 Who's excited to be in the house of God? The name of God today, our God is created to be. I want you to do the same thing in the second century, just to come forward right in front of the screen. Just come forward. We're just gonna pray together right now. If you're saying, you know what? God is calling me to pray for the purity of my family. I want you to just come forward right now, especially those of you who got dressed and white today. And this is just our stance today in this generation, where it's perversion, where it's anything goes, where craziness goes. We say we stand for God's truth. We stand for purity. We're here today to say, Lord cleanse us. Lord purify us, Lord make us. Jesus, we wanna love you. As we just make your way forward, we're gonna pray right now together for the families. We're gonna pray first for our life. Come on, let's fill these altars right now from the back to the front in the first century, in our second century, just make your way forward right now. And I'm gonna pray with you right now. Those of you on live stream, drop that heart emoji if you're ready to pray with us. And I'm gonna pray as well. And so just in a moment. But before we pray for our families, could you place your hand on your heart right now? The Bible says, those of pure heart and clean hands will see God. The Bible says, those of us who ascend the hill of God, in other words, those who wanna be close to God. God says, I want you to be of pure heart. Jesus says, blessed are the pure and hard for they shall see God. We cannot be pure in ourselves. David says in Absalom, he says, Lord, cleanse me. He says, purge me with Hissab, that I will be clean as white as snow. And God wants to make your heart clean. It's easy in this month to point a finger at the world, to point a finger at the rainbow, but at the same time not to examine our own ungodliness, our own lust, our own pornography, our own perverted thoughts, our own things. And today our goal isn't to make our church legalist. We're not legalists. The goal isn't to exalt tradition. The goal is to exalt the Holy Spirit. Jesus, the word of God. Holy Spirit is holy. And he wants to produce holiness in your heart. I wanna challenge you every man and every woman right now as you place your hand on your heart. I want you to close your eyes and I want you to say, Holy Spirit, give me your holiness. Holy Spirit, give me your purity. See, Holy Spirit, give me your righteousness. Holy Spirit, sanctify my mind. Holy Spirit, I wanna live holy in this polluted crooked generation. I don't wanna be contaminated. I don't wanna be religious or a legalist, but I wanna be pure. I wanna live righteous. I wanna live holy. Come on, open up your lips right now. Begin to tell the Lord, say, Lord, make me holy. Lord, make me righteous. Lord, give me your gift of sanctification. Come on, from the back to the front. Those of you in the second century, begin to release your prayer to God. Begin to ask Him for that right now in Jesus' name. Father God, we pray today in Jesus' mighty name. I pray for purity. Lord Jesus, we pray for purity in Jesus' mighty name for everybody right here. Lord Jesus, for their families in their hearts. Lord Jesus, I pray for their minds. Lord Jesus, purity. Lord Jesus, I pray that the Holy Spirit comes into their hearts. Lord Jesus, I pray, Lord Jesus, pour your Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, that purifies our souls, our minds. Lord Jesus, that frees us from any, any demonic thoughts, any demonic spirits. Lord Jesus, that are raining over our hearts. Lord Jesus, I pray that the purity of the Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, that leads us through you. Lord Jesus, that gives us visions and opens our eyes to you, Lord Jesus. I pray that purity reigns over everybody right here. Lord Jesus, I pray that purity reigns over everyone's family, Lord Jesus. Whoever they're praying for, whoever they're crying out for, Lord Jesus, I pray your spirit comes in Jesus' mighty name. I pray that your Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, changes things in Jesus' mighty name, purifies things, Lord Jesus, anything that they're struggling with, any purity, Lord Jesus, that they need empowerment in Lord Jesus. I pray for the Holy Spirit to come in Lord Jesus. In Jesus' mighty name, Jesus' mighty name. Thank you Lord, we ask you right now for the purity of our hearts, purity in our hands, Lord. We ask you God, that right now, that we just, we repent of any lust, we repent of anything that looks like the world that offends you, Lord. We repent of any ways, lies that we have embraced, Lord. We repent of things that we embraced out of fear of being called with names, Lord. Today we commit our lives, God. We're not gonna worship the idols of our culture. We are gonna worship you, Jesus, you died for us. Lord, we ask you that your blood will cleanse us right now, that it will purify us right now, Lord. We wanna be more like you. Your word says, as the world is getting darker, you want to have your light upon us, God. That we have to be different from this world. That we have to be distinct from this world. You are holy, God. Your angels cry out, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. We wanna have your holiness. We wanna have your righteousness. We wanna have your purity, God. I want you to lift your hands right now. We're gonna pray for our families. I want us to right now pray for your family. Pray for your children. Pray for your father, your mother. Pray right now for your cousin. Pray right now for your siblings. Especially, maybe those who are away from Jesus. Maybe those who have embraced the alphabet lifestyle. Maybe those who have embraced perversion. Maybe those who have embraced alternative sexuality, alternative gender. Begin to say, Lord, open their eyes to the truth. Lord, open their eyes to the truth. Lord, I ask you right now that you will bring holiness and righteousness, repentance in their life. Lord, let our children be beacons of hope in this generation. Come on, lift your hands right now. Begin to pray for your family. Pray that there will be beacons of truth. That they will be sold. That they will be like in this generation. Pray that God will heal whatever trauma they are going through in Jesus' name. If Jesus will make us pure, we don't become pure by ourselves. Your word says we walk in the spirit. We in ourselves cannot be righteous. We in ourselves cannot be pure. Unless your blood, unless your spirit, unless your truth sanctifies us, Lord. Become humbly broken. Become humbly, Lord, God, in your mercy. You said if my people who are called by my name, if they humble themselves, if they pray, if they seek your face, if they turn away from their wicked ways, that you will forgive their sin, that you will hear their prayer and that you will heal their land. Heal our generation. Lord, heal our schools. Lord, heal our teenagers. Lord, heal our children. Lord, heal our families. Lord, heal our purity. Lord, heal our minds. Lord, heal our sexuality. Lord, heal our lives, God. Pleases you in a way that doesn't encourage judgment on ourselves, God. In a way that when we stand before you on the last day, they won't be ashamed. They won't be rejected, God. But they will be pleasing to you. We humble ourselves today, God. We break our hearts over the things that break yours. We recognize we cannot overcome temptation in our own strength. No matter how long we've been in church, no matter who our parents are, Jesus, we need your grace, we need your holiness, and we need your grace and power. Fill us with that, Lord, today. Fill us with that, today, Lord. We stand humbly for your truth. We stand in need for your power to sanctify us, to make us holy and to make us righteous in Jesus' name. If you believe in the prayer that we just prayed, I want you to say amen. Amen. Come on, I want you to put our hands together for the Lord. If you still believe in righteousness, if you still believe in purity, if you still believe in God's definitional marriage, come on, somebody, put your hands together for the Lord one more time. Show your love for Jesus. Show your love for God's righteousness. God's holiness, God's Holy Spirit. Hallelujah! Those of you in the Second Sanctuary, we hear you loud and clear. Amen. Give your neighbor a high five. As you go back to your seat, those of you in the Second Sanctuary, give your neighbor a high five as well, and you may be seated in the presence of Jesus. Come on, somebody, hallelujah, hallelujah. Guys, you're about to watch a trailer from our summer camp that we just had. Our youth is on the way here right now. We will see them in the Second Service. We are so excited. 220 kids or so came out there, so let's just stay, fix your eyes on the screen and then watch the video summer recap. Your choice is coming into this camp to repeat your sin. We'll lead you to change. To a pornography. Praise the Lord for an amazing youth camp. I was telling someone else, someone yesterday that I'm pretty jealous because I never went to a youth camp like that. So with that being said, next year. But we just want to welcome every single person here, and we don't want to thank every single person who trusted our leadership team with your kids and who donated into that. We see that they had a ton of fun, but we also see that they were being radically, radically encountered by the Holy Spirit. Not only did we see deliverance, we saw healing, we saw teens, we saw youth running to the altars and surrendering all paraphernalia, all of their vapes, all of their drugs, the weed, everything at the altar. And that's incredible. We need to give glory to God for that. We're at a time where we're going to ask, we're going to speak about offering. And a lot of you know that we have a new building fund and we just want to share a testimony that a charity called Women and Children in Need donated $13,000 worth of chairs and tables to the vision to supply that for the sanctuary too, but to also continue to pray for the new building. So something that we want to touch on is there's this trifold envelope or trifold thing brochure in the back of your pews. And if you're a business owner today, if you're someone who has supplies, we want to encourage you just to kind of look through these different things. What you'll see in this trifold brochure is that you have the opportunity and the ability to donate specific needs to our new building fund. A few weeks ago, I truly believe that the vision God gave me was for the new building. And it was seeing tri-cities come together in a local community to be able to supply the needs of others that we know. Does anyone know what a surplus means? A surplus means overflow, right? That there is an overflow. And I know that we have business owners here in Sanctuary 1, here in Sanctuary 2, even watching online that God is blessing you, blessing your business. And there is that opportunity where He is supplying overflow, a surplus. And we're just asking that as you partner with Hungry Jen, if to pray about maybe providing what you already have in your overflow, your surplus to come and fulfill one of the needs of the new building fund. And you can see that in these brochures in the back of your pews here. And so let's go ahead and let's go ahead and pray for offering and just thank God that we have the even ability to give to Him. And if you don't have the opportunity to give financially, we are always looking for volunteers to get boots on the ground, to help clean up the new building, to help do different activities. And so we also just want to recommend that. If that is you, if you have the surplus to be able to provide needs, but also have the time to provide labor, we want you to go ahead and to, I believe that there's a QR code, no QR code, but we in the back of here, we have a QR code for volunteers in the brochure. And so go ahead and sign up and get in touch with Paul Gulverakin, who is in charge of the new building fund. So let's go ahead and we'll take our offering, we'll pray in Jesus' name. Lord, I just thank you so much for this time, this opportunity to be here with my brothers and sisters in Christ God. I just ask Lord, as we lift your name up today, as we ask Holy Spirit for you to, for you to just pierce our hearts with what we may be able to give with, if that's our time, whether that's our extra in our surplus God for the business owners, Lord, for those who may have surplus anyways, God. I just ask Holy Spirit that there is a peace knowing that whatever we give to you, that the reward is always greater than the sacrifice, God. I just thank you Holy Spirit for this time, this opportunity for the privilege that we have to give our finances, to give our time to you, Lord. We know and we decree and declare that the new building is a vision that you have instilled in our hearts at Hungry Jin and we decree and declare that it is only a matter of time that we'll see the finances be complete and that we'll see the materials come in in Jesus' mighty name. We pray, amen. Go ahead and set your eyes on the screen for a video. Hey Hungry Jin family, I wanna let you know that on July 16th at 1.30 p.m. we are having a Super Sunday service here at Howard Amon Park. So make sure to save the day. It's gonna be food, fun and family. We're gonna have inflatables for the kids, face painting, and we're gonna end the whole thing with a major celebration for those who are getting baptized in our church. And so make sure to invite your friends, your family members, those who might not come to church normally. Make sure to bring your lawn chairs and your blankets. We're just gonna have a lot of fun in this summer heat. And so make sure to sign up if you need to get baptized at www.hungryjian.com slash baptism. And we'll see you there. Come on, come on. Who's excited for Super Sunday? We're about three weeks away church. And if you have not been baptized, this is the way to do it. It's biblical. We're in the river just like Jesus. So make sure you sign up to come in person. We do not right now offer online baptism. So if you're watching online or if you're not local, we do ask that you make the drive. You book a plane ticket, you come out here and celebrate with us at the Columbia River and get baptized. God is going to move powerfully. Last night we had a powerful prayer line service where there were so many powerful deliverances, healings that broke out. It was incredible. And we have just a short video for you guys to watch of a recap of what happened at that service. So if you can fix your eyes on the screen. What evil have you done to her? I killed her. You killed her. She can't complete it. She's not going to complete your book. Who's responsible for that? Mentored this family for a long time and saw her in the womb. You made a greatest mistake. My letter come to this place. Out! Okay, your name is Alyssa. Alyssa, okay, so your name is not death. The demon that wanted to sabotage your destiny and your purpose has been cast out. Now you can live for Jesus without hindrance. Come on, come on. So we have Alyssa here with us today and she is here to testify to what God did. So could you tell us where you're coming from? So you're coming from Kennewick. Yeah, Kennewick. Okay, so clearly you went through a powerful deliverance last night. Can you tell us what you experienced during the prayer line? What I experienced, I mean, I don't know what that. How was my life before? Well, I came to the prayer line because I had been feeling really anxious and isolated. I just, even with people that I've known my whole life, so I was just, I could depress. I would sleep all day. Didn't want to know about anything or anyone. I quit my job recently because I just didn't have the energy to go to work. Wow, wow, that's powerful that you came all this way from Kennewick. But could you tell us, how are you feeling now? Good, I'm good. Yesterday when I went home, I prayed. Me and my husband, you know, we blessed our home, our doors, our windows, our kids. I prayed with my daughters. It was hard for me to wake up in the morning before because I could just sleep all day. And I would say, God, why do I sleep so much? I sleep so much and I was just tired. Didn't want to do anything. And last night when I prayed, I asked God, you know, wake me up for the service tomorrow. And I woke up by myself at 5.30 and I could not go back to sleep. Praise God, praise God. So we are so glad that God has touched you and set you free. Thank you so much for sharing, Elisa. Come on, God is so good. God is so good. If you have not made it to one of our prayer line services, you haven't been through deliverance. We highly encourage you. We have one the last Saturday of every single month, pre-prayer counseling or pre-prayer ministry starts at 4 p.m. And so we encourage you guys sign up for that and make sure you get out here to do that. And without further ado, we have another powerful, powerful testimony that we're gonna share now. So if you could please help me welcome Philip to the stage. So if you could just state your name again and tell us. Yeah, it's really right up here. But if you could state your name for everybody who's watching online and then where you're from. Oh, hi, my name is Philip. I'm from Eastern Oregon. Thank you so much for coming Philip. And if you could just tell us what was your life like before Christ? I was, well, crazy. Yeah, can you give us a few details? I was trans. I was, can I hold that? No. Okay. Feels weird. All right, no, I was living as a woman for a number of years and I'd been through a lot of stuff, just a really difficult childhood and was raised in a really difficult church and then had some medical issues and ended up transitioning and yeah. Wow, so you grew up in an abusive home in that very difficult environment. You ended up going into like new age and all of that. And so how did God encounter you? How did you go from trans to now being here serving the Lord and embracing the identity that God gave you? Well, I didn't want to. My whole idea was that I would like reach a better level of enlightenment. And so I started doing what many people before me have done and trying to prove God, prove that there was no God and ended up going in the opposite direction. And at some point I was in that process. I kind of tried to meet Vlad so I could attack him and argue with him about. Yeah, it was a number of months ago. And then at the end of that, I just turned out God was real and I reached out and he revealed himself to me and like a series of visions and it was pretty, we don't really have time to talk about it, it was. Well, okay, so you came to Christ but did your life immediately change? Did you immediately transition back to being a man or how was that process like for you? Difficult, actually. Like right in the beginning it was really hard. At first I didn't understand it, right? I was so deep in like a woven blanket of tangled lies that I didn't really, I couldn't understand what was wrong with it and I remember early on I'm asking the Holy Spirit, I'm just like, Lord, what is wrong with it? I don't understand why this is sin. And it was one of those rare moments where he actually spoke to me right away and he was like, thou shalt have no other gods before me and thou shalt not bear false witness. And I realized that I had been making my gender into an idol. I'd been, and then he was, he's like, I don't care about the shape of your body. I care about the turning of your heart, right? It needs to be towards me. Wow, and so that was one of those key moments. And then you shared earlier that there were these other moments where as God broke down the stronghold, these other things like your hair and earrings and could you share a little bit about how God then continued to minister, how it wasn't just one and done in that moment, how it was a process. Right, yeah, no, it was like a long process that was drawn out over months. And I remember early on, I was in Portland and I was just in a super intense state of like dysphoria and depression and I'm, you know, I end up wandering around the city and I end up on the steps of a church and I just sit there and just cried. Because I was just like, Lord, I can't, you can make the heavens and the earth. You can turn some crazy person like me to you. Why can't you just fix things my way? And again, he's like, I am God. The Lord made the heavens and the earth. He made everything according to perfect infinite wisdom. And he knew every if and and and every whatever and so in whatever circumstance and every possible thing, the best possible thing that he could have done for me was to make me as he made me. And so even when it hurt and was difficult, I began to pray and to thank him and to praise him for what he did do and not what he didn't do. And coming against it like that really began to help to change my mind. And that was the beginning of when I stopped fighting it. And then as time went on, sorry, different things would happen. And sorry, I'm suddenly drawn a blank. Oh yeah. No, there was a moment too where I was trying to get clean. I was trying to get more pure and you know, and I was praying a lot and learning to kind of, and I felt like I had a lot of darkness in me still and I was praying about it. And I had to go through all of my own art because you know, I've been working as an artist. And so I had to go through and pluck out and burn hundreds of drawings and paintings and things that I did because they were full of like Pangan, Pagan and all sorts of crazy stuff. And so it was really difficult, you know. And this whole process has been a series of, you know, the Lord asked me to make a sacrifice and it feels like he's asking me to knock down my castle. And he's like, you don't have to knock it down. You don't need to sledgehammer. Just put a match to it. And I'm like, Lord, it's made of stone. And he's like, just do it. And I put a match to it. And it was a cardboard castle all along, you know. And so on the other side of every one of these sacrifices has been a greater piece and a greater joy and a greater connection to my heavenly father. And it's been incredible. And so there came a point, just there's been a whole series of these things. And there came a point where he healed my underlying condition. And then he asked me to, one day I had to take my earrings out. And I was like, I don't want to take my earrings out. There's nothing in the Bible that is wrong with this. And he's like, do you remember why you got them? It was like, oh right. It was the first act of rebellion that I made when I became agnostic, when I left the faith from my childhood. And I was like, the first thing I did was I got a bunch of piercings. And so that was that. And then I just cried about that. I was like, I don't want it. And then the next morning I was like, all right, fine. And so I look, I did it. And then he was like, all right, it's time to cut your hair. So I went in and I went to this barber shop and got my hair cut and ended up telling my testimony to the person who was cutting my hair and she wouldn't let me pay for it. Oh. So. Wow. So God completely transformed your life. And then there was still the aspect of your wardrobe where you had still, you never, you said you never dress super, super feminine but there was still the women's clothes that you were wearing. And how did God miraculously change your wardrobe? Other people pray for me. And my family was praying, I guess. And I didn't know about this until later at like his phone call from the pastor. Like, hey man, I just, do you need anything? Do you need clothes or anything? Like, I just feel it on my heart. Like, Lord wants me to help you buy some clothes. I'm like, fine. So anyway, so they give me some money and then I come up here and I walk into Birmingham Coke Factory and just get attacked. And it was like an agony just trying to get in there and like to pick out clothes. And my mom was with me and I made her miserable but she stuck it out and the Lord was with me and with her and we made it through. And then after that, that really helped because it brought up a new thing that I could repent over. And each thing that he's done has brought me into a greater level of faith. There's always been, there was so much pain and so much distrust and so much concern that maybe God's just gonna drop me. And that's not what happened. Instead, he was kind and faithful and as long as I continue to walk in obedience to what he's doing, to what he wants to do, everything that I need is continually just added unto me, that scripture, you know, Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added unto you. It's true. He means it. And it's been, it's been, you know? Wow. So, I mean, I feel like that last bit was a piece of advice for people watching but could you just share a specific piece of advice for people who've been through what you've gone through? People who are dealing with gender dysphoria are in that community. What would you say to them? I would say, don't be afraid. Don't be afraid, right? You're gonna come up against, even if things are asked of you that sound right now, like they're gonna just rip you apart, those things are not real. I mean, they're real, they feel as real, but when you sacrifice them, when you step onto the other side and you step out in faith and you step out in obedience, the Lord gives you something so much better than the relief that you felt when you transitioned. It's, yeah. Come on, come on, God is so good. Thank you so much, Philip, for sharing your testimony. Thank you. Wow. Yeah, yeah, can we just come on? Let's praise God for that powerful, powerful testimony and there's no better way to lead into what Pastor Vlad is going to be speaking on than that testimony. So if you guys could just focus your eyes on the screen to watch the sermon series trailer. The church. Somebody brought him and they warned me. They said, hey, this person is coming. Can you talk to them? And I mean, I didn't know actually it was a male and stuff. So, because it was a girl that was talking to me and was somebody looked like a girl. And I mean, pretty feisty, pretty angry, like all like fighting. And I was like, man, I'm so tired from preaching. I don't have time to fight. So I sent him to Everett. I'm like, Everett is like, has like a lawyer mentality. I'm like, he'll argue with you. He'll get his point across. I was like, I just don't really at the whole new age and everything. And I was like, I literally wanted to say I'm like, I'm like boy or girl, whatever you are. I'm like, you're going to hell. But I didn't want to say that because I'm like, I'm in church. I'm a pastor, but I was just so tired. And that's how Everett talking. And then honestly, when I heard the testimony today when Dan reached out to me and I did not make the connection. And this morning I asked actually Grace and I said, hey, can I see who's sharing the testimony? Because I've heard of the testimony. I just didn't make the connection. And I said, it can't be true. I was like, no way. I'm sitting here and I'm in total shock of how a person who would come here and we have a photo like argue and like do all of that stuff. And then, and like sit very stiff during the service. Cause when I preach, I could see people, you know how they're reacting. And then seeing today the Lord soften the heart and then begin to heal the wounds and the scars and then begin to restore and break those chains, you know, like from, you know, earrings to the long hair, to the dress, the wardrobe and everything. I think this also is a good encouragement to every parent, every person that is believing maybe for their child or believes for their nephew or niece to be saved and to be converted, to really take this into your arsenal of faith and to stand in the gap. God does miracles. God changes lives. And honestly, it's not too difficult for the Lord. I always tell parents, I said, what you have going for you is this, is a sin never delivers on its promises. Everything sin promises, it fails. Which means it's just a matter of time when sin fails on its promises and the person becomes broken. But the very thing, they defend it, celebrate it, post it online, change their life into and sometimes of course there's still pride and says, but what will people think? You know, I hate to be wrong in self, but after a while the presence of the Holy Spirit begins to convict those moments when the person is broken, when the person realizes, I've been deceived, something is not right that I'm going against biology, I'm going against the divine order and the Holy Spirit begins to probe on their heart and that brokenness when it happens is so beautiful. It's so incredible, amen. And seeing, you know, deliverance from our sister today when the demon was cast out. You know, we came from the summer camp and I went this time, guys, the youth stole my heart. I was only going there to preach one night but decided to go for the first night and they forced me to get on the barrel and dance. I did not exaggerate when I say forced. They put a red, so they have a little thing that there was like four teams, Battle of the Bands, so they put that band inside of my hand and then all the teenage girls and guys physically moved me from the back to the front. I was holding my Bible, I was holding on to the hope that I had in Christ, thinking I could avoid this manipulation. They physically, I'm not exaggerating this, physically picked me up and put me on the barrel. And so, and I had to perform dance in front of this red team that just hijacked me. And so Solomon, the Australian Solomon was in front of me, he said, just do what I do. So I just literally, I just tried to copy. My wife on the other hand was natural but it's because she used to go to clubs before she became a Christian. So I told him, I said, it's not fair. I've never been in a club. I don't even know how to move. My body is as stiff as a two by four. It just doesn't move and stuff. So my wife, she just like boom, boom, boom, boom. And all the kids loved it and I was so stiff. I was embarrassed how stiff I was. But the kids loved it. They loved seeing me being embarrassed. And so, and then I executed my vengeance on them by taping one of them with a duct tape. And I'm just kidding, that wasn't my vengeance. I preached a message on being bound and so many of them start getting rocked by God. The very kid that had duct tape turns out that he was addicted to vaping. So usually when I choose somebody for the illustration I ask the Holy Spirit to lead me specifically to that person that needs that illustration. And right there after that, he was the first person that ran to the front, repenting and came to the bonfire with his vaping. And he says, when I was under that duct tape for 30 minutes, he said, I was so convicted. He says, I need to be delivered. I need to be freed through the stuff into the fire. And nobody forced him. It's the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Another young man was manifesting like crazy. And you know, I came up to pray for him and then I stopped to pray, which sometimes that's what I do when people keep manifesting as I talk to them and as I talk to him, turns out that he was molested as a child. And when I let him through prayers of repentance, all kinds of like literally demonic saliva just all surfaced and the demon left. And he started to testify for the glory of God that he was set free. Kids getting healed, ear infections, they were being healed and other things. They're just, it's just so incredible to see kids encounter God. We had about 220 kids that went there. It was very expensive. We're gonna try to find a way to cut the cost next year so we can have 400 kids show up. There was one family that drove four days from North Carolina to bring their grandson to this camp. Some who flew their kids from different parts of United States to be at this camp. And so I just really believe it's very rare to have a camp where there's a lot of fun. I mean, I'm talking about these kids had so much fun that I was even having fun. But the kind of dynamic services we had, you would think this is happening at some kind of an old school revival. The power of God moving, kids worshiping, pressing in. I mean, service was about four hours long and nobody was leaving. And then this thing happens toward the end. What all of our guys on the sound board, guys in lights, Ryan, others start going up to different kids that start praying and kids starts opening up, crying. Like it's just beautiful when it just breaks out. You know, most incredible thing that touched me. Genesis father, Adrian, he just came from an encounter. So a week ago, he got rocked by God. And so Angela and Adrian were serving there and one of the kids needed deliverance. So he comes to Adrian, because he was a chaperone. He was thinking that he was one of the deliverance ministers. So Adrian, and if you know Adrian, he doesn't talk a lot. Loving guy, he just doesn't talk a lot. So this kid comes to me and said, could you pray for me for deliverance? And Adrian's like, I don't do that kind of stuff. But he doesn't want to disappoint the kid. So he's thinking, just hold on one second. He's looking for any of the leaders, trying to get the leaders to come, but there's no leaders. And so he literally, he starts praying the kid gets delivered. The kid gets up and testifies. And he says, this mighty man of God, Adrian, delivered me. It was so incredible. I said, Adrian, I'm gonna lie now, pray for me too. This was so powerful to see, you know, a man who came just to love on kids and God used him. Cause kids don't care if they see you an adult, they're like, man, you must have the power. And all you gotta do is just don't disappoint them. Let's fake it till you make it, amen. I mean, faith it till you make it, not fake it, amen. Amen, amen. Next Sunday, I'm gonna start a series called Breathing Room. So for those of you who felt like I choked a life out of you by talking about the alphabet community for three weeks, I will give you a breathing room. No, but it's gonna be a series about dealing with stress and anxiety. Make sure you bring somebody. I believe God's gonna really break chains. It's gonna be incredible. In two weeks or three weeks from now, we are gonna do a water baptism. If you've never been water baptized and you're part of our church or you're part of our extended family in the second sanctuary, this is the Sunday, we so look forward. I'm excited to get, I haven't been water baptizing people for like probably seven years. Some of you may say, well, Vlad, you know, you stop being a pastor. No, it's just, we have so many great leaders that do that. But I told our team, I said, put me in the water. I wanna baptize people. So I am excited. And if nobody's gonna sign up, I'm gonna baptize myself in that Columbia River because I am super excited. We're gonna have food. It's gonna be a wonderful, wonderful time for the whole family because summers are hot and we're gonna go and we're just gonna have a wonderful time in the presence of God. Amen, amen, amen, amen. Today, I'm going to talk to you about transgenderism. I'm not an expert in that field. This testimony also gave a good buildup. But I do believe, first of what I wanna do is I wanna address the ideology, what's happening in our culture. And then I wanna address the things that I believe the gospel tells us of with, maybe you identify yourself already as a person of the opposite sex. My message is also directed to parents. A parent came up to me just a week ago and said, hey, I have a child, I have a son who transitioned to be a daughter. And before they came to Christ, they would buy her, him a lipstick, high heels and everything because they got bullied by their child who says, you're rejecting me and if you don't cave to all of my demands, then I'm going to leave or sometimes they even threaten, I'm gonna take my life. And when the parents became Christian, they were very confused. It's very heartbreaking for a parent to be able to experience when you bring a child into this world and you raise them one way and you see them go in a different way. And so, and what they did is after they became Christian, they said, we realized that God didn't make a person like this and they came to their son and they said, listen, we gave birth to a son. We celebrated the birth of a son. Whatever this is happening, we don't always be welcome in our home and we will never stop praying for you. But from this day forward, we don't buy lipsticks, we don't buy high heels and we will call you by the name God gave us when we gave you birth. You can take it or you can leave it. We will never stop loving you. And you know what that boy said, I appreciate your honesty and I appreciate you standing for the truth without being hateful and without being slanderous. And they experienced moments in their house where that boy would break down and cry even though they still identify as a woman, but this standing on God's truth and in love does bring eventually the change in people's lives. But our goal is not to cave to the culture, our goal is to cave to God's truth but also to stand in love, amen. In Daniel, I want you to open with me to book of Daniel in chapter three. And in chapter three of Daniel, we see that this king erects an image of gold and he asked people to worship this image of gold and he said this in verse six, and whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar erect the image and a statue and says you have to bow to the statue and worship the statue. Today in our culture, I believe in America, it's almost like a great Babylon. I'm not saying America is the great Babylon but it's almost like a great Babylon and what God erected in front of our eyes in the last 15, 20 years is a statue that our generation worships and it's a progressive ideology. It's an ideology that washes away the distinction between male and female. It's an ideology that redefines marriage as God defines it between men and the woman. It's an ideology that killing babies is called a choice. It's an ideology where there is a heavy indoctrination for the children and this ideology today is erected extremely high. In fact, Times Magazine said that transgenderism is the new civil rights movement which I believe is a great insult to every black person whose ancestors were slaves. Today there's 107 gender identities as of 2023. In Genesis it started with two. Over years, this was about eight, then there was 70. A few years ago, I think it was last year was 70. As of this year, it's 107 and counting. You know what that tells me? It won't stop with 107. Once you defy God's design, once you rebel against the creator, you go into a spiral road of trying to create a world and it never ends, it never satisfies. You know, we saw when Bruce Jenner who was married to the Kardashians mother, you know, he was a very famous gold medal winner in 1976 and he was the famous person, famous athlete who publicly came out as transgender. Elliot Page from the movie June, you know, who came out and says, my trans identity saved me. It's like a religion. Coming out of the closet is like a public baptism. What we do with baptism, that's what it is. Don't make no mistake. This is a religion in our culture and the ideology is this statue that we worship. And this lady who said, hey, this lifestyle saved me. A guy from Netherlands is 69 years of age, goes to court and asks a judge to change his birth year to 20 years younger. And this is his argument and we may laugh at that, but this is his argument. He says, I identify as 49. Now you may say that is not right. Why not? Because the same ideology that says you can identify with something if you feel strongly about it should permit a man who is 69 to be registered in his passport as 49. Of course, the judge dismissed the court, the case and said, it's a laughing matter, but why should it be a laughing matter if we let a biological man become a woman? If we allow what I choose to identify with today to become the norm, if my thoughts, my mind becomes the master of my life, then honestly, anything should go. If you identify as a parrot, in fact today, there's a very famous trend going on among young people who identified themselves as non-humans. There is this guy who actually went through 14 surgeries, plastic surgeries to make himself look like a tiger. David Avner, he spent $200,000 on these surgeries. And after a while, when he still didn't feel happy, $200,000, 14 surgeries, but it wasn't enough. He commit suicide. I can tell you one thing. Once you leave God, you leave his standard of truth, no amount of surgeries, no amount of hormone, it doesn't satisfy, it doesn't fix that because if it would, $200,000 would make me happy. It would make you happy, but if those $200,000 and 14 surgeries are trying to fix a problem that's inside, no surgery, no hormone pills, no mutilation can fix that because only heart can be fixed, now with the doctor's knife, with the creator's touch. Though this is not relevant to transgenderism, but I had two eye surgeries. I know what it's like to feel on the inside a one way that you're displeased with God. And I was born this way. Physically, I felt not right in my body. I did not like my body. I did not like the way I was made. And my parents saw that, I was bullied in school and I wasn't necessarily depressed or stressed out, but my parents wanted to make my life easier for me. And before 13, I had a first eye surgery in the Ukraine and it wasn't effective. We came to United States and it was difficult for me to make friends and it was all, I was convinced the problem was my body. My body is the problem. If I could fix my body, everything will be fixed inside. But see, God's way of fixing people is slightly different than going from the outside in. It's going from the inside out. My second surgery happened and nothing really worked. The doctor offered me a third surgery. He said, in the third surgery, we will tie your eyelid. It will look straight, except when you sleep, one of your eyes will be open. I said, I might look crazy, but I'm gonna be really crazy if I'm gonna sleep. I'm gonna imagine me married to my wife and she looks at me, ah! During the night, what is this? Sleeping with a zombie. And I was like, yeah, I'm insecure, but I'd rather be insecure than be a zombie. I was like, nah, it's fine, doctor. I love you, man. But I'd rather just keep my insecurity. And honestly, the Lord didn't fix my physical eyes. He fixed my heart. Something changed. I'm still in the same body. Now, do you think that I would prefer another body? Yeah, of course. I probably would mind some of your bodies. Yeah, I wouldn't mind having a different one. This is the best that I can make, but honestly, one day, I will have a glorified body. Until that day, I am not my body. Do you know why I know that I'm not my body? Because on my funeral, my body's gonna be there. I won't be there. And they're gonna say, Vlad went to be with the Lord, yet this what you see today will be in a casket right in front of you. That means the real me is not what you see. The real me is what is talking that you can't see. And so when the Lord started to help to set me free and say, Vlad, you are not the skin stretched over the skeleton, you are the real being called the spirit, you have a soul. You happen to live in the house called the body. Imagine your body is like a duplex. Some of you live in a crappy duplex, but you're not a crappy person. Some of you live in the shack, some of you, you live in the tent right now because it's hot outside and you're saving on rent, but you're not a tent, you're living in the tent. And so we as Christians, while we honor our bodies, we take care of our bodies, our bodies is not our master. Our minds are not our master. Our master, his name is Jesus Christ and we submit to him with our mind, with our body and with our life and we trust that he is a good God and he knows better and he renews our mind and he transforms our life. He doesn't change his word to accommodate the weaknesses of our mind. Somebody say amen. And I believe that this Babylon today is building a statue and this statue is this ideology. But you know, I want you to notice that another thing about this Babylon is this Babylon had a statue and this ideology that we have in our culture as it happened with Babylon, so it's happening right now. Anybody who wouldn't worship gets penalized. Today you get censored, you get attacked. Today you get fired. In fact, one doctor in London got fired for refusing to not use preferred pronouns. A French teacher got also kicked out of school for refusing to not use proper preferred pronouns. In New York, they just released into a law that New York City, you can be fined $250,000 for using improper pronouns due to transgender laws. What does this mean? Identifying intentionally failing to use individual's preferred name, pronoun or title, as a businessman or a property owner, you can be fined upwards to $250,000. Enforcing dress codes, uniforms or grooming standards that impose different requirements based on sex and gender. So like on our stage, I don't let our guys wear earrings. And Philip just confirmed my theory. Because a lot of guys, when they wear them, you can fight me arm and tooth and nail and everything. I believe it's beautiful on the ladies, I think for gentlemen, that's not on our stage. It's the way our house, it's our etiquette, it's our ethic, it's not about salvation issue, it's about the etiquette. Now in New York, I can be fined $250,000 just for that. If you enforce certain dress code based on gender. At the same time, failing to provide an employee health benefits that cover gender affirming care or failing to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals undergoing gender transition, including medical appointments and recovery where such reasonable accommodations are provided for other employees. In fact, National Institute of Health said intentional refusal to use someone's correct pronouns is equivalent to harassment and violation of one's civil rights. University of Colorado said using a person's pronouns is the most basic need they have to feel safe and to exist in public spaces. So it's interesting because if you don't worship this ideology, this is not optional. A community that screams for tolerance only wants your tolerance toward them. But if you were to stand by your convictions and say you know what, I don't believe that's what the Bible teaches and I cannot endorse a lifestyle because I would be literally lying. If I would be calling you with a different name, that simply means I would be acknowledging that your gender is not based on biology, your gender is based on your idea. And I can't in my conscience agree with that. I don't agree with that. And so now today, if you would not agree with that and stick with your consciousness as a person, what begins to happen is you are a person that is labeled as somebody who harasses, somebody who is a bigoted, you're called with all kinds of names, same thing happened when you didn't worship the statue, you get penalized, you get attacked, and you face judgment. Now, I know it's controversial, I know it's sensitive and for those of you if this is triggering you already, that's not my intention, to be unnecessarily offensive. But I do believe that as Christians, one of the commandments in the Bible is to speak the truth. We are not for lying. Lying is not acceptable for a Christian. To speak something that is not true is breaking one of God's commandments. I don't believe that a person's gender and their gender identification are separate. For me to be forced to say that it's separate would force me to lie. And I want to please God, not just to cave in to the demand or the bullying of our culture. As Christians, and I understand this may come a little bit sensitive for some people, the calling people by their pronouns, we believe is speaking something you don't believe is true. Even Jordan Peterson, who is not a Bible-believing Christian, he said, I studied dictatorship for a very long time, for 40 years. And they all started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory. You have to understand where former Soviet Union, ruled former Soviet Union territory. They had a propaganda. Their idea was this, is you had to subscribe to that propaganda. You had to believe in that propaganda. And of course, a lot of people, what they did, a lot of Christians, what they did, is this, is not to cause problems and not to cause, not to stand out. The last thing they wanted is to be called with names and to be people who rebelled against the state. So a lot of Christians, what they would do is they would honestly just kind of bow their head and they say, I'm gonna bow my knee to the statue, but my heart is not bowing. That's how many Christians are doing today. They say, man, I don't wanna be called with names. I don't wanna lose my job. I don't wanna be perceived by the culture as those people. And so what we do is we get bullied into silence and we simply say, I just wanna have peace with everybody, I just wanna love everybody. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna just compromise a little bit. I'm just gonna go along with the flow, but in my heart, I'm gonna stay true. And maybe if that is your position, I'm not here to judge you. I am here to challenge you. And I do believe God is raising up a remnant. Like Daniel, Shidrach, Meshach, and Abednego. They were not rebellious. They were not trying to fight. They were not staying the cursing that statue. They were not there saying, no, we won't. They were not like, all nasty and all arrogant. They simply came to the king and they said this to the king. That's something that really inspired me and I wanted to inspire you. They said this, all Nebuchadnezzar. We have no need to answer you in this matter. Their job was at stake. They were in politics. They were in the government. They were getting good money. They had a good reputation. All they had to do is bend the knee. But they said, we don't need to even tell you to their boss. They said, if this is the case, our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace. And he will deliver us from your hand. But if he will not deliver us, we just wanna make sure that you know, all king, we will not serve your gods. Nor we will bow to golden image you've set up. And he gives them a second chance. He says, I'll give you one more time to do it right. And they say, you don't have to waste the second chance. And then he scares them. He says, I'll burn the furnace seven times hotter. And these boys, they were thrown into the furnace of fire. Over what? Refusing to bow one knee. How hard is it to bend the knee? But somehow these Hebrew boys knew it's breaking the first commandment. We don't worship idols. We worship God. And as Christians today, we don't worship the ideology of this world. We worship God's word. We worship God and we stand on God's truth. And you may say, but why pick a fight over this? Because this is not about tolerance anymore. What this is about is domination. Silencing you, bullying you and causing you to say something you don't believe is true. And if you think for a moment, oh, but I'm just being loving. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 13, love does not rejoice in iniquity. It speaks the truth. The idea that love is to tolerance, that is not biblical idea. God's love is what he did on the cross. God didn't put all of our sin under the carpet. God punished our sin on the cross. That's love. Oh, but we just want to make peace and I get it. We all want to be peace. We don't want to be unnecessarily disrespectful or stand or any in our offensive. But the Bible says, be at peace with everyone as much as it depends on you. That means there will be times where you cannot be at peace. For example, if your spouse is cheating on you, you can simply say, well, you know, I'm just gonna be at peace with them and let them do what they do. There are certain things that you cannot pay for to achieve peace. You're gonna have to stand for the truth. And sometimes you might lose a little bit of peace. But as long as there is peace in your heart, love in your heart and you stand for the truth, it will be worth it at the end. Amen? Oh, I'm not gonna get a lot of amends today. It's all right. Martin Luther said, peace if possible, truth at all cost. Peace if possible, truth at all cost. We don't take part in deception that leads people into the dark path. I watched one lady who was professor, English professor in a university. She was also a lesbian, openly lesbian activist, very, very loud, wrote books about it. And in 1999, she had an encounter with Christ. She got saved. And then she went actually everywhere, preaching about purity and everything, but she actually encouraged all the Christians to use the preferred pronouns of the transgender community as a way to build a bridge. Recently, she came out in her blog and said, and this is a professor. And she said this, why I no longer use transgender pronouns and why you shouldn't either. And so, and she is very Calvinist, reformed. And so when I was reading her, I was shocked how very, very strong words that she said. And she's a lady who lived in that sort of a community. And she said this, she says, why I used to encourage people to kind of cave in to the culture, just like, don't make a scene. And she says this, why it was. It was a carryover from my gay activist days. I wanted to meet everyone where they were and do nothing to provoke insult. Now, of course, somebody reads this like, why not? Of course, I wanted the same thing. I'm not a fighter, I'm a peacekeeper. And she said this, she says using transgender pronouns is a sin against the ninth commandment and encourages people to sin against the tenth commandment. Using transgender pronouns is a sin against creation ordinance. Using transgender pronouns is a sin against image bearing. Using transgender pronouns discourages a believer's progressive sanctification and falsifies the gospel. She says using transgender pronouns cheapens redemption and it trembles on the blood of Christ. Using transgender pronouns fails to love my neighbor as myself. And she says, that's according to her, she says transgenderism is satanic. We who once promoted pronoun hospitality lend false credibility to wolfish theology that fails to protect the sheep and instead it eats them alive. I wanna encourage you as parents, as leaders in the community, to stand for God's truth. I wanna encourage you to love people and to understand that if we as a culture today as Christians, if we bend our knee to the statue, to the ideology, it won't stop there. It won't stop there. We have to stand on God's truth and on God's morals. Now something that I wanna highlight for us as parents. In Genesis 18, 19, if you have the scripture there I want you to read it and there's gonna be right on my screen. Genesis 18 and 19, it says this, for I have known him in order that he might commend his children and his household afterwards, that they may keep the way of the Lord to do righteousness and justice, that the Lord may bring him to Abraham, what he has spoken to him. About 5% of young adults in the United States, so young adults, not the general population, say that their gender is different than their sex assigned at birth. According to Pew Research, 1.6 million of Americans now identify as transgender. The largest share being from the ages 13 to 17. Nearly one in five transgender out of the transgender community are teenagers from 13 to 17. Research shows that transgender individuals are younger on average in the US population. Youth from ages 13 to 17 are significantly more likely to identify as transgender. 1.4% as compared to an older generation 65 and older 0.3. You have to understand one thing is that before Daniel could refuse, or the three Hebrew boys refuse to bow to the idol, the three Hebrew boys and Daniel, they refuse to eat the diet of the Babylonians. Babylonians had their own diet and it was offered to idols. And Daniel said, we won't eat this because it's not right before God. So they refuse the diet and then they refuse to bow. You must understand that Babylonian culture we live in today, before it asks you to bow, it first seduces you with their diet. Their diet is the doctrine. It's the ideas that people subscribe to. And we as Christians must understand that this idea of gender ideology, it's not very old in the United States. In fact, the person who really pushed that forward, his name was Dr. John William Money. And some of you have heard of this already and so this will be just a refresher. He's called the father of the transgender identity. He was born at 1921. He's a New Zealand American psychiatrist and sexologist. He was a professor at John Hopkins University. He researched human sexuality and gender. And three things I wanna highlight about him. One is that he is the one that really coined this phrase, that gender is a learned social construct. And I quote, gender was a societal construct malleable from the early age. He emphasized that once gender role, traits associated with once public presentation of gender had to be learned. For example, a woman who wears a dress and high heels is publicly displaying a culturally accepted female gender role, which is a learned behavior. Money, Dr. Money, he was one of the first scientists to acknowledge that once biological sex may not correspond with his or her gender identity. He goes on to say he was one of the people who also advocated for positive pedophilia. Money studied pedophilia in particular and he identified distinction between love-based attraction to children and sadistic pedophilia. Sadistic pedophiles, according to Money, abused and sometimes even killed their victims. But affectional pedophilia by contrast was due to a reticized parental love and Money emphasized that this type of pedophilia had little to do with sex. To prove this, he did a study. And the study that honestly pretty much based his view that a lot of universities even accepted had to do with the little boy of David. David was a twin brother and during a circumcision, circumcision gone wrong and they butchered his male organ. So the parents of David brought little boy David who literally went through the most traumatic experience right now because of his circumcision and they brought him to Dr. Money. And Dr. Money suggested to completely castrate the boy and to give him hormones to turn him into a girl, never tell him he was a boy and to run it as an experiment because his idea was this, that you are a male and you think like a male because that's how culture has conditioned you. But if we condition you differently and we give you medicine and we remove the body parts and make different body parts, then you will pretty much grow up to be a different person because of this idea. And so this David boy gets all of his male organs removed, he gets all of these other hormones in and he gets dressed like a girl, he gets a new name and he gets referred to as a girl and then he continues to play with trucks. He rips all the dolls apart. At comes a point he begins to exhibit anger and anxiety and then I think at around age of 14 they finally tell him that you were born a male and he's like well now I understand they start doing all the surgeries to transition him back. But the interesting part is the case study of Dr. Money still went on to everyone confirming this idea that you can be culturally conditioned into a different gender even though his prime suspect, subject David proved to be wrong. Eventually David committed suicide and it didn't work and David is not the only one that it didn't work for the anxiety, the stress. Now he had a suicide in his family. This is not the only factor that contributed to that but this is what I want you to know is this idea that became popular by this great evangelist Joseph Money is not necessarily an idea that you wanna subscribe to it's not a biblical idea. Why am I talking about this in church? Because the Bible says in Genesis 18, God tells Abraham I chosen you that you will teach your children righteousness. Matthew 28, it says go into all the world and it says this, win souls, make disciples, baptize people and it says this, teach them to obey what I have commanded you. Please understand, people's diet determines their destiny. If our children today are absorbing a wrong teaching that is offered in public schools, that is offered through TikTok, that is offered through Fox and through CNN, that is offered through our schools and through our culture. This is what's going to happen. A lot of them are gonna develop ideas in their mind that were never planted there by God because somebody taught them differently. Daniel refused the eating of the Babylon before he refused to bow to the Babylon. This is why I advocate parents, you are the number one responsible teachers for your children, not the public school. You are called by God to teach your children. You are called to show that this is normal and this is what God teaches them. Don't think that I'm gonna send my kids and the school will teach them. That is not how Bible intended it. God intended for you to teach your children. If you will say, well, they'll learn the truth on their own. Interesting, you don't lay a gun in front of your kid hoping they'll figure out not to use it. There are certain things that we teach our children. We protect our children. Why am I targeting this right now because the most vulnerable age is from 13 to 17. They said that there's been a rapid rise of transgendering in the United States. Rapid onset of gender dysphoria is a phenomenon where development of gender dysphoria is observed to begin suddenly in youth who haven't met the criteria for gender dysphoria in childhood. This is happening a lot among girls, mainstream media influences, chance to gain power against parents, chance to gain recognition, popularity, are among the huge factors of the rise for people to come out proudly as transgender. For some, it's a coping mechanism for trauma and social maladjustment. So right now, because it's popular and it's celebrated, the moment you come out as transgender, everybody, like if you get A's, eh, but you come out as transgender, wow. You're a hero. You're an activist. You're a spokesman. You achieved something. And now if you're going through removing your organs and taking all the hormonal things like everybody wants to hear your process, please post your stuff. The government rallies around you. Funds are given. Companies are celebrating that. And a lot of kids who are seeing this is popular. Also, it's one of the ways to really offend your conservative parents. It's one of the ways to rebel against them. Before, they used to be smoking a cigarette. Now one of the best ways to do that is just to come out a different gender. And it's becoming a popular thing in our culture, not because kids are battling with dysphoria. Some do. But some are simply using this as a trend. And we have to be very careful. Why? Because whatever they eat of, the teachings, they transform people's minds and bodies. The teaching changes people's life. When we teach them one way, they act that way. Jesus says, you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. Not tolerance, but truth. Jesus says, my words are truth. He says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. Jesus says, sanctify them, Lord, by your truth. Your word is truth. What does that means? That our children, that's why we need summer camps. That's why we need children ministry. That's why we need VBS. That's why we need training for young generation. Why? Because the Bible wants us to be trained in God's truth. I know, I would have never thought at 16 that I would dedicate a Sunday talking about that God created us a male and female. But what's happening in our generation today, I have to. Because otherwise we're gonna have people saying, I love Jesus, but not conform to biblical worldview. People that will be like this Babylon. In the book of Revelation, we see that the Babylon is the beast and guess who rides that beast, a harlot. Today churches allow drag queens to come in the middle of the service and entertain children. A boy that's dressed like a woman. I mean, that stuff is in the strip clubs. It's right in the middle of a mass, of a church service. Why is that happening? Because a lot of churches are no longer pure brides. Some churches have become harlots. Let's cave into the culture. Let's not offend anybody. Let's cut the parts of the Bible that cause people to feel uncomfortable. Let's remove the portions of the Bible that give people triggers. Let's just literally be loving, dovey, all of the good stuff so that the culture will come in. Remove the word repentance. Hell, is that even real? The blood, remove the blood, remove the cross. Remove this whole thing that he's the only way to salvation. Why, that's offensive. That's never minded. We don't wanna be the fundamentalist Trump voters. We don't wanna be those homophobic, transphobic and other stuff. No, we are lobby. Jesus loves everybody. He probably has a rainbow over his head. Gee, that's the kind of Jesus wanna present and that church is in bed with the world. You know, the devil doesn't care if Jesus is your side chick. But Jesus is jealous for his church to be exclusively available and pure to him. If you have an affair, the person you have an affair with does not care that you're married. But the person that you're married to cares a big deal that you have a side check. I wanna tell you something that Jesus is zealous for the church. He wants the church to be pure. We're not a harlot. That means we don't sell to the world. We're not friends with the world and friends with God. We love the world. Don't get me wrong. We are here in the world to be light and salt. But what we are not here in the world is to have everybody like us. If that's what we wanted to do, we should have not become Christians. We should have signed up to sell ice cream. And the Bible makes it very clear. He who's the friend with the world is an enmity with God. The devil does not mind. You know, I have a dog. My dog loves to eat my food. But you know what? I can't eat dog's food. See, the world wouldn't mind coming once in a while, even to the church, to gathering like this and say, hey, I love this part of Christianity, this part of Christianity, and this part of it. I love this. I love the generosity. I love the charity. I love the integrity. Yeah, I wanna hire those people. And the world would love to pick and choose different parts like a buffet. But as Christians, we can't take the world's doctrine and begin to consume it. I am not calling the world dogs. I'm just saying it's a different world, different worldview and a different doctrine. If we want to not bow our knee to the culture, we have to not be seduced by its diet. We must not be seduced by its doctrine. The Bible says in the last days, many will depart from faith heating to the doctrines of demons. That means that the enemy will package it. And this is how many will swallow it because it's packaged as tolerance and love and peacemaking. It's packaged like, hey, if you just accept everyone the way they are, never mention repentance, never mention the cross, never mention hell, never mention heaven, never mention the blood, never mention his death. Take all these controversial statements of Jesus out and just keep everything, just something that nobody ever gets triggered and offended and then this way will win the world. Into where? I'll rather be hated because I'm telling somebody to go to heaven and they go to heaven and be loved and somebody goes to the lake of fire and says, why you never warned me? And I said, well, I was scared that you won't like me. Why did you care more about me liking you than me spending eternity with God? So I wanna encourage you, church. The Bible calls us to teach our children, to raise our children in the teaching of God. The further we go, the harder it's going to be. Have a vision for us to start our school at church. To start first for children's school and you may say, oh, you're just trying to isolate from the world. No, I want to prepare our children to live in the world. I wanna prepare our children. We even have right now a vision in 10 years to start a university. One person currently we're sponsoring to finish his PhD. To start a university in 10, 15 years. Why? Because I'm a firm believer. Whoever controls education controls what you do with your need. If we control the diet, meaning what kind of diet people get, it's what kind of destiny they're going to live. If they're gonna be filled with confusion, you can do whatever you want. Love is love. You can gender is fluid. And at first this may sound right. Imagine this idea, love is love. What if I come to your house and say, water is water? The one in the toilet is water. The one tap water is water. The one from the fridge is water. And the one in the bottle is water. Here's a straw. Drink the water from your toilet. Why wouldn't you? I would say, well, water is water. You wouldn't. Why? Because water is water, but not all of it is very pure. Sex is sex, but there's some of it that is not pure. Well, who defines who is pure? Well, for us, we believe somebody who made everything defines what is pure. And we trust his character is good. He loves us. God is not oppressive. God is not trying to limit us. He wants to protect us. And he wants to give us so much good. He's giving us to enjoy and to have pleasure in. The same way you don't tell your kid, you tell your kid not to drink water from a toilet. Why? Because you don't want him to be contaminated, get sick. Plus it's just nasty. But today, if I say that about sexuality, you're harassing me. You're being intolerant. But as a Christian, I'm being truthful. You still with me? What does the Christians believe? We believe that God made a male and female. It says that in the Bible, God created and separated. He separated heavens from earth, light from darkness, water from the ground, animals from humans. Then he made separate genders. When they come together, they make something beautiful called family. Men and women are different at the deepest levels of their being. Our chromosomes are different. Our bodies are different. Our voices are different. Our body shapes are different. Our reproductive systems are different. And what I wanna encourage you with today is not to cave in to the culture, but to submit to God's word. And I'm gonna bring this to an end. The world we live in today is broken. The reason why people are experiencing gender dysphoria, the reason why some people are broken, confused, is because the Bible says in Romans chapter eight, the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope. Creation isn't right. Our bodies aren't right. The way I was born, it wasn't right. It's not the way God wanted it in the beginning. What you see today in the world is not how God created it. It's broken, it's out of joint. If you ever had something out of joint, it hurts. It's painful. When you hear some people and even our brother when he was sharing the suffering and the pain that he was experiencing, that is real. You can't say, wow, that's not real. That's just in his head. That's not just in the head. That's a real suffering and real pain that people experience who deal with gender dysphoria, people who are confused, they are suffering. They are hurting. They're not the only ones. Every human being is broken at the deepest level. The Bible tells us that, that we are broken human beings. Now, of course, because it hurts so much and we don't believe in God, we seek to fix ourselves. And the way we fix ourselves in our culture is through transition. You wanna transition, meaning you wanna quickly change your body to accommodate your mind. And it happens through hormonal therapy and then it happens through surgery by removing certain body parts so you can really satisfy what is happening in your mind. And you can experience a slight relief in your mind. But please understand, the Bible doesn't offer us relief and I know this sounds harsh. The Bible first offers us repentance. Why repentance? Because the one who can fix the pain is the one we're running away from. And if we run to him and say, Lord, I am a sinner because this is how the devil wants to paint God. God doesn't exist. Or if he does exist, he's bad, but you are good. You are good, God is bad. And the Bible says the opposite, that we are bad and God is good. And when we come in repentance, broken, painful, confused, not sure sometimes of our identity, being lied to by the culture, taking this demonic lie into our minds and just being all over the place when we come to God broken, something begins to happen. God doesn't first change the body. One day he'll change our body into a new body. But first he takes our heart and he changes our heart. And then what he does is he renews our mind and then he begins to heal our bodies. That is God's way of changing. If you're here today and you are battling with sexual desires that are contrary to nature and contrary to biblical standards, or you are battling with your identity as a person, maybe you're watching us on this live stream right now and you are struggling with that. Perhaps you were abused, perhaps that you were suffering. I wanna challenge you today that the world's way of saving you and fixing you will not work. It will work temporarily. But it's not a fix, it's like this. Let's say that you have a problem with the transmission in your car. Just your car doesn't work. You're like, well, I know a solution. I'm gonna go repaint the hood. If I can only get a hood to look different, all the transmission problems will be gone. You can repaint the hood, honestly, 107 times which how many gender identities we have today. You can repaint it, 20 layers of code. You can change the tires. There's something you know. It doesn't change the transmission. I know a person who first became a homosexual, but it wasn't enough. And they became transgender, it wasn't enough. Why do many people take their lives who go into transgenderism? Of course they'll say it's because nobody accepted them. But you know what I believe is something deeply broken. It's not only with them. It's with every human being. And those who go through abuse, broken family, something is so broken inside and it hurts. We wanna fix that. So we go to counseling, we go to therapy and today counselors and doctors are being also pushed. Not all, but a lot of them being pushed to bow to this idea. So instead of examining person's trauma and help to lead a 13 year old out of all this confusion, what we do is we ride away, give him pills. We ride away, give him, go under the knife. That's got perfectly working organs so that we can fix that. And if that would fix, the transgender community would be the happiest community. They wouldn't care whatever pronouns you would call them. Why? Because they would be so dissatisfied in their new identity they discovered outside of God. It wouldn't matter what laws say. Communism doesn't have to honor Christianity for Christians to find joy in God. Our identity is so anchored in Christ we don't give a flip. Who thinks about us? What? Why? Because our identity is so secure in Jesus. I don't need the world to come and say, well, you're a Christian, I'm gonna love Christianity. It doesn't matter. You can hate me, not like me, throw stuff at me. I'm a Christian, I love Jesus. I don't need you to like me. But, but gender identity is not like that. It's built, like Phillip said, on the cart box, on the sinking set. It needs everybody to walk on eggshells because it's so fragile and it's constantly, constantly evolving. You know the real problem? It never fixes the real problem. Brokenness that we have as human beings. It's one of the signs of a broken human being that we all have. You know what God did to do that? But before I mentioned that, I wanna read something. Their data survey, even though this is a controversial survey, a lot of people in transgender community do not accept this survey, a lot of them because they only wanna hear the things that people who are joyful, but people who de-transition, like even our brother, nobody wants to hear that story in our culture today. Like stories like that can get you demonetized and kicked out of YouTube quickly because they pretty much saying that's not true. Only what's true is when you transition, but if you de-transition, it's not true. They did a study on 100 de-transitioners and they found out 40% of participants who de-transitioned felt pressure from healthcare professionals to medically transition. 57% of de-transitioners felt their evaluation for gender dysphoria was inadequate. 65% reported that possible contributing factors like trauma and other mental health issues were not considered during their gender distress assessment. Around 45% of these de-transitioners of biological females stated that their mental health did not improve after transitioning. 41% de-transitioned after realizing their gender dysphoria was caused by something other than their gender identity, such as trauma and other mentally health diagnosis. 48% of those participants experienced trauma within a year after experiencing gender dysphoria. Nearly 40% of biological women reported that transitioning worsened their mental health. As the underlying issues, listen to this carefully, were not addressed by gender clinic or therapist. I'm gonna say that again. The Bible says something is broken within a human being at the deepest level. Surgery can't fix it. Otherwise, there will be no need for the son of Jesus Christ to die on the cross. God would send us a surgeon. Line us all up and mutilate us. If pills would solve it, God wouldn't let his son bleed. He would send us a box of pills. If the solution for our deep brokenness was trying better, God would give us a religion. He didn't. He gave us a relationship. 2,000 years ago, a man named Jesus came. If somebody didn't feel comfortable in their body, it was him. He lived for eternity with the Father and the Spirit. Never had a human body he was trapped in. A body that needed to be limited by gravity. His body was never limited by gravity. A body that needed to sleep. He never sleeps or slumbers. A body that gets tired. He never got tired. A body that people eventually started to beat. Roman soldiers would pluck his beard, put a crown on this body, and they would drive thorns into his skull by beating them down. A body that was tied and then scorched. The internal suffering Jesus experienced that when he was praying, before even he was beaten, his blood was coming out, sweat was coming out his blood. This is when the anxiety and the stress and just that distress that was so heavy that he was sweating blood. The kind of turmoil Jesus went through. If you don't think God understands your internal brokenness, God became you. And if there was someone who experienced what it's like to be in something you don't belong in, it's he who took sin upon himself who was forever holy. It didn't click with him. Sin is not his thing. He carried that sin. His body was broken. His mind was filled with heaviness and oppression, rejection. He took all of that as a human being. He let his body be whipped and broken until finally his heart couldn't take it anymore. And it broke and he died. You know why he died? To heal the deepest brokenness inside of you. You know why he died? So that the trauma, the suffering, the confusion that you and I experienced, not liking being in this broken world, me not liking my body. Maybe you not liking your gender. Maybe you not liking this and not liking that. You'll be confused. Maybe you were molested or raped. And now you just, you're afraid of the idea of sexuality, of the same gender or other things. Jesus Christ suffered deeply in his body, in his soul to come and say stop repainting the hood. Open the hood. Let me fix the transmission. Let me take the heart of stone. But he cannot fix you if you don't run to him. The first thing that a lot of us have is pride and we need to come back to Jesus and say, Jesus, I don't understand all of this, but I'm broken at the deepest part of me. Please heal me, please fix me. And when you repent and you place your trust in Jesus, it will be a process and God will take layers by layers. Anyway, when he fixes here, everything else will slowly start changing. When the Lord fixed the heart of Philip, it was layers and other things were fixed. When my heart was fixed, you know, I was convinced my problem was that nobody liked me. All of my friends didn't like me. My prayer was God fixed my friends. They all need to like me. Literally, God needed to fix the whole world before I could be happy. All of my teachers should be giving me, then my problem was with teachers. They all gave me Fs. Then my problem was in English language because I'm Ukrainian, I'm an America God. Make everybody in America speak Ukrainian. You know, everything, as always, everybody else's fault. Everybody needs to cave into me, but when God fixed my heart, something happened. I stopped caring what people thought. I honestly even stopped caring really about my grades and my grades started to get better. I started to care more about my school, more about doing right. The youth group that kicked me out from the worship team stage, I became the worship leader and the youth pastor. The grace start going up, my body got better. Look at how good I'm looking today. I grew a beard, my teeth are wider. That's about all that I can fix. And this little cosmetic update that I did, which is, you know, just found a nice barber and, you know, my wife, you know, she helps me to choose my hair and my clothes and everything and gain a little bit of weight and maybe just a little bit of muscle, not a lot. All of that today is not to fix it. All of that is because something has been fixed already. Interestingly, I was so scared of people. I was so shy of people. Today, I do that for living. I was at the camp, our encounter and there was a young man there. He's kind of quiet on the side and he's like, I went to school with you. I kind of got scared. I said, were you the kid that bullied me? He said, no, but he told me this. He said, I am shocked and that's what you do now. He says, you were the most quiet and shyest kid I've ever seen. He's like, you always went? You sat down and he was 100% right. I just sat like this, did my homework, I put a hoodie on and I just kind of walked. I didn't talk to anybody. He's like, I almost cannot recognize you, but I still have the same body. Something changed here. And I wish I could tell you the church did it. The church did it because I grew up in church. Jesus did it. Holy Spirit did it. He fixes the brokenness. Whatever your brokenness is today, he can make you whole. The goal is not to go from gay to straight. It's from broken to whole. The goal is not to go, yes, God wants to take you and make you according to the gender he created you, but he wants to heal the broken parts of you. He wants to restore you. He wants to heal the broken heart. He wants to remove the suffering and the pain and give you peace that is eternal. This is how Peter, I want you to rise to your feet. This is how Paul and Silas can be in jail and physically they are hurt, but spiritually they're singing songs to God. But we see our teenagers today, physically, money, everything they have and you see they're not happy. Why? Because it's here. The true happiness comes from. We're broken on the inside and Jesus wants to make us whole. Every head bowed and every eye closed. In the second sanctuary as well, I want you to rise. Only through Jesus Christ, you can be whole. If you're in this room today and maybe you are battling or you're far from Christ, whatever community that you come from, the Bible says the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. I wanna invite you today to place your trust in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. I wanna invite you to stop trying to paint the hood. I wanna invite you to come to Jesus, repent of your sins so he can change your heart. He can give you new life and new identity and make you bold, make you the light and the soul so you don't have to swim with the current of the culture but you can stand up for what you believe. If you're in this room and you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, or maybe you're in this room and you have walked away from Christ, today I would like to give you an opportunity to reconcile with God. On the count of three, I'm gonna ask you to raise your hand if you are that person who needs to get saved, who needs to come to Christ. In the second sanctuary and this sanctuary, one, two, three, just raise that hand high if you say I need to get right with God, thank you. Anybody else who say I need to get right with God, thank you. I need to get right with God, thank you. I see your hand, I see your hand. In the second sanctuary, just lift your hand, just lift your hand. I'm gonna pray with you right now. Jesus is not judging you. He already was judged for your sin. The door to mercy is open. The door to salvation is open. The door to God's grace is open right now and He's waiting for you. He wants to wash you, forgive you, restore you and renew you, but you must come in repentance. You can't come proud to God. Those of you who raised your hand or wanted to raise your hand, I'm gonna ask you to do a step right now that's gonna be bold, special after preaching like this. I want you to step out of your seat and I want you to come right here. And I want you to meet me, I'm gonna pray with you. If you raised your hand, I want you to come forward. In the second sanctuary, do exactly the same. Just come forward right now. Come, God bless you, let's come, God bless you. God bless you, God bless you, God bless you. God bless you, God bless you, still waiting for you. If you raised your hand, I want you to come forward. Don't be ashamed, don't be afraid. In the second sanctuary, I'm waiting for you as well. Just come, just come. I'm gonna pray with you in just a moment. There's anybody else, whether you raised your hand or you wanted to. Today is the day of decision. Now is the time of salvation. Let's give our life to God. It's the best decision you will make in your life. To commit to Christ, amen. Once you stretch your hands like this right now, it's like you're receiving a gift. Amen, this is a moment, this is a time. Let's say this prayer together with me. Say, Lord Jesus Christ, I am a sinner, I repent of my sin. I believe you are the Son of God. Who died on that cross for all my sin. Wash me with your blood. Cleanse me, fix me, my heart. I give you, give me a new heart. Give me a new identity, fill me with your spirit. Fix me on the deepest part of me. I surrender to you right now. Lord, I ask you that you will fill them with the Holy Spirit right now. I ask you, Lord God, that your word will become the standard for their life. I ask you, Lord, that your spirit will fill them in Jesus' name. We bless them right now, Lord. We commit them into your hands right now, Lord. In Jesus' mighty name. Holy Spirit, we ask you that your work will be done in their life, in the mighty.