BREAKING THE GENERATIONAL CURSE OF POVERTY

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Welcome to the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast. To stay connected, go to revivaltoday.com. And now here is Evangelist Jonathan.

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I want you if you have your Bibles, open it with me to Deuteronomy chapter 28. Great to be home with you. If you're watching online, I'm gonna be back in South Carolina. That meeting, that church is five months old. It had 180 people on Sunday. We were at 395 Monday night, which set the attendance record. And then 425, I think. I think it was 420, but I don't want to say it because then people think about smoking pot. And then uh then 540 Thursday, and then 631 uh Friday. I think it seats 500. So it's it's an amazing meeting. And um they asked if we could, yeah. They asked if we could go week two. It's a Russian church. I think they they say Slavic so that people don't get um don't not come. But uh it's all it's all it's all Russian. So it's pretty pretty amazing. We get along great. They're very cold and insulting, and they don't get their feelings hurt, so it's like a match made in heaven. Happy crowd today. Deuteronomy chapter 28. Now, I'm not gonna read this whole chapter for two reasons. A, it's extremely long, it's like 68 verses. And then uh, but the main the main reason is verse 1 to 14 is the blessing. 15 to 68 is the curse for disobedience. And if you read that, even I've tried it before, even if you tell the crowd up front, this is the curse, we're not under the curse, it just starts getting, you just see people getting very depressed. And so we don't have any volume out in the lobby. So I'm gonna show you some parts of the curse, but I will read the full blessing because it's very encouraging. Deuteronomy 28, 1 to 14. If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all his commands that I'm giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the world. You will experience all these blessings. Everyone say, I will experience all these blessings. You know, it'd be it's amazing to read the Bible and just act like nobody ever told you parts of it aren't for today, or I mean, I guess to read it at all is amazing. Why did, if the Bible's so clear about blessings following obedience, I mean it's the it's not a difficult concept. Blessings follow obedience in the Bible, curses follow disobedience. So why did it become controversial to tell people that there's blessings for following obedience? I mean, literally, the sub, it's like you gotta go to Bible calls, the it's the subheading is blessings for obedience. And then they'll tell you, well, these people tell you that if you serve God, life's gonna get better. Yeah, it will. You take two people in this crowd, if I had two volunteers, and I said, now here for you, here's some heroin and uh crack cocaine and uh alcohol, and I want you to do this every day, and I want you to mistreat people, and I want you to not obey laws. And then I told another guy, obey the law, avoid drugs. I mean, basically everything they tell you in school. The one guy is going to prosper, and the other guy is gonna go to jail or die. He may not happen today, but it'll happen. There's blessings. God laid this book out, not just to get you to heaven, but to tell you how to live on planet earth. Well, what happened, and I'm not gonna get into a historical study. I think I might have done this in the 8 a.m. service last week, but I can't remember. Yeah, last week. Was uh why did people start to teach? Where did it become controversial? Well, we know in the book of Acts, all Christians had the Bible. The Bible says that the Christian in the book of Acts, the Christians in Antioch were a better breed of Christians because they would take the word and go back home and study if what Paul was saying was true. Now think of that. When they went back home and took their own word and studied to see, is what Paul saying true or not? Paul didn't find out they were doing it and say, hey, I heard you guys are taking your own Bibles. Bibles are for me. You just do what I say. No, they commended them. They said that in the Bible it says they were a better breed of Christians. Well, around, I don't know when, 400, 800 AD, they started keeping the Bible chained behind the pulpit, written in a language that no one spoke or understood. My mother, did you go to Polish Catholic Church with my mom in Washington? My mother told me that they not only did the Polish Catholic services in Polish, but in an antiquated Polish that no one understood. So how how how often would would you guys go to church? Once a month? Every couple weeks, like you guys. So uh, yeah, average averages one service every 1.9, I think, in America. So they went often. Now think of this now. This is this is like insane. I'm not picking on the Catholic Church. I'm I am picking on the Catholic Church, but I'll pick on everyone if you if you stick around. Uh to go to church once every couple weeks, roughly, and no one in the family is born again. Nobody knows anything about Jesus. That that is so wild to me. Like it's one thing if people are gonna go to hell because they're like, you know, I hate church. Drive by give the building the middle finger, all those people want us your money. Okay, you made your choice. But when people choose to go to church and never are even told, you know, about the basic message of Christianity. Neil, you're hearing stuff in a language. That's that's what, that's how Satan wants it. He wants the word of God to remain dark to people. So when that happened, we have what's called the dark ages. Oman, or not Oman, uh uh Yemen, Somalia. We could name other countries. There's still any place where there's no penetration of the word of God, there's no advancement. When the Bible comes in, the Bible, you you, the Renaissance, what happened? What preceded the Renaissance? You had uh people publish the Bible, get it in people's hands, and within a handful of years, people now paint. People make, instead of like just structures to keep the rain out, people start doing architecture that's like still studied today. Because the Bible makes the God part of man come alive. All men were created in the image of who? God. And the Bible, it it renews your mind, which doesn't just mean cleansing it from bad thoughts. It means it like turns your mind on. Like, like uh uh, how many of you by a show of hands? Maybe nobody, but I'm just asking. How many of you by a show of hands in a service before while I was preaching? It was like you tuned out at a certain point in the message because for the rest of the time you sat here while the word of God was being preached, the Holy Spirit was preaching his own message to you and telling you things that pertain to your life and decisions to make. Anybody? Yes. Yeah, there's sermons I sat through, no offense to the preacher, because it's actually a good um a good mark for his preaching. I didn't know anything he said because I sat there and the Lord started to tell me, you know, do this. Stop doing this in the ministry this way, do it this way instead. Do this with Camila, and it's gonna prosper you. You sit under the Bible, and it's supernatural book, uh its supernatural nature as a book, causes increase. The word brings increase to man. Can you say amen? And so I don't understand how that got controversial. Well, no, I do understand. In fact, I was in the middle of teaching how it got controversial. Kings wanted the people to pay tariffs and taxes. And so, if you were a minister, you had to be licensed by the king. You couldn't just start your own church. You were Church of England and uh cat Catholic in certain places, and if you if you tried to do your own ministry, they burned you at the stake. Sometimes I still wish they did that for some ministries, but it's good that it's in the past. All in all, it's good it's in the past. So uh you were told by the king, tell people the poverty parts of the Bible, and and actually misinterpret it. Tell them money's the root of all evil. When we all know the Bible says what? Love money's the root of all evil. But tell them money's the root of all evil. Tell them blessed, don't tell them blessed are the poor in spirit, tell them blessed are the poor. Tell them it's great to be poor. Because now let me ask you a question. You know, you if you have like a D knowledge of history, when they told everybody that it's good to be poor, were the kings and the bishops poor? No. The bishops, like me, lived like royalty while the people lived in poverty. And Martin Luther King, Jr., no. Sorry, I got the wrong guy. He came later. By the way, since I brought it up, I had this classmate in Bible college. He was he was my best friend youth group. Pastor Dean had him in youth group. He was not what you would call a functioning human being. In fact, he was so dumb when it came to school, it was like entertaining. One time in high school, he got a 56 on a test, and the teacher gave him the test with a 56. I mean, Josh, you got a 56. And his reaction, not joking around or being a smart, was Lawrence Taylor's number. Greatest outside linebacker of all time, yes. So he he was at Bible school with me, and he got assigned to do a report on Martin Luther, and he mixed elements, like from just not being stupid, of Martin Luther King Jr. and Martin Luther. So it's like Martin Luther rebelled against the Catholic Church in Memphis, Tennessee. It's like, no, that's not how it happened. Josh, if you're watching, I meant every word I said. So one of the reasons Martin Luther, just the regular one, um rebelled against the Catholic Church. That was one of his main reasons. Was, you know, when they you talk about the selling of indulgences, you know, that that's just some like highfalutin' word nobody uses. He didn't have a problem just with the selling of indulgences, which means the the Catholic Church would sell you stuff so that you could feel good about, like if you pay this, your sins get forgiven. Like how today in the Polish Catholic Church, if you pay, I think it's$480, maybe they upped it since COVID. The last I looked, it was$480. Now with inflation, it might be more, because if candles, if wicks and candles prices have gone up, maybe they've had to raise it. If you pay$480, they'll light a bunch of candles at the main Polish Catholic Church in Warsaw for your loved one that died. Now, if you anyone can show me anywhere in the Bible where there's like a candle ministry for the dead, I'll apologize for everything I said. But what happens was they started just finding ways to make money off of people's sin and guilt. I told you I'm not picking on the Catholic Church only. The Protestant Church does it now. You want deliverance? We have a$399 40-day deliverance course. And Martin Luther was upset. He said, it's not right that the kings and bishops live like royalty while the people suffer. In fact, he was even against that's why in the Protestant church they started to marry again. He said, Why are you telling the priests they can't marry? And we're to live in poverty. The priests lived in poverty, the nuns lived in poverty, the bishops lived like kings with the king. And so when he rebelled against the church and nailed that 95 uh problems that he had with the church and nailed it to the door of the church, I don't know why he couldn't have come up with five more, maybe even hundred, but that's that's his problem. But when he when he did that, his problem was you are taking the Bible that I've read, the just shall live by faith. And that faith, faith, we should be able to marry. In fact, Martin Luther, when he rebelled, one of the first things he did was marry. He had children. He started a farm, he started producing. And so that's what came with the Protestant church. But for all those hundreds of years, that programming is still in people. Where if anyone tells you, by show of hands, who's had to put off with an offhand or flippant comment about coming to this church, and either all they want is your money, or that's that church that's rich, or whatever. Let me see your hand. Yeah, all of you. So, except people just like live alone, which isn't a bad way to go. So uh, so I I wanted to take time like I do with speaking in tongues, where you don't have to think, like there's some people think like I like that church, it's exciting. The music trounces any church music in the area. So if I have to put up with a little bit of that speaking in tongues that I don't believe in, then so what? You know, it's a good service. They like to freak out and do that, that's their deal. I like showing people that it's not some ecstatic lunacy, it's in the Bible. And when it comes, if you're gonna have to put up with a bunch of comments, like you go to some false church. I'm not saying this because I'm upset about it. I'm saying it because um it illustrates it. Uh uh, one of the children of the church that's in school with Camila, he waited after for me. He said, Do you have any books on God's blessing? He's like, I think he's 12. Because when I go to school, Christian school, my Bible teacher told me that what we believe is false. So, what books do you have? Uh uh, because they said it's not in the Bible, and I know it is, but I want to know it even more. I gave them that, that's why I wrote that book. 35 Questions for People That Hate the Prosperity Gospel, that you can't answer. I don't have like an argument. If you actually want to take the position, show my uh show my my my gesturing friend um that that taught this a few weeks ago.

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Casey, talk to me. Talk to me on the Northside campus. If I can't preach this message in Africa, if I can't preach this message in Central America, if I can't preach The only reason you can't preach that message in Africa is because nobody in Africa wants to see you.

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It's this message in South America. If this message about blessing and materialism is just for America, then this gospel is a false gospel. It's a false gospel. Listen, there there are there are false gospels being preached by preachers all over this world. That if you love Jesus, he's gonna hook you up with some stuff. What is it?

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It's a false gospel to teach that if you love Jesus, he's gonna hook you up with some stuff. So let's just give him the benefit of the doubt that he's only talking about material things. Because you get hooked up with joy, peace, righteousness, a bunch of things in the invisible realm. They said, no, I but he would believe that. But then you say, nope, yeah, but it's wrong to tell people that God's gonna give them, Jesus will hook you up with material things. I'm telling you, you've heard me say this because I'm doing this as a series, like an actual pastor for once. Um I'm trying my best. I put on a blue tie, blue jacket, blue shirt, just matching, doing great. So if this guy got morphed here right now, and we had a moderator and a debate, I you know, and and we stopped right there. I said, now listen, do you want to change anything you said or do you want to stick with what you said? Because if you if you want to take the position that it's a false gospel to teach that Jesus hooks people up with stuff, you're in trouble. Who turned the water into wine? And what was the whole, it was the first miracle he did, and the whole point of it was that the guy that was running the wedding ran out of wine to serve. And he supernaturally changed water to wine. When him and Peter had to pay their taxes, did they go to um what's that called? HR Block, HR, what's it called? Did they go to HR block? Or did they, I can't remember because I only went one time in Bangor Maine. I thought I'm never doing this again. Not paying taxes, but finding it myself. Did he go to HR Block or did he tell Peter, go and catch a fish? And the first fish you catch, there'll be a coin in its mouth. In fact, you never see Peter ever catch a fish unless it was by prophetic word. You're the worst fishing company in the history of the world. Go and catch a fish, and the first fish you catch will have what? Gold coin in his mouth, pay my taxes and pay your taxes. When five thousand men, not counting the women and children, needed fed. It was the disciples that said, Send them away. And Jesus said, No, you feed them. And he did this to test them, for he already knew what he would do. And they sat down in groups of 50 or 100, and he took five loaves of bread and two fish, thanked God for it, and blessed it. And the bread and the fish multiplied, and everyone ate until full, and there were 12 baskets left over. He did it two times. He did it a time before that with 4,000. And how many baskets were left over? Eight. Anybody know? Well, none of you know. I'll just make one up. No. What was it? How many baskets were left over the first one on the smaller feeding? There was 12 for 5,000. Then there's a feeding of the 4,000, which was how many? Seven. Good Bible number, I should have guessed it. So there was the more there were that needed fed, the more there were that needed that was left over. Then Peter couldn't catch any fish. Jesus said, Launch your boat out into the deep, let down your nets, and you'll catch some fish. And soon the nets were so full of fish that the nets began to tear and the boat began to sink. A cry for help came to the other partners, and soon their nets were at the verge of breaking, and their boats were at the verge of sinking. So to say Jesus never manifested his power in a way that hooked people up with stuff is insane. And all the effeminate gesturing you want to do doesn't change that. Can you say amen? And so uh what else? Now, did Jesus do his own thing contrary to the to the will of the Father? Or did Jesus exemplify the will of the Father? So you don't just see it in the life of Jesus. When Elijah came to the widow of Zarephath and she was down to one meal, did Elijah say, Well, that sounds right because we're supposed to be poor. No, by the power of God, the oil was multiplied, and the jar of meal was multiplied, and she lived off of that food when she had enough left for one meal to last three and a half years for that famine. You know, I'm thinking even as I'm teaching and preaching right now, how many times growing up, this is one reason, not just it being in the Bible. My dad, you know, growing up with my father, in I was born in 1980, so I start remembering stuff like night, it was foggy 1983, and then 1985, I can start remembering stuff. There's no Facebook, there's no GoFundMe, there was no way to creatively beg for money as a minister. So when you're off the road, like my dad was, you don't have a cell phone. No one knows you're in need if you're in need. No one had uh there's no way to make anyone really aware that you're in need. The amount of times that a knock came at our door, I was praying and the Lord spoke to me uh to give this to you in cash. One time my dad, this one I remember because this was like 1990. I was at 790 Wheatland Circle in Bridgeville. And um a minister in his family called and said, We're passing through, we're gonna stop by for dinner. Husband, wife, two kids. My dad was in overseas. He left my mom with just enough money to make it till he got back. Not because he took all the money, he I think he took nothing and left her with whatever little amount of money. And so, um, and I mean, even during that time I remember. Um, there's a guy named Dale Brawler, I think, if I remember right. And he owns the Dairy Queen of Washington County. I remember one we went through that Dairy Queen after service. My mom had the money. But uh he he just said, like, I know Tiff's overseas, and he gave us like a ton of food. Food to eat then, food to take home. That was a blessing. My mom didn't have clothes to buy for me to go back to school in third or fourth grade. And there was a family, the Moyer family, that they had a son, Josh Moyer. And he he was a year ahead of me. And we went to, my my mom dressed us nice, it was like we were walking around like bums. There was no way to know we were in need. And the Sherry, Sherry Moyer came and said, I'm sure you already have plenty of clothes for Jonathan. But when I was getting ready for church, I just Josh outgrew all his clothes. I'm not like trying to give you his hand-me-downs, but he's only worn these things like once, if Jonathan would like him, and gave me like two trash bags full of Ralph Florent clothes. I remember that. So to have, I mean, I'm just giving you some. So to have that happen, time after time, the family coming over, when they said they're coming, my mom had enough like fish sticks, popsicles, stuff like that to last us till my dad got back. She didn't have anything. To serve for people coming over. And when she sat down in the living room, I saw this. She went to pray. Before she prayed, there was a knock at the door. She answered it. A lady smoking a cigarette gave her a white envelope and said, Here. My mom opened it. It was Friday afternoon, by the way. The banks were closed. If you remember 1990, if she'd have given us a check for$20,000, it wouldn't have cleared till like 10 weeks ago. Back then it took like forever for a check to clear and all that. So it, but God knew. Not only did she bring money, she brought cash.$380 in 1990, 1989, which you could get a lot at the grocery store for that. And my mom said, wait, you know, who are you? And people said, it must have been an angel. It wasn't. She had a WDVE rocks bumper sticker. She was smoking. There was no angel. And then when my mom said, Who sent you? You know, she just ran faster and got in the car and left because somebody wanted to do it anonymously. Nobody could have known that. And then I have a hard time believing the devil did that. And I have a hard time believing we got lucky like 91 times in a row. We started to see, I started to see by living like that, that there is a God. When Jesus said, why worry about what to eat, what to drink, what to wear, where to live. For your father does all those things for the animals and flowers, and he cares more about you than he cares about them. Can you say amen? And so when I started to see that, um, anybody remember Pastor Ralph Volpe from Central Assembly of God? More people should remember. Maybe that's what God's gonna have me bring up. These guys were great people. Central Assembly of God had like 30 some people. Uh and then he took it and they had a revival, blew it up. You know, they were they were having they had two services. The first one had like 800, the second one had 600. Central Assembly of God, when I was going there, they had a Sunday school class for each grade. First grade, 30 kids, second grade, 30 kids, third grade, 30 kids. He was a great pastor, and he's in heaven now. He told when he took that church, he he had no food and asked the Lord what to do. The Lord said, Set the table and sit down and pray over the meal. There's no meal to pray over. So they sat down. He called all the kids in and his wife, Carol, and they sat down and blessed the blessed empty plates and all that. And they said, when they said amen, he's not a prosperity preacher, he's an assemblies of God. Pastor, there was a knock at the door, and a lady said, I'm sure you already have plenty of food, Pastor. But the Lord spoke to me to bring you food. So I got ready to buy food, and the Lord said, No, don't bring him food, cook him food. So she said, I have hot food for you. Do you have a place I can put it? She walks in the table set with all the stuff empty and put everything on dessert and all that. I am telling you, God doesn't like Pastor Vulp better than he likes you. God doesn't like Tiff Shuttlesworth better than he likes you. Now, me, I'm kind of in my own class. I'm probably his personal favorite, to be honest with you. But what God does for one, he'll do for anyone. Let me see. Acts 10, 34 and 35. God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation, he accepts those who fear him and do what is right. Churches went out of their way to screw my dad over financially, stole his offerings, all that kind of stuff. He never complained. He wouldn't let us complain. And I watched, it wouldn't matter what people did. God found a way to abundantly bless us and supply us. I was there at 16 years old when a lady called my dad. We'd never owned a home. It's why I ended up having a home given to me, as most of you know. This is what gave me faith for it. I told Adams, I'm not buying a home. Well, you know, I know you'd like a home. I'm not telling you we're not gonna have a home. What I'm telling you is I'm gonna focus on building God houses. And God won't let me do that and leave me unhoused. Because I saw my dad do it. A lady gave my father, he doesn't like me saying this because he he wants people to think he's like humble and stuff. And he is humble, but he has a huge house. He has the most property in his city that he lives in of any home in that city. A lady called and said, Tiff, I was doing my devotions and the Lord told me to give you my house. And and she moved to Florida. It's not like she lived out on the street while we lived in her house. She moved to Florida with her family and gave my dad a 4,800 square foot home with uh seven acres of property. There's no home in that city that has an acre. And then my dad likes deer. There's a breakfast room with circular, with like windows that as he eats, deer come and feed out there. It's like God gave my dad a home. Turn to Deuteronomy uh 8. Deuteronomy 8, 1 to 18. This is the blessing. Deuteronomy 8, 1 to 18. Be careful to obey all the commands I'm giving you today. Then you will live and multiply. Okay, so here we go. If you obey the commands of the Lord, you'll live and multiply. Now, I would like to hear, I'm not saying this to be like obstinate or anything. I would like to hear what that man in the all black and glasses would have to say about if you say Jesus will hook you up with some stuff, you're preaching a false gospel. I would say, and I can back my point up, if you tell people that God doesn't care about their needs, you are preaching a false gospel. Psalm 23:1, the Lord is my shepherd. What's the first thing? I shall not lack anything. Was it a demon that spoke to me in South Carolina? I was minding my own business, preaching. A lady was at the altar with her baby, young lady with a baby. And I knew when I walked by her, people told her to abort that baby. She's poor. They told her you don't have enough money to take care of. If you're gonna have a baby, how are you gonna take care of it? And she chose to have the baby anyway. No one knew that. I grabbed her uh on my way down. Go ahead, play it. I know you're one hair. I blurred her out to protect her, God's gonna help you with a place to live and income. All the warnings you got from people, some people encourage you not to have that baby. And because you listen to God and had the child, the Lord's gonna take care of you and the child. In Jesus' name. Praise God. Do you live with somebody or do you have your own place? What's the rent? I'll pay the uh next year for you. I'll pay March through February. She fell down with the with the baby. Thankfully the baby wasn't hurt. She like collapsed. Because her biggest need was take. And you know why it took me that long to say it? Because when I said the Lord's gonna take care of you, then it started on the inside. You, you, you take care of it. And then what happened? Now let me ask you a question. Her rents like I can't remember. Do you remember Pat? Did they tell you yet? 1,400. Okay. Now let me ask you a question. So, what's that gonna be? 1680 by the end of the year. 16,800. Do you think I'm gonna come to do you think at this time next year, March 1st, 2027, if Jesus Terries, I'm gonna go, dang, wish I had that 16,800 back? There's so much God spoken to our heart to do, but I help that stupid lady out. No. What happens when you give? It comes back to you. How much comes back? 16,800? It comes back, pressed down, shaken together, running over. I will cause men. So you do what you can for somebody, and then somebody feels to have you fly to their house and give them a million, give you a million for your church. God has you sow seed so you can receive a harvest. It's more blessed to give than to receive. I'm preaching this today. When that kid told me that last week, thanks for preaching on this, because they're saying that at school, I told you with Camila, like like this pastor was showing. You know? They had a they had a Bible class at her Christian school, and they taught on um, I can't remember the term they used. It was like stronger than fringe Christianity. It was like like para-Christianity or something like that. Like it's not quite Christianity, though they claim to use the Bible. And in my daughter's Bible class here in Pittsburgh, they covered Jehovah's Witness, Mormon, and people that teach health and wealth. Well, that's the only time I've ever had a dollar call me and say, Can you call? I think because she was more in a shooting mood. Normally a dolls calls me up and goes, you know, I'll handle it. You don't talk. I'm not allowed to talk to the staff. You tell me, I'll feminine it to them. And so she said, I want you to call. So I called. I said, uh, you're, you know, if you believe that our church is on par with Jehovah's Witness and uh Mormon, I said, let me know. Because the whole reason I'm paying tuition is so my daughter doesn't have to armor herself up before school to defend what she believes. I said, and then I find it interesting that you say telling people that God wants them to have wealth is anti-scriptural. And I literally have an email from you today asking if I could donate$10,000. So I said to the lady, do you like money or you don't like money? Because you're asking for some of my cult money. So which is it? And then you know when you start yelling at somebody, you get wound up. I said, I said, as an educator and somebody that's smart, does it dawn on you how ridiculous it is to tell a classroom full of private school students that wealth's not from God? Every one of their parents has enough money to pay tuition at a private school. Most of them are Christian parents. Where do they get the money from? From being out of the will of God? You should be ashamed of yourself. You have prosperity. Let me tell you something. This guy talking now, he doesn't have prosperity. He's talking in a 4,000-seat, air-conditioned, 8K LED wall church. He takes a six-figure salary. He didn't walk to church, he didn't take a bicycle to church like they do in Burma and other and Myanmar. We have prosperity in this country. I'm gonna tell you something. One reason this needs to be preached is this understanding of financial prosperity is what launched this country from a collection of shoeless farmers that were drunk and consumed major alcohol and had no income, poverty. And it launched this preaching. Who was it? Who was the evangelist that preached? Work all you can, save all you can, give all you can. Was it Wesley? It was John Wesley. Put Ephesians 4.28 up. This is what he would preach. Most of you won't know the scriptures in the Bible. I I forgot it was in the Bible. Ephesians 4.28. Whoever's doing scriptures, you're quick today. If you're a thief, quit stealing. So any of the Italian Pentecostal pastors listening from Canada, remember that when you count the offering. If you're a thief, quit stealing. Instead, use your hands for good hard work. Then do what? So up until it was Wesley? Was Wesley? Christians were still preaching because you gotta remember in the 1700s, you're just coming out of the 1600s. So people, even though they were Protestants, were still preaching what people preach. It's good to be poor. John Wesley had a theme he'd preach on his revivals and the first great awakening. Americans should work as hard as they can, they should save all they can, and they should give all they can. And so it started to make productive Christians instead of bums. I'm still fighting that battle today in 2026. You know, we make the Bible call students get jobs. We made them stop sharing cars. You have to have a vehicle that cuts way down on who can come. I'm not raising up another generation of bum ministers waiting for a ride, hoping God gives them breakthrough. Work as hard as you can, accumulate and then give, like the Bible says. That's what God is doing in this church. There's a new wave of prosperity coming to America, and you're right on the forefront of it at this church. Whether anybody likes it or not, the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just. The wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just. God didn't have the Israelites take their gold and silver and give it to the Egyptians. God stripped the Egyptians of their golden silver and gave it to his children. And it's happening again today for the children of God. You know, so I just thought if those kids have to give an account for it and you have to give an account for it, yeah, I church. That's that church where they want your money. This is good luck finding a church where you're under less financial pressure than here. There's no financial pressure here. There's no please help. There's no, I need to take my jet to South Carolina and it's a lot of money to fill it up. Someone, please help. There's the teaching of seed time and harvest. Kabila told me that um one of her kids at school's mom said, That's that church where all they want is your money. I said, Tell her she's off the hook because she doesn't have any. I don't know if she does or not, but just talk back to her. You don't have to go to get slapped around verbally by people. Who talks to a 12-year-old girl like, I'm gonna see, be thankful I'm a Christian. You talk like that? Yeah, I do talk like that. I thought you were a Christian. That's why you're not on your back gurgling. Talk to people like that. Why is there this massive hatred towards financial blessing? You want to know why? Because the devil can't stop the word of God. He can only get you to be ashamed of it. But if you'll make up your mind like Joseph did, if my father gets me a coat of many colors, I'm gonna put that thing on and wear it, whether my brothers like it or not. I'm not keeping my blessing hung up in the closet. So, no, you know, if if I was a normal pastor, I wear this watch in private and then I wear a cheap watch in public. You know what? I want people to see. I saw Cody Jones, the evangelist, got an invitation to preach Saturday in California and then Sunday at his own church. He would have had to turn the Saturday meeting down because there's no flight from Yuma, Arizona to wherever he lives in the woods in Kentucky where his church is. I think his church is called the Pickle Barn or something like that. It is, right? Prickle barn something. Pastor Tony's still laughing from Martin Luther King Jr. Some leftover Black History Month humor making his way into March. So he chartered a plane and he put he popped that picture up. See, you know where he learned that from? Watching me. And see, if you see older guys do it, you think, well, they can't, they're old. But then when you see somebody my age you, you say, wait a minute, I can put my faith out and believe God for the best. I'm gonna tell you what what understanding the blessing of God will do. You know what my natural inclination was when this church packed out and then the city started saying they were gonna shut us down? Let's go smaller. In fact, when I went to the city council meeting, they said, Why not start a second location? Yeah, why not just build a bunch of tiny churches that nobody notices they're there? No, my friend. The Bible says, when I obey the Lord, I will live and multiply. And I'm pleased to announce, by the blessing of God, April 5th, 2026, we will dedicate one of the 10 largest full gospel churches in the mid-Atlantic state, bigger than anything in New Jersey, bigger than anything in New York, bigger than anything in Connecticut, bigger than anything in New Hampshire, and we're only 40 years old because you can't curse what God has blessed, and you can make up your mind. I'm gonna have what God said is mine. I'm telling you something today. You can have what God said belongs to you. Don't get embarrassed of the blessing of Almighty God. Go ahead and clap your hands and give the Lord a mighty shout. Somebody shout hallelujah. Let me hear the rest of that guy.

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Started from the beginning. Come on, Pastor Marquise, talk to me. Talk to me on the North Side campus. If I can't preach this message in Africa, if I can't preach this message in Central America, if I can't preach this message in South America, if this message about blessing and materialism is just for America, then this gospel is a false gospel. It's a false gospel. Listen, there are false gospels being preached by preachers all over this world. That if you love Jesus, he's gonna hook you up with some stuff. Now listen, I want to be hooked up. I do. But listen to me. But the reward of following Jesus cannot be the stuff of this world because if it's Jesus plus something else, it's a false gospel. Let me see 1 Timothy 4.8.

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Not one scripture used in that whole diatrip. Physical training is good, but training for let me see King James. Godliness, uh physical exercise profiteth little. That's the scripture I quote to my wife when she asked me to go to the gym with her. Physical exercise profiteth little. But godliness is profitable unto all things, holding promise of the life that now is, and the life that is to come. Hebrews 6, 9, I think. But beloved, we are persuaded better things of you and things that accompany salvation. NLT. Dear friends, even though we're talking like this, because in the verses before, it's that if you sin after you've been redeemed, what other sacrifice can be made? So he said, though I'm giving a warning, uh, I don't, I'm not, I'm hoping this doesn't apply to you. We are confident that you are meant for better things. When you get saved, better things come. When you get away from God, worse things come. You guys are delightful to preach to early in the morning. People from Pittsburgh claim up if you compliment them. Who are the guys from the Wild West that their dad was a Baptist pastor in Kentucky? Probably thinking about the James brothers. Frank James and Jesse James. The James gang? Frank and Jesse James, their dad was a Baptist pastor. They were church boys like me. Their dad's board voted them out of the Baptist church and he got mad and quit the ministry, and that's how his sons ended up. It's bad when you get away from God. It doesn't just affect you, it affects your family. I don't even want to know where I'd be today. If when my dad had his offering stolen from him, he said, forget this. I've been traveling. Now then my sister comes along. When I'm three, born with a heart problem, my mom has to say, What hospital was she in when Jessica was born? Do you remember? I don't remember. It's Pittsburgh, I know that. 31 days in the hospital. My sister's got a an irregular heart, or as Rocky's trainer called it, a bad ticker. And uh we have no health insurance. Well, that pediatric heart problem joke went over better than expected. We've got no health insurance. And so my dad owes$50 some thousand dollars, which in today's money would be, you know, half a million or whatever. And then he's getting offerings,$100 for the week,$200 for the week. And he said it was like the devil was in the seat talking to me, going, How are you ever gonna get out of poverty and debt? You'll never get out of debt. Look at that check. You know, they say fear is false evidence appearing real, but the devil's happy to use facts if they back up his thesis. My dad said he'd have to pray in tongues on the way home to stay sane. And say, just start thanking God. God, I thank you for making a way where there is no way. And uh God gave my dad a way out that was supernatural. Then, after he broke out financially, we got a call when I was nine or ten that somebody had reviewed our case and paid the full, I think my dad had paid it from$52,000 to$48,000, and somebody paid the remaining$48,000 off. Now, if you come up and ask me to do something like that today, I'm gonna say no, because I don't like begging. But there was somebody at our church uh yesterday in Arizona. They came up to me with tears in their eyes. They said, Listen, I'm the and it struck me right. It was an older guy. He said, Before I started coming to church here, I I had uh I can't remember whether it was cancer or something else. I had to stop working, plus I had the medical bills. And he said, I'm in so much debt that I can't get out, and now I'm just starting to be able to be strong enough to work again. After coming to this church and you praying for me, but I I can't I don't know how I'll get out of debt. I said, How much is it? Think it's gonna be like 120,000, quarter million? You know, maybe I can knock some off. He goes, uh, 7,000. And I know him. That guy's at church every Sunday. I thought, 7,000? Did you know? I think I've told you guys. I set aside$50,000 in an account, and I called it the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Foundation, which is just to pay medical bills and stuff. And so I said, I'll have the check to you. Um, I'll send it out Monday, you'll get it Tuesday, and you'll be out of debt. Him and his wife freaked out. They're not scamming me. The two weeks before that, a widow came up to us. And uh, Jonathan, I'm in my 80s. I have nothing here. My family's all gone, my husband's dead, and I had nothing to live for. And now that you've started this church, I look forward to it every week to be in the presence of God and hear the word of God. Thank you. She didn't ask for anything. I said, Do you own your own place or you live in Sonny Acres rest home or what? She's like, uh She's like, No, I have my own house. I said, Is it paid off? She said, No. I said, What's the mortgage? 13, what is it, 13? 13 or 1400. 1,300 a month. I said, I'll pay it for you. Uh can't remember whether I told her for a year till she goes to heaven. And she freaked out. You know, she was there smiling. You should have seen her smiling in the second row. Her biggest thing. See, it started off our family being very poor. Right, eh, Linda? I used to think people were having us over their house to be nice, but they were just like feeding us and stuff, running a charity for their own family. And then my dad broke out. Now, what would have happened if my dad had quit? Then I'd be some 45-year-old with a story about, yeah, let me tell you something about those churches. My dad was a pastor, they did nothing for him. But because he see, when the devil puts the pressure up like that, he's not just trying to come after your money. If you quit whatever you're up against today, if you quit, your children then get an impartation of a quitter. And they quit. And it starts a generational cycle of being a loser that when you're pressed, you don't break it. But when you get full of the Holy Ghost today, and whatever the pressure is that's against you, you say, you're not taking me down, I'm gonna keep coming. Having done all to do to stand there for a brethren, stand. I'm gonna take, you're not taking me out. I'm taking you out. Then it starts if you don't quit, Bishop David Oyedopo said, and it you back it from scripture. If you don't quit, the devil will quit. When you keep coming, he won't, he'll find an easier target. And then the opposite happens. My dad went from a loser to a winner. And then I, as his son, the Bible says Paul said to his son of the faith, Timothy, follow the pattern of right living that you learned from me. I learned by impartation from my father that when trouble comes, who knew that when I was watching my dad do that, the day would come where the moon township stuff would happen, but it's too late for me. I know how to stand, I know how to fight the good fight of faith, I know how to dig my heels in and say, I'm not backing up. And the same way, now think when my when my dad did his thing, not only did he get out, the the debts paid off, house given, millions of YouTube subscribers, that all would have been snuffed out. Me and my sister, my sister would be living with some guy that's not her husband. I'd I'd be, you know, I mean, imagine what I'd be like unsaved. Holy moly, I'd be on death row. And even they'd be like, get him out of here. Send him to Guantanamo. I don't want to know. If I did, if my dad did what Jesse James' dad did, and the board voted me out of my church, I'm done with this. The sons end up as outlaws, and well, they were both dead. All those guys died like super young, 30s at the most. And uh shot, you know, shot in the back by their own friends, shot in the back by the sheriff that they had paid off, all that stuff. Because the dad quit. And some of you, you grew up in families. I don't know any of your families, so I'm not taking shots, but there's people here. Your dad was a quitter, quit on the marriage, ran off on your mom. Your mom, your mom didn't stand and fight. She was so overcome by all the stress and trouble in life that you, without knowing it, that started to rub off on you. And you know what? That is a reason why people preach against prosperity. Because, oh, yeah, a guy has a jet, and it might must be nice. You know, nothing's worked for me like that. That's right. Because somebody has to be the first in the family to say, enough is enough. I'm gonna bust this poverty thing in the mouth. You know what? The same way you bust poverty in the mouth, you can take a stand in your authority against health challenges. I'm done having a sick and infirm family. My sister not only recovered from that heart thing, they told her she'll never be able to have a child by natural childbirth, and that she wouldn't be able to play at recess. They told her to quit coming to the six-month checkups. By the time she was nine, she's had two healthy children, no miscarriages. Everything the devil said she couldn't do, she had. I got news for revival today church. I got news for real America's voice. I got news for everybody watching. The devil may have picked a fight, but today you're gonna finish the fight. You're not telling me where I can go and what I can do. I'm gonna fight the good fight of faith. I'm gonna meet every challenge, and I'm coming through to the other side. And one day you're gonna stand up and say, The God that delivered me out of the palm of the bear and the palm of the lion will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. Stand on your feet, everybody. I feel like still preaching, but there is a second service, so we can have both things. Lift both hands to the Lord. Say this out loud. Heavenly Father, thank you for strength to stand, to move forward, to win every battle, to break every barrier, to cross every line in Jesus' name. The devil doesn't get to determine my future. Today I determine my future. I will not be defeated, I will not give up and quit. He that began a good work in me will bring it to completion. In Jesus' name. Now, with your hands lifted, if you're filled with the Spirit, begin to pray in the Spirit. Thank you, Jesus. If you're not filled with the Spirit, begin to worship him in English or Spanish, Russian, whatever you speak. Bindiono mondo reka. I'm not going down, I'm not staying flat, I'm increasing. If you listen and obey, you will live and multiply. I'm living, I'm multiplying. I have life from God, I have multiplication from God. Children, animals, crops, my garden. Man, it feels good in here. Feel the presence of God. Thank you, Jesus. Indiana Mondo Rika. Thank you for bringing my father out. Thank you for bringing my mother out. In Jesus' name. How old were you, Alan? When Bruno passed? 20? Nine years. So you're 24. When did you get married to Uncle Sam? What age? So you're already married. You know, they go to that church, don't you know, go to church every two weeks, don't know a thing about scripture or to be saved. Then the dad dies. And my my their mom, my grandma, they had no money. You know? No one's serving the Lord. No one's going to heaven. You know, every every time I'm here, you see me talk to this is my family. All of them were supposed to go to hell. The devil, I'm sure, had forgotten about it. I killed the dad. They go to some church where they don't hear the Bible. I'm good. They'll be depressed, they'll be on antidepressants and mind medication the rest of their life, and battle, and I'm good. And then my mom got saved. When did you give your life to the Lord or how? 1976. So shortly after my mom. It just started going through the whole family. Then my grandma told my mom, When you find a good church, I'll come with you. She got saved. When I go to Texas, I have family there that's in the ministry that uh goes to a church there. My church in California, I have another cousin. He pastors out there inexplicably. And does well. Pastor Phil, I knew that straight Jenny funny. And uh the whole family. When I went to South Carolina, her other sister was there with her husband that's serving the Lord, their two daughters, their uh the husband and the cousins, and they were all there. Nobody was going to heaven. Somebody has to make up their mind. I'm not falling. I'm not making myself like a superhero. I'm not bringing this up out of anger. The easy path was to get this church back down to 250, maybe open another place or whatever, and just just take what they give you in life. When they push, say you're sorry. That's Canada's MO. Sorry. Nobody goes against what's challenged. Europe does the same. The churches in Europe I'm talking about. That's why Islam's overrunning them. Look at that church in Minnesota. All those people breaking here, we just sit like that. They're doing exactly what they trained you to do as a Christian. But that's not what the Bible trains you to do. The Bible trains you to resist the devil. So let me ask you a question. If the Bible tells you to resist the devil, then why is like every sermon just to accept your lot in life? It goes back to what I started with. It goes back to the Middle Ages. Accept your lot in life. Don't try to rise. Let us have all the money. So when I hear the World Economic Forum, come out with that thing. You'll own nothing and be happy. You'll eat crickets. You'll stay home and order everything on Amazon. No one will own anything. You'll all be in a nice cubicle in a high rise in a city and take public transportation and be controlled. Why does any man feel they have the power to control how high somebody will rise? That's not in the Bible. And now you understand why the first book they go to get rid of in China, in Canada, to make it illegal to read this in public, the first thing, if you're gonna make people slaves, that you have to get rid of. Did you know even the American slaves were not given a regular Bible? They had a slave Bible that took out parts like you're created in the image of God. It doesn't say white men are created in the image of God. It says all men are created in the image of God. But if you start reading that, you got a problem on your hands if you're gonna control people. Who here has ever been controlled by any of the leadership here? Whoever's got a text from me, the uh where have you been the last three weeks? Just remember your tithe belongs here. Anybody ever get a text like that from me? No, you haven't. I don't even talk to you in person. Just to take the extra step. No, there's no control. Because the higher you rise, the happier I am. The more test. Most churches, if you went and got a brand new Mercedes SUV, there'd be a line of congregants in the park. Where'd you get that? How are you able to get that? You think you drove like packs of cocaine onto the property? How are you able to get that car? Huh? It's like there's this resistance, not like. There's a massive resistance to rising. But the word will put something in you from the time David never had any trouble until the time he got anointed. And then it was Goliath, then Saul, then everybody coming after him. The devil will try to resist your advancement. But thanks be unto God. The word says, resist, not fight. Resist the devil. And he will what? So A, identify things that are not of God. Voices that are not of God. Statements your family likes to say that aren't of God. And resist them. And B, not he might flee, he will flee. If he's not fleeing, you're not resisting. So if you like hearing a Sunday message that, you know, basically just dresses up wherever you're at in life, it's God's will. We don't understand why, but then you're not gonna like it here. Because the Bible teaches you identify what's part of the curse and identify what's part of the blessing. Resist the curse. I'll never be broke another day in my life. When you hear me make announcements, when we turn the key on our new church, when we turn the key, we'll be debt-free. I'm not saying it to break. I'm saying it because death and life are in the power of the tongue. I'm not saying I don't know how we'll do it, there's no money, the economy's shaky. Nah. I am blessed of the most high God who made the heavens and the earth. I cannot be defeated. I will not give up and quit. I brought this up a couple weeks ago. I'll leave you alone in a second. I brought this up a couple weeks ago. Um, Ray, it's not a good example of using Pittsburgh because Pittsburgh hates the Baltimore Ravens. But Ray Lewis, you know, is one of the best middle linebackers of all time in the Hall of Fame. He'd come out and do that thing. You know, they actually tell you, psychologists said that does something to your psyche and for you. And they said, I've told you this before, they said it was a bad idea to kneel for the national anthem, not because of politics. But you cannot take the position of I'm oppressed and then stand up and take the position of a victor. Body language matters, speech matters, how you dress matters. I promise you, you'd have heard a different sermon today if I was in a faded Jerome Bettis jersey and shorts and crocs. I'm tired today. Yeah, I'd address to the tiredness and preach that way. How you behave determines what you become, how you speak determines what you become. Then identifying in the word. I mean, Martin Luther changed the world. But reading in the Bible, wait a minute. The just doesn't live by the selling of indulgences. None of this stuff we're doing's in the Bible. The just shall live by faith. And he took one revelation from the Word of God and broke all of Europe and Western civilization free. And it'll be a cold day in hell when I let up. That's why I stood in the COVID years. I'm not losing all these what John Wesley did, what Charles Finney did, what happened in Azusa Street, what Orl Roberts did, what Kenneth Hagin did, and I'm gonna let it die, close all the churches. How about screw you? How about we've come this far by faith, leading on the Lord, trusting in his holy word. He's never failed us yet, and we're not going back. You're not shutting us down, we're exploding in Jesus' name. If you believe it, take 15 good seconds and clap your hands one more time. You're breaking out, you're breaking out. You carry the anointing of breakthrough. You carry the anointing of breakthrough. A dollis wasn't allowed to get a car because the family didn't have enough money. So she went and got a job and got a car. They told her, Well, the insurance is gonna be a lot. How are you gonna? Yeah, you people when you go to buy a car, tell you it's a lot of money. How would you know? You've never even owned one. Gotta be careful. When you get a job, government takes all the money. How would you know? You've been jobless since the 70s. You'd think people would rise up and tell you, quit drinking, quit being unemployed, quit subsisting, but they don't. They celebrate it. And when you go to stand up and say no and declare like Joseph did, I have a vision. That one day everybody bowed down and I was ruling. And they said, Let's kill him. His own family. So most people, it's not the blessing of God not working, it's that they're only willing to go. I promise you, 99 out of 100 pastors, if they were given a jet like I was given a jet, they'd have given it back. I can't be seen in that. You know what would happen if somebody gave that guy a jet? God should give him one just to spite him. Now it's wrecked everything he preaches. Now he can't take it. But see, if you understand the Bible right, there's nothing you could give me that I'd be ashamed of and that I wouldn't, I wouldn't turn. Once I was given that plane, did I preach less or more? Are there less churches or more churches? There's not you, the more you once you get your heart right with God and get aligned with God, the more that flows into your possession, the better the world becomes. Can you say amen? Hallelujah. I can't pay for this church. Just like that man can't pay for his 7,000. But what I make happen for others, then God sent somebody bigger than me to make happen for me. And then if you check up on that guy a year and a half later, he's gonna have a story. You're never gonna believe what happened to our business after that. No, I believe it, I preach it. So God doesn't ask you to do what you can't do, but then you you get eyes to do what you can do and do your best. The Bible says if somebody's cold and you have two jackets and you say, God bless you, stay warm. How hath the love of God, how hath that man the love of God? You don't have God's love in you. Don't say God bless you, don't spiritualize it. Give them a jacket. How can I have what I have and somebody tell me they're they're 7,000 in debt and they're crushed by it? Well, you know, be praying for you. Hey, single mom with a baby, God's gonna help you somehow. You help her. I heard God tell me, it's like in a Brooklyn accent. You help her. You gotta give it to her. I get y'all, you think I'm not gonna hook you up? Anything God tells you to do, he gives you the money back. He that gives to the poor, we need to reinstitute Sunday school. He who gives to the poor and the Lord will he that gives to the poor lends to the Lord and the Lord will repay. It's not them that have to pay you back, God will pay you back. Can you say amen? Do you know the man that gives gave us this church building? He's very well wealthy. He carries$30,000 of Walmart gift cards around with him per week. Passes them out. If that doesn't interest you, me and you won't be friends. I have made up my mind, I'm gonna be a blessing to my world. My father Abraham was a blessing. God didn't say, tough luck, all you humans, but everything's going great up here. He sent his only begotten son to bail us out. And then he said, What you saw me do, you do. Lift your hands one final time today. I lose that blessing to be to make generational impact. Everywhere your family has stalled out, you're gonna go past that place. There's people here today, you'll be the first homeowner in your family. There's people here today, you'll be the first one in your family that ever got a car and paid cash for it. There's people here today that what no one in your family has ever done, you will do with ease. Not by might, not by power, but by the blessing of Almighty God. In Jesus' name. The richest black people in Pittsburgh will be in this church. The richest Polish people in Pittsburgh will be in this church. The richest Hispanics in Pittsburgh will be in this church. God is gonna go out of his way. Asians, Indians, Pakistanis, African. God's gonna go out of his way to show his blessing does not belong to any one group of people. He's the Lamb that was slain for every tongue, every tribe, every nation, and every race. Some of you that never had any material goods to speak of on this earth, and your Older, God's gonna bless you between 70 and 80, more than the first 50 years of your life put together. Those of you that are in your 20s, God's not gonna make you wait till you turn 60 to start blessing you. He'll bless you in your youth like he did for David. Everyone on this first day of a new month, you are declared supernaturally blessed. Anyone on the verge of losing their home, you will not lose your home. Anybody under crushing medical debt, you will not succumb to that. The same God that brought my dad out will bring you out. In Jesus' name. One more time with your hands lifted. Take 15 seconds and just say, Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank him that you're already out. Thank him that new doors are opening up to you. There's a harvest coming your way. You're not going to quit like the James gang's dad. You're going to go forward, and your kids are going to reap the blessing. In Jesus' name, everybody said. Every head bowed, every eye closed. All of this starts with giving your life to Jesus Christ. The wealth, the blessing, the health, it comes through the covenant, and the covenant was ratified by the blood of Jesus. And until you make Christ your Lord and King, all these things are on the you're trying to grasp something that doesn't belong to you. But when you come into the family, the Father puts his robe on you and his ring and kills the fatted calf and throws you a feast without any prayer. Come to Christ today. Maybe the devil did something where you got discouraged, like Jesse James did. I worked hard, people mistreated me, people at church mistreated me, whatever. I'm asking you today to be a big boy and a big girl and recognize that that was the devil and say, I'm not gonna allow the devil to do what he does to everybody else. Throw one thing in their path and get me mad and get me away from God. Today, I surrender my whole life to Jesus Christ. If you need to do that, put your hand up nice and high and wave it at me, and we're gonna pray. In Jesus' name. I see your hands. I see your hands. Who else before we pray? This is great. 8 a.m. service, salvation. Those of you that lifted your hand, I saw three. Come and join me at the altar. I'm gonna pray with you real quick and return you right back to your seat. Come right now. We're not gonna embarrass you, we're just gonna pray. Come. Those that lifted their hand, come. In Jesus' name. This is your day. Thank you, Jesus. Yes. Awesome. Anybody else? I want to come to Christ today. Met you before or no? From that's right. That's what I thought. Welcome to Pittsburgh. All the way from Hawaii. And where are you? Pittsburgh. Right in Pittsburgh. All three of you, lift your hands to the Lord. Say this prayer after me nice and loud. Heavenly Father, I've come forward today to give you my life. Forgive me of all my sins. Wash me in your blood. I believe in my heart. You raise Jesus from the dead. I confess with my mouth, Jesus is Lord and my Savior. Right now, I receive forgiveness. By the blood of Jesus, I am saved. I am a new creature. In Jesus' name.

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