How to Change

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You're going to do much better when you admit all excuses are lies.

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And people lie to themselves because change scares them.

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Because all they've known is one thing.

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They're boring, same, still, swampy lives.

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And God wants to pull you out of that.

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There's a higher place.

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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 citylightnyc.com.

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That's citylightnyc.com.

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Pastor Boyan Jancic 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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I want to go right into the message today, and Pastor Mo is going to share some very important announcements.

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We have a singles conference coming up.

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which everyone who's single, which means you're not married, really you should be a part of it.

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Because the one thing that'll trip you up is the whole single scene and it really, getting in a wrong relationship, getting in a mistimed relationship, it is like a Hoover.

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You kids know what a Hoover is?

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It's a Dyson.

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Except a Hoover loses suction.

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It's a Dyson for the anointing of God on your life.

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Just sucks it right off.

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So you want to be a part of that singles conference.

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Pastor Mo will share all the announcements.

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I'm like, he's going to share these announcements as I go through the announcements.

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But I do want to draw your attention because I have backslidden when it comes to my announcements and just making people aware.

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Like, we are a missions church.

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We have given millions of dollars over the years to world missions.

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And everybody used to know that.

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But because I kind of stopped talking about it, like new people don't know that and old people forgot about it.

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But we actually take our mission support very, very seriously.

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There's something...

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Yucky in the body of Christ.

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And this is the yucky thing.

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People make a commitment, people make a promise, and then they don't follow up on it, or they follow up on it randomly.

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That shouldn't be, by the way.

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The Bible says, blessed is he who swears to his own hurt and changes it not.

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You know how many men of God have promised me stuff?

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Oh, I'm going to get you, I'm going to do that.

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And then it's like, whatever happened to that?

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Well, God changed his mind, you changed your mind, somebody changed their mind.

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But you say you're going to do something, you should do it.

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We have that reputation.

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We say we're going to do something, we do it.

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We made a commitment to supporting various organizations around the world.

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We are never even a day late.

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Talk to missionaries and say, how does your support come in?

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I talk to missionaries and they usually say, some months it comes in, sometimes it's late, sometimes they skip a month.

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How would you like it if your employer paid you that way?

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Sometimes I get a check.

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Other times, you know, they forget.

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Oh, well, I guess I'll just scrounge around until then.

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So we have these commitments.

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We have never even been a day late.

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It doesn't matter what's happening here.

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We've had great times, tough times, in between times.

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We're going to stay faithful to our commitment.

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And I found that God really likes that.

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There's some things that God just likes.

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He likes people who keep their word.

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You know why I have to keep my word?

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because I want God to keep his word.

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Now he's not gonna change, but this is how it works.

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If I don't believe my own words, how will I believe God's words?

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You may not think that's connected, but it actually is.

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If I don't have any integrity, which means that my word is my bond, I won't even believe that God has integrity, but his word is his bond.

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He never changes his mind, he never goes back on his word.

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He said it, and that settles it.

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And I find that he likes when his people do the same thing.

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So we have these commitments.

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Many of them began in 2009.

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We have an orphanage, the Grace Center, that we're the primary sponsor of in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.

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We have the Macomb family.

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We have built, City Light Church over the years, has helped build over 50 at this point community centers,

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And churches.

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They double.

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They're churches, but they double.

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I mean, it's the only show in town.

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It's the only show in the village.

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So they double as a community center.

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Many of them then triple as a medical center.

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We have missions trips to Guatemala.

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You've come.

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You've helped.

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By the way, for two days, we help build.

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Because if you ever look at local contractors, and there's a lot of El Salvadorians and Mexicans and Guatemalans, and you'll know that they have no clue what they're doing, right?

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They're actually praying for a 15-year-old white person from America to come to teach them carpentry.

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See, when the guy did the same joke at my party, everybody laughed.

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And I was like, that's my joke.

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And he did it, and everybody laughed.

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But he was black.

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See, he says, white person, it's funny, but I say white person, where's he going with this?

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Because you're a bunch of racists, and you need healing and deliverance.

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You got woke-ified, and the humor left you.

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Let me snap out of it.

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No.

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Look, we come, because I even said, I'm like, why are we, like, these guys are mastered.

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All of them know how to build stuff.

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I don't.

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How does me carrying that cement bag 50 feet help?

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It doesn't.

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But it shows them that I'm with them.

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But we do that for like a few days, but what you may not be aware of is we've given a lot.

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We put whole roofs, whole foundations.

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Like we only do a little bit, but we leave them with all the supplies.

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It's not our labor that's the blessing.

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It's actually the purchasing of the supplies.

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So Guatemala.

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Oh, yeah, look, there's us helping.

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And, ooh, wait, hold on.

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I'm like a goldfish.

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I got distracted.

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Ooh, Eduardo looking good there.

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Navy blue is your color.

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Really nice.

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Really nice.

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I'd even dial it up to a midnight blue with that dark salt and pepper beard.

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The kitties.

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Vlad, are you here?

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Back.

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So we have Guatemala.

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Guatemala.

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Liberia for many years.

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We were all over the place, but right now mainly Serbia, Montenegro, Guatemala.

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and the orphanage in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.

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We have commitments there every single month.

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So Mission Sunday used to be the same, still is, I just haven't talked about it.

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It's every month, it's the third Sunday of every month, which, that's today.

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So what are you supposed to do on Mission Sunday?

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Well, you give something extra to missions.

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When you give, there's this drop-down menu, there actually is a little tab for missions, and that's our missions budget.

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And that's how we help spread the gospel and with humanitarian aid together.

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Humanitarian aid must be paired with the gospel.

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Because social justice without the gospel is an injustice.

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What good does it do to help someone and then they just end up going to hell anyway?

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You got to include the gospel.

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So give something extra to missions.

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And that's the one announcement I knew Pastor Mo wasn't going to do, but I'll save the rest for him.

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Are you ready for the Word of God this morning?

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All right.

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I want to talk to you about change.

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How to change.

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How to experience change.

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It actually seems very hard for us as people to change ourselves.

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seems just as hard to change our lives, to change our circumstances, to change our environment.

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Yet you read the Bible and you see that God is a master of change, of initiating change and following through in change, taking you from zero to hero.

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Ha!

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From the crack house to the penthouse.

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From the ghetto to the meadow.

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Come on, somebody.

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God likes change.

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He's in the change business.

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But we as people have a hard time cooperating with God.

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So what happens?

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Too many of us are stuck in swampy sameness.

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Where everything's the same.

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And nothing ever changes.

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And it's really, really boring and really, really dull.

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And no, that's not the Christian life.

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It's supposed to be from glory to glory to glory.

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Guess what?

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That's change.

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Things are changing.

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There's movement.

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Swampy sameness makes me depressed.

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This is a theory.

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I've been stuck in swampy sameness.

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It gets real dull and real boring, and you're like a dead fish floating downstream, and it's just yucky.

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I want to experience the goodness of God, and if I'm not...

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then I know the problem isn't on that side of heaven.

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The problem's not with God.

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I'm misaligned somehow.

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I'm frustrating him somehow.

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Because he's so good and he wants to bless you.

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He wants to bless me.

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And going through a prolonged, really long season, I'm talking like years and everything's the same,

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I know I'm frustrating him because his very way is growth.

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You look at God's ways.

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God's ways are growth.

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But people cope all the time.

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You know who's master copers?

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Pastors.

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Pastors are master copers.

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They always cope.

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You know, they'll have a little itty-bitty church that's been the same size for 20 years.

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And they'll say, well, I'm faithful.

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Yeah, but Jesus didn't say be faithful only.

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He said be faithful.

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Then he also said be fruitful.

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You got to be fruitful and faithful.

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Outside of pastors, people like to cope.

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You know how they cope?

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They'll say, well, you know, Moses was 40 years tending his father-in-law's sheep.

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And you know, David ran around in the wilderness.

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And they'll talk about all these men of God that had these long, boring seasons.

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Why are you identifying with that?

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Why are you finding your hero in that sliver of their lives when that was their wilderness experience?

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I'm not identifying with Moses.

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tending his father-in-law's sheep for 40 years.

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And by the way, there's a reason why the Bible doesn't talk much about that.

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It just says that's what he did.

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You know why it doesn't go into the daily of that?

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Because it's boring.

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Identify with Moses saying, let my people go.

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I'm not going to identify with David and how long he had to wait.

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And I am identifying with David when he was in the palace.

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Hallelujah.

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So let's end the cope.

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And let's actually embrace change.

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Which actually, because of the way we're wired, doesn't come easy.

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And Jesus knew that.

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And let's begin in the Gospel of John.

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John chapter 5 and verse 6.

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I want to give you five steps to experiencing transformation and change.

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To cooperating with God.

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Because life is either an adventure or it's nothing at all.

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If you're stuck right now, I'm very aware that I'm annoying you.

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I know that.

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When you're stuck, the last thing you want is a very happy, joyous person who's experiencing change telling you, hey, you get to change.

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You want to throw something at me.

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I get it.

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And it's actually a spirit.

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It's much better in here.

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I smell.

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It's much better in here.

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First service.

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Oh, man.

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And I wouldn't say anything to you that I didn't say to them.

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I told them.

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It's a spirit of sameness.

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You actually battle it when you're preaching it.

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It's like this nasty Jabba the Hutt giant sloth that just sits on people with the sameness of the swampiness and then people resist change.

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And they lie.

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They lie.

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They lie to themselves.

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You're going to do much better when you admit all excuses are lies.

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And people lie to themselves because change scares them.

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Because all they've known is one thing.

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They're boring, same, still, swampy lives.

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And God wants to pull you out of that.

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There's a higher place.

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Now Jesus knew that.

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So he asks what seems like a preposterous question.

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He comes to the pool of Bethesda.

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which is a beautiful thing where an angel used to come and stir the waters, and the first one in the water would get divinely healed.

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And so a lot of sick people gathered around waiting for the stirring of the water.

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Jesus finds a man who's paralyzed for 38 years.

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When Jesus saw him lying there and knew, this is not written this way by accident, he knew that he had already been in that condition a long time.

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He said to him, do you want to be made well?

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Look at the wording there.

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The Bible is letting you know that Jesus, because he knew that this paralyzed man was already there a long time, that maybe he didn't want to be made well.

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Maybe now he was stuck in the swampy sameness.

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Now he's already coping.

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Oh, you know, I don't have a man to help bring me into the water.

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This is just maybe how God wants me.

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Things will never get better, but that's okay.

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Because really, the Lord's my delight.

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Ha, ha, ha, ha.

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And Jesus messes with him.

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Do you want to be made well?

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And the way in the Greek grammar that is, it's like he asked it twice.

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Do you want to be made well?

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Do you really?

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He's provoking him.

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Do you really want change?

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Because I can perceive.

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The Lord didn't ask this by accident.

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Many other times it says Jesus discerning their hearts.

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Yes.

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He could tell what was going on on the inside.

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He knew this guy outwardly looks like he wants change.

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Outwardly, he's hanging out at the place where change happens, the church, right?

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Outwardly, anyone in church wants change.

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It would appear.

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But Jesus would say, do you really want change?

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Do you really?

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Do you want to be made well?

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So number one is you got to actually want change, right?

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Now, why wouldn't someone want change?

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One of the reasons is because they've tried to change.

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They've tried to change the environment, their circumstances, and it didn't work.

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Well, cry me a river.

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You know how many times I tried to change and it didn't work?

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I've bashed my head against walls trying to change stuff.

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It didn't work.

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You know, in my case, I don't know how it is for you, in my case, God was just waiting for me to get to the end of me.

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Because I'm very full of me.

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I'm full of, according to my wife, a lot of something else, too.

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So God's... Look, she's taking notes for that.

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She's like, amen.

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God is waiting for me to get to the end of myself to finally collapse and say what we sang in that song.

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I'm not enough.

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I can't change.

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Unless you come.

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But what I'm saying is people have had their faith wounded.

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Your faith can get wounded.

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You want change.

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You give it the old college try.

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You swing the bat every which way but loose.

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But you're still stuck in the same old, same old.

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And now you have a choice to make.

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Are you going to then go, I guess this is it.

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Or are you going to say, you know what, I still trust, Lord.

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You can do what seems impossible to me.

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You've got to cling on.

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But a lot of people, they're afraid to believe.

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They don't dare to believe God.

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So then they just end up coping and sitting and just letting the waves of life wash over them.

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And so now life is happening to them.

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They're not happening to life.

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But God wants you to arise.

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I say this with love.

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And stop being boring.

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You content to have the same experience a thousand times?

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Or you want a thousand different experiences one time each?

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The good ones you can have twice, three times.

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The really good ones.

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That's what God wants for you.

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There's a whole other side to this message is yes, we're to be content.

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And when things aren't changing, he is our joy and he's our contentment.

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But that doesn't mean that has to be the entire movie of our life.

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Hallelujah.

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It's not always exciting.

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It's not always a fast life.

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And then Jesus is my ultimate source, ultimate joy, yes.

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But at the same time, change should be coming.

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If you're not changing, you're not growing.

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And our circumstances should be changing.

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To what?

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To something better.

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Yeah.

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God wants that for you.

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So number one, you gotta want change.

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Number two, it's found in Titus.

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Number two is receive grace to change.

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I'm not just talking about changing like your character, changing habits, I'm talking about that, but even more, I'm talking about changing your circumstances, the environment of your life, the vibes,

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The aroma you give off.

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As I say that, some of you, you know Satan starts lying to you when you're a very small child.

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I talk to my kids all the time.

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You'd be shocked what they tell me.

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I had the sweetest time with Vivian and I explained to her how Satan lies to us because I remember him lying to me when I didn't know what the devil was.

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Four, you just hear that thought.

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I said, what's the devil been telling you?

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And when she told me, man.

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Actually, right then, I wanted to grab the devil by the throat.

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But then I relaxed and remember Jesus already did that.

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Hallelujah.

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I can't help that.

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He did it.

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So Satan's been lying to you since you were young.

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And some of you, you leaned into that lie.

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You partnered with that lie.

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Now you're an adult.

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But you have whole segments of your worldview, of your mind, have been formed around this satanic lie that you received when you were four, five, six, seven, eight years old.

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And now he put on you a limiting mindset that,

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And so you walk with your head down.

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You walk without expecting much.

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You think you're being humble and holy because you all just take the crumbs that come to me in life.

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Are you kidding me?

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You're destined to reign.

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Because of the grace of God, by the way, in Romans 5.19, it says you are to reign in life.

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Reign.

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R-E-I-G-N. Reign.

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Like a Lord.

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Because he's the Lord of Lords.

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Who do you think it's talking about?

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You.

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He's the king of?

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Kings.

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Who's he talking about?

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You.

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Hallelujah.

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So how to experience change, how to change, how to flow with change, you got to want it.

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One.

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Two.

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It's by the grace of God.

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I can define grace so many ways because it's such a multi-layered subject.

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You can define it so many ways.

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But one way to define it is a hard attitude that says, I'm not enough unless you come.

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Grace is an empowerment against sin.

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Grace is the means by which you are saved.

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Grace, in the Greek charis, is the gift of heaven.

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Grace is the power of God at work in you, forming Christ in you.

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And change comes via grace.

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Grace is actually a teacher and a trainer.

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When there's an outflowing of grace...

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You will do God things, you will think God thoughts, and all of a sudden you find yourself, whereas normally you would go this way and that way is no good, all of a sudden you're making a right turn.

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The grace of God is leading you.

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And you're like, oh, what's this?

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This is a new place in my life.

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Oh, and it's the grace of God teaching you and training you.

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For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.

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Teaching us, see, the grace of God teaches us

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Now in this particular verse in context, it's talking about holiness.

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Like how do we get holiness?

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That's change.

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How do we get more sanctified in our behavior?

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Notice it doesn't say try real hard.

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Right?

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Really, really exercise, you know, discipline and self-control.

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How many of you try that?

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You realize it doesn't work.

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It's got to be a work from the Lord, from the inside out.

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The grace of God teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously.

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But the grace of God will teach you what to do next.

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You want change?

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You want transformation?

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I can feel you do.

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Some of you are so upset at me right now.

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You're upset at me because you know what I'm saying is true, but you're like, you don't know.

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You don't know.

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Easy for you to say, but you don't know.

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I'm at point A and point B. I can see it.

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It's so good, but how to get?

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It's like the eternal divide between point A and where I want to get to point B.

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And it is frustrating.

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Yeah, I've been there.

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I've been crying on point B.

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Remember when that prophet came to town and he said I was going to be living in point B?

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That was like three years ago.

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It didn't happen.

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God will get you there in a series of decisions that you're going to make in partnership with him, but it'll be the grace of God working through you.

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If you don't really know what I'm talking about, make it your great quest to become BFFs with Jesus.

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And he will teach you what I'm talking about.

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A great sister verse to this, Titus 2.12, is found in Philippians 2.13.

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Hallelujah, hallelujah.

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I'll never forget...

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When City Light was six months old, we were originally in the courtyard by Marriott in Midtown Manhattan.

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Because I wanted to be central.

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Even though I'm a full, you know, I was a New Yorker, so I know New York.

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I wanted to be in the middle of it all in Midtown.

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But I was still so young and dumb that I didn't realize you probably shouldn't start a church in a commercial area.

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Like we were across the street from the lipstick building.

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Smith and Walensky's was right there.

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And it's like we're not even in a neighborhood where real people live.

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Just not real people.

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Upper East Side joke.

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And then I just sensed like we need to get to a real neighborhood.

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That real neighborhood was a real neighborhood, the East Village.

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It had just undergone a wonderful transformation.

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And I knocked on a bunch of doors already.

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Church doors.

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I wanted a church.

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I would knock on church doors.

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I'm 26 years old.

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When I was 26, I looked like I was 19.

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And I preached for Robert Vasquez's mother.

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This was so...

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I come in to preach in this church, and the pastor, she grabs me, and she...

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I come in to preach, right?

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And she grabs me and grabs my face.

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Oh, you're just a little baby.

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I didn't think that was cute.

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But anyway...

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When you're 26, all you want to do is just appear older and be taken seriously.

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You just want to bust out that scripture to everybody.

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I will not let you despise my youth.

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So I just felt.

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It was a feeling.

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By the way, I'm living with my parents.

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I already went off to college, then went off to college again, left at 18.

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Now I'm 26, and I'm living with my parents.

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Which was, like today, that's becoming more and more normal.

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Wow.

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Because of the fiat dollar dying.

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That's a whole other six-part series.

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But back then, that was rare.

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So in other words, it was a step back.

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I'm with my parents.

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I'm fighting discouragement.

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And it was this nasty, rainy day.

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And I was like, I got to go out there, even in the rain, and knock on a door.

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One more door.

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Right when I was thinking that, my father came in.

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I was literally sitting down, sipping tea.

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It was like that, you know that Kermit the Frog meme?

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Where he's like sipping tea and the rain is on the window?

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That was me.

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I was sipping tea, looking, and there's a raining window.

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And I was like, I know I need to get out there.

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And my father said, what are you doing sitting here?

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And my father didn't even want me pastoring.

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Didn't want me starting a church.

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But I guess he thought he's back living with me.

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He needs to get out there and pastor.

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00:26:35.915 --> 00:26:39.117
He said, you're not going to find another building sitting in here.

491
00:26:39.657 --> 00:26:40.998
And I was like, he's right.

492
00:26:42.848 --> 00:26:52.635
I went that morning, and I knocked on one door, and it was the Carpatho, whatever that means, Carpatho, Russian, Greek, Catholic, Greek, like they wanted to be every denomination in one.

493
00:26:53.255 --> 00:26:55.997
Because they have Catholic in it, but they're not Catholic, they're Greek Orthodox.

494
00:26:57.627 --> 00:27:05.129
I knocked on that door and a priest opened and that's how we got our facility that lasted 17 years.

495
00:27:05.209 --> 00:27:07.530
And it was a wonderful blessing to that entire neighborhood.

496
00:27:07.890 --> 00:27:08.850
But what was that?

497
00:27:08.890 --> 00:27:10.271
What was that that morning?

498
00:27:11.071 --> 00:27:12.571
It was the grace of God.

499
00:27:12.991 --> 00:27:13.652
Listen to this.

500
00:27:14.272 --> 00:27:14.972
Tap into this.

501
00:27:14.992 --> 00:27:22.214
It's causing me to do and to want what God wants for me.

502
00:27:23.414 --> 00:27:25.115
Have you ever felt like you're in the zone?

503
00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:27.240
Get in the zone.

504
00:27:27.400 --> 00:27:30.243
When Jesus said, abide in me and I in you, you know what he was saying?

505
00:27:30.303 --> 00:27:30.944
Get in the zone.

506
00:27:31.805 --> 00:27:32.866
That's the flow zone.

507
00:27:33.406 --> 00:27:34.467
That's the good zone.

508
00:27:35.228 --> 00:27:41.555
That's where you think you're living your own life, but really, you're in the back, and I'm being the chauffeur.

509
00:27:43.170 --> 00:27:45.191
And I'm taking you to the place that's good for you.

510
00:27:45.851 --> 00:27:50.533
He's causing, for it is God who works in you to do two things.

511
00:27:50.873 --> 00:27:55.915
To will, to want to, and then to do what's pleasing to him.

512
00:27:56.776 --> 00:28:00.057
If you've never experienced this right now, you should be praying, Lord, do that in me.

513
00:28:00.797 --> 00:28:04.659
I want to want to do things that are good for me, for you.

514
00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:07.340
I want to want to, and then I want to do things.

515
00:28:12.175 --> 00:28:13.236
That's my main prayer.

516
00:28:13.876 --> 00:28:14.416
You know why?

517
00:28:15.917 --> 00:28:19.178
Because it's not just that I'm not enough, unless he come.

518
00:28:19.899 --> 00:28:23.481
It's because I suck.

519
00:28:23.501 --> 00:28:26.302
I, in and of myself, suck.

520
00:28:27.382 --> 00:28:29.263
You think those two will come back from this morning?

521
00:28:29.924 --> 00:28:30.264
They will?

522
00:28:30.404 --> 00:28:30.724
Okay.

523
00:28:31.645 --> 00:28:33.365
There was two, and I said, I suck.

524
00:28:33.385 --> 00:28:34.906
And they were like, they were holding hands.

525
00:28:36.467 --> 00:28:38.448
And I was like, you guys, just checking in here.

526
00:28:39.951 --> 00:28:42.333
Because you seem like you're churchified, so you've been to a church before.

527
00:28:42.353 --> 00:28:44.775
Did your last pastor use the word suck?

528
00:28:45.536 --> 00:28:46.256
And they just smile.

529
00:28:46.276 --> 00:28:47.337
I don't remember what they said.

530
00:28:49.239 --> 00:28:49.859
Nothing, right?

531
00:28:50.600 --> 00:28:51.581
Which, yeah, yeah, yeah.

532
00:28:57.505 --> 00:28:58.106
So I suck.

533
00:29:00.148 --> 00:29:02.289
I make bad decisions habitually.

534
00:29:04.952 --> 00:29:05.732
Make a mess.

535
00:29:07.614 --> 00:29:08.434
I need God.

536
00:29:09.488 --> 00:29:11.249
To change what I want.

537
00:29:12.270 --> 00:29:14.732
And God to change how I execute doing that.

538
00:29:15.952 --> 00:29:21.256
And every time I can point back to a success in my life, it's always him doing that.

539
00:29:23.598 --> 00:29:25.699
In fact, here's an example of it just this week.

540
00:29:28.441 --> 00:29:29.622
I can't get into this whole thing.

541
00:29:29.862 --> 00:29:33.584
But I made a lot of money in the last Bitcoin bull market.

542
00:29:33.965 --> 00:29:35.626
And then Bitcoin does what Bitcoin does.

543
00:29:35.666 --> 00:29:37.467
Which is fake everybody out and...

544
00:29:39.026 --> 00:29:47.753
Spend a bunch of time going sideways, going down and sideways, shaking out all the non-believers, shaking out all the loose hands.

545
00:29:48.113 --> 00:29:48.473
Psych!

546
00:29:50.955 --> 00:29:52.236
And it goes in cycles.

547
00:29:52.377 --> 00:29:54.518
And now the bottom is in.

548
00:29:55.499 --> 00:29:59.182
And now it's ready to blast.

549
00:29:59.222 --> 00:30:00.523
By the way, this isn't financial advice.

550
00:30:00.563 --> 00:30:02.064
It's financial advice.

551
00:30:02.084 --> 00:30:02.865
It's getting ready.

552
00:30:04.808 --> 00:30:07.069
America's 40 trillion in debt.

553
00:30:07.549 --> 00:30:09.770
The dollar's melting like an ice cube.

554
00:30:10.150 --> 00:30:12.831
It's about to blast off and look back at the moon.

555
00:30:14.211 --> 00:30:17.652
It's going over past the dwarf planet Pluto.

556
00:30:18.873 --> 00:30:27.596
And I have been buying with both arms when you're supposed to buy, when everybody hates it, when you don't hear about it on the news.

557
00:30:27.796 --> 00:30:30.397
There's no interviews with Michael Saylor on CNBC.

558
00:30:30.857 --> 00:30:32.637
And we're buying, we're buying.

559
00:30:32.898 --> 00:30:33.878
And I'm all bought out.

560
00:30:35.106 --> 00:30:39.550
I have no more, like I'm very, very cash poor right now.

561
00:30:40.170 --> 00:30:41.331
And she's such a doll.

562
00:30:41.371 --> 00:30:44.754
I'm like, anything, any free money, I'm like, babe, give that to me.

563
00:30:44.994 --> 00:30:45.774
Put it in.

564
00:30:46.635 --> 00:30:47.236
And thank you.

565
00:30:47.356 --> 00:30:49.417
She's always like, you're always ready to ride.

566
00:30:49.537 --> 00:30:50.518
My ride or die.

567
00:30:50.979 --> 00:30:52.219
Because I do.

568
00:30:52.280 --> 00:30:53.380
It's a little bit insane.

569
00:30:55.082 --> 00:31:02.828
But a year, 18 months from now, I'll be absolutely gloriously intolerable.

570
00:31:04.035 --> 00:31:05.657
It's intolerable.

571
00:31:05.717 --> 00:31:08.160
It'll be awful in the most wonderful way.

572
00:31:10.744 --> 00:31:13.387
So I don't have any more money to invest.

573
00:31:14.709 --> 00:31:17.713
And I'm not even thinking about it, but kind of I'm always thinking about it.

574
00:31:18.073 --> 00:31:19.395
I'm at a red light driving.

575
00:31:21.147 --> 00:31:23.088
And this thought just calm.

576
00:31:23.128 --> 00:31:23.728
I'm driving.

577
00:31:23.748 --> 00:31:24.508
It crystallizes.

578
00:31:25.869 --> 00:31:29.150
Hey, you actually have these stocks you forgot all about.

579
00:31:29.470 --> 00:31:35.553
You can sell those and roll them over and get the long, far outdated options that you really want.

580
00:31:36.033 --> 00:31:37.593
And I was like, what the?

581
00:31:37.613 --> 00:31:41.215
I didn't even like it was like 60 grand just sitting there.

582
00:31:41.235 --> 00:31:41.575
And I was like.

583
00:31:44.134 --> 00:31:46.295
I never drove to the next red light so fast.

584
00:31:46.715 --> 00:31:48.435
At the next red light, I take out my phone.

585
00:31:48.455 --> 00:31:50.295
I'm like, don't turn green, don't turn green.

586
00:31:50.736 --> 00:31:53.196
I executed it right there at the red light.

587
00:31:53.456 --> 00:31:54.396
And when I did, it was like .

588
00:31:56.677 --> 00:32:00.478
And now I'm like, now I finally, I am fully ported in.

589
00:32:00.518 --> 00:32:01.958
I'm fully invested.

590
00:32:02.298 --> 00:32:04.779
I hear, I hear SpaceX.

591
00:32:04.919 --> 00:32:08.520
Eight, seven, six, five.

592
00:32:08.840 --> 00:32:09.340
And we're ready to .

593
00:32:11.722 --> 00:32:14.063
And now it's like, but where did that come from?

594
00:32:14.424 --> 00:32:16.064
How did that whole thing happen?

595
00:32:16.445 --> 00:32:19.326
I'm telling you.

596
00:32:19.346 --> 00:32:21.728
You know why oftentimes I don't hang around after service?

597
00:32:22.088 --> 00:32:23.289
I don't want you to get to know me.

598
00:32:23.309 --> 00:32:24.429
I'm so not impressive.

599
00:32:26.210 --> 00:32:26.650
Really.

600
00:32:27.271 --> 00:32:30.253
If you're like, this is me at my best with the anointing on me.

601
00:32:31.133 --> 00:32:34.395
Apart from the anointing, ask Pastor Moe.

602
00:32:35.428 --> 00:32:35.608
No.

603
00:32:36.268 --> 00:32:38.829
See, he only looks at me through the eyes of Jesus.

604
00:32:39.349 --> 00:32:41.209
No, really, I'm not that clever.

605
00:32:41.229 --> 00:32:41.549
I'm not.

606
00:32:43.590 --> 00:32:50.211
But with him, put that verse back up, with him causing me to want and to do.

607
00:32:50.751 --> 00:32:52.371
See, your life could be this one.

608
00:32:52.391 --> 00:32:53.792
All of a sudden you're like, you know what, I should.

609
00:32:54.512 --> 00:32:55.632
And then you wait on the Lord.

610
00:32:55.952 --> 00:32:57.993
And you got to learn to be belly led.

611
00:32:58.053 --> 00:32:59.513
That's what the old timers called it.

612
00:33:00.417 --> 00:33:04.259
Being belly led means living out of your spirit, man.

613
00:33:04.819 --> 00:33:07.281
Your soul, your head is, we all know what that is.

614
00:33:08.642 --> 00:33:09.622
Confusion central.

615
00:33:11.043 --> 00:33:12.164
Don't live out of your head.

616
00:33:12.464 --> 00:33:13.604
Live out of your spirit.

617
00:33:14.025 --> 00:33:15.165
Live out of your belly.

618
00:33:15.405 --> 00:33:16.906
That's where the Holy Spirit lives.

619
00:33:17.166 --> 00:33:18.427
That's where the truth is.

620
00:33:18.667 --> 00:33:22.909
That's where your destiny is locked up and the Lord is going to release it.

621
00:33:23.150 --> 00:33:24.050
Hallelujah.

622
00:33:26.371 --> 00:33:27.432
Hallelujah.

623
00:33:36.057 --> 00:33:37.237
Just say this with me right now.

624
00:33:37.277 --> 00:33:45.759
Lord Jesus, cause me to will and to do for your good pleasure.

625
00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:47.840
Hallelujah.

626
00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:51.240
I could share story after story just based on this.

627
00:33:51.280 --> 00:33:52.561
This is when life is good.

628
00:33:53.221 --> 00:33:54.181
This is the zone.

629
00:33:55.001 --> 00:33:58.502
The whole reason we're here is we were so happy in Manhattan.

630
00:33:59.536 --> 00:34:04.361
In 2009, to me that was yesterday, that's like a lifetime ago for some people.

631
00:34:04.481 --> 00:34:10.168
The young whippersnappers in their 20s that don't know what a Hoover is.

632
00:34:12.507 --> 00:34:13.848
We were so happy in Manhattan.

633
00:34:13.868 --> 00:34:14.669
Church was doing good.

634
00:34:14.709 --> 00:34:15.369
Church was growing.

635
00:34:15.389 --> 00:34:19.332
All of a sudden, I start to sense over and over again, you got to start a Queens location.

636
00:34:19.372 --> 00:34:20.593
Start a Queens location, too.

637
00:34:20.833 --> 00:34:21.673
There's just a problem.

638
00:34:22.354 --> 00:34:24.315
Buildings don't grow on trees in New York City.

639
00:34:24.435 --> 00:34:26.537
Venues, space is very hard to get.

640
00:34:27.438 --> 00:34:33.102
So I spent nearly six months driving up and down every street of Astoria.

641
00:34:33.142 --> 00:34:35.023
I knew I wanted Astoria or Long Island City.

642
00:34:36.951 --> 00:34:38.351
Nothing, nothing.

643
00:34:38.732 --> 00:34:39.372
So I gave up.

644
00:34:39.792 --> 00:34:40.952
And then I didn't go for weeks.

645
00:34:41.532 --> 00:34:46.274
And then one morning, without me thinking about it, I just sensed.

646
00:34:46.854 --> 00:34:47.734
It was just like within me.

647
00:34:47.754 --> 00:34:50.535
You ever just feel a get up and go?

648
00:34:50.575 --> 00:34:51.875
And you're like, okay, I'm going to go do this.

649
00:34:52.215 --> 00:34:52.715
And there's like a...

650
00:34:54.196 --> 00:34:55.836
It's the wind of the Holy Spirit.

651
00:34:55.856 --> 00:34:57.337
May that happen to you more and more.

652
00:34:57.897 --> 00:34:59.477
That morning, I felt the wind.

653
00:35:02.098 --> 00:35:04.298
And I just knew, I'm going to go out.

654
00:35:04.959 --> 00:35:06.359
I'm going to find that location.

655
00:35:08.020 --> 00:35:12.284
And I'm, I'm, because the locations I need aren't going to be online.

656
00:35:13.065 --> 00:35:14.907
You got to kind of do a guerrilla warfare style.

657
00:35:15.607 --> 00:35:18.310
Knock on doors, peek through holes, like old school.

658
00:35:19.871 --> 00:35:23.295
And I'm driving down 31st Avenue and I see a church.

659
00:35:23.355 --> 00:35:23.955
That's good.

660
00:35:24.296 --> 00:35:26.618
Because churches tend to rent to other churches.

661
00:35:28.677 --> 00:35:35.322
I see a church and I see the grass is all unkept, which is also very good, which means no one's meeting in that church.

662
00:35:36.022 --> 00:35:41.426
But it typically means that nobody's like meeting in that church and no one, you're going to knock on that door.

663
00:35:41.446 --> 00:35:44.908
First of all, if you can get past the lock gate, you're going to knock and no one's going to answer.

664
00:35:45.329 --> 00:35:48.951
I see it's like all unkept grass, but I noticed the gate is open.

665
00:35:49.592 --> 00:35:53.014
So I go through, I knock and the priest opens the door.

666
00:35:53.555 --> 00:35:56.036
Later I found out he's only there a few times.

667
00:35:56.056 --> 00:35:57.617
He said two or three times a year.

668
00:36:01.286 --> 00:36:02.927
Do they let you do that in Florida?

669
00:36:04.127 --> 00:36:08.849
Is that, is this, you bring that Florida cult, I haven't seen you in so long.

670
00:36:09.490 --> 00:36:13.211
And you just bring that whole Florida hippy dippy frame.

671
00:36:17.053 --> 00:36:18.333
You can, you can do no wrong.

672
00:36:18.894 --> 00:36:21.094
We're just, we're just so glad to hear you this Sunday.

673
00:36:21.114 --> 00:36:21.735
It's okay.

674
00:36:22.155 --> 00:36:23.055
So glad to see you.

675
00:36:24.336 --> 00:36:24.516
So.

676
00:36:26.686 --> 00:36:29.607
Turns out he's only there several times a year.

677
00:36:30.487 --> 00:36:32.908
And I happened to be there one of those times.

678
00:36:33.208 --> 00:36:34.569
And the story just gets better.

679
00:36:36.069 --> 00:36:39.730
We rent, that's St. Andrews, by the way, the church around the corner from here.

680
00:36:40.471 --> 00:36:43.432
Our budget was $1,500 a Sunday.

681
00:36:44.352 --> 00:36:45.652
So he says, okay.

682
00:36:46.172 --> 00:36:48.933
I said, look, all we have is 1,500.

683
00:36:50.354 --> 00:36:53.575
And he goes, 1,500 a month, it's a deal.

684
00:36:56.828 --> 00:36:58.649
No, I meant $1,500 a Sunday.

685
00:36:59.409 --> 00:37:00.230
Well, I mean, I thought that.

686
00:37:00.250 --> 00:37:01.050
I didn't say that to him.

687
00:37:01.950 --> 00:37:04.571
I'm like, all right.

688
00:37:04.612 --> 00:37:05.912
Lord, I know how this works.

689
00:37:05.992 --> 00:37:08.933
I shut up and you do it, and I don't trip you up and get in your way.

690
00:37:09.514 --> 00:37:11.074
You got it, pal.

691
00:37:11.134 --> 00:37:16.217
$1,500 a month, which ends up being like $500 less bucks.

692
00:37:16.837 --> 00:37:17.417
A service?

693
00:37:17.857 --> 00:37:19.038
This is in 2009.

694
00:37:19.338 --> 00:37:20.178
This would be cheap in 1965.

695
00:37:21.925 --> 00:37:22.606
It's incredible.

696
00:37:22.926 --> 00:37:23.947
What was that?

697
00:37:24.567 --> 00:37:28.351
When you're in the God zone, change, transformation, good things.

698
00:37:28.731 --> 00:37:33.155
But he's causing you to will and to do after his good pleasure.

699
00:37:33.396 --> 00:37:34.857
You want to accelerate into that?

700
00:37:35.197 --> 00:37:37.079
Get consumed with the things God likes.

701
00:37:38.100 --> 00:37:39.421
Start wanting to build his kingdom.

702
00:37:40.222 --> 00:37:41.643
And yes, he wants to build your life.

703
00:37:42.024 --> 00:37:46.428
But demonstrate to him that you're kingdom minded and it'll be much quicker to build your life.

704
00:37:47.938 --> 00:37:48.919
That's a whole other sermon.

705
00:37:48.959 --> 00:38:04.326
But what I'm saying is, if all you do is consume, consume, and you tell God you love him, but really, you're selfish, you never give, you never witness, you're just focused on you, but you always tell God, but you know, when I come into my own, I'll really get you.

706
00:38:05.066 --> 00:38:05.926
He knows you're lying.

707
00:38:06.907 --> 00:38:07.827
You don't think you're lying.

708
00:38:07.887 --> 00:38:09.748
You don't know you're lying, but he knows you're lying.

709
00:38:10.508 --> 00:38:12.729
Because when that day comes, you won't get him.

710
00:38:13.050 --> 00:38:13.670
You'll forget him.

711
00:38:15.415 --> 00:38:21.519
So get with his business today, and he'll be very, very quick to build up your life.

712
00:38:23.241 --> 00:38:24.602
So you can do even more for him.

713
00:38:26.083 --> 00:38:26.803
Hallelujah.

714
00:38:26.843 --> 00:38:28.164
Everybody shout, change!

715
00:38:30.646 --> 00:38:32.067
All right, number three.

716
00:38:34.729 --> 00:38:40.393
What's instrumental for change is a God encounter.

717
00:38:42.378 --> 00:38:44.459
You have to have a God encounter.

718
00:38:44.899 --> 00:38:49.120
The Bible is a book of ch-ch-ch-changes.

719
00:38:50.621 --> 00:38:54.862
Everyone is changing, but they're not changing alone.

720
00:38:55.142 --> 00:38:56.903
They're not changing in a vacuum.

721
00:38:58.224 --> 00:39:03.645
God comes and he meets them and they experience radical transformation and change.

722
00:39:05.286 --> 00:39:10.848
Moses was a nobody until he had a God encounter at the burning bush.

723
00:39:12.395 --> 00:39:19.493
David was a nobody until Samuel came and poured that horn of oil over him and the anointing of God came upon him.

724
00:39:20.583 --> 00:39:25.947
Jacob was a nobody until he wrestled with God and had a God encounter.

725
00:39:26.407 --> 00:39:31.850
Gideon was a coward, hiding until he had a God encounter.

726
00:39:32.131 --> 00:39:37.214
And the angel of the Lord, while Gideon was a coward, said, You mighty man of valor.

727
00:39:37.554 --> 00:39:40.556
He was calling his destiny that was locked within him out.

728
00:39:41.076 --> 00:39:42.557
Said, You mighty man of valor.

729
00:39:42.878 --> 00:39:49.322
And Gideon, after the God encounter, experienced change and became that mighty man of valor.

730
00:39:50.020 --> 00:39:51.581
You got to have a God encounter.

731
00:39:51.842 --> 00:39:52.442
Have more.

732
00:39:52.803 --> 00:39:54.204
Hey, God's generous.

733
00:39:54.264 --> 00:39:54.724
Have two.

734
00:39:55.065 --> 00:39:55.685
Have three.

735
00:39:56.025 --> 00:39:56.946
Have half a dozen.

736
00:39:57.006 --> 00:39:58.288
Nay, have a full dozen.

737
00:39:58.928 --> 00:40:00.690
Encounter his Holy Spirit.

738
00:40:01.611 --> 00:40:03.332
Now, we're getting a lot of new people.

739
00:40:04.113 --> 00:40:05.414
I love the new people.

740
00:40:09.017 --> 00:40:09.698
Love the new people.

741
00:40:09.878 --> 00:40:10.579
But they come in.

742
00:40:11.059 --> 00:40:13.942
It's probably, if you think, if you wonder if I'm talking about you, probably.

743
00:40:16.193 --> 00:40:17.974
They come in with religious baggage.

744
00:40:18.714 --> 00:40:20.955
To them, church is something you do on Sundays.

745
00:40:21.295 --> 00:40:22.295
It's a place you go.

746
00:40:22.835 --> 00:40:31.118
They look at me like I have three heads because I'm talking about a real God, a God you can meet with, a God you can encounter, a God you can talk to.

747
00:40:31.158 --> 00:40:32.198
He talks back.

748
00:40:32.859 --> 00:40:34.219
An active God.

749
00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:36.420
And they're like, what meaneth this?

750
00:40:37.200 --> 00:40:39.721
What this meaneth is the Bible is still true.

751
00:40:40.161 --> 00:40:44.943
What this meaneth is that God is the same today and yesterday and forever.

752
00:40:46.314 --> 00:40:47.815
And you can encounter him.

753
00:40:48.636 --> 00:40:50.357
He wants you to know him.

754
00:40:51.018 --> 00:40:51.458
Paul's.

755
00:40:51.779 --> 00:40:54.241
His number one prayer for the Ephesian church.

756
00:40:54.561 --> 00:40:57.003
Was that they would have an experience.

757
00:40:57.483 --> 00:40:58.464
With the love of God.

758
00:40:59.425 --> 00:41:01.627
So he's preaching that dangerous dog.

759
00:41:01.687 --> 00:41:04.429
He's preaching an experiential Christianity.

760
00:41:06.791 --> 00:41:06.991
Yeah.

761
00:41:07.011 --> 00:41:07.151
Yeah.

762
00:41:08.853 --> 00:41:09.713
You read your Bible.

763
00:41:09.774 --> 00:41:11.875
It's an experiential Christianity.

764
00:41:14.197 --> 00:41:14.978
Hallelujah.

765
00:41:16.184 --> 00:41:17.845
It's not a philosophical creed.

766
00:41:18.066 --> 00:41:19.647
Christianity is an ideology.

767
00:41:21.308 --> 00:41:22.409
It's not a religion.

768
00:41:23.510 --> 00:41:28.214
It's a relationship with God that leaves you completely wrecked and transformed and turned upside down.

769
00:41:30.936 --> 00:41:31.877
Hallelujah.

770
00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:36.020
So God encounter.

771
00:41:39.142 --> 00:41:41.204
Look, we used to have God encounter Fridays.

772
00:41:43.246 --> 00:41:45.788
Hey, Pastor Bradley, can I just use you as an example?

773
00:41:46.950 --> 00:41:54.817
Pastor Brian was going, he had a Christian background, and he was raised in a ministry family, and then he backslid.

774
00:41:55.838 --> 00:41:59.881
And when I say he backslid, I mean the boy backslid.

775
00:42:00.702 --> 00:42:02.504
I mean, some people backslide.

776
00:42:02.924 --> 00:42:06.988
He was like, you remember in Back to the Future, where Michael J.

777
00:42:07.028 --> 00:42:10.831
Fox turns all the amps up and he strums the guitar and he goes blasted back 50 feet?

778
00:42:11.232 --> 00:42:12.673
That's how far he backslid.

779
00:42:16.508 --> 00:42:16.768
Right?

780
00:42:17.729 --> 00:42:24.214
And he decides to go to church that one night, randomly ends up on a Friday night God Encounter service.

781
00:42:24.634 --> 00:42:28.697
And before I even said a word, during worship, God meets him.

782
00:42:29.818 --> 00:42:35.262
And he begins weeping under the presence of God, turns his whole life around.

783
00:42:36.003 --> 00:42:36.763
Now he's a pleasure.

784
00:42:36.783 --> 00:42:38.465
I see the fingerprints of God all over.

785
00:42:38.505 --> 00:42:41.427
It was a pleasure to watch, to see him move.

786
00:42:41.447 --> 00:42:43.629
I like the way he moves, his walk with the Lord.

787
00:42:43.909 --> 00:42:44.789
Very admirable.

788
00:42:45.630 --> 00:42:48.751
So that's because of a God encounter.

789
00:42:50.231 --> 00:42:52.552
The touch of God changes everything.

790
00:42:52.952 --> 00:42:55.213
And it's available to everyone.

791
00:42:55.653 --> 00:42:57.453
You just got to be hungry enough.

792
00:42:57.794 --> 00:42:59.094
You say, we already asked.

793
00:42:59.614 --> 00:43:00.414
Or I try that.

794
00:43:00.454 --> 00:43:01.155
That's your problem.

795
00:43:01.195 --> 00:43:02.095
You asked once.

796
00:43:02.715 --> 00:43:03.495
Keep seeking.

797
00:43:03.855 --> 00:43:05.176
Keep knocking.

798
00:43:05.436 --> 00:43:06.556
You got to be hungry.

799
00:43:06.796 --> 00:43:12.858
The number one ingredient to a God encounter is an insatiable hunger.

800
00:43:15.357 --> 00:43:18.299
I feel like the, I almost said I feel like the new generation.

801
00:43:18.379 --> 00:43:19.280
Like that's the age I'm at.

802
00:43:19.320 --> 00:43:20.401
I've never used that phrase.

803
00:43:21.462 --> 00:43:24.464
I celebrated my 50th and now you just start using that word.

804
00:43:24.544 --> 00:43:26.125
And I said whippersnappers earlier.

805
00:43:27.186 --> 00:43:28.947
Golly, gosh darn it.

806
00:43:29.087 --> 00:43:30.428
I said whippersnappers.

807
00:43:32.850 --> 00:43:34.351
And this younger generation.

808
00:43:36.853 --> 00:43:39.415
Next summer I'll be yelling at people to get off my lawn.

809
00:43:41.005 --> 00:43:45.086
I'll have like the lawn chair in my, get off my lawn, you little whippersnappers.

810
00:43:45.126 --> 00:43:50.528
No, but listen, the younger generation, you haven't heard the stories maybe.

811
00:43:50.548 --> 00:43:51.669
You haven't read the books.

812
00:43:51.689 --> 00:43:52.909
You haven't, there's clips of it.

813
00:43:53.349 --> 00:44:06.493
Just a couple of generations ago, why, and by the way, why Christianity is still so strong in America, is there was a radical army of men and women who pursued God, like violently.

814
00:44:06.854 --> 00:44:07.974
Yeah, violently.

815
00:44:08.990 --> 00:44:13.112
The kingdom of heaven allows for sufferers violence.

816
00:44:13.312 --> 00:44:15.673
And the violent, that means you got your press on.

817
00:44:16.393 --> 00:44:26.897
Guys like A.A. Allen, who locked himself in the broom closet with one jug of water and told his wife, do not unlock it and let me out until you know that God has touched me.

818
00:44:28.718 --> 00:44:33.880
And when he came out of that broom closet, one of the most powerful healing miracle ministries of the 1950s.

819
00:44:37.198 --> 00:44:43.519
Do you know I've fasted seven times 40 days and too many 21-day fasts to count?

820
00:44:43.539 --> 00:44:47.000
I'm not talking about like last year.

821
00:44:47.020 --> 00:44:48.700
I'm talking about over my Christian life.

822
00:44:51.441 --> 00:44:53.121
Because I was desperate.

823
00:44:53.161 --> 00:44:55.022
I wanted God to do something in my life.

824
00:44:55.562 --> 00:44:57.182
Once I shaved off all my hair.

825
00:44:59.162 --> 00:45:00.803
So what does that have to do with anything?

826
00:45:01.983 --> 00:45:02.343
I don't know.

827
00:45:04.768 --> 00:45:09.531
I read in the book of Acts that Paul, it's in that book of Acts, Paul made an oath to God and shaved off all his hair.

828
00:45:09.931 --> 00:45:13.273
And then the guy who led me to the Lord told me about someone else who shaved off all their hair.

829
00:45:13.353 --> 00:45:14.634
I should have done a little more research.

830
00:45:15.835 --> 00:45:17.196
Because it's really not a New Testament.

831
00:45:17.216 --> 00:45:17.816
It really was not.

832
00:45:18.416 --> 00:45:21.558
But I was so desperate for more of God, I shaved off all my hair.

833
00:45:23.019 --> 00:45:23.819
It was not pretty.

834
00:45:28.482 --> 00:45:29.703
But God still saw that.

835
00:45:29.823 --> 00:45:32.825
Even weirdly manifested hunger, God will see.

836
00:45:34.484 --> 00:45:37.246
There were times I was weird in my pursuit of God.

837
00:45:40.989 --> 00:45:43.912
When I think back, it doesn't seem like God was ever turned off.

838
00:45:46.894 --> 00:45:59.504
He seems actually very turned on by someone who really just doesn't care anymore and is willing to get hungry and get desperate to the point of possibly being ostracized, possibly being labeled as an extremist, as a weirdo.

839
00:46:03.754 --> 00:46:05.435
But we're kind of chuckling now, aren't we, babe?

840
00:46:07.396 --> 00:46:08.457
Because he's been so good.

841
00:46:09.257 --> 00:46:09.678
Too good.

842
00:46:11.059 --> 00:46:11.699
So wonderful.

843
00:46:13.680 --> 00:46:15.561
Let me give you a scripture to go with that.

844
00:46:16.442 --> 00:46:16.842
Oh, yeah.

845
00:46:16.902 --> 00:46:18.523
1 Samuel 10, verse 6.

846
00:46:18.563 --> 00:46:19.324
Oh, this is a good one.

847
00:46:19.884 --> 00:46:24.527
Because this is number three, a God encounter.

848
00:46:25.047 --> 00:46:26.668
So we don't have God encounters.

849
00:46:26.708 --> 00:46:27.769
By the way, do you know why we don't?

850
00:46:28.249 --> 00:46:30.250
It's not because we've compromised.

851
00:46:30.270 --> 00:46:32.732
It's not because we're, you know, watered down.

852
00:46:32.752 --> 00:46:32.932
It's not.

853
00:46:35.792 --> 00:46:37.134
It's just a geographic look.

854
00:46:37.154 --> 00:46:39.577
We tried having Friday night services here.

855
00:46:40.158 --> 00:46:41.900
But people just don't come like they used to.

856
00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:46.867
It's a different, when you're in the East Village, and everybody wants to hang out in the East Village on a Friday night.

857
00:46:48.549 --> 00:46:50.953
And so the services were always like wall-to-wall people.

858
00:46:51.730 --> 00:46:57.872
But nobody wants to come to 46-1931st Avenue at 7 p.m. on Fridays.

859
00:46:58.192 --> 00:46:59.112
I shouldn't say nobody.

860
00:46:59.553 --> 00:47:00.933
43 people want to come.

861
00:47:01.633 --> 00:47:05.755
And that was exactly how many people we had every single Friday.

862
00:47:06.215 --> 00:47:08.896
But you can't have a move of God.

863
00:47:08.976 --> 00:47:09.736
This is a fact.

864
00:47:10.717 --> 00:47:11.617
John Arnott said this.

865
00:47:11.898 --> 00:47:16.019
Pastor Rodney said, you have the same group of people every single time.

866
00:47:16.700 --> 00:47:19.301
You feel the frustration of the Holy Spirit real quick.

867
00:47:19.841 --> 00:47:22.662
You need to have new lumber thrown into the fireplace.

868
00:47:24.243 --> 00:47:25.684
There's a whole reason behind that too.

869
00:47:26.844 --> 00:47:28.965
It's because God comes to meet new needs.

870
00:47:29.205 --> 00:47:30.566
Well, what about the older people?

871
00:47:30.846 --> 00:47:31.706
He already met them.

872
00:47:31.726 --> 00:47:34.627
Now he's waiting for them to cooperate with what he gave them a month ago.

873
00:47:39.249 --> 00:47:40.470
This is talking about Saul and Saul.

874
00:47:44.667 --> 00:47:58.190
Then the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you, and you will prophesy with them, and be, and this is what I want you to catch, because of the anointing, because of the Holy Ghost, because of the God encounter.

875
00:47:58.490 --> 00:48:05.251
It says, you will be turned into another man, and you will be turned into another woman.

876
00:48:06.211 --> 00:48:11.092
The anointing turns you into somebody else, which is great news for me, because I suck.

877
00:48:12.584 --> 00:48:14.105
I want to be somebody else.

878
00:48:14.965 --> 00:48:15.766
I don't want to be Bo.

879
00:48:16.086 --> 00:48:18.167
I want to be the Jesus version of Bo.

880
00:48:18.427 --> 00:48:21.649
I want his super to be put over my natural.

881
00:48:21.869 --> 00:48:23.329
And the anointing does that.

882
00:48:23.650 --> 00:48:25.150
I want to thank God's thoughts.

883
00:48:25.471 --> 00:48:31.914
I want to get over my own procrastination and complacency and coping mechanisms.

884
00:48:32.114 --> 00:48:33.335
But when he comes upon me,

885
00:48:34.635 --> 00:48:35.896
I'm another man.

886
00:48:36.196 --> 00:48:36.516
Really?

887
00:48:36.556 --> 00:48:38.036
Then I'm smarter.

888
00:48:38.276 --> 00:48:39.277
I'm fresher.

889
00:48:39.577 --> 00:48:41.357
I see things no one else can see.

890
00:48:41.677 --> 00:48:43.998
Then I'm cunning and crafty in his hand.

891
00:48:44.358 --> 00:48:45.418
He's awesome.

892
00:48:45.899 --> 00:48:46.999
And he'll do it for you.

893
00:48:47.459 --> 00:48:48.419
Hallelujah.

894
00:48:50.220 --> 00:48:51.740
Transformation and change.

895
00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:53.981
It's by the Holy Ghost and his anointing.

896
00:48:54.581 --> 00:48:56.642
2 Corinthians 3.18.

897
00:48:58.282 --> 00:49:00.543
By the way, when I try to find verses...

898
00:49:02.798 --> 00:49:11.340
For point number three, how change and transformation comes because of the anointing, my biggest problem was isolating it down to just two verses.

899
00:49:12.220 --> 00:49:14.661
Because there's just so many of them.

900
00:49:14.821 --> 00:49:15.661
So many of them.

901
00:49:18.882 --> 00:49:23.603
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding...

902
00:49:24.619 --> 00:49:29.062
As in a mirror, the glory of the Lord are being changed.

903
00:49:29.823 --> 00:49:31.724
Wow, that's what we're talking about this morning.

904
00:49:32.244 --> 00:49:38.429
Transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

905
00:49:38.869 --> 00:49:42.632
Here's what the Apostle Paul, inspired by the Lord, is saying.

906
00:49:42.972 --> 00:49:49.456
When you behold him, when you see, you know when you behold him in worship, when you pray, you behold him.

907
00:49:49.737 --> 00:49:52.819
When you read the Word of God, you behold him.

908
00:49:56.629 --> 00:49:58.170
When you whisper to him, you behold him.

909
00:49:58.590 --> 00:50:03.193
When you just lay there in silence, yearning for him, you behold him.

910
00:50:03.853 --> 00:50:05.454
When you sing to him, you behold him.

911
00:50:05.915 --> 00:50:10.077
And you are transformed into the very image you are beholding.

912
00:50:11.278 --> 00:50:12.779
Change, transformation.

913
00:50:12.879 --> 00:50:13.620
How does it come?

914
00:50:15.261 --> 00:50:16.461
You got to want it, number one.

915
00:50:17.042 --> 00:50:18.703
Number two, it's by his grace.

916
00:50:18.803 --> 00:50:20.124
Let that grace have an outworking.

917
00:50:20.404 --> 00:50:22.225
Number three, have an encounter with God.

918
00:50:23.730 --> 00:50:25.331
Oh, let me just get back to that other topic.

919
00:50:25.371 --> 00:50:30.276
People who have never had a God encounter, you don't even know what I'm talking about.

920
00:50:31.497 --> 00:50:33.538
I got to help you find out what I'm talking about.

921
00:50:34.459 --> 00:50:35.440
Without Friday nights.

922
00:50:38.362 --> 00:50:46.770
If you don't know what I'm talking about and like to find out, I'd like to meet you at this altar after service.

923
00:50:46.970 --> 00:50:47.570
Right away.

924
00:50:48.291 --> 00:50:49.412
I just want to lay hands on you.

925
00:50:50.879 --> 00:50:53.901
I want to lay hands on you, and I'm going to release the anointing on you.

926
00:50:54.361 --> 00:50:56.682
There is an impartation by the laying out of hands.

927
00:50:57.563 --> 00:51:04.387
And I'm going to ask the Lord that what he did in my life, how he opened me up, that he put that on you.

928
00:51:04.947 --> 00:51:06.808
And then I want you to raise your faith.

929
00:51:06.828 --> 00:51:09.029
That means you have expectation.

930
00:51:09.049 --> 00:51:09.830
That's what I'm trying to say.

931
00:51:09.850 --> 00:51:11.291
You don't just go, oh, that was nice.

932
00:51:11.311 --> 00:51:11.831
Well, what happened?

933
00:51:12.051 --> 00:51:12.972
Well, he laid hands on me.

934
00:51:13.472 --> 00:51:16.894
No, you're now saying, oh, I have faith in you.

935
00:51:17.862 --> 00:51:26.724
that things in my Christianity will change, that God will meet me when I pray, when I sleep, that things will start popping off.

936
00:51:27.884 --> 00:51:30.185
Say no to the sameness of the swamp.

937
00:51:31.045 --> 00:51:32.125
Swampy sameness.

938
00:51:32.265 --> 00:51:32.805
Ooh.

939
00:51:35.566 --> 00:51:35.966
All right.

940
00:51:37.286 --> 00:51:38.006
Number four.

941
00:51:38.287 --> 00:51:40.007
You want change and transformation?

942
00:51:41.667 --> 00:51:44.748
How many of you, you got something that you...

943
00:51:46.205 --> 00:51:49.587
are procrastinating on, but for good reason, because it's hard.

944
00:51:50.547 --> 00:51:52.088
Something you know you should do.

945
00:51:52.608 --> 00:51:56.450
You know it's going to take your life to the next level, but it's hard.

946
00:51:56.750 --> 00:51:58.031
Anybody have anything like that?

947
00:51:59.732 --> 00:52:01.973
Two people, two honest people in a third.

948
00:52:01.993 --> 00:52:03.173
God bless you both.

949
00:52:04.494 --> 00:52:04.974
Wow.

950
00:52:06.375 --> 00:52:09.136
Do I have a third person?

951
00:52:09.696 --> 00:52:10.097
Okay.

952
00:52:10.577 --> 00:52:11.297
Wow.

953
00:52:11.397 --> 00:52:13.318
The spirit of truth walketh in the third row.

954
00:52:14.439 --> 00:52:14.799
That's it.

955
00:52:19.114 --> 00:52:22.599
Number four, let's go to Esther 4.16.

956
00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:23.580
Here's what point number four is.

957
00:52:23.600 --> 00:52:24.542
You want change?

958
00:52:24.822 --> 00:52:28.988
You want to cooperate with God, bringing change and transformation in your life?

959
00:52:29.208 --> 00:52:30.070
Here's point number four.

960
00:52:30.090 --> 00:52:31.291
Do the hard thing!

961
00:52:31.311 --> 00:52:32.113
Do the hard thing!

962
00:52:34.056 --> 00:52:39.940
That thing that's hard that you don't want to do, that's exactly what you got to do.

963
00:52:41.021 --> 00:52:44.904
But I know, just like me, you'd rather do the 10 easy things.

964
00:52:45.704 --> 00:52:50.368
Before I start writing my sermon, it's a wonderful time for my wife.

965
00:52:50.388 --> 00:52:51.048
Do you know why?

966
00:52:51.068 --> 00:52:53.270
Because I clean my whole office.

967
00:52:53.550 --> 00:52:55.071
I do my laundry.

968
00:52:55.412 --> 00:52:56.652
I even windex the mirror.

969
00:52:56.692 --> 00:52:57.993
I mean, everything.

970
00:52:58.013 --> 00:52:59.014
The office is spotless.

971
00:52:59.775 --> 00:53:00.275
Everything.

972
00:53:00.535 --> 00:53:02.977
And then I look at my laptop, and I'm like, oh.

973
00:53:04.563 --> 00:53:06.624
Because this is the wrestling match for me.

974
00:53:06.664 --> 00:53:10.525
This is where whatever he's been doing, it's got to come out on a laptop.

975
00:53:12.025 --> 00:53:14.306
It's been 25 years, it doesn't get easier.

976
00:53:14.326 --> 00:53:16.667
It's always like me against a keyboard.

977
00:53:18.547 --> 00:53:19.908
So I do everything else.

978
00:53:20.448 --> 00:53:24.209
What I should do right away, just start typing happily.

979
00:53:26.150 --> 00:53:27.150
I'm a work in progress.

980
00:53:28.851 --> 00:53:29.971
But what are you doing?

981
00:53:31.032 --> 00:53:32.673
Talking to people and listening to them.

982
00:53:33.274 --> 00:53:36.175
Everyone, their life is full of busy, busy, busy, busy work.

983
00:53:36.215 --> 00:53:37.736
And none of it is going to get them from A to B.

984
00:53:38.537 --> 00:53:43.960
But that thing that's hard, that's going to get you from A to B. I was going through something rough.

985
00:53:46.182 --> 00:53:48.163
I'm not going to get into what it is.

986
00:53:49.024 --> 00:53:53.367
Or it is when we found out one of our pastors left the state and was working remotely without telling anyone.

987
00:53:57.429 --> 00:53:59.351
Laughter

988
00:54:01.148 --> 00:54:02.209
It was very difficult for me.

989
00:54:03.069 --> 00:54:15.399
And Pastor Jovica, in his infinite Serbian wisdom, he said something to me which I know was true because I wanted to throw whatever object was in the car nearest to me when he said it.

990
00:54:18.421 --> 00:54:27.828
He said, Bojan, when you have to eat a bowl full of frogs, find the biggest, fattest, ugliest frog and eat that frog first.

991
00:54:30.010 --> 00:54:30.390
I was like,

992
00:54:33.017 --> 00:54:35.138
I'm like, dude, your plane leaves in 48 hours.

993
00:54:35.158 --> 00:54:36.658
I'm here stuck with a bowl of frogs.

994
00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:38.939
But I get what he meant.

995
00:54:39.859 --> 00:54:45.201
That thing that I'm dreading, the hard thing, the ugly, big, fat frog.

996
00:54:45.581 --> 00:54:46.822
Eat that one first.

997
00:54:48.082 --> 00:54:48.903
Do the hard thing.

998
00:54:49.443 --> 00:54:52.244
Esther did the hard thing.

999
00:54:54.164 --> 00:54:58.606
Go gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan and fast for me, she said.

1000
00:54:59.706 --> 00:55:01.147
Now, Esther's Jewish.

1001
00:55:03.180 --> 00:55:04.373
This is a Persian king.

1002
00:55:05.542 --> 00:55:08.443
neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day.

1003
00:55:08.843 --> 00:55:11.284
My maids and I will fast likewise.

1004
00:55:11.704 --> 00:55:13.644
And so I will go to the king.

1005
00:55:14.204 --> 00:55:16.405
It was 30 days since she saw the king.

1006
00:55:17.005 --> 00:55:18.926
She needed to be invited.

1007
00:55:19.426 --> 00:55:22.247
You can't just walk into the royal chamber.

1008
00:55:22.667 --> 00:55:28.808
But she had to make a special request to save the Hebrew people.

1009
00:55:29.509 --> 00:55:33.710
We still celebrate Purim to this day because Hester...

1010
00:55:34.690 --> 00:55:37.852
Esther had some ovaries.

1011
00:55:44.475 --> 00:55:45.756
She wasn't a coward.

1012
00:55:46.336 --> 00:55:47.477
She wasn't timid.

1013
00:55:48.678 --> 00:55:50.699
She did the hard thing.

1014
00:55:52.077 --> 00:55:55.459
And she said, I will go to the king, which is against the law.

1015
00:55:55.819 --> 00:55:58.080
And if I perish, I perish.

1016
00:55:58.320 --> 00:56:00.642
But she went to the king and God was with her.

1017
00:56:00.922 --> 00:56:02.523
But she did the hard thing.

1018
00:56:03.083 --> 00:56:03.944
Hallelujah.

1019
00:56:04.384 --> 00:56:05.624
So do the hard thing.

1020
00:56:07.085 --> 00:56:08.046
Eat the ugly frog.

1021
00:56:10.607 --> 00:56:14.249
Number five is very closely related to number four.

1022
00:56:15.610 --> 00:56:18.011
And that's do the thing that you're afraid of.

1023
00:56:20.052 --> 00:56:21.033
My pastor...

1024
00:56:22.479 --> 00:56:24.620
He is Pastor Breakthrough.

1025
00:56:25.841 --> 00:56:27.761
One of his main messages is breakthrough.

1026
00:56:30.022 --> 00:56:31.003
Breakthrough is awesome.

1027
00:56:31.943 --> 00:56:38.947
Because we all, you know, even if you broke through five years ago, now you're like one of those Parisian mimes.

1028
00:56:39.747 --> 00:56:41.028
And you're in a glass box.

1029
00:56:42.428 --> 00:56:45.770
Hopefully you broke through into a bigger box, but nevertheless, it's in a box.

1030
00:56:46.350 --> 00:56:48.331
And you've got to break through again.

1031
00:56:51.055 --> 00:56:53.157
And he preaches breakthrough and knows breakthrough.

1032
00:56:53.177 --> 00:56:55.098
I had already gone to his Bible school.

1033
00:56:55.538 --> 00:56:56.859
I was on staff with him.

1034
00:56:57.440 --> 00:56:58.641
And then I planted City Light.

1035
00:56:58.661 --> 00:57:00.842
And that first year, I met him up in Boston.

1036
00:57:00.862 --> 00:57:04.125
He was talking about breakthrough, breakthrough, persons on the side.

1037
00:57:04.185 --> 00:57:10.309
And I asked him, after all that time with him, I said, how does one get a breakthrough?

1038
00:57:10.330 --> 00:57:11.610
Because I needed a breakthrough bad.

1039
00:57:12.211 --> 00:57:13.512
I thought he was going to backhand me.

1040
00:57:13.532 --> 00:57:18.075
Because, like, imagine he's teaching and talking about breakthrough all those years.

1041
00:57:18.135 --> 00:57:20.077
And I asked, how does one get a breakthrough?

1042
00:57:22.888 --> 00:57:25.010
But he would talk about it in so many different ways.

1043
00:57:25.030 --> 00:57:27.152
But I said, like, I need a breakthrough.

1044
00:57:27.172 --> 00:57:29.654
I can't do the hour and a half long sermon.

1045
00:57:29.874 --> 00:57:31.015
Just tell me one sentence.

1046
00:57:31.055 --> 00:57:31.556
How does one get?

1047
00:57:31.576 --> 00:57:33.297
I didn't say it that way, but he answered it that way.

1048
00:57:33.597 --> 00:57:34.658
So how does one get a breakthrough?

1049
00:57:34.678 --> 00:57:35.139
I'll never forget.

1050
00:57:35.559 --> 00:57:42.525
He put his finger in my face and he said, boy, find the thing you're most afraid of and do.

1051
00:57:44.782 --> 00:57:46.743
I knew right away that was the truth of God.

1052
00:57:46.763 --> 00:57:47.523
That was correct.

1053
00:57:47.563 --> 00:57:51.846
You want to break through the thing that you're most afraid of doing.

1054
00:57:52.286 --> 00:57:53.206
Do that.

1055
00:57:53.506 --> 00:57:55.007
Closely related to number four.

1056
00:57:55.027 --> 00:57:56.008
Do the hard thing.

1057
00:57:56.348 --> 00:57:57.749
But I'm getting a little more specific here.

1058
00:57:58.069 --> 00:58:00.350
Do the thing you're afraid of doing.

1059
00:58:02.511 --> 00:58:05.813
That's the thing that's going to break you through to the other side.

1060
00:58:05.833 --> 00:58:06.473
Hallelujah.

1061
00:58:12.076 --> 00:58:13.977
God has not given you a spirit of timidity.

1062
00:58:18.492 --> 00:58:24.376
The reason you're probably afraid of that thing is because you know it's going to bring such radical change into your life.

1063
00:58:25.237 --> 00:58:28.739
And our carnal selves are addicted to swampy sameness.

1064
00:58:29.640 --> 00:58:38.546
We say we want God's blessings and God's breakthrough, but we also want the familiar and the comfortable.

1065
00:58:39.606 --> 00:58:40.687
And you can't have both.

1066
00:58:42.008 --> 00:58:46.051
That's why Jesus, he takes his hand out and says, come and walk on the water with me.

1067
00:58:47.148 --> 00:58:48.889
come and walk on the water with me.

1068
00:58:49.890 --> 00:58:51.651
You'll see the waves boisterous.

1069
00:58:51.691 --> 00:58:52.712
It's daunting.

1070
00:58:52.892 --> 00:58:53.653
It's scary.

1071
00:58:54.093 --> 00:58:55.254
But you can walk on the water.

1072
00:58:55.274 --> 00:58:56.675
I'll even give you the word, come.

1073
00:58:57.235 --> 00:59:00.177
And you can trust me and trust my word and stand on my word, come.

1074
00:59:00.958 --> 00:59:09.324
And this is why, before Joshua got a breakthrough and took all of the children of Israel to the next level,

1075
00:59:11.718 --> 00:59:16.060
God says, have I not commanded you, be strong and of good courage.

1076
00:59:16.340 --> 00:59:18.640
Do not be afraid nor be dismayed.

1077
00:59:18.921 --> 00:59:22.442
For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

1078
00:59:22.782 --> 00:59:24.923
Hallelujah.

1079
00:59:24.943 --> 00:59:25.443
Hallelujah.

1080
00:59:27.404 --> 00:59:28.144
Hallelujah.

1081
00:59:31.785 --> 00:59:34.706
Everything I ever did, I did afraid.

1082
00:59:36.527 --> 00:59:36.887
Everything.

1083
00:59:38.735 --> 00:59:40.336
I started City Light terrified.

1084
00:59:41.677 --> 00:59:50.264
My mother, who's on a European tour with my father right now, which I'm so proud of, we were bicycling yesterday, and she left a video.

1085
00:59:50.504 --> 00:59:51.385
They're now in Paris.

1086
00:59:51.625 --> 00:59:53.426
Oh, oh, oh.

1087
00:59:53.446 --> 00:59:56.068
And they're showing macaroons.

1088
00:59:56.108 --> 00:59:59.271
I always want to call them Marcones, you know, but that's, you know.

1089
00:59:59.931 --> 01:00:01.913
They were eating Marcones macaroons.

1090
01:00:04.314 --> 01:00:04.515
And...

1091
01:00:05.873 --> 01:00:07.014
having the time of their lives.

1092
01:00:07.575 --> 01:00:09.577
She's 75, he's 76.

1093
01:00:11.279 --> 01:00:14.283
But my mother, when I was a teenager, this is just the Balkan way.

1094
01:00:14.763 --> 01:00:15.604
It's not abusive.

1095
01:00:15.905 --> 01:00:17.506
It's just the Balkan way.

1096
01:00:18.347 --> 01:00:19.689
She was calling me Michael Jackson.

1097
01:00:21.790 --> 01:00:25.391
Because, like, I remember once we went to a pizzeria.

1098
01:00:25.911 --> 01:00:29.651
And, you know, when I'm 9, 10, 11 years old, your mom probably orders for you.

1099
01:00:30.072 --> 01:00:31.712
But now I was like 14, 15.

1100
01:00:32.512 --> 01:00:35.573
And I would be so afraid and so intimidated.

1101
01:00:35.873 --> 01:00:38.813
I was like, can I have two slices, please, and a Coke?

1102
01:00:40.033 --> 01:00:40.974
And I kept doing that.

1103
01:00:41.014 --> 01:00:43.094
And then she finally said, why do you sound like Michael Jackson?

1104
01:00:44.334 --> 01:00:48.575
And I went, and I was like, but I knew she was right.

1105
01:00:49.756 --> 01:00:53.719
I was all like weird and insecure and goofy.

1106
01:00:55.881 --> 01:00:57.022
Then I got saved.

1107
01:00:57.562 --> 01:00:58.543
And then guess what happened?

1108
01:00:59.784 --> 01:01:02.746
I was saved and insecure and goofy.

1109
01:01:03.106 --> 01:01:06.609
And I was the same insecure mess just with my sins forgiven.

1110
01:01:08.050 --> 01:01:10.432
But then as I started to encounter God.

1111
01:01:12.974 --> 01:01:16.857
You know, to know God, he helps you actually like yourself.

1112
01:01:18.298 --> 01:01:19.618
Because you realize he likes you.

1113
01:01:20.219 --> 01:01:20.799
He loves you.

1114
01:01:21.819 --> 01:01:24.860
And you actually become more comfortable in your own skin.

1115
01:01:25.960 --> 01:01:27.221
You actually kind of settle in.

1116
01:01:27.301 --> 01:01:34.063
And then you take some steps of faith and you do some things afraid and you go, Oh, he was with me.

1117
01:01:35.126 --> 01:01:36.127
Let me try this one.

1118
01:01:37.167 --> 01:01:38.608
Oh, he was with me.

1119
01:01:39.148 --> 01:01:40.929
That thing he wrote to Joshua.

1120
01:01:41.089 --> 01:01:42.810
That wasn't just for Jashie.

1121
01:01:43.630 --> 01:01:44.911
That's for me today.

1122
01:01:45.191 --> 01:01:46.692
And then your confidence goes up.

1123
01:01:46.912 --> 01:01:48.133
Your faith goes up.

1124
01:01:48.773 --> 01:01:49.693
Hallelujah.

1125
01:01:50.814 --> 01:01:51.774
Yeah.

1126
01:01:52.275 --> 01:01:53.055
Hee hee.

1127
01:01:54.876 --> 01:01:55.176
Hallelujah.

1128
01:01:55.236 --> 01:01:55.636
Hallelujah.

1129
01:01:58.398 --> 01:01:59.238
Thank you, Lord.

1130
01:02:01.699 --> 01:02:02.620
Thank you, Jesus.

1131
01:02:04.012 --> 01:02:05.973
Lord, your ways are from glory to glory.

1132
01:02:07.273 --> 01:02:11.155
Lord, right now in this church, there's people at different points on their journey.

1133
01:02:12.575 --> 01:02:14.016
I'm asking you to meet them.

1134
01:02:15.216 --> 01:02:20.078
This is a great time for the worship team to come up as I have my eyes closed and every head is bowed.

1135
01:02:21.039 --> 01:02:21.799
Hallelujah.

1136
01:02:23.560 --> 01:02:24.540
Thank you, Jesus.

1137
01:02:28.021 --> 01:02:30.582
Father, move in their lives.

1138
01:02:31.583 --> 01:02:32.403
Work with them.

1139
01:02:34.505 --> 01:02:35.045
Cause them.

1140
01:02:35.326 --> 01:02:37.427
In fact, I want you to say this.

1141
01:02:37.948 --> 01:02:41.951
Lord Jesus, I welcome your change.

1142
01:02:43.092 --> 01:02:45.854
Bring change into my life.

1143
01:02:46.915 --> 01:02:47.856
I trust you.

1144
01:02:50.038 --> 01:02:55.442
Cause me to will and to do your good pleasure.

1145
01:02:56.143 --> 01:02:58.945
Cause me to want change.

1146
01:03:00.106 --> 01:03:01.007
Let there be change.

1147
01:03:02.018 --> 01:03:04.400
And outworking of your grace.

1148
01:03:05.140 --> 01:03:06.922
Give me a God encounter.

1149
01:03:08.323 --> 01:03:09.664
And in Jesus name.

1150
01:03:10.764 --> 01:03:11.525
I will do.

1151
01:03:12.385 --> 01:03:13.666
The thing that is hard.

1152
01:03:14.327 --> 01:03:15.428
And I will do.

1153
01:03:16.348 --> 01:03:17.649
The thing I was afraid of.

1154
01:03:18.810 --> 01:03:19.951
In Jesus name.

1155
01:03:21.632 --> 01:03:22.313
Amen.

1156
01:03:24.234 --> 01:03:24.714
Hallelujah.

1157
01:03:24.734 --> 01:03:25.435
Hallelujah.

1158
01:03:27.656 --> 01:03:28.537
Hallelujah.

1159
01:03:31.060 --> 01:03:31.780
Hallelujah.

1160
01:03:34.141 --> 01:03:34.981
Thank you, Lord.

1161
01:03:39.722 --> 01:03:43.083
I started the leadership meeting we had two weeks ago.

1162
01:03:44.284 --> 01:03:46.164
All our department heads and our staff were there.

1163
01:03:47.064 --> 01:03:48.485
And I had a word from the Lord.

1164
01:03:50.645 --> 01:03:52.766
And it was, Moses, my servant, is dead.

1165
01:03:54.966 --> 01:03:56.867
Which is how the book of Joshua opens up.

1166
01:03:57.696 --> 01:03:59.397
That means one season is gone.

1167
01:03:59.417 --> 01:04:02.960
The old way of doing things is just that, the old way.

1168
01:04:03.780 --> 01:04:04.861
And now comes a new way.

1169
01:04:05.121 --> 01:04:09.044
That was a specific word for the new season that we're entering into as a church.

1170
01:04:11.185 --> 01:04:11.625
Family.

1171
01:04:12.886 --> 01:04:13.927
I feel it in my bones.

1172
01:04:14.628 --> 01:04:16.389
I feel it on a cellular level.

1173
01:04:16.709 --> 01:04:20.431
My mitochondria are trembling and dancing.

1174
01:04:22.533 --> 01:04:24.654
God is bringing in his chain.

1175
01:04:24.674 --> 01:04:25.495
And when he does it,

1176
01:04:27.075 --> 01:04:28.036
He's not that gentle.

1177
01:04:29.297 --> 01:04:30.538
The suddenly of God.

1178
01:04:31.398 --> 01:04:33.900
And he condenses years into weeks.

1179
01:04:34.901 --> 01:04:35.722
Hallelujah.

1180
01:04:37.303 --> 01:04:38.284
Be a part of that.

1181
01:04:39.084 --> 01:04:45.049
Open yourself up to that and welcome him to change your life so that a year from now you have to pinch yourself.

1182
01:04:45.069 --> 01:04:46.090
You'll think you're dreaming.

1183
01:04:46.630 --> 01:04:47.431
Sound like a plan?

1184
01:04:48.371 --> 01:04:48.692
Amen.

1185
01:04:49.993 --> 01:04:52.915
Well, let's worship and honor the Lord with our tithes and offerings.

1186
01:04:53.996 --> 01:04:55.237
Give with joy.

1187
01:04:58.070 --> 01:04:59.390
Give with a glad heart.

1188
01:05:02.351 --> 01:05:06.212
The giving information is on my right and on my left.

1189
01:05:08.553 --> 01:05:11.593
And may you reap a mighty harvest on everything you give.

1190
01:05:18.675 --> 01:05:19.635
Hallelujah.

1191
01:05:20.656 --> 01:05:26.337
And if you're not a tither, I encourage you to to

1192
01:05:27.284 --> 01:05:28.245
So many things I could say.

1193
01:05:28.305 --> 01:05:29.646
I was going to say get saved, but no.

1194
01:05:30.386 --> 01:05:37.151
If you're not a tither, get serious in your relationship with God.

1195
01:05:38.713 --> 01:05:40.734
Like you can't cut that part out.

1196
01:05:41.495 --> 01:05:41.995
You can't.

1197
01:05:43.356 --> 01:05:45.197
You can't like put that part on hold.

1198
01:05:46.058 --> 01:05:50.401
I know, I know you want to because you're fighting the devil of cheapness.

1199
01:05:52.423 --> 01:05:53.063
But you can't.

1200
01:05:54.805 --> 01:05:55.105
Amen.

1201
01:05:57.770 --> 01:06:03.056
You got to get to that place of maturity where you embrace the entirety of the word of God.

1202
01:06:04.517 --> 01:06:06.599
Get to that place of maturity.

1203
01:06:07.781 --> 01:06:11.665
It's a radical, I understand it's a radical ask from the Lord.

1204
01:06:12.025 --> 01:06:12.566
It really is.

1205
01:06:13.106 --> 01:06:13.867
But so is everything.

1206
01:06:13.887 --> 01:06:15.028
He doesn't ask for little things.

1207
01:06:15.368 --> 01:06:18.111
There's nothing he asks of us where we're like, okay, cool, doesn't matter.

1208
01:06:18.231 --> 01:06:19.493
Everything costs us something.

1209
01:06:21.336 --> 01:06:24.139
He says, deny your life, take up the cross, follow me.

1210
01:06:24.520 --> 01:06:25.541
It's a radical ask.

1211
01:06:25.801 --> 01:06:28.424
But he says, you will not be in the red because of it.

1212
01:06:28.464 --> 01:06:29.826
You will be in the green.

1213
01:06:30.146 --> 01:06:31.828
I'm not trying to take something from you.

1214
01:06:31.848 --> 01:06:33.269
I'm trying to get something to you.

1215
01:06:33.590 --> 01:06:35.532
You actually won't have a deficit.

1216
01:06:36.133 --> 01:06:37.754
I'm trying to get you to surplus.

1217
01:06:37.774 --> 01:06:37.975
Surplus.

1218
01:06:39.510 --> 01:06:43.391
So the question is, will you trust his word and do that?

1219
01:06:43.852 --> 01:06:49.994
Or will you just do whatever is right in your eyes and then go, well, I don't know why I feel frustrated in my walk with the Lord.

1220
01:06:50.314 --> 01:06:51.034
That's why.

1221
01:06:51.054 --> 01:06:52.995
Because you're a half-obeyer.

1222
01:06:54.475 --> 01:06:55.916
You can't be a half-obeyer.

1223
01:06:56.876 --> 01:06:57.856
Be a full-obeyer.

1224
01:07:01.318 --> 01:07:02.018
Hallelujah.

1225
01:07:03.266 --> 01:07:05.447
This is the City Light Church podcast.

1226
01:07:05.848 --> 01:07:15.153
If you've missed any part of today's message, or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jancic and City Light Church, visit us at citylightnyc.com.

1227
01:07:15.473 --> 01:07:18.174
That's citylightnyc.com.

1228
01:07:18.635 --> 01:07:21.696
Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime.

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We would love to connect with you.

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We pray that you have been encouraged today, that you have been reminded how much God loves you, and that you are surrounded by grace.

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Thank you for listening.

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