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Like the Sons of Issachar

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  1. One of the signs of the end times is ethnic rivalry and can you not see people of God

  2. that that's what they're trying to stir up? They want to break us apart and it will not happen

  3. in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are Christians first, then we are Americans second

  4. and we embrace that and we are united and we're not going to be divided. Amen.

  5. Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's

  6. Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. If you want to connect with City Light

  7. Church feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com that's citylightnyc.com. Pastor Boyan Jansik and his

  8. team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds.

  9. As you listen to today's teaching remember that you are deeply loved by God that you are surrounded

  10. by His grace and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

  11. So I've been trying to preach this message for several weeks when I'm going to preach this

  12. morning. I finally got it out today on the Sons of Issaqar which really has nothing to do with

  13. the Sons of Issaqar but they're a good intro. So let me rephrase it my intro is on the Sons of Issaqar.

  14. Look at that face I'm making. It's almost like the face like it's not really on the Sons of Issaqar.

  15. I got you but this has been on my heart to preach ever since I was in Guatemala and we were all

  16. on a mission strip in Guatemala right about a month ago and I didn't feel the full release from

  17. the Lord and then last week I preached a message on 10 things to do if you're in a hard place or

  18. having a hard time or experiencing a crisis. And if you're a guest I want you to know that 99%

  19. of what's preached from this pulpit is about Jesus. It's about the power of the Holy Spirit. It's

  20. on how to live a victorious Christian life and how to receive everything that Jesus Christ

  21. died for you to have and we magnify Jesus all the time but there are times where I have to touch

  22. on other things. Do you know why? Because we don't live in heaven yet. We live on earth and we're

  23. facing some earthly issues and problems and we need to be aware of what's going on. So let's turn

  24. to first Chronicles 1232 that talks about these wise sons. It says of the sons of Issaqar

  25. who had understanding of the times. They were wise. They were discerning. They had an understanding of

  26. what was happening around them. By the way here's what was happening. I didn't mention this in the

  27. first service. Here's what was happening. It was a time of national transition. Saul's kingdom

  28. was collapsing. David's kingdom was emerging. Many tribes hesitated but the sons of Issaqar understood

  29. the moment. You got to understand the moment. You own it. You better never let it go.

  30. Sorry, sorry. Just sometimes that sin nature, that carnal nature that was crucified with Christ.

  31. Now I'm hearing spaghetti on my sweater already. It's important to know the moment.

  32. Seize the moment. They recognize all seasons was over. David was God's anointed king. Israel needed

  33. to align with God's new move. Discernment always leads to action. The verse says that they knew what

  34. was happening and they knew what Israel ought to do. They operated in discernment. They were

  35. aware of what was happening and they knew the cultural. This is important. The cultural shifts

  36. that were taking place and shaping the national ideology. I find that right now most people

  37. are blind to the psychological operation that is happening in America. That there is an intentional

  38. shift in our ideologies, our mentality, our culture and it's for a reason. It's to destabilize and

  39. destroy what really is an exceptional nation. Is it not an exceptional nation? Listen, y'all.

  40. If you don't think it's an exceptional nation, you got a 191 others to choose from.

  41. I'm an immigrant. You know why I came here? Because it's an exceptional nation. I left a far

  42. less exceptional nation. And here at City Light, you know we have, we took a survey years ago.

  43. It could be more now. 50 different countries represented at City Light. That is beautiful.

  44. And we need to love our country and defend our country. Why? Because we're trying to build a

  45. church that glorifies Jesus in this country. And if this country is shaken, if this country goes

  46. down, the church goes down with it. The church of Jesus Christ and this local church that we're

  47. pouring our hearts and lives into building. Hallelujah. They had wisdom. Intelligence is great.

  48. When you're intelligent, you can look at that. It's raining. Oh, look, it's raining outside.

  49. Well, that's because evaporation happened. And then condensation. And then came precipitation.

  50. That's nice. But wisdom tells you to take out the umbrella. Amen. Wisdom is knowledge applied.

  51. So they had this understanding. And Jesus rebuked people who didn't have an understanding of

  52. the times of what was happening around them. Go to that verse. I believe it's in Matthew 16 verse

    Matthew 16:2–3

  53. 2 to 3. Jesus, he rebukes the people of his day, especially the religious leaders. When it is

  54. evening, you look at the evening and you say it's going to be a good day. It's going to be fair

  55. weather because the sky is red. And in the morning, it will be foul weather today for the sky

  56. is red and threatening hypocrites. You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot

  57. discern the signs of the times. Now Jesus is so awesome. He is the fulfillment of all the

  58. prophecies that they've been studying all their lives. He is God in the flesh. He is the Messiah that

  59. come. And they right there, seeing the one that they've been reading about all their lives,

  60. couldn't recognize him. And he says, you are dull. You are asleep. You're a bunch of hypocrites.

  61. Have you ever gone out of your house and it's not raining yet, but you just take one good

  62. whiff and you're like, it's going to rain today. Or you see a certain night sky and you're like,

  63. it's going to be a great day tomorrow. You don't even have to check the weather app. He's saying,

  64. you guys know how to do that, but you can't discern the age that you're living in.

  65. So Jesus is rebuking people who are dull and who aren't discerning of the times. And the sons of

  66. Issachar are lifted up as a group of related men who had an understanding of the times. And

  67. too many Christians are absolutely asleep. They've been lulled to sleep and they get their news

  68. and they get their understanding of the world as it is right now through memes. That's it.

  69. Memes that either are going to make you laugh or make you angry. There isn't that much middle ground.

  70. You haven't gotten to the angry one son yet. He goes, no, I have. You've graduated to the

  71. anger ones because when you were a kid, you just knew the funny ones. They just want to get kids to

  72. because those are the ones that will stir up emotion in you. And so people will base their whole

  73. worldview, their whole life doctrine off of memes, not understanding that we actually are a nation

  74. under threat right now. And I don't say, you guys know, if you're a guest, you're probably,

  75. I don't know, is that kind of a church? I was going through this morning.

  76. This is not normally me. But we are a nation under threat right now. Satan hates America. He said,

  77. why does Satan hate America? Because the gospel is free in America. You don't know how Christian

  78. America is until you leave America where I go, I go into stores and they're playing Christian music.

  79. I go into a Chick-fil-A in the bathroom and there's instrumental worship songs being played.

  80. I can preach the gospel on any street corner. You can't do that in most countries. We were just

  81. in Guatemala for the umpteenth time and we started talking about the walls around the houses.

  82. Most of the houses are not houses, they're huts made with sheets of metal. And an outside bathroom

  83. which the toilet is a bucket. But if it's a bit of a nicer house, there's 12 to 15 foot high

  84. walls built around each one. How many of you, you're not going to raise your hand. But many of you

  85. come from a country where every house has a wall around it. Nathaniel St. Lloyd from Haiti,

  86. I've been to Haiti. I spent a week in Port-au-Prince. I saw not only is their wall around every house

  87. but broken bottle stuck on the ends of all those walls because they can't get barbed wire so break

  88. about stick it on the wall. Why? Because that's how it is out there. So many of us Americans have

  89. been low to sleep and we just take it for granted that I can live in the suburbs and have a house

  90. without walls because I'm not thinking my neighbor at 3am might be creeping to slip my throat and

  91. take my stuff. But that's the reality and the majority of the world. Satan doesn't like prosperity,

  92. Satan doesn't like progress and especially doesn't like the gospel being preached and at its height

  93. listen to this 91% of global, man, three people come in and every head gets distracted. What's going

  94. on? I'm right here. I'm giving out stats. How could I lose you during stats? 91% at the height,

  95. we were responsible for 91% of all global missionaries. That's not nothing. That's huge. Hallelujah.

  96. Sending missionaries, building hospitals, building orphanages. We support since 2009,

  97. that's going to be nearly 20 years. Orphanage through Marcy and the Grace Center in Bajair Dari

  98. Ethiopia. Oh, hallelujah. So every generation faces cultural shifts, spiritual confusion,

  99. scripture repeatedly shows societies drifting from God. Isaiah 5, 20 says,

  100. those who call evil good, there's a lot of that now. And good evil who put darkness for light and

  101. light for darkness. When a culture becomes confused about good and evil, it is a sign of spiritual

  102. blindness. And Romans describes, in the book of Romans chapter 1 verse 21, describes a similar

    Romans 1:21

  103. condition. This is what it says, because although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God,

  104. professing to be wise, they became fools. A society can become very intellectually confident,

  105. but morally disoriented. All right, let's get to number one. I want to give you three things.

  106. And based on the response from the first service, I'm going to do a sequel next week. Amen.

  107. I want to give you three things that are happening in our country right now that threaten our country.

  108. And it's real. And it shouldn't be belittled. And really, it's happening all around us.

  109. Everybody knows that it is impossible to take America over from the outside. Just by virtue of

  110. our military might. And then do you know what Emperor Hirohedo in the Second World War,

  111. when he was asked why all the battles were taking place in the air and in the Pacific and why he

  112. would never invade America, he said, behind every blade of grass that would be an American with a gun.

  113. And I thought that was like only down in the south. I moved to Long Island. I mean, every man has

  114. not a gun. Guns. Guns. Lots of guns. I'm like, oh, you have guns. Oh, it takes out his phone.

  115. Every single, oh, look, I'm like, you got guns for 20 people. Yeah, I know. And each of them like that.

  116. So in other words, Americans have a lot of guns. In case there was ever boots on the ground here,

  117. every male would be armed. Amen. Geographically, we're separated from a lot of the world.

  118. And we have military supremacy. And it would take a whole lot of work and a whole lot of aircrafts

  119. and water crafts to bring a whole army here. So America cannot be invaded from the outside.

  120. So the enemy wants to invade America from the inside by changing the way we think and changing how

  121. we feel about things. And the battle is mainly online and social media. And yes, mama, mama,

  122. memes. And people can be so silly. They forget their Christian worldview, their Christian foundation.

  123. And they just see one meme. And if you like it, or forward it to a friend, the algo kicks in

  124. and out wants to feed you more of this stuff. And that's why you can get people that are so convinced

  125. of something, even though it has nothing to do with logic. It's intellectually dishonest,

  126. but they will argue until they're blue in the face because they got convinced by a meme.

  127. So in no particular order, number one, what threatens our country is something known as critical

  128. race theory. Thank you for all the amends. What is critical theory of any kind?

  129. Hear me out. Because some of you immediately went into white guy preaching. He said critical race

  130. there. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, triggered, triggered, triggered. Just chill. Don't get triggered.

  131. I have not yet begun to trigger you. Hang on. This is going to be fun. Way forward.

  132. I'm going to knock those memes right out of you.

  133. Critical theory is not a new thing. Critical theory is a spawn of Marxism.

  134. Critical theory has been used to destabilize nations in one sentence to just define critical theory.

  135. It is a worldview. It is seeing everything through the lens of oppressor versus oppressed.

  136. You can only either be an oppressor or you can only either be oppressed.

  137. And it's been used. It caused the collapse of Russia, cause the collapse of those what we now

  138. refer to as the Eastern European nations because it comes in and produces class warfare.

  139. It gets people from one nation fighting against the same people that are in their nation.

  140. It gets them riled up in angry. It's viewing everything through that lens of

  141. I'm either an oppressor or I'm being oppressed. So then what's the gold if you're being oppressed

  142. to rise up and be an oppressor of your own?

  143. Yeah. So play this clip. By the way, I was in Guatemala.

  144. My own business. But in the morning, I like to check the news.

  145. So I wake up and I see this guy. David Wu. Let me announce. Let me announce first. Let me

  146. read you his credentials. Unless you think he's just some random guy. He's not random.

  147. He is a Democratic Texas State representative for District 37. So this is somebody who's in

  148. the House of Representatives. A former prosecutor and attorney, he serves as minority leader,

  149. chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus. And he said this on February 7th of this year.

  150. Let's play that tape. I always tell people that day, the Latino, African-American, Asian and

  151. other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning.

  152. Because we are the majority in this country now. We have the ability to take over this country

  153. and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair. But the problem is our communities

  154. are divided. They're completely divided. I always tell people the day, hang on. We're going to play

  155. that again. I always tell people the day, the Latino, African-American, Asian,

  156. other communities realize that they are that they share the same oppressor. Pause it.

  157. The day we start winning. That they share the same oppressor. Who's that oppressor?

  158. Who, what sweet person said the government? You are so, what? You think he's talking about the

  159. government? You're a sweetie pie. And that's what it is. See, the Bible says to the pure,

  160. all things are pure. A lot of Christians don't get it because they go around and they see everything

  161. through a lens of, well, I love people. I love all people. Everybody must just love. And I'm not

  162. used to Satan. Could anybody ever really be used to Satan? Why people? This is, I've never met a

  163. Chinese guy like this in my life. Ever. I ask why? I've never, I grew up in Queens. All right,

  164. I was saved in an Asian ministry. I have never, ever heard a Chinese guy say this. You know, because

  165. he's now operating under critical theory. And by the way, he came here to America. He was adopted

  166. by two loving white parents. And here's what he's saying. He's saying, we're now the majority.

  167. Asians and Latinos. And we have to get whitey. And he says, now we can take the oppressor back.

  168. Yeah. Now, let me just tell you something. America is responsible for over 50% of immigrants coming

  169. to America. In other words, of all immigration that happens on planet earth, over 50% is to America.

  170. If America is so oppressive, why does over 50% of all immigrants come to America?

  171. Oh, because it's an economic opportunity. Really, if it was that oppressive, you wouldn't care

  172. about that. If 1938 Nazi Germany was a great economic opportunity, would you go there? I wouldn't.

  173. That's real oppression. That's real racism. And by the way, man, facts don't care about your

  174. feelings. So I'm going to just give you facts. 90% of all global immigration is to majority white

  175. countries. Why? Because whitey's so oppressive? I got all these non-white people here agreeing with

  176. me in the second row. And then you get past and people are like, frozen, I'm sorry that you're

  177. finding this awkward. That's called a non-apology. I'm sorry that you're feeling this way.

  178. In fact, I'm going to slow down so we can marinate more in the awkwardness.

  179. Some of you are just like, oh, here's a white man saying he's just upset because

  180. he said they're going to get white people. Yeah, I like white people. I moved here.

  181. Let me tell you something about where I'm from. Thank you. My daughter said, okay.

  182. I moved here. I immigrated here from former Yugoslavia. All right.

  183. I moved here because my country was crap. Okay. I would have never said that in my first 15

  184. years in this country. Some of you still not willing to say that, but you got to be honest.

  185. I moved here because my country was crap. Do I still love my people? Yeah. Do I love the

  186. food? Yeah. People said, you love the culture? Yeah. Love the music. Love the food.

  187. No upward mobility there. Couldn't raise a family like I'm raising a family over there. Would

  188. have probably never ever heard the gospel over there. I heard the gospel here. I got saved here.

  189. I got called into ministry here. I like what they built here. I don't want to bring what I left

  190. here. All right. When we moved here, we didn't say, all right, where's all the Serbians in New

  191. York City? Let's hang out with them. Yeah. You know why? Because I saw what they built. I didn't

  192. like that. I like what they built here better. Oh man. If you're agreeing with me, could you be

  193. a little bit louder? Because the faces, the faces, the faces of the people who are not agreeing

  194. with me are, I'm getting some daggers thrown at me. Let me tell you something. If you immigrated

  195. here, you also came from, I mean, you just provoked me more. You came from a crap country.

  196. Yeah. Yeah. If you don't think so, go back. You picked a country. Pick one and then say,

  197. buy to the other one. All right. When I became a citizen, I had to say, I am renouncing. I had

  198. to swear an oath. That means something. That means something to God. And I had to read something

  199. that was a paragraph long that went something like I renounce all other rulers, dictators,

  200. kings, princes, governors, potentates, principal. This whole list of other leaders I renounce.

  201. And I now become a citizen of the United States of America. And I had to do that. And I did it with

  202. joy. Amen. Hallelujah. Oh, Matthew 24, seven. Why is this important? Because Jesus said, for

  203. nation, that's the Greek ethnos. For ethnos will rise against ethnos and kingdom against kingdom.

  204. And there will be famines, pestilence and earthquakes in various places. One of the signs of the

  205. end times is ethnic rivalry, ethnic tensions. And can you not see people of God that that's what they're

  206. trying to stir up? They want to break us apart. And it will not happen in the church of the Lord

  207. Jesus Christ. We hear. We are Christians first. Then we are Americans second. And we embrace that.

  208. And we are united. And we're not going to be divided. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

  209. Thank you, Lord. I remember the early 2000s how I remember it. There was so, you know, it was so

  210. little racial awareness. Sit it. There was only one pastor back in the day. Me. And every wedding I

  211. did. Never talked about race, never ever. I was raised in the IDs. People now say you're not

  212. supposed to be colorblind. Just sorry. I was trained for 20 years to be colorblind. When I got saved

  213. in that church in bedside, you know what the street vendors were selling hats that said colorblind

  214. on them. Now you said colorblind, you offend somebody. Back then we were taught to be colorblind.

  215. And so, grew up in the 80s, the 90s, post civil rights, learned to appreciate what happened and grew

  216. up in like what we considered a post racial country. And if all the weddings I did from 2002 going

  217. into 2007, they were all multiracial weddings, interracial weddings. But no, we didn't even go,

  218. hey, isn't this cool? A white guy is marrying a black woman. It was just like, it just happened.

  219. It was just normal life. And then something started to happen around 09, 10, and then get to 11,

  220. 12. And it's like this pot is getting stirred. The pot is getting stirred. And ethnos is rising up

  221. against ethnos that didn't happen by accident. And you know what, if you don't believe me, you know,

  222. we just vacationed in Belize. Did I share about Belize with you at all? Belize has a German

  223. population. It's funny. They were the men and knights. They came, they're all the farmers in

  224. Belize. So you got white, cream cheese white, blue eyes, like white white people. You have

  225. AF from Africa, Afro black. You have the local pot. You have, it's very, very diverse.

  226. There is, I'm on the boat, right? We're on the boat. And we're seeing somebody who looks like a

  227. German, like looks like a Nazi propaganda poster, right? And he's there paling around and they're all

  228. different. They don't even like recognize that they're different ethnicities. So that intrigued me

  229. and I started talking to him about it. It doesn't even enter their psyche. You know why? Because they

  230. weren't taught to care about it via the memes and the media and the constant rage, and the atrocities

  231. being thrown in their face, wanting to destabilize the nation. Do you understand what that guy just

  232. said? He's actually calling for a race war. That's what he's calling for. This is somebody in the

  233. House of Representatives. You think this is going to decrease? This is where it's all headed.

  234. They want to, why? Because you cannot take over a unified nation, but you can take over a

  235. D state. That's how my nation fell apart, by the way. Where I come from, Yugoslavia no longer

  236. exists. It's seven different countries now. Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia,

  237. Croatia. It's been, why? When I grew up, we didn't even know who was white, but it was what's

  238. known as a color revolution, not color, look the same color wise. It's when an outside entity comes

  239. in and infiltrates through whatever media is available and basically stokes the fire and gets

  240. people with even the slightest difference fighting to destabilize in recognition. That's what they're

  241. trying to do right now. And it's our job as Christians to never let that happen and love the

  242. people who you see it happening to and call them back to the truth. Come on now. Hallelujah.

  243. Who is your tribe anyway? Who is your tribe? You know, you go to prison, people, when you're

  244. backs against the world, people immediately show how tribalistic they are. You go to prison

  245. immediately, people go according to their skin color ethnicity, they break up, they break apart.

  246. That's a fact. If we were invaded by a foreign nation and there were boots on the ground of a

  247. foreign enemy right now, who would you run to? I know who I'd run to? You. Christians are my tribe.

  248. Christians should be your tribe. What are you then going to go, where are you from?

  249. DR, Puerto Rico, because you know, because I'm, you know, oh, that's your tribe. Christians, we

  250. are united by the blood of Jesus. We have the same worldview. We have the same mentality,

  251. the same ideology. We have the same value system. Where are the ones who would be banding together? Amen.

  252. Oh, hallelujah. I rebuked the spirit of memes out of you right now. I break the devil's power.

  253. All right, so number one is critical theory. That was representative Jean Wu.

  254. Number two, as far as threats against our way of life in our country right now, that's a real

  255. thing is globalism. What is globalism? Globalism is the idea that countries should become

  256. interconnected. Sounds nice, right? That also means borderless, which erodes national sovereignty.

  257. Now let's define country right now. I think that's helpful. Let's put that definition of

  258. what a country is because some people have forgotten. And it really shouldn't be that complex.

  259. A country is when a group of people have a territory and they do stuff for themselves inside of

  260. it. This is written on the third grade level. So nobody's missed. Right? You're in a country you do

  261. stuff for yourself within that country. The blue people would live in the blue country and they

  262. would do stuff for the good of blue people. And if the red people go to the blue country and say,

  263. you're not doing enough for red people, it's like, well, of course not, you're not us.

  264. This is not yours. If you don't like it, go back to red land. This should not be that hard to

  265. understand. Not be that hard to agree with either, but you could drop a pin in here for whatever

  266. reason. But we are four generations deep in social engineering, causing fatal brain damage.

  267. Acts 1726, you know who had the idea of different borders in different countries? God did. God

  268. is not for globalism. Globalism, and I'll get to Revelation in just a bit, is what ushers in the

  269. Antichrist. God is not for everybody. He's not for just the one world. You see all of this stuff

  270. sounds nice on paper, right? Oh, we are saying. It's a gift of peace of chance, no more boundaries,

  271. no more borders, no password. We're all just one. No. And he has made from one blood every nation

  272. of men to dwell on all the face of the earth and has determined their pre-appointed times and the

  273. boundaries of their dwelling. Do you know what would happen if when I came here from Yugoslavia

  274. in 1981, there were 18 million people in Yugoslavia? What if I transported 18 million Yugoslavians

  275. into, couldn't do it just New York, say the Eastern seaboard? What would happen? What if I was like,

  276. I really love, man, my countrymen, Yugoslavians. And then just it was just 18 million Yugoslavians

  277. all along the United States seaboard. You know what would happen? I wouldn't want to live in

  278. America anymore. That's what would happen. You have to be honest and be willing to say, I don't,

  279. you know why? They're mentality. Do I, do you say, you're talking about your cousins,

  280. you're talking about your family? I know, and I told them all this. And you know what? Each of them

  281. agreed. I came to America and I was like, these Americans are different. Like where all about,

  282. I can, I can't, I can't, I can't. They're all about, I can, I can't. Maybe that's the way

  283. they're called American. They're so positive. They take risks. They see possibility in everything.

  284. They're fiercely independent. They have a prosperity mindset. We wear negative, we're whiny,

  285. we're complaining. If there's like 10 reasons to do it and one reason not to do it, we pick the 11th

  286. reason not to do it. And I don't, I don't want to be around that. I came here. I like what those

  287. Americans did. I want to get some of that American on me. Amen. Revelation 13 11 through 12.

  288. Here's the warning against globalism. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

  289. By the way, if you think I'm white, I found out recently I'm not. I didn't know. I should have known

  290. Montenegro. It's in the name. I'm from Montenegro. But I was actually talking to a white supremacist,

  291. which when Biden came into office, he said the number one threat to America right now is white

  292. supremacy. I've never ever met a white supremacist in my life. But recently did. And first thing you

  293. told me is I'm not white. Because I'm from South Slavia. You go is South. You go Slavia. We're right

  294. down there, boarded just North of Greece. And we were under Turkish occupation for 600 years. He said

  295. you're all mixed up in your genetics and blood anyway. And he reminded me, and most people don't

  296. know, you know, when it comes to slavery, so many, there's been so much ignorance revealed in the

  297. last five, six years. There's people actually convinced that slavery started with America.

  298. Slavery was global since there was man. They were beating and enslaving one another. But the term

  299. slave actually comes from Slav. You go Slav. The more starting in the 800s, they'll come in and

  300. say pick up a few of those slavs over there, we need work. And then the Turks came and occupied

  301. us for 600 years. And that evolved from the old English to the modern English slave from Slav.

  302. Maybe that's why I feel so emboldened to preach this. Because I'm white, but not white.

  303. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth and he

  304. had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. And he exercises all authority of the first beast

  305. in his presence and causes the white, the earth, the globe, the entire planet. When this was written

  306. 2,000 years ago, they couldn't even conceive how that would work. They couldn't conceive that

  307. there would be one figure, the antichrist, who would have global control. How do you even do that?

  308. How do you even do that when nations are separated? How do you even do that from a communications

  309. perspective? How do you do that from a currency perspective? That's all doable now. Because of

  310. globalization, this is why historically Christians have resisted globalization. We can walk in

  311. Chugam at the same time, right? Which means we can hold two thoughts in our head at the same time.

  312. I can say all this and be an immigrant and have a church full of immigrants and still say this,

  313. amen. Hallelujah. You're an immigrant? Praise God. Welcome to the U.S.

  314. Let's go to Revelation 13 12 or 17. He causes all now talking about the antichrist, the beast. He

  315. causes all both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right

  316. hand or on their foreheads and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark of the name

  317. of the beast or the number of his name. 2,000 years ago, they couldn't conceive how one person

  318. could have global authority that no one would be able to buy or sell on the whole globe, on the whole

  319. earth. But that's possible today. I'm just making the case against globalism. Are you tracking

  320. with me? Why Christians have always resisted globalism? Hallelujah. Their concern is less about

  321. international cooperation and more about concentrated authority. You don't want concentrated

  322. authority over the entire earth. Otherwise, when it hits the fan, where do you go to?

  323. Concentrated authority and could pressure, conformity and restrict the church's ability to live and

  324. preach biblical convictions freely. So, when we were in Guatemala, I'm going to say this way,

  325. when we were in Guatemala, which we've been going to since 2009 and have spent over $6,700,000

  326. over the last X number of years, held built 50 churches. The bad bunny thing came out because we

  327. were there for the Super Bowl. And I know you guys have been wondering. I know you're in your beds

  328. at night going, what does pastor think about bad bunny? You know, everybody, remember? I mean,

  329. not we forgot about it, but remember how like that Sunday in the next day was like, it was

  330. about bad bunny. And the arguments, what they made, the central thing, is not at all the central

  331. thing. Like, oh, he did the whole thing in Spanish. First of all, let me say this, as a surb, I couldn't

  332. imagine going to the Super Bowl and doing the whole thing in Serbian. But that's not even the important

  333. part. Then they go, oh, they were so, they were so raunchy and it was so sexualized. Yes,

  334. so was every other Super Bowl halftime show. And there were all these arguments online.

  335. Most of them never ever touching on what the real programming was during the bad bunny performance.

  336. And let me just say this, nobody has heard of bad bunny before he went to the surb.

  337. I asked in Guatemala, 20 of us, how many of you heard of bad bunny? Frenchy. Frenchy's like,

  338. I heard a bad bunny. And then he did, he did say, well, you all don't know who bad bunny is,

  339. I must stop that. Fine, you're so hip, you're so cool. Most of us never ever heard of him.

  340. He is a puppet and he's a puppet meant to push a particular globalistic agenda.

  341. And that, that, that was the main message. What I'm about to show you right now,

  342. that's actually what they wanted to enter into the American psyche. Now, look,

  343. football is American, uniquely American, so much so that we call it football, even the footballs

  344. called soccer internationally. All right, basketball is international, football, soccer is international,

  345. but football is American and the Super Bowl is the most American event of this American invented

  346. sport. And so then we have this. This is the park. Just pause it. God bless America, right?

  347. And then listing every single country in the Western hemisphere. And it sounds so nice, right?

  348. You got the music. He's smiling real big. And behind him is the classic sign. Only love can

  349. overcome hate. As I'm attacking the very foundation of your country, only love can overcome hate.

  350. Here's the message here. It's for pan-Americanism. Pan-Americanism is an ideology that all the

  351. Americans are the same and they're all one and forget the borders, forget the outlines of the country

  352. and the whole of the Western hemisphere should be one. Guess what? If the whole of the Western

  353. hemisphere was one, be honest. I don't want America looking like Guatemala. I don't. I love Guatemala.

  354. I spent nearly a million dollars helping Guatemalans. I gave away watches to Guatemalan pastors.

  355. We've poured out our hearts in Guatemala. But when I fall down to sleep, I want to sleep here.

  356. I want it to be like America and I want Guatemala to become more like America. Amen.

  357. That shouldn't be controversial to say yet because of the memes that you've been programmed with

  358. you're wondering whether you still like me or not. That is the message. That is what was

  359. tried pan-Americanism because God bless America is a uniquely United States of America saying or slogan.

  360. So look at the Fugaisi. Look at the whole, look here, left hand right. He says God bless America.

  361. Well, you know, what's wrong with that? Because there's North America and South America. No,

  362. but there's only one United States of America whose motto, whose saying, whose slogans were God bless

  363. America. You're saying God bless America and then play it again. Just play the same thing. He's

  364. listing other nations. Just hit the play button. That's it.

  365. So what they want is a borderless economic zone. Why do they want a borderless economic zone?

  366. Because nobody dies and gives their life for a borderless economic zone. You know what you do?

  367. A borderless economic zone. You come in like a parasite and you exploit it and then you leave.

  368. And that's what they want our country to become. You say who's they? Them, the globalists, the elites,

  369. the ones pulling the strings. Have you ever just looked around and on what is happening to the

  370. country? I grew up in. And why does it seem like we're doing things that are directly in our position

  371. to what's best for our nation? They don't want you to love America. Why? Because when you don't love

  372. America, then you don't try to build America. You don't give your life for America. My son is not

  373. learning any real American history. Several years ago, I asked him, hey, and don't be embarrassed

  374. by this because it's not your fault. But you know, I asked him, tell me, because I remember, listen,

  375. I started kindergarten here. I remember drawing the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. I remember

  376. and we made the little things and then I remember about the first things giving. And then they

  377. taught me about George Washington and the Boston Tea Party and the Minutemen and they explained to me

  378. why the Constitution was so different and so unique and it was the foundation of what would become

  379. the greatest nation in history. I grew up with that, so I learned to love America. They're not

  380. even teaching it anymore. All right, he's in sixth grade right now and they just glazed over the

  381. declaration of independence. Why? Because they want his generation to grow up and really not

  382. care that much and not love their country. And there is a lot of propaganda to get you to hate

  383. America. Do not hate America. Listen, I say this with love and respect, this can get real emotional,

  384. hang on. In 2020, the summer of 2020, wild times, remember that? And racial tensions were so high

  385. and I had precious black people in our church say, I can't even look at an American flag because when

  386. I look at it, I think racism. I understand that that history has been very, very difficult,

  387. very, very awful, but you are an American. And I say this with love, you don't need a separate

  388. national anthem. You are an American. I'm now an American. Many of you have become Americans and

  389. are on your way to becoming Americans. Do not allow them to slice and dice and slice and dice

  390. and divide us up because that's all this kind of stuff is doing. That wasn't by accident and

  391. that was incredibly divisive. That's right, kingdom over culture. Have you seen the land

  392. acknowledgments? It happened right now at the Grammys. It happens at the Oscars. Most extreme

  393. liberals or just liberals whenever they take the American. The first do the landing knowledge man.

  394. I should do that before I preach. Before I bring you the word of God, I just want to acknowledge

  395. that I'm standing on stolen land and that this land was stolen and that and what am I really saying

  396. that it is illegal for us to be here? It is not morally right for us to be here and all of America

  397. is just built on this disgusting graveyard of sin and so now I'm getting you to hate America.

  398. It's all to get the land acknowledgments to get you to hate America because you don't build a

  399. country you hate and you don't die for a country you hate. Why when I asked them hey what's

  400. things giving? He didn't know. I said what are you learning about right now? He said the Algonquin

  401. Indians. What? The Algonquin Indian? I'm sure the Algonquins have some history but you know what

  402. we're not living in Algonquin land. We're living in the United States and you should know exactly

  403. what happened in our history and what is the foundation of this country. Is this controversial?

  404. What I'm saying this shouldn't be. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

  405. All right you ready for number three? How many of you think you want to sequel to this or you

  406. had enough? Yeah your faces could have fooled me. Somebody came to me from first service and said

  407. don't pay attention to their faces. This is just the first time they're hearing something

  408. out loud that's contrary to the constant programming that they're under.

  409. Try to play a game. Play a game. I play this game with my kids. Play with yourself where you just

  410. now want in every commercial and every meme in the humor it points out. Try to fair how are they

  411. trying to change my mind? Get me to hate my own country. Get me to hate another person who lives

  412. in my country. It's everywhere. Hallelujah. So no particular order but this is something that's

  413. destructive and that is a satanic agenda and that's feminism. Show that tweet. This major leader

  414. in the feminist movement today tweeted this today. She's got a book out called Good Slut.

  415. Good Slut is out today. Run to Barnes and Noble.

  416. Some key takeaways. Careerism is good for women, even mothers and their children.

  417. Women do not generally belong behind the sink with a brood. I mean hold on, behind the sink with a

  418. brood. Look at my wife right now is holding her daughter. Even our daughter is going to be eight

  419. years old soon. This is the happiest I see her. Julia who just had a baby was in the first service.

  420. Holding her. You should have seen. There was a glow around her holding a baby. Do you understand the

  421. SIAP, the brainwashing that had to happen to get moms whose greatest fulfillment in joy is holding

  422. a child and bringing up a child. They had to play that down and play that down and destroy the

  423. image of that so that women would chase careers over families. If it was up to me, if I became

  424. president, which I can't because I'm an immigrant. I would have statues erected all across the

  425. land of mothers. We should prize mothers. We should lift up mothers. We should thank mothers.

  426. Mothers are the building block of an entire nation. A lot of evolutionary psychology is

  427. bunk, regressive sexism. The female of the species is quite often the more promiscuous. This is

  428. the whole sex in the city nonsense. This is the whole hate men. They're bad for you. By the way,

  429. when I say feminism, I'm not talking about equal pay for equal work. I'm not talking about what they

  430. first said feminism was in 1960. Who's going to argue with equal pay for equal work? But what

  431. that quickly morphed into, which was brief promiscuous, forget being a mother, forget being a family,

  432. go out there and be a girl boss, be a career woman, be oppressed by a corporation so you're not

  433. oppressed by some man. And now it's not just the dad that's paying taxes. It's the husband and the

  434. wife that are paying taxes. And the government just found the way to double its income.

  435. Why is this? Why did I could have talked about a lot of things? I might get to Zionism next Sunday.

  436. But why did I put feminism? I'm dealing with this spirit right now. Just in New York City, young people

  437. are frustrated. Men are now going, I don't want to be with another woman because they're so different.

  438. I mean, they were always obviously different, but like they're angry and they have these weird,

  439. weird, like psychological hangups. I'll get to what women think, too. And so what are they doing?

  440. A lot of unsafe men in their 20s, they're getting high off a weed, they're playing PS5 Xbox,

  441. and they're hanging with their bros, and dating has gone, this is true, dating has gone down the

  442. toilet. And you know what else has consequently gone down the toilet? Procreation, making babies,

  443. and there is an attack on the patriarchy. Even if you say patriarchy and you go, what do you?

  444. What do you think of? You know what I think of when I hear patriarchy? I think how God wants it,

  445. holy good men, loving their wives, helping bring up kids, creating stability, creating a protective

  446. environment. It's how God initiated it, how he orchestrated it, it's what he's called us to.

  447. But then I have to hear about toxic masculinity. And then we get a mayor who puts as the head

  448. of the fire department, a woman who's never even been a fireman. You know what to be a fireman,

  449. you have to be able to carry your own body weight up six floors. Any woman want to give that a shot

  450. with me? No, I'm on the six floor, there's a fire, I want some good ol' faction, toxic masculinity

  451. coming up. I need a hero who comes, rescue me. I want five men, six foot two and above, six

  452. pack ripped, put me over their shoulder, run down. Man and woman are equal before God. You see that

  453. in the scriptures. God took Eve out of Adam's rib from her side, not from his skull so that she

  454. should lord it over him, not from his heel that he should lord it over her, but he made them equal,

  455. equal in worth, equal in value, but not equal in function, where that shouldn't again be controversial

  456. to say, where design with different purposes. And so they're not interchangeable, but this extreme

  457. feminism treats men and women like they're interchangeable. Do you know, I don't believe there should

  458. be female cops? I don't. Do you know that if you look at the scriptures, that's the woman

  459. in the army, woman as police officers, woman as firemen, that's the sign of a curse on a nation.

  460. That's the sign of men failing and not doing their jobs in a curse coming upon a nation.

  461. So why don't you believe, I think you're a little sexist. No, stop it. Stop your nonsense.

  462. I just how many videos have you seen of one man and three or four female police officers trying

  463. to arrest that man? And the man still gets away. Men are physically stronger. It's a biological

  464. fact and it's very hard to argue with biology. Worship team, that was a great time to come up.

  465. Here's what the women say, by the way, and they're right. The women have a trouble because they'll

  466. say, hey, we're all the strong men. It's a bunch of girly men, a bunch of pansies. They can't make

  467. a decision. They got no guts. They got no courage. They've been feminized. Well, look at the

  468. programming they've been under. They show any kind of strength. They're slapped back into play.

  469. Oh, toxic masculinity. Don't assert yourself. Don't be aggressive. Let me tell you something, men.

  470. Look at the disciples. Look at the men that Jesus wrote in the book of Acts. You know what they

  471. were? There were one hair away from being barbarians. We should all be like David, warrior poets.

  472. You know what? Meekness is biblical. Meekness is strength under control.

  473. Strength under control. Somebody came in here to harm us. What do you think? What do you think I

  474. would do? You think I would duck? I promise you I would be leaping over. I would take him. I would

  475. race our armed security to get him. And that should be every man in here. Keep it under.

  476. Meekness strength under control. But don't let them snip you, man. They're coming. They're coming

  477. with their hedge clippers. They want to snip you. They'll let them snip you.

  478. And would that strength be fiercely loving? Be fiercely holy?

  479. Defend what God entrusted into your care. Amen. Didn't plan for that.

  480. But our men need to be emboldened because they've been so confused and so messed up.

  481. They don't know what a man is anymore. And the media is responsible for that. Look at Jesus.

  482. And don't look at Catholic Jesus. Don't look at blonde hair, blue eye, pretty hoidy toyty. Look at the

  483. real biblical Jesus. The one who flipped tables over. Back to the bone. They're looking at him with

  484. hate and murder daggers in there as they go to destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it

  485. up before Abraham was I am. They come to arrest him. Peter whoops out his sword to defend him.

  486. He goes put away your sword. Don't you know if I wanted I could pray the Father and he was sent

  487. seven legions of angels come here to defend me. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

  488. Church, this is a worship team. They're good. This is a hairy subject.

  489. It comes out. How it comes out. I pray the Lord make it make sense to you.

  490. But since you did so well with this, this was just like the beginning. I'm going to do I'm

  491. going to do a sequel next Sunday. And we're going to tear some of these idols down. Amen.

  492. Heavenly Father, we pray we have the wisdom of the sons of Issaqar.

  493. We pray we have the wisdom of the sons of Issaqar to understand the times.

  494. To do as you would have us do. To build as you would have us build. To think about this world

  495. and the things around us as you would. I thank you that your blessing rests upon every person

  496. and may it be increased and magnified in Jesus name. Amen.

  497. Thank you, Jesus. We're going to worship and honor the Lord with our tides and offerings, shall we?

  498. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you so much.

  499. Victor, can you jump up and help too? Don't ever let a woman work alone.

  500. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

  501. So the giving information is on the screens to my left and to my right.

  502. Give with a glad heart. Give in faith if you have a physical gift there's offering boxes

  503. around the sanctuary you can give just by way of QR code. I really I just left my heart and so

  504. I preached my guts out. I don't even know how to receive this offering. I'm going to have to

  505. believe God that is going to touch you and you'll find a way to give. All my words are gone.

  506. Here's the purpose of this. It's at least get you thinking and the more the more you think about

  507. this the more you'll realize that the media absolutely hates you and it's the number one enemy to

  508. us right now is the media. The media and big tech and big Ed big education.

  509. And you know why else this is important because if you have an unbiblical worldview you think how can

  510. God bless that? How can God bless that? If you if you if you believe in critical theory and you

  511. believe you're oppressed? How can how can prosperity work in your life if you got it in your

  512. head that you're oppressed? How are you going to raise your kids? Kids we're here in this country

  513. but really they hate you and you're going to grow up in a country that secretly hates you and

  514. your your kids are now messed up because you're messed up or you can say you know what I see that I'm

  515. free and there's opportunities that abound more so than another it's still the United States is

  516. still the most upwardly mobile country there is even with all the damage that's been done

  517. you can still come in an immigrant from Yugoslavia plant a church and then hit it in Bitcoin

  518. that was opportunity I mean what a weird what a weird weird channel a weird story there's so many

  519. somebody there's so many opportunities I talk about mine and the channel I went down and

  520. there's channels still being developed do you know in the next five years there's more money

  521. that's going to be made because of the AI robotics revolution they say 10 times more than the

  522. digital revolution of the info revolution with the internet I pray that you're on the right

  523. side of that so in other words what I'm saying is I'm preaching this because error has to be

  524. knocked out of us in order for us to be in a place where we can attract blessings if we're

  525. thinking wrong if we're seeing the world wrong we're going to be receiving wrong hallelujah

  526. ministry team if you would go to the area on my left you're right

  527. those altos are still good right three-minute rule if you want prayer for anything anything at all

  528. go over there and our ministry team would love to pray with you and for you

  529. and I really made did a terrible job receiving that offering I feel like I just gave birth

  530. but I just want to say please those of you who are at that place of maturity those of you who aren't

  531. at that place of maturity get there get there so you can receive better where you where the tide

  532. is holy unto the Lord that's it have a blast in your life groups and we'll see you next Sunday be

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