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Aug. 15, 2023

Shifting Perceptions: Embracing Divine Wealth and Overcoming the Poverty Mindset

Shifting Perceptions: Embracing Divine Wealth and Overcoming the Poverty Mindset
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Shifting Perceptions: Embracing Divine Wealth and Overcoming the Poverty Mindset
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Season 1

Ready to shift your perceptions and open yourself to God's unending blessings? This episode promises to be a guide, leading you towards embracing a divine wealth consciousness and away from the inherited spirit of lack. Dive into an enlightening conversation as we dispel the prevalent poverty mindset, exploring its effects on our worldview and our connection with God. We highlight the importance of positioning ourselves to receive God's boundless generosity, recognizing Him as an eternally giving fountain. 

We also journey back to the historical encounter between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, a narrative that beautifully illustrates God's abundant provision. In an intriguing twist, it is uncovered that my mom had a special connection with the sister of Wendell Phillips, the archeologist who discovered evidence of the Queen of Sheba's existence! We also delve into the oft-misunderstood Psalm 23, revealing its true identity as a prosperity and abundance Psalm, rather than a funeral Psalm as widely believed. The choice we hold to live in abundance, rejecting the poverty mindset, is underscored.

Are you ready to shift your mindset, trust in God's boundless love and live in His divine abundance? Join us on this enlightening episode.

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00:00.120 --> 00:06.010 So quit eyeballing what others have, you won't go without with plenty leftover. 00:06.442 --> 00:12.805 In Chronicles it says since the people began giving offerings to the Lord, they had enough for their needs. 00:12.886 --> 00:17.308 With plenty leftover, plenty leftover. 00:17.760 --> 00:25.384 God's style is plenty leftover, hallelujah, that's His way, that's His will. 00:26.300 --> 00:28.388 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 00:28.660 --> 00:34.949 Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. 00:35.701 --> 00:40.448 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyccom. 00:41.460 --> 00:43.406 That's citylightnyccom. 00:44.780 --> 00:51.908 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 00:52.641 --> 01:02.429 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you. 01:06.300 --> 01:14.567 Hallelujah Well, open up your heart to receive this morning, because that's what the Lord wants to do. 01:14.720 --> 01:15.845 He's in the giving business. 01:17.440 --> 01:27.248 Hopefully, if you've been around Christianity for five minutes, you've gotten that that the Lord's in the given business and given is what he likes to do. 01:30.220 --> 01:37.269 But that seems to be difficult for us as people to really get, because out in life we're getting our butts kicked. 01:39.120 --> 01:45.483 Life can be harsh and then religion. 01:46.767 --> 01:55.595 Religion makes it seem like God's in the taking business and God's never looking to see what he can take from you. 01:55.700 --> 01:57.426 He's looking to see what he can get to you. 01:58.420 --> 02:00.488 Even when he wants to take something from you. 02:00.700 --> 02:04.065 It's so that he can get even more of the thing that you really need to you. 02:10.920 --> 02:17.863 But we need to position ourselves to realize God is a fountain, an ever-flowing fountain, and he doesn't run out. 02:21.820 --> 02:26.446 People are funny and something. 02:26.847 --> 02:28.892 By the way, can I confess something to you? 02:30.561 --> 02:34.632 I have a lot of tolerance that the Lord gave in. 02:34.960 --> 02:37.168 A pastor should have a lot of for all manner of sin. 02:39.300 --> 02:41.107 I can sit down and talk to a crackhead. 02:41.920 --> 02:45.119 I can sit down all manner of sin, somebody who's in promiscuity. 02:45.180 --> 02:47.505 I won't list all the sins, but all manner of sin. 02:48.100 --> 02:58.856 But something that I have a hard time around is cheapness, stinginess, a poverty mindset, a lack. 02:58.980 --> 03:02.205 It's such a disgusting spirit I could feel it a mile away. 03:02.700 --> 03:07.108 I disdain it and I'm like, lord, help me to love a person. 03:07.260 --> 03:13.408 But I'm having a hard time because and this has nothing to do with oh, they're cheap with me. 03:13.600 --> 03:14.464 No, can you break? 03:15.061 --> 03:18.247 No, no, no, no, no I'm talking about? 03:19.380 --> 03:21.408 I'm talking about everything they say. 03:21.560 --> 03:25.626 Their whole world view, their whole outlook, is through a lens of lack. 03:27.281 --> 03:28.566 Everything is not enough. 03:29.320 --> 03:33.946 Their world is a sad world, their world is a not enough world. 03:34.920 --> 03:38.324 Oftentimes we're affected with this demonic virus when we're children. 03:40.100 --> 03:48.902 Oftentimes it's handed to us by parents and circumstances, and so we see everything through this lens of poverty and lack. 03:52.000 --> 03:56.305 People who believe that the world is getting too populist, the world can't sustain. 03:58.180 --> 04:07.862 Before all of this population talk was popular and before we even heard of this ever-growing pop, when the world was still around five billion people in the 90s. 04:08.786 --> 04:12.828 I remember just it was either late in high school or early in college. 04:12.920 --> 04:19.924 It was just perusing the Barnes and Noble on Austin Street in Forest Hills, queens, and I came across this book. 04:20.847 --> 04:21.670 I tried to get it. 04:22.021 --> 04:25.831 I don't know the exact title, but I'm paraphrasing. 04:25.940 --> 04:51.348 It was something like, and it was in the secular section, but it was called God's abundant, beautiful green earth and it laid out the case for how our globe, our earth, could easily, effortlessly, sustain a population of 50 billion, how God put inside our planet everything that's needed for, easily, a population of 50 billion plus. 04:52.240 --> 04:53.365 God is not cheap. 04:55.420 --> 04:57.447 God is super, but people are cheap. 05:03.847 --> 05:06.810 Can somebody, somebody, get me a Bible please? 05:12.056 --> 05:12.456 Thank you. 05:18.760 --> 05:21.008 The Bible says that his cup runs over. 05:22.540 --> 05:23.886 What version is this, sweetheart? 05:24.344 --> 05:25.200 Old King James? 05:25.220 --> 05:26.586 The Old Day King James? 05:27.160 --> 05:27.984 Is this your Bible? 05:31.340 --> 05:31.923 Yeah, your Bible. 05:33.640 --> 05:34.283 And how old are you? 05:35.901 --> 05:36.504 16. 05:39.200 --> 05:46.751 I wanted thee to know that thy father is well pleased with thee daughter of God has to. 05:46.771 --> 05:47.272 What version? 05:47.520 --> 05:49.086 She said the Old Day King James. 05:50.042 --> 05:52.620 All right, we're speaking of the 90s. 05:52.922 --> 06:05.600 We're going back to the 90s where preachers had to thumb through Bibles and find the verse and I used to have almost all the stories memorized. 06:09.170 --> 06:12.139 But then Google came along and then it's kind of like driving. 06:12.200 --> 06:13.027 I used to know how to get everything. 06:13.047 --> 06:14.519 I used to know how to get everything. 06:15.246 --> 06:16.135 I used to know how to get everything. 06:16.701 --> 06:17.751 I used to know how to get everything. 06:18.800 --> 06:20.622 I used to know how to get everywhere, but not anymore. 06:31.315 --> 06:32.622 What is it First? 06:32.642 --> 06:44.400 Pastor James, could you just remind me of when the Queen of Sheba comes to visit Solomon, hallelujah, thank you, lord. 06:44.903 --> 06:53.472 So this service is already starting off completely differently than the first service. 06:53.492 --> 06:57.920 What is it? 06:57.940 --> 06:59.943 Is it Second trial? 06:59.983 --> 07:03.679 It goes nine and I'm in second Kings nine. 07:04.792 --> 07:07.240 I knew there was a nine there and a second book of something. 07:07.260 --> 07:12.444 And I knew there was a nine there and I knew there was a nine there and a second book of something. 07:13.347 --> 07:26.883 Okay, so the Queen of Sheba, really rich, wealthy queen, visits Solomon. 07:27.680 --> 07:29.186 Interesting, fun tidbit. 07:29.520 --> 07:31.266 My mom perks up because she knows what I'm gonna say. 07:32.380 --> 07:38.149 She became lifelong friends as an interpreter during the 1984 Olympic Games. 07:38.300 --> 07:52.007 She became lifelong friends with the sister of Wendell Phillips, a famous archeologist, who was the first person to provide physical evidence, found it out in Yemen, physical evidence of the Queen of Sheba's existence. 07:52.120 --> 07:55.045 And we became lifelong friends to just recently, until she passed. 07:56.140 --> 07:57.846 Just fun fact, throwing it out there. 07:57.866 --> 08:08.567 Okay, let's go to second Chronicles nine. 08:16.820 --> 08:17.462 Could you Google? 08:17.482 --> 08:19.107 There was no more spirit within her. 08:20.060 --> 08:22.345 Oh, yeah, yeah, let's start at the beginning. 08:22.500 --> 08:24.006 First, second, chronicles nine one. 08:25.360 --> 08:25.963 I have a message. 08:26.023 --> 08:44.868 By the way, if you're a guest and you're like, wow, it's kind of really chill at this church and he's just taking his time, I mean, typically I'd already be in three out of my six points Point number three, point number four but it's what the Lord wants. 08:46.080 --> 08:51.249 Also, also, it's August chill, hallelujah, hallelujah. 08:51.900 --> 08:53.306 But this is really what the Lord wants. 08:53.800 --> 09:04.082 I've been waiting on him and he's a gift giver and I found when I'm rattling off points, there's some people that are getting something, but a lot of you. 09:04.824 --> 09:10.604 You get caught up in the information and then you don't catch what the Holy Spirit himself wants to give to you. 09:12.023 --> 09:22.654 I'm just trying to assist what he's trying to give to you, and that's where the sophistication of good pasturing and preaching comes in. 09:22.760 --> 09:35.549 Something that's a lifelong journey is you got to align with what God wants, because he's just trying to get his gifts to people, and the first person who can mess that up is the pastor, the preacher, because he's got to get his points through. 09:37.140 --> 09:42.707 He's got to show how smart he is and how he studied all through the week and impress you with the Greek and the Hebrew. 09:46.649 --> 09:54.883 But just like this, in this environment, the Lord is massaging your heart and getting things to you, and I went off in a completely different way in the first service. 09:54.903 --> 10:09.432 But the second service, as soon as worship ended, it was just clear to me that we need to touch on God's massive abundance and that there's folk You're going to be hindered. 10:10.320 --> 10:16.069 You're going to be hindered in your life if you've been afflicted by that lack spirit. 10:16.160 --> 10:17.004 It's a spirit. 10:19.380 --> 10:21.025 You know who had that spirit Judas. 10:22.480 --> 10:24.783 Judas had that spirit Should not have. 10:24.863 --> 10:33.548 This costly oil from the salabaster box should not have been sold and given to the poor. 10:38.323 --> 10:39.728 What did Judas ever do for the poor? 10:41.342 --> 10:43.630 You'll notice anyone who ever talks about the poor. 10:45.342 --> 10:46.588 They never do anything for the poor. 10:49.322 --> 10:55.907 I've never met somebody who talks like that but actually helps the poor. 10:56.667 --> 10:59.066 People say I don't give to the church, they don't help the poor enough. 10:59.911 --> 11:02.827 Oh, okay, so what are you doing on the side for the poor? 11:03.490 --> 11:03.991 Well, nothing. 11:07.462 --> 11:12.900 You really have a burning passion there inside of you, huh, and people like that are never satisfied. 11:13.443 --> 11:19.030 I can say we've built over 40 churches, community centers in Guatemala, orphanage in Ethiopia. 11:20.485 --> 11:29.390 There's not much you can do for the poor here in America, by the way, except what we're doing, because it's not a some of you are gonna. 11:29.942 --> 11:35.170 When I say this, it's not an issue of money, it's an issue of mental health and inner healing. 11:36.803 --> 11:38.354 You keep throwing money at the. 11:38.495 --> 11:39.180 It's not helped so far. 11:39.642 --> 11:44.630 What makes you think more will help A lot of times. 11:44.650 --> 11:48.374 When the Bible says help the poor, it means the poor, what you think is poor. 11:48.394 --> 11:50.166 There's homeless people with cell phones. 11:53.002 --> 11:53.746 Listen, I did. 11:54.366 --> 11:55.620 I did street ministry. 11:56.044 --> 11:57.919 That's what I cut my teeth on for years. 11:58.482 --> 12:00.528 I know the ins and I've had every conversation. 12:01.584 --> 12:14.307 Even jokingly, I said I've never been in a crack house, been very close in the first service when I mentioned that New York is the only place where you'll find overweight, homeless people. 12:17.061 --> 12:25.628 So when we help poor people, we help poor people like eight people in a mud hut, poor, like don't know where the next meal is coming. 12:25.840 --> 12:29.631 Oh, little card, no government, no, nothing poor. 12:35.820 --> 12:36.322 But do you notice? 12:36.362 --> 12:40.845 Jesus' response to Judas was the poor you have with you always. 12:42.100 --> 12:54.783 There will always be until the culmination in that day and the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our God. 12:54.844 --> 13:03.127 There will be poverty, but Jesus didn't think anything of that. 13:03.528 --> 13:06.708 Oil worth a year's wages was poured out on him. 13:14.740 --> 13:16.144 Some of you with the poverty spirit will go. 13:16.164 --> 13:16.906 Stop the waste. 13:18.822 --> 13:19.656 And that's what Judas said. 13:19.737 --> 13:21.448 He said what manner of waste is this? 13:21.801 --> 13:23.720 What manner of waste? 13:24.141 --> 13:26.308 And that sweet woman was just getting wasted on Jesus. 13:32.200 --> 13:34.528 God wants to snap that lack spirit. 13:39.400 --> 13:40.444 I'm working with you. 13:40.484 --> 13:41.147 Gotta start young. 13:41.740 --> 13:43.887 I'm training my kids to have an abundance mindset. 13:44.780 --> 13:45.703 What one of the things. 13:45.844 --> 13:51.327 Now my son is gonna watch these old videos and say, dad, he knows, I love him. 13:52.260 --> 13:53.265 As you know, he's at that age. 13:53.305 --> 13:54.664 Where, say, we get ice cream? 13:55.841 --> 13:57.708 He immediately sees who has the bigger cone. 14:00.360 --> 14:01.827 Like, dad, can I have your cone? 14:02.041 --> 14:03.567 I'm like we have the same ice cream. 14:03.620 --> 14:06.380 Why do you want my cone, god? 14:06.400 --> 14:08.427 It looks like you got a half inch extra. 14:09.240 --> 14:11.508 She was heavy handed when she served your softy. 14:13.380 --> 14:14.886 I'm trying to nip that in the bud now. 14:15.840 --> 14:17.565 Let's see you finish that one, which she won't. 14:18.909 --> 14:19.711 I'll get you another one. 14:20.241 --> 14:21.847 Have you ever gone without? 14:22.740 --> 14:25.586 No, so quit eyeballing what others have. 14:26.441 --> 14:29.826 You won't go without With plenty leftover. 14:30.240 --> 14:41.106 In Chronicles it says since the people began giving offerings to the Lord, they had enough for their needs with plenty leftover, plenty leftover. 14:41.560 --> 14:46.567 God's style is plenty leftover, hallelujah, hallelujah. 14:48.640 --> 14:53.744 That's his way, that's his will, hallelujah. 14:56.600 --> 15:06.727 So the blessing of God had been activated in Solomon's life and he became very, very wealthy. 15:07.560 --> 15:13.743 You can actually calculate how much wealth and no one to this day has touched it, nowhere near. 15:14.300 --> 15:15.325 How can you calculate the wealth? 15:15.400 --> 15:15.922 It tells you. 15:16.002 --> 15:17.568 It names how many talents of gold. 15:17.900 --> 15:23.429 You can't calculate all of it because there's some things that aren't named, but already, if you calculate, the talent is 75 pounds. 15:24.440 --> 15:31.449 So it'll tell you how many talents of gold, how many talents of silver, all the other precious metals, and he's already looking in the reviewer at one trillion. 15:33.660 --> 15:39.749 So, whether it's the Rockefellers or Elon Musk or the blessing of God on Solomon. 15:41.100 --> 15:55.428 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company and camels that bear spices and gold and abundance and precious stones. 15:56.600 --> 15:59.305 And when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him. 16:01.300 --> 16:07.609 She communed with him of all that was in her heart and Solomon told her all her questions. 16:07.740 --> 16:10.569 There was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not. 16:11.120 --> 16:16.102 And she said you don't have the old day, king James day, so we can all know. 16:16.824 --> 16:19.431 No, what kind of a heathen church is this? 16:20.460 --> 16:23.289 You don't have God's version of the Bible on your. 16:26.760 --> 16:31.729 But you have the passion right, the passion you got, the paraphrase you got. 16:31.789 --> 16:40.845 But I don't even know who's back there. 16:40.920 --> 16:41.825 I just see a silhouette. 16:42.121 --> 16:43.005 Is it still you, hester? 16:44.960 --> 16:51.721 Oh, cassandra, okay, to me it's like a 1980s Tony the tiger commercial, where they're all you know, with the black silhouette around the. 16:51.741 --> 16:52.465 I don't see anything. 16:56.085 --> 17:35.086 All right, next verse and when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he built and the meat of his table and the sitting of his servants and the attendance of his ministers and their apparel, his cupbearers also, and their apparel and his assent by which he went into the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her. 17:36.270 --> 17:43.624 This wealthy, wealthy, ultra-wealthy queen comes to the servant of the Lord's house. 17:44.971 --> 17:46.014 Why would she do that? 17:46.074 --> 17:51.150 Well, of course, for negotiations, proper treaties and to check him out. 17:52.813 --> 17:59.845 Let's see if it's true what I've heard, and it says there's no more spirit within her. 18:00.350 --> 18:04.220 That's Yolde, king James 8. 18:04.240 --> 18:05.163 Was that an important? 18:05.484 --> 18:07.068 Okay, we'll save it. 18:07.088 --> 18:15.074 I don't know if it's something you got on the floor when the Lord was working on you two years ago and you took a little piece of lint as memory with. 18:15.555 --> 18:17.017 Pastor James has got you covered. 18:22.105 --> 18:42.232 She's looking at him, checking him out, and she goes huh, your house, your cupbearers, your servants, your apparel, their apparel, your whole kingdom. 18:44.796 --> 18:45.698 And she faints. 18:47.121 --> 18:47.461 That's what. 18:47.521 --> 18:49.265 No more spirit within her means. 18:50.210 --> 18:52.236 In the Yolde King James 8, no more spirit. 18:52.256 --> 18:53.640 You look at a lot of other versions. 18:54.050 --> 19:02.625 It says that she faints, she can't take, she's overwhelmed by how much God has blessed him. 19:04.533 --> 19:07.758 That is God's way, that is God's style. 19:07.938 --> 19:12.846 Even Psalm 23, which religion made a funeral Psalm. 19:14.070 --> 19:15.033 That's what religion is. 19:15.113 --> 19:16.716 Religion is a giant funeral. 19:17.338 --> 19:19.323 Everything is sad and depressing. 19:19.650 --> 19:31.367 The most beautiful Psalm, psalm 23, is a prosperity and abundant Psalm, and religion comes in and they put some dead head and a dog collar, always on TV standing Dearly beloved. 19:31.608 --> 19:32.751 We're gathered here today. 19:33.172 --> 19:34.616 Let's turn to Psalm 23. 19:34.957 --> 19:42.192 Yeah, though I walk through the back, what it's talking about? 19:42.813 --> 19:47.062 Your head being anointed with oil coming by, still waters. 19:47.302 --> 19:48.551 He's the Lord, my shepherd. 19:48.832 --> 19:57.616 He leads me not to a bunch of tumble, dried out weeds, fresh, tender, juicy green pastures, and then he causes my cup to overflow. 19:58.278 --> 20:04.675 We don't realize what a precious commodity water is With this new house. 20:05.097 --> 20:07.387 It's all the faucets that hit me just the other day. 20:07.407 --> 20:08.994 I thought this is so lovely. 20:09.034 --> 20:20.419 You can't forget like I want water, I hit a switch and because the pressure in the house is so good I love good water pressure and the shower I don't want to do a lot of work, I want the water to blast the dirt right off of me. 20:22.065 --> 20:24.252 It must have been from all those years in county. 20:27.198 --> 20:28.621 I appreciate you getting that, brian. 20:28.641 --> 20:32.128 Very few else did so. 20:32.168 --> 20:34.513 Water is so precious and here's my water cup. 20:34.613 --> 20:35.636 It overflows. 20:36.037 --> 20:37.079 Do you know what a poverty? 20:37.159 --> 20:39.371 Judas mindset calls that Waste? 20:42.539 --> 20:43.922 And God says this is my way. 20:44.303 --> 20:47.170 I don't run out, I have abundance. 20:51.261 --> 20:52.926 Was it this service or the first service? 20:53.086 --> 20:54.470 Because both services have been different. 20:54.550 --> 21:13.282 Even last week I mentioned that when Nathan busted David, nathan the prophet, when he busted David after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba, nathan lists everything that God gave to David you got lands, you got the crown, you got a palace. 21:13.543 --> 21:24.405 And then he says if that had not been enough, god would have given you much, much more, too muches, because he's a too much God, much, much more. 21:27.310 --> 21:31.762 You know that battering ram in medieval day, that's what I'm using right now on some of you. 21:32.691 --> 21:36.650 I'm coming against that cemented part of your psyche. 21:39.916 --> 21:53.120 It's been cemented over by religion, by your own gnarly experiences that have warped you and shaped you where you're in a defensive position and you just got your grabby. 21:53.161 --> 22:01.730 You just see the world as cold, filled with lack, and you just got to get yours and eke out in existence. 22:03.833 --> 22:06.898 I rebuke that mindset in Jesus' name. 22:08.961 --> 22:10.483 God is a God of abundance. 22:11.525 --> 22:11.945 Goodness. 22:16.810 --> 22:23.144 Jesus said fear, not little flock In some versions, fear not little children. 22:24.051 --> 22:26.942 It's your father's good pleasure to give to you the kingdom. 22:27.685 --> 22:30.433 It's your father's good pleasure to give to you good gifts. 22:35.141 --> 22:39.709 Let me since my eyes that land on you earlier, brian. 22:39.749 --> 22:40.912 You're a dad just like me. 22:41.373 --> 22:44.181 What's one of the funnest things you get to do in life? 22:46.648 --> 22:47.329 Isn't that the best? 22:47.370 --> 22:48.653 He said give stuff to your kids. 22:49.697 --> 22:50.660 That's like the funnest. 22:52.305 --> 22:56.035 Had a few folk over my house yesterday and they saw this teddy bear. 22:56.075 --> 23:06.962 It was a seven-foot teddy bear, because once my daughter just said daddy, I want a teddy bear as big as you and I just thought. 23:07.082 --> 23:19.170 I just thought let's see how we can make this happen and I looked online and you'd be surprised, you'd get some giant teddy bears. 23:19.390 --> 23:23.597 I just but I had the best time. 23:24.939 --> 23:33.721 I'm now 47 years old, it's 11 pm and I'm like and I'm looking at different teddy bear features. 23:37.550 --> 23:43.282 Remember, when I opened it I was giddy because she was asleep and we opened it. 23:43.402 --> 23:46.599 It came in a box like this. 23:46.981 --> 23:47.563 I didn't know what it was. 23:47.583 --> 23:49.692 We're getting so many shipments because we just moved, I thought. 23:49.912 --> 24:00.379 But it was heavy and I thought maybe it's my new toolbox and then I'm going to have the handyman I hire used you laugh too loud, wife. 24:03.844 --> 24:11.270 But I opened it up and it's this brown thing and I'm like and then there's instructions like open it and stand back. 24:13.695 --> 24:17.903 So it was shrink, wrapped, and then I thought how's the quality if they got in this? 24:18.224 --> 24:24.243 Well, I slice it open and out pops seven foot teddy bear, great quality. 24:26.871 --> 24:29.055 What's my point here about selling you all teddy bears? 24:30.438 --> 24:32.703 I had a delight in giving my child a gift. 24:35.371 --> 24:36.677 You know where that delight comes from. 24:36.778 --> 24:39.170 It's because I'm such a nice guy, all by myself. 24:40.394 --> 24:42.422 No, we're made in the similitude of God. 24:42.482 --> 24:43.506 There's nothing to do with me. 24:43.807 --> 24:45.251 In and of myself, I'm a murderer. 24:46.513 --> 24:48.176 That is what the Lord put in me. 24:49.479 --> 24:50.220 It comes from him. 24:50.861 --> 24:54.854 He is the Father who loves to give good gifts to his kids. 24:57.259 --> 24:58.883 What are you facing right now? 25:00.987 --> 25:03.392 You have some goals, some things you'd like to see happen. 25:06.420 --> 25:13.115 Number one, number one before we get into God's abundance, make sure you have bowed the knee to Jesus in every area of your life. 25:14.138 --> 25:17.004 Make sure that you're not marrying him for his money. 25:18.711 --> 25:22.425 Make sure you're marrying him out of relationship because of intimacy. 25:22.907 --> 25:25.194 Get to a place where you love the person of Christ. 25:26.698 --> 25:40.840 One of the fastest ways to get there real quick is dwell on all of your sin for a little bit and realize you're worthy of hell and then realize that every single one of them has been thoroughly and completely punished. 25:41.322 --> 25:47.199 The wrath of God has already come down on your sin, in the person of Jesus, in the body of another. 25:49.805 --> 25:52.192 Then take that thought and then begin to worship God. 25:52.212 --> 25:55.830 That's how you quickly will fall in love with him and get into that relationship with him. 25:56.972 --> 25:58.134 Then you start to bend the knee. 26:01.501 --> 26:03.949 We like to phrase it like bend the knee once and for all. 26:04.580 --> 26:15.465 Sometimes, but for many people, it's many knee bendings before you actually allow him to have full Lordship over you Because you don't trust him. 26:17.141 --> 26:22.490 The only reason why somebody wouldn't be surrendered totally to Jesus is because they don't trust him. 26:23.141 --> 26:23.864 And I get that. 26:25.221 --> 26:26.145 Why should I trust him? 26:27.260 --> 26:28.686 I don't have much of a history with him. 26:29.382 --> 26:35.729 I mean, the Bible tells me to trust him, but other than that and besides that, everybody I've ever trusted before has done me dirty. 26:36.160 --> 26:37.443 So why should I now trust him? 26:37.804 --> 26:38.426 Do you believe in him? 26:38.546 --> 26:38.867 I do. 26:39.007 --> 26:40.311 Do you believe he's maker of heaven and earth? 26:40.391 --> 26:40.631 I do. 26:41.180 --> 26:42.426 Why won't you surrender your whole life? 26:43.082 --> 26:44.046 I don't really trust him. 26:44.960 --> 26:49.048 I also love my sin a lot too, but it's also because I don't trust him. 26:50.540 --> 26:51.142 And what really? 26:51.182 --> 27:03.590 When somebody starts talking about the sins and what their addictions are, what they're really saying is I don't trust that the Lord can fulfill me and make me happier than these counterfeit pleasures I'm so into. 27:11.260 --> 27:23.470 So what the Lord does then is he takes you on a journey and asks you to surrender something small, and you do that and you go, oh, it's actually better his way than my way. 27:24.700 --> 27:27.145 And the Lord asks you to surrender something else and you go, all right. 27:28.503 --> 27:35.626 And then a little while later you realize that didn't hurt so bad either and I'm actually better now than before. 27:36.080 --> 27:36.883 And over time. 27:37.485 --> 27:39.010 For some people this can be weeks. 27:39.180 --> 27:40.425 That's the accelerated program. 27:41.560 --> 27:42.585 For some it could be months. 27:42.660 --> 27:45.227 For some they're slow learners. 27:46.560 --> 27:49.785 There are people the Bible talks about people who oppose themselves. 27:50.420 --> 27:52.628 That's one of my biggest frustrations as a pastor. 27:53.160 --> 27:54.625 God loves you more than you love you. 27:55.800 --> 27:56.825 I see that God loves you. 27:56.980 --> 28:00.446 I want to see you get help and you're trying to receive, but you're like this. 28:02.010 --> 28:02.632 Let me help you out. 28:02.820 --> 28:04.447 You're a person who opposes themselves. 28:04.520 --> 28:05.384 You say you want help. 28:05.404 --> 28:06.408 You say you want to get better. 28:06.480 --> 28:10.746 You say you want your life to be lifted up, but you're constantly tripping yourself up. 28:15.160 --> 28:17.007 Ask God to put you on the accelerated plan. 28:19.940 --> 28:21.526 Don't make it a year's long journey. 28:22.120 --> 28:30.591 That whole story of the children of Israel leaving Egypt that's for the people who oppose themselves. 28:31.560 --> 28:33.527 That was a trip like from here to Rhode Island. 28:34.982 --> 28:35.605 They were walking. 28:35.665 --> 28:36.642 It Should have taken. 28:36.923 --> 28:37.866 Put it in Google Maps. 28:39.180 --> 28:40.586 It should have taken about 11 days. 28:43.320 --> 28:46.109 11 day journey took them 40 years. 28:48.120 --> 28:49.807 And all of you know exactly what I'm talking about. 28:49.900 --> 28:51.885 Whether you've been in a church five minutes or 50 years. 28:51.905 --> 28:52.266 You know why. 28:52.286 --> 28:53.570 Because it's a famous story. 28:53.630 --> 28:53.830 Why? 28:54.460 --> 29:00.491 Because it speaks to everyone that you can be going around in circles for 40 years. 29:01.020 --> 29:08.008 I read that as a teenager and I said I this cannot be my story, cause I knew then 50, 60 year olds. 29:08.080 --> 29:09.586 And when they tell me the tale of their life. 29:09.626 --> 29:19.685 I just realized always asking, never receiving, every day like the previous one. 29:21.289 --> 29:22.840 No, god has a better way for you. 29:23.102 --> 29:36.357 God loves you and if you will surrender, god wants to take your hand and show you the short route in the 11 day journey, as opposed to taking 40 years and eventually dying, and then your children doing it. 29:37.322 --> 29:38.327 Oh, we're still back to back to so. 29:40.719 --> 29:40.960 She faints. 29:41.040 --> 29:45.548 She's overwhelmed by Jehovah Jireh, the more than enough God. 29:47.463 --> 29:53.499 Jehovah Jireh is actually the providing God, the provisional God. 29:55.002 --> 30:01.508 El Shaddai is the more than enough, the too much God, I think. 30:01.528 --> 30:01.709 Sometimes. 30:01.729 --> 30:06.263 God in His nature and His character, he definitely has a sense of humor and He'll mess with you. 30:10.935 --> 30:13.638 He messed with Peter and said he felt all through his life. 30:19.331 --> 30:26.039 Oh, he must have been born with that in a minute, 我的 steady 200mm for those. 30:26.361 --> 30:30.170 He messed with Peter and said throw your net. 30:30.230 --> 30:36.880 On the other side, peter was like we've been fishing all night, but he messed with him because he caught so many fish. 30:37.060 --> 30:39.487 His net began to break and his boat began to sink. 30:41.241 --> 30:44.368 I pictured Jesus just belly laughing on the beach there. 30:47.745 --> 30:50.807 Ah, you said it when no fish. 30:51.701 --> 30:51.942 And now? 30:51.982 --> 30:52.845 he's into my way. 30:52.885 --> 30:54.110 Huh, who's laughing now? 30:54.170 --> 30:57.946 Ah, and Peter's like. 30:57.967 --> 31:00.100 This boat is sinking, the net is breaking. 31:00.321 --> 31:01.003 What happened? 31:01.464 --> 31:02.367 Someone from the beach goes. 31:02.408 --> 31:03.721 What happened Then? 31:03.761 --> 31:04.202 Jesus? 31:04.222 --> 31:07.230 He gave too much, too much. 31:08.761 --> 31:16.630 When they fed the 5,000, which is really the 15,000, they carried up 12 baskets of leftovers. 31:17.981 --> 31:21.070 The Bible says they were all eaten and were full. 31:21.600 --> 31:24.267 So think about it the baskets of leftovers. 31:24.307 --> 31:32.045 There was more leftover than the initial amount of food that was presented to the people A few fishes and a few loaves. 31:35.461 --> 31:38.168 That's his way, that's his style. 31:39.400 --> 32:16.127 Today's service, apparently, is being shaped and molded for you to take that with you, that when you approach God, you're not approaching some miserly grump in a dark corner of the cosmos who's got, like his recycling money in the linty pocket, and you're You're approaching Almighty God, jehovah, jireh, el Elyon, the high and lifted one, el Shaddai, the all-sufficient one. 32:18.420 --> 32:21.607 He actually doesn't have to get stuff like that. 32:21.647 --> 32:23.612 You need it comes out of him. 32:24.760 --> 32:42.272 And when you now think of him in this way I'm not giving you to do a list, this is a mind renewing here you think of him this way, you see him in this way and you'll begin to receive these things because you're relating to Him based on the authenticity of His character. 32:42.900 --> 32:44.605 You're seeing Him as he really is. 32:44.685 --> 32:45.788 Is this registering? 32:46.940 --> 32:52.028 You can have a dead-head religious person who prays eight hours a day but nothing ever happens. 32:52.088 --> 32:56.014 Because they're praying to God through a lens, a warped lens. 32:56.940 --> 32:59.468 They're not seeing Him through the Scriptures as he really is. 33:00.320 --> 33:02.806 So they're praying with a scarcity mentality. 33:03.126 --> 33:04.169 They're praying with guilt. 33:04.249 --> 33:05.592 They're praying with condemnation. 33:05.812 --> 33:11.986 They're not praying like a little kid jumping on their dad's lap and saying Lord, I want to give you delight. 33:13.289 --> 33:14.592 Do you know how you give the Lord delight? 33:15.340 --> 33:17.144 The Bible says the Lord takes pleasure. 33:17.304 --> 33:20.150 He takes delight in the prosperity of His servant. 33:21.820 --> 33:28.988 So jump on His lap and let Him delight in you and take pleasure in you, Because what does Him good is the prosperity of His servant. 33:31.000 --> 33:36.245 Hallelujah, god is what we're going to do. 33:37.049 --> 33:38.294 I hate to say bye to anyone. 33:38.334 --> 33:39.740 I love you, but I know how this goes. 33:39.840 --> 33:43.388 Some of you, you love poverty so much you're going to run off. 33:45.740 --> 33:47.204 There are some good churches here, though. 33:47.224 --> 33:56.233 They're going to tell you that God is angry with you and they're going to give you a big religious to-do list and you'll be right at home with that. 34:00.180 --> 34:05.530 But what's happening here with the others is that you are being realigned, you're being shifted. 34:07.780 --> 34:09.544 I've been doing this now 21 plus years. 34:10.807 --> 34:16.746 This what I'm sensing there was only one other time before, in 2009,. 34:16.826 --> 34:22.888 2010, when the Lord caused us to be thrust upwardly, but that was like 10% of what I'm sensing. 34:22.948 --> 34:27.902 Now the Lord wants to come upon our church Corporately. 34:28.002 --> 34:34.104 What he's going to do two city-like church, the church but then individually, and this is something that's got to be. 34:34.384 --> 34:39.785 It cannot be in your psyche, it cannot be part of your mentality For God to take you where he wants to take you. 34:39.845 --> 34:42.270 You cannot be a cheapskate. 34:43.320 --> 34:45.165 You cannot be bound by lack. 34:48.640 --> 35:01.862 Hallelujah, let's keep reading. 35:04.760 --> 35:08.469 Then she said to the king, verse 5,. 35:10.420 --> 35:17.713 And she said to the king it was a true report, which I heard in my own land, of thine acts and of thy wisdom. 35:18.580 --> 35:19.081 How beard. 35:19.121 --> 35:23.872 I believe not their words, until I came and mine eyes had seen it. 35:24.400 --> 35:32.093 And behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me, for thou exceedest the fame that I heard. 35:33.760 --> 35:34.905 Happy are thy men. 35:36.140 --> 35:38.327 This is the Queen of Sheba, after the ushers picked her up. 35:40.040 --> 35:45.592 Happy are thy men and happy are thy servants, which stand continually before thee and hear thy wisdom. 35:46.080 --> 35:58.373 Blessed be the Lord, thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne To be king for the Lord, thy God, because thy king loved Israel to establish them forever. 35:58.500 --> 36:05.252 Therefore made he the king over them to do judgment and justice. 36:06.980 --> 36:08.484 I'm reading out of the old King James. 36:08.845 --> 36:14.367 You're seeing the new King James on the screen and I feel like this is one big commercial for the new King James. 36:17.680 --> 36:19.024 So she's absolutely blown. 36:21.080 --> 36:21.762 Let's keep reading. 36:24.420 --> 36:36.081 And she gave the king 100, wait what this is like. 36:36.121 --> 36:41.691 You're going to Elon Musk's house and you write Elon a check. 36:43.800 --> 36:46.866 Elon, I'm so impressed by all that you have. 36:47.847 --> 36:48.709 Here's something for you. 36:51.880 --> 36:54.567 Why in the world is the Queen of Sheba giving Solomon money? 36:57.260 --> 36:58.104 Why would she do that? 36:59.280 --> 37:05.694 In fact, it says during Solomon's reign, gold was still precious, but silver was like out in the streets. 37:05.740 --> 37:07.164 It was counted as nothing. 37:07.284 --> 37:10.011 That'd be a silver coin and someone would be like a penny today. 37:10.680 --> 37:12.706 Is it worth the bending over and picking it up? 37:14.120 --> 37:15.486 That's how wealthy Solomon was. 37:16.160 --> 37:21.130 It's not because Solomon needed to receive, it's because Sheba needed to give. 37:23.260 --> 37:27.350 It's not because Solomon needed to receive, it's because Sheba needed to give. 37:28.900 --> 37:33.268 And so when we give, it's not because someone has to receive. 37:33.869 --> 37:35.031 It's because we have to give. 37:36.960 --> 37:40.770 We shouldn't just look at someone and say, oh, they're in need, I'll give to them. 37:41.340 --> 37:43.727 When you give to God, do you really think he needs it? 37:44.840 --> 37:50.286 He doesn't need to receive, we need to give, and that's how we show honor. 37:51.380 --> 37:52.023 So watch this. 37:52.103 --> 37:53.548 I didn't even think I'd get to this part. 37:54.060 --> 38:00.452 I just wanted to show you God's abundance in the first few verses. 38:01.360 --> 38:05.388 So she gave the king 120 talons of gold. 38:06.350 --> 38:08.014 Somebody, quick, whip out their calculator. 38:08.140 --> 38:09.763 A talon is 75 pounds. 38:10.845 --> 38:22.206 Do 75 times 16, 1200, and gold right now is at let's just round it up 1900, do 1200 times 1900. 38:25.852 --> 38:26.193 How much? 38:28.745 --> 38:29.688 Oh, I'm missing something. 38:29.728 --> 38:32.563 Hold on, no, sorry. 38:32.603 --> 38:41.347 75 times 16, did I say, divide 75 times 16 to see how many ounces we're dealing with here? 38:44.120 --> 38:45.763 Now multiply that by 1800. 38:52.760 --> 38:55.488 Two million, 160,000. 39:00.688 --> 39:04.063 No, we're missing something, because, sorry, I'm sorry. 39:04.123 --> 39:08.031 This is like Bueller, bueller, the bad math class. 39:09.040 --> 39:12.850 One talent is 75 pounds and she gave 20 talents. 39:13.640 --> 39:15.143 So you multiply that amount by 20. 39:18.751 --> 39:19.533 120. 39:20.782 --> 39:22.526 All right, she gave exactly a lot. 39:25.340 --> 39:27.706 It's over $100 million in today's terms. 39:30.540 --> 39:32.545 Spices in great abundance and precious stones. 39:32.645 --> 39:45.056 There never were any spices such as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon, verse 10, also the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon. 39:45.457 --> 39:46.981 You chuckled when I started reading this. 39:47.001 --> 39:48.624 Did Debbie read this when you? 39:49.587 --> 39:52.252 good God is that right. 39:52.760 --> 39:57.472 She heard me preaching it one day and she I haven't preached on this. 39:57.640 --> 40:04.630 I remember this from Bible school when she taught there and then when I saw you perk up, I thought I bet Debbie went here. 40:05.740 --> 40:06.704 This is her gem message. 40:07.240 --> 40:27.269 Also, the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold and Ophir brought Algamut and precious stones, and the king made walkways of the Algamut for the house of the Lord and for the king's house, also, harps and string instruments for singers, and there were none such as these seen before in the land of Judah. 40:30.255 --> 40:36.441 Now, king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all she desired. 40:37.395 --> 40:38.460 What is happening here? 40:39.915 --> 40:45.443 She gives to him, but you cannot out give the king. 40:47.275 --> 40:48.319 It is impossible. 40:49.055 --> 40:54.523 She gives to him and now there has to be a reciprocity. 40:55.455 --> 40:59.722 This is why Jesus never, ever talked about giving without also talking about receiving. 41:00.195 --> 41:03.323 Never, ever, once, never once. 41:04.695 --> 41:07.921 Whenever he talked about giving, he immediately talked about receiving. 41:08.235 --> 41:09.199 They go hand in hand. 41:09.695 --> 41:24.540 I feel bad for people who just feel like God is asking them to give their money away, cause eventually you're gonna run out and be upset, you're gonna be angry, you're gonna end up somewhere deconstructing, with some millennials somewhere Saying how the church lied to you. 41:25.615 --> 41:37.265 And you gotta believe, believe, believe that when you sow, you're going to reap back over and over again. 41:37.355 --> 41:46.425 The apostle Paul used not just Paul, but even the Old Testament writers agrigarian terms, farming terms, sowing and reaping. 41:47.555 --> 41:48.177 Any farmer? 41:48.318 --> 41:51.557 No, it's impossible to sow a seed Watered. 41:51.697 --> 41:54.740 Our water is faith that you don't get a harvest back. 41:56.575 --> 41:58.703 So now, immediately, this is King Solomon. 41:58.815 --> 42:00.802 Obviously, here's the type and shadow of Christ. 42:01.635 --> 42:03.502 There's immediately a response from heaven. 42:04.135 --> 42:11.261 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all she desired, whatever she asked, much more than she had brought to the king, much more. 42:14.115 --> 42:14.597 So we give. 42:15.762 --> 42:18.122 By the way, this was not supposed to turn into an offering message. 42:19.917 --> 42:21.381 I was talking about abundance. 42:25.375 --> 42:27.519 So, those of you who are guests, I always think of the guests. 42:27.579 --> 42:28.041 They're gonna go. 42:28.175 --> 42:29.661 Wow, he had me set up. 42:29.721 --> 42:32.221 And then turns out the whole message was an offering message. 42:32.281 --> 42:32.643 It's not. 42:35.175 --> 42:45.978 And if it bothers you, I encourage you with all in my heart don't give, don't give, just no, the ushers aren't trained, they're not gonna be going in your pockets, or just this is. 42:46.058 --> 42:47.664 I wanna get a principle across to you. 42:47.795 --> 43:01.418 You just chill and but if you do have a problem with giving, that is a manifestation of a poverty spirit, of a lack mentality, always is. 43:04.055 --> 43:04.859 It's a good gauge. 43:11.275 --> 43:17.376 So God's reciprocity is more than what she sowed, whatever she asked, much more than she had brought to the King. 43:17.737 --> 43:21.780 So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants. 43:22.015 --> 43:23.018 Is that the end of the chapter? 43:24.623 --> 43:25.105 It goes on. 43:29.555 --> 43:31.258 It just goes on to talk about his wealth. 43:35.186 --> 43:35.887 Thank you, lord. 43:36.068 --> 43:36.488 You know what? 43:38.195 --> 43:41.284 The service isn't over, but we need a praise break. 43:43.600 --> 43:45.386 I want the Lord to come and speak to some of you. 43:47.915 --> 43:52.961 I've been pressing into the Lord and those of you who've been coming. 43:53.015 --> 43:54.722 You know I don't normally minister this way. 43:54.855 --> 43:57.744 In fact, the first service was a completely different message. 43:58.635 --> 44:08.040 But you just have to believe that you're here at the right place at the right time and God wants to give you, wants to give you what you need. 44:09.899 --> 44:12.065 This is the City Light Church podcast. 44:12.495 --> 44:21.121 If you've missed any part of today's message or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansik in City Light Church, visit us at citylightnyccom. 44:22.115 --> 44:24.041 That's citylightnyccom. 44:25.315 --> 44:28.324 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. 44:28.815 --> 44:30.301 We would love to connect with you. 44:31.255 --> 44:38.782 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. 44:39.655 --> 44:40.499 Thank you for listening. 44:41.055 --> 44:46.543 Make sure that you subscribe to City Light Church podcast wherever you find your favorite podcasts worldwide.