WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.200 You're stuck, another building, credit or call it, and then that can just 2 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:07.440 corrode you and weaken your faith and everywhere you look you're seeing 3 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:12.280 limitations. The word of God needs to come in. Blow the limits right off, 4 00:00:12.280 --> 00:00:16.800 hallelujah. He's not a small God, he's a great God. I heard it right now in the 5 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:20.760 spirit that thought, how could he do it in my, I don't know how he can do it in 6 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:25.600 your life, but he will do it if you will link with him and believe that he will do 7 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:30.560 it. Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today, as we 8 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:35.920 look into God's word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. If you 9 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:41.000 want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at CityLightNYC.com 10 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:47.560 that's CityLightNYC.com. Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the 11 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:52.880 power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. As you 12 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:57.840 listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are 13 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:04.720 surrounded by his grace, and that he has a real hope and a future for you. 14 00:01:04.720 --> 00:01:16.400 Well, it's been 14 months since I've talked about money. I think it's time. And judging 15 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:24.560 by the climate in the first service, I know it's time. Now, when I say I'm going 16 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:33.360 to talk about money, you might ask yourself, why? Why would you? And the answer is, 17 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:40.920 because that's what's on your mind. It's what you think about. It's what you spend 18 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:46.280 90% of your life trying to get. Isn't it amazing that you can spend 90% of your 19 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:55.920 time, your energy, trying to get this resource, money, and then somehow the devil made a taboo 20 00:01:55.920 --> 00:02:01.240 that you can't talk about it in church, even though Jesus himself talked about money, 21 00:02:01.240 --> 00:02:11.120 giving, lands, gold, talents. He talked about all of that more than heaven and hell combined. 22 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:16.880 Why? Because it's practical. It matters. God wants you to be at peace. God wants you 23 00:02:16.880 --> 00:02:22.320 to have whole, to be whole, to have wholeness. He wants you to be a cup that overflows. 24 00:02:22.320 --> 00:02:28.000 Yet somehow the topic of money has been made taboo. Don't fall for it. God wants you to 25 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:33.120 be blessed. God wants you to be prosperous. And in order to actually receive what he wants, 26 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:37.800 you have to have the word of God on the subject. I mean, not just like a head knowledge where 27 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:43.400 you go, oh, I know. Yeah, God wants me. God wants to be blessed. No, it's got to be alive. 28 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:48.840 Like churning inside of you. You've got to know these verses that speak to who you are 29 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:53.500 in Christ and what you have as a result of Christ. They've got to be alive in you. It's 30 00:02:53.500 --> 00:03:00.160 got to be fresh, fresh mana from heaven inside your spirit. Amen. Now, just look at Ecclesiastes 31 00:03:00.160 --> 00:03:08.640 10, 19. If you didn't know this was the Bible, you'd think a rapper wrote it. Because it says 32 00:03:08.640 --> 00:03:22.400 money answers everything. Ecclesiastes, chapter 10, and verse 19. 33 00:03:38.640 --> 00:03:49.360 Are there scribes? Are there scribing it? Is it being translated out of the original tongues? 34 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:57.040 I mean, I don't know what that is. That's 35 00:03:57.040 --> 00:04:26.960 it. Chapter 10, verse 19. Praise God. How's it going, man? That's a nice jacket. That's 36 00:04:26.960 --> 00:04:34.160 really nice. JJ Walker and good times had one just like that. That same cognac color. I love it. 37 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:44.400 Ah, there we go. A feast is made for laughter and wine makes merry. But money answers everything. 38 00:04:44.400 --> 00:04:50.720 That's in the Bible. Biggie Smalls and I write that. Sounds like it could have. Sounds like 39 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:57.600 J. Z. Circa 96 to 03. Could have wrote that. But it didn't. That's actually in the Bible. Because 40 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:04.640 you're not supposed to shy away from the reality of what money is and how powerful it is. And whether 41 00:05:04.640 --> 00:05:10.080 you want to talk about it or not, think about it or not, the reality is that 90% of your time is 42 00:05:10.080 --> 00:05:16.320 spent trying to get some, working 40, 50, 60, some, 70 hours a week, two jobs, who bring on the 43 00:05:16.880 --> 00:05:22.880 side trying to get some and then coming to church. And my job is to give you God's word on it. 44 00:05:22.880 --> 00:05:27.520 That is the truth on it. And some people wig out. And I've noticed the people who get upset are 45 00:05:27.520 --> 00:05:32.880 always the ones that need the message the most. It's incredible. I've never seen people of means 46 00:05:32.880 --> 00:05:38.880 and wealthy people get upset saying, wow, you talked about money in church. It's always somebody 47 00:05:38.880 --> 00:05:43.600 who really needs the message. You know what I'm trying to say here. They're broke. Nothing in 48 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:50.080 their pockets except lent. They need to hear what God has to say about finances, stewardship. 49 00:05:50.080 --> 00:05:55.520 They need it. And they're the ones who fight you the most. Somehow, maybe you swallow the lie 50 00:05:55.520 --> 00:06:03.360 that it's that money is unholy. And money really is neutral. It's just an extension of the heart. 51 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:08.160 It flows out from an extension of the hand that's connected to the body that contains the heart. 52 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:16.480 Amen. So everybody, I mean, even unbelievers, they know this next verse. I'm going to announce it 53 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:24.880 now. So we got plenty of time here. First Timothy 6, 10. Let me read to you just some things here. 54 00:06:24.880 --> 00:06:33.840 You ready? Why it's important to have God's word on finances. Total household debt as of Q1, 55 00:06:33.840 --> 00:06:41.920 2024. You ready? 17.987 trillion. That's the national debt. Not the national that, excuse me, 56 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:47.280 total household debt. This overwhelming debt can lead to a pervasive sense of hopelessness and 57 00:06:47.280 --> 00:06:53.920 anxiety. This is why it's important to have God's word on the subject because when you're lacking 58 00:06:54.720 --> 00:07:03.120 in finances, there is an anxiety that comes. Some people can struggle with depression. Do you know 59 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:10.160 what Jeremiah said in the book of Jeremiah? My peace has left me. I forgot prosperity. When you 60 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:16.400 forget or don't understand biblical prosperity, God's abundance, your peace can leave you. Anxiety 61 00:07:16.400 --> 00:07:22.240 can come in. This is important and God actually cares about your level of peace. And you can't 62 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:26.560 relegate him to just the spiritual. He's here to help you in the spiritual, in the natural. 63 00:07:26.960 --> 00:07:35.440 Average debt per person. 104,000. We are more indebted than any other nation on planet earth. 64 00:07:35.440 --> 00:07:40.240 And most people carry overwhelming crushing credit card debt. It doesn't have to be you. 65 00:07:41.280 --> 00:07:47.520 It's not God's will. Student loans that you're paying off. You have grandchildren and you're still 66 00:07:47.520 --> 00:07:52.640 paying off student loans. That's the part of the debt cycle and the debt trap. God wants to bring 67 00:07:52.640 --> 00:08:00.400 you relief. Credit card debt is total 1.16 trillion. High credit card balances often lead to 68 00:08:00.400 --> 00:08:06.000 constant reminders of financial strain through interest rates and minimum payments. This can 69 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:11.360 result in emotional turmoil, including guilt, overspending fear of credit or calls and the stress 70 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:19.440 of managing monthly finances. God has a better way, amen. It goes, I have more but I'm not even 71 00:08:19.440 --> 00:08:25.680 going to depress you with it. The bottom line is, I mean, it's not good. The bottom line is that 72 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:33.200 God has an answer. But for some weird reason, the bulk of Christians have stayed away from what 73 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:41.200 God has to say about it. Serving? Yeah, what does God have to say? We want you to have a servant's 74 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:46.720 heart. Okay. Heaven, hell, what does God have to say? The love walk, what does God have to say? 75 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:50.720 What about this other part of your life that occupies genuinely so much of your energy, 76 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:54.560 so much of your time, so much of your focus? Oh, I don't need to know what God has to say about it. 77 00:08:55.360 --> 00:09:00.080 And then people's favorite verse concerning money seems to be that one right there. Everybody 78 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:04.560 knows it. Everybody's got it memorized. At least they paraphrase it. Unbelievers know it. You want 79 00:09:04.560 --> 00:09:08.960 to talk about money and somebody's going to say, well, don't you know, money is the root of all 80 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:18.400 evil. And it's not that money is the root of all evil. The love of money. You know how you know 81 00:09:18.400 --> 00:09:23.920 whether you love money or not? If you have a disciplined principle of generosity and you're 82 00:09:23.920 --> 00:09:30.320 giving, you don't love money. I know people who love money. You see their money, George Washington, 83 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:35.840 as tears coming out of his eyes, just squeezing him so tightly. Not to mention Ben Franklin. 84 00:09:35.920 --> 00:09:42.960 Ben Franklin's skull is all crushed in. Crying. They're white knuckling their money. They 85 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:49.440 would never give away a red scent. Giving shows that you don't love money because you understand 86 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:57.600 that money is a wonderful, wonderful servant but a terrible master. Hallelujah. So this is most 87 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:03.120 people who will fight against biblical prosperity of their favorite verse for the love of money 88 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:08.880 is the root of all kinds of evil. I say a big amen to that. Don't love money. Love God. Make him 89 00:10:08.880 --> 00:10:13.840 number one in your life and then allow him to bring that stuff when you see key first the kingdom 90 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:21.760 of heaven and all his righteousness and all those other what? Things, things, all those other things 91 00:10:21.760 --> 00:10:26.160 will be added unto you when you've put him and made him first. Hallelujah. 92 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:32.240 For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil for which some have strayed from the faith 93 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:36.000 and their greediness. How do you know if you're greedy or not? Well, if you're giving, 94 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:39.840 probably you're not struggling with greediness. If you're a disciplined either, 95 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:44.640 you're generous. You actually take people out. You don't mind buying someone lunch. 96 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:50.880 You give good gifts. You help someone who's poor. You're not suffering with greed. I know greedy 97 00:10:50.880 --> 00:10:59.040 people. They don't give anything. Nothing. In fact, if they have to do it, anyway, I won't get into it. 98 00:10:59.760 --> 00:11:06.000 But it's just because I'm hang out with you and I'm so surrounded by Christians now that I'm 99 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:10.080 meeting on belief. Most Christians are very, very loving, very, very generous. Then you meet 100 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:17.200 unbelievers and I'm talking about guys who have eight figures. One guy led out 20 mil plus. 101 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:24.240 I mean, you talk about a spirit of miserliness because anything less than what he has, 102 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:29.360 he almost, it's like he sees as a chunk of his own soul falling off. He takes such pride and 103 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:34.720 he identifies with his money so much that to actually give even a small percentage away, 104 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:37.280 it's almost like he's ripping off a part of his soul and giving it away. 105 00:11:42.560 --> 00:11:48.080 So you can be rich like that. The Bible says, Pastor Moe help me out. What's that scripture about 106 00:11:49.040 --> 00:11:51.840 the Lord making you rich, but he adds no sorrow to it. 107 00:11:54.640 --> 00:12:00.240 The Lord makes, but he adds no sorrow. So there's people in the world, they're rich, but they're sorrow 108 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:05.440 to it. Like this fellow I'm referencing, you can be very wealthy and have a fat wallet, but very, 109 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:12.080 very scrawny, skinny heart. You're all emaciated and 80-bitty on the inside, like the Grinch. 110 00:12:12.560 --> 00:12:15.920 I take the magnifying glass, see that heart. Two sizes, two small. 111 00:12:19.920 --> 00:12:26.640 All right, so, and by the way, there is this, there is this weirdness when it comes to money. I 112 00:12:26.640 --> 00:12:32.880 still after all these years can't figure it out. Why Christians will fight you on, on a message, 113 00:12:32.880 --> 00:12:39.840 it's a positive message. It's that God is good. God's not cheap. When God gives, He gives an 114 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:45.520 abundance and you get to be a part of that and people respond like, ah, how can He say that? 115 00:12:54.160 --> 00:13:01.440 What do you want me to say? God is broke. God is cheap. And God, I got good use for it. He 116 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:07.760 wants it to be poor. No, no, no, not America poor. I'm talking third world poor. I'm talking, 117 00:13:07.760 --> 00:13:13.840 you need a potato sack. I'm talking kick your shoes off. I mean, good use. You want poverty? 118 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:24.240 Oh, God's God truckloads for you. I've been over 50 nations. A lot of them 119 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:30.480 written in poverty when I get off the plane and I come into a third world nation. I never think, 120 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:36.160 wow, this place is close to God's heart. You know, this place, you can just feel holiness 121 00:13:36.160 --> 00:13:41.680 because money is bad. Capitalism is bad. Prosperity is bad. And some of you, you come from poor. 122 00:13:41.680 --> 00:13:47.840 We just came back, team of 20 of us, from Guatemala, up in the mountains, far away. Not Guatemala city, 123 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:54.720 up in the mountains. All right, we have to use a bathroom. It was an SD 10 year old shower curtain. 124 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:59.200 You peel back the shower curtain. It's a bucket in the corner. When I was showing that bucket, 125 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:06.960 I didn't think, oh, divine. Holy. Now, this is what Godliness looks like. Me and that bucket. 126 00:14:10.560 --> 00:14:17.360 No, whenever you look in the scriptures, poverty is a sign of the absence of God, 127 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:23.760 a sign of the absence of the anointing, a sign of the curse. Prosperity is always a sign of God 128 00:14:23.760 --> 00:14:29.920 is in the house. When God was moving in Israel, it says that gold was everywhere. And silver 129 00:14:29.920 --> 00:14:34.800 was so plentiful, it wasn't even counted. It was everywhere in the streets. You look at the 130 00:14:34.800 --> 00:14:40.320 ministry of Jesus, always over the top and abundant. Some of you, maybe you got messed up. 131 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:46.480 Maybe you went to really religious school. Maybe you really liked 16th century art and you saw 132 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:50.000 Jesus dressed in rags and you're like, yeah, that's what he was like. He wasn't like that. 133 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:56.480 Look at the way Jesus gave. He did something in the Bible known as provisional miracles. Who 134 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:01.680 can guess what that is? A miracle of provision where someone needs something and then he provides, 135 00:15:01.680 --> 00:15:07.440 all right, there's other physical miracles, physical healings. He started off his ministry with 136 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:14.000 a provisional miracle. He was at a wedding. They needed wine. He provided wine. Do you know, does 137 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:19.680 anybody? Because I've mentioned it before. When I last preached on this 14 months ago, it seems 138 00:15:19.680 --> 00:15:26.160 like yesterday to me. It was 14 months. How? Who remembers? How much wine? Because these details 139 00:15:26.160 --> 00:15:30.640 are in the Bible later, not in the Bible for no reason. Who remembers? Who wasn't in the first 140 00:15:30.640 --> 00:15:36.560 service? Who remembers? How much wine Jesus made in the wedding feast in Canaan of Galilee? How much 141 00:15:36.560 --> 00:15:48.320 wine? It was six water pots, each water pot containing 20 to 30 gallons. 142 00:15:53.440 --> 00:16:01.680 So on the low end, the 120 gallons, on the high end, the 150 gallons of wine. I've been to a lot of 143 00:16:01.680 --> 00:16:09.120 weddings. I've never seen a wedding that needed 120 gallons of wine. Not a little village wedding. 144 00:16:09.920 --> 00:16:17.760 Whenever he does something, he does it in an over-the-top generous way. Find every provisional 145 00:16:17.760 --> 00:16:23.920 miracle in the Bible and you will see the same pattern. When he fed the 5,000, which really, 146 00:16:23.920 --> 00:16:29.280 they just counted the men, sexists. They didn't count the woman and children. You count the woman 147 00:16:29.280 --> 00:16:36.080 and children. It would have been 15,000, 20,000. It says, they all ate and were filled. And then they 148 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:41.760 took up 12 baskets of what? Leftovers. Now here, I'm going to blow your mind right now. You know 149 00:16:41.760 --> 00:16:54.880 why you have leftovers? Because the giver gave too much. Amen. Boy, babe. The giver gave too much. 150 00:16:54.880 --> 00:17:02.080 He always gives too much. When it was time to bless Peter, because Peter needed some fish, 151 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:06.720 he didn't give them three fish. He didn't give them 30 fish. It says so much fish that the net began 152 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:13.840 to break and the boat began to sink. When God blessed Abraham, when he made that covenant with him, 153 00:17:13.840 --> 00:17:19.280 one of the first things is, Abraham's goats and sheep and all his livestock started multiplying 154 00:17:19.280 --> 00:17:23.120 so much at the very grass couldn't sustain them all. The sheep and goats and livestock were 155 00:17:23.120 --> 00:17:28.400 multiplying quicker than the grass. That's actually in the Bible. So what kind of a God is God? He's 156 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:36.320 a too many sheep and goat giving, net breaking boat sinking over the top, 12 baskets left over too 157 00:17:36.320 --> 00:17:42.800 much wine kind of God. Amen. And you need to get that in your spirit. You know why? Because all the 158 00:17:42.800 --> 00:17:47.200 time there's other things flashing at you, getting in your head, getting in your eyes, getting in 159 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:54.320 your subconscious, lack, lack. You can't door close, door close, brick wall. You're stuck, 160 00:17:54.320 --> 00:18:00.720 another bill, another bill, credit or call. And then that can just corrode you and weaken your faith 161 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:06.480 and everywhere you look, you're seeing limitations. The word of God needs to come in. Blow the limits 162 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:13.040 right off. Hallelujah. He's not a small God. He's a great God. And I even hear that thought. I heard 163 00:18:13.040 --> 00:18:18.160 it right now in the spirit. That thought, oh, you don't know, how could he do it in my, I don't 164 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:24.240 know how he can do it in your life. But he will do it if you will link with him and believe that 165 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:30.560 he will do it. He's not out of tricks. He's not out of surprises. We believe this, didn't we, 166 00:18:30.560 --> 00:18:34.400 babe? We made a decision. We were going to be givers. We were going to believe God is a good 167 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:38.880 God. We didn't know how he was going to do it. But then he did it and he's still doing it. And 168 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:43.280 he's done it amongst many of you and he'll do it with more you. But we need you to hook in, 169 00:18:44.080 --> 00:18:50.560 link up, at least begin by affirming the scriptures. I'm the offering envelopes. There's a verse. 170 00:18:50.560 --> 00:18:57.840 I put that there nearly 20 years ago that God takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servant. 171 00:18:58.560 --> 00:19:03.360 Some people would read that. They think God takes pleasure in the poverty of His servant. 172 00:19:03.360 --> 00:19:09.040 No, he takes no pleasure in anyone's poverty. But he takes pleasure in your prosperity. 173 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:19.760 Hallelujah. So first, Timothy 6, 10 is a lot of people's favorite verse. But then seven verses later. 174 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:27.360 Right, remember this? And people say it out of context. They don't even say the love of money. 175 00:19:27.360 --> 00:19:34.080 They just say money. But look at just seven verses later. That's like 30 seconds in Paul time. 176 00:19:34.800 --> 00:19:40.240 He's writing. He's writing the same thought. And he says to who's he writing to Timothy? 177 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:45.760 Pastor Timothy. He's giving Pastor Timothy advice, encouraging him, 178 00:19:45.760 --> 00:19:50.320 advice on how to pastor his local church. And he says, command those who are rich in this 179 00:19:50.320 --> 00:19:54.800 present age, not to be hardy. Where were those rich people in the flea market? 180 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:02.080 Out in the world? No, in Timothy's church. In other words, there were rich people in Timothy's 181 00:20:02.080 --> 00:20:07.920 church. There's always been rich people in church. What should I tell them? Your riches are evil? 182 00:20:09.520 --> 00:20:15.200 You know, some people, for example, Jesus told the rich young ruler, go and sell everything you have. 183 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:20.080 And people want to base their whole life on that. That means they should never ever be a wealthy Christian, 184 00:20:20.080 --> 00:20:23.680 never, ever rich Christian. The moment you get a little, just sell it all and give it all to the poor. 185 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:28.480 There's people who actually believe that. Then you never, ever have generational wealth. Your kids 186 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:33.440 can never have a further start than how you started. It's absolute nonsense. That was specifically 187 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:39.200 to the rich young ruler because he came full of pride and he came boasting that he keeps the 188 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:44.640 entirety of the law, even though nobody can keep the entirety of the law. He was bragging and he was 189 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:50.240 boasting and Jesus expertly knew. Look, took one look at him and saw his heart. Put his finger on 190 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:55.600 what he knew was his real God money. So he challenged them, said, go and give away everything you have 191 00:20:55.600 --> 00:20:59.520 and the rich young ruler and whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. Because he came basically saying, Jesus, I'm 192 00:20:59.520 --> 00:21:04.480 sold out. I love the Lord, my God, with all my heart, all my string, he's bragging about. You ever 193 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:09.760 meet a Christian who brags about how awesome, how much they love God, how greatly they follow him? 194 00:21:09.840 --> 00:21:17.120 You ever hear that Christian? Just love him, but love him like, all right. Because they're about 195 00:21:17.120 --> 00:21:22.320 to get a reckoning with reality. The Bible says, take heed when you think you stand, lest you fall. 196 00:21:22.320 --> 00:21:29.040 And pride comes before a fold. Don't ever boast on how great your law keeping is. There's always an A 197 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:36.720 that you forgot to put the little cross through and an eye that's left undotted. Hallelujah. 198 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:44.240 Amen. Those who are rich in this present age not to be hardy or proud, nor to trust in uncertain 199 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:54.240 riches, but in the living God who gives us all things richly to enjoy. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 200 00:21:55.600 --> 00:22:00.560 What's God's will? God's will is for his people here at City Light Church. I can't be responsible 201 00:22:00.560 --> 00:22:03.600 for all Christians, but I'm responsible for the Christians at City Light Church. 202 00:22:08.080 --> 00:22:13.440 To allow the word of God, concerning cross spirit and concerning abundance, to really take 203 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:19.280 root in your hearts. This is a secret. This is a key. When you let it take root in your heart, 204 00:22:19.280 --> 00:22:24.880 it'll actually begin to shape the world around you because the word of God works. You consider 205 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:30.080 you can just mentally acquiesce. You can just nod your head and go, yeah, no, I believe that. Look, 206 00:22:30.080 --> 00:22:34.640 after all, he's got some scriptures up there. Okay, it's in the Bible. All right, that's just 207 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:41.600 mental ascent. That's cheap. But faith comes out of your spirit. And in order for faith to really 208 00:22:41.600 --> 00:22:46.080 be produced, it only comes from one place, the word of God. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by 209 00:22:46.080 --> 00:22:50.960 the word of God. So that word of God concerning abundance and prosperity has to go in your spirit. 210 00:22:51.040 --> 00:22:56.080 That's why I'm preaching this. I'm trying to fill you with the word of God which will produce faith. 211 00:22:56.080 --> 00:23:01.600 There's just one problem. I'm not with you tomorrow or Tuesday or Wednesday. I cannot be your 212 00:23:01.600 --> 00:23:06.480 personal life coach slash pastor that's, you know, maybe I know some churches are going to AI 213 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:12.400 route. Maybe there'll be a hologram AI version of me on Monday. Good morning, Jeff. I just want to 214 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:23.520 remind you that God takes pleasure in your prosperity. That's probably the mark of the beast right there. 215 00:23:25.520 --> 00:23:33.200 You have to do it yourself. You got to feed yourself specifically with God's abundance to break the 216 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:47.280 back of that that miserly poverty lack small minded spirit. Oh, hallelujah. Let's look at 217 00:23:47.280 --> 00:23:54.560 Philemon. I'm just going to show you some scriptures here that that will just rework our thinking. 218 00:23:54.640 --> 00:24:03.040 I don't know who that was but if you do you all and make sure to do it extra loud. 219 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:09.680 Especially when I'm not preaching. Just in case anybody else is a little sleepy that'll let them 220 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:25.360 know they're not alone. Then we'll get five or six people. Hallelujah. Lord, thank you for 221 00:24:25.360 --> 00:24:34.400 abundance and prosperity of sleep. You give your beloved gifts and sleep. If then here's Paul 222 00:24:35.360 --> 00:24:45.520 writing to Philemon. Hallelujah. If you then count me as a partner, receive him as you would me. 223 00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:52.720 Look, go on to the next verse, but let me say this. I just want to help you see these biblical 224 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:59.360 characters as they really are. A lot of Christians believe Paul was broke all the time. Why? Because in 225 00:24:59.360 --> 00:25:04.480 one place he wrote that he was shipwrecked, that he was in a forced, fasted state and fastings 226 00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:08.640 off and not like when we have a 21 days of prayer and fasting, like he didn't have food to eat. 227 00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:14.560 And they take this little photograph, this Polaroid picture and they turn it into a whole movie. 228 00:25:15.360 --> 00:25:21.280 Don't take a photograph and make it into a movie, right? Like, what if what if 229 00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:27.600 what if ladies, what if my wife and I surprised you at five of them took a picture of you at five of 230 00:25:27.600 --> 00:25:34.560 them and then just let the host, this is who they are all the time. You'd be like, ah, that was wrong. 231 00:25:35.600 --> 00:25:42.160 You can't take a picture of Paul when he's being hit and go, this was Paul all the time. He even 232 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:46.320 said, I've learned how to be a base. I've learned how to abound that I've learned how to have more 233 00:25:46.320 --> 00:25:51.840 than enough. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Here he's writing about an 234 00:25:51.840 --> 00:25:58.240 pessimist, this former slave, next verse, please. And he says, I, Paul, I'm writing with my own 235 00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:04.800 and I will repay. He basically tells this innkeeper, take care of this guy and whatever debts he 236 00:26:04.800 --> 00:26:10.080 incurs, use my black AMX card. I don't even want to know how much is I got it. That's not how 237 00:26:10.080 --> 00:26:16.640 a broke apostle talks. Amen. Now to mention, I love how he throws this in, not to mention that you 238 00:26:16.640 --> 00:26:23.360 owe me your own self besides. I'll pay everything, but just remember you owe me one buddy. 239 00:26:25.520 --> 00:26:30.880 Luke 8133. There's also this notion that Jesus was poor. 240 00:26:31.360 --> 00:26:43.280 Other than religious teaching or some weird movie from the 70s that you saw or some painting 241 00:26:43.280 --> 00:26:50.880 you saw, what makes you think that Jesus was poor? What? What in the word in the Bible? Forget 242 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:58.400 extrabiblical stuff. That abounds. What in the Bible makes you think that Jesus was poor? I've 243 00:26:58.400 --> 00:27:03.440 seen people who are so, they need this message. They're struggling. They're poor. And then they 244 00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:09.920 want to identify with Jesus. Well, you know, Jesus, like the enemy is so tricky, he wants to get you 245 00:27:09.920 --> 00:27:15.280 in this terrible low state of poverty and then sanctify it in your mind so that you identify with 246 00:27:15.280 --> 00:27:20.480 Jesus or identify with Paul. Paul was fine. Paul never lacked anything. He had all sufficiency 247 00:27:20.560 --> 00:27:28.640 and all things. Jesus never lacked a thing. In fact, as soon as he was born, you know what happened? 248 00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:36.400 Magi came. And what did they give him? A $5 gift card? No, they gave him gold. How much gold? 249 00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:42.960 We don't know, but we know it was enough for Joseph to take him and Mary and flee to Egypt for many 250 00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:49.040 years and live off that gold. So Jesus's life was started. People bring him gold. 251 00:27:51.040 --> 00:27:56.880 Then whenever he does a miracle, he does it in abundance more than enough. Judas was stealing. We know 252 00:27:56.880 --> 00:28:04.320 that. This is in the Bible. Judas was stealing and nobody knew. Why is that? Because when you have 253 00:28:04.320 --> 00:28:11.920 so much and someone stealing, people won't notice. You know, when it's Christmas time, Emily makes 254 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:19.680 a lot of cookies. But we only put out five on the counter. Because if there's three there, 255 00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:26.720 the next morning, we'd go, the kids stole cookies in the middle of the night. We had five. Now 256 00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:34.640 there's three. They stole two. But if you put out all 50 cookies and they stole two, we couldn't 257 00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:46.240 tell. So Judas is stealing. Nobody can tell because the ministry money bag is so full and abundant 258 00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:55.680 and prosperous. Hallelujah. At his death, a woman was compelled to take a year's worth of wages. 259 00:28:55.680 --> 00:29:00.800 That's how much that alabaster box in the fragrant oil was worth. Break it open and pour it over 260 00:29:00.800 --> 00:29:07.760 Jesus's feet. A year's worth of wages. Why was she compelled to do that? It was prophetic. 261 00:29:07.760 --> 00:29:15.040 She was moved by the spirit and also because Jesus was a money prosperity magnet. Everywhere he went, 262 00:29:15.040 --> 00:29:21.760 he drew prosperity to himself. In fact, today we're celebrating Palm Sunday and he came in on a 263 00:29:21.760 --> 00:29:28.720 cult. Look up, who actually got to ride a cult? Only the aristocracy, royalty, the upper, 264 00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:35.040 upper crust, the 1%. The rest had to walk places. You think a cult is just some cheap beast of 265 00:29:35.040 --> 00:29:43.520 burden? No, this was all precious. That's how we came into Jerusalem as a king. And by the way, 266 00:29:43.520 --> 00:29:54.720 it was a cult on which never man sat, not previously owned. When he needed an upper room 267 00:29:55.840 --> 00:30:01.040 to have the Passover, he just said the master has need of it and he got the best room in Jerusalem 268 00:30:01.040 --> 00:30:06.640 for his Passover meal. Even in his death, did they take him and bury him in the potter's field? 269 00:30:07.600 --> 00:30:13.760 What kind of tomb was Jesus buried in? A rich man's tomb. Joseph of Arimathea, as you're 270 00:30:13.760 --> 00:30:21.600 taking his body down from the cross, is compelled and says he's going to be buried in a rich man's tomb 271 00:30:21.600 --> 00:30:28.080 from his birth all throughout his life. Why did the Roman soldiers gamble over Jesus' clothes? 272 00:30:28.080 --> 00:30:32.640 You see the art and they have Jesus and basically glorified potato sack. You really think he 273 00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:40.960 looked like that? Why? Because the 17th century artist told you so? To get me on art. 274 00:30:43.280 --> 00:30:46.640 You know, Da Vinci was a little light in the loafers. I don't know if you know that or not. 275 00:30:47.760 --> 00:30:51.680 Did you know that? You don't know Da Vinci had a little sugar in his tank. 276 00:30:51.840 --> 00:31:02.960 Yeah, and it's suspected, I've heard this even in the LGBTQ community, it's suspected that the 277 00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:09.680 face of Jesus that Da Vinci popularized was actually the face of his gay lover. 278 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:17.760 Why do you think Jesus looked that way? Every black person here is like, I never did. 279 00:31:18.080 --> 00:31:20.080 Good for you. 280 00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:33.200 Some people got bamboozled. You know, you got somebody buying onto a statue, 281 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:37.360 praying to Da Vinci's gay lover. Like, how messed up is that? 282 00:31:38.320 --> 00:31:48.960 If you didn't learn about prosperity, you learned something today. 283 00:31:57.840 --> 00:32:04.560 Yeah, they show him poor, they show him broke. But Roman soldiers gambled over his garments. 284 00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:11.680 These weren't Roman soldiers that saw him as the son of God. These weren't Roman soldiers that respected him. 285 00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:15.520 These were the same Roman soldiers who blindfolded him, hit him and said, 286 00:32:15.520 --> 00:32:18.320 prophesy unto us, Son of Man, which one of us was it that hit you? 287 00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:24.880 Awful, degrading. Yet they gambled over his clothes. Why? Because they were clothes worth gambling over. 288 00:32:25.760 --> 00:32:29.040 That means he was dressed well. Yeah. 289 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:38.560 Hallelujah. Now, it came to pass afterward that he went through every city and village. 290 00:32:41.840 --> 00:32:45.840 If I want the finances of the church to increase, do you know what I do? 291 00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:52.320 Have you ever heard me teach on money and go, all right, the reason why I've been teaching 292 00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:58.400 on money is we've been really in the red. Maybe needs a new pair of shoes. 293 00:32:59.520 --> 00:33:04.000 We need to keep the light on at city light. In fact, we're launching a new campaign. Keep the light 294 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:09.120 on at city light. You want money? Increase in the anointing. Yeah. 295 00:33:11.840 --> 00:33:16.800 You want to have an increase in money? The anointing. That's the manifest presence of the Holy 296 00:33:16.800 --> 00:33:25.600 Spirit, the substance of God, God's stuff. It is a magnet for abundance, for finances, for prosperity. 297 00:33:26.560 --> 00:33:32.560 So if we're ever having a problem financially, we all know the staff knows. I know our solution 298 00:33:32.560 --> 00:33:37.120 is that some clever campaign. That's why we never had one. Clever marketing, clever way. Okay, 299 00:33:37.120 --> 00:33:41.760 let's find, you know, the top 20 givers take them out to dinner and I'll take them out, you know, 300 00:33:41.760 --> 00:33:46.560 to Peter Luger's then Midway. I'll spring it on them. Would you like to be a covenant partner? 301 00:33:47.120 --> 00:33:50.800 We're starting a, what's that whole thing? Everybody has the businessman's model, whatever. All 302 00:33:50.800 --> 00:33:58.000 these games, anointing brings money. Jesus was a money magnet because he was the Christ, the 303 00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:05.520 anointed one and he drew it in from everywhere. Hallelujah. In the Bible, when Israel was walking 304 00:34:05.520 --> 00:34:11.920 right with God, money just came to them. When the temple was being dedicated and the glory of God 305 00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:17.680 was there, it actually says the people had to be refrained from giving. Imagine that. Imagine 306 00:34:17.680 --> 00:34:22.160 a church that receives an offering and I go, all right, stop it enough. We got enough. Put it back. 307 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:31.440 Yeah. In fact, the Bible says people will give freely in the day of his power. So the power of 308 00:34:31.520 --> 00:34:37.840 God, the anointing of God is a magnet for the prosperity of God. Put that verse back up, please. 309 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:43.280 That's why Jesus, it says that he went through every city and village preaching and bringing the good 310 00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:49.920 news of the kingdom of God and the 12 were with him and certain women who had been healed of evil 311 00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:56.480 spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene out of whom had come seven demons and Joanna, 312 00:34:56.480 --> 00:35:03.600 the wife of Shusa, Herod Stewart and Susanna and many others who did what? They were literally 313 00:35:03.600 --> 00:35:11.520 assigned to give to him who provided for him from their substance. You think Jesus ever had to ask? 314 00:35:12.240 --> 00:35:18.640 You have to call God forbid, a man and call a woman over. Hey, listen, girl, I'm a little 315 00:35:18.720 --> 00:35:26.640 light here. What do you got for me this month? No, they couldn't help it. They couldn't help it. 316 00:35:27.520 --> 00:35:33.680 Hallelujah. Those of you who were givers, you give because you love God, you worship him and then 317 00:35:33.680 --> 00:35:39.200 you can't help it. You want to give to the anointing, the life of God, something that's actually making 318 00:35:39.200 --> 00:35:47.840 a difference. Hallelujah. I'll close with this. Do it around me, chapter 8, verses 11 through 18. 319 00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:56.560 We're going to have a great Easter service. But after Easter, I may continue along these lines. 320 00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:04.160 I don't want any of you to hold me responsible for you lacking and saying, Pastor, you never told me. 321 00:36:04.160 --> 00:36:10.880 I don't know how I let 14 months go by. I'll mention it, but I'm talking about a whole service 322 00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:17.440 dedicated where we got to get stuff like a Thanksgiving turkey. Stuff full of the word of God. 323 00:36:18.160 --> 00:36:23.520 The word of God concerning prosperity. You got to get sick and tired of being sick and tired, sick 324 00:36:23.520 --> 00:36:28.080 and tired of lack. I said that in one guy here, I couldn't believe it. He's doing great now. We're 325 00:36:28.080 --> 00:36:38.640 actually very close now. I was actually going to say his name only because I know he would laugh if I 326 00:36:38.640 --> 00:36:45.760 did, because I have an anointing to tease him. And he has a grace to like it. 327 00:36:47.680 --> 00:36:53.200 He turns to me and he goes, I'm good. I go, what do you mean you're good? Like with money, 328 00:36:53.200 --> 00:37:00.720 he's like, oh man, I'm good. How good are you? I'm good. How many churches have you built? 329 00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:09.600 How many orphanages have you founded? Oh, you mean you're good in the sense that you have just 330 00:37:09.600 --> 00:37:14.000 enough for yourself and now you're good? That is the most selfish thing I've ever heard. 331 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:18.320 Yet people will say that and say, well, I'm being humble, you know, I don't want too much. 332 00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:23.280 You're good because you have it at my fore and no more mentality. That's utterly selfish. 333 00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:28.080 Don't tell me you're good. You're good when your cup is overflowing and wherever you go, 334 00:37:28.080 --> 00:37:33.520 you relieve suffering and you leave a wake of healed bodies and buildings built for the glory of 335 00:37:33.520 --> 00:37:38.320 God in your trail. Now you're good. You're not good when you're like middle, middle class and you're 336 00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:46.880 not hungry. Oh, I'm good. No. Hallelujah. You guys read your Bible. Look, look at the patriarchs. 337 00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:53.120 Look at Abraham, financially, superprosperous. Look at Isaac, financially, superprosperous. Jacob, 338 00:37:53.120 --> 00:37:59.280 if you go down the list, God's hand designed them. What comes next? Abundance and prosperity. 339 00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:09.120 Hallelujah. You cannot that. You cannot. Yes, there's warnings. Lots of warnings. I warn you too. 340 00:38:09.120 --> 00:38:14.480 Don't bend the need of money. Don't love money. Don't let money rule over you. A good way to keep 341 00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:19.120 all that and check once again. That's why God implemented the tithe is because it keeps your 342 00:38:19.120 --> 00:38:23.600 heart pure. It's make sure that money never becomes your master, but stays your servant. 343 00:38:23.600 --> 00:38:28.720 Because now you're honoring the Lord and you're putting first before money. All right, 344 00:38:28.720 --> 00:38:41.840 Deuteronomy 8-11. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not 345 00:38:41.840 --> 00:38:46.080 keeping his commandments, his judgments and his statutes, which I command you today. Worship 346 00:38:46.080 --> 00:38:53.760 team, you can come up. Lest when you have eaten and are full, eaten and are full. 347 00:38:55.520 --> 00:39:01.040 By the way, they're just meeting God. This is the children of Israel. They just come out of Egypt. 348 00:39:02.080 --> 00:39:07.680 They're just getting to know his nature, his character. A good question always asks is, 349 00:39:07.680 --> 00:39:14.160 what's God like? You ask 20 people that you get 20 different answers. You know who you can trust? 350 00:39:14.160 --> 00:39:20.080 The Bible where he reveals his nature. He reveals his character. Here he's revealing who he is, 351 00:39:20.080 --> 00:39:26.560 what he's all about. When you have eaten and are full, oh, so God is a God that likes me eating 352 00:39:26.560 --> 00:39:32.640 and full. I'm so glad I could be obedient to the Lord at every meal and have built beautiful 353 00:39:32.640 --> 00:39:38.480 houses and dwell in them. So he's not against beautiful houses. I learned something about God. 354 00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:45.040 And when your herds and your flocks multiply, whoa, whoa, I've been praying for addition, 355 00:39:45.040 --> 00:39:51.840 but I just found out that God's not against multiplication. He wants to multiply and your herds 356 00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:58.240 and your flocks multiply and your silver and your gold are multiplied and in case you didn't list 357 00:39:58.240 --> 00:40:04.400 everything enough. And then he says, and all that you have is multiplied. So God is a God of 358 00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:10.400 multiplication. God is a God of abundance, of prosperity. Be careful. In other words, be careful 359 00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:15.920 when I bring you all these blessings that your heart isn't lifted up and cried and that you forget 360 00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:21.680 the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage who led you 361 00:40:21.680 --> 00:40:28.000 through that great and terrible wilderness in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land 362 00:40:28.080 --> 00:40:34.560 where there was no water who brought water for you out of the flinty rock who fed you in the wilderness 363 00:40:34.560 --> 00:40:40.720 with mana, which your fathers did not know that he might humble and you and that he might test you 364 00:40:40.720 --> 00:40:45.760 and it's always to do you good in the end. Be careful when you're so blessed and you have beautiful 365 00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:50.880 houses and your all your needs are met that you don't say in your heart my power and the might of 366 00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:55.760 my hand have gained me this wealth. And you shall remember the Lord your God. You remember him 367 00:40:55.760 --> 00:41:02.720 and you're giving and you're generosity for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, 368 00:41:03.360 --> 00:41:12.880 power anointing creative ability. How will that happen? Don't worry about it. Believe that he 369 00:41:12.880 --> 00:41:17.920 wants it. Believe that it is happening. Don't worry about the final result. You'll always be 370 00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:23.040 shocked and surprised by how he did it. We're so limited in our thinking and our planning. He's 371 00:41:23.040 --> 00:41:29.040 unlimited for it is he who gives you power to get wealth that he may establish his covenant 372 00:41:29.040 --> 00:41:39.120 which he swore to your fathers as it is this day. Hallelujah. Father, I pray for everybody here 373 00:41:39.120 --> 00:41:47.040 in the name of Jesus. I pray for mighty harvest on every seed soon. I pray for an attitude adjustment. 374 00:41:47.040 --> 00:41:52.560 I pray Lord for a holy brainwashing that we would move away from small-minded thinking, 375 00:41:53.440 --> 00:42:00.160 lack thinking, a scarcity mindset that we would fully embrace your ways which are grand, 376 00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:05.360 your ways which are in addition but their multiplication. And I pray that you would come upon 377 00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:09.920 everybody here who has anxiety in their life, who has stress in their life, who's struggling 378 00:42:09.920 --> 00:42:16.960 and finances in any way come and meet their needs in an over the top manner as you promised in your 379 00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:31.520 word you would do. In Jesus name, amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. 380 00:42:33.440 --> 00:42:38.800 Thank you, Lord. Well, are you ready to worship and honor the Lord with your tides and offerings? 381 00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:45.440 Give the Lord a big shout. The giving information is to my left and to my right, 382 00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:51.280 give only willingly. If you're unwilling, don't give until you're willing. 383 00:42:54.000 --> 00:43:01.520 Give with a glad heart, give in faith, believing that you make a living by your giving and 384 00:43:01.520 --> 00:43:17.520 anything you give, God multiplies back to you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 385 00:43:19.520 --> 00:43:22.000 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 386 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:30.160 Don't let your peace get lost like Jeremiah and forget prosperity. 387 00:43:35.360 --> 00:43:45.600 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. 388 00:43:52.160 --> 00:44:02.240 Hallelujah. I pray you have a blessed holy week to take some time and meditate on what Jesus did for you. 389 00:44:07.200 --> 00:44:11.680 And invite people like crazy for this coming Sunday. They're very willing to say yes, 390 00:44:12.640 --> 00:44:16.720 people who need to hear the gospel. I'll be on best behavior. I promise. 391 00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:25.360 I'm calling up Joe Lostin. I'm having him say a special, non-offensive prayer over me. 392 00:44:26.160 --> 00:44:33.440 I am. I am. My wife and I have met him. It's just an amazing man. I just, my left, 393 00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:39.680 marvelous. How could somebody be so unoffensive and sweet, unbelievable? So he's going to lay hands 394 00:44:39.680 --> 00:44:45.360 on me. And in part, you'll be so proud of me next Sunday. I'm even going to wear a suit. 395 00:44:47.040 --> 00:44:53.920 Yeah, I'm going to wear a suit. I'm going to say praise the Lord, everybody. Come on up, Emily. 396 00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:59.760 Won't you greet the fine people with me? I'm going to make everybody feel so soft and warm 397 00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:03.920 and cuddly. It's going to be just like just like pop a bow came in giving everybody a hug. 398 00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:08.320 You're going to be proud of me. Really? You're safe to bring your unbelieving friends. I'll be on 399 00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:15.280 best behavior. Let's all stand. If you need prayer, our ministry team is going to my left. You're 400 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:21.680 right. If you want prayer for anything, you might be new here. You might even not know what's 401 00:45:21.680 --> 00:45:27.520 happening right now. But you know you need someone to pray with you and for you. You need just, 402 00:45:27.520 --> 00:45:32.160 you need help. Maybe you can't even articulate it. Make your way to that blue lit section. There's 403 00:45:32.240 --> 00:45:38.560 kind people, sweet people who know God and they will lead you into the things of God and pray with 404 00:45:38.560 --> 00:45:45.120 you and for you. Be blessed and have a blessed holy week. This is the City Light Church podcast. 405 00:45:45.120 --> 00:45:49.600 If you've missed any part of today's message or if you would like to find out more about Pastor 406 00:45:49.600 --> 00:45:57.920 Boyan Jansik in City Light Church, visit us at CityLightNYC.com. That's CityLightNYC.com. 407 00:45:57.920 --> 00:46:03.040 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. 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