1 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Hi. 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 2: My name is Joey and I'm from Albuquerque, New Mexico, 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 2: and I am here to share my awesome testimony with you. 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 2: This is my first time attending Choose Life Church and 5 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 2: my first time seeing Pastor Jonathan in person. Tomorrow makes 6 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 2: exactly one month ago that I first heard I heard 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 2: my first sermon by Pastor Jonathan. I had relapsed on 8 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 2: alcohol and I was in it. It was a borderline 9 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 2: demonic situation. I was becoming somebody out of control, and 10 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 2: I reached out for help in a place of prayer, 11 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 2: and I talked to my uncle who is volunteering in 12 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 2: LA with the ministry starting up Pastor Jonathan's ministry in LA, 13 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 2: and he sent me a sermon to listen to, and 14 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,520 Speaker 2: I promised him would listen to the sermon. I listened 15 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 2: to the sermon with an open mind and an open heart. 16 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 2: I prayed before it and I received it. The panic 17 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 2: attack that I was having over the drinking stopped. The 18 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 2: desire to quit to drink went away. I cast it 19 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 2: out of my life in the name of Jesus and 20 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 2: stomped on Satan and we said no more. I was 21 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 2: able to go to sleep for the first time while 22 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 2: listening to that sermon. In days, I've gotten a solid 23 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 2: rest and I have not had a drink since then. 24 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 2: Praise God. I do not believe in coincidence. Tomorrow is 25 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 2: my one month at the anniversary of no alcohol. It's 26 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 2: also my one year wedding anniversary. And then there's our 27 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 2: first time coming to this church and seeing this pastor. 28 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,759 Speaker 2: All of those things I believe we're meant to happen. 29 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 2: And I am just so grateful to God that I 30 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 2: was able to hear a pastor who's just following instruction, 31 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 2: doing what he was instructed to do, and which reminded 32 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 2: me that I can do the same thing. Reminded me 33 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 2: of the power that God gave us. And I'm just 34 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 2: so grateful, Thank You. 35 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: We are raising up a family in this church. We're 36 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: raising up a family in Pittsburgh. We're raising up a 37 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: family in Texas that don't just know about God. They 38 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: know God. They've handled his power, they've seen his power 39 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: flow through it. You're coming out of here today carrying 40 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: fresh fire, fresh unknowing thing. Ever to take another backward stamp. 41 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: I titled today fasting in prayer the Price of Admission 42 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: to a supernatural World and an uncommon life, fasting in 43 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: prayer the price of admission to the supernatural world, and 44 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: an uncommon life Luke, chapter four, verse one. Then Jesus, 45 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,399 Speaker 1: full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan River. 46 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,079 Speaker 1: He was led by the spirit in the wilderness where 47 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 1: he was tempted by the devil for forty days. Jesus 48 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 1: ate nothing all that time and became very hungry. Then 49 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:36,959 Speaker 1: the devil said to him, if you are the son 50 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: of God, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread. 51 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: But Jesus said no, for the scriptures say man shall 52 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,119 Speaker 1: not live by bread alone. Obviously, you know there's two 53 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 1: other temptations, but I wanted to do that first one. 54 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: That it's interesting to me that the first thing the 55 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: devil tried to get him to do was not to 56 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: worship him or compromise in any other way. The first 57 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: thing the devil tried to do is to get him 58 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: to break the fast. So, by the way, we've been 59 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: announcing this all along, but you know, we got new 60 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: people watching all the time, and people miss it because 61 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: they have other things going on. Six am to six 62 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 1: pm is the fast. The word for fast in the 63 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: Hebrew is to abstain from food or literally to close 64 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: the mouth from food. Fasting involves food, so there's no 65 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: if you want to go to another church where you 66 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: fast radio for twenty one days or fast whatever you 67 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 1: can do, you can do that you can. You know, 68 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with consecrating yourself to God, or you know, 69 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: I I like doing this a lot, so I'm gonna not. 70 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: I like mountain biking, so I'm not gonna mountain bike 71 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: for twenty one days, and I'm gonna use that time 72 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: to pray. That's great. Anything you do to draw closer 73 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: to God is good and not bad. But fasting biblically 74 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: is specific to food. So leave it to a food 75 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: addicted nation to give you every way to fast but food. 76 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: Find the fast that's right for you. How about do 77 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: the one the Bible says, find the communion that's right 78 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: for you. If you like a vanilla milkshake and a 79 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: Snicker's bar, then make no. You know, you'd be amazed 80 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: how great the Bible works if instead of adding your 81 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: own twist on it, you just do what it says. 82 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: So fasting in the Hebrew, I think it's transliterated tsom, 83 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: and it means to close the mouth from food. It's 84 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: a food fast, So we're doing six am to six 85 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: pm because obviously most people have never fasted, so you're 86 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: not gonna be able to do twenty one days water 87 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 1: or even juices off the bat. Then you think a 88 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: guy like Brock that's to my right, that runs a 89 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,720 Speaker 1: roofing business. You know, don't tell me that six am 90 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: to six pm isn't a fast for him. You know, 91 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 1: they're not roofing by magic powers. They're carrying materials, loading trucks. 92 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 1: So that's something. It's a it's an extreme sacrifice when 93 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: you have a job like that, but it is a 94 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: doable sacrifice. And I watched my brother in La Abel 95 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,919 Speaker 1: when we did the fastback in twenty fourteen. I watched 96 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: him go from one crew to three crews. It was 97 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: him and his brother, and by the end of the 98 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: twenty one days he had three different crews working on 99 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: three different projects within the twenty one days, getting commercial jobs. 100 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: Had just moved here and they were the skinniest construction 101 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: team you ever saw in your life. But God was 102 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: bless them. So I like six to six. It's in 103 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 1: the Bible. It's in Judges, I believe chapter twenty verse nine, 104 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: where the Bible says they fastened until evening and then 105 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: God gave him a breakthrough. They lost the battle, fast 106 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: until evening, went back out and won the battle. So 107 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: it's a real fast. It's something that you can do. 108 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: You know. You hear that, Well, six end to six pm, 109 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: that's no big deal. You'll think differently at two pm. 110 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:41,039 Speaker 1: At two pm you'll start having strange thoughts. I feel 111 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: like I've got my breakthrough for the year. I feel 112 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: like God's done all I've asked on this fast. I'm done. 113 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: So it's doable. But it's a sacrifice. But it's a 114 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: doable sacrifice now, Adalas and I aren't breaking. I'm not 115 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: breaking the twenty one days. I think the Donson's doing 116 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: just water for the first seven. We're gonna do more 117 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: than we're having you do. So if you're like a 118 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 1: super Christian and you say that's too easy, you don't 119 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 1: have I'm not gonna come to your house and force 120 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,679 Speaker 1: feed you every day at six oh one. You cannot 121 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,839 Speaker 1: break if you want. But I want to give people 122 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: something they can do. Can you say amen? And I 123 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 1: don't like the Daniel Fast because people end up paying 124 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: more attention to food on the Daniel Fest than they 125 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: do when they're eating by you know, any fast where 126 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: you buy a special cookbook, you're kind of getting out 127 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: of the flow. And you say, but Daniel did the 128 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: daniel Fest. Yes, when he was He actually did a 129 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: full fast when he was younger, and he did the 130 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: Daniel Fest. Bible scholars say he was in his early nineties. 131 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 1: So if you're in your early nineties, do whatever you want. 132 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 1: You're playing with house money at this point, and actually 133 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 1: on that fast, he wasn't on. One of the other 134 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: reasons it was a modified fast is he was on 135 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:58,720 Speaker 1: a fast until he got his answer. He wasn't going 136 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: for a certain amount of time to go on for 137 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 1: as long as he had to go on. So try 138 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,039 Speaker 1: it my way. This building you're sitting in is a 139 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 1: product of the fast. The properties we own are a 140 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: product of the fast. I've noticed people used to mock 141 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: us fasting, and it's died out and become less and 142 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: less till now. It's actually made me happy to see 143 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: about every church is called Have you noticed about everybody's 144 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: having twenty one days of prayer and festing? Because it's 145 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: hard to look at Paula Nicci's ministry and Bishop la Duppo, 146 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: all these people that do it and see the difference 147 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: between a natural life and a supernatural life is stark. 148 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: The difference between you trying to make things happen or 149 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: writing down three goals to start the year that came 150 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: to your mind when you were watching listening to your 151 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: favorite podcast, and asking the Lord to bless those goals. 152 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: The difference between that and hearing the Lord give you 153 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: a divine instruction. This church came from divine instruction, Jonathan, 154 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: build me a strong church in Pittsburgh. So everything just float. 155 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,679 Speaker 1: See when you try to get God to bless your plan, 156 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: he may, But when you do what God told you 157 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: to do, his blessing is baked into the instruction God 158 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: doesness say, go build me a strong church in Pittsburgh. 159 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: Will you're on your own? Look at La La was 160 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: birthed by an instruction from God. Building there for worth 161 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: building there. When you do things directed by the spirit 162 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: lay once you couldn't do it all in the flesh, 163 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: you can do with ease by the Holy Ghost. And 164 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: I see you having that kind of year in twenty 165 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: twenty five. In Jesus' name, If you receive that clap 166 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: your hands one more time to the Lord. All right, 167 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: So Jesus finishes the time of fastening in prayer, and 168 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 1: the Bible says that, I think Luke four thirteen. Then 169 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: Satan left him alone for a season Luke four fourteen. 170 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: That was four thirteen, I believe, and then for fourteen. 171 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: Then Jesus returned to Galilee filled in the power of 172 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 1: the spirit, or filled with the power of the Spirit. 173 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: And that's what I have notes here. I plan on 174 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: getting to him. I got to him pretty good in 175 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: the first service. But this is the aspect of fasting 176 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: and prayer I want to focus on. He was led 177 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: by the spirit into the fast and returned from the 178 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: fast in the power of the spirit. There is a 179 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 1: manifestation of God's power that you'll never see when you 180 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: sidestep fasting in prayer. You will not find anybody in 181 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: the Bible or in recent Pentecostal history that had a 182 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 1: Signs and Wonders ministry that sidestep fasting in prayer. And uh, 183 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 1: this is what happened with Jesus. And Jesus said, the 184 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: servant is not greater than the master, and the student's 185 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: not greater than the teacher. But the student will do 186 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: what he sees the teacher do, and then will become 187 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: like his teacher. Then they said, if we get to it, 188 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: I'll have it as one of my points that John 189 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: the Baptist Disciples said, John the Baptist Disciples are always fasting, 190 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: and yours are always eating. Jesus said to the groomsman, 191 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: mourn while they're with the bridegroom. No, but the day 192 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: will come where he'll be taken from them, and then 193 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: they will fast. Matthew chapter six. Jesus gave a threefold instruction. 194 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:38,199 Speaker 1: When you fast, when you give, when you pray, not 195 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: if you fast, if you give, and if you pray. 196 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: When you fast, when you give, and when you pray. 197 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: And when he say about fasting, when you fast, don't 198 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: do it in public like the Pharisees that love to 199 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 1: be seen of men. Now we're having a public fast 200 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: as far as the believers go. And we get in here, 201 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: we're talking about fasting. But I'm not going out of 202 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: here to sheets. Boy, I'd love some Mazzarellistics like the 203 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: rest of you are having. I would love a three 204 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: apps sampler, but I'm fasting. No, he said, when you 205 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 1: comb your hair, wash your face. Don't be like the Perseys. 206 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: Don't let anybody know you're fasting. And your father, who 207 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 1: sees what you do in secret, he said when you fast, 208 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 1: and he didn't say he might reward you openly. When 209 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: you fast, he will see what you do in secret, 210 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: and he will reward you openly. Can you say amen? 211 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: I mean the last year twenty twenty four was when 212 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: this church jumped from local church to news I mean 213 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: getting text messages from people in other states. Hey, you 214 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: popped up on my newsfeed. Pittsburgh's newest Mecca church. We 215 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 1: became something that could not be ignored. This is our 216 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: third year anniversary this Sunday. What should have taken sixty 217 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:57,439 Speaker 1: years took less than three years. By the supernatural power 218 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: of God, Jesus returned, filled with the power of the spirit. 219 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: Reports about him spread quickly through the whole region. He 220 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: taught regularly in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. 221 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 1: When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, 222 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 1: he was as he went as usual to the synagogue 223 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 1: on the Sabbath and stood up to read the scriptures. 224 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: The scroll of Isaiah the Prophet was handed to him. 225 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it 226 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 1: was written. This is right after the fast. The spirit 227 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: of the Lord is upon me. I want everybody to 228 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 1: say that nice and loud. Now, fasting in prayer enables 229 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:42,959 Speaker 1: you to say that, and it be real. And let 230 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: me tell you, that's a much better confession than I 231 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:50,559 Speaker 1: battle with alcohol, I battle with anger, I battle with depression. 232 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: Jesus did an unrolled the scroll and say we all 233 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: need a therapy. No, we all battle mental health. No, 234 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 1: that's what you hear in the church. Now with no fire, 235 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: he stood up and said, the spirit of the Lord 236 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: is upon me. For the rest of the year, in 237 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: Texas and in Pittsburgh, you're gonna be able to stand 238 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: up and say, the spirit of God is upon me. 239 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 1: His hand is upon me. I'm not running after God. 240 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 1: His power rests on me, and he lives on the 241 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: inside of me. Spirit of the Lord is upon me 242 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: because He has anointed me or empowered me to preach 243 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to 244 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, 245 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: that the oppressed will be set free, and that the 246 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,320 Speaker 1: time of the Lord's favor has come. He wrote up 247 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 1: the scroll, handed it back to the attendant and sat down. 248 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 1: All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently. Then 249 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: he began to speak to them, this scripture that you've 250 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: just heard has been fulfilled this day. And then they 251 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:00,439 Speaker 1: start making plains to kill him, basically right then, because 252 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 1: the devil doesn't mind if you're a part of a religion. 253 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: This is a book, and there's a God, and he's 254 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:08,319 Speaker 1: out here in his words here. But don't you ever 255 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: make yourself a fulfillment of any of those things. Yes, 256 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: the Bible says in the last days, I'll pour out 257 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: my spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters 258 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,959 Speaker 1: will prophesy, But we don't believe that you, as a woman, 259 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: should speak under the inspirational law. So it's fine if 260 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: it's in the Bible. But when you start saying that 261 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: scripture is fulfilled, I'm actually gonna go and lay my 262 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 1: hands on the sick and see him recover, all hell 263 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 1: will break loose like it did with Jesus to tell 264 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: you to sit down and shut up. But the fire 265 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 1: that God's putting in you today and these twenty one days, 266 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: the devil will never be able to extinguish it. In Jesus' name. 267 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 1: If you believe it, can you shout a living amen? Hi. 268 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 3: My name is Christina Ramos. This is my husband, Sergio, 269 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 3: and I'm sure you just heard our testimony of our 270 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 3: particle sun returning. I'd also like to testify what happened 271 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 3: when we did our fasting and prayer this year. I 272 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 3: had been taking some iyroid medication and some other hormone 273 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 3: medications for probably ten years because I just had lots 274 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 3: of hormonal imbalances in my body. And I decided that 275 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 3: I was going to stop taking my medication and just 276 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 3: put my faith in God to complete me, to completely 277 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 3: heal me. 278 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: It was last year's fast and prayer that I did that. 279 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 3: This year, right after the fast and prayer, I decided 280 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 3: I was going to get my blood drawn again, and 281 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 3: I had already been believing from the year before. I 282 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 3: got my blood work at his work. They do an 283 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 3: annual theme for us, and everything came back perfect, like 284 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 3: I had no issues with my thyroid or any of 285 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 3: my hormones. So then I went to my actual hormonal 286 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 3: doctor in March and I was like, I want to 287 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 3: get my blood drawn again just to make sure. And 288 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 3: then so I did she called me in. She sat 289 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 3: me down and she said, your blood work is perfect. 290 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 3: And I said, yeah, I haven't been taking my medication. 291 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 3: She goes, you have it and I said, no, none 292 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 3: of it. She goes, well, wow, She's like, what have 293 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 3: you been doing. I said, well, I've been fasting, I've 294 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 3: been praying, I've been taking communion. I said, doing everything. 295 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 3: I had to be healed. And she said, well, your 296 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 3: blood work is the best I've ever seen it in 297 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 3: all the years you've came. It's probably the best blood 298 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 3: work I've seen in the area. And she was us 299 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 3: wowed by it, you know, And I said, well, you 300 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 3: know it was God. I gave the praise to God. 301 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 3: And I just want to also say thank you for 302 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 3: the ministry and for Jonathan, you know, putting those teachings 303 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 3: on every single day when he's doing the fasting. We're 304 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 3: very encouraging the books that he recommended. We read those books. 305 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 3: We stood together as a husband and wife and in 306 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 3: agreement for things. We did our prayer points together, and 307 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 3: we just really believed for God to answer our prayers. 308 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 3: And we still do it. I mean, we fast twice 309 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 3: every week. We picked two days and we fast and 310 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 3: we just go over those points, and we just know 311 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 3: that God's faithful to answer every single prayer that we prayed. 312 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 3: And like he said, God cares about what we care about, 313 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 3: even if it's the smallest things. And I just want 314 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 3: to say thank you to Choose Life Church as well 315 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 3: for giving us this opportunity to share our testimony, and 316 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 3: thank you to Jonathan and Adalas for pointing to their people, 317 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 3: and thank you God. 318 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:08,880 Speaker 1: This scripture that you've just heard has been fulfilled this day. 319 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: And then they start making plans to kill him basically 320 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 1: right then, because the devil doesn't mind if you're a 321 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: part of a religion. This is a book and there's 322 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 1: a God, and he's out here in his words here. 323 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 1: But don't you ever make yourself a fulfillment of any 324 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 1: of those things. Yes, the Bible says in the last days, 325 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: I'll pour out my spirit on all flesh, your sons 326 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: and your daughters will prophesy, But we don't believe that you, 327 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: as a woman should speak under the inspirational law. So 328 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: it's fine if it's in the Bible. But when you 329 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: start saying that scripture is fulfilled, I'm actually gonna go 330 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:41,679 Speaker 1: and lay my hands on the sick and see and recover. 331 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 1: All hell will break loose like it did with Jesus 332 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,639 Speaker 1: to tell you to sit down and shut up. But 333 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 1: the fire that God's putting in you today and these 334 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,159 Speaker 1: twenty one days, the devil will never be able to 335 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: extinguish it. In Jesus' name, if you believe it, can 336 00:17:55,359 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 1: you shout a living amen? Verse thirty one. Then Jesus 337 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: went to Capernaium, a town in Galilee, and taught there 338 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:11,479 Speaker 1: in the synagogue every Sabbath. There too, people were amazed 339 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: at his teaching, for he spoke as one with real authority. Once, 340 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: when he was in the synagogue, a man possessed by 341 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: a demon an evil spirit, cried out, shouting, go away. 342 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:24,159 Speaker 1: Why are you interfering with us, Jesus of Nazareth. Have 343 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 1: you come to destroy us? I know who you are. 344 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: You're the Holy One of God. But Jesus reprimanded him, 345 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: shut up and come out of the man. At that 346 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 1: the demon threw the man to the floor as the 347 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:38,600 Speaker 1: crowd watched. Then it came out of him without hurting him. 348 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: Further amaze, the people exclaimed what authority and power this 349 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 1: man's words possess Even evil spirits obey him, and they 350 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: fleet his command. The news about Jesus spread through every 351 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:53,400 Speaker 1: village in the entire region. After leaving the synagogue that day, 352 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,640 Speaker 1: Jesus went to Simon's home, where he found Simon's mother 353 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: in law very sick with a high fever. Please healer, 354 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 1: everyone begged. Standing at her bedside, he rebuked the fever 355 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: and it left her, and she got up once more 356 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: and prepared a meal for them. As the sun went down. 357 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:13,400 Speaker 1: At that evening, people throughout the village brought sick family 358 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: members to Jesus, no matter what their diseases were. Now 359 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: look at that as Jesus. He's one chapter in. We're 360 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 1: still in the chapter of him finishing forty days of 361 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:27,159 Speaker 1: prin fasting, and something is going out from him that 362 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: people if they found out where he was staying, that's 363 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 1: why don't tell anyone where we're staying. He'd never get 364 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: a moment's rest. You know. When Robert Kayanja came to preach, 365 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,159 Speaker 1: he went to Nordstrom at the Ross Park mall, and 366 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:41,639 Speaker 1: when he came back, his son said, my dad so 367 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,880 Speaker 1: enjoyed shopping today because he can't go to the mall 368 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 1: in Uganda if he goes out to shop, everyone sees 369 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,639 Speaker 1: him there and starts bringing whoever's sick over for him 370 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 1: to pray for. You know, Donaldson. I went out to 371 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: eat with Jesse Duplantis on Friday night down in New Orleans, 372 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 1: and we got up to leave. We thought, the way, 373 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 1: we're waiting because we were like taking too long and 374 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: the restaurant was close. They were waiting. Can we get 375 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,120 Speaker 1: prayer real quick before we go? He prayed for them. 376 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: He prayed for the guests in the lobby, and then 377 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: he prayed for more people that were outside that were 378 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: hanging around because they saw him there and they wanted prayer. 379 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: There can be something that takes place in your life 380 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,680 Speaker 1: where instead of demons attacking you, demons start knowing they 381 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,919 Speaker 1: can't hang around when you're around. We don't want that 382 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: in a pastor or in the church staff. We want 383 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:31,920 Speaker 1: a whole church full of people in Los Angeles, in 384 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 1: Fort Worth, here in Pittsburgh. Then when they leave this church, 385 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 1: the devil knows his time is up. Many were possessed 386 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,479 Speaker 1: by demons, and demons came out at his command shouting, 387 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: you are the son of God. But because they knew 388 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 1: he was the Messiah, he rebuked them and refused to 389 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:58,439 Speaker 1: let them speak. Go to a put on the screen. 390 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 1: One Timothy in the NLT Versus one and then verse five, 391 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 1: verses one and five, One Timothy four, one and five. Now, 392 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last 393 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:23,200 Speaker 1: days some will depart from the true faith. They'll follow 394 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 1: deceptive spirits and teachings that come from demons. So the 395 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: Bible tells us that in the last days many will 396 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: depart from the true faith. Now, when I was younger, 397 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 1: I thought that meant that sinners will get more sinful. 398 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: But you can't if I'm going to depart from Pittsburgh, 399 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: where do I have to have been at least once. 400 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 1: So it's talking about people that were in the faith. 401 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 1: The Greek for faith is pissed us. The Holy Faith 402 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: passed down from Christ in the apostles that many that 403 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 1: were once in the faith. A side of the last 404 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 1: days is they'll leave the faith. And I mean, you've 405 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,080 Speaker 1: seen that fulfilled. I lost track at how many ministries 406 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 1: collapsed last year. They left the faith. When you start 407 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 1: thinking it's okay to go to sex parties regularly in 408 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: Dallas and you're still in the ministry, you've left the faith. 409 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:09,680 Speaker 1: It's a deception. 410 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:10,119 Speaker 3: No. 411 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: I know we tell, but it's different from me. I 412 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,959 Speaker 1: don't have to do that. Now go to second second 413 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: Timothy three, verse one, and then verse five nlt tewod 414 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 1: Timothy three one and five. You should know this Timothy, 415 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: that in the last days they'll be very difficult times. 416 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 1: What days are we in right now? What's one of 417 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: the signs of the difficulty. Because the next three verses 418 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 1: deal with what the world's gonna do, then this one 419 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: is not the world. Five. They will act religious, but 420 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 1: they will reject the power that could make them godly. 421 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: Have nothing to do with people like that. They don't 422 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 1: want that now. I don't mean I didn't bring it 423 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 1: up last week, and I'm not gonna bring it up much. 424 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 1: But behind the scenes, we don't have this recorded or 425 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,679 Speaker 1: anything for court. This whole thing with the church is 426 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: not about noise. It's been said behind closed doors. We 427 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 1: don't want those people here. We don't want that kind 428 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: of church. That's a call. We don't want people falling down. Look, 429 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 1: even in the news articles, they're speaking in tongue. The 430 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 1: devil doesn't mind religion. Religion is what America has. You 431 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,439 Speaker 1: drive by twenty one churches to get to the one 432 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 1: you're going to, and they're all empty, soul winning less, 433 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,159 Speaker 1: healing less, don't believe in power churches. The devil doesn't 434 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 1: mind if you build a million churches. He want to 435 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: mind a for revival. Today. Bible Institute grew to two 436 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,880 Speaker 1: thousand students, and we turn out a bunch of people 437 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 1: that did a podcast every week criticizing healing, criticizing power, confused, 438 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: affirming sexual immorality, affirming sin. He doesn't care about that. 439 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 1: But when a group of people make up their mind, 440 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get the same fire that they had in 441 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,679 Speaker 1: the Book of Acts, what Jesus received out in the wilderness, 442 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: but the world still has yet to recover from. That's 443 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 1: what I'm gonna get. I'm getting it now. Then the 444 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: devil knows his time is up. That's what we're contending for. 445 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:16,399 Speaker 1: In Jesus Mighty Name two Timothy three to five. They'll 446 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:21,920 Speaker 1: have a form of godliness, King James's form of godliness, 447 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 1: n Altsa's act religious. They'll act religious. The Pharisees were religious, 448 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,120 Speaker 1: the Sadducees were religious. They all have the same books. 449 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 1: Jesus didn't have his own set of scrolls. Jesus was 450 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:41,479 Speaker 1: reading Isaiah. They were reading Isaiah. But Jesus had power, 451 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: and they had no power. They couldn't cast out demons, 452 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,439 Speaker 1: They couldn't heal the sick. So what did they do 453 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 1: once Jesus started casting out devil's and heal the sick. Wow, 454 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: your wigh is the right way. No, they said, he 455 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: can do these things because he's full of the prince 456 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: of demons. Religion hates the power of God. Some of 457 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,399 Speaker 1: you used to drink yourself blackout drunk, and your Christian 458 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 1: family never said one word to you about it. But 459 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 1: then when you start of come into this church, the 460 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 1: same people that never had a problem with you getting 461 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:20,879 Speaker 1: blackout drunk, I don't like that you go there. Oh, 462 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,399 Speaker 1: never said one to any one thing about clubs in 463 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 1: the Strip district wherever. But then all of a sudden, 464 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 1: it's amazing how religion actually hates. There's people that would 465 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: kill Jesse do planets if they could get away with it, 466 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 1: that are pastors and think they're doing God a favor. 467 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: There's no hatred like religious hatred, where people think they 468 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,639 Speaker 1: could murder and get away with it. They went to 469 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: push Jesus over a cliff several times. No, but it's 470 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 1: okay because he's doctrines off See. I don't have religion, 471 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 1: John MacArthur. I don't know what he thinks about me. 472 00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 1: He said he's anti healing. On that I heard. He's 473 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,239 Speaker 1: in the house. I pray he gets better, even though 474 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 1: he might not want me to pray that he gets better, 475 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: because I don't know if he believes in praying to 476 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,479 Speaker 1: get better. But I'm not wishing people that serves him 477 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,480 Speaker 1: right now. I don't feel like that about anybody. I 478 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,879 Speaker 1: want him to be healed. I want people to have peace. 479 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 1: I want people to have what Jesus. What Jesus has 480 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 1: for him to have. Ten young preachers could come start 481 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,679 Speaker 1: a church in the Moon Township. I'd send him an 482 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: offering to help him get started. What are you doing here? 483 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,400 Speaker 1: Who gave you permission to be here? I don't have religion. 484 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: I have the Holy Ghost? Can you say amen? I 485 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 1: was reading a little bit this week about Smith Wigglesworth 486 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: because one of my friends sent me an article. You know, 487 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,640 Speaker 1: Angelus Temple where we're gonna launch our church in Los 488 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: Angeles on March first. That'll be March first, twenty twenty 489 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 1: five in about the same time of year nineteen twenty seven, 490 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: ninety eight years before, he held three weeks of meetings 491 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,399 Speaker 1: there with his daughter on his tour of the United States. 492 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: Same with him. People picketed because he was teaching people 493 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: that the stuff that's in the Bible didn't die. That's 494 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 1: what the devil wants you to think. Healing died, died 495 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: with that was all. Back then, guys used to walk 496 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 1: around with shining lights over their head called halo's when 497 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 1: when you read the Bible, Peter was nothing. Peter outside 498 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:22,120 Speaker 1: of the anointing was a bumbling whatever you want to say, 499 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 1: useless person. You gonna catch any fish? I mean, had 500 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,439 Speaker 1: the nerve to complain to Christ, we lift everything to 501 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 1: follow you. Yeah, how were you doing when I met you? 502 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 1: You had fished all night and had caught nothing. Bunch 503 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 1: of hapless people that then in the anointing. In the flesh, 504 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 1: nothing good dwells. But when man or woman connects with 505 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: God and he fills them with his spirit, they become 506 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:50,159 Speaker 1: containers of God's power and become an impactful person to 507 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,399 Speaker 1: their generation. I see you taking that place. I see 508 00:27:54,520 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 1: you taking that place today. Do you believe it shout, 509 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 1: I receive it