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Embracing the Wilderness Journey: Unveiling Truths and Overcoming Temptation through Scripture

Embracing the Wilderness Journey: Unveiling Truths and Overcoming Temptation through Scripture
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Embracing the Wilderness Journey: Unveiling Truths and Overcoming Temptation through Scripture
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Season 1

Together with Guest Minister Nathaniel Saint-Eloi, we unwrap the profound lessons hidden within Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness, as recounted in Luke chapter four. It's a journey that promises to deepen your faith and empower you with the Holy Spirit's guidance. With prophetic insight and heartfelt messaging, we address those feeling the heavy yoke of oppression, heralding a breakthrough and deliverance. 
We dissect the devil's misuse of scripture, underscoring the imperative of arming ourselves with personal knowledge of the Word. As you listen, prepare to transition from spiritual infancy to a robust maturity, claiming your dominion over darkness through scripture and unwavering dedication. This is not just another conversation; it's a call to rise above the mundane, to seek and find the true fulfillment that can only be satiated by the Word of God.

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00:00.802 --> 00:03.929 The wilderness wasn't there to kill him. 00:04.029 --> 00:05.352 It was there to reveal him. 00:07.364 --> 00:09.650 Oh, you're stronger than you think you are. 00:10.702 --> 00:13.309 You're more anointed than you think you are. 00:14.120 --> 00:20.974 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. 00:26.335 --> 00:28.000 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 00:28.661 --> 00:34.954 Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. 00:35.701 --> 00:40.329 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyccom. 00:44.761 --> 00:51.914 Pastor Boyan Jansic and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 00:52.642 --> 01:02.428 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. 01:05.581 --> 01:07.184 We have a special guest for you today. 01:08.206 --> 01:12.413 Renowned author, evangelist, prophet, goes all across this nation. 01:13.643 --> 01:17.000 He's just edifying and building up the saints of God and he's a friend of this house. 01:17.341 --> 01:27.246 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. 01:27.327 --> 01:35.686 Come on, friend of Pastor Bo, put your hands together and let's welcome our brother, nathaniel St the Lord. 01:41.040 --> 01:44.390 Can we just lift up our hands and give Jesus a shout of praise? 01:45.942 --> 01:52.104 Come on, can we give Jesus Hallelujah? 01:53.381 --> 01:54.083 Is there any way? 01:54.143 --> 01:54.966 Is there like a monitor? 01:54.986 --> 01:56.450 I can hear myself just a little bit more. 01:57.000 --> 02:00.305 Oh, that's perfect, thank you, I'm ready for this word. 02:01.982 --> 02:11.167 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. 02:12.522 --> 02:14.448 Some of you are like you're new to church. 02:15.260 --> 02:17.083 You don't know what a Pentecostal handshake is. 02:17.144 --> 02:25.526 But I've been in church for over 20, 30 years, for about 21 years, so I know what a Pentecostal handshake is. 02:27.244 --> 02:28.166 Do you guys want to know? 02:30.984 --> 02:31.285 You know? 02:32.765 --> 02:34.960 No, like some of you have been in church for like 80 years. 02:35.321 --> 02:36.044 Of course you know. 02:37.281 --> 02:50.948 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? 02:53.926 --> 03:01.811 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. 03:02.000 --> 03:04.708 And you give him like a handshake and he thinks it's just a handshake. 03:04.748 --> 03:05.470 But guess what it is? 03:07.725 --> 03:09.570 It's a Pentecostal handshake. 03:11.724 --> 03:17.817 No, but I said that jokingly, but you know the Bible says those who preach and teach the word are worth double honor. 03:17.857 --> 03:21.548 They're worthy of double honor and the Greek double honor means good pay. 03:22.382 --> 03:24.879 So make sure you bless the man of God on his birthday. 03:24.899 --> 03:32.333 Right, we were texting and I found pictures of different boyons Boyan by Donovitch. 03:32.394 --> 03:51.056 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. 03:51.096 --> 03:52.000 He's still my favorite. 03:52.080 --> 03:53.767 All right, can we get into the word? 03:54.842 --> 03:58.371 How many of y'all have been on this 21-day prayer fasting journey? 03:59.842 --> 04:01.386 Okay, I'm glad some of y'all didn't lie. 04:04.462 --> 04:08.363 Yeah, I know some of y'all was like not me, I've been eating like a pig. 04:12.642 --> 04:19.068 Oh no, but whether you did one day, 21 days, you did it. 04:19.168 --> 04:26.971 The Lord gave me a word and I feel like this is the perfect word to end your 21-day fast with. 04:28.000 --> 04:34.353 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. 04:35.000 --> 04:40.412 And can I be honest, most of the sermons I preach, I prepare it for the people of God. 04:41.844 --> 04:48.711 That's not my personal devotion, right, that's like I'm preparing it for the people and I have my own personal devotion. 04:49.000 --> 04:52.029 This that I'm sharing is my own personal devotion. 04:53.000 --> 05:12.411 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. 05:13.742 --> 05:14.264 Y'all ready? 05:15.487 --> 05:15.688 Yes, now. 05:15.708 --> 05:16.590 First service is lit. 05:17.020 --> 05:18.798 I don't know. 05:19.301 --> 05:21.807 Second service people come late and they don't want to say amen. 05:26.186 --> 05:28.281 First service everyone's on time, everyone's. 05:28.542 --> 05:32.517 It's militant there, people, just they don't play. 05:33.502 --> 05:37.546 Okay, luke, chapter four Let me not lose the people of God before the word. 05:37.927 --> 05:39.271 Luke, chapter four. 05:40.462 --> 05:42.763 Thank you guys for having me by this time. 05:42.803 --> 05:43.687 Most of y'all know me. 05:44.020 --> 05:44.745 Who doesn't know me here? 05:46.662 --> 05:47.003 Who doesn't? 05:47.063 --> 05:47.966 You could be honest. 05:49.321 --> 05:50.145 There was like three people. 05:51.020 --> 05:53.527 Most of y'all know me, so you know I'm a little different. 05:55.421 --> 05:56.665 Luke, chapter four, verse one. 05:56.685 --> 05:57.567 Let's get into this. 05:59.742 --> 06:03.231 I'm going to read a lot, all right. 06:04.080 --> 06:04.882 Luke, chapter four, verse one. 06:04.922 --> 06:05.703 Then Jesus. 06:06.926 --> 06:13.980 Then Jesus being filled with the Holy spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the spirit into the wilderness. 06:14.422 --> 06:18.000 Can I just stop right there and give you guys some context of what's happening? 06:18.541 --> 06:32.000 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. 06:32.000 --> 06:35.228 It's like an Oreo sandwich of the word. 06:36.792 --> 06:40.940 Right, you take one piece of the Oreo out and you eat it by itself, it's all right. 06:41.542 --> 06:44.755 You take another piece of the Oreo out, you eat it by itself, it's all right. 06:45.036 --> 06:47.165 You do the cream by itself, that's disgusting. 06:48.140 --> 06:49.145 You're a serial killer. 06:52.368 --> 06:54.484 Just kidding, no, but seriously you are. 06:58.020 --> 07:09.813 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. 07:13.381 --> 07:14.504 You see the way I talk about food. 07:14.544 --> 07:18.506 I love to eat, food is my love language. 07:19.481 --> 07:24.773 Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the spirit into the wilderness. 07:25.261 --> 07:29.832 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. 07:30.381 --> 07:38.915 So Jesus got baptized by John the Baptist and during his baptism, something insane happened. 07:39.100 --> 07:46.634 I'm talking about life changing, mind blowing, destiny altering experience happened. 07:47.000 --> 07:51.980 The Bible says that the heavens opened up, that the Holy Spirit descended. 07:52.381 --> 07:54.067 Y'all got the verse up and everything. 07:54.127 --> 07:54.829 What if I lie? 07:56.845 --> 07:58.268 They would have called me out right there. 08:00.582 --> 08:01.786 The heavens opened up. 08:01.846 --> 08:02.990 Now I got to look to make sure. 08:03.522 --> 08:04.787 Is that what happened? 08:06.444 --> 08:10.556 Then the Holy Spirit descended like a duck and the Bible says lightning. 08:10.676 --> 08:12.000 A lightning was upon him. 08:12.602 --> 08:24.953 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. 08:25.443 --> 08:28.000 I'm talking about the greatest encounter you could have. 08:28.702 --> 08:32.371 God literally opened up the heavens and spoke to Jesus. 08:33.826 --> 08:36.000 This is not just a regular church service. 08:36.361 --> 08:37.805 This is one of those church services. 08:38.086 --> 08:39.751 You go home and you're never the same. 08:40.040 --> 08:41.980 This is the type of encounter Jesus just had. 08:42.501 --> 08:52.744 Then Jesus, immediately after that experience, the Holy Spirit, bring them into the wilderness. 08:54.236 --> 08:56.160 Oh my God, this is good already. 09:01.895 --> 09:11.989 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? 09:12.075 --> 09:12.819 I thought we were cool. 09:12.879 --> 09:15.938 God, I thought. 09:15.959 --> 09:19.285 But I've been praying, I've been fasting, I've been seeking you, you what? 09:19.566 --> 09:20.728 Send me to the wilderness. 09:20.955 --> 09:24.999 And then that's when the Holy Spirit told me the wilderness was not meant to kill you, was meant to reveal you. 09:27.519 --> 09:31.247 It was meant to bring something out of you that you didn't even know was there. 09:32.580 --> 09:43.807 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. 09:43.955 --> 09:46.183 So he was fasting 40 days, no food. 09:46.675 --> 09:49.260 Not like turning off Netflix for five minutes and then calling it fasting. 09:52.526 --> 09:54.369 That's not fasting, that's just called discipline. 09:54.815 --> 09:56.220 That's what every believer should have. 09:56.762 --> 09:57.504 It's not fasting. 09:57.584 --> 10:00.273 Not watching Netflix is not fasting, that's all. 10:00.293 --> 10:00.694 Come on now. 10:07.046 --> 10:08.629 Oh, I didn't watch Netflix for a week. 10:09.415 --> 10:11.702 I'm sacrificing so much for the Lord. 10:13.987 --> 10:32.245 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. 10:33.816 --> 10:37.105 Because, there's lessons there. 10:37.635 --> 10:41.561 And then he was hungry right 40 days fasting. 10:42.115 --> 10:44.117 He's hungry Verse three. 10:44.157 --> 10:48.657 And the devil said to him if you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread Verse four. 10:49.139 --> 10:54.722 But Jesus answered him saying it is written man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. 10:56.315 --> 11:01.058 Then the devil, taking number on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 11:01.955 --> 11:11.987 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. 11:12.335 --> 11:18.428 Verse seven therefore, if you will worship before me, all will be yours. 11:18.715 --> 11:29.246 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. 11:30.195 --> 11:36.903 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. 11:37.875 --> 11:41.544 Verse 10, for it is written he shall give his angels charge over you to keep you. 11:43.156 --> 11:47.306 Verse 11, and in their hands they shall bear you up lest you dash your foot against the stone. 11:47.955 --> 11:56.009 Verse 12, and Jesus answered and said to him it has been said, you shall not tempt the Lord, your God. 11:56.255 --> 11:56.837 Verse 13,. 11:57.419 --> 12:02.819 Now, when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time. 12:03.895 --> 12:05.561 May God bless the reading of his word. 12:06.777 --> 12:10.466 The title of my sermon is y'all remember it from the first service. 12:13.543 --> 12:14.345 Oh, I like y'all. 12:14.596 --> 12:15.660 You see something. 12:15.780 --> 12:16.262 We're listening. 12:16.675 --> 12:18.119 You're coming out stronger. 12:21.195 --> 12:22.259 Can I be transparent with you? 12:24.175 --> 12:29.083 I feel like 2023 was a major wilderness year for me. 12:31.358 --> 12:33.509 Please understand, hope you will. 12:35.275 --> 12:37.081 Can I be completely transparent? 12:38.192 --> 12:42.482 It's that sometimes, when you go through a wilderness, you wonder if God is even with you. 12:43.731 --> 12:45.776 How have you ever been through a wilderness before? 12:47.830 --> 12:48.332 Y'all are quiet. 12:48.372 --> 12:50.271 This service you forgot. 12:50.292 --> 12:51.717 Like amen, praise the Lord. 12:51.737 --> 12:54.607 He's going to help me preach in 20 minutes and send y'all home happy. 12:54.627 --> 12:55.269 I don't get amen. 12:57.375 --> 12:59.080 I'm like I got to preach more because of that. 12:59.912 --> 13:00.855 I guess it's not that good. 13:06.596 --> 13:13.244 If you have not been through a wilderness and you're a believer, you will go through one. 13:14.471 --> 13:18.795 We can't keep painting this rosy picture of Christianity that there's no such thing as wilderness. 13:19.990 --> 13:21.153 You will go through wilderness. 13:21.214 --> 13:24.656 You will go through trials, you will go through storms, you will go through temptation. 13:24.716 --> 13:26.285 You will go through things as a believer. 13:26.586 --> 13:29.214 But I have the best news for you God is with you. 13:30.410 --> 13:48.230 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. 13:48.370 --> 13:57.155 I need about three overcomers to lift up your hands and thank God for the overcoming spirit that's been getting on me. 13:57.550 --> 14:12.800 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. 14:12.870 --> 14:17.036 I need some overcomers to lift up your hands and say I'm an overcomer. 14:24.330 --> 14:33.313 First one is very powerful for me because it says that when Jesus went into the wilderness, he went in the power. 14:34.115 --> 14:34.776 He went in the. 14:34.816 --> 14:38.402 He went being filled with the Holy Spirit. 14:39.690 --> 14:46.083 So he leaves this encounter filled with the Holy Spirit and going into the wilderness. 14:46.691 --> 14:51.713 Is that a good way to go into the wilderness Filled with the Holy Spirit? 14:52.174 --> 15:02.201 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. 15:04.590 --> 15:08.420 Can I speak to some people who've been in this prayer of fasting for 21 days? 15:09.530 --> 15:12.278 You may come out filled with the Holy Spirit. 15:13.290 --> 15:21.452 Let's know that the devil's waiting on the other side to bring temptation, to bring heartache and pain. 15:23.470 --> 15:26.274 So we're going to go through the three temptations. 15:33.310 --> 15:38.580 Stick with me for one minute because the Holy Spirit is about to do something. 15:40.330 --> 15:46.174 I feel such an anointing I didn't say this in the first service For those who've been oppressed. 15:48.040 --> 15:54.900 You've been under a weight of oppression and the enemy's had you in a cycle, year after year. 15:55.990 --> 16:00.656 The Spirit of the Lord says that there is an anointing for breakthrough that's getting ready to hit this house. 16:02.054 --> 16:03.458 Oh, I just need three people. 16:04.350 --> 16:11.196 And there's going to be a weight of glory and a yoke breaking, anointing that's getting ready to hit this house. 16:12.071 --> 16:19.757 For every person who needs a breakthrough and a deliverance and a healing, god is getting ready to blow through this house. 16:22.677 --> 16:23.821 I didn't say that in the first service. 16:24.370 --> 16:26.478 I feel the weight of this thing so heavy. 16:28.534 --> 16:31.421 All right, let's look at verse three. 16:31.590 --> 16:34.479 Let's look at the first thing that happens here. 16:34.870 --> 16:36.294 He goes into the power of the Holy Spirit. 16:36.314 --> 16:38.300 Then the devil comes and tempts him, and this is what the devil says. 16:39.231 --> 16:42.961 He says if you are the son of God, command this stone to become bread. 16:43.350 --> 16:44.013 Look at verse four. 16:45.370 --> 16:46.115 But, Jesus answered. 16:46.155 --> 16:46.597 Saint him. 16:46.698 --> 16:50.898 It is written man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out the mouth of God. 16:51.310 --> 16:59.425 So Jesus didn't eat 40 days, 40 nights, and the first temptation the devil gives him is food. 17:02.738 --> 17:04.102 Turn this bread into stone. 17:05.151 --> 17:11.283 But then the Holy Spirit started speaking to me and saying it's more than physical food. 17:12.491 --> 17:23.499 The devil's temptation to Jesus was telling him that something carnal and fleshly can fulfill and satisfy him. 17:25.293 --> 17:26.460 Then you like, prove it to me. 17:26.823 --> 17:27.890 Let's go to Deuteronomy. 17:28.251 --> 17:29.597 Let's go to the scripture and Deuteronomy. 17:29.970 --> 17:31.716 Deuteronomy, chapter eight, verse two. 17:32.730 --> 17:37.801 Jesus wasn't just quoting a scripture just from the back of his mind. 17:39.071 --> 17:48.338 Jesus was actually looking at the Old Testament and was quoting Moses when he was talking about the children of Israel and their wilderness. 17:51.154 --> 17:53.720 Okay, they were in the wilderness for 40 years. 17:54.710 --> 17:56.438 Jesus was in the wilderness for 40 days. 17:57.190 --> 18:01.041 They failed in the wilderness, but Jesus passed the test in the wilderness. 18:01.590 --> 18:09.618 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. 18:10.070 --> 18:13.603 You don't have to fall into the same trap as the children of Israel. 18:13.884 --> 18:18.814 Because I already overcame the wilderness and because I live on the inside of you. 18:18.854 --> 18:23.261 You have the same power to overcome every wilderness. 18:28.957 --> 18:32.890 So Jesus goes back and he quotes where Israel failed. 18:33.992 --> 18:36.438 He says they failed in the area of food. 18:39.290 --> 18:48.158 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. 18:50.571 --> 18:54.539 They'd rather be in slavery but have something that physically fills them. 18:56.830 --> 18:58.176 See, that's how crazy flesh is. 18:58.791 --> 19:10.160 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. 19:12.772 --> 19:21.116 Some of you have placed so much attention on this void that's only inside, but you've tried everything to fill the void. 19:22.651 --> 19:24.080 Like he could fill it, he can't. 19:24.851 --> 19:27.751 Like she can fill it, she can't Like. 19:27.791 --> 19:35.400 The Netflix and chill can fill it, but it can't Like broken relationship after broken relationship can fill it, but it can't. 19:35.991 --> 19:39.118 Like you, making more money at your job can fulfill you, but it can't. 19:40.950 --> 19:45.181 You're hungry for something, but here's where the true hunger is supposed to be. 19:45.430 --> 19:46.934 Look what it says and you shall remember. 19:46.974 --> 19:55.617 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. 19:55.657 --> 20:01.998 Verse three so he humbled you, allowed you to hunger, allowed you to hunger why? 20:02.230 --> 20:03.615 Because he wants to feed you. 20:05.070 --> 20:09.680 So he fed them with manna, but that's not the real food that he was trying to give them. 20:11.390 --> 20:13.377 The lesson was a spiritual lesson. 20:14.631 --> 20:17.058 Manna only temporarily fills you. 20:18.790 --> 20:20.056 Manna, you eat it one day. 20:20.350 --> 20:21.856 This is what they had to do with the manna. 20:22.311 --> 20:24.978 They ate it one day and the next thing it turned into worms. 20:26.430 --> 20:31.102 It could not bring satisfaction beyond the temporary moment. 20:32.512 --> 20:36.221 It couldn't bring satisfaction beyond the second that it was eaten. 20:37.030 --> 20:39.518 After that moment they became hungry again. 20:40.010 --> 20:41.153 So here's what the scripture says. 20:41.474 --> 20:47.950 But man lives by every word that proceeds out the mouth of God. 20:48.472 --> 20:50.759 So the real satisfaction is real. 20:51.616 --> 20:53.110 Is it the manna you're getting? 20:53.511 --> 21:03.678 It's the word of God, because that brings true satisfaction, it brings true illumination, it brings true fulfillment, it brings true satisfaction to your soul. 21:04.331 --> 21:07.085 You don't need the manna, you need the word. 21:07.105 --> 21:09.949 You don't need the temporary things, you need the word. 21:10.413 --> 21:11.686 You don't need the temporary stuff. 21:12.271 --> 21:12.974 The word is enough. 21:13.375 --> 21:14.500 Hallelujah, I have a void. 21:14.721 --> 21:15.986 The word will take it. 21:23.620 --> 21:29.389 Natural things are needed, but the word of God is the only thing that can satisfy. 21:29.409 --> 21:31.828 All right, let's look at the second one. 21:37.123 --> 21:40.050 Look at the second temptation Luke, chapter 4, verse 5. 21:41.414 --> 21:47.794 It says then the devil, taking him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 21:48.416 --> 21:51.807 All right, can I stop right there, because that's really deep. 21:52.270 --> 21:58.643 The devil allowed in one second for Jesus to see everything in this world. 21:59.951 --> 22:04.655 One moment in time he flashed before his eyes. 22:04.695 --> 22:06.881 He saw everything in this world. 22:07.530 --> 22:15.557 And then the devil gives him an offer and he says then the devil taking him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 22:15.790 --> 22:32.516 Verse six and the devil said to him all this authority I will give you and their glory, for it has been delivered to me and I will give it to whomever I wish. 22:33.590 --> 22:40.822 Therefore, if you will worship before me, all will be yours. 22:42.290 --> 22:56.280 So the second temptation that comes in the wilderness is if you worship, you bow down to me, everything will be given to you. 22:57.011 --> 22:59.116 This is the temptation of taking a short come. 23:01.750 --> 23:02.493 Can I explain why? 23:04.490 --> 23:12.173 Because when Adam and Eve send, the Bible says that the million of the earth was given over to Satan. 23:13.257 --> 23:13.578 Amen. 23:16.072 --> 23:47.784 Before the foundations of the earth, jesus already was being sent by the Father To fulfill the plan of salvation to be born of a woman, to die, nails in his hands and his feet, a crown of thorn on his hand, die and resurrect and ascend. 23:48.930 --> 23:49.974 That was a whole process. 23:51.210 --> 23:55.679 What the devil saying here is Jesus, you can have a short cut. 23:58.430 --> 24:01.757 The short cut is I'll give you all this stuff. 24:02.218 --> 24:08.559 You just gotta bow down, you don't gotta die, you don't gotta resurrect, you don't gotta ascend. 24:09.630 --> 24:16.922 All you have to do, all you have to do, is just bow down, take a short cut. 24:18.370 --> 24:25.824 See, the enemy would love to make you take the easy way to destiny. 24:27.532 --> 24:39.656 That's why the Bible says the way to destiny, the way to the kingdom, is narrow and is difficult, and only few find it Because it takes time. 24:40.910 --> 24:43.098 I realized something about cooking food. 24:43.190 --> 24:47.619 You can cook a meal that takes you 20 minutes and you can cook a meal that takes you four hours. 24:49.931 --> 24:55.923 Those meals have two different results and they have two different methods and two different processes. 24:56.972 --> 24:59.258 I like the 20 minute meals when I'm in a rush. 25:00.910 --> 25:02.634 My kids are coming back from school. 25:02.855 --> 25:04.138 They're about to be hungry. 25:04.358 --> 25:18.381 They're gonna yell at me Okay, let me just boil some pasta and put some Alfredo sauce on it from a can. 25:23.806 --> 25:24.427 That works. 25:26.113 --> 25:28.578 But what I really want to cook, there's a process. 25:31.530 --> 25:33.397 I go to the store. 25:35.193 --> 25:37.138 I don't just get whatever's in my cabinet. 25:38.610 --> 25:43.615 I get the Kerry Golds butter oh, I got the anointing. 25:47.910 --> 25:51.370 I get some fresh garlic, fresh herbs. 25:51.410 --> 25:52.894 That's a seven man. 25:55.171 --> 25:56.037 Oh, the five. 25:56.218 --> 26:06.354 Right, I get all my ingredients together because the process is different, because the results are gonna be different. 26:07.872 --> 26:24.294 Everyone can see the difference between the meal that took 20 minutes and it may not be bad and the process that took three hours because I needed to go and get everything and prepare it. 26:25.310 --> 26:28.500 You see, jesus couldn't just be easy way out. 26:28.930 --> 26:31.158 Here's the 20 minute version. 26:31.910 --> 26:38.873 Jesus goes I'm willing to go through the whole entire process to make sure you have eternal life. 26:40.610 --> 26:44.840 I'm making sure that I suffer so that you don't have to suffer. 26:45.870 --> 26:52.183 I'm making sure that they beat my body to a bloody pulp so that by my stripes you are healed. 26:53.434 --> 26:56.410 I'm making sure that I'm wounded for your transgressions. 26:56.931 --> 27:00.921 So they're putting sin on me, so sin doesn't have to be on you. 27:01.711 --> 27:06.589 Oh Jesus, I'm so glad he went through the process and didn't cut the line. 27:07.091 --> 27:10.878 He said do everything you do to me so that they can be sent free. 27:11.058 --> 27:11.499 Hallelujah, hallelujah. 27:11.519 --> 27:15.426 All right, let's go to the third one. 27:15.446 --> 27:15.887 I'm almost done. 27:15.907 --> 27:17.330 Wow, that was quick. 27:24.041 --> 27:26.325 I think first service made me preach a little bit more. 27:34.502 --> 27:37.748 Let's go to the next, luke, chapter 4, verse 9. 27:38.515 --> 27:39.218 So we talked about the two. 27:40.875 --> 27:47.684 I said this in the first service the devil is going to tempt you with three things. 27:49.415 --> 27:50.981 First, john, chapter 2, verse 16. 27:51.995 --> 27:56.601 The lust of the flesh, and that was turning bread into stone. 27:58.481 --> 28:02.577 The lust of the eyes OK, I know the word, I'm happy. 28:03.155 --> 28:09.085 The lust of the eyes, and that was he showed him the world. 28:09.995 --> 28:14.284 And then here's the third one the pride of life. 28:16.595 --> 28:20.761 He brings it onto the pinnacle and he says if you ever send a guy jump. 28:22.586 --> 28:24.601 He says jump, Just throw yourself down from here. 28:24.855 --> 28:28.220 Look at verse 10 says, For it is written. 28:29.415 --> 28:32.966 So now the devil is so tricky that he's quoting scripture. 28:36.135 --> 28:38.323 The devil starts quoting scripture to Jesus. 28:39.037 --> 28:40.461 Yeah, here's what the word says. 28:42.436 --> 28:50.785 See, that's how you're going to be careful what you listen to and who you listen to, because some people will twist scripture to make you do things that harm God's will. 28:50.805 --> 28:53.155 Right, come on, come on. 28:53.416 --> 28:56.201 That's why the scripture is a study to show yourself approved. 28:56.855 --> 29:00.698 A workman needed not be ashamed, correctly dividing the word of truth. 29:02.095 --> 29:03.622 Oh, I'm going with some old school sickness. 29:05.815 --> 29:09.623 See, this is not as important to know the word, because you don't need anyone manipulating you. 29:09.755 --> 29:11.843 The Holy Spirit will teach you all things. 29:12.215 --> 29:13.741 The Holy Spirit will guide you. 29:14.215 --> 29:20.401 Passes are just there to literally help direct as the Holy Spirit leads you. 29:20.735 --> 29:23.218 They're not there to be your Holy Spirit man. 29:25.155 --> 29:28.082 Passes are not there to do Bible study for you. 29:30.655 --> 29:32.663 I don't like this church because they don't teach me. 29:33.055 --> 29:33.980 Yeah, teach yourself. 29:38.402 --> 29:42.630 No, like when you're a student, the professor's not there at your house. 29:42.855 --> 29:44.922 Yeah, let me show you how to do this and this and that. 29:45.022 --> 29:46.658 No, you get the book, you read it. 29:47.996 --> 29:49.033 And if you need help you go. 29:49.053 --> 29:51.542 Yeah, I don't understand this segment of what's happening here. 29:52.575 --> 29:53.960 And sometimes you don't even go to the teacher. 29:53.980 --> 29:58.940 You go to Google first Because you don't want to look dumb. 29:59.296 --> 30:03.066 Let me go to Google because I don't want to look crazy going to the professor. 30:10.835 --> 30:11.960 Send me out every little thing. 30:12.155 --> 30:13.820 But, Pastor, I just need to know how to. 30:15.375 --> 30:21.343 The Holy Spirit will teach you when it gets to the point where you need direction. 30:21.764 --> 30:25.465 Guess what the Holy Spirit is going to target Pastor Moe? 30:25.795 --> 30:27.382 It's going to target Pastor Boyan. 30:27.655 --> 30:32.541 It's going to target your spiritual leaders and say here, help guide them. 30:33.296 --> 30:34.381 I didn't say this in the first service. 30:34.435 --> 30:40.878 Someone needs to hear this, because some of you are still drinking milk when you should be having the meat of the word. 30:42.355 --> 30:43.480 You still have the milk. 30:43.635 --> 30:50.103 You're still doing elementary spiritual exercises when you should be teaching the word yourself. 30:50.435 --> 30:56.142 You've been here for 20 years and there's people who came for two years and they're already teaching life groups. 30:56.415 --> 30:59.280 They're already teaching Bible studies, they're already leaders. 30:59.555 --> 31:02.485 But you've been here for 20 years sitting down lazy. 31:08.556 --> 31:09.641 Ok, let me get out of here. 31:13.435 --> 31:17.699 It's getting hot in here it's getting hot in here. 31:20.195 --> 31:22.836 Some of you are babes and you should be more mature than you are. 31:23.755 --> 31:33.124 You come here every Sunday, you sit with your family and you think you've done your spiritual duty for the week and the devil keeps attacking you because you don't know the word. 31:33.475 --> 31:41.318 You know what gave Jesus victory over the devil, even when he quoted scripture, is that he knew the right context of the word. 31:42.555 --> 31:47.227 The context of the word makes it very important. 31:47.455 --> 31:50.084 Jesus goes back to the proper context. 31:50.355 --> 31:51.320 Look at verse 11. 31:51.675 --> 31:52.820 Look at the proper context. 31:53.135 --> 32:05.762 He goes right back to wilderness and he says I'm going to quote something that's going to make sense here, because while I'm in the wilderness, the devil wants to quote a scripture that has nothing to do with what's happening here. 32:06.175 --> 32:10.562 But I'm going to quote a scripture that has everything to do with what's happening here. 32:13.195 --> 32:15.443 So he goes back and he quotes Deuteronomy. 32:15.815 --> 32:28.049 While they're in the wilderness, he quotes Moses's sermon that Moses was preaching while they were in the wilderness and say devil, look, I'm using the scripture in its proper context to tell you to beat it. 32:28.370 --> 32:32.374 Woo, do it, go ahead. 32:32.776 --> 32:41.722 Oh, some of y'all, the devil been messing with your mind, messing with your money, messing with your health, messing with your get the word of God and tell the devil beat it. 32:42.236 --> 32:48.654 Some of you have authority over serpents and scorpions and over all the power of evil. 32:48.815 --> 32:51.108 You have power over Satan. 32:51.857 --> 32:53.683 You have power over the Prince of Darkness. 32:54.657 --> 33:00.047 You have authority, through the word of God, to speak things that be not as over them were. 33:01.335 --> 33:09.686 So, using your authority right now, and tell the devil leave my kids alone, leave my husband alone, leave my finest alone. 33:10.196 --> 33:15.085 Come on now, come on, come on. 33:15.105 --> 33:15.831 We're in the wilderness. 33:16.877 --> 33:18.223 We're in the wilderness in the house. 33:22.177 --> 33:23.027 You're not a weakling. 33:23.695 --> 33:24.779 You're not a weakling. 33:25.635 --> 33:28.003 You're not a milk toast. 33:28.656 --> 33:29.861 You're not a Pee-wee Herman. 33:30.455 --> 33:32.562 You're stronger than the Lord and in the power of his might. 33:32.582 --> 33:33.103 Oh yeah, you're not. 33:33.123 --> 33:33.384 Yeah, I know. 33:37.822 --> 33:40.459 All right, you got to know who you are. 33:41.755 --> 33:45.503 This is why the word is important, because the word will begin to show you who you are. 33:45.815 --> 33:54.020 You know why the devil had victory and you know why God had victory over the devil in the wilderness it's because he knew who he was. 33:56.075 --> 33:56.657 Jesus goes. 33:57.138 --> 33:58.281 This is my beloved son. 34:00.755 --> 34:04.238 When you go into any wilderness with that context, you'll have victory. 34:06.395 --> 34:13.039 When you go into any wilderness with the context I'm a son, I'm a daughter, anything that comes your way. 34:13.159 --> 34:16.218 I'm a son, it don't matter how tough it is. 34:16.318 --> 34:16.840 I'm a son. 34:18.003 --> 34:22.278 And here's what's funny Jesus didn't do one lick of ministry yet and he was already a son. 34:24.675 --> 34:27.785 But I don't preach, so you know I don't care. 34:28.235 --> 34:31.043 You're a son because he died for you to be a son. 34:32.015 --> 34:34.043 You're a daughter because he died for you to be a daughter. 34:34.295 --> 34:35.559 He has nothing to do with your works. 34:35.700 --> 34:36.964 He has nothing to do with your goodness. 34:37.195 --> 34:38.862 He has nothing to do with your abilities. 34:39.295 --> 34:48.841 You are a son of God because Jesus died on the cross and as soon as you're accepted, he said he gives you the honor and your privilege to become a son of God. 34:50.335 --> 34:50.978 That's an honor. 34:52.455 --> 34:54.182 All right, I'm almost done, are y'all cool? 34:54.997 --> 34:56.999 Yeah, all right. 34:58.495 --> 34:59.258 So we're at the last one. 34:59.895 --> 35:04.161 So Jesus is quoting Moses, and we'll put that back up there here. 35:04.415 --> 35:09.625 And Jesus answered and said to him it has been said you shall not tempt the Lord, your God. 35:09.715 --> 35:14.684 He goes back and quotes that whole sermon Because the children of Israel, they were tempted in God. 35:15.395 --> 35:20.847 So he quotes Deuteronomy, chapter 6, where it says that they tempted God. 35:21.615 --> 35:31.022 Don't tempt the Lord, your God, as they tempted him in Massa, and that's when they didn't have enough water, and so they were like God's not really with us. 35:33.475 --> 35:39.342 You like how they complain, like us, god, but you say you're going to be with me. 35:41.035 --> 35:42.723 I don't understand God. 35:48.041 --> 35:56.345 And so he quotes this and he's like where Israel failed, I'm not going to fail. 35:58.495 --> 36:03.846 I'm not going to fail the lesson of not trusting God when things get tough. 36:05.476 --> 36:15.581 I'm not going to fail in not believing that God actually has my back and that he's going to do what he said and that he's faithful to his word. 36:16.775 --> 36:18.401 I'm not going to fail in that lesson. 36:19.695 --> 36:21.200 All right verse. 36:21.742 --> 36:22.544 Let's go back to Luke. 36:23.035 --> 36:23.617 We're almost done. 36:28.709 --> 36:32.634 So this is the part where I was like okay, y'all still with me. 36:37.824 --> 36:37.885 Why? 36:37.885 --> 36:38.627 Why the wilderness? 36:40.132 --> 36:40.413 Why? 36:41.266 --> 36:42.645 Why go through all this? 36:42.665 --> 36:44.591 Why 40 days of fasting, no food? 36:45.865 --> 36:46.888 Why 21 days? 36:47.169 --> 36:49.876 I'm calling every day at 7 o'clock and I'm not eating food. 36:50.585 --> 36:50.746 Tell me. 36:50.766 --> 36:55.717 Y'all lie, though, but the Lord loves you and he's forgiving you. 36:56.285 --> 36:58.112 He's gracious, compassionate. 36:58.646 --> 37:00.810 I didn't eat you a stopwatch. 37:05.525 --> 37:06.569 Y'all can laugh, I'm joking. 37:08.505 --> 37:13.457 I fasted and failed too, so I just picked it back up. 37:14.026 --> 37:16.634 All right, lord, let's try this again. 37:18.127 --> 37:29.372 My stomach spoke a language, but I said why? 37:30.445 --> 37:30.947 Why all this? 37:32.025 --> 37:46.728 40 days, no food, 40 days fasting, being tempted by the devil, Going through the wilderness, why there has to be a reason Going through all this. 37:47.665 --> 37:49.732 There's to be a reason I'm saying no to my flesh. 37:50.845 --> 37:54.215 There's to be a reason why I feel overwhelmed. 37:54.485 --> 37:55.828 There has to be a reason. 37:55.888 --> 38:03.594 And then I read it straight in the text and it blew my mind because I've never read this verse in this context before. 38:04.085 --> 38:06.111 So the Bible says in Luke, chapter 4, verse 1,. 38:06.131 --> 38:06.994 Can we go to verse 1? 38:07.525 --> 38:08.649 First segment, back to verse 1. 38:10.545 --> 38:12.511 Jesus being filled with the Holy Spirit. 38:12.531 --> 38:15.752 So how did he go into the wilderness Filled with the Holy Spirit? 38:24.954 --> 38:32.265 All right, he goes through all of this stuff, tempted by the devil, not eating 40 days, 40 nights, all this stuff. 38:32.345 --> 38:35.816 And then look at Luke, chapter 4, verse 14. 38:35.965 --> 38:40.524 It says then Jesus returned in the power. 38:41.634 --> 38:42.644 Whoa, hold on. 38:43.807 --> 38:48.318 There's a difference between being filled and having power. 38:51.326 --> 39:00.291 So all of that that Jesus went through was not a punishment, it was an invitation for promotion. 39:05.833 --> 39:08.879 The wilderness wasn't there to kill him. 39:09.025 --> 39:10.350 It was there to reveal him. 39:12.328 --> 39:14.615 Oh, you're stronger than you think you are. 39:15.707 --> 39:18.315 You're more anointed than you think you are. 39:19.006 --> 39:26.010 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. 39:30.745 --> 39:32.110 All of this is not in vain. 39:33.085 --> 39:35.454 All of the yeah, I can't go out with you. 39:36.387 --> 39:40.351 Oh, you know, turning over to play, I'm not going to watch Netflix. 39:46.573 --> 40:08.365 It's not in vain, because you're stepping out of the season of just being filled with the Holy Spirit and entering to a season of you thought the staff was here to devour, he was here to empower. 40:10.852 --> 40:15.840 I'm going to say it again you thought the wilderness and this fast was meant to devour. 40:16.088 --> 40:17.363 No, it was meant to empower. 40:18.788 --> 40:22.217 So look what happens after Jesus gets empowered. 40:22.585 --> 40:30.325 The next thing he does he cast out demons, he heals the sick, he raised the dead, he cleansed the leper, he preaches the kingdom. 40:31.228 --> 40:37.511 He sees people saying, he goes into places that no one else wants to go and he sees the glory of God manifests. 40:37.785 --> 40:38.870 Can I tell you something? 40:39.345 --> 40:44.337 This season is only bringing you into greater glory, greater power, greater anointing. 40:44.845 --> 40:46.130 Your family's going to get saved. 40:46.231 --> 40:48.714 After this, your ministry is going to catapult. 40:48.895 --> 40:50.970 After this, your life is going to take off. 40:51.150 --> 40:55.029 After this, it's not in vain All of the sacrifices. 40:55.330 --> 41:03.313 Get ready for the power of the Holy Spirit moving in your life, moving in your family, moving in your business. 41:04.026 --> 41:05.656 Get ready for your dreams to come true. 41:06.366 --> 41:08.794 Get ready for you to finish the program. 41:09.265 --> 41:10.912 Get ready for the funding to come. 41:11.245 --> 41:13.052 Get ready for the glory to manifest. 41:13.526 --> 41:16.055 This is your hour of power. 41:18.090 --> 41:19.794 Lift up your hands and shout. 41:19.814 --> 41:22.776 You really believe it All? 41:22.957 --> 41:23.722 right, let's stand to our feet. 41:24.367 --> 41:24.993 We got to go. 41:27.029 --> 41:27.994 It's your hour of power. 41:33.712 --> 41:39.010 I read that and I was like whoa, so all of that that was a lot Jesus went through. 41:41.408 --> 41:47.151 He was tempted with all types of temptation, but guess what it brought? 41:48.745 --> 41:50.410 It brought another dimension power. 41:51.885 --> 41:54.833 That Greek word for power is the word dunamis. 41:56.505 --> 41:58.211 It means miraculous working power. 41:59.605 --> 42:03.534 So he moved from your field to now. 42:03.594 --> 42:04.556 You're a miracle worker. 42:07.008 --> 42:10.275 You see some of y'all aren't shouting because you thought it was just for Jesus. 42:11.705 --> 42:12.227 No, it's for you. 42:12.307 --> 42:13.491 After this 21 days. 42:14.945 --> 42:16.509 You went and filled with the Holy Spirit. 42:16.549 --> 42:18.112 You're leaving as a miracle worker. 42:20.965 --> 42:31.430 Another translation for dunamis is dynamite Something that explodes and creates a lot of destruction Can. 42:31.490 --> 42:32.293 I tell you something. 42:32.445 --> 42:36.035 You're about to create a lot of destruction to the kingdom of darkness. 42:37.128 --> 42:38.332 Oh, three people said amen. 42:38.945 --> 42:50.619 How many people are about to create a lot of destruction To demonic structures, to demonic enterprises, to demonic systems, to generational spirits? 42:51.085 --> 42:54.653 You've got power to say no to the enemy. 42:57.245 --> 42:58.551 You're about to disrupt some stuff. 42:59.066 --> 43:00.395 Where are the disruptors in the house? 43:02.708 --> 43:04.391 Where are the Holy Ghost disruptors? 43:04.431 --> 43:11.304 The devil messed with the wrong one he picked on the wrong one. 43:13.712 --> 43:15.077 You don't even know devil. 43:15.720 --> 43:16.965 All your temptation was just my promotion. 43:16.985 --> 43:21.804 Lift up your hands it's going to fall. 43:22.386 --> 43:33.139 Father, I thank you Are you repeat, for the anointing and the power of the Holy Spirit. 43:35.968 --> 43:43.658 I receive a fresh impartation of strength, of glory and of anointing. 43:46.647 --> 43:59.916 My family shall be saved, my finances shall be transformed, my body shall be healed in Jesus' name. 44:01.467 --> 44:06.635 Now I need you to say it like you're my name, in Jesus' name, amen. 44:13.496 --> 44:13.776 Amen. 44:15.965 --> 44:17.752 This is the City Light Church Podcast. 44:18.186 --> 44:27.437 If you've missed any part of today's message or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansik and City Light Church, visit us at CityLightNYCcom. 44:28.025 --> 44:29.711 That's CityLightNYCcom. 44:31.005 --> 44:33.945 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. 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