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I've asked God to bless my mess. Look, there's times where I make a mess of things and then

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I'm trusting, oh God, make it all work together for your good. I'm sorry, I repent, I made

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a mess. Please take this trash and garbage I created and refine it and recycle it into

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gold. That's especially effective when you've gone ahead in the spirit and prayed it through

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in your heavenly language. Hallelujah.

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

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Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us. If you want to connect with City

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Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com, that's citylightnyc.com. Pastor Boyan Jansik

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and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts

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

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you are surrounded by His grace and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

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Well, today is Pentecost Sunday. What does that mean? It means that we're celebrating

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what happened on the day of Pentecost, Pentecost meaning 50, 50 days after the Passover. It's

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the birth of the New Testament church. It's the first time the Holy Spirit was given two people.

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Prior to that, the Holy Spirit would just light upon people for a specific task, a mission,

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the Old Testament prophets didn't have the Holy Spirit indwelling them like He does Christians

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today. He lighted upon them. He would come off of them. But on the day of Pentecost, because Jesus

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was glorified, He went to the cross and was resurrected, people sins were forgiven. For the first

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time, what Jesus did on the cross, that hadn't been done before in the Old Testament with the

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animal sacrifices, that was just an atonement, a covering for sin. The cross caused the remittance of

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sin. Your sin has been taken out of the way. Your sin has disappeared when you placed your faith in

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Jesus. And now you can have the very spirit of God come and live inside of you. And this is one of the

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most misunderstood topics in the Bible. It really is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, being filled with

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the Holy Spirit, being baptized in the Holy Spirit. It's very, very misunderstood. And that's because

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Satan, he knows that once you get filled with the Holy Spirit, it's over, baby. And so he comes and

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tries to bring confusion. And really, when you just let the scriptures speak for themselves, there

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shouldn't be any confusion. I'm just saying there's some obscure passages. You just wonder, I'm

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wondering what this means. But not concerning with the baptism in the Holy Spirit, because we have a

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map in the book of Acts for how people were filled, what happened when they got filled, and we see the

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same pattern over and over and over again. So we can learn from that. We don't have to over

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complicate it. I think when man gets involved, they read into it more than they should, and they

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overcomplicated. It's actually quite simple. And it'll change and transform your life. I don't want

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to fly coach when first class is available. If I have a, you know, if I'm going on a cruise, and I

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have the balcony cabin, I'm not going in the inner cabin. So Jesus, with his own blood, paid the way

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and made this available to everyone, I don't understand why somebody would take less than what he's

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offering, unless they just don't know. Well, that's my job. I want to get you to know. I want to show

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you what's all in the benefits package. You didn't read the pennies. You got to read the pennies.

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In fact, the psalmist cried out, Lord, bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not any of his

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benefits. Even the psalmist cried out, Lord, help me to keep the penny package in the forefront of my

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mind, because the enemy comes and tries to get me to forget. Let's read Acts chapter 8, verses 14

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through 20. I want to start right here, because it shows us how, in the new covenant, our forefathers,

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their early apostles, how they operated. It says, now, when the apostles who wear Jerusalem

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heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, everybody just say received the Word of God.

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That means that the town, the area of Samaria, more than a town, excuse me, the region. But

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there was such a bold proclamation of the word that the majority got saved. It was a radical

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revival. They received the Word of God later. You'll see they got baptized in water, too.

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But that wasn't enough for the first century apostles.

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Some things have been distorted in our modern-day version of Christianity. Like, for example,

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did you know the altar call is only about a 200, 250-year-old invention? Did you know that?

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Some of you thought the altar call was, some of you think Jesus implemented the altar call.

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Charles Finney is credited with starting the altar call.

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And, I mean, when he gave an altar call, you had to change your underwear.

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And the power of God came into the place in the conviction of the Lord, and people came running

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and sobbing to the front. But then, over time, that devolved into something that sounds like

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this. Won't you just pray Jesus into your heart? Just pray Jesus into your heart. The gospel has

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never been, just say this quick five-second prayer with me and pray Jesus into your heart.

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It doesn't exist. The message of the gospel has always been, surrender your life to Jesus. Come to

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Him. Surrender to His Lordship. Give Him your whole life and trust in Him for His righteousness.

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Believe, and you will be saved. Except the word believe doesn't just mean, uh-huh, I believe.

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It means, stake your life on, cling to, trust in, with every fiber of your being, believe,

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not a mental ascent. So that, you see how that just got changed into, won't you just say this

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quick prayer with me? And then, we wonder why there's people who fill out con-conven-um-not

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connection cards, but... Commitment cards, thank you. Commitment cards, and then you call them

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up to check on how they're doing, and they don't even remember praying your 10-second prayer.

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I mean, oh, we're not supposed to judge. Yeah, I'll judge that. Nothing happened.

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Something's, if they don't remember getting saved, they're not. Amen.

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And something similar happened with the baptism of the Holy Spirit. People don't know,

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they haven't been provoked into a godly curiosity to find out more about it, but there is this wonderful

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thing called indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the baptism in the Holy Spirit, also called receiving

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the Holy Spirit, also called being filled with the Holy Spirit. It all means the same thing.

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It's a Christian who's got their sins forgiven. They're on their way to heaven, but they get filled

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with the Holy Spirit. So you can be a Christian who's not filled with the Holy Spirit. I'll show

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you in the scriptures. What does that mean? Well, it means you're going to heaven, you know the Lord,

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except you're flying in coach. Why? I don't want to show up to heaven and find out I could have had more.

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Amen. Some people are going to be very, very saddened. They're going to get to heaven,

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and they live to just a dry, miserable life on earth looking like they were baptized in lemon juice,

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and find out, go to heaven and find out they could have had a drink all along.

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They could have drunk from God's new wine all along, and I'm like, oh, I was so sour and uptight

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all my life. I didn't know this was available. Well, I hope to never leave you with that excuse.

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You'll know what's available. Now, when the apostles were Jerusalem, they heard that Samaria had

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received the Word of God. They sent Peter and John. This is not the B team, not the C team,

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but the A team. Peter and John, the dynamic duo, they sent them to Samaria. Why? Samaria had

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already received the Word of God, because the apostles said, but you're on the right track,

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but there's more. We're the next verse. Who, when they had come down, pray for them that they

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might receive the Holy Spirit. Verse three, the third verse, verse 16, four, is yet he had fallen

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upon none of them. Wait, what? They were only baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Wait, what?

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They got saved. Today, if someone goes on a mission's trip and says, hey, I'm in this region,

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like 85% of the region accepted Christ. We don't clap, cheer, and forget about it.

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Like that's enough. The apostles said, no, no, there's more. Well, do they get baptized?

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And what are, yeah, they got, in fact, the scripture almost belittles it. It doesn't

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be little baptism, but it's, they had only been baptized. Today, we'd celebrate, wow, you,

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you not only got them all saved, but they also got baptized in water. Job complete, not the first

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century church. No, no, they said, Peter and John, show time, baby, go all the way down to

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Samaria and leave them into the deeper things, leave them into the greater things, get them filled

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with the Holy Spirit. So the 18 Peter and John comes to Samaria. Next verse 17, then they laid hands

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on them and they received the Holy Spirit. That's got to plan for every Christian to receive the

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Word of God and get saved to be water baptized and then to be filled to receive, to be baptized

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with the Holy Spirit of God. Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.

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And when Simon saw, now this is a deep, deep revelation. Buckle your seatbelt. The fact that the

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scripture says that Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles hands the Holy Spirit

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was given, that means there was something to see. All right, hold on. Let me use a more provocative

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word. That means there was a manifestation because there's this whole camp and Christianity that

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just believes, well, I just received the Holy Spirit by faith. Well, how do you know? How do you

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know you received? Well, you know, I just, and then they ask like with a question mark at the end,

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because I believe I do. What was the evidence? Well, how about the fruit of the Holy Spirit? The

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fruit of the Holy Spirit is great. I love the fruit of the Holy Spirit. May the Lord increase the

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fruit of the Holy Spirit. But it doesn't say, and we'll read all the accounts of people getting

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filled with the Holy Spirit. It doesn't say they came out with more kindness, goodness, temperance,

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love, joy, peace, meekness. There was a physical evidence. And you will see that every single time

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in the Scriptures where it's noted what the physical evidence was, the physical evidence is

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speaking in tongues. Speaking in another language, you were never ever taught.

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The Holy Spirit supernaturally fills you and gives you the utterances.

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This is why the enemy comes against this. This is why for some of you, when I mentioned speaking

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in tongues, you immediately flash back to some documentary of some Appalachian church where the

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Dancin' around with snakes and saying some gibber jabber. No. How are you saying this stuff in

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New York City? Take your shoes off and go dance barefoot in the mountains if you're going to be

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preaching this. Thank you, too. It's worth it just for the laughter of two people, because it's from

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the heart. Simon saw. There was a physical manifestation. He saw that through the laying on of

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the apostles' hands, the Holy Spirit was given. Look, I just have to say this.

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You cannot put God in a box. And it's not his job to make you feel comfortable and do things

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your way. God is not Burger King. It's not your way right away. God is God. We conform to him. He

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does not conform to us. I didn't make it this way. God made it this way. I'm going to show you,

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if you're not convinced then I don't expect you to be convinced yet. All throughout the book of

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Acts, which is our map, it's our blueprint and how the church should function. All throughout the

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book of Acts, immediately when they were filled, they spoke in other tongues. And it's powerful.

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It doesn't make you weird. It makes you more like Jesus. Christianity is not a frontal lobe

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in, sanitized, Western faith. People in America have tried to make that. Christianity is an

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Eastern faith, a supernatural faith, an experiential faith. And yes, a faith that actually gets results

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and produces a manifestation in this natural realm. Amen. That makes some hoidy, toyty or scared

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people even more scared. The only thing I can tell you is yield surrender. You cannot make God

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into your own image. You conform as you've been made in his image. The only time, and I'm doing

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that one first, where it doesn't specifically say tongues, but it says that Simon saw something.

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He offered the money, saying, give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may

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receive the Holy Spirit. He saw, he was so impressed by what was happening as the apostles laid hands

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on the Christians and they were filled with the Holy Spirit. He wasn't even saved, but he

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recognized real power and he offered the money for that same ability. And of course,

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Peter said to him, your money, perish with you because you thought that the gift of God

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could be purchased with money. Hallelujah. Let's go to Romans chapter 8. I want to talk about tongues.

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The Bible says, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. What are those weaknesses? Well, it defines

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them in the next line. A weakness is we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the

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Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. So here's the

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weakness that we all have in common. We're wondering what the future holds. We have problems right now

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and in English, in our mother tongue, whatever that may be, in the vernacular, we may be stumble

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about in prayer. Like I know several things about my future right now. God is good. God is with me.

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God wants to show his loving kindness, his covenant kindness to me. This is what I'm believing.

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But the specifics sometimes elude me. I know I'm going to have the best summer of my life.

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But I don't know the specifics. I know we're going to close out 20, 25 in a bang. But I don't know

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the specifics. That's a weakness. In fact, even the Apostle Paul, when talking about the Spirit

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realm and the future, he said, we behold through a glass dimly, a glass is a mirror. And back then

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they didn't have pretty mirrors like we had today. What they really had was a highly polished piece

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of bronze or brass. That's how they would see their reflection. And so you can imagine, although

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they can see there's still a wet and some details for the most part, it was blurry. That's how it

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often is when looking into the future. By the way, that's how it is for me. And every pastor I know,

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every vent, that's how it is. I have to say that because when I was a young Christian,

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I thought pastors just knew the future. I just thought of it. David Wagner can prophesy over people,

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but for himself, he's beholding through a glass dimly. That's how the Lord does it. So you have

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to rely on him. He's not going to show you the whole movie. He'll give you some snapshots. Maybe

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a five second clip of the movie, a trailer, a teaser, if you will. So you don't know how to pray

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specifically for the details, but when you pray in tongues, like when I, you don't have to be weird

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about it. You don't have to swing from the light bulb as you're doing it, shouting, foaming at the

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mouth. You can converse with the Lord as you're praying out of your spirit. And the Holy Spirit is

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utilizing my vocal cords and going to my future and praying the perfect will of God. So I have a

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weakness. I don't know how to pray as I ought, but the Holy Spirit within me, he makes intercession for

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me with these groanings of intercession, which cannot be put in intelligible speech. Next verse,

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now he who's, this is really the power of praying in tongues and speaking in tongues. Now he who searches

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the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is because he makes intercession. The Holy Spirit now

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is praying through you for you. And I got to say, some people say, I was praying in tongues for

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my friend. You really weren't. I know you'd like to think that you were praying in tongues for you.

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It doesn't say that we're praying in tongues. It says, I edify myself. I edify myself. I strengthen

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myself. It's not for someone else. It's for you. You're the beneficiary of it. And when you pray in

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tongues, the Holy Spirit is making intercession for you according to the will of God. So when you're

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praying in tongues, you don't have to wonder, I hope God agrees with this prayer. I hope this is in

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line with his will. You're actually, and it's a beautiful thing. You're bypassing the mental mess

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that's up here. You know how many times I've gone to pray? And when you go to pray, you go with some

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anxiety sometimes. You go with some doubt sometimes. And the heavier the attack, the more uncertain

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than cloudy your future is. And then I'll start praying in English. And I can't even get that far.

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It's like I had a wall. What do I pray? That's my weakness. But the Holy Spirit who searches the

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deep things, prays through me according to the will of God. What a secret weapon. What a distinct

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advantage. And then verse 28, this is like every Christian's favorite verse right after I can do

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all things through Christ to strengthen me. This is like my favorite verses taken out of context.

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This would be number two. And we know that all things work together. This, you cannot untie this from

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the previous two verses. We know that all things work together for good to those who love God,

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to those who are the call according to his purpose, and especially to those filled with the Holy

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Spirit. I've asked God to bless my mess. Look, there's times where I make a mess of things,

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and then I'm trusting, oh God, make it all work together for your good. I'm sorry, I repent.

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I made a mess. Please take this trash and garbage I created and refine it and recycle it into gold.

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That's especially effective when you've gone ahead in the Spirit and prayed it through in your

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heavenly language. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. First Corinthians, chapter 14, verse 2.

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If you have never spoken in tongues, today's your day. I'm always amazed at how much the Lord

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wants this. This morning, the whole altar was filled. People started speaking in tongues within

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seconds. People who, honestly, some of the people when they came up, I was like, oh God,

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Lord, I'm going to go by faith, but some of them look rock hard. What do you, you have to do a

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miracle here? You know, it's not like they came up, oh God, they came up like, what is this guy

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going to do? And then within seconds speaking in tongues, the Lord loves this. He loves to fill people.

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So if you've never spoken in tongues today's your day, some of you, you were filled,

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but you never learned about the purpose of tongues. So you didn't keep speaking.

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But when you see how beautiful speaking in tongues is, praying in tongues, the power that's behind

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it, the baptism in the Holy Spirit is the doorway to the supernatural. If you can't walk through

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that doorway, the Lord isn't going to visit you in your dreams. He's not going to speak to you.

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He's not going to, there's a ceiling you're going to hit quickly that you don't have to hit

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when you walk through the doorway of the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

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For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God, because that's a question

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people often ask, but what are you saying? None of your business. I don't know what I'm saying.

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The scripture says I don't speak to men. I speak to God. And this is where they get tripped up.

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It's that on the day of Pentecost, when they were filled with the Holy Spirit, they actually

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did speak earthly languages. And in Jerusalem, it says they heard them all speaking these

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different languages and they recognized some of the languages. That the scripture says only

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happened one time that God did it as a specific sign and a wonder. But Paul talks about the tongues

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of men and the tongues of angels. Like I just spoke in tongues and you may be going, well, I don't

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know what language that is. I don't either. It could be a tongue that's in heaven. You think God,

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like speaks English? Is that how you think it's going to go down? When God created the world,

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do you think he did it in English? When he said let there be, that's how some people

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didn't even thought about these things. He actually has a language and he's so diverse and so big

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and such a creator, dare I believe that he has many, many languages. And all you have to do,

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I watched recently a news reporter out of Kazakhstan speaking and it sounded like a car

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storming to me. And it sounded like, and I thought to myself, no, that's a language.

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But I don't know, but I don't know that language. So to me, it sounds like he's got an old

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Suzuki that just won't start. And then people will judge tongues. Oh, it just sounds like you're

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saying the same six words. It sounded like he was saying the same three words and he's giving the news.

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For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God for no one understands him.

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However, now this is a key and it requires faith in the spirit you speak mysteries.

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Like for me years ago, I was massively in debt. How to get out was a mystery.

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You may be here today. You feel like God is taking you to a different place, a better place.

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But the steps to that place are a mystery. You may be in a bad marriage. God wants to make it a

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great. You made your decision. You don't bail. So how do you get God to turn it around?

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That's a mystery. The Bible says you can pray out these mysteries. There were times when I was

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hurting, when I was anxious, when I was confused. And in English, I was all prayed out. I was done.

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I was spent. I was sick of forking me. I'm done. Well done. That good and faithful servant.

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All I had, all I had then was, I'm praying out to God. I'm going and I'm saying everything right.

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Do I know what I'm saying? No, but it's by faith. My understanding is not fruitful. I didn't make

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that up. Paul said that. My mind doesn't know what I'm saying. God made it that way on purpose,

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because it would freak you out if you knew what you were saying. If you knew what you were

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praying about for your future, distant or immediate, is oh no, Lord. Don't do that. That's too much.

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He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. So a couple

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of things we've learned. When you pray in tongues, you give thanks well, you're praying out the

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mysteries, you're praying completely in line with the will of God and you give thanks well. Hallelujah.

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And then verses 14 through 18. For if I pray in a tongue, by the way, this is the Apostle Paul.

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He wrote half the New Testament. If you believe he wrote the book of Hebrews and he wrote two thirds

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of the New Testament. And he spoke in tongues. You know who talked about speaking in tongues?

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Jesus. I couldn't believe it. When I got saved and I read that in Mark chapter 16, verse 16,

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he says these signs will follow those who believe they will speak with new tongues. I was shocked.

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Nobody ever mentions that. Jesus talked about it. And then you know what, people, some people just

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resist what God wants to do. So they'll do say things like, well, did Jesus speak in tongues?

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No. He didn't have to. He already had a hotline to heaven. I need help. He already had the direct

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direct line. He didn't have to worry about not praying in line with the Father's will.

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He only did what he saw the Father do, said what he saw the Father heard what he saw the Father.

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You know what I'm saying. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit, see that's the thing your Bible up here

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can be a mess. You're not doing a frontal lobe in prayer. Some of you, you do yourselves a

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favor by stopping the panicky anxious prayers. You got to understand there's faith and there's fear.

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I feel like going in this route a little bit. Listen, it was T. L. Osborne, famous crusade evangelist

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went up and down Africa mighty moves of God in miracles. His wife, Daisy Osborne got cancer

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and they made the mistake of letting everybody know and they wanted prayer support. So they

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they sent out a partner letter saying, Daisy's got to please pray for her. And they noticed she

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got worse, not better. And so he fasted and sought to Lord and here's what he what he says he heard

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in the spirit. He said, stop them. I'm getting this the Lord speaking. I'm getting tens of

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thousands of anxious prayers and they're hurting not helping. You cannot miss anxiety and worry

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and fear with your prayers. It has the opposite effect. Fear pulls into your life which you don't want,

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the thing you're afraid of. Faith pulls into your life that thing you're believing God for from

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his word. So I want to bypass my mind which can be riddled with anxiety and pray right out of my

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spirit. And you can too once you're baptized in the Holy Spirit. My understanding, well I don't

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know what I'm saying. It's unfruitful. Verse 15, what is the conclusion then? I will pray with the

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spirit and I will pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit and I will also sing

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with the understanding. So Paul also says you can sing in tongues that's singing in the spirit.

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How many of you have ever sung in tongues? Yeah. You can sing with the understanding that's in the

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vernacular English for us. Sing in the spirit. Pray in the spirit. Pray with the understanding.

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Verse 16, otherwise if you bless with the spirit how will he who occupies the place of the uninformed

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say amen at your giving of thanks since he does not understand what you say? For indeed you give

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thanks well again when you speak in tongues you're giving thanks well but the other is not

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edified and this is the Apostle Paul he says I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all.

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Listen if it's good enough for Paul it's good enough for me and it's available to everyone today

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because nothing has changed this is the new covenant dispensation. Hooray we're still in the new

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covenant. We're still a part of this dispensation and Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever.

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This is available to all today. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. So let's go to Luke.

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Luke chapter 24 verse 49.

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Speak in tongues every day. Speak in tongues in the shower. Speak in tongues as you're getting ready.

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Speak in tongues as you're cooking. It helps you stay plugged in. It keeps you submitted to the Lord.

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It's like you know when the Tesla's in my neighbor now I just see every third person has a Tesla

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and they at night stick it in. That's what happens when you speak in tongues. You're getting charged

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up. Some of you are driving around with 12%. Don't you drive around life with 12%. You want to be

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at 100%. Speak in tongues as you're getting hooked up to the greatest conductor of power and

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energy. God himself and as you're speaking in tongues you're getting edified. You're getting

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strengthened. You're speaking out mysteries. You're giving thanks. Well your human battery. God is

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charging up. That's what I believe Paul was talking about in Ephesians. He said I pray that you

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would be strengthened in your inner man. Your spirit and actually I believe has an energy level.

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There's times where I feel like right now I'm exhausted physically. We got back anyway I won't

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give into details but I didn't get the bet till 2 a.m. So physically I'm exhausted right now but my

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spirit I feel on you. But there are times where where you know you don't want to be at a place.

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This is where dangerous things happen when you're great physically and you're exhausted spiritually.

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Oh that's when trouble happens because then you're getting ahead of yourself. You know you're

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you got the strength to carry out a lot of stupid things and your spirit is too weak to stop you.

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So I want to juice up and get my spirit to 100%. This is Jesus after the resurrection talking to

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his disciples who spent three three and a half years with him. You think they'd be ready for

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ministry right now but they're not. He says behold I send the promise of my father upon you

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but Terry in the city of Jerusalem until you are in dude with power from on high. Now to anyone

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sitting here and saying look I received Jesus and I'm just happy with that I just ask you what

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would Jesus say to you? His disciples received him and he didn't say guys you're set go on and

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take the world for me. He said you spent three three and a half years with me. You were I

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witnesses to every miracle to every parable you were I witnesses even to the resurrection and

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you're still not ready go to Jerusalem until you're in dude with power from on high until you're

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filled with the Holy Spirit until your acts chapter 2 until your day of Pentecost it then you

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can go out. So who are we to think we're better than the disciples if they weren't ready without

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the baptism of the Holy Spirit how could I be ready? Hallelujah so Acts chapter 1 verse 8 kind of

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a continuation of Luke 2449 these are the final words of Jesus pretty important Christ's final

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words in the very next verse he's taken up into heaven and his final words are you shall receive power

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see without a Pentecostal Christianity and I'm not talking about the denomination no matter

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Pentecostal a spirit filled Christianity you have a lukewarm dry Christianity I wouldn't I wouldn't

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have made a three months as a Christian I wouldn't have I thank God for the Holy Spirit thank God

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that he goes ahead of you that he puts his super over your natural when I see what he's done

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around city light only he can get the glory thank God for the Holy Spirit thank God that sometimes

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I think what I should preach I've been preparing all week and then if he says preach something different

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I'm immediately yield because I've learned his ways it better than my ways thank God for the Holy

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Spirit the Holy Spirit who will lead you and guide you and all the affairs of life thank God for the

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Holy Spirit you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses

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to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost parts of the earth of the

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end of the earth now Acts chapter 10 I want you to see every example of people getting filled with

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the Holy Spirit and I'm also teaching you I hope you realize that how to interpret scripture

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because deception is very very nasty you know why because it's so deceiving

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and deception has only and the only antidote for deception is the purity of the word of God

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and I don't want you to be deceived and deceivers are everywhere mainly the internet but they're

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everywhere actually used to be a lot more spread out they were in the street corner they were

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on the radio they were in TV now they're just almost exclusively on Facebook and Instagram

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while Peter was still preaching can you believe the Holy Spirit had the audacity to interrupt Peter's

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sermon and notice no alter call was given Charles Finney hadn't come around yet

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the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word now how do they know the Holy Spirit fell

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upon all those who heard the word how do they know

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because something happened what does it say in the very next verse

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and those of the circumcision who believed were astonished as many as came with Peter

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because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also how did they know

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for they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God if it's just this one verse it should seriously

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if you're not filled with the Holy Spirit they should seriously cause you to want to explore

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this concept even more but there's not only one verse there's multiple verses and that's what I was

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trying to say about deception and fighting deception when it comes to doctrine you need at least two

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or three very clear verses to establish doctrine and who taught us that some pastor no the Bible

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the Bible says led out of the mouth of two or three witnesses everything be established

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and that's you'll see other call it arms of Christianity they don't follow that so they come

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up with all weird kooky doctrines like for example this is going to hurt some people's feelings but

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that's my job in Roman Catholicism they worship Mary there's no we don't worship we venerate I've

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seen pictures of people crawling underneath a quarter of a mile in Mexico to kiss the foot of a

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statue with tears in their eyes they're worshiping you're praying to Mary you're worshiping Mary

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you you sometimes talk way more to Mary than you do to Jesus and then when I ask for scriptural

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proof they'll come back to only one verse which doesn't even make sense but they say well you know

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Gabriel greeted her and he said Hail Mary you are full of grace and blessed are you among women

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okay that's beautiful doesn't say to pray to her doesn't say to get her to be your mediator

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doesn't say God is an angry father and you know you need to talk to his mother because she'll

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calm him down which is what was taught that's actually what's taught the Jesuits taught that

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you know and they'll use the example you know in real life the father

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you know the father's just emotional he'll just snap like that but Mary's like okay hold on now

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give him give him another chance

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but the point is that all comes from one verse taken out of context so don't let you be that sucker

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the reason why I go through all these verses is so that you don't believe what I say so that

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you believe what God says through his holy word so that no one can deceive you amen

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then Peter answered oh this is awesome so can anyone forbid water they weren't even baptized in

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water yet never answered an alter called didn't even have time to fill out a commitment card

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they're just hearing the word of God and on the inside going yes I believe this and they get saved

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and start speaking in tongues and then Peter says all right you went straight to third base from

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first let's get you to second base now and get you water baptized can anyone forbid water

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that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have in other words

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he's saying I recognize what's happening here because the same thing that happened to us back in

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Acts chapter 2 is happening to them they receive the Holy Spirit just as we have right with the

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evidence of speaking in tongues and then verse 48 and he commanded them to be baptized in the name of

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the Lord and they asked them to stay a few days let's now go to Acts chapter 19 and I'll close with

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this I've taken you now with this passage through every instance of someone getting filled with the

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Holy Spirit in the Bible Acts chapter 2 Acts chapter 8 Acts chapter 10 and now Acts chapter 19

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and you should find a pattern an initial physical manifestation and it happened while Apollo

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was at Corinth that Paul having passed through the upper regions came to Ephesus and finding some

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disciples what were they disciples they were believers and this is what he asked them did you

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receive the Holy Spirit when you believed I don't know if you're catching the significance of this

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question today we meet Christians all the time and we just assume they're filled we just not we're

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just happy for them to say I believe in Jesus oh good good I don't let's work for me

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but that's not how the Paul that's not how the Apostle Paul ministered he found believers they

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believed in Jesus they were saved and he asked them but have you received the Holy Spirit imagine

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if you ran around from church to church and asked every Christian you're Christian great you receive

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the word great you got baptized in water great have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed

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yet that's what the Apostle Paul did did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed

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hint he knew they hadn't he felt a stirring in his spirit he wanted to leave them into more

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excellent things into the greater things of God that's what today is about God wants to take you

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higher he wants to give you everything he paid for with his own blood for you to have why why would

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you leave anything on the table it's good to be spiritually hungry it's good to be even spiritually

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I use the term greedy I know it has a as a bad connotation but Jesus said zeal for my father's house

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has consumed me that it's not a greedy like a carnal greediness it's a spiritual zeal God I want

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all that you have for me they said we have not so much has heard whether there is a Holy Spirit

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then Paul said into what then where you baptized so they said into John's baptism

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then Paul said John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance saying to the people that

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they should believe on him who would come after him that is on Christ Jesus and when they heard

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this they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus and when Paul had laid hands on them also

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different ways of receiving the Holy Spirit this is the second time that we see the laying out

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of hands as a means of transferring the Holy Spirit Acts chapter 10 there was no laying out of

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hands they just with an open heart received and began speaking in other tongues same thing in

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Acts chapter 2 there was nobody there's nobody who had the Holy Spirit to administer him by the

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laying out of answer they received from heaven directly and you can receive that way too you can

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receive through the laying out of hands in about five minutes too but when they were filled with the

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Holy Spirit when the Holy Spirit came upon them there was evidence there was a physical manifestation

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they spoke with tongues and prophesied worship team come on up the Holy Spirit is here right now

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the Holy Spirit loves to fill people with himself and the main thing for those

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desiring to be filled with the Holy Spirit this really is the main thing because Satan gets up

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in your head and the first thing he makes you feel unworthy he makes you condemned he tells you

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oh you still have so many issues in your life go clean yourself up and then come back to be filled

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with the Holy Spirit that's completely backwards that's like trying to lose weight to get to the

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gym that's like trying to get better before you check into the hospital God wants you right where

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you are as long as your faith is in Jesus and you've acknowledged him as your Lord and Savior you

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qualify and God get this God does not have to give the Holy Spirit do not picture God in heaven

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holding his spirit back and if he likes you enough he has already given him when the day of

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Pentecost circa two thousand years ago the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit was given and he's been

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here ever since so then what's the problem well you need to receive God doesn't have to give

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you need to receive so don't come up here with that mindset of our hope God gives me no you just

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need to yield relax and receive so every head bowed every eye closed please say this allowed

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with me say Lord Jesus I believe in you I believe you took my sins away on the cross I trust you

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for your righteousness and now everybody here who wants to be filled with the Holy Spirit with

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the evidence of speaking in tongues I want you to raise your hand you got to forget about others

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yeah keep that hand up high can't be self-conscious those of you with your hands lift it up

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stand and come on up to the front and face me the ushers will come and they're just gonna line you

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up in a straight line thank you Lord and just begin praying when you come up here just be praising

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hallelujah thank you Jesus and those of you in your seats be blessing them and releasing the

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anointing upon them oh is it gonna be awesome thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Lord

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thank you Jesus now I'm gonna just set up some ground rules number one do not speak English

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you can't speak in tongues in English at the same time number two do not speak Spanish

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don't speak Chinese Portuguese we got over 80 nations at city light I can't list every language but do not

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speak a known language refuse to speak a known language and know this God is not gonna possess you

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he's not gonna take you over he's gonna gently give you utterances you might start with stuttering

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with stammering yield do not judge yourself do not analyze what you're saying I don't care if you

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start up saying yeah but dad but do scuba do be day do not judge yourself just open your mouth

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and begin speaking the Bible in fact says with stammering lips and another tongue will I speak to

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this people so in the beginning it'll be stammering stuttering the devil will say you're foolish

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stop that do not back off yield even more say the next thing refuse to speak in English or whatever

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language you know yield to him lift your hands up high and say this Lord Jesus oh I trust you

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you pay the price for the baptism in the Holy Spirit I believe the moment hands are laid upon me

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I receive the Holy Spirit and I will speak in tongues as you give me utterance now get ready the

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moment I lay my hands upon you begin to open your mouth and speak in the name of Jesus be filled

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with the Holy Spirit right now open your mouth and talk filled in Jesus name filled open your mouth

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and talk filled begin to talk open your mouth be filled some of you may start even before I get to you

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be filled no shyness say it loud move your mouth move your tongue be filled with the Holy Ghost

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be filled with the Holy Spirit say it go ahead say it you're doing great take that said see that's

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how it goes you take a deep breath say it again it's a little scary at first because you're like

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what in the world this actually works imagine that be filled with the Holy Spirit there we go keep

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talking keep talking boldly says boldly ask keep talking filled right now I lose that tongue and

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lose those lips be filled in Jesus name say it this is the city light church podcast if you've missed

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any part of today's message or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansik in

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city light church visit us at citylightnyc.com that's citylightnyc.com feel free to visit us online

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

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

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