Like the Sons of Issachar, Part Two

So the Bible says buy the truth and sell it not. That means you and your heart have to be hungry for the truth.

As human beings, we like comfortable lives. We tell little lives to each other, tell little lives,

most dangerous of all to ourselves. That would begin telling little lives to God when we compromise and rationalize,

and we try to find little loopholes in our relationship with God. And then you become deception prone.

The Bible says buy the truth. So that should be your heart posture.

Welcome to the City Light 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 City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com. That's citylightnyc.com.

Pastor Boyan Jansik 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.

We just got back from a trip to Guatemala, and by just, I mean, you know, last month we were there.

Like we didn't fly in last night into JFK, but it's still fresh in my mind.

And that was like my tenth trip over there, and we've been there for 17 years.

Put up over 50 buildings there, and I've really been involved with the McCombs and missions work there.

And I noticed they're very different from us, different in their mentality, different in their whole ideology and their whole psychology is just different.

And so I asked Pastor Mike up there, or down there I should say, what are the people thinking about? Like what do they think about?

And he said, oh, that's easy. Corn. And I chuckled, I thought he was kind of messing with me.

He said, no, they think about corn all the time.

This is, so you know, this isn't Guatemala City, this is eight hours away in the mine mountains, the remote villages.

Where when we first got there in 2010, I would take a picture from my digital camera, and the whole village would run around to see a picture of themselves for the very first time on the digital camera.

Five years later, they got the cheap Chinese smartphones, they got for $6, and they're taking pictures of me, and I've already seen that.

You don't got to show me. I'm glad you, now you got, now you can be a slave like us to digital stuff.

But the thing about corn all the time, because that's what their whole life and their whole economy and everything revolves around.

So the thing about when the corn is coming, how the harvest the corn went to sell the corn, and it's about corn.

And now that I had that piece of information, I knew how to tailor my message to be really, really relatable, which was include a lot of corn analogies, which interestingly enough, there are several really good ones in the gospels.

But I think about our congregation, y'all are not thinking about corn.

And here we have quite a diversity, and I'm not talking about diversity of race or ethnicity, I'm talking about diversity of problems, diversity of ideologies, diversities of where you find yourself in life.

And so in the natural, it is completely impossible for me to speak directly to your heart when so many of you are all over the spectrum and what you're dealing with today and tomorrow.

But the person who can meet you is the Holy Spirit.

I could be talking about apples, and you really need to hear about bananas.

And I'm talking about apples, but the Holy Spirit comes to you and bananas.

And that's why I can preach a message and have so many different people going through various different things if you plug in.

The Lord will meet you exactly where you are. This is supposed to be a supernatural time.

I'm just seeing a lot of new faces. You did not arrive to a church-based TED talk.

I'm not going to dull out some nice information. This is about encountering the Holy Spirit, and he's here.

And Heavenly Father, I ask that you increase your presence, that you come upon people, that you answer questions that they have in their own hearts, that you meet them right where they're at and right in their seats, make yourself real to them in Jesus name. Amen.

Many of you know my testimony that I came to faith when I was 16 years old, and I got baptized and baptized in the Holy Spirit and got saved August 14, 1992.

What I never shared was that a couple of weeks before that, I wasn't even thinking about getting saved to church. Like how did I end up at that church?

I was at a house party, which was really like my second house party, and it was just as disappointing as the first house party.

You know I'm an unsafe guy, no Christianity in me, and I'm invited to a house party, you're 16.

And all you have to go by is all the movies you've seen of house parties, people swinging from the light bulbs, crashing through windows, house parties.

You get to tear up a place and it's not even your house, this is a great deal. It was so tame.

Anybody else here disappointed? Don't share your story if you're not. Like I don't know, I had a great house party when I was 17.

I went by the time the fire trucks came, and I met this house party, and the house party was the young lady that was telling me about Jesus.

It was in Regal Park, a house on Weatherall Street. And I went to light out on this couch, really just plop down on the couch, and as my hand slipped, it slipped between the cushions, and it touched this little track.

And I opened it, and it's really, it's in the format of a comic book. And then about two pages in, I realized, oh, this is one of those religious tracks.

But it really got me, and I read the whole thing in about five minutes, and even though my 16-year-old mind was going, what a cheesy, hokey, religious comic book illustrated.

But there's so much scriptural truth in here that it pierced my heart, and that was some time the end of July.

But I know I went to my friend, I said, Elena, I can't stop thinking about this thing. I want to go to your church, I want to get baptized, I want to give my life to Jesus.

And it was two weeks later that I was in bedstie at Bula Church of God in Christ, giving my life to Jesus, getting filled with the Holy Spirit, being called to ministry just a few weeks later.

Amen. So, at first I didn't want to get this for the church, when the first church first started out, I believe in the power of these things.

But I was 26, and so young, and cool, and hip. I wasn't, but in my head I was. I mean, I thought I was, because my mommy told me I was.

My mommy told me I was the coolest, most handsomeist. She wouldn't lie to me.

I'm just wondering if my son is juggling.

So, you know, I'm trying to have like a contemporary church, and I'm going, I can't use these tracks from the 80s. In 2002, I'm like, it's just an old, hokey track.

But now it's 2026. Now when you use a 40-year-old piece of material, it's not old and hokey, it's classical. It's ironically hip.

So, I had thousands of these printed out, with the church information in the back, making them available free to you.

We have Easter coming up in a month. This right now, this springtime going on into early June, has typically been the greatest time for us to see new souls come to Jesus.

Herding, starving souls like I was, who are hungry for the truth, they're hungry for something. So, grab a good stash on your way out and hand them out to your circle of influence.

Hand them out to your friends. They'll do the work for you. You just may want to follow up afterwards. Invite them to Easter service.

But pass this to everybody that you know. It really is not offensive, and the format of it, and the delivery.

It's a little punchy, but the gospel is punchy. You can't take the punch. The gospel is not Jesus loves you. That's just a saying.

The gospel is your sinner, and Jesus loves you so much that he went to the cross and was punished in your place, so you wouldn't have to suffer. He suffered for you. Do you believe this?

Because if you believe this, you can give your whole life to him now and experience the new birth, receive Jesus' righteousness, be best friends with God and be heaven bound. That's the gospel.

Hallelujah. So, that's my plug. Those are by the hospitality table out there. Grab a stash and pass them out. Amen.

We're going to continue this week with the sons of Issaqar, part two. Amen.

Let me just do a quick recap of the sons of Issaqar, part one. Let's go to first Chronicles 1232.

First Chronicles 1232. God is doing wonderful things in our church. I believe we're going to have our greatest baptism service yet.

May 3rd. May 2nd. May 3rd. I leave after the May 3rd Sunday. I leave for Serbia. I'll be preaching for Pastor Yavica. Fresh from the baptisms.

Of the sons of Issaqar who had understanding of the times, so these sons of Issaqar, they had understanding, they had wisdom, they had discernment of the times to know what Israel ought to do.

Now, the Bible highlights these sons of Issaqar and it says they had wisdom, they had discernment. They knew how to read between the lines and the new understand what God was doing and what they should do in response.

A great quality to have because most people don't know. Most people go to a thought leader or social media or the news and they go tell me how to feel about what's happening right now.

Israel at this time was finding itself in a tumultuous place. Saul had just come down. King David was coming up. They were in a transitional phase.

But the sons of Issaqar knew what was really going on behind the scenes. They knew what God was trying to do. They knew not to go against what God was trying to do but undergird and help the move of God. Amen.

So we all want to be like the sons of Issaqar. In other words, we want to be wide, open and alert and we want to know what's really happening and that is especially difficult today because we're being lied to all the time.

If you're here and you don't know that the media absolutely hates you, you're going to have a hard time with this message.

It used to be that old joke. How do you know a lawyer is lying? His lips are moving. That lawyer is now maybe going to...

Not our pastoral Christian lawyers. Not our holy ghost lawyers. But really it should be... How do you know if a media person is lying? Their lips are moving.

I mean they always lie when I was a kid except the lies now are on steroids. Now before they were at least they put some effort into the lies. Now they'll just lie with no effort.

You know there was two Muslims that bombed by Gracie Manchin last week. Do you know what the headlines were for that? Two Pennsylvania teenagers.

Why? Two Pennsylvania teenagers. Were they Amish? My wife from Hershey, Pennsylvania, were they from the chocolate factory? What got into these two, but you're lying.

Why are you presenting it right from the gate? It's so false. I'm going to scratch into the surface and we're like, oh, there was even more that they put in.

You cannot believe how many lies were packed into just the headline, let alone when you get then into the body of the article.

So we have to trust the Lord to open our eyes and you have to ask God, keep me away from deception. If you're not humble enough to say, Lord, keep me from deception, you will be deceived.

Some of you you may be deceived right now and you don't even know it because that's the definition of dissent. There's nobody who's deceived that goes, I know it.

It's like bad breath. You're the last to know you have it. I'm deceived. You only find that when you get delivered.

Oh, when you come out of the matrix, the things pop out of you and you go, oh, that was all a lie.

So the Bible says, buy the truth and sell it not. That means you and your heart have to be hungry for the truth. As human beings, we like comfortable lies.

We tell little lies to each other, tell little lives, most the interests of all to ourselves. Then we begin telling little lies to God when we compromise and rationalize and we try to find little loopholes in our relationship with God.

The deceit then comes layer upon layer and then you become deception prone. The Bible says, buy the truth, prize the truth. Make it your great quest and then sell it not.

So that should be your heart posture. Don't everything I'm so smart. I know what's up. I can never get deceived. You're already halfway there if that's your attitude. Amen.

So we got to be like the sons of Issachar. Here's Jesus in Matthew, I believe. He rebuked people who didn't know the signs of the times. Matthew 16 verses two through three. He answered and said to them,

buy, but you cannot discern the signs of the times. Jesus himself, God in the flesh, they've read about him. He's rebuking the religious leaders. If anybody should have been first to recognize him for who he is, it should have been them. They were the last to recognize him.

Why? Dull of seeing. Dull of hearing. I'm sure pride was mixed in there. And he's rebuking and saying, you can tell weather patterns. You can't tell the season Israel is in. You can't tell that I'm Messiah who was prophesied for several thousand years that I am he.

And he rebuked them and called them hypocrites. So in there is a PS to us. Do not become like this. Know what age you live in. Know what is moving. And for that, you have to now be more clever than ever before. Why? Because you can't pop on the news.

If you're still popping on MSNBC CNN and yes, Fox News, if you're popping that on and just letting the cable news wash over you, you're going to be deceived.

But that's easy. That's the easy. That's how we used to get our news back in many decades ago. Now you got to be like a detective. You got to get news from all over the place.

Peace it together. See how it all reccees. You kind of sad to say, but you almost have to become, you know those conspiracy theorists where they come in and they got the charts on the walls and everything and the different, different strings.

Ah, this trip. Ah, there was a second shooter in the grassy know, you know, maybe not. I'm exaggerating, but you got my point.

But a little bit of detective work is worth it. Otherwise, you just become another mindless drone who gets your information from memes. The algos got you figured out it knows what's going to get you most emotional. Why?

Because when you're emotional, you keep doing scrolling. When you're emotional, you keep flinking whether you're happy emotional, whether you're angry emotional.

If it realizes sent you too many angry, emotional memes, you ever wonder why then you get the random animal meme to make you happy.

You're like, look at all this. The world is falling apart. Oh, a little girl playing with a kitten. Ah, just to make you happy. Send that dope on me, man. Then go again, getting you mad, getting you mad.

If that's how you're getting your news, you're going to get deceived. You got to do a little bit of work. And it's important to know what's happening because it affects our lives, especially here in New York City.

So one of the things we talked about was globalism. Globalism is not of God. Globalism is a satanic agenda.

You see that throughout the scriptures. We saw the scripture in Acts 17 where God set up the boundaries around nations. God wants nations.

When they were all trying to get unified apart from God back at the power of Babel, God stopped it, separated their languages and scattered them around the earth.

The only kind of unity that can truly come is through Jesus, not man's efforts at becoming one.

He talks about the anti-Christ and how he rules the whole world. How does he rule the whole world through globalism? And that's where it's heading.

I even talked about bad money. Now we have new people. I'm like, oh, I just got to talk about bad money. Yeah. Is it because he's saying only in Spanish? No.

Is it because he had those promiscuous dancers? No. Those first two things are problematic, but that's not my beef. My beef is that he said God bless America.

Who has the slogan God bless America? Do they have that anybody? We have every Latin American country here. Chile. Do you have God bless America, even though you're in South America? No.

Guatemala. Do you have God bless America, even though you're in Central America? No. God bless America's United States slogan. So he says God bless America. And then he lists every single nation in Central and Latin America.

He said, what's the big deal? Have you got his, his pause? He's communicating what's already been defined and what's trying to get propagated a pan-American agenda where the entire Western hemisphere becomes one nation.

God bless America at the United States is number one sporting event. A sporting event created by the United States on the premier platform. And then he says this, which if you wife.

If you know what's up, it horrifies you, but you're not allowed to act horrified because he's singing and dancing. There's a big sign behind him that says, the only thing that can overcome hate is love.

And when I saw that sign, I thought, I'm sorry, all the bad thoughts I just had, you got me with that empty platitude. I can find that I'll seven of Target as a poster.

The inspirational aisle at Tarje. The only thing that can overcome hate is love. Wow. Brilliant. I mean, that's the equivalent of somebody stabbing you.

You're really stabbing me. And you go, and then I go, you should just overcome with love as I continue robbing you and stabbing you.

Globalism. Racism. And something with critical theory, you find where critical theory comes from. It is from the doctrine of Marxism.

If you're hearing this for the first time and you don't understand that our country is under attack by Marxist ideologies that have by the way failed everywhere they have been tried.

I escaped. Maybe I preached this with a little more emphasis. You could take a hillbilly from Alabama with an AR Miller light tank top. Yeehaw. I will tell and he wants to say have a seat boy.

I got something more important to say than you because you only read about it. I lived it. I escaped out of it. I went back and spent my whole summers in it. I understand the promises that are made under. It's so beautiful on paper. But in reality, chokes the life right out of you.

I remember with my own eyes the hyperinflation how you could buy a loaf of bread with one of those red little bills and then the next year you needed a paper bag full of those same red bills to buy the same loaf of bread. And it's like that the world over.

So that's why you get a mom Donnie who promises democratic socialism and people go, oh, there's Santa with free stuff. Listen, I know there's people in your voter from mom Donnie. I'm going to say this to you in love.

What are you thinking? What are you thinking? How's your free stuff coming along? You get any yet?

Oh, this is a church. I'm here to speak the word of God and empower you. This is the first thing I'm going to say. If you're looking to daddy government to give you free stuff, you have lost already. What a weird bottom feeding mentality to have.

Oh, when will he rescue me daddy government? When will he give me mine? My free stuff grow up.

Grow up grow up get a life get a job and make it happen. When's my free stuff coming when Rudolph when you see his nose light up.

But people cut played hooky during civics class. And then we're promised free stuff and then ended up voting for Muslim communist.

Do you remember anger management?

Goosefrabba.

Pastor Moe in the front was going goosefrabba.

Tranquilo.

You know what in the people that I know that would think contrary to me. I know where they're at. There's usually very darling sweet people. Very compassionate people.

They would see what I just said as harsh and cruel and unloving. It's not unloving when you realize the end result is that none of us will have anything.

The end result is that we all get hurt. The reality is is that capitalism is the perfect know when you're going to have perfect when you get to heaven.

I'm sure Christ has a governmental system that's not. But right now capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty out of e-literacy by every single metric that makes a first world nation a first world nation.

Electricity doesn't go out for six hours a day. Capitalism has done that. Not the other isms. Amen.

So I haven't even started today's message yet. I'm just doing the recap. Maybe I saved the best recap for last because it was it was globalism and then it was racism and then it was feminism.

There's a lot of easisms to go through. But feminism landed third. Don't look at me so harshly. I said feminism. I feel like we're about to have a duel.

I'm going to skip the whole recap on feminism. I'm just going to tell you right now that it's not working. That's statistically speaking woman right now. These are stats right now. They're more depressed, more anxious, more unmarried and more frustrated than any other time in history.

And when I say feminism, I'm not talking about the first line of feminism, which is equal pay for equal work. We're all for that. I'm not talking about valuing a woman as much as a man. We're all for that.

We're talking about the brainwashing and propaganda that has now resulted in woman hating men and men hating women. And then not rushing to get married at all and birth rates plummeting. That's a problem. And that started with feminism. You know what I pastored in the East Village.

When a show that's literally ruined nations came out, sex in the city. And I say literally ruined nations because I come from former Yugoslavia, from Montenegro. Montenegro had like a 0.07% divorce rate growing up. I don't know anybody who got divorced. This is in the 80s. Nobody got divorced.

One of them could be an ax murderer. They'll be like, I might kill them in self-defense, but divorce never. One generation later, people are getting divorced all the time. And I asked, what was the difference? You know what they said? I thought they were going to some deep, they said sex in the city came. And all everybody started watching. And what sex in the city?

You know, once upon a time a young lady used to leave her father's protective covering and go to her husband's protective covering. For 6,000 years of human history, that's how it functioned. And now we live in this messed up place where a daughter leaves her father's protective covering and then goes and spends like a decade with no covering.

And she goes and she's taught by Kerry and the sex in the city crew. Go and be a girl boss. You empowered. Go and go and drink and go out and go sleep around. Ride the penile carousel.

You're lucky I said, peanut. Go around and round in circles. Don't show it. Be basically be like a frat dude, but you're a professional lady. And then what will happen is your oxytocin that you actually release to bond with people will start to get broken with every successive cheap sexual encounter.

Your pair bonding will be broken. Eventually you'll settle down and get married with someone, but you'll wonder why you're thinking divorce at the first sign of strife.

Because that's what you were doing for 10 years. You were divorce practicing. Let's date. Let's hook up. Let's not working out next. I'll just swipe right. Swipe left. Another date. I just broke up with him on Monday. Got another date on Wednesday. Oh, didn't work out by Friday. You're out. Who's in? I'm free on Saturday.

How does that not miss a society up? You break down the family. You break down the family and you break down the city. You break down the nation.

So we hit globalism. We hit racism. We hit feminism. A bunch of differentisms I can hit, but today in light of recent events.

I'd like to talk to you about one of the most deceptiveisms out there that you most likely haven't heard of. So buckle your safety belt. I want to talk to you about Zionism.

I don't know what's being said out there, but a subject like this, your notes, you quickly realize, and not really that good.

Let's go to first Peter tonight. All right, I'll just start. Let me start by saying that I quickly found out after October 7th that if I, oh, let me just also say this, I was raised in four stills queens.

I don't even know what that means. That means I am always at any given point half a step away from my gila. Hey, hey, hey, Jewish friends all grown up. Every single one of my teachers, Jewish, then where do I end up?

So all of my current friends that I actually like, that actually enjoy a old Jewish, but I found out that if I even say, huh, I don't know about what Netanyahu is doing over there, I'm not sure, are you an anti-Semite?

I know I'm just questioning what the state of Israel and the government of that sounds anti-Semitic. Wait a second, you mean I can't question anything that Israel is doing because now I'm an anti-Semite.

I would love to have that kind of privilege. Talk about white privilege, this kind of privilege. I'd love to have Jewish privilege.

If you ever point your finger at me, I just go, anti-Semite! And you're like, no, I don't want to be debanked.

I think it's healthy to be able to talk about some of these things. As cringy as it gets, just hang on, inhale real deep, sip some water.

But if we're going to be people who have an understanding of the times, we need to know scripturally what our stance should be because right now, most people, they're so battered, they're not even realizing the severity of the situation.

We are at war with Iran. That's a big deal. I grew up in the 80s, my parents weren't safe, but they had these weird, like they had the Mayan calendar, then they had these new age books, and then they had this book next to it that said,

Israel America and Iran in the end times. That's the title of the book that was out in 1985. I can still see it in that closet. This is an important time. And we're being told most Christians, this is how most Christians are. They do not separate the modern state of Israel and the modern government of Israel from ancient Israel.

They think that if they support Netanyahu and the crew, they're cheering on David. They're cheering on the same person. It's not. Just because they have the same name doesn't make it the same person.

Like my plumber, his name is Jesus. I love my plumber. He's honest. Isn't he great, babe? He comes, he's always smiling, always with a spring in his step. Looks to you in the eyes. Great. I reckon, by the way, if you're in Nassau County, Jesus is your boy.

But when Jesus comes into my house, I don't fall prostrate and worship him. That's for another, Jesus. So it's wisdom to understand, oh, you got maker of heaven and earth, God almighty, Jesus. And you got, Jesus, my awesome competent plumber.

Now, what if my plumber started to behave like he was the son of God, Jesus, and he started to demand worship and I would go, brother, I love your plumbing work.

But the mental asylum is close by. You need to get yourself there. If you can, I'll take you there myself.

So when you support Israel, because this is how Christians think right now, this is how they've been brainwashed to support whatever Israel wants is what Israel gets.

Last, last, we somehow curse Abraham, and you've seen this now. Have you seen this stuff? Am I just talking to people who just only read the Bible? Just want to make sure.

I'm sure you've seen senator after senator, usually Christian, usually with just enough of an understanding of the scriptures to be very, very dangerous, not a deep understanding, but just enough of an understanding to be dangerous. And they love Genesis 12.

They love where God says to Abraham, I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you and they go, we just have to support whatever Israel does, less we be cursed.

So then Yahoo wants to set a hospital on fire. We just blessed that in Jesus name, because I don't want to, do you understand how sick that sounds?

So do not allow anyone to manipulate you. There's pastors out there with knives, bright smiles, and two flags each with a star of David on them.

The star of David, people think that David went to sleep in like star David pajamas, and that star David, that star David has nothing to do with David, it was actually invented in the 800s, over 1500 years from when David lived.

But it's called the star of David to invoke a certain sentimentality.

If the Apostle Paul came today and visited temples and synagogues, you know what he would say, and the Apostle Paul's a Pharisee, a doctor of the law, he would say, what kind of a strange pagan religion is this?

This is unrecognizable. In order to have biblical Judaism, you need two things, you need a temple. There isn't one. Why do you need a temple though?

Because that's where the sacrificial system was performed. The sacrificial system by the way that all pointed to Jesus and was fulfilled in Christ.

That's why Christ cut it off after his resurrection.

But you don't have a temple and you don't have a sacrificial system, so you don't have biblical Judaism. You have something that's changed so much and now it's Talmudic Judaism.

A far cry from biblical Judaism. Why is this important and what does this have to do with the problem? You're facing Wednesday?

Well, with the problem you're facing Wednesday, nothing really. But sometimes when you get a good dose of scripture, a good dose of Holy Ghost annoying to truth, it can snap you. That's what I pray happens to you.

But I don't want my people deceived.

And now there's entire Christians who are cheering on the war. Imagine being a Christian, cheering on any war where we're not explicitly defending ourselves.

The only war I will cheer on is if there's enemy boots on the ground here and they're coming to take us away and then we go to war as complete self-defense.

Enough with these preemptive strikes. Well, we're preemptively striking them. They have a nuclear weapon. Really? In the summer we sent a bunker buster like a mile down and we're told we sent their nuclear program back decades.

Now all of a sudden Iran has nuclear weapons? Is this thing on?

So oftentimes you'll hear things like the Jews are God's chosen people, yeah?

First Peter 2.9, he hears writing to Gentiles and Jews. He's writing to Christians.

This would have normally only been a title for Jewish people under the Old Testament. He says, but you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation.

Oh God. You are a chosen generation. You are a royal priesthood and Chris, you're a holy nation. Ma'am, you're a holy nation too. You're a chosen people. You're a royal priesthood. You, his own special people.

These are for you now because you have been grafted into Christ. The blessings of Abraham are for you now. And by you, by the way, we have Jewish believers at City Light, like more than I would think, especially after all the stuff I've preached.

It's good. The truth of the gospel keeps them anchored. Even though in their emotions they might be going, I don't know how I feel about this.

But, I mean, you ever have an enemy? You're like, I don't know how I feel about this. But then two hours later you're like, yeah! Sorry for the visual.

That you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Amen.

I want to show you some verses that show that you are Israel. You ready? Number two, Galatians 3.7. So how many of you know what the greatest heresy of the first century was? When you re-threat the New Testament, what was this heresy that there were constantly the Apostle Paul, all the writers? There was one main heresy that they were constantly trying to correct.

You see it in Galatians, you see it in Acts, you see it in First Peter, it's everywhere. Say it, you were going to circumcision. That falls into this category, very good. It's just above that would be Judaism. And part of the Judaism was, hey, we need all these Gentiles to become circumcised.

But really, it was Judaism. It was Jewish believers in Christ, but who still had that Old Testament message of, you are special because of your ethnicity. You are special because of your bloodline. You are special because of the genetics you carry.

And over and over again in the New Testament, it doesn't matter where you're from. It doesn't matter what your DNA is. It doesn't matter how you can trace your lineage back. If you're in Jesus, you are all one. You're in Jesus that has several different names. It's called the Body of Christ. It's called the Church. And it's also called Israel.

And after Jesus' resurrection, about a third of all the Jews converted. They turned to Jesus. That's what the estimate is. The other two thirds refused. Jesus prophesied to them what would happen while he was walking among them.

He wept. The Bible says he looked over Jerusalem and wept and said, oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who stones the prophets. He's saying, I sent you prophet after prophet to tell you to change your ways, to tell you to repent. And instead you stoned the men of God, I sent you.

Now I, God in the flesh, come to you and bring you a message of deliverance, bring you a message of love. And I know what's going to happen. You're about to crucify me. So I'm going to tell you because of your stiff nakedness and because of your constant rebellion, what's going to happen.

You're going to be destroyed and a foreign army is going to come and invade you. And this whole temple, which was central, picture the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center, the Statue of Liberty all together and multiplied by 10.

The building of buildings, and he said this whole temple will be destroyed. There won't be one stone left upon another and they laughed. How could that be? He said that around 33 AD, guess what happened in 70 AD. The Roman army came in, destroyed the whole temple, ransacked all of Jerusalem and scattered all the Jews.

You know what else they destroyed? That's very important. The temple means there's no more Judaism. The temple is destroyed, the sacrificial system, the Levitical priesthood destroyed. There's no more biblical Judaism, no more Torah Judaism. And then they destroyed the genealogical records.

Which are very important. You're not a Jew by what you believe. You're a Jew by being able to trace your lineage to Abraham. You ever read in your Bible how we can trace anybody's lineage right back to Adam? Because they were very good. That whole group of these men called scribes. And guess what scribes did? They scribbled.

10 hours a day. They said they were very good at scribbling and not taking. And they kept these things very meticulously. That was all destroyed. So, can I just use you for a second?

You're nice, fine. Good-looking man. I just want to. Hey, could he be Jewish? Just take a look at him. I've met Jews who look like him. He could be Jewish. Absolutely. Thank you, that's it. I just needed a good-looking white guy with blue eyes.

I'm sorry, are your eyes blue or green? I was too mesmerized by them to tell the difference. Do you know what Jewish people look like? What Israelis, what Hebrews look like? You don't know.

You can take a look at a modern-day Palestinian to kind of figure out what someone from the Levant region looks like. They're brown. They're very brown. That's the part of the world they come from.

So, now you have say Netanyahu, who's Polish? Just going to blow some of your mind. By the way, this isn't like fringe, weird stuff. This is all out there. No one has ever just presented it to you, maybe, like this.

He's Polish. He had one of those Polish last names with six Zs in it. Then he changed his last name to sound more Jewish. He's also an atheist. The majority of the people who started the modern nation state of Israel are atheists.

And they say, we're Jewish, and now I can go prove it, and they go, can't. But the Holy Scriptures say that God promised me this land 3500 years ago, and I'm Jewish, and I go, we'll prove it. Take my word for it, trust me, bro.

Well, you don't look Jewish. Well, you know, we've been in Europe for a couple of thousand years, so we've got a little white eat and blue eyed, and wait, wait, so a group that's famous for never intermarrying, you now look like a Scandinavian.

Amazing. You say, so who are the real Jews? I don't know. Can I also tell you it doesn't matter?

Because right now there's only two kinds of people in the world, saved and unsaved. I highly recommend getting saved.

But when you're told, as a Christian, that you must support endless wars in the Middle East, because if you don't, you're not blessing Israel, and if you're not blessing Israel by default, you're cursing Israel, and the lightning bolt from heaven is going to get you, I have a problem with that.

That's why you, by the way, if I preach this message like in Florida, or Texas, God forbid, there would six people would get a heart attack.

Ten people would have to be carried out, they'd be in like a coma, and the rest would take out their guns and be like, you're gonna preach that around here, boy. God bless Israel.

Why God bless Israel? Because my Bible says pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Yeah, you should have done that, 2500 years ago, when it was written.

What did people in the 16th century do when it said pray for the peace of Jerusalem? In the 16th century Jerusalem was in ruins, I've seen pictures of what it looked like in 1910. You wouldn't believe it. It's like seven tents around it, and like a little mini flea market off to the side. Nothing.

I should get to some scriptures. By the way, love Jewish people. I should say, love those who call themselves Jewish.

I love those who call themselves Jewish. I don't dislike them. I have a great time with them.

Can I tell them this? Not yet, I'm still getting close. By the way, my Jewish friends, when I say I have Jewish friends, I don't have like an orthodox Jewish friend.

They would not, and I tried, but that only really lasts like five minutes. In the neighborhood, when we moved into in Rosalind, Long Island, every neighbor, the first question they asked my wife is, are you Jewish?

Am I wife? She's so sweet and I have, she went, no. And they were like, okay. They were asking you. Can I trust you? Are you in the club? Are you not in the club?

Peace out, go away. Those are not my Jewish friends. Those are the ones who won't even give you the time of day. My Jewish friends are Americanized Jewish friends, like on the upper west side.

Sign fell Jews, I call them. They're very Americanized. So they can actually hear other things. You're not going to trigger immediately.

You know what, since I said those that call themselves Jews, please go to Revelation chapter 2 verse 9.

Revelation 2:9

In case you think, you know, he was a nice pastor, then a shock-jock laid hands on him, and then he got the impartation of shock-jock, and I can't believe all the stuff he's saying.

Is this helping anyone? The first three rows, okay. Look, this should, hey, I immigrated here. You know why I love this country so much? I heard the gospel here. I got saved here.

You don't even realize until you come here what a gospel-rich nation this is. Where I come from, it's a country of 630,000 people that has 120,000 to 150 known believers. That's a dearth of the gospel. Those are the same statistics as Middle Eastern countries like Jordan or Yemen or Oman.

I heard the gospel here. I got saved here. I love America, and I want America to stay a rich, saturated gospel nation. I don't want to be pulled into other weird stuff.

So we should know what's happening, and we should speak out for the truth and defend our awesome country, because we're always only one generation away from losing it.

Here's what, by the way, you look in the Bible, this is all in red, words of Christ in red. Jesus says, I know your works, tribulation and poverty, but you are rich, and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

So who are these people? I don't know, but I know they exist, because Jesus said they exist. He said there are fake Jews. They call themselves Jews, but they're not. They're the synagogue of Satan. Go to Revelation 3.9.

Security, can you hear me? I want you to come, please, with four of your friends next week. I'm just feeling a funny vibe right about now.

How much for the cop car outside that keeps its light on? Get us one of those, too.

I'm so glad. I'm a Bitcoiner. I can't get debanked.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Let me have some fun here. Y'all need to laugh. How many Jews do you think there are in the world?

Yes. You guess. Okay. You guess. You guess. Three. You? That's a great point. You're all right. I just asked how many Jews, because, and I don't know, you're all are nice little aisle here.

Because usually when I ask people how many Jews are in the world, they say something like 500 million? Or 200 million? And he said 12 million very close. 15 million.

And nobody really knows those who called themselves Jews 15. But usually people say something like half a billion. Why? Because that's the impact that they have.

Which are things you need to question. Why? I mean, there was a massive genocide in Armenia just a few years ago. None of you even heard about it. Nobody talks about it.

But somebody sneezes in Israel. No, they need our help. They're our greatest ally.

And I just, I just believe American money should stay in America. Do you know what our country would look like if American money stayed in America? I can show you look at China. China doesn't give to anybody.

And I watch some videos of the tunnels they're making, the bridges, the trains, the city. And you're going, wow, look what a country can become when it just reinvests in itself.

Meanwhile, we're acting like drunken frat boys going to a strip club. Everybody gets Israel. Make a reign on you. How about a few more pallets of cash?

Indeed, I will make, did I read this already? Let's, I mean, it's the same thing as 29, but it's worth reading twice.

Indeed, we'll make those of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews and are not, but lie. Indeed, I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

So again, he references the synagogue of Satan, these fake Jews, pretend Jews. Hallelujah. All right, let's get back to the scriptures. Galatians.

Three, seven, and I'll close with this. And if you're confused or angry right now, I have the solution. Rewatch this on YouTube. You'll either get unconfused or angrier.

You know, Paul said, when people were boasting about their lineage, Paul said, I'm the Jewish, Jewish Jew you ever met. I'm one true Jew. I'm King Jew.

He said, I'm of a tribe of Benjamin, a Pharisee of the, you know, to be a Pharisee, you had to memorize the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible. He said, I'm that guy. And he lists his resume in all his credentials, and then to make a point, he says, but I counted that all as Dung.

That means nothing, because what matters is the blood of Jesus, and when the blood of Jesus is on your life, you're brought into Israel. You're brought into the body of Christ. Hallelujah.

And therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. So who is the son of Abraham? That is a Jew. Do we have any people here who are of faith? The Bible calls you Israel.

Not a nation that was founded in 1948, not a government that is at war right now in 2026. It might have the name, but so does my plumber, but he's not Jesus.

You are Israel. You are the seed of Abraham. You are an heir of the promise. Some of you are going back 40 years and remembering, oh, I was five years old. I was in kid's church, and we sang that song.

Father Abraham had many sons. Many sons had father Abraham. I am one of them. And so are you. So let's just praise the Lord. And you don't wow. I've heard this before. I am one of them. And so are you.

Galatians 3.29. So we just saw faith, not bloodline determines who belongs to Abraham. This completely redefines God's people under the new covenant. Galatians 3.29. It says, and if you are Christ, anybody here who belongs to Christ, then you are Abraham seed and heirs according to the promise.

So the inheritance of God's promises now belongs to those in Christ. No spiritual second-class citizens exist in the new covenant. And here's what all those churches in Florida and Texas and wherever they have the star of David and they come and blow the show far and they're cheering on defending Israel.

This is what they actually believe for Christian. Yeah, you're saved. And of course you're saved and you're having bound. But see this person here who's Jewish, they're really an atheist and they hate you and they reject Christ. But don't worry, they still have this special covenant with God.

There's still his show. Does that make any sense to you whatsoever? They have a parallel covenant. They still have access. No. If you haven't come to Christ like anybody, whether you're a tree hugger, a druid, a Hindu, you're in your sins. You don't have access to the covenant. That covenant only comes by the blood. Come on, you can shout hallelujah.

Romans 9, 6 through 8, where Paul says, hey, they're not all Israel who came out of Israel. But it is not the word of God has taken no effect. Romans 9, verse 6.

Romans 9:6

Yes, for they are not all Israel who are of Israel. So he's saying, they're not all God's nation just because they were born in God's nation.

They're not all spiritual Jews just because they were born Jews. Nor are they all children because they're the seed of Abraham. But in Isaac, your seed shall be called. That is those who are the children of the flesh. These are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as the seed.

There's a distinction made there between ethnic Israel and spiritual Israel. Where is ethnic Israel, right? Nobody knows.

Do you, by the way, do you know that it's illegal? Look it up. It's illegal to get a DNA test of 23 in me in Israel. You knew that, right, bro? You can't do it. I wonder why. So I asked, why? Well, it would stir up difficult to answer questions. Yeah, you know what the biggest problem they're having, the Ashkenazis who came from Europe when they go to Israel, they're allergic to everything.

It starts sneezing, tearing. They're allergic to the pollen there. But yet they say they came from there. Took a 2,000 year break, came back. But they're allergic to everything there. But I'm trying to say, they're not from there.

Oh, hallelujah. How come? Now I'm going to go there. Now I feel like you're either going to keep coming or I lost. I'm just going to now you really made me happy and upset at the same time. How come every single president from Bush senior to Bush junior to Clinton to Obama to Trump to Biden?

They all see the same picture of them with the Yamaha at the Wailing Wall. Why? Why? Why a country the size of New Jersey? A whole pop it has no more than 15 million people. Why do they command so much? Why would I even talking about them? Why are they in the news constantly?

Ask yourselves that. Why? Something doesn't smell right. It doesn't pass the sniff test. Why Israel a few decades ago said, okay, we got a problem. Our three biggest enemies are Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran.

So we like their attack dog. We took care of Iraq. Did I'm a real solid? Bumped them in the fist that we got Afghani too? Oh, you having some trouble with Iran? Don't worry about it. Got you. What's going on there? Why? Why this nation that I love feels like an attack dog for another nation?

But Christians can't say anything because they think that they're cursing God's people, not realizing that they're God's people. And by the way, everything I just said, you can actually say, and it's not antisemitic. All right.

You know, that movie, Tom Cruise, when he was like, I love black people. I feel like I love Jewish people.

Get the camera zoom in. I love Jewish people. The ones that call themselves Jews. I love you.

This is not antisemitic. I don't wish you harm. I don't hate you. I wish the best for you and the best for you, which are all these other Christians kissing your booties,

who don't tell you, the best for you is to repent and receive Yeshua Hamashia. That's the best for you.

All those sacrifices that you've stopped doing since the temple was destroyed, those temple sacrifices that all pointed to Jesus, the true sacrifice who died for you.

The one who said before Abraham was, I am. Hallelujah.

Worship team, come on up. Ephesians chapter 2, verse 12 through 14. All right. Next Sunday.

Ephesians 2:12–14

Next Sunday, we're going to have a real happy service. If you're a guest, come back. You won't even record. You'll think my twin brother is preaching.

What am I going to minister next Sunday? I think I'm going to talk about grace. I'm going to talk about how you're forever loved and nothing you could ever do will separate you from the love of Christ.

Hallelujah. And some of you, honestly, you have so much going on in your life that you're like, this is interesting, but this isn't really helping you because, but you don't know what's coming.

And at least you have this fun. You don't know how they're going to try to fuguize your mind and what they're going to try to get you to do.

It is absolutely insane to me how Christians are behaving. All of a sudden, normal, peaceful, Dallas housewives overnight have become warm mongers blowing the show far.

Praying for the destruction of Iran. Like what happened to you? You were programmed.

Oh, can I just say this since I know how the sausage is made? I'm in the business of ministry. I mean, I don't see it that way, but it is the biz.

And I've been to the back of the factory and the sausage. You don't ever want to see how the sausage is made.

But this whole thing of why these evangelical Christians, 50 million of America are so pro-Island, so pro-Jews, do you know why?

Because it was spread mainly through TBN, Daystar, it was the Christian, but do you know why? Because they found, I know this once again, I'm in the biz.

They found out it is a huge for money making. There's whole groups of people who will never give to a church, never give to an event, never give to missions, but tell them that if they bless Israel, God will bless them.

They're writing out six figure checks. John Haguey has raised tens of millions. By the way, he'll raise tens of millions for food for people for Israel.

A literature for people first, not evangelistic literature, just books, nothing having to do with getting them saved.

Not even promising that we'll witness to them. Just let's get them free stuff, and as with a lot of these organizations, they really only use eight cents of every dollar, 12 cents of every dollar.

And these ministries have become so wealthy and so fat, all because there's a lot of why Christians who feel very, very guilty, and they milk that guilt and make hundreds of millions.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Worship team, you're up there.

Ephesians 2.12, that at that time, finishing with this, you are without Christ.

Being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, he's talking about Gentiles, most of us, not Jews, Gentiles.

This was our sad little state, where aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel were outside. That's not good, you want to be in Israel, not the country, not the government, the body of Christ.

And strangers, no, you don't want to be a stranger from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in this world. That was all of us, but what happened?

But now in Christ Jesus, you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Woo, lahiam!

For he himself is our peace, he made you one true Jew, he made you Israel, he brought you in with his own blood.

You are now the apple of his eye, his own precious unique possession. You are his chosen people. When you're a Christian, you are his holy nation.

Who has made both one, what both? Jew and Gentile, but not just any Jew, the Jew, see when I say you got to get out of your head, a Jew doesn't believe in Jesus.

A third of them did. All the first century believers for the first seven, eight years were all Jews. Gentiles didn't even know they could get saved. They kind of stumbled on that by accident around Acts chapter 10.

Acts 10 · chapter mention

For he himself is our peace who has made both one and has broken down the middle wall of separation.

Hallelujah.

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity that is the law of commandments contained in ordinances so as to create in himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that he might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.

And he came and preached peace to you who are far off and those who were near. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

I want you just to bow your heads and close your eyes. This seems like a strange message to attach an altar call to, but the Lord is prompting me.

Because there's been so much lifting up of Jesus and lifting up of the name of Jesus and the finished work of the cross.

I want you to know that if you're far from God, you have been brought near by the blood of Jesus you must simply receive.

I'm going to ask you a question, a very important question. If you were to die tonight, do you know for certain, be on a shadow of a doubt that you'd go to heaven?

If you can't answer that with a resounding, confident yes, I want to pray with you and for you.

I'm not going to ask you to get up out of your seat, but I'm going to ask you to acknowledge your need for a savior by lifting up your hand.

And we're all going to pray together. But if you want Jesus, you want your sins forgiven. You want to receive him as your Lord and Savior.

On the count of three, you raise your hand. One, two, three. Let me see your hand. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Who else? Keep your hands up. Let me see your hand. This is why the Lord wouldn't let me go. Precious what's happening here. I see your hands, sir. Who else? I see your hand. Bless you.

Keep those hands up another 10 seconds. I feel like there's one more. You lift your hands up. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. All right. You can put your hands down. We're going to pray together. We're all going to say this, but those of you who raised your hands, you must say this out loud. The Bible says to say it out loud.

You have got to believe in your heart, but confess with your mouth. I want you to say it extra loud. You ready? Say dear Lord Jesus.

I believe you died on the cross in my place for my sins. I put my faith in you. I put my trust in you. Wash me with your blood. I am now saved. I am forgiven. My sins are gone. And I'm welcomed into Israel. The body of Christ in Jesus name.

Amen. Hallelujah. Man, can you give me a little old school church? Hold on. Let's try that again. Amen.

What angle can church did you find him in? Good night. Anybody got a tambourine here? Throw it at me. I want to.

It looks salsa, but it's all cello. Yeah, it's 1982 in here forever.

Well, let's honor the Lord with our tides and offerings, shall we? Give with a glad heart. Three ways to give. Give with joy.

Give faith. Give expecting a return. Let me just say that some of you I can tell you're new. Why do we give? I never liked giving when I first heard of Christianity.

I don't like to give my money away. I like my money in my pocket. That's normal. That's human. Then I learned that I'm not giving my money away. In fact, I've never given a dollar away. I have sowed into.

And when you sow like a farmer, you get back a harvest. And I quickly learned that giving is a theme from Genesis to Revelation. And that I will be rewarded in proportion to my sowing.

And so I made a decision to be a giver and to be a sower. You know, when I was 16, I got saved. I worked at the gap on Austin Street. And my week's pay was $50. And I tied the $5.

You know how much I tied last year? $2.131 million. Yeah. Could you imagine how much the church must pay me if I tied 2.1? No.

Because people got away. No. The Lord blessed me. And he opened my eyes early to Bitcoin. And then I went heavy in these micro strategy options. And my finances changed. And I tied 2.1. And you know what I did with that tie? I paid the church back for my entire salary from 2002 up until the present age. And then some.

So that I've been a full time. If anybody goes, I wonder how much your pastor makes nothing. He gave it all back with extra credit on top. And it was one of the greatest one. And thank you God for a wife that when I suggested that she didn't go, oh, oh, she went, yeah.

Amen. She was excited. I make a living by my giving. I can't wait to outdo that number of 2.131. And so I released that faith over you. May you have a year of breakthrough. May 2026 be your most prosperous year ever in Jesus name.

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