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The wilderness wasn't there to kill him.
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It was there to reveal him.
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Oh, you're stronger than you think you are.
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You're more anointed than you think you are.
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I know you went into the season filled with the Holy Spirit, but you're about to step out in the power of the Spirit.
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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast.
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Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us.
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If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyccom.
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Pastor Boyan Jansic and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds.
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As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you.
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We have a special guest for you today.
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Renowned author, evangelist, prophet, goes all across this nation.
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He's just edifying and building up the saints of God and he's a friend of this house.
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He's preached at our pulpit for over a decade and we just want to give honor and thanks for who God has made him to be, father of two husband of Christ's line.
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Come on, friend of Pastor Bo, put your hands together and let's welcome our brother, nathaniel St the Lord.
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Can we just lift up our hands and give Jesus a shout of praise?
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Come on, can we give Jesus Hallelujah?
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Is there any way?
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Is there like a monitor?
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I can hear myself just a little bit more.
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Oh, that's perfect, thank you, I'm ready for this word.
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It was your pastor's birthday this past week, so if you forgot to bless him, when he comes back, make sure you give him a Pentecostal handshake.
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Some of you are like you're new to church.
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You don't know what a Pentecostal handshake is.
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But I've been in church for over 20, 30 years, for about 21 years, so I know what a Pentecostal handshake is.
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Do you guys want to know?
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You know?
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No, like some of you have been in church for like 80 years.
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Of course you know.
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Tell them about the new people Pentecostal handshake is when you take money, you put it in your hand, you ball it up like this and you act like there's nothing in your hand, right?
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And then you go to your pastor because it says birthday and you go pastor, thank you so much, I love you, man of God.
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And you give him like a handshake and he thinks it's just a handshake.
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But guess what it is?
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It's a Pentecostal handshake.
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No, but I said that jokingly, but you know the Bible says those who preach and teach the word are worth double honor.
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They're worthy of double honor and the Greek double honor means good pay.
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So make sure you bless the man of God on his birthday.
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Right, we were texting and I found pictures of different boyons Boyan by Donovitch.
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He's a basketball player, this soccer player, boyan, I don't know his name and then a movie star, and then I did like a whole collage and then I put him as the biggest one and I was like you're still my favorite boy, so that still brings true.
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He's still my favorite.
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All right, can we get into the word?
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How many of y'all have been on this 21-day prayer fasting journey?
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Okay, I'm glad some of y'all didn't lie.
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Yeah, I know some of y'all was like not me, I've been eating like a pig.
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Oh no, but whether you did one day, 21 days, you did it.
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The Lord gave me a word and I feel like this is the perfect word to end your 21-day fast with.
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And even if you haven't been a part of it, you can get something in this word that's really going to minister to you and encourage you.
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And can I be honest, most of the sermons I preach, I prepare it for the people of God.
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That's not my personal devotion, right, that's like I'm preparing it for the people and I have my own personal devotion.
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This that I'm sharing is my own personal devotion.
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I usually don't preach my personal devotion, so it may seem like it's a little bit out of place and I don't got the three points and the perfect symmetry around the sermon, but it's literally the Lord speaking to me in my own personal time, and so this word is special to me.
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Y'all ready?
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Yes, now.
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First service is lit.
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I don't know.
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Second service people come late and they don't want to say amen.
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First service everyone's on time, everyone's.
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It's militant there, people, just they don't play.
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Okay, luke, chapter four Let me not lose the people of God before the word.
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Luke, chapter four.
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Thank you guys for having me by this time.
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Most of y'all know me.
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Who doesn't know me here?
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Who doesn't?
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You could be honest.
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There was like three people.
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Most of y'all know me, so you know I'm a little different.
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Luke, chapter four, verse one.
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Let's get into this.
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I'm going to read a lot, all right.
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Luke, chapter four, verse one.
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Then Jesus.
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Then Jesus being filled with the Holy spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the spirit into the wilderness.
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Can I just stop right there and give you guys some context of what's happening?
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Because in order to understand Luke chapter four this is good Bible reading, just for anyone who wants to know you always have to go back and read Luke chapter three and sometimes even read Luke chapter five in order to understand and get like a sandwich.
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It's like an Oreo sandwich of the word.
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Right, you take one piece of the Oreo out and you eat it by itself, it's all right.
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You take another piece of the Oreo out, you eat it by itself, it's all right.
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You do the cream by itself, that's disgusting.
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You're a serial killer.
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Just kidding, no, but seriously you are.
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But when you take the two pieces of the Oreo with the cream on the inside and you eat it together, it's perfect symmetry.
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You see the way I talk about food.
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I love to eat, food is my love language.
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Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the spirit into the wilderness.
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So let me tell you what was happening in Luke chapter three in order for us to understand what was happening in Luke chapter four.
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So Jesus got baptized by John the Baptist and during his baptism, something insane happened.
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I'm talking about life changing, mind blowing, destiny altering experience happened.
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The Bible says that the heavens opened up, that the Holy Spirit descended.
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Y'all got the verse up and everything.
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What if I lie?
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They would have called me out right there.
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The heavens opened up.
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Now I got to look to make sure.
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Is that what happened?
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Then the Holy Spirit descended like a duck and the Bible says lightning.
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A lightning was upon him.
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I'm talking about craziness happened and then God, the Father, spoke from heaven and said this is my beloved son, in whom I'm well pleased.
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I'm talking about the greatest encounter you could have.
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God literally opened up the heavens and spoke to Jesus.
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This is not just a regular church service.
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This is one of those church services.
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You go home and you're never the same.
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This is the type of encounter Jesus just had.
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Then Jesus, immediately after that experience, the Holy Spirit, bring them into the wilderness.
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Oh my God, this is good already.
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Has God ever brought you into an uncomfortable place, a place that doesn't make sense, a place where you're like but everything's good?
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I thought we were cool.
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God, I thought.
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But I've been praying, I've been fasting, I've been seeking you, you what?
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Send me to the wilderness.
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And then that's when the Holy Spirit told me the wilderness was not meant to kill you, was meant to reveal you.
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It was meant to bring something out of you that you didn't even know was there.
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All right, let's go to verse two, because y'all are like I don't understand what you're saying, but you're going to get it being tempted for 40 days by the devil, and in those days he ate nothing.
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So he was fasting 40 days, no food.
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Not like turning off Netflix for five minutes and then calling it fasting.
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That's not fasting, that's just called discipline.
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That's what every believer should have.
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It's not fasting.
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Not watching Netflix is not fasting, that's all.
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Come on now.
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Oh, I didn't watch Netflix for a week.
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I'm sacrificing so much for the Lord.
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All right, can I say something about verse one Is that sometimes the Holy Spirit will lead you to a place that doesn't look like it's Him, but it's exactly where he wants you to be.
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Because, there's lessons there.
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And then he was hungry right 40 days fasting.
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He's hungry Verse three.
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And the devil said to him if you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread Verse four.
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But Jesus answered him saying it is written man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
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Then the devil, taking number on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
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Verse six and the devil said to him all this authority I give to you, and their glory for this has been delivered to me and I give it to whoever I wish.
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Verse seven therefore, if you will worship before me, all will be yours.
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Verse eight and Jesus answered and said to him get me behind me, satan, for it is written you shall worship the Lord, your God, and Him only shall you worship.
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Then he brought him into Jerusalem, set him on a pinnacle of the temple and said to him if you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here.
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Verse 10, for it is written he shall give his angels charge over you to keep you.
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Verse 11, and in their hands they shall bear you up lest you dash your foot against the stone.
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Verse 12, and Jesus answered and said to him it has been said, you shall not tempt the Lord, your God.
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Verse 13,.
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Now, when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time.
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May God bless the reading of his word.
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The title of my sermon is y'all remember it from the first service.
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Oh, I like y'all.
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You see something.
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We're listening.
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You're coming out stronger.
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Can I be transparent with you?
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I feel like 2023 was a major wilderness year for me.
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Please understand, hope you will.
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Can I be completely transparent?
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It's that sometimes, when you go through a wilderness, you wonder if God is even with you.
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How have you ever been through a wilderness before?
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Y'all are quiet.
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This service you forgot.
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Like amen, praise the Lord.
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He's going to help me preach in 20 minutes and send y'all home happy.
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I don't get amen.
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I'm like I got to preach more because of that.
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I guess it's not that good.
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If you have not been through a wilderness and you're a believer, you will go through one.
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We can't keep painting this rosy picture of Christianity that there's no such thing as wilderness.
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You will go through wilderness.
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You will go through trials, you will go through storms, you will go through temptation.
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You will go through things as a believer.
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But I have the best news for you God is with you.
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Now only is God with you, jesus, I will never leave you, I will never forsake you, and he allows His Holy Spirit to come on you to strengthen you so that you'll be able to go through the fire and not get burned, go through the water and not drown, and be an overcomer on the other side of what you're going through.
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I need about three overcomers to lift up your hands and thank God for the overcoming spirit that's been getting on me.
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The same power that rose Jesus Christ from the dead is on the inside of you and has given you victory over death, hell and the grave, has given you victory over every attack of the enemy, has given you victory over every sickness.
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I need some overcomers to lift up your hands and say I'm an overcomer.
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First one is very powerful for me because it says that when Jesus went into the wilderness, he went in the power.
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He went in the.
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He went being filled with the Holy Spirit.
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So he leaves this encounter filled with the Holy Spirit and going into the wilderness.
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Is that a good way to go into the wilderness Filled with the Holy Spirit?
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He goes into the wilderness filled with the Holy Spirit and he fasts for 40 days and 40 nights and then the devil comes to Him after the fast.
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Can I speak to some people who've been in this prayer of fasting for 21 days?
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You may come out filled with the Holy Spirit.
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Let's know that the devil's waiting on the other side to bring temptation, to bring heartache and pain.
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So we're going to go through the three temptations.
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Stick with me for one minute because the Holy Spirit is about to do something.
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I feel such an anointing I didn't say this in the first service For those who've been oppressed.
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You've been under a weight of oppression and the enemy's had you in a cycle, year after year.
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The Spirit of the Lord says that there is an anointing for breakthrough that's getting ready to hit this house.
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Oh, I just need three people.
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And there's going to be a weight of glory and a yoke breaking, anointing that's getting ready to hit this house.
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For every person who needs a breakthrough and a deliverance and a healing, god is getting ready to blow through this house.
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I didn't say that in the first service.
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I feel the weight of this thing so heavy.
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All right, let's look at verse three.
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Let's look at the first thing that happens here.
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He goes into the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Then the devil comes and tempts him, and this is what the devil says.
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He says if you are the son of God, command this stone to become bread.
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Look at verse four.
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But, Jesus answered.
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Saint him.
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It is written man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out the mouth of God.
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So Jesus didn't eat 40 days, 40 nights, and the first temptation the devil gives him is food.
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Turn this bread into stone.
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But then the Holy Spirit started speaking to me and saying it's more than physical food.
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The devil's temptation to Jesus was telling him that something carnal and fleshly can fulfill and satisfy him.
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Then you like, prove it to me.
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Let's go to Deuteronomy.
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Let's go to the scripture and Deuteronomy.
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Deuteronomy, chapter eight, verse two.
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Jesus wasn't just quoting a scripture just from the back of his mind.
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Jesus was actually looking at the Old Testament and was quoting Moses when he was talking about the children of Israel and their wilderness.
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Okay, they were in the wilderness for 40 years.
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Jesus was in the wilderness for 40 days.
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They failed in the wilderness, but Jesus passed the test in the wilderness.
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So what Jesus is saying is because I overcame the wilderness and I overcame the world, then you got the power to overcome the wilderness.
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You don't have to fall into the same trap as the children of Israel.
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Because I already overcame the wilderness and because I live on the inside of you.
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You have the same power to overcome every wilderness.
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So Jesus goes back and he quotes where Israel failed.
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He says they failed in the area of food.
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They failed in the area of cursing God because they didn't have enough food and they wanted to go back to Egypt and eat the cucumbers in Egypt.
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They'd rather be in slavery but have something that physically fills them.
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See, that's how crazy flesh is.
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Flesh will make you go back to areas that God already set you free from, just to satisfy a temporary need that can only actually be satisfied by the Holy Spirit.
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Some of you have placed so much attention on this void that's only inside, but you've tried everything to fill the void.
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Like he could fill it, he can't.
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Like she can fill it, she can't Like.
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The Netflix and chill can fill it, but it can't Like broken relationship after broken relationship can fill it, but it can't.
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Like you, making more money at your job can fulfill you, but it can't.
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You're hungry for something, but here's where the true hunger is supposed to be.
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Look what it says and you shall remember.
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The Lord, your God, led you all these years, 40 years in the wilderness, to humble you and to test you to know whether what was in your heart or whether you would keep his commandments, are not looking.
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Verse three so he humbled you, allowed you to hunger, allowed you to hunger why?
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Because he wants to feed you.
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So he fed them with manna, but that's not the real food that he was trying to give them.
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The lesson was a spiritual lesson.
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Manna only temporarily fills you.
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Manna, you eat it one day.
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This is what they had to do with the manna.
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They ate it one day and the next thing it turned into worms.
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It could not bring satisfaction beyond the temporary moment.
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It couldn't bring satisfaction beyond the second that it was eaten.
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After that moment they became hungry again.
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So here's what the scripture says.