WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.240 All God wants you to do is win, win, win, win, win, win, win. 2 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:13.040 He wants you to win so much that he came in the form of man, 3 00:00:13.040 --> 00:00:18.640 in flesh and blood, and he purchased your victory with his own blood. 4 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:21.520 That's how much he wants you to win, win, win. 5 00:00:21.520 --> 00:00:24.080 God Himself wants you to get tired of winning. 6 00:00:24.080 --> 00:00:25.440 That you'll be winning so much. 7 00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:28.560 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 8 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:35.600 Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. 9 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:41.360 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com. 10 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:44.000 That's citylightnyc.com. 11 00:00:44.720 --> 00:00:49.360 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit 12 00:00:49.360 --> 00:00:51.840 is already working in our hearts and minds. 13 00:00:52.400 --> 00:00:57.360 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, 14 00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:02.480 that you are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you. 15 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:13.120 We started this year 2025 with a word from the Lord that it was going to be an uncommon year, 16 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:20.480 a year of breakthrough, a year of moving forward, a year of Holy Spirit surprises, 17 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:25.920 a year of advancement, and we're locked in, amen. 18 00:01:26.960 --> 00:01:29.760 It's not some New Year's resolution because it's April. 19 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:30.960 Can we all say that it's April? 20 00:01:30.960 --> 00:01:32.080 Don't repeat after me. 21 00:01:32.080 --> 00:01:35.280 In the first service, I was quite blessed by the encouragement. 22 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:37.120 Everybody said together, we're in April. 23 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:39.920 But I mean technically it's the last day of March, but it's April already. 24 00:01:40.800 --> 00:01:41.360 Tomorrow. 25 00:01:42.160 --> 00:01:42.880 Is it? No. 26 00:01:42.880 --> 00:01:43.360 Tuesday. 27 00:01:44.960 --> 00:01:46.480 Can we just say that it's April? 28 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:53.120 You know, people have forgotten their New Year's resolutions are ready or what they were hoping 29 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:54.960 would happen in the New Year, but we're locked in. 30 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:57.440 The Lord is going to increase us. 31 00:01:57.440 --> 00:02:02.000 The Lord is advancing us, and so I want to feed you in accordance with the word of the Lord. 32 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:02.960 We're moving forward. 33 00:02:03.520 --> 00:02:10.720 I want to give you the food from the word that's going to help you receive and actually experience 34 00:02:10.720 --> 00:02:12.160 what He promised us, amen. 35 00:02:12.720 --> 00:02:16.480 For some Christians, it's enough to just talk about it and never receive it. 36 00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:17.600 I'm not like that. 37 00:02:17.600 --> 00:02:18.720 I hope you're not like that. 38 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:23.200 And I hope you realize there are Christians who are content to just talk about it. 39 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:25.760 And it's always in the future. 40 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:28.080 But that's silliness. 41 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:32.400 If we're going to talk about it and it's real, it should be manifested, amen. 42 00:02:34.320 --> 00:02:36.400 And that's why faith is so important. 43 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:38.800 I mentioned last week, hope is important too. 44 00:02:42.480 --> 00:02:45.520 On earth, there's those three things, faith, hope, and love. 45 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:49.280 Hope is important and to have a heart of hope, but hope is always in the future. 46 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:55.120 And in a way, hope will come in and support faith and hope can spark faith, 47 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:56.800 but hope is always in the future. 48 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:03.360 That's why so many Christians, they believe that life is only going to get good when they die. 49 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:05.680 Can you imagine that? 50 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:09.040 Life is something to endure, to struggle through. 51 00:03:09.040 --> 00:03:14.160 It's kind of a hell and then you die and eventually you inherit heaven in the sweet by and by. 52 00:03:15.200 --> 00:03:19.280 But we're not putting our eyes just on the future, otherwise it's always in the future. 53 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:22.720 But faith says I have it now, amen. 54 00:03:22.720 --> 00:03:28.240 Now faith is the substance of things hope for, the evidence of things not seen. 55 00:03:29.600 --> 00:03:35.200 And so I want to get you strong in your faith and my role model is Jesus Christ himself 56 00:03:35.200 --> 00:03:38.240 who was the ultimate faith preacher and teacher. 57 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:38.720 Amen. 58 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:43.040 There was a while there where the term faith preacher had a dirty name. 59 00:03:43.040 --> 00:03:44.880 Oh, is that one of those faith preachers? 60 00:03:44.880 --> 00:03:46.000 One of those faith teachers? 61 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:47.360 What other kind is there? 62 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:54.240 In order to realize how the New Testament church should flow, 63 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:58.080 how New Testament ministry should flow, you know who's a good person to study? 64 00:03:58.640 --> 00:03:59.120 Jesus. 65 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:01.200 Really? 66 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:05.200 Read the gospels, see what he focused on, see what he emphasized. 67 00:04:05.200 --> 00:04:08.640 And we should do the same thing and the same proportions that he did. 68 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:14.560 And one thing you'll find when you study the gospels and the ministry and life of Jesus 69 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:17.680 is that he talked about faith a lot. 70 00:04:18.640 --> 00:04:20.160 He taught on faith. 71 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:23.680 He constantly was provoking people to have more faith. 72 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:26.240 He would comment on people's level of faith. 73 00:04:31.200 --> 00:04:32.480 They really weren't with it. 74 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:34.000 He would say, oh, you have little faith? 75 00:04:35.520 --> 00:04:38.240 To those who really shine, he would say, great is your faith? 76 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:42.800 To the unfortunate few, he would say, where is your faith? 77 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:45.520 It was like he had a faithometer. 78 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:49.440 And he can detect the substance of faith. 79 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:52.160 Someday, what didn't even register? 80 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:56.160 And yes, indeed, faith is a substance. 81 00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:04.400 You know why I think we got messed up because in modern English, in the vernacular, 82 00:05:04.400 --> 00:05:07.040 that word faith is really misused. 83 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:08.960 Like people will ask you, what faith are you? 84 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:11.040 Are you of the Christian faith? 85 00:05:11.760 --> 00:05:12.960 Are you of the Muslim faith? 86 00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:14.400 Are you of the Buddhist faith? 87 00:05:14.400 --> 00:05:16.160 Are you of the Jewish faith? 88 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:19.040 And that's not at all how the Bible uses the word faith. 89 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:21.040 Faith is a force. 90 00:05:21.840 --> 00:05:22.800 Faith is stuff. 91 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:25.760 And it's stuff. 92 00:05:25.760 --> 00:05:28.960 Hebrews says faith is the substance. 93 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:34.800 We're robbed when we think it's just something ethereal. 94 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:36.960 Like Pixie does. 95 00:05:36.960 --> 00:05:38.000 It's just faith, you know? 96 00:05:38.640 --> 00:05:40.480 Even George Michael said, you've got to have faith. 97 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:41.440 The faith, the faith, the faith, you know? 98 00:05:41.440 --> 00:05:43.120 You just got to have faith. 99 00:05:44.640 --> 00:05:45.840 No, faith is stuff. 100 00:05:45.840 --> 00:05:52.880 Light is stuff. 101 00:05:54.080 --> 00:05:57.760 My man was brought up blown where there was 9th or 10th grade physics class. 102 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:00.240 I learned light was stuff. 103 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:03.120 Particles, photons. 104 00:06:04.320 --> 00:06:07.520 You don't think it's stuff, but you concentrate enough for that stuff. 105 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:12.160 And put the photons together and it's concentrated into laser beam middle burn through steel. 106 00:06:13.280 --> 00:06:13.760 Amen. 107 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:16.000 Air is stuff. 108 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:19.280 You don't believe air is stuff, but if 50 pounds of air fell on your head, it would hurt. 109 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:20.960 You feel that. 110 00:06:22.320 --> 00:06:24.320 Sound waves, there's stuff. 111 00:06:25.840 --> 00:06:27.760 And faith is stuff. 112 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:29.600 It's a substance. 113 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:32.240 And it's a substance that can increase. 114 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:38.000 And it's important for us to increase because everything will ever receive from the Lord. 115 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:40.800 We will receive by faith. 116 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:42.960 It always comes by faith. 117 00:06:42.960 --> 00:06:45.600 Salvation is by faith. 118 00:06:46.320 --> 00:06:48.960 Technically, it's by grace through faith. 119 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:53.120 But the channel it'll always come through is faith. 120 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:54.640 Amen. 121 00:06:55.440 --> 00:07:00.160 I'm looking at that part of the sanctuary because I'm I didn't share this in the first 122 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:03.760 ever, but I'm just reminded how in 2009, 123 00:07:05.520 --> 00:07:07.120 city light was seven years old. 124 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:10.640 And we struggled the first five or six years. 125 00:07:10.640 --> 00:07:11.840 I mean, it was tough. 126 00:07:11.840 --> 00:07:15.440 And all of a sudden got the break through in late 06, early 07. 127 00:07:15.440 --> 00:07:20.560 And by 2009, we were packed out in the Grammarcy Theatre and things were really popping. 128 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:24.000 And I felt the Lord, you remember mom, those days, the Grammarcy. 129 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:26.240 How many of you, anybody here from the Grammarcy Theatre days? 130 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:27.200 You have a melon. 131 00:07:28.080 --> 00:07:28.640 Who else? 132 00:07:29.840 --> 00:07:30.480 You were there. 133 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:32.320 You remember Grammarcy Theatre. 134 00:07:32.320 --> 00:07:36.400 And in 09, the Lord spoke to my heart and said, I want to church in Queens. 135 00:07:37.280 --> 00:07:39.040 So I didn't know any better. 136 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:41.760 I just came out the next time I said, we're starting a church in Queens. 137 00:07:43.200 --> 00:07:44.400 With the Lord put on my heart. 138 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:47.520 And it was the spring of 09. 139 00:07:47.520 --> 00:07:52.160 And also, I mean, church planters would want to just pull their hair at the way I did church 140 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:54.240 planting. It was like no planning, no strategy. 141 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:54.960 The Lord said it. 142 00:07:54.960 --> 00:07:56.000 Let's do it. 143 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:57.440 So it was spring of 09. 144 00:07:57.440 --> 00:08:02.320 And I just announced, I looked at the calendar and I said, hey, September 20th, 2009. 145 00:08:02.320 --> 00:08:03.280 That's a good Sunday. 146 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:06.320 Because all is always a good time. 147 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:08.960 And you don't want to have it too close to Labor Day. 148 00:08:09.840 --> 00:08:11.440 So third week of September. 149 00:08:11.440 --> 00:08:13.840 And we put on all our printed material. 150 00:08:13.840 --> 00:08:16.000 I get up every Sunday and say, we're starting a church. 151 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:19.520 The launch date is September 20th, 2009. 152 00:08:20.640 --> 00:08:22.000 We didn't have a place, though. 153 00:08:22.960 --> 00:08:24.640 We didn't have a place to meet. 154 00:08:24.640 --> 00:08:26.320 And because you're not in the biz, 155 00:08:27.440 --> 00:08:30.640 you might not realize there's no like hotline. 156 00:08:30.640 --> 00:08:34.320 No 800 number pastors call and say, you know, I'm in the market for a place to rent. 157 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:38.000 Give me a list of 10 buildings in a story of Queens. 158 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:41.120 I mean, if you had to get a church building, how would you do it? 159 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:42.080 The same way I do it. 160 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:44.080 I don't have any other special way of doing it. 161 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:46.240 You drive around and look for a building. 162 00:08:47.280 --> 00:08:48.800 So I did that for weeks. 163 00:08:48.800 --> 00:08:50.000 Just driving around. 164 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:53.920 If you see a good building, you take a number, you try to call, you knock on the door. 165 00:08:53.920 --> 00:08:55.040 I did that for weeks. 166 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:57.040 Nothing was coming up. 167 00:08:57.040 --> 00:08:58.560 I'd still get up the next time they go. 168 00:08:58.640 --> 00:09:01.360 September 20th, we're launching City Light Queens. 169 00:09:02.640 --> 00:09:06.480 And then one day, when I really, really didn't want to go out 170 00:09:07.520 --> 00:09:10.960 and just drive around a story, I really felt from the Lord, go out. 171 00:09:11.920 --> 00:09:15.040 And I was driving down 31st Avenue here. 172 00:09:15.040 --> 00:09:18.720 And I saw this church with a bunch of really tall grass. 173 00:09:19.920 --> 00:09:20.960 And I got excited. 174 00:09:21.760 --> 00:09:24.400 Because the church with tall grass means no one's meeting in it. 175 00:09:24.800 --> 00:09:28.320 So I parked my car, not being on the door. 176 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:30.480 And a priest opened it up. 177 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.680 He later, he told me he'd come in two or three times out of the year. 178 00:09:35.680 --> 00:09:38.080 And I ran into one of those two or three times. 179 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:41.920 And this sanctuary was full of statues and icons. 180 00:09:41.920 --> 00:09:44.400 And what it actually was was a big storehouse 181 00:09:46.160 --> 00:09:47.280 for the Anglican Church. 182 00:09:49.680 --> 00:09:52.560 And I quickly talked to him. 183 00:09:52.640 --> 00:09:55.360 And I'm at this point, so I'm 33 years old. 184 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:58.320 But I'm wet behind the years, really young looking. 185 00:09:59.040 --> 00:10:02.640 And you know, when you're talking to somebody from high church, 186 00:10:02.640 --> 00:10:04.640 you always wonder, are they even going to take you seriously? 187 00:10:04.640 --> 00:10:06.080 Are they going to dismiss you? 188 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:09.760 Because the Anglicans, you know, they've been here for centuries. 189 00:10:09.760 --> 00:10:15.120 King George, he bequeathed, acres and acres to the Anglican Church in New York. 190 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:17.360 When how many centuries is City Lighthold? 191 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:21.360 Oh, you know, we started in 02, but we're here to wheel and deal with you, baby. 192 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:25.520 And I noticed he's taking me seriously. 193 00:10:25.520 --> 00:10:29.040 And so I had in my mind a budget what we could afford 194 00:10:29.040 --> 00:10:30.880 was $1,500 a Sunday. 195 00:10:30.880 --> 00:10:32.880 So right there, right, right where you're sitting. 196 00:10:32.880 --> 00:10:35.280 Right there, we're talking surrounded by statues. 197 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:42.320 And I said, hey, about price, what we can do is $1,500. 198 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:45.360 And he goes, $1,500 a month, you got yourself a deal. 199 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:49.760 You know, because I thought $1,500 a Sunday. 200 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:52.560 He said $1,500 a month. 201 00:10:52.560 --> 00:10:54.480 And I just, you know, that's when you try not to crack. 202 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:56.560 You're like, yes, sir. 203 00:10:59.040 --> 00:11:00.000 That's right. 204 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:02.240 What you just said is right. 205 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:04.400 $1,500. 206 00:11:04.400 --> 00:11:06.640 And do you know how much we pay to this day? 207 00:11:06.640 --> 00:11:08.640 It was $1,500 for years and years. 208 00:11:08.640 --> 00:11:10.800 I know, I think it's up to $1,900. 209 00:11:10.800 --> 00:11:13.600 Just because in the last few years, they said, all right, 210 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:16.480 we got to put in like a three to five percent cost 211 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:17.920 the living increase attached. 212 00:11:17.920 --> 00:11:21.040 Okay, so now it's, find a space like this 213 00:11:21.040 --> 00:11:24.240 for 1,900 a month with 24, 7 acts and anywhere. 214 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:26.320 How was that? 215 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:29.840 It was by faith because faith is always released 216 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:31.680 by your speaking. 217 00:11:31.680 --> 00:11:33.440 You show me what you're saying. 218 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:35.360 I'll show you what you're believing. 219 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:38.960 Faith cannot be contained. 220 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:42.000 The Bible says, if you confess with your mouth, 221 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:46.160 if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart. 222 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:50.080 So faith is one half in your heart. 223 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:52.160 But if it's just in your heart, it's saying locked up. 224 00:11:52.160 --> 00:11:53.760 It's released through your words. 225 00:11:53.760 --> 00:11:56.480 And we kept on saying, we're starting a church in Queens. 226 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:57.760 We're starting a church in Queens. 227 00:11:57.760 --> 00:11:59.200 Will do you have the money to do it? No. 228 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:00.320 Do you even have the space? 229 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:00.800 No. 230 00:12:00.800 --> 00:12:04.480 What do you have other than graphics saying that you're doing it? 231 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:05.760 That's it. 232 00:12:05.760 --> 00:12:07.280 And God said, that's enough, amen. 233 00:12:07.280 --> 00:12:08.160 And keep saying it. 234 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:10.240 Hallelujah. 235 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:14.240 So I want your faith to grow. 236 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:19.360 Because big faith means big promises received. 237 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:19.920 Amen. 238 00:12:20.560 --> 00:12:26.000 Little faith means little promises received. 239 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:27.920 I don't want you skinny with faith. 240 00:12:28.640 --> 00:12:29.920 No scrawny faith. 241 00:12:29.920 --> 00:12:31.760 I want you swole with faith. 242 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:34.000 I want you diesel. 243 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:36.160 I want you to be so pumped up with faith. 244 00:12:36.160 --> 00:12:38.960 You got to turn sideways to get inside a room 245 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:40.800 to fit through the doorway. 246 00:12:40.800 --> 00:12:45.840 Big faith, big receiving, big promises manifested. 247 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:46.400 Amen. 248 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:48.480 Hallelujah. 249 00:12:50.880 --> 00:12:55.040 Let me show you up this awesome scripture 250 00:12:55.040 --> 00:12:57.440 from Mark chapter four, verse 30. 251 00:12:57.440 --> 00:12:58.400 Because Christians, 252 00:13:01.760 --> 00:13:04.480 Christians for, I'm still studying this. 253 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:05.520 I mean, I have some theories. 254 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:10.160 But Christians seem to be addicted to littleness. 255 00:13:11.760 --> 00:13:12.880 Everything is little. 256 00:13:14.400 --> 00:13:15.920 Like we're growing as a church. 257 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:19.280 And we don't really get persecuted much. 258 00:13:19.280 --> 00:13:20.800 But watch when we break a thousand. 259 00:13:21.760 --> 00:13:24.080 Then all of a sudden the persecution comes. 260 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:29.760 Only Christians are against mega churches. 261 00:13:29.760 --> 00:13:30.320 You hear that? 262 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:31.280 Oh, is that a mega church? 263 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:33.760 Like it's a, oh, that, oh, one minute. 264 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:38.160 Like the Christian church was started as a mega church. 265 00:13:38.880 --> 00:13:39.680 Yeah. 266 00:13:39.680 --> 00:13:42.080 In Acts, when the church was birthed, 267 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:44.320 Peter preached and 3,000 people. 268 00:13:45.040 --> 00:13:45.760 God saved. 269 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:48.240 And started the first mega church. 270 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:50.320 The first mega church was a mega church. 271 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:50.720 Amen. 272 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:53.120 Oh, you can be prosperous. 273 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:54.240 Just not too prosperous. 274 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:55.520 Just so your needs are met. 275 00:13:56.400 --> 00:13:57.680 Don't have any spillover. 276 00:13:59.680 --> 00:14:03.200 And then they obsess over scriptures like with the mustard seed. 277 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:04.800 Like little faith is prized. 278 00:14:04.800 --> 00:14:08.800 Like little faith is what our aim and goal should be. 279 00:14:08.800 --> 00:14:11.760 And I heard this when I first got saved all the time. 280 00:14:11.760 --> 00:14:12.160 You know. 281 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:17.120 You always know it's full of doubt and unbelief 282 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:18.800 when they start with the sing-songy voice. 283 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:21.840 You know, Jesus said, 284 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:25.120 all you need is faith, the size of a mustard seed. 285 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:26.480 And I was like, huh, huh. 286 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:28.720 I even, I say this as a confession of sin. 287 00:14:29.040 --> 00:14:35.040 I, and this was 1992, I just got saved. 288 00:14:35.040 --> 00:14:36.720 I don't, you guys were in the city of 1992? 289 00:14:37.520 --> 00:14:39.280 Where do you, people forget this? 290 00:14:39.280 --> 00:14:40.240 Do you remember? 291 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:41.600 And you may not. 292 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:42.880 But I was 18 then and I was, 293 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:46.160 that there were waves of rollerbladers everywhere. 294 00:14:46.160 --> 00:14:47.360 Like up and down 50. 295 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:48.880 That like just disappeared. 296 00:14:48.880 --> 00:14:52.240 But there would be, like, you know how everybody right now 297 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:56.080 has a $200 bike from Timo and is bringing you your Uber Eats delivery? 298 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:59.600 It was like that, except all rollerblades. 299 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:02.560 And I rollerbladed from four stills, 300 00:15:02.560 --> 00:15:05.040 down Queens Boulevard to New Life Christian Center. 301 00:15:05.040 --> 00:15:08.400 And not in New Life, New Life, what's it called? 302 00:15:08.400 --> 00:15:12.160 New Life, the book, the Christian bookstore in Jamaica. 303 00:15:12.160 --> 00:15:14.640 Yeah, and you know why? 304 00:15:14.640 --> 00:15:17.840 I got myself a mustard seed necklace. 305 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:20.240 I'm sorry, father forgive me. 306 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:25.040 It was, it was, this, as only Christians can make, 307 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:28.560 this cheap plastic but spray painted gold 308 00:15:28.560 --> 00:15:30.000 with a little, little plastic case 309 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:31.840 and inside was the mustard seed. 310 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.600 As though that's the goal to have a little, 311 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.360 it, it's a complete twist thing of the scriptures. 312 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:41.360 Jesus never, and I'll show it to you. 313 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:44.400 Jesus never prize little faith. 314 00:15:44.400 --> 00:15:46.560 He just said, this is the baseline. 315 00:15:47.280 --> 00:15:49.200 This is your starting point. 316 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:51.040 Even if your faith is little, 317 00:15:51.040 --> 00:15:52.640 don't stay there for goodness sake. 318 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:55.120 But even if it's as small as a mustard seed, 319 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:56.720 you can get stuff done. 320 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:58.560 But faith should be growing. 321 00:15:58.560 --> 00:16:00.720 Hey man, let's look at that scripture. 322 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:05.200 Then Jesus said, to what show we like in the kingdom of God 323 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:07.520 or with what parable should we picture it? 324 00:16:07.520 --> 00:16:08.720 The kingdom of God. 325 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:12.720 And this is the second time he's using the mustard seed example. 326 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:14.000 Have you ever seen a mustard seed? 327 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:15.360 It's ridiculous looking. 328 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:17.280 The size of a pinhead doesn't look like, 329 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:20.080 it looks like a piece of dust. 330 00:16:20.160 --> 00:16:22.320 But when you planted, it grows into one of the largest trees. 331 00:16:23.520 --> 00:16:25.920 The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed, 332 00:16:25.920 --> 00:16:28.320 which when it is sewn on the ground 333 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:31.520 is smaller than all the seeds on earth. 334 00:16:31.520 --> 00:16:36.800 Yet when it is sewn, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs 335 00:16:36.800 --> 00:16:40.720 and shoots out large branches so that the birds of the air 336 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:42.640 may nest under its shade. 337 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:47.760 Mustard seed faith is ever increasing faith. 338 00:16:47.760 --> 00:16:50.960 Growing faith, expanding faith. 339 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:54.480 This is basically one long intro to my sermon, 340 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:56.080 which I'm about to begin in a few minutes. 341 00:16:58.400 --> 00:17:00.240 But I am here to pump you up 342 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:04.480 to fill you like a Thanksgiving turkey. 343 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:07.520 Stuff you with the word of God and the word of God. 344 00:17:08.080 --> 00:17:10.640 Because faith is vital. 345 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:13.440 You receive everything via faith. 346 00:17:14.320 --> 00:17:17.120 So you should have big faith. 347 00:17:17.120 --> 00:17:18.880 How does one get faith? 348 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:21.360 Faith is a substance. 349 00:17:21.360 --> 00:17:22.160 It's a force. 350 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:25.520 It's a force that goes and brings the promises of God 351 00:17:25.520 --> 00:17:28.160 out of the spiritual realm into this physical earthly realm. 352 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:30.960 It makes the invisible visible. 353 00:17:31.760 --> 00:17:33.920 It's like spiritual currency. 354 00:17:34.560 --> 00:17:37.440 And by the way, you get to decide. 355 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:38.400 Isn't that good news? 356 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:39.120 Some people are scared. 357 00:17:39.120 --> 00:17:40.160 Oh, I can. 358 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:42.800 And again, Christians love to put all the blame on God. 359 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:45.840 And they think it's like giving all the glory to God. 360 00:17:45.840 --> 00:17:48.480 But they put all the blame on God and all the emphasis on God. 361 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:49.680 Oh, whatever God wills. 362 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:50.720 Huh, huh, huh. 363 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:52.240 You know, whatever. 364 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:53.120 No. 365 00:17:53.120 --> 00:17:55.040 Jesus would go up to people and say, 366 00:17:55.040 --> 00:17:57.120 according to your faith, 367 00:17:57.120 --> 00:17:57.920 be it unto you, 368 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:01.120 you get to decide in accordance with your faith 369 00:18:01.840 --> 00:18:04.240 or in proportion to your faith. 370 00:18:05.120 --> 00:18:06.480 So how much faith do you got? 371 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.520 You can go into Best Buy, get a 75-inch 372 00:18:11.600 --> 00:18:13.600 OLED TV with 20 bucks. 373 00:18:13.600 --> 00:18:14.720 You don't got enough currency. 374 00:18:15.840 --> 00:18:18.240 I want you to have big faith 375 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:20.640 overflowing spiritual currency. 376 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:21.040 Amen. 377 00:18:22.800 --> 00:18:23.680 Hallelujah. 378 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:26.400 I'm aware as I preach this. 379 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:28.160 I tell you who I'm preaching to. 380 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:28.640 Everyone. 381 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:30.000 I always preach to everyone. 382 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:32.320 But I'm really preaching and ministering to those 383 00:18:32.320 --> 00:18:35.040 who are under the gun right now, 384 00:18:35.040 --> 00:18:35.920 feeling it. 385 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:38.160 The Lord, about 36 hours ago, 386 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:39.440 I felt some people's weight. 387 00:18:39.760 --> 00:18:41.680 I felt there's people. 388 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:45.360 You did a good job just to show up today, 389 00:18:45.360 --> 00:18:46.320 but you're suffering. 390 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:48.560 Life's not fun right now. 391 00:18:48.560 --> 00:18:50.000 Life sucks right now. 392 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:50.800 You're waking up. 393 00:18:50.800 --> 00:18:51.600 No energy. 394 00:18:51.600 --> 00:18:52.800 You feel beat up. 395 00:18:52.800 --> 00:18:54.640 Hope for the future is gone. 396 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:57.520 You're barely putting one foot in front of the other. 397 00:18:57.520 --> 00:18:59.760 Every second on earth is pain. 398 00:18:59.760 --> 00:19:01.440 There's people like that right now. 399 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:02.240 God sees you. 400 00:19:03.280 --> 00:19:06.000 He knows what's not going to help you 401 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:07.040 is that they're their hog. 402 00:19:07.040 --> 00:19:07.680 They're there. 403 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:09.040 No. 404 00:19:09.040 --> 00:19:11.440 You need an injection of the God kind of faith. 405 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:12.400 Hallelujah. 406 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:13.440 That faith is going to move. 407 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:15.280 Mountain's faith is going to turn it around. 408 00:19:15.280 --> 00:19:16.000 Hallelujah. 409 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:19.200 Hallelujah. 410 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:25.600 I just said the God kind of faith. 411 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:28.560 You know where that term comes from? 412 00:19:29.360 --> 00:19:30.480 Mark 11, 413 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:33.360 where Jesus 414 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:35.440 curses the fig tree. 415 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:38.720 And then turns to the disciples 416 00:19:39.360 --> 00:19:39.920 and says, 417 00:19:41.120 --> 00:19:43.200 in many English translations he says, 418 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:44.160 have faith in God. 419 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:46.960 But I dare you to Google it 420 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:50.240 or talk to chat or grok, 421 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:51.760 wherever you're talking to right now. 422 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:56.480 And ask it what to unpack the original Greek. 423 00:19:57.280 --> 00:19:58.560 And it's more accurately, 424 00:19:58.560 --> 00:19:59.840 more closely translated to 425 00:20:00.560 --> 00:20:02.560 have the faith of God 426 00:20:03.520 --> 00:20:06.960 or have the God kind of faith. 427 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:11.840 Which is very controversial 428 00:20:12.560 --> 00:20:15.200 to those same people who love defeat. 429 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:17.600 They love smallness. 430 00:20:17.600 --> 00:20:19.040 They want you to suffer. 431 00:20:19.040 --> 00:20:20.640 A hellacious life to just die. 432 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:22.320 And then you get rewarded. 433 00:20:22.320 --> 00:20:24.320 They don't believe in victory on earth. 434 00:20:24.320 --> 00:20:26.000 If you have victory on earth, 435 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:28.000 they have faith that it's going to end soon. 436 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:29.280 So you can go to 437 00:20:29.280 --> 00:20:31.040 what's to them, normal Christianity 438 00:20:31.120 --> 00:20:32.640 of misery and suffering. 439 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:34.080 They get very upset at that. 440 00:20:34.080 --> 00:20:36.960 Oh, what's God is God? 441 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:38.800 He doesn't need faith. 442 00:20:38.800 --> 00:20:39.840 He just is. 443 00:20:39.840 --> 00:20:41.840 What do you know about what God is? 444 00:20:41.840 --> 00:20:44.880 And I'm going to take Jesus's words over yours. 445 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:47.440 Jesus said, have the God kind of faith. 446 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:48.640 Do you know when he said it? 447 00:20:49.360 --> 00:20:51.520 Right after he cursed the fig tree. 448 00:20:52.080 --> 00:20:53.440 When I was 16 years old, 449 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:54.160 newly saved, 450 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:55.600 I read Jesus cursed the fig tree. 451 00:20:55.600 --> 00:20:55.840 I thought, 452 00:20:57.520 --> 00:20:59.600 like, what did he tell it to do? 453 00:21:00.560 --> 00:21:01.040 Oh, what did he? 454 00:21:01.840 --> 00:21:03.760 I thought Jesus cursed out the fig tree. 455 00:21:05.120 --> 00:21:08.000 No, it says he cursed the fig tree. 456 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:08.640 And it doesn't. 457 00:21:11.040 --> 00:21:11.280 Yeah. 458 00:21:13.040 --> 00:21:14.560 Like, you know, you're stinging the fig tree. 459 00:21:17.360 --> 00:21:18.480 I'm going to get a fig and 460 00:21:19.280 --> 00:21:20.000 I don't know figs. 461 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:21.360 I'm like, Jesus. 462 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:24.640 Pretty emotional for the son of God, you know? 463 00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:27.040 Like, fly off the handle and 464 00:21:27.120 --> 00:21:28.640 no, listen, he calmly. 465 00:21:28.640 --> 00:21:29.440 Look at the scriptures. 466 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:30.720 He came up to the fig tree. 467 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:32.160 This is how we cursed it. 468 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:32.720 He spoke. 469 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.040 Let no more fruit grow on you from this day and after. 470 00:21:39.760 --> 00:21:41.280 And says the fig tree withered away. 471 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:48.960 So what's the God kind of faith? 472 00:21:51.760 --> 00:21:54.560 It's faith that is released when you speak. 473 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:59.280 Is it so preposterous to imagine that faith is a substance? 474 00:21:59.280 --> 00:22:02.080 It's not to me because the scripture says faith is a substance. 475 00:22:03.120 --> 00:22:04.720 But faith is a spiritual force. 476 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:08.720 When we get to heaven, it'll make sense. 477 00:22:09.360 --> 00:22:11.360 You know, electricity wasn't invented, right? 478 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:14.080 Electricity was discovered. 479 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:16.240 It's been around that whole time. 480 00:22:17.120 --> 00:22:18.880 It's discovered a little over a hundred years ago. 481 00:22:20.320 --> 00:22:23.920 But try to explain it and describe it to somebody just in the early 19th century. 482 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:27.520 Faith is a force. 483 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:29.200 Faith is a substance. 484 00:22:29.840 --> 00:22:33.680 And you see God using it in Genesis 1. 485 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:42.400 How, when he spoke, right in Genesis 1, 1, God, looking over. 486 00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:46.640 And he says let there be light. 487 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:51.920 And each of the creation commands was indeed a vocal command. 488 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:56.400 Let there be, let there be, let there be, and creation happen. 489 00:22:57.120 --> 00:22:58.720 Jesus speaks to the fig tree. 490 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:06.400 And then right after he speaks to the fig tree, curses it, he says have the God kind of faith. 491 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:13.520 In other words, have the faith, real biblical faith that believes that when you speak, 492 00:23:13.520 --> 00:23:19.120 and it's aligned with the word of God, it will happen here on earth. 493 00:23:19.120 --> 00:23:20.800 Some of your minds are getting blown away. 494 00:23:20.800 --> 00:23:22.880 You never heard anything like this before. 495 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:27.760 You need to rediscover the Jesus of the Bible and the principles that he taught. 496 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:33.440 Some of you, you have been using faith just in reverse. 497 00:23:34.080 --> 00:23:38.560 You've been cursing your own lives, speaking doubt, speaking unbelief, 498 00:23:39.120 --> 00:23:45.520 speaking death, the Bible says death and life are in the power of the tongue. 499 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:51.120 And some of you, it's the same, some of you get happy when something bad happens. 500 00:23:51.120 --> 00:23:54.720 You've had faith for something bad to happen, then something terrible happens, 501 00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:59.680 and you go I knew it, I knew it, it's always happened, I just knew it. 502 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:04.640 I'm believing, I'm believing for my landlord to throw me out for like six months. 503 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:07.520 I knew that was coming and he called me to, I just knew it. 504 00:24:08.800 --> 00:24:13.280 Imagine if you actually apply the God kind of, you've been flowing in it, you've just been 505 00:24:13.280 --> 00:24:19.440 cursing. And know what the scripture says, death and life are in the power of the tongue, 506 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:23.520 and they that love is will eat the fruit. 507 00:24:24.560 --> 00:24:30.240 They're off. They that love what? They that love this truth that you have creative ability 508 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:35.120 and power in your mouth. By the way, it all begins with salvation. 509 00:24:36.080 --> 00:24:38.960 You did not get saved with duct tape across your mouth. 510 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:44.160 You open that mouth and you said, Jesus, I believe you are Lord. 511 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:49.120 Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. 512 00:24:53.120 --> 00:24:53.760 What is all that? 513 00:24:56.080 --> 00:24:57.120 Got media preaching. 514 00:25:01.280 --> 00:25:05.840 Good try though. Whoever that is back there, that's good stuff. 515 00:25:05.840 --> 00:25:10.320 I'm going to preach it out of Mark 1123, but a very good verse. 516 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:13.760 Nonetheless, a very good one. 517 00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:22.320 Whoever's on, I can't see who's on the media, but don't mind me messing with you. 518 00:25:22.320 --> 00:25:25.440 If you didn't, there's a contract we're going to get, it's finalized now. 519 00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:30.240 You sign up for that. If you're on media, it's a relationship that we develop. 520 00:25:30.320 --> 00:25:38.880 Let me show you Corinthians. Second Corinthians 413. 521 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:51.920 Big faith comes from the Word of God. It's when your convinced of God's will and his word is 522 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:57.600 his will. See, there is nothing in the Word of God that says, you're going to begin a church 523 00:25:57.600 --> 00:26:04.480 plant in Manhattan, and then when that church plant groweth, then thou shalt surely set 524 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:10.080 thine sights upon queens. I've searched. It's not in the 66 books of the Bible. It's not in there. 525 00:26:10.080 --> 00:26:14.960 But what is in there is that he'll give you victory, that he'll be with you, that he's commanded 526 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:22.160 you to go and preach the gospel to every nation, and then he'll key came and gave me a now word. 527 00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:27.360 Fresh from the oven of heaven. Spoke something to me. Now I have his written word, 528 00:26:27.360 --> 00:26:33.920 but I also have his spoken word. What has he been saying to you? In the midst of regular 529 00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:39.520 Monday in life, in the midst of drudgery, even if you're going through it, this is why we get 530 00:26:39.520 --> 00:26:45.520 with God to hear his sweet whisperings, because he's giving you a better word, a better word for 531 00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:51.840 and if you will get a hold of that word and believe that word, it's that word that'll manifest in 532 00:26:51.840 --> 00:27:00.400 your life. Amen. And since we have the same spirit of faith, Paul teaching in Corinthians, 533 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:06.560 according to what is written, I believed and therefore I spoke, can you get any more plain 534 00:27:06.560 --> 00:27:15.200 than this? Don't tell me you're believing and not speaking. Now, you're always saying something, 535 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:20.480 even when you're depressed, busted and disgusted, you're just not speaking anything positive, 536 00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:24.640 but many people end up going through the phone instead of the throne, calling up their friend 537 00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:30.480 and then they vent. You won't believe what happened. And then one goes for 45 minutes and just 538 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:35.280 douses their buddy with slime, and then it's the buddy's turn. All right, I endured your nonsense 539 00:27:35.280 --> 00:27:39.600 for 45 minutes, and you think that's bad. Wait till I tell you how my week's been going. 540 00:27:40.560 --> 00:27:44.480 And you're prophesying your future and you're releasing faith just in reverse. 541 00:27:55.840 --> 00:28:01.040 Luke 17. Oh, no, we got to read Romans. I didn't know in the first service, but we got 542 00:28:01.600 --> 00:28:08.000 Romans because we're talking about big faith, strong faith, Romans 417, that flexing faith. 543 00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:16.160 You say, it's very hard for me to speak positively, and I know it's hard. I've struggled with that, 544 00:28:16.800 --> 00:28:21.200 because this is how I've likened it. You know, I used to say crazy glue. I guess that doesn't 545 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:26.480 exist anymore. Now it's all about that gorilla glue. But back in my day, that was crazy glue, 546 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:31.200 and the working class man, right? He put it at his heart hat. 547 00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:41.120 And the crazy glue kept them on the steel beam. It's like when you're really going through it, 548 00:28:41.120 --> 00:28:45.840 have you noticed it's like the devil himself comes and applies, if you're older, crazy glue, 549 00:28:45.840 --> 00:28:51.360 if you're younger, gorilla glue, to your lips, and seals them tight, when you're going through it, 550 00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:56.960 and why? Why does the devil want you not speaking? Because if you're not speaking, 551 00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:02.080 you're not releasing faith, and you're not creating with God. Yeah. 552 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:14.880 You think you got it bad? You say, my circumstances don't match what the word of God says. 553 00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:22.240 How can I, how can I speak? Imagine your Abraham, and your name means father of many nations. 554 00:29:23.120 --> 00:29:26.080 That's what Abraham means. And you got zero kids. 555 00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:35.840 And every party you go to, you know, he wore that little tags. Hi, hello, my name is Abraham. 556 00:29:36.800 --> 00:29:46.400 You know when, at the socials, the leasing agents open house, they have to put on the tag, 557 00:29:47.280 --> 00:29:51.920 people come and go, Abraham, that means father of many nations. Wow, how many kids do you have? 558 00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:53.120 Zero. 559 00:29:54.560 --> 00:30:00.640 Yet God had him keep saying Abraham, Abraham, Abraham, and decreeing that thing out of his mouth, 560 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:05.680 because that is how faith is released. You don't think he got discouraged? We have scriptural proof 561 00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:11.360 that he did. But he kept calling himself by his new name, Abraham. 562 00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:18.880 As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations in the presence of him whom he believed. 563 00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:28.560 God, who gives life to the dead, who gives life to the dead, everything he touches shall live. 564 00:30:29.360 --> 00:30:38.640 Oh, hallelujah. There have been times in recent history I was dead. It felt like I was just busted 565 00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:45.360 up on the inside. Sometimes life just happens. Things happen. And life just happens. Things happen. 566 00:30:45.360 --> 00:30:49.840 And then Satan comes in and he says, pushing in on that and leaning in on that wounded. 567 00:30:49.840 --> 00:30:53.920 Next thing, you know, it's like the whole world is spinning and you're just, oh, Lord, 568 00:30:53.920 --> 00:31:00.960 help me make it through the day. But God gives life to the dead. He'll turn that thing around 569 00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:07.840 so quick. If you're feeling dead today, look to Jesus. He specializes in resurrection. 570 00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:16.880 God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist, it's describing the 571 00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:23.360 God kind of faith. See, city like Queens didn't exist, but we talked about it like it did. 572 00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:31.600 And then what are the chances? I just wanted to have a normal day and Lord said, get out, 573 00:31:31.600 --> 00:31:38.480 get out, go in the car and you need to go look for a location. But I did that. The laundry might 574 00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:50.960 won't have us. And that day we ended up here. God calls those things which do not exist as though 575 00:31:50.960 --> 00:32:00.400 they did. Maybe your prosperity doesn't exist. Call it as though we did. Yeah, maybe your spouse 576 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:05.360 in your life right now doesn't exist. Call them as though they did. The breakthrough doesn't exist. 577 00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:11.280 The promotion, the increase. Call it as though it did. Hallelujah. 578 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:20.160 Who contrary to hope, in hope believed so that he became the father of many nations, 579 00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:28.400 according to what was spoken, social your descendants be. Verse 19, this is pumping now. And not 580 00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:34.400 being weak in faith, you see the Bible has categories for different kinds of faith. When heaven 581 00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:40.720 looks at me, I wanted to say he's not being weak in faith. And I've been there. Would man be 582 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:46.240 panby weak, scrawny, Mickey Mouse faith. And you know what? God would even work with that. And that's 583 00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:50.640 what Jesus meant. You need faith as a mustard seed. See that don't be happy with mustard seed size 584 00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:59.360 faith. But I work even with that. Not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body. 585 00:32:59.360 --> 00:33:02.720 He was about a hundred years old. They hadn't invented a little blue pill. 586 00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:07.200 He needed real resurrection power if you catch my drift. 587 00:33:10.800 --> 00:33:15.680 You guys are kind of young. You took health. All right. Just making sure that joke landed. 588 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:22.000 Since he was about a hundred years old and the deadness of Sarah's womb, 589 00:33:23.040 --> 00:33:28.560 I got a throat and that's how we get the religious people out. He did not waver at the promise 590 00:33:28.560 --> 00:33:35.760 of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith. That's what we're talking about this 591 00:33:35.760 --> 00:33:42.000 morning. Getting strong in faith. See when you're walking in faith, the world comes alive. It's 592 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:48.160 like going from black and white to color. Your very cells are crackling with the life of God. 593 00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:52.720 You can't wait to get up because you're like, I wonder what he's going to do today. That's God's 594 00:33:52.720 --> 00:34:00.480 best for you. Hallelujah. He was strengthened in faith. And how was he strengthened in faith? 595 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:06.800 He gave glory to God in verse 21, being fully convinced that what he had promised, 596 00:34:06.800 --> 00:34:15.280 he was also able to perform. What has he promised you? Hallelujah. 597 00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:21.760 I know what he promised me. I know that for years, the opposite of what he promised me seemed to 598 00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:30.640 be happening. That's painful, but that's where you develop endurance. The book of Hebrews talks 599 00:34:30.640 --> 00:34:36.800 about that. You have faith, but you need endurance. You need endurance. If anybody can have faith by 600 00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:43.040 the end of this sermon, no, but endurance comes on a Wednesday morning, on a Thursday afternoon. 601 00:34:43.520 --> 00:34:52.480 When you see Jenny by the water cooler again, not Jenny. I don't know about Jenny. 602 00:34:53.680 --> 00:34:57.040 It's been a rough morning. Trains delayed and now there's Jenny. 603 00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:07.680 But he's still to any Jenny's in here. I speak healing over your soul for the damage that might have 604 00:35:07.680 --> 00:35:19.040 caused you. All right, Jesus teaching on faith. Luke 17 verses 5 through 8. 605 00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:25.920 Yeah, enduring faith is during the bad times when you don't see it happening. 606 00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:37.120 The whole Bible is a collection of stories of men and women of God who didn't give up and endured. 607 00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:47.840 And the Apostles see, they got the idea. They realized, hey, this man, 608 00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:55.600 capital M, no man ever spoke like him before. He speaks with authority. The signs and wonders. 609 00:35:55.600 --> 00:36:00.080 He's definitely got our attention. He keeps teaching and preaching about faith. 610 00:36:00.080 --> 00:36:04.400 So they connected for them. You know how many Christians never even realize I need more faith. 611 00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:09.200 I need to grow stronger in faith. I need big faith. At least the disciples got it and they realized, 612 00:36:09.200 --> 00:36:15.120 okay, we're lacking in this department. So Lord, increase our faith. Next verse, 613 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:20.960 I'll tell you what the Bible doesn't say to their request, what Jesus didn't do after their 614 00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:27.120 request to increase their faith. He didn't wave his hand over them and go, more faith. 615 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:36.000 He didn't give them a book, 11 principles to greater faith. What he gave them was the word of God. 616 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:41.040 He begins preaching to them because faith comes from the word of God. 617 00:36:43.200 --> 00:36:48.080 And this is what Jesus says when they say, increase our faith. If you have faith as a mustard seed, 618 00:36:48.080 --> 00:36:52.400 now that's a misquartered all the time. If you have faith as small as a, like it's glorious to 619 00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:57.440 have mustard-sized faith. No, this is the baseline. If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say 620 00:36:57.440 --> 00:37:02.160 that this mulberry tree be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea and it would obey you. 621 00:37:03.440 --> 00:37:09.280 Next verse. And which of you, now let me just pause right here. I used to get confused by 622 00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:14.560 things like this because I was only 16, had no biblical training. And to me, it seemed like 623 00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:22.080 Jesus would teach sometimes like he had ADD. He would just bounce from topic to topic. 624 00:37:22.080 --> 00:37:26.400 Like they say, increase our faith. He talks about a mustard seed. Then he starts talking about 625 00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:31.520 servants performing tasks and duties. What does that have to do with the price of eggs? Which is 626 00:37:31.520 --> 00:37:42.640 come down, by the way. It's connected, actually. Whenever it seems like Jesus is going off topic, 627 00:37:42.640 --> 00:37:49.280 he's not. He's very good at what he does, the best. He's not going off topic. He's teaching on 628 00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:56.800 faith here. And which of you having a servant plowing or tending sheep will say to him when he 629 00:37:56.800 --> 00:38:03.360 has come in from the field, come at once and sit down to eat. But will he not rather say to the 630 00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:10.720 servant, prepare something for my supper, encourage yourself and serve me, serve me till I have eaten 631 00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:19.360 and drunk. And afterward, you will eat and drink. Is there next verse? I think that's it. That's it, right? 632 00:38:23.120 --> 00:38:31.600 That's it. What is Jesus talking about? He's saying faith is a servant. Faith is a servant for you 633 00:38:32.560 --> 00:38:41.120 designed to work for you. So get your servant to work. Amen. Maybe today we can't relate to this, 634 00:38:41.120 --> 00:38:45.360 back then people had served. Today we don't have servants. It's like hope. You know, maybe 635 00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:51.680 Tuesdays and Thursdays for a few hours just to tidy up. The Bible says faith is a servant. 636 00:38:52.000 --> 00:39:03.040 Your servant. The problem is your servants asleep. Your servants in the basement has been asleep 637 00:39:03.040 --> 00:39:11.840 before a week. He's underutilized. It actually, this servant isn't a begrudging servant. This servant 638 00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:19.040 lives to serve. This servant, it doesn't good to serve. But some people, because they're not 639 00:39:19.040 --> 00:39:24.720 releasing faith, they're not speaking faith, they're not agreeing with the word of God, some people 640 00:39:24.720 --> 00:39:30.320 servants have been asleep for a week, some people's for a month. There's Christians, they smell musty 641 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:35.120 and dusty. You can tell that they're asleep just like their faith servants is asleep like 642 00:39:35.120 --> 00:39:45.200 Rip Van Winkle for over a hundred years. Go get your servant. Wake him up. That faith servant 643 00:39:45.200 --> 00:39:50.320 brought salvation to you when you said yes to Jesus. That faith servant brought the baptism 644 00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:57.360 of the Holy Ghost to you when you said yes to the Holy Spirit. That faith servant will bring 645 00:39:57.360 --> 00:40:03.280 healing to you, blessing to you, the goodness of God to you, but you got to release in that same 646 00:40:03.280 --> 00:40:12.880 spirit of faith, believe and speak as Paul taught. Hallelujah. I feel something shifting in there. 647 00:40:12.880 --> 00:40:19.440 Some of you are getting it. Some of you got it enough to say, I better check the words that I'm 648 00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:25.360 speaking. I better check on the words that I'm saying. But then you're going to take it to another 649 00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:29.760 level where it's not just now you're not saying the cursed things you've been saying over your 650 00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:35.760 life. Now you're going to replace the saying of negative things with actually co-creating with God 651 00:40:35.760 --> 00:40:42.000 and agreeing with his word. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 652 00:40:46.560 --> 00:40:53.200 Zachariah, that's John the Baptist's dad. An angel showed up to tell him that 653 00:40:53.840 --> 00:41:01.920 Elizabeth was going to supernaturally conceive John the Baptist. He had all these questions 654 00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:09.040 for the angel and he was in ministry, a position of authority. Now I don't know about you. I'd like 655 00:41:09.040 --> 00:41:17.360 to think of a 15-foot angel showed up before me telling me stuff hour ago. Yeah. I agree. I mean 656 00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:22.400 Mary had that sense. Gabriel showed up to Mary and she said, let it be unto me according to your 657 00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:28.320 word. Zachariah has got all these questions. He wants to face two frontal lobeans, two logical. 658 00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:36.160 I mean Mary was a virgin. She should have had more doubt in unbelief. Zachariah's just couldn't 659 00:41:36.160 --> 00:41:41.280 conceive with his wife. So you know what the angel did? This is in the Bible by the way. Some of you 660 00:41:41.280 --> 00:41:46.320 are looking at me like I'm making this up as I go along. I can't show you all the scriptures. 661 00:41:47.200 --> 00:41:54.720 Kuri, the first few chapters of Luke, the angel strikes him dumb, mute. So he couldn't speak. 662 00:41:55.360 --> 00:42:01.200 Wow. Yeah, mom, thank you for that. You were always there for me with amen's and wow's. Always. 663 00:42:06.080 --> 00:42:11.920 Why? Because he was exhibiting such doubt and unbelief. The angel heard from God himself, 664 00:42:11.920 --> 00:42:15.760 I believe, and said this guy needs to, we got to put the mute button on. Lower that volume. 665 00:42:16.560 --> 00:42:20.320 Because the way this guy started, he's not going to end well and he's going to end up undoing. 666 00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:28.000 You can abort the promise of God. There are spiritual abortions. God says, I want to bless you. 667 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:32.880 I'm with you. I'm going to multiply you and you end up going, well, I don't never happen. 668 00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:36.800 And you know, the, you know, the boomers took all the wealth, you know, all the boomers, 669 00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:41.360 they didn't leave me. It's so hard for Gen Z and millennials now to get a home, you know, 670 00:42:41.360 --> 00:42:48.400 and you're committing an abortion in the spirit. Agree with God's word or agree with man. 671 00:42:48.400 --> 00:43:00.000 Pick a side. Amen. Abraham considered not his own body already dead. That means he ignored it. 672 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:07.120 He wouldn't think about it. I'm sure he had an acting voice. Bro, you're old. Bro, you're really old. 673 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:15.280 You're a hundred. You're not going to have kids. But he ignored that voice. He considered not his 674 00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:21.040 body. Whatever voice you're hearing that's saying, you can't. You look at God. You hear his voice. 675 00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:29.360 The word of God that says, you can. Hallelujah. Oh, thank you, Lord. 676 00:43:33.600 --> 00:43:36.400 Worship team, I'm going to call you up in about five minutes, just letting you know. 677 00:43:36.560 --> 00:43:45.120 First Corinthians 1557, because we, we see the importance of faith and we know faith comes from the word. 678 00:43:50.720 --> 00:43:56.320 And I'm excited to preach this message. I believe it's a reinforcing, a reinforcing to mature 679 00:43:56.320 --> 00:44:01.520 believers, but the Lord has been doing something so precious in our midst, so many new people, 680 00:44:01.520 --> 00:44:06.720 especially people that are completely new to Christianity, like I was when I got saved. 681 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:12.320 And that's who we're seeing. The Lord bring more and more of. So what you're hearing this morning, 682 00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:19.120 you probably never heard in your life before. Nothing remotely close. Study the person of Jesus 683 00:44:19.120 --> 00:44:23.200 in the gospels. You'll fall in love with him when you see him as he really is. And then you'll 684 00:44:23.200 --> 00:44:28.080 get a little bit mad because you realize religion lied to you your whole life. Renaissance paintings 685 00:44:28.080 --> 00:44:34.800 lie to you. Established mainline churches lie to you. He's different. He's unique. He's 686 00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:39.920 irresistible. It's amazing. You cannot read about him without falling head over heels and love with 687 00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:48.960 him, bowing the knee and utter respect and worship to him. Jesus. Study the person of Jesus and then 688 00:44:48.960 --> 00:44:57.120 study one of his primary teachings. Faith. And watch what happens in your life. Watch what happens 689 00:44:57.120 --> 00:45:06.960 as your faith grows. The Bible in Hebrews. It says that there was in them found an evil heart. 690 00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:12.000 When you hear evil heart, what do you think of? Like in the natural, I think of a pedophile, 691 00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:18.080 an evil heart. I think of Hitler, an evil heart, right? You know what it says? An evil heart of 692 00:45:18.240 --> 00:45:29.760 unbelief. That's what's evil. The 10 spies. It says they brought back an evil report. And what 693 00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:34.160 was their report? They were giants in the land. And we can't take the land because they're too 694 00:45:34.160 --> 00:45:38.800 big for us. And we were like grasshoppers in their eyes. By the way, the giants never even said, 695 00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:43.760 hey, you guys are like grasshoppers in our eyes. They had this inferiority complex. They put 696 00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:48.640 words in the giants mouth and said, oh, we're like grasshoppers. It was an evil report. And when 697 00:45:48.640 --> 00:45:54.000 God is saying, I'm going to bless you. I'm with you. I'm for you. Even if you're so down and out, 698 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:59.920 you can't hear him. You can't hear him telling you directly. You can read it in his word. He's 699 00:45:59.920 --> 00:46:04.480 speaking to you directly. And an evil heart will then go, no, that's for everyone else, not me. 700 00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:10.480 Nothing good ever happens to me. I break it off for you in Jesus name. I break it off for you. 701 00:46:10.480 --> 00:46:19.520 May the good things of God overwhelm you. He's a good God, a loving God. And he leads you in 702 00:46:19.520 --> 00:46:26.720 victory in Jesus name. So I want to give you three scriptures. The three most common areas. 703 00:46:26.720 --> 00:46:30.400 People struggle in number one is the very concept of victory. 704 00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:40.880 I just had like a DJ collid flashback. I mean, he thinks it. And everybody gets excited. 705 00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:52.080 All I do is win, win. All God wants you to do is win, win, win, win, win, win, win. He wants 706 00:46:52.080 --> 00:47:00.000 you to win so much that he came in the form of man in flesh and blood. And he purchased your 707 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:07.520 victory with his own blood. That's how much he wants you to win, win, win. God himself wants you 708 00:47:07.520 --> 00:47:15.360 to get tired of winning, that you'll be winning so much. But thanks be to God who gives us the 709 00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:21.680 victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Now let's all say together, but you say it in the first 710 00:47:21.680 --> 00:47:29.040 person. Thanks be to God who gives me the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. 711 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:40.640 Just ask Pastor Mnemon knows about my bad days. Just don't go into the details with them. 712 00:47:40.640 --> 00:47:46.640 They don't need to know that kind of ugly. Just ask him if it's true. As Pastor Bo exaggerating, 713 00:47:46.640 --> 00:47:52.640 he'll tell you, I'm not exaggerating. There are, and I wish more pastors would be open. 714 00:47:53.520 --> 00:47:57.600 There's a buffeting that can take place sometimes. And there have been times where I felt like my 715 00:47:57.600 --> 00:48:04.560 spleen was coming out of my nostrils and my lungs out my ears. I mean, just like the old cartoons 716 00:48:04.560 --> 00:48:09.120 when they get head over the head with a mallet and all you see is the birdies. It's like, 717 00:48:09.200 --> 00:48:24.160 and I felt like a loser incarnate. You're nevertheless in those times even when you struggle to believe it, 718 00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:35.840 say it. I would say it. I would say it with a groan, but thanks be to God who gives me the victory 719 00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:42.320 in Christ Jesus. That's when it counts. Anybody can actually say it in service. 720 00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:48.240 Anybody can say during the good times, but when it counts and when it reverses your environment 721 00:48:48.960 --> 00:48:55.840 is when you don't feel like it. Number two, people struggle in the area of finances. 722 00:48:57.120 --> 00:49:02.880 The Bible has a lot to say about your finances and prosperity, but this is my favorite verse 723 00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:09.120 about it. There's dozens of them, but this is my favorite verse because I never heard it preached 724 00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:17.200 and never even heard anybody talk about it. It's very explicit. You can't argue with it. It's not 725 00:49:17.200 --> 00:49:22.000 like some obscure verse and you're like, let me read between the lines. It's pretty direct. And when 726 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:29.040 I discovered it in the Bible, it leapt up and I thought, why, how come it whenever preaches this? 727 00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:32.800 Christians are very, very famous for telling people they should be poor, 728 00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:40.160 for celebrating poverty, but they're not famous for celebrating God and His prosperity. 729 00:49:40.720 --> 00:49:47.040 In fact, the media is done a wonderful job of just putting prosperity and gospel together 730 00:49:47.040 --> 00:49:52.240 and slandering that whole thing. Oh, is he with the prosperity gospel? No, no, he's a good 731 00:49:52.240 --> 00:49:59.360 preacher. He's with the poverty gospel. He's okay. Don't be concerned. He really, really likes poverty. 732 00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:08.000 So he's one of the good guys. Let's put that verse up. Psalm 35, 27. I liked it so much. 733 00:50:09.760 --> 00:50:15.840 I hadn't put it on all the offering envelopes. And this is the word, if you're struggling in your 734 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:21.760 finances, you need to know this verse like you know your own name. Find others as well. But what 735 00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:30.080 a powerful verse that reveals the character of God, that reveals his will. See maybe you don't 736 00:50:30.080 --> 00:50:35.200 believe God for abundance and prosperity because you're not sure whether he wants that for you. 737 00:50:35.200 --> 00:50:39.920 And that's where most people fall. They don't doubt God's ability, but they think like God has 738 00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:45.280 His favorites and then God has His like kids that He just tolerates, but they're the bad kids. 739 00:50:45.520 --> 00:50:54.560 Yeah, this is for all of His children. Let them shout for joy and be glad. 740 00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:07.120 Who favor my righteous cause and let them say continually, let the Lord be magnified who 741 00:51:07.120 --> 00:51:19.760 takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servant. Oh, religion hates that. In other words, God just 742 00:51:19.760 --> 00:51:27.600 doesn't begrudgingly give you prosperity. He loves to. He enjoys to. But within limits, right? 743 00:51:28.160 --> 00:51:38.560 Well, you get to decide how much He can trust you. I know. I see the character of God. 744 00:51:39.520 --> 00:51:46.640 He's willing to do, I'm seeing things if He can trust you. I'm seeing. Yeah. 745 00:51:47.600 --> 00:51:56.160 Where's your team coming up? And number three, people struggle in the area of physical healing. 746 00:51:58.080 --> 00:52:04.560 If you've got a pain, a disease, know that God wants you to be at ease. And once again, 747 00:52:05.520 --> 00:52:09.760 they have a hard time believing God for healing because they're unsure of His will. Again, 748 00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:17.840 they don't doubt His ability. They just doubt His willingness. That's the one in Matthew. 749 00:52:22.640 --> 00:52:28.560 Matthew chapter eight, I believe, the first couple of verses where the leper comes up to Jesus. 750 00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:38.800 If you're struggling in your faith, number one, you have to be convinced of God's will. 751 00:52:40.720 --> 00:52:46.880 But where do you find God's will? You find it only in the Bible. 752 00:52:48.880 --> 00:52:52.400 One of the things, and it'll always happen. One of the things we're big on in the life group. 753 00:52:53.200 --> 00:52:58.960 Don't start your sentence with, I feel. I feel. Have you ever noticed when people talk about God? 754 00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:07.440 Well, I feel that God, who cares? Like, seriously, who? God's truth doesn't hear about your feelings. 755 00:53:07.680 --> 00:53:15.520 You feel, well, I feel that God, you know, I don't really feel there's a hell. I just feel like God 756 00:53:15.520 --> 00:53:20.400 at the end will just, who? I mean, feelings and opinions are a time it doesn't. 757 00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:25.200 Everybody's got to, you get 10 people together and say, what do you think of God? They'll all share their feelings. 758 00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:31.920 Feelings change. The word of God is to stay the same. It's the same yesterday, today, and forever. 759 00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:36.320 The plants, weather, the flower fades away, but the word of the Lord will stand forever. 760 00:53:37.200 --> 00:53:40.080 So, what does the word say? 761 00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:47.840 And may the Lord heal you if your feelings were hurt over me saying your feelings don't matter. 762 00:53:47.840 --> 00:53:52.800 May he bring his healing bomb, because I felt some people, you know, people are made so sensitive 763 00:53:52.800 --> 00:54:00.240 today. Isn't that right? Be like, oh, okay, he hurt my feelings. And behold, a leopard came 764 00:54:00.240 --> 00:54:06.320 and worshipped him saying, Lord, if you are willing, see, he didn't know. He had feelings. 765 00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:11.840 And he was wondering, I don't know, Jesus, how you feel about this? I mean, I'm nasty to look at. 766 00:54:11.840 --> 00:54:15.120 I'm a leopard. You know, they weren't even allowed to hang out with regular people, 767 00:54:15.120 --> 00:54:19.280 they had to be over in a leopard's colony. Off to the side, you get near them, they got a shot. 768 00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:24.160 I'm clean, I'm clean, so you get away from them. What a way to live. So, he didn't know how Jesus 769 00:54:24.240 --> 00:54:32.240 felt about him. A Lord, if you're willing, you can see him. Just trepidacious. You can make me clean. 770 00:54:32.240 --> 00:54:38.720 And then the next verse, Jesus settled the debate once and for all about God's willingness. 771 00:54:38.720 --> 00:54:42.720 This isn't the only I will with regard to healing, by the way, in the scriptures. 772 00:54:44.160 --> 00:54:49.360 And he always demonstrated healing. Never did he turn somebody away and go, you know what, you? 773 00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:53.840 Not, not you. Everybody else gets a miracle. Everybody else gets a healing, but not you. 774 00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:58.640 That never happens in the Bible. It was always, I am willing, I am willing, I am willing. 775 00:54:59.600 --> 00:55:06.720 Jesus put out his hands and touched them, saying, I am willing, be cleansed, 776 00:55:06.720 --> 00:55:12.160 immediately, his leprosyly was cleansed. And by the way, did you notice that Jesus spoke? 777 00:55:12.480 --> 00:55:21.680 This will open up your eyes. Look at the miracles of Jesus. They always come with words. So, where are your words? 778 00:55:23.200 --> 00:55:26.240 When I was drowning in debt, I actually spoke to my mailbox. 779 00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:33.440 You might say, that sounds really weird and goofy and crazy. Yeah, but I'm debt free. 780 00:55:34.560 --> 00:55:40.800 In my pee, I spoke to my mailbox because I found myself very nervous. I always go to my mailbox. 781 00:55:42.160 --> 00:55:48.160 What credit card statement, a 29% APR is waiting for me now. So, I started speaking to my mailbox. 782 00:55:48.160 --> 00:55:56.080 I said, in you, that come credit card bills, but checks and surprises and money and good things. 783 00:55:57.600 --> 00:56:06.640 Hallelujah. The reason why religion hates this message is because it's empowering. 784 00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:15.280 Religion doesn't want God's people empowered. Everything is about keeping you low, keeping you desperate, 785 00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:23.280 barely existing, then dying. And then even their view of heaven, then you die and graduate, 786 00:56:23.280 --> 00:56:30.000 and you get to play the harp. I don't want to play the harp. You get to play the harp on clouds. 787 00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:41.280 No, Jesus empowered you. You know what religion hates when Jesus said to those who whom the word of God came, 788 00:56:41.280 --> 00:56:48.080 have I not said you are God's lowercase G. This is a teaching that can get bent, but listen, 789 00:56:48.080 --> 00:56:55.120 Jesus said to those that are my offspring that have received the word of God, you are God's. 790 00:56:55.200 --> 00:57:02.160 Who is your father? Is he divine? Then what are you? 791 00:57:05.920 --> 00:57:08.400 All right. We needed to lose three more. 792 00:57:16.560 --> 00:57:20.880 I mean, religion has done a great job of teaching Christians to think nothing of themselves. 793 00:57:20.960 --> 00:57:31.760 Yeah, Jesus empowered you and spoke life over you. When the Bible says he's king of kings and Lord of 794 00:57:31.760 --> 00:57:37.760 Lords, what kings and Lords do you think it's talking about? Some king and some country and another 795 00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:41.920 continent that's going to eventually bend the knee? Yeah, that'll happen. It's talking about us. 796 00:57:43.120 --> 00:57:48.960 Hallelujah. He's king of kings, Lord of Lords. The Bible calls you a royal priesthood. 797 00:57:50.880 --> 00:57:55.360 I know that new thing is in calling one another kings. If you're not doing it under the umbrella of 798 00:57:55.360 --> 00:58:01.280 Jesus, it's nonsense. Under the umbrella of Jesus, yes, you are royalty. Yes, you are. 799 00:58:02.560 --> 00:58:12.240 Yes. And you should have your identity in that, that your father who made you, who formed your inward 800 00:58:12.240 --> 00:58:18.720 parts in your mother's womb, the king of kings and Lord of Lords has taken you and made you royal 801 00:58:18.720 --> 00:58:26.720 to yourself. Therefore, hence, hitherto, you qualify for the good things of God. You qualify for 802 00:58:26.720 --> 00:58:34.000 his victory. You qualify for a life that's richly blessed in every area, peace in your home, 803 00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:41.840 peace in your mind, peace in your finances. The shalom, nothing missing, nothing lacking, nothing 804 00:58:41.840 --> 00:58:49.680 broken peace. Amen. If you receive it, shout amen. This is the City Light Church podcast. 805 00:58:49.680 --> 00:58:53.760 If you've missed any part of today's message, or if you would like to find out more about 806 00:58:53.760 --> 00:59:02.480 Pastor Boyan Jansik in City Light Church, visit us at citylightnyc.com. That's citylightnyc.com. 807 00:59:02.480 --> 00:59:07.680 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. We would love to connect with you. 808 00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:12.960 We pray that you have been encouraged today, that you have been reminded how much God 809 00:59:12.960 --> 00:59:18.960 loves you, and that you are surrounded by grace. Thank you for listening. Make sure that you 810 00:59:18.960 --> 00:59:27.520 subscribe to City Light Church podcast wherever you find your favorite podcasts worldwide.