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I've been preaching the gospel since I was in my early 20s, but I'm not going to take

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confidence in that and go, Lord, I've always served you, I will forever serve you.

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No, I say, Lord, keep me, keep my wife, keep my children, keep the people of the church.

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We could do the convenient thing and compromise just a little, then a little bit more,

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then all of a sudden we don't even recognize our own selves when our castrated and powerless

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and quivering and afraid of what man says when we should only be afraid of what God says.

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Welcome to the CityLight Church podcast.

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Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's word and discover the hope and truth

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that he has for us. If you want to connect with CityLight Church, feel free to visit us at

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citylightnyc.com, that's citylightnyc.com. Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power

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of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. As you listen to today's teaching,

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

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

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Aren't you so glad you saved?

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And if you're not saved and you hear, you're about to be.

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What is salvation? It's you being born again, being born in you,

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professing your faith in Jesus, trusting in him for his righteousness, understanding that when he

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was on the cross, your sins, your mistakes, your iniquities, they were actually nailed to Jesus,

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and your sins were punished because sin deserves punishment, but they were thoroughly punished

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in the person of Jesus so that now you can be free, you can be clean, you can be made perfect,

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and you can be counted not guilty, justified, you've been made innocent by the cross.

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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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And I'm especially glad when I think that Jesus said that broad is the highway that leads to

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hell and destruction, but straight and narrow is the way that leads to life eternal.

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It's sad, I've cried my tears, boo-hoo-hoo, but the implication throughout the scripture

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seems to be that the majority of humanity goes to hell, and there's a remnant that wasn't

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originally God's heart, but that's where we ended up. And so I'm glad that I'm a part of the

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remnant, amen. And so I prized my salvation. I hang onto it like the pearl of great price,

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it's precious, and you should too. It's everything. We can't treat it like some light little thing.

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It's sad that if you were to give an altar call, 100 people maybe get saved,

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and then of those 150 get water baptized, and of those 50 that got water baptized the year later,

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there's 30. It's sad, but it seems to be how it goes. I don't just mean like in our church,

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I just mean even when Jesus, he said, the sower sows the word, and he gives four different kinds

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of grounds that the word can go into. Three out of four, those grounds are no good. And then even

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with the fourth ground, that is good ground, the fruit is not all the same, some 30, some 60,

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some 100 fold is the fruit that they bear. Hallelujah. There is attention that's been around

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theologically speaking for hundreds of years. There are Calvinists who believe that you have no

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choice in whether you get saved or not. You're dead in your sins, there's no part of you that

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desires God, that people don't desire God. You are awakened by God, he gets all the glory, he called

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you to himself. It wasn't your choice, it was God's choice, and he knows the ones he's going to choose.

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Me, I was saved in a Pentecostal church, and now we're, I don't know what we are, we're

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Pentecostal, non-denominational, charismatic. And I guess traditionally we're amineus because

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we believe that Jesus didn't just die for the elect, he died for the whole world, right? And that

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anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord can be saved. And it's not willing from the scriptures,

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God's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come and receive eternal life.

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And I believe that, but can I tell you the older I get, the more I feel the tension of these

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different groups that have argued for hundreds of years. And you know, there's a reason that

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they've argued for hundreds of years. Not because they're argumentative, some are, but because

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there is a scriptural tension, and now I'm more at the place where I go, no, I believe the gospel

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is to go out aggressively to everyone, and it's available to all, but personally when I think of

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my salvation story, it seems like I didn't have a chance, excuse me, a choice. Maybe I kind of did,

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but he was so irresistible when I was 16 years old, all of a sudden I started thinking about God,

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why? Because I'm like pure and innocent, and we just, no, he was doing that in me. He drew me,

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and on August 14, 1992, I sat there, I felt, even before I got saved sitting in the subway,

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going into Brooklyn, I thought, this is the most in God's will I've ever felt, as he was,

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how many of you, you feel, you can say something similar. God bringing you to him, it wasn't you,

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you didn't find God, he found you, amen. And so a lot of times with these debates that have

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raged for centuries, there is attention for a reason, and the answer isn't so simple,

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I'm not here to talk about that this morning, but I just want to say that whether it's all his

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choice or my job was saying yes, you know, I'm not going to get bogged down with those details,

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I'm just so glad I'm saved. I'm glad he saved me, that if he said Broadway goes to hell,

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can you believe it? Be careful when you go outside those doors. Broad is the way that leads the

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hell in destruction, it's a Broadway, but straight an arrows the path at least to salvation,

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and if you've named the name of Jesus, you're heaven bound, you're saved, and life is not a video

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game, you don't get to lose a life and another life put in another quarter and keep playing,

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you have one soul, it's precious, and I've seen people fall away. I want to finish strong, amen.

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I want you to finish strong, I want you to live, how long are you believing to live?

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Well, in Psalm 91 he says with long life he will satisfy me and show me his salvation,

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so what can you believe for? What's long life? Into your 80s, into your 90s?

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Emily's going to, she's going to live to 100 plus, I know, make sure she doesn't remarry, she'll

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never find anyone like me, she'll just break her heart, the poor guy will constantly be getting

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compared to me, it'll be no good for him. We need to get you like old Montenegro,

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Serbian style wearing black, you know, to show the whole world, you're not available, you're grieving

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widow. But picture yourself in your ripe old age serving the Lord, not being shaken out of your

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faith. Listen, there is a shaking and Satan now that he's lost you, he wants to shake you

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and get you to forsake the faith. He hates you. Satan has been turned into more of a concept,

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a metaphor for something evil, something dark. No, he's a being. He's a being created by God

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who's original purpose was to bear light, Lucifer, light bearer. Now that image of God has been

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taken away, the light of God has been taken away and what you get is utter darkness. Do you know

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why he hates you so much? Because you now have his job. Jesus said, you are the light of the world,

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you are the light bearer right now, you are the image bearer of God, you have the fingerprints of

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God on your life. And he doesn't have boundaries, he doesn't play nice, he has no boundaries,

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he's utterly messed up and perverted, he will kill a child, he will kill, he will steal, kill

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and destroy, he will go out of his way to trip you up. And I've had, unfortunately, I've had a

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front row seat and there's nothing sadder than Christians who get excited about the Lord and

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they're like a flash in the pan and then they just fizzle out. No, in Jesus name, no matter what

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happens, it will not be so here. Amen. We saw during COVID that the American church for the most

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part has gotten really, really fat and spoiled and comfortable and doesn't know how to fight the

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good fight of faith. And all across the board throughout denominations COVID hit church attendance

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went down by 50% and took years to recover and some churches still aren't fully recovered

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because people just got so frazzled, the worldview got so topsy turvy and they fizzled out. And

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COVID is going to look like nothing compared to the disruptions that are coming. So we need a

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strong people, a grounded people, a people who know how to endure. Amen. We're willing to endure,

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fight the good fight of faith. Why do I say there's going to be a disruption? Because I'm a

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preacher and I have to talk a little fear just to get people's attention. No, I haven't talked

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that way to years. But I'm noticing something now. It started happening a few months ago where

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something unprecedented, where this actually is unprecedented. You have the Dow at an all-time

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high. Huh, we must be doing really well. You have the S&P at an all-time high. You got the NASDAQ

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at an all-time high. You got Bitcoin at an all-time high. You got Silver at an all-time high. You got

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Gold at an all-time high. And you got real estate housing all-time high. Just by talking about all

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that, you would think world's showing up in lambo's and Bentley's every day. Yet people are stressed

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about the price of eggs. People are getting squat. So every hard asset is that it's all-time high,

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yet the common person is feeling the crunch. What is happening? All of those hard assets being

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at their all-time high shows something that people do not have confidence in the US dollar.

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So they're fleeing the dollar and putting it into hard assets. We don't talk enough.

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People don't understand enough that the country is broke. It's $38, almost $39 trillion in debt.

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You know how I know people don't understand that? Because if people understood that,

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they didn't want clap-like seals when a guy like Mamdani comes around and says, you get a car,

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and you get a car, and you get a car and it's promising free things. They still live in La La land

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where they believe there's something free. Offly quiet in here. There isn't anything free.

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It costs someone something. Who's it called? Well, you usually, typically, the way America's run

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for the last 60 years is borrowing against our children's future and passing the debt along,

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passing the debt along, but eventually the music stops playing and somebody's going to be left

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without a chair. So there's going to be a disruption. Christian, don't be scared of a disruption.

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Disruptions are good. That's the time where God can come in and if you're solid and rooted and

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grounded in the Lord, God will come in and while the disruptions are happening, He'll make you

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the head and not the tail. Amen. He'll cause you to come up. But you can't get shaken out. You've

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got to have perseverance. You got to have roots. Let your boots grow roots because the Bible says

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those that are rooted in the house of the Lord will flourish in the courts of our God. Amen.

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So many people are leapfrog Christians bouncing from church to church and that doctrine to doctrine

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of religion, YouTuber to YouTuber. You got to let your boots grow roots and stay in one place

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and be stable. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Some of you, I felt a go quiet when I mentioned

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Mamdani. I don't know what? I'm in Long Island now. I've been 43 years in New York City

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then moved to Long Island. So I can't vote. But if you're here and you want to vote for

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you need to travel. Hold on, I don't think you heard me. If you want to vote for

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you need to travel and see what fruit that's brought in other countries.

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What are you saying? You sound so intolerant. Well, thank you very much. Somehow, somehow you thought

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Jesus was a hippie who bounces through the tulips and just tolerates everything.

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Jesus rebuked the legacy in church that they're too tolerant. You're the one. You're the one

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who's too intolerant. Do you lock your door at night? You're intolerant. Let anyone who wants come

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in. You protect your wife from shady characters. You're so tolerant. Intolerant. Be more tolerant.

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Yeah, no, we have boundaries and things that are conducive to life, to the gospel that we tolerate,

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things that are at front and attack to it. We don't tolerate that. And Christians have been

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shamed into quietness into a little corner because the greatest sin, of course, is to be intolerant

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and to be judgmental. No, it's not. That's how a nation gets conquered. That's how Christianity

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gets extinguished. That's how Christianity has lost the culture war because we were so obsessed with

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being nice, being wisdom. Hallelujah. Praise God. You might not hear anything after that.

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I feel like some heads are steaming right now.

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I went off on that. So long that my screensaver came out. Matthew chapter 24 verse 10.

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Hallelujah. Let me just say to you, so some of you didn't hear me because you get so emotional

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when I say things that don't gel with how you've been being programmed. And I'm such in the front

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to you, you don't, you'll miss hear what I'm saying. Here's what I'm saying, just so you don't

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miss hear me. The very tenants, the core foundations of Islam are completely incompatible with

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Western civilization, with a Christian civilization. Christian nations have been very, very nice and

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open their doors and said come on in something I can't do. I can't go to Oman. I can't go to Jordan.

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I can't go to Saudi Arabia. I can't go there and start a church. They'll throw me off a roof.

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Here you got the wool crowd, the LGBTQ plus alphabet crowd. Yeah, they can throw it off a roof.

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This morning before church, sorry, I saw a bunch of a series of videos where people getting thrown

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off roofs by Muslims. I'm not just saying they'll get thrown at them. They're literally taking you

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so it's incompatible. But so Ronnie seems like such a nice guy, right? I know he's got that smile.

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That's how it happened in Britain, nice guy. No accent, seems nice. Who cares that he

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eats soup with his hands? It's nice. Who cares it? It's nice guy. But now you got a parallel,

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because now first that's how it starts. Then your kids start getting little notes. Don't bring that

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BLT to school. It's offending some students. Some students? This is I'm describing what happened in

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Britain. Don't bring the pork products. Can we have Sharia courts? No. Pretty please. Fine.

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Another allowing a parallel judicial system, a parallel court system of Sharia law and

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normal British law and judicial system. If you want that, you need to travel more.

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Matthew 24 verses 10 through 13. We don't want to get shaken. We want to be Christians that remain.

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And we should not be proud if we are solid now. The Apostle Paul said those of you who think you

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stand, take heed when you think you stand, lest you fall. So even now, I've been preaching the

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gospel since I was in my early 20s. But I'm not going to take confidence in that and go, Lord,

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I've always served you. I will forever serve you. No. With fear and trembling, I say, Lord,

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keep me. Keep my wife. Keep my children. Keep the people of the church. Because we could get afraid.

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We could get compromised. We could do the convenient thing and compromise just a little,

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then a little bit more. Then all of a sudden, we don't even recognize our own selves. We're now

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castrated and powerless and quivering and afraid of what man says when we should only be afraid of

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what God says. Hallelujah. Jesus gave these warnings about the last days here in Matthew 24,

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specifically talking about the judgment that's about to come on Jerusalem in 70 AD. But the spirit of

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what he's saying extends to any time there is a disruption, any time there is a shaking.

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And I'll go on record again. There is a shaking coming.

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I've, in case you're studying my life, you don't got to study, just pay attention, watch it.

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I had a theory good number of years ago that the problem, all these different, is the dollar.

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The dollar is not good money. The dollar is being devalued. So I bet everything we had against the

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dollar, you say why are you always talking about Bitcoin? Because a Bitcoin is a bet against the

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US dollar and I don't have faith in the US dollar. A Bitcoin is a great short position and a bet

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against central banking and I think central banking is a satanic terror. And guess what? That bet paid

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off so much that I was able to give two plus million dollars to the church. Hallelujah.

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And now I'm betting again and I'm betting that that's going to continue and the dollar will get

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further devalued and that people are usually trying to hack away at the fruit while leaving the

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root untouched. So media will present you all these problems that are the fruit but the root of it

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is wicked and corrupt money. Nothing money is wicked and corrupt. My money is wonderful because I

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tie that my money. My money has been made holy but the dollar as fiat currency is wicked and corrupt.

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And out of that come forth that's why we have the global wars. That's why America does what it

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does because the money is evil and it's being devalued. It wasn't so when we were on the gold standard.

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Yeah. So because of that there will be a shaking. There will be a disruption. And in 2020 I'll just confess

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I didn't know how to handle it because I wasn't equipped and I wasn't trained and I didn't think

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that anything like that would ever happen to us but I've been doing my homework ever since then.

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Those of you who've been with me for a while you know I've changed a lot since I got radicalized

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in the summer of 2020. And I couldn't believe that normal good-hearted, sweet Christians were just

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dropping like flies left and right. Bowing down to the golden calf of CNN and the deathometer

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and whatever that tube told them they was just it was gospel for them. They just believed it.

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They were willing to phone in and ride on their friends. They were the ones who you like even if

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you looked at them and weighed across the room. They had the mask. They're all they needed was an

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oxygen tank. They're scared if you just look at them. Don't come over. You're a vector for disease.

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No, I'm your brother in Christ. Look how quiet it gets to you. Some of you have so much PTSD from the

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summer of 2020. You wouldn't even like it to be mentioned again. All right. And many will turn

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away from me and betray and hate each other. And many false prophets will appear and will

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deceive many people. Sin will be rampant everywhere and the love of many will grow cold. But the one

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who endures, shout endures. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. When I first planted

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city light church, I lived in the church. Don't get excited. It was 20 feet wide by 80 feet long.

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And I had a six by nine little cut set up for me. I showered in the church bathroom and the church

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kitchen was behind the altar. I lived there for five and a half years. No windows. I'll save you the

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whole story, but suffice it to say that's not how I dreamed my life was going to turn out.

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I'm now in my late twenties college graduate. My dad, he immigrated here so that I would do well in

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America. It was his worst nightmare that I was going to become a pastor. I was growing my whole

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life to be a doctor. I mean, immigrant. What else, right? You doctor yet? No, not yet.

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What's that? Does anyone else want to say whatever's on their mind?

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Where was I? Sorry, man, it's all right. You can wear it. I just, it was just unexpected.

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I had to do a double take. He had a pumpkin on his head,

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which makes me want to take out a bow and arrow and, you know, I'm in the basement.

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I'm pressed. I'm crushed. I'm down. I'm on the verge of quitting. It's hard for me to go into all

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the details because I don't derail the service, but imagine everything you think is going to happen.

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The opposite happens. And I'm telling you every single Christian will go through a time of testing.

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Now we have this beautiful house. We moved out of Brooklyn into Long Island and I was shocked.

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Every, when I first saw the house, every single window, excuse me, every single bathroom has a window.

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And we got more bathrooms than I can visit. And every single bathroom has a window. And I'm going,

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my whole place for five and a half years didn't have a window. Like, I didn't know the rapture could

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happen outside. If I wasn't up, I would be shocked when I came out. To know whether it was raining

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or snowing, or I'd have to open the front door and the seven street door between first avenue and

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avenue way led right into the street. Usually in the mornings there was a gift there deposited by

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by one of the unhoused individuals that I then had to clean up with newspapers. That was what AM

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New York was good for back in the day for cleaning his free newspaper.

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So I'm discouraged. I'm heartbroken. And as I'm going to get a cup of water, I have to pass

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walk over the altar by the drumset to get into the kitchen. And as I open up the kitchen door,

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oh, thank God for his word. I hear him speaking to my spirit. And he just says this in my spirit,

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like a whisper, but distinct is that you need enduring faith. You need enduring faith.

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And I knew what he meant by that. He was saying, it's good that you can have faith in the moment,

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good that you can, when you pray, believe me and release your faith to receive what you're

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believing me for. But when the going gets tough and none of what you're believing for is happening,

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and even the opposite of what you're believing for is happening, you need the faith that don't

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won't shrink back then, but will continue and endure. Hallelujah. And now every time I look at one

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of those windows, I think I appreciate this window looking at the leaves color changing out of any

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bathroom. I appreciate it so much more because I had the five and a half years of no windows out of any

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room. Hallelujah. This message is about enduring faith. Jesus said, he who endures, it's about not

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being a flash in the pan, about having a root system, about not getting shaken out, having zero

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the fear of man. Right now there's still free course for the gospel in America.

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What if that starts getting shaken? And by the way, it'll get shaken in New York first.

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We're worse even than California. Do you know most churches, most churches are really untouchable,

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practically, practically untouchable entities throughout the country? Because of thank God,

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because of separation of church and state, which everyone uses wrongly. Oh, the church shouldn't

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mess with the state. No, separation of church and state means the state doesn't mess with the church.

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I'm allowed to preach and mess with the state in that way. And so most churches,

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the government very, very, I mean, you have to really be a crazy lunatic church and usually it's

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in the area of finances and misappropriation that government will step in. But for the most part,

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and the reason why so many charlatans do exist in America, is the government, just they're the

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church. Don't mess with them. Accepting New York. We're dealing with that now in a small way.

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But the Attorney General wants to know details. Once the Attorney General now knows how much Bitcoin

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the church owns, you know, and our lawyer, we hired a lawyer. What if, you know, they might ask you

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to sell? I might ask her to water skiing Central Park. She might, we don't want to. No.

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What are they going to do? Confiscate it? You can't. Ban it? You can't.

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Oh, we'll take away your nonprofit 501c3 status. We'll see you up to the Supreme Court.

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Do not encroach on the Church of God.

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So, because New York is this weird place, it really is. I mean, that's why a guy like Mamdani

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exists. Because New York is strange and it's gotten so bizarre and some of us in the church have

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fallen hookline and sinker. Critical theory. Do you know what any kind of critical theory is?

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Some people get so excited because they think it'll help them. It's not going to help you.

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Any kind of critical theory gives you a world lens. And this is how you see everything. It's

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oppressor and victim. Every, you're either an oppressor or a victim. So which one are you?

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If you're an oppressor, raise your hand. Nobody. If you're a victim, raise your hand.

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No victims either. Thanks. I took a gamble with that survey. I thought somebody in the back of

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them. Where are the benevolence forms? You're not an oppressor, you're not a victim. But why is

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that so important? Because when a nation is invaded, when a nation is disrupted, when Communism

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Marxism. So although this is the same dirty snake, when it begins to invade a country, it cannot

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get in a unified cohesive country. So Marxism always comes with critical theory to cause class

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warfare, to cause one group to fight with another and that group to fight with another. And while

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they're all disjointed and fighting each other, you get Mamdani. That's how it happens.

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First Timothy, four, one.

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Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times, some will turn away from the true

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faith. They will follow deceptive spirits and teachings that come from demons.

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Second Thessalonians 2, 1, 3, 3, I'm just showing you how many warnings there are concerning

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the age that we're living in. Even in Matthew 24, Jesus four times in that one chapter says,

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take heed that no one deceive you. Take heed that you be not deceived. Don't be deceived.

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Over and over again, he's saying, don't be deceived. The New Testament Pauline letters,

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he keeps saying, don't be deceived. Don't be deceived.

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You know what the terrible thing about deception is? It's so deceiving.

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I've never met a deceived person who knew it. He usually thinks they're right. It's kind of like

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somebody with bad breath. They never know. They got it. They need a friend to tell them.

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See faithful are the wounds of a friend. You come up, go, I love you. I just want to sew into your

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life and bless you. There's a box of altoids.

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Now dear brothers and sisters, let us clarify some things about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ

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and how we will be gathered to meet Him. Don't be so easily shaken or alarmed by those who say

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that the day of the Lord has already begun. Don't believe them. Even if they claim to have had a

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spiritual vision, a revelation or a letter supposedly from us, don't be fooled. Don't be deceived.

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But what they say for that day will not come unless there is a great rebellion against God.

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So the apostle here is talking about the day of the Lord. Anything but the day of the Lord won't

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come until there's first a shaking and a great apostasy, a falling away, a rebellion against God.

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That means that a chunk of Christians are going to get shaken and they're going to lose their grip

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because they never worked on their root system. They never surrendered all. You know,

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everybody's happy to receive Jesus as their Savior. Very few want to receive Him as their Lord.

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But He's Lord and Savior. And He's either Lord of all or not Lord at all. You don't get to pick.

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You don't get to, well, He can be Lord of this. Lord, You're Lord of my problems.

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But those other parts of my life that I don't want to surrender to, no, no, I'm Lord of that,

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you can have my problems. When you've performed like a good pup for a while, then maybe I'll

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invite you to the other areas of my life. Lord, help us. You bend the knee. I feel a cry in my

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spirit this morning. I don't want, I don't want you. I don't want to run into you 10 years from now

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and you were one of the used to bees. I remember you. You used to raise your hands. You used to go to

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life group. You used to be on fire. And now you're just on the broad way to hell. You need to respect

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yourself enough. Love your own soul. I love my wife so much. I love my daughter so much. But you know

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what? I love Jesus and the salvation He's given me more. And she would say the same thing. And

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that's good and that's healthy and that's in the order of God and that's scriptural. Because when

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we have that order right now, we can purely love each other and then love our children. Also,

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by the way, we love one another more than our kids. That's the order of God. Amen.

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Often when, yeah, because when couples have it rough, then they, you know, they find their

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companionship with the child. They love their child more than that stinky old elf or the old

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ball and chain. And then that's an open door to Satan. Amen. I'm sure you've been tempted to

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love the kids more than me many a time, babe. But thank you for standing strong and resisting

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temptation. Let's read it in the amplified. It's the same thing. I believe I gave it in the

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amplified second-fessalonians. You know what? Let's not. That's very, very amplified.

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Hebrews 1036. Patient endurance is what you need now so that you will continue to do God's will.

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Then you will receive all that he has promised. If you're not in a place of receiving right now,

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you're in a place of waiting. I know what you're asking. You're asking, when, Lord? And I found the

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answers always soon. Soon can be excruciating. You know, I got a lot of my heart's desires met

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right now, but I'm trusting God for a building that we own. When, Lord? Soon. In the meantime,

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persevere. Stay strong, stand in faith. Let's put up that Greek word for endurance,

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Hupamenei. It means steadfastness, constancy. In the New Testament, the characteristic of a person who

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is unswerved from his deliberate purpose and his loyalty to faith and piety by even the greatest

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trials and sufferings. Lord, fill us with Hupamenei that kind of endurance that causes us to last.

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I see myself in my late 80s on fire serving the Lord. How about you? My children on fire serving the

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Lord. My children's children on fire serving the Lord. The church, city light, multiplied, strong,

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unshaken in New York City, preaching the gospel. All right, I want to give you five things that

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could swerve you. And then we're going to say a prayer. A lot of the Holy Spirit to come here and

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some of you, he's just going to bless and slap a pair of engines on the side of you. Some rocket

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boosters. Yeah, we need help. We got to get stronger. All right, number one, revelation 12,

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9 through 11. These are things pitfalls to endurance. Things Satan likes to use to get us to swerve off

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God's path. Be a flash in the pan. Number one is loving this life. Loving this life. So the great

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dragon was cast out that serpent of old called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole world.

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He was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out with him. Then I heard a loud voice saying

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in heaven now, salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of Christ have come

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for the accuser of our brethren. Notice what his name is. He's the accuser. You say I always feel

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condemned. I always feel guilty. I always feel like like I'm not enough. I'm not a that's him.

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That's Hassatan. Hassatan actually means the accuser of our brethren and he accuses you before God

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and he accuses you to you. This is why the therapy business is a boom because

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business is booming because most people can't stand themselves. So they got a therapy and they never

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learned that the reason they can't stand themselves is their own inward voice is that war with them.

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They're walking civil war because Hassatan is you're not enough. You're not beautiful enough. You

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are handsome enough. You're not wealthy enough. You're not strong enough. You're not smart enough.

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You're not talented enough. You're not Christian enough. You're not righteous enough. And you're

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crying out not enough. And then instead of Jesus and says I give you peace. I make you whole.

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I give you my righteousness now. There's nothing missing, nothing lacking, nothing broken.

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You have been made enough. Hallelujah.

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And the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ have come for the accuser of our brethren

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who accused them before our God day and night has been cast down and they overcame him. So this is

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how you overcome Satan by the blood of the lamb and that's preached a lot and that should be

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preached a lot because when you say the blood of Jesus I believe in dealing with a devil but I

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believe in dealing with a devil quickly because a lot of what goes for spiritual warfare is really

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weird, charismatic nonsense. They talk to Satan more than they talk to God,

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whooping and hollering, I buying, I loose, I'm not worrying tongues, so far as being blown.

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When you decree the blood of Jesus by the way you don't see anybody in the Bible doing that but

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I just described it's nowhere in the New Testament. But going to the spiritual warfare section of

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any Christian bookstore. Some of you don't know what I'm talking about and consider yourselves blessed

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that you don't know what I'm talking about. When you say the blood of Jesus my daughter come

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here sweetie real quick. Remember when you have that nightmare the other day? Stand up here so they

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can see you. Stand up on the chair. You're not telling her. There you go. There you go.

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Remember when you had the nightmare the other day? And what did I tell you to do?

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Lead the blood. Lead the blood. The blood of who? Jesus. Yeah because when you when you

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believe the blood of Jesus you are declaring to the entire spirit realm I have been brought for.

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I've been paid for. I don't belong to anyone but I am redeemed. It is spiritually not metaphorically

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where counts spiritually illegal for Satan to touch you because you're under the blood. He can't

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get under the blood. If he could get under the blood he'd get saved but he can't get under the blood

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and you're under the blood you're off limits. So when you say the blood of Jesus the devil has to

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back off amen. So every day thank you Lord the blood is on me the blood is on my home the blood is

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on my house hallelujah. So we got the blood of the lamb that's how they overcame him and the word

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of their testimony we talk about that but very few people talk about that third part they love not

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their lives to the death and that's a key to not love this life. You can't love this world and the

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things that are in this world hallelujah. I don't want to be in love with what I think my life will

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look like on earth 20 years from now some vacation I'm dreaming to take some other natural thing that

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I'm going to you know nobody ever went to heaven and said I want to come back

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this everything we see on earth will actually look like a weird cruel joke when you're you're actually

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in glory some people don't get this because they think the spiritual world is unreal but the spiritual

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world is more real than this world the spiritual world created the tangible physical world it's not

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that it's less real it's infinitely times more real you will be you for the first time you will

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know Jesus not just right now we're still beholding through a glass dimly but the promise in

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the scriptures is that you will know him even as you are known well how does he know me he knows

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me completely thoroughly intimately on that day when these blinders are ripped off and this casing

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comes off I'll know him even as I am known you will know him even as he knows you're now do you

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think then you're going to wonder about I wonder what I would have looked like in a top-down

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Porsche I wonder I always wanted to go to can you know for the film festival and then the French

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Riviera you're not you'd be like yeah I'm where I belong because the Bible says we're just so

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journeyers here we're pilgrims we're passing by amen live with that in mind number two as far

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as pitfalls to endurance that's what we're talking about it's found in second Corinthians 614

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this will go this is the cherry on top after me preaching what I preached last week

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second Corinthians 614 unfortunately over 25 years I've had a front row see to a lot of people

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backsliding that's not a lot of people but to me one person is a lot of people it hurts

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I don't want to see anybody fall away Jesus you know he healed the 10 lepers

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nine of them kept going one came back to say thank you and Jesus said what about the nine

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and I always even when I'm enjoying I'm enjoying preaching here the annoying thing I see your

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beautiful faces but I'm thinking what about that really it's always on the back of my mind what about

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that one person I used to see them now I don't see them anymore where are they what happened

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and so when I see this happen you know I notice some things never has somebody like say had a gambling

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problem and I'm like I call them up and go hey I haven't noticed during church what's happening wow

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pastor oh Vegas keeps calling I just feel the call of Vegas I gotta I gotta hit the tables man

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that's never happened even people who have substance abuse issues and they'll quickly say what

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it is and they can still be coming to church and it'll be getting worked out while they're coming

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in church you know you're not going to get better out there that's why people here have soft

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eyes and you won't be judged and condemned if you're because you're still a work in progress we

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understand people have different issues the Holy Spirit's working them out but either the number

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one reason or top three top three of why people forsake the faith it's because of that verse that's

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been up there for the last two minutes because they get involved romantically with someone who is not

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a real Christian and over and over again I see that you know where else you'll see that over

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and over again in the Old Testament over and over again God said you are a special people

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and the Hebrews were a peculiar and special people set aside why because Messiah was going to come

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out from them and he said you cannot intermix you cannot the seed is holy and the genealogical record

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has to be kept pure and you can and they would continually intermary and the moment they would

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intermary they'd start worshipping foreign gods bowing down to other gods and then in the new

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testament we have the Apostle Paul say in no unclear or uncertain terms do not be unequally

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yoked together with unbelievers put it back up there please you're not going to win them to the Lord

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like you think you are my favorite one is the ladies you know I can I can go off on them and a lot

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but my favorite one is the ladies when I go is he a Christian and then first he said oh yeah he

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goes to church and what they mean is he goes on Eastern on Christmas to some other church where the

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gospel isn't even preached or they mean he's Christian yeah he's not Jewish he's not Muslim he's

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not Hindu so he's Christian no I mean a Christian like he bows the knee to the Lord he has a prayer

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he has a God above that he actually submits his life to because guess what honey if he's not

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submitting to the God above he's not submitting to anyone and he's going to do you wrong eventually

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and the same way he goes for men men I can go off on men all day long Samson mayor you know Samson

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went for Delilah do you know what what what Samson's reason it's in his scriptures his first words

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were quote get this she looks good to me in the word Samson why did you forsake the anointing

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betray your whole nation and end up having to die between two pillars what was the root of all that

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she looks good to me you can't make it up it's so quiet you would think I was making it up but I'm

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not making it up Proverbs 29 25 worship team you can come on up I'll close with this one the fear

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of man just know this and why I'm so free now because in 2020 I wasn't ready I wasn't aware of what

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was happening behind the scenes in our country in our culture and so as I started to speak it broke

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my heart people started leaving and I had a choice to make whether I would be quiet or keep on

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speaking God's truth and I made a decision knowing that whatever you compromise to keep you will

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lose anyway know that in your whatever you compromise to keep you will lose anyway the fear of man

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it brings us there but whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe say no to the fear of man

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don't care what others say about you most are too busy thinking about themselves anyhow

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but a Christian who's unencumbered and unhindered by the opinions of man and woman that man is a threat

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to the kingdom of darkness that man will expand the kingdom of God that woman will go far in the

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things of God Hallelujah Luke 12 4 through 5 got some strong scriptures this morning

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this is Jesus by the way I pick these scriptures on purpose also because

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they're not the popular ones they're not the warm and fuzzy ones but this is still gentle Jesus

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meek and mild we've held him up and glorified him as the lamb yes but we need to equally hold him

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up and glorify him as the lion who said my friends do not be afraid of those who killed the body

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and after that have no more than they can do but I will show you whom you should fear fear him who

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after he has killed has power to cast into hell yes I say to you fear him so there was a healthy

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reverential fear the Lord do we have an unshakable intimacy with him yes does he call his friend yes

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and at the same time he's got almighty he's not my bro he's my creator he's my master he is everything

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and we want to be prostrate before him saying Lord thank you for saving my soul whatever you say in

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my life goes amen that's all stand to our feet we're going to make a declaration church I'm thinking

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of your future right now I'm thinking of 2035 2045 2055 this is like a dedication of prayer and

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consecration a prayer of dedication and consecration lift your hands to the Lord and say this

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and let the Holy Spirit come upon you may you be marked with the oil of God a fresh fire that

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it will come upon you in Jesus name say this as a declaration of faith Lord Jesus I surrender my life

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to you I believe you died on the cross and bore my sin I am trusting you Jesus

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for salvation and for you to keep me let me never be afraid let me never compromise

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let me never back off help me and my whole family to endure until that day I put my trust in you

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I love you Lord Jesus amen shout a big hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah amen amen

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how do you want to worship the Lord next that's a great idea let's worship the Lord with

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our tides and offerings the giving information is on both sides of the screens give with a glad heart

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give in faith give expecting a harvest

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let the Lord be magnified who takes pleasure in the prosperity of his servants

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oh Jesus who fed the five thousand which is really the fifteen twenty thousand and then there

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were well fed it says they were all well fed and you took up twelve baskets of leftovers you're the

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overflow god the too much god the more than enough god thank you Jesus for every person who's a

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seed sower for every tither every person who gives beyond themselves Lord I pray a mighty harvest

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holy ghost surprises doors of opportunity opened increase in Jesus name

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