Like the Sons of Issachar

0:00 One of the signs of the end times is ethnic rivalry. And can you not see, people of God, that that's what they're trying to stir up? They want to break us apart, and it will not happen in the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are Christians first, then we are Americans second, and we embrace that, and we are united, and we're not going to be divided. Amen. Welcome to the CityLight Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us. If you want to connect with CityLight Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com.

0:41 That's citylightnyc.com. Pastor Boyan Jancic and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 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. So I've been trying to preach this message for several weeks, what I'm going to preach this morning. I finally got it out today on the sons of Issachar, which really has nothing to do with the sons of Issachar, but they're a good intro. So let me rephrase that.

1:22 My intro is on the sons of Issachar. Look at that face I'm making. It's almost like the face, like, it's not really on the sons of Issachar. I got you. But this has been on my heart to preach ever since I was in Guatemala. We were all on a missions trip in Guatemala right about a month ago. And I didn't feel the full release from the Lord. And then last week, I preached a message on 10 things to do if you're in a hard place or having a hard time or experiencing a crisis. And if you're a guest, I want you to know that 99% of what's preached from this pulpit is about Jesus. It's about the power of the Holy Spirit.

2:03 It's on how to live a victorious Christian life and how to receive everything that Jesus Christ died for you to have. And we magnify Jesus all the time. But there are times where I have to touch on other things. Do you know why? Because we don't live in heaven yet. We live on earth. And we're facing some earthly issues and problems. And we need to be aware of what's going on. So let's turn to First Chronicles 12 32. That talks about these wise sons. It says of the sons of Issachar, who had understanding of the times, they were wise, they were discerning, they had an understanding of what was happening around them.

2:46 By the way, here's what was happening. I didn't mention this in the first service. Here's what was happening. It was a time of national transition. Saul's kingdom was collapsing. David's kingdom was emerging. Many tribes hesitated. But the sons of Issachar understood the moment. You got to understand the moment. You own it. You better never let it go. Sorry, sorry. Just sometimes that sin nature, that carnal nature that was crucified with Christ. Now I'm hearing spaghetti on my sweater already.

3:31 It's important to know the moment. Seize the moment. They recognized Saul's season was over. David was God's anointed king. Israel needed to align with God's new move. Discernment always leads to action. The verse says that they knew what was happening and they knew what Israel ought to do. They operated in discernment. They were aware of what was happening and they knew the cultural, this is important, the cultural shifts that were taking place and shaping the national ideology. I find that right now most people are blind to the psychological operation that is happening in America.

4:17 That there is an intentional shift in our ideologies, our mentality, our culture, and it's for a reason. It's to destabilize and destroy what really is an exceptional nation. Is it not an exceptional nation? Listen, y'all. If you don't think it's an exceptional nation, you got 191 others to choose from. I'm an immigrant. You know why I came here? Because it's an exceptional nation. I left a less, far less exceptional nation. And here at CityLight, do you know we have, we took a survey years ago, it could be more now, 50 different countries represented at CityLight. That is beautiful.

4:58 And we need to love our country and defend our country. Why? Because we're trying to build a church that glorifies Jesus in this country. And if this country is shaken, if this country goes down, the church goes down with it. The Church of Jesus Christ and this local church that we're pouring our hearts and lives into building. Hallelujah. They had wisdom. Intelligence is great. When you're intelligent, you can look that it's raining. Oh, look, it's raining outside. Well, that's because evaporation happened. And then condensation. And then came precipitation. That's nice. But wisdom tells you to take out the umbrella. Amen. Wisdom is knowledge applied. So they had this understanding.

5:39 And Jesus rebuked people who didn't have an understanding of the times of what was happening around them. Go to that verse. I believe it's in Matthew 16, verse 2 to 3. Jesus, he rebukes the people of his day, especially the religious leaders. When it is evening, you look at the evening and you say, it's going to be a good day. It's going to be fair weather because the sky is red. And in the morning, it will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening. Hypocrites. You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times.

6:25 Now, Jesus is so awesome. He is the fulfillment of all the prophecies that they've been studying all their lives. He is God in the flesh. He is the Messiah to come. And they right there, seeing the one that they've been reading about all their lives, couldn't recognize him. And he says, you are dull. You are asleep. You're a bunch of hypocrites. Have you ever gone out of your house and it's not raining yet, but you just take one good whiff and you're like, it's going to rain today. Or you see a certain night sky and you're like, it's going to be a great day tomorrow. You don't even have to check the weather app. He's saying, you guys know how to do that, but you can't discern the age that you're living in.

7:06 So Jesus is rebuking people who are dull and who aren't discerning of the times. And the sons of Isaac are lifted up as a group of related men who had an understanding of the times and too many Christians are absolutely asleep. They've been lulled to sleep and they get their news and they get their understanding of the world as it is right now through memes. That's it. Memes that either are going to make you laugh or make you angry. There isn't that much middle ground. You haven't gotten to the angry one son yet. He goes, no, I have.

7:47 You've graduated to the anger. Cause when you were a kid, you just knew the funny ones. They just want to get kids still because those are the ones that'll stir up emotion in you. And so people will base their whole worldview, their whole life doctrine off of memes, not understanding that we actually are a nation under threat right now. And I don't say you guys know if you're a guest, you're probably, I didn't know it was that kind of a church I was going through this morning. This is not normally me, but we are a nation under threat right now. Satan hates America. He said, why does Satan hate America? Because the gospel is free in America. You don't know how Christian America is until you leave America, where I go, I go into stores and they're playing Christian music.

8:32 I go into a Chick-fil-A in the bathroom and there's instrumental worship songs being played. I can preach the gospel on any, any street corner. You can't do that in most countries. We were just in Guatemala for the umpteenth time. And we started talking about the walls around the houses. Most of the houses are not houses. They're huts made with sheets of metal and an outside bathroom, which the toilet is a bucket. But if it's a bit of a nicer house, there's 12 to 15 foot high walls built around each one. How many of you are, you're not going to raise your hand, but many of you come from a country where every house has a wall around it. Nathaniel St. Hiloy from Haiti. I've been to Haiti. I spent a week in Port-au-Prince.

9:13 I saw, not only is there a wall around every house, but broken bottles stuck on the ends of all those walls because they can't get barbed wire. So break a bottle, stick it on the wall. Why? Because that's how it is out there. So many of us Americans have been lulled to sleep and we just take it for granted that I can live in the suburbs and have a house without walls. Because I'm not thinking my neighbor at 3 a.m. might be creeping to slit my throat and take my stuff. But that's the reality. And the majority of the world, Satan doesn't like prosperity. Satan doesn't like progress. And he especially doesn't like the gospel being preached. And at its height, listen to this, 91% of global, man, three people come in and every head gets distracted.

10:00 What's going on? I'm right here. I'm giving out stats. How could I lose you during stats? 91% at the height. We were responsible for 91% of all global missionaries. That's not nothing. That's huge. Hallelujah. Sending missionaries, building hospitals, building orphanages. We support since 2009. That's going to be nearly 20 years. Orphanage through Marcy and the Grace Center in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. Oh, hallelujah. So every generation faces cultural shifts, spiritual confusion.

10:40 Scripture repeatedly shows societies drifting from God. Isaiah 520 says, woe to those who call evil good. There's a lot of that now. And good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness. When a culture becomes confused about good and evil, it is a sign of spiritual blindness. And Romans describes in the book of Romans chapter one, verse 21, describes a similar condition. This is what it says. Because although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, professing to be wise, they became fools. A society can become very intellectually confident, but morally disoriented.

11:25 All right, let's get to number one. I want to give you three things. And based on the response from the first service, I'm going to do a sequel next week. Amen. I want to give you three things that are happening in our country right now that threaten our country. And it's real. And it shouldn't be belittled. And really, it's happening all around us. Everybody knows that it is impossible to take America over from the outside, just by virtue of our military might. And then do you know what Emperor Hirohito in the Second World War, when he was asked why all the battles were taking place in the air and in the Pacific and why he would never invade America, he said behind every blade of grass, there would be an American with a gun.

12:16 And I thought that was like only down in the South. I moved to Long Island. Every man has not a gun, guns. Guns, lots of guns. I'm like, oh, you have guns. Oh, he takes out his phone every single look. I'm like, you got guns for 20 people. Yeah, I know. And each of them are like that. So in other words, Americans have a lot of guns. In case there was ever boots on the ground here, every male would be armed. Amen. Geographically, we're separated from a lot of the world. And we have military supremacy. And it would take like a whole lot of work and a whole lot of aircrafts and watercrafts to bring a whole army here.

12:56 So America cannot be invaded from the outside. So the enemy wants to invade America from the inside by changing the way we think and changing how we feel about things. And the battle is mainly online and social media. And yes, ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma memes. And people can be so silly. They forget their Christian worldview, their Christian foundation, and they just see one meme. And if you like it or forward it to a friend, the algo kicks in and out wants to feed you more of this stuff. And that's why you can get people that are so convinced of something, even though it has nothing to do with logic. It's intellectually dishonest, but they will argue until they're blue in the face because they got convinced by a meme.

13:40 So in no particular order, number one, what threatens our country is something known as critical race theory. Thank you for all the amens. What is critical theory of any kind? Hear me out. Because some of you immediately went into white guy preaching. He said critical race theory. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Triggered, triggered, triggered. Just chill. Don't get triggered. I have not yet begun to trigger you. Hang on. This is going to be fun. Wait for it. I'm going to knock those memes right out of you.

14:22 Critical theory is not a new thing. Critical theory is a spawn of Marxism. Critical theory has been used to destabilize nations. In one sentence, to just define critical theory, it is a worldview. It is seeing everything through the lens of oppressor versus oppressed. You can only either be an oppressor or you can only either be oppressed. And it's been used. It caused the collapse of Russia, caused the collapse of what we now refer to as the Eastern European nations, because it comes in and produces class warfare. It gets people from one nation fighting against the same people that are in their nation. It gets them riled up and angry.

15:03 It's viewing everything through that lens of I'm either an oppressor or I'm being oppressed. So then what's the goal if you're being oppressed? To rise up and be an oppressor of your own? Yeah. So play this clip. By the way, I was in Guatemala, minding my own business. But in the morning, I like to check the news. So I wake up and I see this guy, David Wu. Let me announce. Let me announce first. Let me read you his credentials, lest you think he's just some random guy. He's not random. He is a Democratic Texas state representative for District 37. So this is somebody who's in the House of Representatives, a former prosecutor and attorney. He serves as minority leader, chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus.

15:46 And he said this on February 7th of this year. Let's play that tape. I always tell people the day the Latino, African American, Asian and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning. Because we are the majority in this country now. We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair. But the problem is our communities are divided. They're completely divided. And I talk about, I always tell people Hang on.

16:27 We're going to play that again. I always tell people the day the Latino, African American, Asian and other communities realize that they are, that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning. That they share the same oppressor. Who's that oppressor? Who? What sweet person said the government? You are so, you think he's talking about the government? Yes, sir. Sweetie pie. You know, and that's what it is. See, the Bible says to the pure, all things are pure. A lot of Christians don't get it because they go around and they see everything through a lens of, well, you know, I love people.

17:10 I love all people. So everybody must love. And I'm not used of Satan. Could anybody ever really be used of Satan? White people. This is, I've never met a Chinese guy like this in my life ever. I asked why I've never, I grew up in Queens. All right. I was saved in an Asian ministry. I have never, ever heard a Chinese guy say this, you know, because he's, he's now operating under critical theory. And by the way, he came here to America. He was adopted by two loving white parents. And here's what he's saying. He's saying we're now the majority Asians and Latinos and, and we have to get whitey and he says, now we can take the oppressor back.

17:56 Yeah. Now let me just tell you something. America is responsible for over 50% of immigrants coming to America. In other words of all immigration that happens on planet earth, over 50% is to America. If America is so oppressive, why does over 50% of all immigrants come to America? Oh, because it's an economic opportunity. Really? If it was that oppressive, you wouldn't care about that. If, if, if 1938 Nazi Germany was a great economic opportunity, would you go there? I wouldn't. That's real oppression. That's real racism. And by the way, oh man, facts don't care about your feelings.

18:37 So I'm going to just give you facts. 90% of all global immigration is to majority white countries. Why? Because whitey is so oppressive. I got all these non-white people here agreeing with me in the second row. And then you get past the people like frozen. I'm sorry that you're finding this awkward. That's called a non-apology. I'm sorry that you're feeling this way. In fact, I'm going to slow down so we can marinate more in the awkwardness. Some of you are just like, oh, here's a white man saying he's just, he's just upset because he said they're going to get white people.

19:19 Yeah. I like white people. I moved here, but let me tell you something about where I'm from. Thank you. My daughter said, okay. I moved here. I immigrated here from former Yugoslavia. All right. I moved here because my country was crap. Okay. I would have never said that in my first 15 years in this country. Some of you still not willing to say that, but you got to be honest. I moved here because my country was crap.

20:00 Do I still love my people? Yeah. Do I love the food? Yeah. People said, you love the culture. Yeah. Love the music. Love the food. No upward mobility there. Couldn't raise a family like I'm raising a family over there. Would have probably never, ever heard the gospel over there. I heard the gospel here. I got saved here. I got called into ministry here. I like what they built here. I don't want to bring what I left here. All right. When we moved here, we didn't say, all right, where's all the Serbians in New York city. Let's hang out with them. You know why? Cause I saw what they built.

20:41 I didn't like that. I like what they built here better. Oh man. If you're agreeing with me, could you be a little bit louder? Cause the faces, the faces, the faces of the people who are not agreeing with me are, I'm getting some daggers thrown at me. Let me tell you something. If you immigrated here, you also came from, you just provoke me more. You came from a crap country. Yeah. If you don't think so, go back. You picked a country, pick one and then say bye to the other one. All right. When I became a citizen, I had to say, I am renouncing.

21:22 I had to swear an oath that means something that means something to God. And I had to read something that was a paragraph long that went something like, I renounced all other rulers, dictators, Kings, princes, governors, potentates principle, this whole list of other leaders. I renounce and I now become a citizen of the United States of America. And I had to do that. And I did it with joy. Amen. Hallelujah. Oh, Matthew 24 seven. Why is this important? Because Jesus said for nation, that's the Greek ethnos for ethnos will rise against ethnos and kingdom against kingdom.

22:08 And there will be famines, pestilence and earthquakes in various places. One of the signs of the end times is ethnic rivalry, ethnic tensions. And can you not see people of God that that's what they're trying to stir up. They want to break us apart and it will not happen in the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. We here, we are Christians first, then we are Americans second, and we embrace that and we are united and we're not going to be divided. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

22:48 Thank you, Lord. I remember the early two thousands, how I remember it. There was so, do you know, it was so little racial awareness. Sit it. There was only one pastor back in the day, me and every wedding I did never talked about race. Never, ever. I was raised in the eighties. People now say, you're not supposed to be colorblind. You're sorry. I was trained for 20 years to be colorblind. When I got saved in that church in Bed-Stuy, you know what the street vendors were selling hats that said colorblind on them.

23:31 Now you say colorblind, you offend somebody. Back then we were taught to be colorblind. And so grew up in the eighties, the nineties, post-civil rights, learned to appreciate what happened and grew up in like what we considered a post-racial country. And all the weddings I did from 2002 going into 2007, eight, they were all multiracial weddings, interracial weddings. But no, we didn't even go, oh, isn't this cool? A white guy's marrying a black woman. It was just like, it just happened. It was just normal life. And then something started to happen around oh, nine, 10, and then you get to 11, 12.

24:13 And it's like, this pot is getting stirred. The pot is getting stirred. And ethnos is rising up against ethnos that didn't happen by accident. And you know what, if you don't believe me, you know, we just vacationed in Belize. Did I share about Belize with you at all? Belize has a German population. It's funny. They were the Mennonites that came, they're all the farmers in Belize. So you got white, cream cheese, white, blue eyes, like white, white people. You have from Africa, Afro-black. You have the local, you have, it's very, very diverse. There is, I'm on the boat, right? We're on a boat and we're seeing somebody who looks like a German, like looks like a Nazi propaganda poster, right?

25:00 And he's there palling around and they're all different. They don't even like recognize that they're different ethnicities. So that intrigued me and I started talking to him about it. It doesn't even enter their psyche. You know why? Because they weren't taught to care about it via the memes and the media and the constant rage bait and the atrocities being thrown in their face, wanting to destabilize the nation. Do you understand what that guy just said? He's actually calling for a race war. That's what he's calling for. This is somebody in the house of represent. You think this is going to decrease? This is where it's all headed. They want to, why?

25:41 Because you cannot take over a unified nation, but you can take over a D state. That's how my nation fell apart. By the way, where I come from, Yugoslavia no longer exists. It's seven different countries now. Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia. Why? When I grew up, we didn't even know who was what, but it was what's known as a color revolution. We all look the same color wise. It's when an outside entity comes in and infiltrates through whatever media is available and basically stokes the fire and gets people with even the slightest difference fighting to destabilize and recognition.

26:27 That's what they're trying to do right now. It's our job as Christians to never let that happen and love the people who you see it happening to and call them back to the truth. Come on now. Who is your tribe anyway? Who is your tribe? You go to prison, when your back's against the wall, people immediately show how tribalistic they are. You go to prison immediately, people go according to their skin color, ethnicity. They break up. They break apart. That's a fact. If we were invaded by a foreign nation and there were boots on the ground of a foreign enemy right now, who would you run to?

27:13 I know who I'd run to. You. Christians are my tribe. Christians should be your tribe. What are you then going to go, where are you from? DR or Puerto Rico? Because you know, no, that's your tribe. Christians. We are united by the blood of Jesus. We have the same worldview. We have the same mentality, the same ideology. We have the same value system. We're the ones who would be banding together. Amen. Oh, hallelujah. I rebuke the spirit of memes out of you right now. Break the devil's power. All right. So number one is critical theory.

27:56 That was representative Gene Wu. Number two, as far as threats against our way of life in our country right now, that's a real thing, is globalism. What is globalism? Globalism is the idea that countries should become interconnected. Sounds nice, right? That also means borderless, which erodes national sovereignty. Now, let's define country right now. I think that's helpful. Let's put that definition of what a country is, because some people have forgotten.

28:38 And it really shouldn't be that complex. A country is when a group of people have a territory, and they do stuff for themselves inside of it. This is written on a third grade level, so nobody's missed. Right? You're in a country, you do stuff for yourself within that country. The blue people would live in the blue country, and they would do stuff for the good of blue people. And if the red people go to the blue country and say, you're not doing enough for red people, it's like, well, of course not. You're not us.

29:19 This is not yours. If you don't like it, go back to red land. This should not be that hard to understand, and not be that hard to agree with either. But you could drop a pin in here for whatever reason. But we are four generations deep in social engineering causing fatal brain damage. Acts 1726. You know who had the idea of different borders and different countries? God did. God is not for globalism. Globalism, and I'll get to Revelation in just a bit, is what ushers in the AntiChrist. God is not for everybody. He's not for just the one world.

29:59 You see, all of this stuff sounds nice on paper, right? All we are saying is give peace a chance. No more boundaries. No more borders. No passport. We're all just one. No? And he has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwelling. Do you know what would happen if when I came here from Yugoslavia in 1981, there were 18 million people in Yugoslavia. What if I transported 18 million Yugoslavians into, couldn't do it just New York, say the eastern seaboard?

30:42 What would happen? What if I was like, I really love my countrymen, Yugoslavians. And then it was just 18 million Yugoslavians all along the United States seaboard. You know what would happen? I wouldn't want to live in America anymore. That's what would happen. You have to be honest and be willing to say, I don't, you know why? Their mentality. Do I, you say, you're talking about your cousins. You're talking about your family. Yeah, I know. And I told them all this. And do you know what? Each of them agreed. I came to America and I was like, these Americans are different. Like we're all about, I can, I can't, I can't, I can't. They're all about, I can, I can. Maybe that's why they're called American.

31:24 They're so positive. They take risks. They see possibility in everything. They're fiercely independent. They have a prosperity mindset. We were negative. We're whiny. We're complaining. If there's like 10 reasons to do it and one reason not to do it, we pick the 11th reason not to do it. And, and I don't, I don't want to be around that. I came here. I like what those Americans did. I want to get some of that American on me. Amen. Revelation 13, 11 through 12. Here's the warning against globalism. Hallelujah.

32:06 Hallelujah. By the way, if you think I'm white, I found out recently I'm not. I didn't know. I should have known Montenegro. It's in the name. I'm from Montenegro. But I was actually talking to a white supremacist, which, you know, when Biden came into office, he said the number one threat to America right now is white supremacy. I I've never, ever met a white supremacist in my life, but recently did. And first thing he told me is I'm not white.

32:47 Okay. Cause I'm from South Slavia. Yugo is South Yugoslavia. We're right down there, border, just North of Greece. And we were under Turkish occupation for 600 years. So he said, you're all mixed up in your genetics and blood anyway. And, and he reminded me, and most people don't know, you know, when it comes to slavery, so many, there's been so much ignorance revealed in the last five, six years, there's people actually convinced that slavery started with America. Slavery was global since there was man, they were beating and enslaving one another. But the term slave actually comes from Slav Yugoslavia.

33:30 The Moors starting in the eight hundreds would come in and say, pick up a few of those Slavs over there. We need work. And, and, and then, then the Turks came and occupied us for 600 years. And that evolved from the old English to the modern English slave from Slav. Maybe that's why I feel so emboldened to preach this. Cause I'm white, but not white. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.

34:17 And he exercises all authority of the first beast in his presence and causes the what? The what? The earth, the globe, the entire planet. When this was written 2000 years ago, they couldn't even conceive how that would work. They couldn't conceive that there would be one figure, the AntiChrist, who would have global control. How do you even do that? How do you even do that when nations are separated? How do you even do that from a communications perspective? How do you do that from a currency perspective? That's all doable now because of globalization. This is why historically Christians have resisted globalization.

35:00 We can walk and chew gum at the same time, right? Which means we can hold two thoughts in our head at the same time. I can say all this and be an immigrant and have a church full of immigrants and still say this. Amen. Hallelujah. You're an immigrant. Praise God. Welcome to the US. Let's go to revelations 13, 12 or 17. He causes all now talking about the AntiChrist, the beast, he causes all both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads.

35:40 And that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark of the name of the beast or the number of his name. 2000 years ago, they couldn't conceive how one person could have global authority that no one would be able to buy or sell on the whole globe, on the whole earth. But that's possible today. I'm just making the case against globalism. Are you tracking with me? Why Christians have always resisted globalism? Hallelujah. Their concern is less about international cooperation and more about concentrated authority. You don't want concentrated authority over the entire earth.

36:22 Otherwise, when it hits the fan, where do you go to concentrated authority and could pressure conformity and restrict the church's ability to live and preach biblical convictions freely. So when we were in Guatemala, I'm going to say it this way. When we were in Guatemala, which we've been going to since 2009, and have spent over six, $700,000 over the last X number of years, helped build 50 churches, the bad bunny thing came out. Because we were there for the Super Bowl. And I know you guys have been wondering, I know you're in your beds at night going, what does the pastor think about bad bunny?

37:07 You know, everybody remember, I mean, now we forgot about it. But remember how like that Sunday and the next day was like, what? It was all about bad bunny. And the arguments, what they made the central thing is not at all the central thing. Like, oh, he did the whole thing in Spanish. First of all, let me say this. As a Serb, I couldn't imagine going to the Super Bowl and doing the whole thing in Serbian. But that's not even the important part. Then I go, oh, they were so, they were so raunchy. And it was so sexualized. Yeah, so was every other Super Bowl halftime show. And there were all these arguments online. Most of them never, ever touching on what the real programming was during the bad bunny performance.

37:50 And let me just say this. Nobody has heard of bad bunny before he went to the Super Bowl. I asked in Guatemala, 20 of us, how many of you heard of bad bunny? Frenchie. Frenchie's like, I heard of bad bunny. And then he did. He did the thing. What? Y'all don't know who bad bunny is? I'm like, stop that. Fine. You're so hip. You're so cool. Most of us never, ever heard of him. He, he is a puppet and he's a puppet meant to push a particular globalistic agenda. And that, that's, that was the main message. What I'm about to show you right now, that's actually what they wanted to enter into the American psyche. Now look, football is American, uniquely American.

38:34 So much so that we call it football. Even the football is called soccer internationally. All right. Basketball is international. Football, soccer is international, but football is American. And the Super Bowl is the most American event of this American invented sport. And so then we have this. This is the part. Just pause it. God bless America, right?

39:14 And then listing every single country in the Western hemisphere. And it sounds so nice, right? You got the music. He's smiling real big. And behind him is the classic sign. Only love can overcome hate. As, as, as I'm, as I'm attacking the very foundation of your country, only love can overcome hate. Here's the message here. It's for pan-Americanism. Pan-Americanism is an ideology that all the Americas are the same and they're all one and forget the borders. Forget, forget the outlines of the country and the whole of the Western hemisphere should be one. Guess what?

39:55 If the whole of the Western hemisphere was one, be honest. I don't want America looking like Guatemala. I don't. I love Guatemala. I spend nearly a million dollars helping Guatemalans. I gave away watches to Guatemalan pastors. We've poured out our hearts in Guatemala, but when I fall down to sleep, I want to sleep here. I want it to be like America. And I want Guatemala to become more like America. Amen. That shouldn't be controversial to say yet because of the means that you've been programmed with. You're wondering whether you still like me or not. That is the message.

40:37 That, that, that is what was tried. Pan-Americanism because God bless America is a uniquely United States of America saying or slogan. So listen, look at the Fugazi, look at the whole, you know, look here, left hand, right. He says, God bless America. Well, you know, what's wrong with that? Because there's North America and South America. No, but there's only one United States of America whose motto, who's saying whose slogans were God bless America. You're saying God bless America. And then play it again. Just play the same thing. He's listing other nations. Just hit the play button.

41:18 That's it. So what they want is a borderless economic zone.

41:59 Why do they want a borderless economic zone? Because nobody dies and gives their life for a borderless economic zone. You know what you do a borderless economic zone. You come in like a parasite and you exploit it and then you leave. And that's what they want our country to become. You say, who's they, them, the globalists, the elites, the ones pulling the strings. Have you ever just looked around and gone, what is happening to the country I grew up in? And why does it seem like we're doing things that are directly in opposition to what's best for our nation?

42:39 They don't want you to love America. Why? Because when you don't love America, then you don't try to build America. You don't give your life for America. My son is not learning any real American history. Several years ago, I asked him, Hey, and don't be embarrassed by this because it's not your fault. But you know, I asked him, tell me, because I remember, listen, I started kindergarten here. I remember drawing the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. I remember, and we made the little things in the, and then I remember about the first Thanksgiving. And then they taught me about George Washington and the Boston Tea Party and Minutemen. And they explained to me why the constitution was so different and so unique.

43:22 And it was the foundation of what would become the greatest nation in history. I grew up with that. So I learned to love America. They're not even teaching it anymore. All right. He's in sixth grade right now. And they just glazed over the, the, they glazed over the declaration of independence. Why? Because they want his generation to grow up and really not care that much and not love their country. And there is a lot of propaganda to get you to hate America. Do not hate America. Listen, I say this with love and respect. This can get real emotional. Hang on. In 2020, the summer of 2020, wild times.

44:03 Remember that? And racial tensions were so high. And I had precious black people in our church say, I can't even look at an American flag because when I look at it, I think racism. I understand that that history has been very, very difficult, very, very awful, but you are an American. And I say this with love. You don't need a separate national anthem. You are an American. I'm now an American. Many of you have become Americans and I are on your way to becoming Americans. Do not allow them to slice and dice and slice and dice and divide us up because that's all this kind of stuff is doing. That wasn't by accident.

44:45 And that was incredibly divisive. That's right. Kingdom over culture. Have you seen, have you seen the land acknowledgements? It happened right now at the Grammys. It happens at the Oscars. Most extreme liberals or just liberals, whenever they take the microphone, they first do the land acknowledgement. I should do that before I preach. Before I bring you the word of God, I just want to acknowledge that I'm standing on stolen land and that this land was stolen and that, and what am I really saying? That it is illegal for us to be here or it is not morally right for us to be here. And all of America is just built on this disgusting graveyard of sin.

45:27 And so now I'm getting you to hate America. It's all to get the land acknowledgements to get you to hate America because you don't build a country you hate and you don't die for a country you hate. Why? When I asked him, hey, what's Thanksgiving? He didn't know. I said, what are you learning about right now? He said, the Algonquin Indians. What? The Algonquin Indian? I'm sure the Algonquins have some, some history, but you know what? We're not living in Algonquin land. We're living in the United States and you should know exactly what happened in our history and what is the foundation of this country. Is this controversial? What I'm saying? This shouldn't be.

46:07 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. All right. You ready for number three? How many of you think you want a sequel to this or you had enough? Yeah. Your faces could have fooled me. Somebody came to me from first service and said, don't pay attention to their faces. This is just the first time they're hearing something out loud that's contrary to the constant programming that they're under. Try to play a game. Play a game. I play this game with my kids. Play with yourself. Where you just now in every commercial, in every meme, in the humor, it points out, try to figure out how are they trying to change my mind?

46:49 Get me to hate my own country. Get me to hate another person who lives in my country. It's everywhere. Hallelujah. So no particular order, but this is something that's destructive and that is a satanic agenda and that's feminism. Show that tweet. This major leader in the feminist movement today tweeted this today. She's got a book out called Good Slut. Good Slut is out today. Run to Barnes and Noble. Some key takeaways.

47:29 Careerism is good for women, even mothers and their children. Women do not generally belong behind the sink with a brood. I mean, hold on. Behind the sink with a brood. Look at my wife right now is holding our daughter, even though our daughter is going to be eight years old soon. This is the happiest I see her. Julia, who just had a baby, was in the first service. You should have seen, there was a glow around her holding a baby. Do you understand the brainwashing that had to happen to get moms whose greatest fulfillment and joy is holding a child and bringing up a child?

48:10 They had to play that down and play that down and destroy the image of that so that women would chase careers over families. If it was up to me, if I became president, which I can't because I'm an immigrant, I would have statues erected all across the land of mothers. We should prize mothers. We should lift up mothers. We should thank mothers. Mothers are the building block of an entire nation. A lot of evolutionary psychology is bunk. Regressive sex is dumb. The female of the species is quite often the more promiscuous.

48:51 This is the whole sex in the city nonsense. This is the whole hate men. They're bad for you. By the way, when I say feminism, I'm not talking about equal pay for equal work. I'm not talking about what they first said feminism was in 1960. Who's going to argue with equal pay for equal work? But what that quickly morphed into, which was be promiscuous, forget being a mother, forget being a family, go out there and be a girl boss. Be a career woman. Be oppressed by a corporation so you're not oppressed by some man. Now, it's not just the dad that's paying taxes.

49:31 It's the husband and the wife that are paying taxes. The government just found a way to double its income. I could have talked about a lot of things. I might get to Zionism next Sunday. But why did I put feminism? I'm dealing with this spirit right now. Just in New York City, young people are frustrated. Men are now going, I don't want to be with another woman because they're so different. They're always obviously weird, like psychological hang-ups.

50:13 I'll get to what women think too. And so what are they doing? Unsaved men in their 20s, they're getting high off a weed, they're playing PS5 Xbox, and they're hanging with their bros. And dating has gone, this is true, dating has gone down the toilet. And you know what else has consequently gone down the toilet? Procreation, making babies. And there is an attack on the patriarchy. Even you say patriarchy and you go, oh, what do you think of? You know what I think of when I hear patriarchy? I think how God wants it. Holy good men, loving their wives, helping bring up kids, creating stability, creating a protective environment.

50:58 It's how God initiated it, how he orchestrated it. It's what he's called us to. But then I have to hear about toxic masculinity. And then we get a mayor who puts as the head of the fire department a woman who's never even been a fireman. You know, to be a fireman, you have to be able to carry your own body weight up six floors. Any woman want to give that a shot with me? No. I'm on the sixth floor, there's a fire, I want some good old faction toxic masculinity coming up. I need a hero, who comes to rescue me. I want five men, six foot two and above, six pack ripped, put me over their shoulder, run down.

51:44 Men and women are equal before God. You see that in the scriptures. God took Eve out of Adam's rib from her side, not from his skull so that she should Lord it over him, not from his heel that he should Lord it over her, but he made them equal, equal in worth, equal in value, but not equal in function. Where that shouldn't again be controversial to say, we're designed with different purposes. And so they're not interchangeable, but this extreme feminism treats men and women like they're interchangeable. Do you know, I don't believe there should be female cops.

52:25 I don't. Do you know that if you look at the scriptures, that's women in the army, women as police officers, women as firemen, that's the sign of a curse on a nation. That's the sign of men failing and not doing their jobs in a curse coming upon a nation. So why don't you believe you? I think you're a little sexist. No, stop it. Stop your nonsense. I just, how many videos have you seen of one man and three or four female police officers trying to arrest that man? And the man still gets away. Men are physically stronger. It's a biological fact and it's very hard to argue with biology.

53:08 Worship team, now's a great time to come up. Here's what the women say, by the way, and they're right. The women have trouble because they'll say, hey, where are all the strong men? It's a bunch of girly men, a bunch of pansies. They can't make a decision. They got no guts. They got no courage. They've been feminized. Well, look at the programming they've been under. They show any kind of strength, they're slapped back into place. Ooh, toxic masculinity. Don't assert yourself. Don't be aggressive. Let me tell you something, men. Look at the disciples.

53:48 Look at the men that Jesus in the book of Acts, you know what they were? They were one hair away from being barbarians. We should all be like David, warrior poets. You know what meekness is? Biblical meekness is strength under control. Strength under control. Somebody came in here to harm us. What do you think? What do you think I would do? You think I would duck? I promised you I would be leaping over. I would race our armed security to get them. That should be every man in here.

54:28 Keep it under meekness, strength under control, but don't let them snip you, man. They're coming. They're coming with their hedge clippers. They want to snip you. Don't let them snip you. And with that strength, be fiercely loving. Be fiercely holy. Defend what God entrusted into your care. Amen. Didn't plan for that. But our men need to be emboldened because they've been so confused and so messed up. They don't know what a man is anymore. And the media is responsible for that. Look at Jesus.

55:10 And don't look at Catholic Jesus. Don't look at blonde hair, blue eyed, pretty, hoity-toity. Look at the real biblical Jesus. The one who flipped tables over. Bad to the bone. They're looking at him with hate, murder, daggers in their eyes. He goes, destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. Before Abraham was, I am. They come to arrest him. Peter whoops out his sword to defend him. He goes, put away your sword. Don't you know if I wanted, I could pray the father and he would send seven legions of angels come here to defend me.

55:52 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Church, this is a worship team. They're good. This is a hairy subject. It comes out how it comes out. I hear you pray the Lord make it make sense to you. But since you did so well with this, this was just like the beginning. I'm going to do a sequel next Sunday and we're going to tear some of these idols down. Amen. Heavenly father, we pray we have the wisdom of the sons of Issachar to understand the times to do as you would have us do to build as you would have us build, to think about this world and the things around us as you would.

56:56 I thank you that your blessing rests upon every person and may be increased and magnified in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. We're going to worship and honor the Lord with our tithes and offerings. Shall we? Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you so much. Victor, can you jump up and help too?

57:37 Don't ever let a woman work alone. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The giving information is on the screens to my left and to my right. Give with a glad heart. Give in faith. If you have a physical gift, there's offering boxes around the sanctuary. You can give just by way of QR code. I just left my heart in, so I preach my guts out. I don't even know how to receive this offering. I'm going to have to believe God that he's going to touch you and you'll find a way to give.

58:19 All my words are gone. Here's the purpose of this. It's to at least get you thinking. The more you think about this, the more you'll realize that the media absolutely hates you and it's the number one enemy to us right now is the media. The media and big tech and big ed, big education. And you know why else this is important? Because if you have an unbiblical worldview, you think, how can God bless that?

59:05 How can God bless that? If you believe in critical theory and you believe you're oppressed, how can prosperity work in your life if you got it in your head that you're oppressed? How are you going to raise your kids? Kids, we're here in this country, but really they hate you and you're going to grow up in a country that secretly hates you and your kids are now messed up because you're messed up. Or you can say, you know what? I see that I'm free and there's opportunities that abound more so than another. The United States is still the most upwardly mobile country there is, even with all the damage that's been done. You can still come in, an immigrant from Yugoslavia, plant a church, and then hit it in Bitcoin.

59:53 That was opportunity. I mean, what a weird, what a weird, weird channel, a weird story. There's so many, there's so many opportunities. I talked about mine and the channel I went down and there's channels still being developed. Do you know in the next five years, there's more money that's going to be made because of the AI robotics revolution. They say 10 times more than the digital revolution of the info revolution with the internet. I pray that you're on the right side of that. So in other words, what I'm saying is I'm preaching this because error has to be knocked out of us in order for us to be in a place where we can attract blessings. If we're thinking wrong, if we're seeing the world wrong, we're going to be receiving wrong.

1:00:39 Hallelujah. Ministry team, if you would go to the area on my left, your right. Those Altoids are still good, right? Three minute rule. If you want prayer for anything, anything at all, go over there and our ministry team would love to pray with you and for you. And I really made, did a terrible job receiving that offering. I feel like I just gave birth, but I just want to say, please, those of you who are at that place of maturity, those of you who aren't at that place of maturity, get there, get there so you can receive better.

1:01:27 Where you, where the tithe is Holy unto the Lord. That's it. Have a blast in your life groups and we'll see you next Sunday. Be blessed CityLight. This is the CityLight Church Podcast. If you've missed any part of today's message, or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jancic and CityLight Church, visit us at CityLightNYC .com. That's CityLightNYC.com. Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. We would love to connect with you. 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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