 and we welcome everybody. Before I open the scriptures, I wanna just introduce something that we're gonna talk about. Something we talk a lot about in our church is a person of the Holy Spirit. You know, when I grew up in the Pentecostal church and in the Pentecostal church, we heard about the Holy Spirit. We were taught about the Holy Spirit and a lot, there was a big focus and some of you who didn't grow up in a religious environment, you will relate to this. It was a very big focus on speaking in tongues and I remember being, you know, younger, always wanting to get that gift of being able to speak in tongues when I pray. And at a certain age, when we came to the United States, I received that gift and it was so wonderful. It was so precious. It was really, really awesome. But to me, the Holy Spirit was not like a, like when I would talk about Jesus, I knew Jesus. He died on a cross for me. I couldn't get Jesus confused with the Father. Like Jesus was like Jesus. He died on a cross for me. He's my Savior, he's my King. God the Father, I mean, he was very, very dear and very special. But when it came to the Holy Spirit, I would always use words like God because Holy Spirit and Jesus and the Father was always like a mixture. And until I met my wife and she would always talk about the Holy Spirit and she always used the word the Holy Spirit. And I was kind of like paid attention to it a few times. And so after that, I tried to be a little bit spiritual. So anytime I would say something like some miracle happened, I would try to say, well, it wasn't like, not that Jesus didn't do it, it was Jesus' name, but it was to the power of the Holy Spirit. And a few weeks later, I would go back to just saying, God, God, God on everything, everything God. And I started to pay attention to my own walk with God. And I started to realize that I'm missing something. I know Jesus in a very personal way. He's my savior. I know God the Father. You know, he's my father, he's my creator. He loves me so dearly that he sent Jesus. But when it comes to the Holy Spirit, it seems like I always get confused. I'm probably not the only one. And other people would say the word Holy Spirit, just that word, and he just always reminded me of the fact I'm confused about this. I know who he is, and at the same time, I don't. We were taught, when you speak in tongues, you get the Holy Spirit and all of the power. And I spoke in tongues, and while I had the power to not smoke, but so is atheists and a lot of other people don't smoke, without the Holy Spirit. And when I was speaking tongues, I would feel the presence of God. It would be so awesome, so incredible. But there was just like, you know, there was this lack of things that we see today. And I think it was last year, that something started to personally happen to my life where the person of the Holy Spirit started to become just more real and distinct. Well, it wasn't this kind of like just God, you know, just God's presence. But it was as though when I would talk about Jesus, my savior, you know, it's a person that I'm talking about, and when the same thing was happening, when I would talk about the Holy Spirit, it started to happen. The same thing as the Holy Spirit became more of a person, kind of like Jesus. And being filled with the Holy Spirit before it was more like this, if you pray in tongues and you reach that little level in tongues, and those of you who have that, you kind of know what I'm talking about. You just go all crazy, ecstatic, your veins almost popping out, and you're really, really, really, really loud. Tears are rolling down the ice, and you're just like speaking 300,000 miles per hour. And it's that feeling, it's just so good, it's so awesome. And that's what I would define as being filled with the Holy Spirit. And last year, of course, through a lot of teachings, I started to understand a little bit more that it had very little to do with speaking in tongues. Speaking in tongues is a gift from God, but you can be filled with Holy Spirit without even speaking in tongues. And many times when the Holy Spirit will fill you, actually, you wouldn't want to say anything because it will be so overwhelming. And that Holy Spirit is a person in tongues is a good gift that God gives us, and it's precious when we have it, if you don't have it, ask for it, God wants to give it to you, but the Holy Spirit is more than that. And so today, I just really want us to understand one thing is that we can know Holy Spirit a little bit more. All of us actually have a relationship with the Holy Spirit. Some people have a dysfunctional relationship with the Holy Spirit. Just like all of us have a relationship with our parents, even if some of your parents, you haven't talked to them in the past 20 years, you still have a relationship with them. That relationship is called dysfunctional, distant, or we like to say it, complicated, which simply means let's not talk about it at all. And that's how many people have a relationship with God. That's how some people have a relationship with Jesus and how many Christians have a relationship with the Holy Spirit. It's the word complicated. And God doesn't want us to have a relationship that's complicated. God wants a relationship that's growing, a relationship that's thriving, a relationship where you can sense the Holy Spirit's voice when you're praying. And not only just thoughts coming into your head and you're like, well, this is Holy Spirit and everything is the Holy Spirit, no, no, no, no. But you actually could see that as he's leading you, there is results. As you're praying for people, there is answers. As you are talking that God begins to move. I remember watching a story of Catherine Kuhlman. Catherine Kuhlman is a woman. She passed away a long time ago, about 1975 or 76. I don't remember exactly. And so she was one of those people. God really touched her. And one day she started to really just pursue the Lord and pursue more of God. And she decided to study the topic of the Holy Spirit. So she started to study the topic and teach that topic in her small Bible study, in her school. And so she started to talk about this. The next day somebody comes to her and says, listen, Ms. Kuhlman, I just need to tell you something that last night, as you were talking about this person of the Holy Spirit, I felt a heat and sensation went through my body and it felt so good. And the pain that I had due to cancer, I felt it gone. And next morning I had just a normal meeting with the doctor. I went to the doctor, he examined me and this is the medical report. He found no trace of cancer. And so she looked at her. She looked, Ms. Kuhlman, she looked at this lady and she says, wow, this is incredible. And so that night she felt like, well, I'm gonna keep talking about the Holy Spirit. And tonight, since my faith is in courage, I'm just gonna go ahead and pray for people. She started to pray for people. At the end just saying, Lord, please heal him. The next Sunday, somebody else came the next service, somebody else came and says, I got healed. And next thing that happened, a ministry grew to that extent when the best doctors in United States who are complete atheists and mocking her ministry became front seat supporters of her ministry. People who were doing the checkup when somebody would say, I got healed of blindness and they will check. They were doctors from the best hospitals and universities. And watching a few testimonies this week just inspired me when one scientist comes to testify. And this particular scientist, not only he's an atheist, but he also happened to have a problem with his ears where a nerve in his ears was dead, in both of his ears. He was deaf. And the worst part is that when the doctor examined him, he said that damage in his nerves is so bad that he is not fit for hearing aids. So he comes to her Las Vegas crusade and he completely ignorant and just against all of this. He just comes to mock her. I mean, he's already deaf. He's like, why would you wanna just maybe see God's hell? But he comes to mock her and just kinda like make fun of her because this white lady walks around like all showing up and everything. And so as he is there sitting, a scientist, God gives her a word and she says a word. She says, there is a gentleman right there. And he says, both of your ears are being open. At that very instant that she says the word, both of his ears completely became open. So this scientist comes on the stage and he begins to give a testimony. She says, I don't know how it happened. My nerves are dead. She says, this is impossible. And she laughs at him. He says, I know, huh? Your scientist, explain this to me. He said, I don't believe in this, Miss Kuhlman. I'm an atheist. This is not real. She's like, I know this is not real. That's why I'm asking you scientists to explain for me. And he said, now I believe in Jesus. Our God is alive. And the Holy Spirit is alive. And he heals people. There was another gentleman who came, who was a Mormon who brought up this big tank of air because he had such a problem with Breedy. They had to carry this size tank, not like this small one, this size thing. They rolled that in. If he could not live without this thing, after he got healed, he started to run around, left that tank, walked away from the stage, receiving Jesus. And it was just aspiring to me that the person of the Holy Spirit, his power is real. And you can feel his power. And sometimes people say, well, it's not about the feelings. Whoever says that has never touched an electric outlet. If you ever touch power, it is about feelings. A lot of feelings. Crazy feelings. Amazing feelings. I pray that it will never happen to you. Yes, it's not about feelings about the Holy Spirit, but he's power is real. And I remember when I started to get to know a little bit more of who this person is, the Holy Spirit, and I started to pay attention a little bit more when during worship, during my prayer time, what I would start to actually feel in my physical body, just this like light electricity going through. And before I just thought maybe the hero, the AC was on, or something was happening to my body. And then I start to pay attention that this is actually the Holy Spirit. He is filling me and he is touching me. And at those moments, I would close my eyes. This happened many times today even. I would close my eyes and just connect with the Holy Spirit and say, Holy Spirit, I love you. Reveal yourself to me. Reveal your presence to me. And in this year alone, just personally, as a personal testimony, this is not as some Bible doctrine, as a personal testimony. Kind of when I started to get to know this, we've seen more people, you know, people testify of physical healing and just this year alone, than I've seen in my 28 years of Christian life. Just this year alone. I believe this is only beginning. The testimonies that you've seen and the testimonies you didn't even hear and the testimonies that God is going to do and our leaders praying for people, seeing them healed and seeing them get touched. This is just the beginning. This is just an appetizer where, you know, people's backs and ears, but we're gonna start seeing cancers, tumors, arthritis. This is not for the sake, so we become a miracle church. Come on, put your hands together for Jesus. It's gonna happen. This is for the sake. It's so that when people don't know Jesus, they can come and they can receive Jesus and meet Him in His power, in Jesus' name. Can somebody say amen? I remember one gentleman, one pastor who went to one country in Africa and he got up there. It was just pure Muslims right in front of him and he picked out five blind people from the crowd. He put them on the stage and he asked the crowd, can anybody testify that these people are really, really blind? So neighbors got up and friends got out, you know, and family got up and he asked them, all them, can you guys confirm? They said, yes, we confirm. He said, I give you a bet. If my God, Jesus Christ, whom you call the prophet, I call him God. If He heals these five blind men, you all become Christians. If your God, the Muhammad, Allah, heals them, I become a Muslim. Now that's a very risky thing to take right there in front of them, I mean, and he did that. And he prayed and he had the faith and God showed him to do that. He laid hands on one blind, his eyes were open. Second blind, his eyes were open. Third blind, all five people, their eyes were open. He said, guys, my God already healed them, your God doesn't even have a chance because they're no longer blind. You all have to become a Christian and every single one of them lifted their hand and say, we wanna receive Jesus Christ. That's what miracles are for. They're not for the show. They are to glorify Jesus and to bring people to Jesus Christ because somebody say amen. And that's exactly what God wants to do in our midst. That's exactly what God wants to do to each one of us. This is not just only to make us feel better, though it is his plan and his agenda, but it is to glorify Jesus and to bring people to Jesus Christ because somebody say amen. If you have your Bible, let's just take a look into the scripture of John chapter one, John chapter one and verse 29. It says the following in the next day, John said Jesus, coming toward him and said, behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. And let's read verse 33 also. Johnson, I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said, upon whom you see the spirit descending and remaining on him, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. Somebody say amen. And we're gonna talk today just briefly about this. Many people ask always, well, if you talk a lot about the Holy Spirit, where is Jesus in all of this? How does Jesus relate? What is the mission of the Holy Spirit when we fellowship with the Holy Spirit, when we walk in the Holy Spirit, how does it work with, what is Jesus in all this? And they don't understand many times that God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are one. But I wanna show something from the scripture today, just one thought from this chapter today, is the Holy Spirit is symbolic of a dove in this verse. Holy Spirit is not a dove, just like Jesus is not a lamb. Jesus, he is God, and he came as a person. But in here, John says this is a lamb. John didn't see a lamb, John saw Jesus, but he says this is like a lamb. And Holy Spirit is like a dove, but he is not a dove. So I want you to have these pictures of Holy Spirit as a dove. He doesn't have wings that he flaps with, he is God and he is a person. But I want you to notice in this verse, very interesting picture is the dove comes upon a lamb. A dove, the Holy Spirit comes upon the lamb. Jesus, who would give his life for the sins of the whole world. We must understand this very clearly. The reason why is because this is not the only time where the dove comes upon the lamb. This is actually how the dove comes on all the time. The Holy Spirit, his contact point in your life is the lamb of God. When there is no lamb inside, he cannot come on anything else. If what you have inside is just good deeds, a religious status, I'm a Protestant, a Catholic, a Baptist, Methodist, or Lutheran, or Pentecostal or Charismatic, whatever it is. If that's what you got inside, Holy Spirit cannot come on that. He comes on the lamb. The lamb is Jesus. And it's important to know Jesus, not just as a teacher or like a prophet, like Muslim brothers say, or like just a great inspiring figure in the history who helped the poor. It's important for you and I to know Jesus as my lamb. What does that mean, lamb? See, when you hear word lamb, unless you do farming, this picture means very little to you. For people in those days, the lamb of God, oh, it meant so much. Because once a year, they would bring a lamb. And this lamb, they didn't choose the worst lamb. You know how sometimes you have dogs and cats and you would wish to have a festival once a year where the worst one gets crucified? That's not what was this happening. This was actually the best lamb they have to find. The most innocent, the most healthiest lamb they have to find. And on this particular day, the Passover, they would bring it to the temple where you would confess your sins and the priest would confess your sins and these sins would verbally go on this pure innocent, good-looking animal. And then the priest would take a knife and slice the throat and the blood will gush out and the animal, they did nothing wrong, will die for every wrong thing you did that you just confessed. This happened year after year after year and here is John standing and he says, this is the lamb of God. He said, this is that person who will be the actual lamb upon whom all of our sins will be passed on and God will cause him to die. And for people in those days, this picture meant a lot. Jesus, my lamb has to be your lamb, a lamb that takes away your sin. When he becomes that to you, Holy Spirit comes upon you. Holy Spirit can work through you. Holy Spirit can do something in you. It's amazing that in John chapter seven, just a few verses later, John chapter seven, verse 39, Jesus said, the Bible says, but this he spoke concerning the Holy Spirit whom those believing in him would receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified. The word glorified here, it means Jesus has not been yet crucified. Many times in the Gospel of John, glorified and crucified actually uses simultaneously. Look what it says. The Holy Spirit has not been given yet because Jesus has not been glorified yet. What that means is this, the Holy Spirit wants to work through your life but he waits until Jesus moves out from history as a teacher, as a good man, as a Jewish carpenter and becomes your own personal lamb. When he gets glorified above your past, when he gets glorified above your sin, when he gets glorified above your shame, when he gets glorified above your condemnation and the Holy Spirit says, now I can come when Christ is glorified. See Christ and the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit waits for Jesus to be glorified. What does that mean, glorified? That means inside he has to be your crucified lamb. The one who died for you. When you unwrap that, when you open that up, something begins to happen. The Holy Spirit has an access. See, most of us are accustomed to think the way Holy Spirit moves in our life, if I beat the living lights out of myself, if I hurt myself, if I like, some people go actually physically beat themselves, if I just cry, if I just begin to confess those sins that I told God already 50 hundred times, if I just feel really sorry, if I just walk around with a sad face and then the Holy Spirit comes as, oh, this depressed little child, I love this depressed little child. We somehow think the Holy Spirit loves depressed people. And when he see depressed people, he says, oh, my favorite. I just wanna embrace this person. When you are depressed, beating yourself over the things you've done, feeling yourself guilty, you're gonna attract a spirit. But it's probably not gonna be the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit came upon a lamb, a lamb. Now, we all have plenty of sins. We are not perfect. The question is not whether you have a sin. The question is whether you have a lamb. Everyone has sins, but not everybody has a lamb. And the Holy Spirit doesn't come to those who don't have sin. Bible says if somebody says they have no sin, they're lying, we all have mistakes. But the Holy Spirit comes and begins to work when you begin to put Jesus higher than your mistakes. Jesus becomes glorified. Can somebody say, man, it's amazing when a lamb, the lamb was offered where? In the temple, right? And the Holy Spirit said, we are his temple. Why are you his temple? Because that's where the lamb is at. If there's no lamb inside, let me tell you who you are. You're not a temple, you're a tomb. Constantly beating yourself over, holding on to your sins, living in the memory of your faults, living in the memory of what you didn't do, living in the memory of constantly where you failed at. And guess what happens where tombs are at? Demons are at. We see that in a Bible, a man who had 6,000 demons, where did he live? Among the tombs. When we constantly live in our past, where we constantly hold on to the pain, when we constantly hold on to the guilt and shame and condemnation, something happens. The evil spirits love that. And the Holy Spirit turns me and you into his temple under one condition, when Jesus Christ becomes your lamb. Can somebody say, man? Something happens when Jesus is my lamb. The first thing that happens inside of you when Jesus is your lamb is your light goes off in your head and understanding comes in that God is for you. Now we all know Satan is against us. That's actually a very good news, because that means you and Satan are not on the same team. If anytime the devil gets mad at you or you feel like, oh, the devil's really attacking me, you know what, that's actually a compliment. That just simply means you and him are not on the same terms. That is a very good news. But many Christians do not know for sure if the Lord God is underside. And this is why they don't know for sure, because they've made some mistakes and who didn't, but they've made the mistakes and somehow their mistakes, of course, are worse than everybody else's mistakes. And they feel like God has forgiven their sins, but God also wants them to mature and he wants to teach them some things by spanking them. And when you think like that, guess what happens? Any problem that's gonna come your way, you're gonna immediately think this is God teaching me. He's forgiving me, of course he did, but he also wants to teach me, he is teaching me. Now let's say that this problem is not from God. You won't be able to resist this problem. You won't be able to pray against it. You're just gonna say, Lord God, please help me to endure this as you're teaching me something through this life-threatening sickness. And you're not sure whether God for you or not for you. But when you have a lamb, it makes you very simple. It's very simple. Because you believe Jesus, pay the price, and God, all the anger, all the wrath, all the disappointment God had with you, all of the things that God wanted just, all of that, all of it, poured it on Jesus and has nothing left for you. That's if you have a lamb, took away all my sin. You said, what about if I have problems? It's not God, it's devil. If you don't believe God poured his wrath upon Jesus because of your sin, any problem that happens, you will always link it to God trying to teach you a lesson. And that will do this to you. It will break your spirit inside and you will never know, do I go against it or do I just, and do I ask God to help me? Well, how can he help me? He's the one spanking me. And you will always be confused. You will never have a faith for a miracle. And the foundation of this is this. You have to settle in your mind once for all, all of your sins, all of your mistakes, all of them. Have they been paid for by the cross of Jesus Christ? If the answer is yes, devil has to back off. If the answer is yes, you will say, what about this? What about, but somebody told me, but somebody did that God forgave him, but they still paid for it. Somebody is not your savior. Jesus Christ is. In your heart, you have to settle. He is my lamb who took all of my sin upon himself. All of it, all of it's shame, all of it's guilt, all of it's consequences, all of it's sowing and reaping, all of he took. And if the devil come against me right now, I know I have a God on my side. If I can have a savior, but in the moment of my problem, I cannot lean on him to be on my side. What did he save me from? Hell, how are you sure? If he didn't save you from anything else. What about the hell that's here? He is the one that paid for all of my sin. And I can choose to believe that, or I can choose to believe that Jesus is the lamb, but I sometimes, I need to carry in my own life. Why? Because to prove to God, I am really sorry and to prove to God that I really deserve his forgiveness. And you know what God's gonna do? He will let me do that and the Holy Spirit takes his hands off to do supernatural and to help me fight the devil. And I will endure that disease, I will endure that trial, I will endure that constant lack, that constant failure as God's training. And you will learn something, of course you'll learn something. But God wants you to know, he is gutter than you think. He loves you more than you think. And his cross was enough. The cross was sufficient, can somebody say amen? I know the challenge we have, and this is a challenge I have, is many times we start to believe in that. And it's in the Bible. I know some of you say, maybe this sounds kind of crazy, because that's not what I thought growing up. Well, we have to believe the Bible, not just what people teach us. But when you start to believe what Bible teaches you, that Jesus took away all of your sin, something begins to happen. When things get hard and difficult, you will still have a feeling that God is against you. And that feeling comes from the fact you grew up religious. It doesn't come from God. It comes from the fact you probably have people around you who have told you that. What do you do with the feeling that God has made at you, when you're facing something troubling? Yet you know he shouldn't be, because he was made at Jesus for my sake. He should be happy with me, even if I make a mistake. He should help me, forgive me, but how do I feel when I feel that? I have an example from the Bible that really helps me to personal to deal with this. There was a guy named, in the Bible, named Joseph. And Joseph was like Jesus, because he was betrayed by his brothers. A lot of negative things were done to Joseph. And one day his brothers come to Egypt, and these brothers, they come to Egypt, and because they did something really bad to Joseph, they constantly live with a sense of guilt and shame. Just, ah, we should have not done it to brother. And something happened. Their brother begins to mistreat them on purpose. It begins to create a very difficult situation for them, and as they are, it's kind of troubled a little bit, they cuddle up together and they say, ah, I knew we should have never done this to Joseph. We should have never done this to Joseph, because God now is punishing us. We are being punished for what we did to our brother. Not knowing, in the other room, Joseph is sobbing. They are thinking, God is punishing us for what we did to our brother. We deserve these hardships. This very man, Joseph, who's creating these hardships for them, in the other room, is sobbing out of his deep love for them. He wasn't trying to make their life difficult, and he wasn't even trying to teach him a lesson. He actually loved them so much that when he saw his younger brother, the Bible says he couldn't stand in their presence, get to get a private room to cry. He wasn't mad. He didn't have to leave so he can see in the anger. He had to leave so he could relieve the love so they won't see it. And all of this time, they thought he's mad at us. Not knowing, madly in love. Yes, not mad. Your feelings are true, but they are not truth. Your feelings, that God is so far away. Your feelings that, oh, he might not be for me because look, I just got an accident. I just got pulled over, I got a ticket. Look, I was taking this test and I couldn't pass it. Look, the challenges are with my parents right now. It seems like we're not coming to mutual understanding. Look, I'm just on such a heavy stress and load in school. Things are so hard in my work that God just might not be on my side. That is your feelings. They might be true, but remember, your feelings are not the truth. Job fell like God was against him. At the very same time when God gathered hell and demons and the devil and he bragged about Job and Job stinking, God is so against me. God is so against me and God in heaven throws a bragging party for Job. Your feelings are not the best indication of how God feels about you, period. It's what he says and what he thinks and it's what he feels. It's not what you feel about God because somebody say amen. And once some of you will get married, you will know this to be true. Because one thing about being married, a benefit of being married to a female is many times you will discover how true and real their feelings are and how those feelings can also be very wrong. Your feelings can be very strong and very real. And at the same time, very wrong. And if you can be okay with that, you will know one thing. I'm feeling down. I'm feeling like God is letting me down. But I know he's on my side. I know in whom I have believed. I know my Redeemer lives. Can somebody say amen? I just wanna encourage you tonight to let you know God is for you because of Jesus. Because of Jesus, he's on your side. And if he's on your side, any sickness you're facing, any disappointment you're facing with God, you can overcome. Even if God forbids, certain things don't happen. Maybe certain things don't turn around. You know what turned around? You gained somebody on your side. It's one thing to fight the devil. It's another thing when you think you're fighting God. When you're not sure of God is on your side, you don't need to go to someone. You need to go to the Bible. Take the verses where God said, I condemn you not. Think in them so deeply until a faith arises inside of you that the cross of Jesus Christ was enough. But there's one more thing you need to keep in mind. As you begin to believe in this, that Jesus' sacrifice is enough. You gotta be careful of two more people. One person is you. You is because you are sometimes your own worst critic. It's when you begin to guilt trip yourself. When you begin to punish yourself. It's when you, like Judas, could do something really bad to Jesus, feel like I can never come back to Jesus. I've disappointed him so much and it would be better if I hang myself. And some people hang themselves emotionally. Some people hang themselves mentally. Some people hang themselves spiritually. They may never do that physically, God forbid. But they will hang themselves in every area of their life because they feel like this is the way they can please God by showing to him, when I am in pain, you must be happy. God said in Hebrews 11.6, once for all, you wanna make me happy? Trust me. And sometimes that's harder than hurting yourself. Trust me. Don't hurt yourself. I already did that. There is no need to do that. Just trust me and everything is gonna be enough. God made it very simple. There's no need to beat yourself. Why did Jesus die on the cross for that? You have to receive that. You cannot be your own worst critic. If God forgave you, why do you think you're better than God not to forgive yourself? If God who is holy, the Bible says in Job, finds faults in angels. Standard is so high and he forgave you, all of it. Do you think you're better than God? Your standard's higher than God's. That you cannot forgive yourself. Somehow you're bigger. When you tell yourself, I can never forgive myself for this, I will never, how could I, how could I? And when you go into that route, what you're telling God is the reason why God, you forgave me, you have low standards. I, on the other hand, have high standards. Don't be God. If God gave it to you, give it to yourself. Just receive it and say, you know what? If God is so holy, could forgive such a wretched person like me, I'm sure I'm not so holy. I could forgive myself as well. Can somebody say, man, can somebody put your hands together for this awesome Jesus? But there is one more thing. But there is one more thing. Not only God is on your side. Not only you have to, because of Jesus, now be your own advocate. Means you're not against you. You are for you. I know this may sound weird for some of you. But it's better that you get up in a mirror every day and you're saying, you know what? You're handsome thing. You're the best thing that I've ever seen in my life. And I had the best time with you last night. And I'm gonna live with you till the rest of my life. And honestly, I just like you. You're successful, you're handsome, you're powerful. You're just gonna make the best person. You're gonna make a difference. It's better that you do that instead of getting up in the mirror and say, you fat ugly little thing, worthless, you nobody, you'll never amount. And look at your eyes, look at your nose, look at your cheeks, look at it. You don't have a lamb inside. You got a goat inside. You got a demon inside. You got to get the demon out. When you realize Jesus died for your sin, the first thing that comes is God is on your side. It gives you so much pressure. Remove so much pressure. But you know another thing that gives you? It helps you not to be your enemy. You already got demons against you. Why do you need to be against yourself? You already have an enemy to fight. Don't make it difficult for yourself. Can somebody say amen? But there's one more person that I'm gonna end on is when you receive Jesus as your lamb, you have to be careful of people who have a memory of your past. But don't have an understanding of your lamb because they will constantly bring you back to what you did. And they will remind you what you did, who you did it with. They will question constantly the genuineness of the changed life you're living right now. Some will actually stand on the side and tell you this. We'll see how long this will last. And that is the devil speaking to you in the human English voice. You may say, oh, that's not possible. Ask Jesus when his own apostle Peter said, Jesus, don't go to the cross. And Jesus looked around. He said, you devil, get behind me. If you only do not learn to discern when the enemy is trying to pull you down. You're walking free from drugs. You're walking free from party. You made some mistakes, but you know Jesus has forgiven you and you're trying to make the good life. And somebody comes along and says, oh girl, I remember when we did it. I know this whole religion thing. It will wear off in a few months. Call me after it does. Guess what you do? Under your breath, get behind me, Satan, in the name of Jesus. Satan, in the name of Satan, carrying the voice of Jose out in Jesus' name. Shaniqua, out in Jesus. Whatever it is, whatever name and the voice it's using, you got under your breath, you gotta say, this is not from God. This is from the devil. Can somebody say amen? When apostle Paul was going through a shipwreck and he finally survived, he gathered the sticks together and the Bible says that he's trying to help everybody and a snake comes out and bites his hand. And the moment it bit his hand, the people around started to say, he must be a murderer. See, he was supposed to die in a sea, he survived. And now the fate does not allow him to live on. It found him here, he's gonna die. Paul could have said, oh my God, these people are prophetic. How do they know I used to kill and persecute Christians? Oh my goodness. I know God has forgiven me. I know I wrote a lot of the Bible, but I think this is God trying to say, hey Paul, I've forgiven you. But there are certain things you gotta read for what you sowed. You murdered Christians. You're gonna also have to die like this. Paul didn't do that. You know what Paul did? The Bible says, he shook it off. And after he did, all of those people had a change of mind. They said, oh my goodness, Paul is God. That's exactly how people will do. They will always say, you're worthless. You slept around, you're a slut, you're a pervert, you're a womanizer, you're just worthless, you'll never, anything. You just, anywhere you come, trouble comes and they will always label you like that. And if you let that sink in, that viper will kill you. Shake that viper off. Sometimes you gotta delete those text messages. Sometimes you gotta deblock that person and say, you know what? No, no, no, no, no. I am redeemed, I am justified, I am forgiven. And Jesus Christ is my redeemer. I may be a single mom, but listen, I am not a lone person. Jesus is on my side. I may have done this and that, I've made mistakes and everybody in the city knows, but so did Peter, denied Jesus and a month later, he was a pastor of a apostolic church. People who say, I cannot go to the church, why? Well, the leaders of the church used to do such a bad things. I feel bad for you because if you would be alive when Jesus started his church, you wouldn't be able to go to Jesus' church because Pastor Peter denied Jesus just 50 days ago. Can somebody say amen? Be careful of people around you because they are sent by the devil to bring you down. Walk forward with God. Do not look behind. Let people say what they wanna say. Remember, haters gonna hate. Can somebody say amen? And walking who Jesus says about you, make a difference, don't try to prove anybody wrong because most likely if Jesus after his resurrection did not take a trip to Ferris's house and say, hey guys, I gotta prove to you, I am alive. If Jesus couldn't prove Ferris is wrong, what makes you think you will? The best thing to do is to leave those people alone. Focus on reaching the lost. Focus on reaching your destiny and focus on living for Jesus Christ. Your past is behind you, your future is in front of you and the most important, holy ghost is on your side. Can somebody say amen? Can somebody say praise the Lord? Can somebody say if God is for me? Say if God is for me, who can be against me? Say if God is for the nation, who can be against her? Can you answer that question? No one. Don't ever say no one. Don't ever say I'm for you. Say I'm not the hater. I believe in you. So you're gonna make a difference. And when you make a difference and make a lot of money, you'll share it with me. Come on, let's put your hands together for Jesus Christ. I want you to bow your heads right now. Just close your eyes, bow your head just for a moment. Close your eyes.