift your hand up right now.

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I'm not going to ask you to get up out of your seat, but I will say a prayer together with you.

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Lift your hand right now. Thank you. I see that hand. I see that hand. I see that hand. Who

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else? Lift your hand up. Lift your hand. Who else? Thank you. I see those hands.

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And God sees them even more importantly. Who else? Thank you, Jesus.

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Okay, you can put your hands down. We're all going to pray this together. Those of you who lifted

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your hands, I want you to say this extra loud. It's important you say it out loud.

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And those of you who have lifted your hands, I want you to go to the hospitality table afterwards

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and tell people there that you made this decision so we can just follow up with you.

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We're here. Where you go now after this is up to you. We're here. And we want to take you and

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lead you in the things of God. But we're all going to say this prayer together. Everybody,

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especially those of you who lifted up your hands, say this Lord Jesus, I believe. I believe in you.

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I believe you went to the cross. I believe you died in my place. I believe my sin was punished

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in you. You do that for me because you love me. I receive you as my Lord and my Savior. In the name

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of Jesus, I'm a new creation. I'm heaven bound. And I'm a friend of God. 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 or if you would

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