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I'm Joel Pawlowski. I had lung cancer. So last night Pastor Jonathan came. He's been coming all week. This has just been a very powerful week. But last night was different. I was diagnosed last September. Been dealing with that chemo and all the stuff that goes along with it. I came Monday and I didn't want to come. I came Tuesday and I wanted to be here even less. I came last night and I really did not want to be here. I came here to make my wife happy. That's really the only reason why I came. I was upset and tired and hurt, tired of dealing with this. As Jonathan was talking faith last night, I got up and I had. I don't have the machine with me. I haven't used it since I got up and I walked up front.
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Your love.
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So yesterday before I came here, I was on 4 liters of air or oxygen a minute. I'm on nothing right now, as you can see. And talking lung cancer is gone. My lungs are stripped, stretching and growing and, and changing. And I can feel it happening right now. I'm stronger than I was two hours ago, and I'm stronger than I was yesterday. And I'm going to be stronger tomorrow. And I'm going to continue to get stronger until I am as strong as I've ever been. I have not been able to talk like this in a very, very long time. I'm. And I'm talking months, okay?
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I run out of air. I couldn't stand. I had to sit every time that I did anything with any kind of stress. I mean, walking from one end of my house to another was exhausting. That was two days ago, right now. I walked in here today just fine.
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We are raising up a family in this church. We're raising up a family in Pittsburgh. We're raising up a family in Texas that don't just know about God, they know God. They've handled his power. They've seen his power flow through them. You're coming out of here today carrying fresh fire, fresh anointing, never to take another backward Step once you if you have your Bibles, open them with me to Deuteronomy 28. Deuteronomy the 28th chapter. How many are Glad you came to church today. That was great praise and worship. Fort Worth. I was listening up in my office. Really anointed. I think I saw a chopper award on the B3 organ. I didn't know you played that. Glad you're a part of the church, you and your wife and your daughter. Deuteronomy 28, verse 1, 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 if you obey the Lord your God. I told the 8am Service and it bears repeating to you. Put Galatians chapter 3, verses 13 and 14 in the New Living Translation on the screen. Galatians 3, 13 and 14. But Christ has redeemed us from all the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing, for it is written in the Scriptures. Cursed is everyone who's hung on a tree through Christ Jesus. God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing. Everybody say same blessing that he promised Abraham so that we who are believers might receive the promised Holy Spirit by faith. So a lot of you came from other churches. And I'm not talking. It's not like a veiled shot at Catholicism or Presbyterianism. I'm talking Assemblies of God, other full Gospel churches where the way they approach the Bible is like this was written to people. You know Deuteronomy. I'm going to read out of Deuteronomy 28 that was written to the children of Israel as they were entering the promised land. So you think to yourself, why did I get out of bed early in the morning and get dressed to hear about a letter that was written to people thousands of years ago? That has absolutely no bearing on me. So if you don't get Galatians chapter 3, verses 13 and 14, you're going to miss the whole Bible. Because the Bible says what was part of what God said to Abraham. God said to Abraham, through you, all the children of the earth will be blessed. What was the fulfillment of that? Where did Jesus come from? He came from Abraham's seed. So he was telling Abraham that the Messiah is going to come through your seed, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed. So what's Gentile? Gentile is any non Jew. So originally, the blessing was only for the Jews. If you don't understand that, a lot of what Jesus did doesn't make any sense. A Syrophoenician woman came and said, my daughter. Matthew, chapter 15, verse 22. Good Lord, there's a lot of people here. Dang. Praise God. I guess praise God instead of dang. Sorry, I'm running on a couple hours sleep. We'll go with praise God. Good Lord. Good to have everybody. God bless you out here. God. Great people coming. Welcome. Glad you're here. God bless you. The Jew. When that woman said, my daughter's grievously vexed of a devil. Will you heal her? And Jesus answered her, not a word. I think it's Matthew 15:20. Yeah, 22 through 26. Jesus answered her. Is it 23. He torments her severely. But Jesus gave her no reply, not even a word. The disciples said, basically, get this Gentile scum out of here. Jesus was not sent to everybody. He was sent to the lost sheep of Israel. And until he was rejected by Israel, it didn't open to the Gentiles. But again, that's a great message on faith. Because when they told her to shut up, she cried all the louder. And Jesus said, it's not right to take the bread that belongs to the children and throw it to dogs. And the lady said, that's true, but even the dogs get the crumbs that fall from the master's table. And Jesus said, good answer. And because you've answered so well, I've healed your daughter. Say with me, faith takes back what the devil stole. So until you realize Galatians 3:13 and 14, you're reading. You feel like you're reading letters to somebody else, you know? And a lot of churches treat it that way. We're going to read the Book of Mark. This is written in Capernaum. Capernaum is a city that's about 30km from the red Sea. It's very dry this time of year. Who cares? That's what I was thinking as a kid. I did not get up to hear about geography. Why are we here? So then sometimes somebody put on X. Back when it was Twitter, they said, nobody can sum up Christianity in two paragraphs. And I wrote back wrong. And I wrote, copy and pasted this. Galatians 3:13 and 14. Again, this is Christianity in two verses. But Christ has redeemed us from all the curse of the law. Everybody say, christ has redeemed me from all the curses. See, when that lady received Jesus, she didn't have to go to special classes to get happier and have more joy. The curse of that suicidal depression. I love how she said it. It flew away. The darkness flew away. Jesus is a curse breaker. Hallelujah. Hey, Ram up in the booth. Can you grab me Dana that we prayed for with the cancer. Just put it on the screen whenever you have it. That lady that had that couldn't eat in California. And so they were going to remove what the blockage was, but when they went, when they cut her open to remove the blockage, it was stage four cancer, A, B. They couldn't cut it out because it had spider webbed or they would call. It metastasized through her whole body. They said it was like it would had octopus arms through her whole body. So her husband had met me one time and somebody gave him my number and he texted can. Told me that and said, can you please pray for my wife? I said, I'll be there Saturday because we have a church in Los Angeles. She was at St. Jude in Los Angeles. So you have the ability to touch more people. And so I went thereafter and I didn't say, can you please take a picture of me that's not on my Instagram? You know, I feel kind of like a loser praying for people. Hey, take a picture of me praying for this lady so I can post it on Instagram. But her husband snapped a picture who sent it to my friend. This now has over a million views because he posted it with a nice caption that gave people hope. As you can see, she's a goner. She didn't even wake up when they cut her open and found the blockage. They just sewed her back up and said, we're going to try to get her better enough that you can take her home. She can enjoy another couple days or maybe a couple weeks at home. But. But that cancer is not even treatable. But everybody say everything is reversible by faith. That's right. Jesus did not teach faith as a coping mechanism. He taught it as a mountain moving force. Faith is not comfort in the storm. Faith speaks to the wind and waves and tells it to shut up and the command is obeyed. And I feel today that every storm that's been raging in your life, God's going to shut its mouth today. You're going to have the best week you've ever had by the power of the most high God. Hallelujah. And so I prayed simple prayer and then flew here to do church in the morning. And Jeff Aldis wrote, got the most incredible praise Report Yesterday, my friend Phil Libertor's wife Dana was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Many were praying for a complete healing. Pastor Jonathan went up to pray for on Saturday, got the call yesterday from Dana and Phil. You know, her husband texted me, and I. I actually didn't open the text for like eight hours because of how she looked. And I prayed. And then a week later, I get a text from the husband. It's like, I don't want to look because she didn't look any. She didn't look any better when I finished praying. And then I opened it, and it's all caps. Dana's cancer is completely gone with four exclamation points. So let me go back to the microscopic. The doctors yesterday wanted to scan her again. When they did, they were shocked. All caps, no cancer. They said, this is not possible. The machine must be broken. That's how much cancer she had. They said it is impossible for that to disappear. And they ran the test on a new machine. But when they ran the new machine, it said the same thing. The massive tumor and all its spreading fingers were nowhere to be found. God still performs miracles. Then he writes a nice encouragement. There was one more node that she had on a kidney that they couldn't get to go, and that was what was keeping her from being totally healed. And I got a text this week that that node has disappeared. And there's nothing wrong with the lady anymore because faith turns the night into the day. But what is faith? Faith is the confident assurance that what God's word says is true. What does God's word say? A put Galatians 3:13, back up. It's in two parts, these two verses. A. Jesus broke every curse. So then you go, what is the curse? Deuteronomy 28, verse 15. Start there. What curse did Jesus break? The curse of the law. What's the curse of the law? Deuteronomy 28:15. You know how you know it's the curse of the law? Because in the Bible it says over top of verse 15, curse of the law. But if you refuse to listen to the Lord your God and don't obey all the commands and decrees I'm giving you today, all these curses will come and overwhelm you. So you don't have to try to get cursed. You don't have to seek out a curse. If you don't, if you are not in Christ, then all these curses pursue you. That's why some of you have friends that everything went south for them in Pittsburgh. Their girlfriend was having them brought up on domestic assault charges. They had a kid out of wedlock and couldn't afford the child support payments, so they decided to move to Myrtle beach or move to Florida or move somewhere else. And then within about 18 months, they had recreated the same mess in another state that they had before. Because you can't outrun a curse. You can only get freed from it by the blood of Jesus Christ. Man, I'm feeling good today. I almost wish I had four more services the way I'm feeling. Because I. And I'm going to tell you this. That's the difference between Christianity and all other religions. Every other founder of a religion expected the people to die for them. But Jesus said that's why I don't understand different segments of Christianity. I don't understand Catholicism. I don't understand Reformed churches that are always angry at Jewish people and say they killed Christ. Guess what, dummy? Jesus came to die. He didn't come here to live for 140 years. And you took him out. We have to wonder how he would have been as a grandfather if you didn't kill him. He said, I came to die, but my father will give me power to raise my life back up again on the third day. That's why he died. Secondly, nobody killed him. He said so directly. No man takes my life from me. I lay it down willingly. His preaching couldn't save us. His teaching couldn't save us. He had to shed his blood to break the curse of sin. But, my friend, the blood was shed and the curse has been broken. So that Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, anybody. Black, white, yellow, red. There's one Savior, the Lamb that was slain for every tongue, every tribe, every nation and every race. His name is Jesus. And at the mention of that name, every knee has to. To bow. Every tongue has to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
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Hi, my name is Christina. I've been coming for a while now and actually today I wasn't going to come because I was really tired and it was real unusual. I even felt like it was depression. Yeah, I feel like depression was creeping up on me. Anyways, I came, came here and the, the. Even the worship was. I could feel like the, a shifting in the way I felt. Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth and Pastor Kofi both hit about depression and they, they said about the joy of the Lord and how it's our strength. And when Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth prayed for me, I felt like a weight lifted off me and I feel liberated.
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That scripture came to me while we were Singing your sins. Jesus said, though they were many have been wiped out. And now God's going to put his spirit on the inside. You're going to be used mightily. I feel like when you first started coming, the devil tried to lie to you. Like this is other people's thing. Who do you think you are sitting here? You think you're going to make it? But God has proved his word true. You're doing great. You're going from victory to victory, and it's never going to slow down. In Jesus name, in Jesus name.
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I just encourage anyone who is battling depression, heaviness, any of that to come to come join a service and I guarantee you will not leave the same. I feel filled with joy. I know it's all God.
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Jesus Christ is Lord. To the glory of God the father. Hallelujah. No more message. But if you refuse, what's the curse? What curse am I free from? I mean, how many of you found me during COVID or knew me during COVID So you knew how I operated during COVID I don't care what. Who was the governor back then? Tom. I don't care what Tom Wolf said on his live stream. It's not important to me. The Constitution is the law of the land. Sorry if you went to church with a bonehead pastor that preached Romans 13 as if a governor can usurp. I do believe in following the law, but the Constitution is the highest law. And no governor has the right to go on Facebook Live and say that the church doesn't have a right to meet. It's illegal. You're illegal. I'm not illegal. Sucked the air out of the room, but I stand by it. And so I know what my rights are as an American citizen, and I know what my spiritual rights are. Just like the US Constitution is the highest law of the land. You know, people have made threats here in Pittsburgh about this church, but you notice they don't really follow through on it much because deep down they know if push comes to shove, the Constitution is not on the side of shutting down a church, particularly in Pennsylvania. And so if you know what your rights are, it gives you a power to stand. If you don't know what your rights are, you get slapped around your whole life. Secondly, higher than that, just like there is a physical constitution that governs the United States, the Bible is written as a spiritual constitution. You can call it covenant, call it whatever you want, but everything has to bow to God's law. If you don't know it, you go to jail for things you shouldn't go to jail for you'll pay fines. You don't have to pay if you don't know this. My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge. Not my people are destroyed for a lack of fasting. Not my people are destroyed for a lack of prayer. We fast and pray, but fasting and prayer, nothing is a substitute for knowledge of the word of God. When you know what the Bible says, you pray, Prevail in life for free. I prophesy in the name of Jesus every place you used to come up short in life, you're going to prevail effortlessly. Not by your might, not by your struggling, not by your trying, but by the efficacy of the word of God and the power of the Holy Ghost that backs up the word that's written. If you refuse to listen to the Lord your God and don't obey all the commands and decrees I'm giving you today, all these curses will come and overwhelm you. Everybody say overwhelm. That means you can take all the antidepressants you want. You can get the highest health care you want. You're dealing with it the wrong way. If you don't break the curse, it will overwhelm you. You know that lady that I prayed for with cancer, that I showed you? They're not poor people. They have excellent health care. They were in St. Jude. So all you end up with a better qualified doctor telling you there's nothing we can do. But if 16 your towns and your fields will be cursed. Everybody say poverty. See, I'm gonna tell you right now, Washington county is one strong church away from putting an end to this fentanyl crisis and murder. Pittsburgh. Why do you think the Lord. What do you think this is fun? That I was just tired of hearing other people preach and want my own people need to hear me preach? No. Jesus said, build me a strong church in this city because churches are light. You are the salt not of the church. You're the salt of the world. You're the light of the world. Jesus said, while I'm in the world, I'm the light of the world. But after I leave, you are the light of the world. And what good is light if you put a basket over it? It should be put on a high hill where it gives light to everyone. What has been all the problems that we faced here in Pittsburgh? Why can't you just have a littler church? Why can't you have a tinier church? Why do you have to run shuttles? Why do you have to go outside why do you have to do it in a stadium? Because the church does not exist just to exist. It exists to dispute, expel darkness. It exists to torment the powers that torment other people. It exists to destroy fentanyl and heroin. It exists to deliver addicts. It exists to drive out tumors, heal the sick, cast out devils, raise the dead. Freely you've received freely. Give 320, 20,000 churches in the United States, minimum. Some estimates have it at 450,000. But the devil doesn't care if you build 450 million as long as you stay inside and don't bother anybody. But if it starts going out, you know, what's the criticism here in Pittsburgh? You guys are a cult. Why you recruit people? It's not called recruiting people. It's called going into all the world and preaching the gospel. Can you say amen? Hallelujah. Your fruit baskets and breadboards. So everybody say my, the towns and fields will be cursed. That's right. If there's no propagation of the gospel, a nation begins to die. People are depressed, Children cut themselves. Children. I mean, now you got people. Nobody committed. I'm not even that old. I'm 45. But when I was in like eighth grade, nobody committed suicide. I don't think anybody was. One person committed suicide in high school. It was the first like anybody heard of it in the state of Maine. His girlfriend broke up with him and he shot himself upstairs in the school. But I mean, now, teenage suicide epidemic. If the gospel goes dark, read Canada. Canada. Canada allowed essentially the gospel to go dark in their nation. Now you got teenagers asking to be euthanized just for being sad. You don't even need a disease to get euthanized in Canada because when they do government health care now you are a liability and the government's having to pay your bills. So they actually promote you dying so they don't have to pay out more money. Look at, look at the United Kingdom right now. It's a wreck. It's a jihadist run place because the churches, they used to have 2,000 people and sent missionaries all over the world became political. We don't bother anyone. Sorry that we're too loud. We won't. There's places in England where it's illegal to ring church bells, but they do the Muslim call to prayer five times a day in violation of noise ordinance. As soon as people wake up and understand that we are in a light is against darkness and darkness is against light. We're not against people, we're not against Muslims, we're not against Anybody. But we are against the devil. The Bible says you have an enemy called the devil. Notice Charlie Kirk. What was everybody's problem with Charlie Kirk? You know, it's not that we disagree with what he said, but do you think that he needed to do that on a college campus and inflame people? You know, there's a place to do it. Oh yeah, there's a place to do it. Now, I don't agree. And you also don't agree because the same way drag queens want to read stories to children, the devil wants to propagate his material. There is a doctrinal war. The devil is looking to indoctrinate people, that life's not worth living. To get on drugs, to go out and party every weekend. The devil doesn't wait till you're 23 to do that. But then if you. As a Christian, we take heat for having a children's ministry. Look at this video. They have the six year olds pray. They have the seven year olds pray. Does the devil wait till they turn 23 to introduce them to whatever chunk no, on TikTok right away. YouTube algorithms. Right away. So what dummy, as a Christian leader would agree to terms. I've used this illustration before. There was a guy. That figures. I have two constitutional experts in the second row if I get anything wrong. Neville Chamberlain was the first one assigned by England and Europe to deal with Hitler. And he felt Hitler could be reasoned with. So he met with him in his mountain retreat, had dinner, posed for pictures with Hitler, and then, you know, we can talk to him. And the whole time he made deals. Hitler broke every deal and kept taking territory. And so they got rid of Neville Chamberlain. Did I have the right guy? Neville Chamberlain. Neville Chamberlain. And they replaced him with. Who's the guy with the big belly? Winston Churchill. We'll fight him on the beaches, we'll fight him in the mountains, we'll fight him at sea, we'll fight him in plains. Chamberlain realized you can't deal with Hitler as a gentleman. There's only one language he understands, and that's the language of power. I read a story. It's not a fake story, it's a true story. It popped up in my algorithm yesterday that a guy rescued a hippopotamus, a baby hippopotamus, from the river, adopted it, took it into his house, fed it for six years, developed a relationship with it, and in year number six, not a like a friendship, not like a. Not like an afternoon TV type of relationship. I saw a few people squint. I wasn't going in that direction, treated that hippopotamus like a pet, took care of it like you take care of a golden retriever. And in year six, the hippopotamus dragged him from his home, dragged him back to the river that he adopted him from and drowned him and ate him. Because you can't treat a hippopotamus like a pet hippopotamus, people wrote in the comments. Why would it do that? Because it's a hippopotamus. That's why there's a story. Now this one is just a story. Scorpion needed a ride to the other side of a river. And a frog said, I'll give you a ride. Hop on my back. And when they got halfway through the river, the scorpion stung it and they both drowned on the way down. The frog said, why would you do that? He said, because I'm a scorpion. So the devil is a dirty player. He comes to steal, kill and destroy. The devil is the author of Pediatric Cancer. The devil is the author of Suicide. The devil's the one that's at the back of drug addiction. Every foul thing. And they're trying to raise money to fight these problems. But you can throw all the money at it that you want. Man deals with a spiritual curse. That's why God, God owns all the silver and all the gold. If it was a money problem, he could have rained silver and gold. If it was a housing problem, he could have sent a million angels to build enough homes for everybody. But it is a spiritual problem. And until something changes on the inside of a man, nothing ever changes on the outside of a man. That's why the job of the church is not just to provide community or send out prayers. It is to go into all the world and preach the gospel. For the gospel is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes everybody, say it breaks the curse.
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