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Could you just lift your hands for a moment? Just bless them. Just say, God, we give you all the praise, we give you all the honor, we give you all the glory for who you are, Lord, we bless you. Thank you, God. Thank you, father. Thank you, father. Thank you, father. Lord, we thank you for all that you're doing. We pray in these next few moments, would you challenge us with the Holy Spirit? Just guide these next few moments in Jesus name. And everybody said amen. God bless you. Remain standing. Just before we get ready to go into the word, we always say welcome to not only those that are here. We say hello to our Jersey campus, Pastor Brad and Lisa Geiss. We welcome those that are watching couldn't get into the building from our annex. And we just want to say God bless all of you. And we also love to welcome those that are watching from around the United States and around the world. We want to say hello to. These are the nations that are live with us today. We say hello to South Africa and Malawi. We welcome Namibia. Eswatini live with us is Nigeria, Liberia, Kenya, Namibia, Ethiopia, Tanzania. We say hello to Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Lesotho. We welcome those in Asia from Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong. We say hello to South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, India, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates. We welcome Turkey, Australia, New Zealand. We say hello to those in Europe. The uk, North Ireland, Scotland, Greece, Germany. Island, Romania. Poland. The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, France, Norway. Get ready. Italy. We do welcome Ukraine and Russia. And in Jesus name we're believing a stop to this war right now that God you would intervene with. We say hello to Kosovo, Spain, Hungary. This is. We welcome Iceland. Can we say a little Iceland today? Sweden, Canada. Always great to see the first nations from Navajo nation on this one. Mexico, Jamaica, Barbados, Haiti, Bahamas, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Dominica St. Lucia, Belize, Nicaragua, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Suriname. And the last two, we always leave for last, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. We welcome all those that are watching. We also say hello to some 46 states. Last Sunday it was hilarious. We had 49 states join us. We found out it was those people from Hawaii. And then someone sent a text to me with a picture of them watching from Hawaii. And so I said, okay, you made the list. Our series, we have a few more weeks to go. Our series is called One billion starts with one. This series is for those who are not content to go to heaven alone. Let me say that one more time. This series is for those that are not content to go to heaven alone. But I Don't know if you're with me. I want to bring as many people as I can with me. Even this morning when I was getting off the elevator, met someone in the apartment building. I said, I want to take you out for lunch. They work in D.C. a few days a week. And I said, let's go to lunch. And I just. This is one of those moments. It's kind of a fight, fight miracle. He's behind a wall, but I just felt like the Holy Spirit said, keep bringing him out from behind that wall. Let God work miracles. And the series is to equip, it's to awaken and at some points, to even convict. Times Square Church is on a mission and a mandate to stay laser focused on the road to a billion souls. We want people one to Christ in every single nation. That's why when I read those names of the nations, I want you to be excited when you hear the nation that you're from, but I want you also to be praying when those nations come up. If we say a nation, if we say Lesotho, South Africa, pray for salvations and revival in that nation. There is an army that is made up primarily of volunteers. It's called the French Foreign Legion. It's a core in the French army composed of volunteer soldiers from around the world. That's still in. It's still growing today, including French citizens. It was established over almost 200 years ago, and it was to bolster the French military. And this is what they said. This volunteer army is known for being tough and elite fighting force volunteers. And I love their motto because I said, God, let this be my motto. Their motto, motto is this. If I falter, push me on. If I stumble, pick me up. And if I retreat, shoot me. That's the way I feel. I want anybody with me on that. I want to go all the way. I listen. No retreating here. How many are with me? No retreating, only forward here. I want to do this till I die. And as long as God gives me breath, I want to bring as many people to Christ as I can. This army, to lead a billion souls from all over the world, is a volunteer army. It's not a paid army. It's an elite fighting force. And I'm going to talk to you about that, Father, in these next few moments, come speak to us. I believe that you're raising up an army around the world and we want to see a billion souls come to Christ. God, don't let us ever retreat. Let us move forward, no matter how difficult it may be in Jesus name. And everybody said, amen. Look at the person next to you and say, I'm not retreating. And then you may be seated. God bless you. Thank you. To those on the West Coast, Los Angeles, California has really gone through a lot this year with so much happening even in our world. People have forgotten what took place in LA just about five months ago, that in January 2025, Los Angeles wildfires began to cause significant damage from some 29 deaths, numerous injuries. 16,000 structures burned to the ground. 50,000 acres literally just charred. If you want to know what that sounds like, that's like losing all of Brooklyn. 50,000 acres is gone, damaged, destroyed. Thousands evacuated. The fires in those in those areas of La Palisades and Eaton had such a devastating impact. They said within four decades, they've never seen damage like this. The damage, they said, is moving up towards $200 billion in damage. The most devastating winter winter wildfire Southern California has ever experienced. That started on January 7th. Fueled by drought, the Santa Ana winds. Thousands of firefighters from all over the US battled those 45 square miles and watched it burn for 24 days over and over and over again. 24 days, it began to go on. And when it became into the spots and became the worst, the men and women who would fight in the worst spots when the fire was at its hottest and raging, they called a group of elite firefighters Hotshots. These are the men and women that would go literally into a wall of hell and fight to try to bring an end to this fight. It was the hottest part of the fire. As I saw pictures of, of some rare footage of these men and women that would go, I'm just telling you, it was it. It. It brought shivers and to my soul as I would see these flames and you'd hear the sound of what these men and women were putting their lives on the line. They said there's only 100 Hotshot crews in the US than most are in California. I come from a family of firemen and policemen, but this is a different breed of firemen. A hotshot crew is some 20, 25 elite firefighters that respond to the hottest part, to the most dangerous part, that go right to the center. While people are running, they're running into it. While people are running away, they are running, too. I read one of the hotshot stories, and they said this. We were carving, he said, a burned area to stop the flames before they reached down to the town. And the fire, he said, was moving so fast. It was 200 yards, two football fields away, and we heard the noise Building the embers were flying through the air and starting other fires that was getting ahead of us. And then we began to hear a particular sound. He said it was the sound. And I would hear this many times about in the south, about tornadoes. We'd hear the sound of. Of a freight train is what he said. An out of control wildfire is bearing down on you. He said, Makes a sound like a freight train or then he goes like a hundred freight trains coming at you. He said the sound would be ripping through your ears. He says, and when you hear this, listen to these words. He says, when you heard that sound, basically it was over for you. That wasn't the sound that you wanted to hear. He said if the wildfire caught me and Chris, who I was working with, we'd be dead. He said when we heard that sound, we knew that the fire was coming. We'd either be dead or suffer 100% of body burns. Think of that. You're hearing a sound. And at that moment, he said, we had no other options. He said my partner was shouting. His voice was being sucked in by the howling of the fire. And he says, and our brothers were on the other side of the wall. He said, I saw daylight, but I just couldn't get there. Here's the part I want you to hear. Last two sentences, he said, because I saw the asphalt where the fire couldn't burn. And he said, out of nowhere, while I was in this fire, the freight train is coming out of nowhere. I've had this arm reach through this wall, grab me and jerked me to clean air. He said we sucked it in greedily. He said, I felt pure joy surging through me that we even got out alive. I mean, just. He said it was an arm that came through a wall of fire and pulled me out. That's what I want to talk to you about. I want to talk to you about that arm that goes through that wall of fire. I want to talk to you about a people that jerk people from the flames of hell so they can feel joy again and breathe heaven again in their lives. Their names are contained. This new group of hotshots as we talk about 1 billion, starts with 1. Their names are in a little tiny book, second to the last book of the Bible called Jude. Let me read to you about their training before I tell you what their name is. Their training is this. Listen to this verse 20. But you beloved, building yourself up in the most holy faith, praying in the Holy spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of Our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. Have mercy on some who are doubting. Listen to this training of these spiritual hotshots that reach to bring people from hell, see joy, come and breathe heaven one more time. He says these are people that will build themselves up in the most holy faith. These are people that are praying in the Holy Ghost, that are in a service that they're not waiting for even music to lead them to pray in the spirit. They'll pray in the spirit when they're getting on the subway, which is the best place to pray in the Holy Spirit. They'll keep themselves in the love of God and they'll wait for the Second Coming. That's what their training is. And then those are the people. I want you to hear what next. Jude says, what these people do that. Do these things, listen to them. These are the ones that, when you read this, they're building themselves up in the holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keeping themselves in the love of God, waiting for the second coming. And then these are the ones that get to run into the firestorm. And this is what Jude calls them. He says, I want you to save others. Look at these words. Snatching them out of the fire. That's the phrase. I wanna just take a few minutes and not call you hotshots, but I wanna call you Fire Snatchers for just a few moments. I want you to be trained to rescue people from. From that burning wall. Jude's name, Fire snatchers. In fact, King James calls it, says it's pulling them out of the fire. Which fires is Jude speaking of pulling people out of? Solomon answers the fire question. That hand, that prayer, that witnessing, that lunch, that confrontation that's going through the firewall. He uses something very interesting. He uses fire and sin simultaneously. Here in Proverbs, chapter 6. In fact, he begins to isolate even one area of sin. And he calls it. He says, those that would be finding themselves in immorality, sleeping or adultery, sleeping with another man's wife. Listen to what he calls fire. Proverbs 6, 26. For a prostitute will bring you to poverty, but sleeping with another man's wife will cost you your life. Can a man scoop a flame into his lap and not have his clothes catch on fire? Can he walk on hot coals and not blister his feet? So it is with the man who sleeps with another's wife. Did you see what Solomon does? He begins to talk about that firewall using immorality and adultery, saying, that's the fire. That's the fire that goes up this is what I want to challenge you with today. Because Jude gives me the name of the elite firefighters. The elite firefighters, he calls them fire snatchers. Solomon gives gave me the name of the fire sin. But it's Abraham that I want to walk you through with. Gave me the tools and the story. And it's the story of lot. In Genesis 13 and 14, I learned about fire snatching from Abraham and Lot. Abraham had to get in to the heat of that battle to rescue his nephew, Lot. Why is Lot in trouble? But because of the choices he's made, the two are about to separate. And they get to choose. Lot got to choose first where he wanted to live. And the Bible says that Lot chose to live in a place called Sodom and Gomorrah. Highly flammable city. Listen to this. Verse 10 of Genesis 13. Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan that was well watered everywhere. This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar. So Lot chose for himself all of the valley of the Jordan. Lot journeyed eastward, and thus they separated. Abraham and Lot separated from each other. But Abraham settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the valley. And he moved his tents as far as Sodom. Now, the men of Sodom were wicked and exceedingly sinners against the Lord. Isn't that interesting? He chooses Sodom and moves his tents that way. And as soon as the separation took place, I want you to see this next verse. And the Lord said to Abram after Lot had separated from him, don't miss those words. And the Lord spoke to Abram after he got Lot moved out and said, now you lift up your eyes while he is looking this way to Sodom. You're gonna lift up your eyes and look from the place that you are, and I'm gonna show you north, south, east, and west. Pause here for a second. This is not going to deal with really where I want to bring you. But I have to pause here on an important thought. God wanted Abraham to separate from Lot so he can show him something bigger. While Lot sees Sodom, Abraham was going to see the four corners of the earth. In fact, listen to it for all the land. This is the next verse, which you see. I going to give it to you and your descendants forever. I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth. So if anyone can number the dust of the earth, your descendants can also be numbered. Arise. Walk about the land through its length and breath, for I will give it to you. Listen to me carefully. Look up here for a moment. When Abraham separated from a man that sees wickedness, that sees what's in front of his eyes, when. When he could get him to separate from that relationship, God can show him bigger things. Some of you sit here and you may have to separate from some relationship like that. Folks, listen to me, because there are some people that bring you in and all you see is what's right here. Your eyes are wanting to see larger and bigger and wanting to see what God sees. God says you, you want to hang out with Lot that just sees Sodom, or do you want to hang out with me and be a friend of God? I'll show you north, south, east and west. I'll show you sand and stars. Remember, God later goes, look at the sand, look at the stars. You can't even count them. That's what your descendants will be. Some people only hang out with those that see what's in front of their eyes. I want to hang out with people that see sands and stars. East and west, north and south, folks. That's why I can't spend much time with Sodom. People look at the person next to you and just give them a little side eye for a second that you may have to leave pretty soon. Not if you're married. Not if you're married. Not if you're married. So Lot moves to Sodom, and in less than a year, it's under attack. Five kings came against that city. And this is what happens. The kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled. They fell into them. But those who survived fled to the hill country. This is what the enemy did then. They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food supply and departed. And they also took Lot, Abram's nephew. This is where he parked his tent. They took Lot, Abram's nephew, his possessions, departed for he was living in Sodom. Look at me for just a moment. Sodom was a fire hazard. He's living in a place that's flammable. He's doing what. He's doing exactly what Solomon talked about. He's taking fire into his lap and he's going to be burned. He's playing around with something. He's playing around with relationships. He's playing around with something that looks like wickedness, not believing that it's gonna burn him. And finds himself behind the firewall, needing a hot shot, needing a fire snatcher to reach through to get him out because he's stuck. He's not going anywhere. Was flammable and would be set on fire in the years to come. Would be less than a year since Lot chose this place and he's taken captive. And when Abraham heard that his family member was taken captive, he went into action. He went into action, suited up and got ready to go. And listen what happens when Abraham heard that his relative had been taken captive, he let out his train men born in his house 318 and went in pursuit as far as Dan, divided his forces against them. By night, he and his servants defeated them, pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus. He brought back all the goods and also brought back his relative Lot with his possessions and and all the women and all the people. This man was doing, in a sense what Jude talk about save others, snatching them out of the fire. That phrase snatching is an interesting phrase in defining snatching. The word means to come with a force and to pull out. And it's interesting. It's the same word we use for the Rapture. Listen to these words. Then we who are alive and remain will be snatched up, caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, so we shall always be with the Lord. Snatch and caught up are the same word. So I kept thinking of this. Let's snatch them out so they can be caught up in the Rapture. Let's reach through snatch so they can be caught up in the Rapture. So let's talk about this for just a few moments. What God has helped me with. William Booth, who founded the Salvation army his whole life starting in the London streets, was pulling people from that fire. William Booth and his wife Catherine talk about arms that would go in and pull people from the slums, from the worst parts, from addictions. They would reach through those firewalls to bring people through to joy. They can breathe again and see deliverance and freedom. They would be snatched so they could be caught up. Booth said these words. He said, put your ear down to the Bible and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to these scriptures to be burdened, agonized of heart for humanity and listen to its wail for help. This is what Booth is challenging all of us. He's challenging the body of Christ not to sit here and just be content to go to heaven by yourself. He's challenging us to say, build yourself up in the Holy Ghost, pray in the most holy faith. Pray in the Holy Spirit, keep yourself in the love of God, Wait for the Rapture in the Second Coming. And with all that being said, don't sit here. Snatch people from the fire with those things are part of our lives. We'll snatch them out. That's what. That's what Booth was saying. There's some powerful principles here that I want to just give to you, but just for a moment, as we go through this, think of one person on the other side of that firewall. Think of a person right now. Put a name to what I'm saying. Who is someone. I have two names in my mind right now. Who is someone on the other side of that firewall that you know is on their way to hell. And unless someone reaches in and snatches them, that they will be consumed. Let's learn for just a moment with these next few moments, how Abraham snatches Lot out from that passage. I want you to write this down and get ready to follow with me on a journey. Because I want to give you some things that have helped me in fire snatching. I'm not an expert. I'm not. But, man, I've been asking God, I said, lord, I want to move forward till the day I die, seeing people set free. Men and women that were on their way to hell. I want them snatched. I want to snatch them so they can be caught up to meet Jesus in the Rapture. I want them to come to joy. I want them to breathe heaven again. I want them to gulp like the hot shot said. I want them to gulp air going, there is freedom. I'm not going to die. Here's what I've learned from Abraham. Jot these down. Number one. This is some of the principles for fire snatching. Number one. Get all the help you need. Abraham did not go alone. The Bible says he got 318 men to go on this mission to rescue Lot. This was amazing to me. Listen to it. He let out his train. Men born in the house. 318. Can I just tell you this? There are times when you are dealing with those that are caught in fire, caught in Sodom, that you need all the help you can get to get them home. You are going to need people. Get people praying. Get people believing with you. Believe for those that will be witnessing with them.
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Get people sharing their testimony. Let people text them, praying for you. Let people share a testimony with them. Don't do this by yourself. Moms and dads with prodigals. Get as many people as you can praying for your sons and daughters. Because they are caught in hell and we need all the help we can get. You are not alone. You have the body of Christ to help you with that.
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We have a. We have a connect group that prays only for prodigals. What are they doing? That's their 3:18. They're putting people together to go, I can't do this by myself. I need extra folks. Tell people when they go, what can I pray for you about? Tell them who you're praying for. Tell them, I need you to be one of the 3 18. I need you to pray for my sons and daughters. Go after. Get 318 intercessors. Let's break through the firewalls for our sons and daughters. I'll never forget what happened some years ago in our Detroit church. He was one of our leaders. I'll just use him. I'll call his name, Bob. He was one of our men's leaders and he has been free from crack cocaine for 10 years. And every day he told me this story. He would go to work for 10 years, wait at the bus stop, and if he would turn right, he would get to the bus stop and go to his job that he worked at for 10 years. And he told me, he said, and if I turned left, I knew two blocks down was the crack house that held me in bondage. He was two blocks away. Depending on if he turned right or left from the firewall, two blocks away from entering into the hottest part. A man with a beautiful wife, godly kids. And he said to me, he decided one day to turn left, walk down the two blocks. Instead of getting on the bus to work, he walked the two blocks back to an addiction, right into the firestorm. And I'll never forget when his wife called me and said, my husband is back at the crack house. I can tell you where it's at, but he won't come out and they won't let him out. And then she said this. He goes, will you go to the crack house and. And get him? And what I did was, I'm going, I'm getting 318 men. I'm going to that crack house. So I picked two of the biggest men in our church. I'm telling you, these men worked out and were full of the Holy Ghost. This is the absolute truth. I walked up to that crack house with these two men and I'll never forget knocking on and a slide went across. I said, I'm Pastor Tim. I know he's in there. We know he's in there. I said send him out. And folks, I don't know what came over me. The peephole, they shut the thing and the door opened a little bit and they shoved that man out so fast. I grabbed that man, we got him home and thank God, started the journey towards freedom that sometimes your 318 will need to be working out at the gym. Let me just tell you, we need all the help we can get to get people out of that fire. Number two, he didn't just take anyone, don't just get anyone, but he got the trained is what the Bible says. Listen to this. He let out, it said Abraham let out his trained men. Some sin is so deep seated. We don't just need anybody, we need those that are trained for this. I'm so thankful, I want you to hear this. I'm so thankful for Teen Challenge and Victory Outreach. I'm telling you folks, I'm so thankful for the men and women that lead our centers around the country and around the world and for the beds that are there for those that have been caught in addictions, those that have been caught in life controlling situations. Those men and women, those families that have helped to break addictions by the power of Jesus Christ. There are some times that folks, you can't do it. You got to get the right people involved. It's not just you doing it, it's going, thank God we got them out. Guess where you're going tomorrow. And so that's why I am thankful. Thankful for these men when it comes to the trained fighters for people's freedom, many times it's a long battle and there is a lot at stake. You know what I kept thinking about when I'm praying for people? I, I, I. Because you've got to bring them out. And folks, let me tell you something. Fire snatching, firefighting is a difficult thing. But here's what I began to pray to God. I'm saying, God, teach me to be a smoke detector, not just the fire departments. You know what that means? Those things on your ceiling are called smoke alarms, not fire alarms. Look at me. If it's a fire alarm, you're dead. Because if it only detects fire, it means it's over. But smoke means something is about to happen. And that's why I said, God, give me the ability to see, smell smoke. So before they get to the fire, we can see God begin to deliver before this thing becomes a fire in Jesus name smelling smoke in a marriage upon our children in our church. We need God to come. Number three, you can Be trained. But we have to know about your birth. Let me explain that for a second. In order to be part of this deliverance, you have to carry two birth certificates to be a fire Snatcher. About the birth certificates is we need to know not only the day that you were born, but we also need to know about the day that you are born again. The Bible says that when Abraham heard this, that he had been taken captive, he let out his train men. Look at this next phrase. Who were born in his house. Born in the house. Let me just tell you this. It doesn't have to be in this house, but it better be God's house. Let me explain it like this. Be careful. Be careful about using people that believe in Freud but doesn't believe in Lucifer. Because what they'll do is you can talk about all those things from a textbook and not go deep enough where things are happening in hell to control people's lives. Just because you've been trained in counseling and psychology doesn't mean you know how to do fire. Snatching fire is not a symptom. Fire is a bondage that wants to bring people to hell. And I want to know people are born in the house up from above, that people are born again to snatch them out of fires. And when they're in a fire, we don't need just to talk to them about principles. We need them snatched to life and set free by the power of God. Pastor Patrick said it like this. Confess your sins one to another. Pray for one another so that you may be healed. How? Who does that? The effective prayer of who? A righteous man can accomplish much. Listen, just because you ask someone to pray doesn't mean their prayers are effective. Oh, let me say that one more time. Just because you say pray for me, you better make sure that's a righteous man, a righteous woman that gets a hold of God. I'm very careful just to go, hey, pray for me. If your prayer is not getting answered, I'm going to the people that prayers are getting answered. I want to know that God answers prayer. Listen. Find people that have been born again, born in the house, that are walking with God. One of our elders sent this to me. Someone from our security team and a testimony of healing. He said a few weeks ago. Listen to this testimony. I was bleeding internally and passed out. I was rushed to the ER and released a few hours later. But it happened again the next day. So I was rushed back to the er, bleeding again. They kept me for four days, released me two hours later. Then I was rushed Back to the hospital, admitted again, received five blood transfusions in nine days. While I was in the hospital, I watched the 10am service on my iPhone. He said, before you guys preached, you asked if anyone needs healing to raise their hands. And I was in that hospital bed. I raised my hands in that hospital. During this time, I was reminded of the woman with an issue of blood in Luke chapter eight who touched the hem of Jesus garment. I believe that God would heal me too. So I prayed and asked Jesus to transform this hospital robe into the garment that the woman got ahold of in Jesus name. I've never heard that before. I held onto that robe, believing it was Jesus robe. And he said, and at that moment, I have not been bleeding since. The Lord listen to this. The Lord healed me that day. I was released from the hospital and the doctor apologized for having no diagnosis and no explanation. I have the explanation, Jesus. It's a miracle that God sent the free folks. Listen, I believe God uses doctors, but I've got to believe in Dr. Jesus. There are times that I need someone born again that says we need a miracle. And I know where it comes from. We need doctors, but we need miracles. We need counselors, but we need miracles. We need people, not just with degrees, but people that believe in heaven and that God can come and begin to work a miracle in people's lives. God. God can use a counselor. God can use a doctor. But when a miracle is needed, I'm telling you, there's not a diagnosis or a textbook. We need heaven to show up and miracles to come. When somebody is in a fire, get as many as you need. Get the train, get the two birth certificate people and get them out of that fire. Number four, pursue. Don't wait to be asked for help. If you notice, lot never asked for help. Abraham heard it and moved into action. The longer you wait for the fire, the more it can consume them. Remember, it moves like a train. It moves like a locomotive. It begins to consume everything. Make the phone call, send the text, talk to them. Just say, I'm praying for you. Today on July 4th, my family had the opportunity to go to Queens to the subway series between the Mets versus the Yankees. It was a horrible day. What was amazing was coming home from the game on Friday with thousands of people trying to get on the 7 train. We stood in line and we realized that we were on the wrong platform because it was the local platform platform, which meant there'd be 15 stops before we'd even get to the city. On the other side was the seven express, just a few stops and then we would be home and that next express train would be there in a few minutes. So that means we'd have to go back down the stairs, get back in line, rescan our pass and then come back up and hopefully we'd make the train. And everybody as we're all sitting here as a family, everybody said let's do it. Except me, I didn't want to run. And the doors opened on the seven local and I said, let's stay. And they go, dad, we're going. I was totally outvoted. And so this 61 year old man had to run down the stairs, run through the people, back up. As soon as we got through the train pulled up of the express, the doors opened and, and we were about to get into this car at the top of the steps when everybody was packing in because it was at the top of the steps. And I said, let's go to the next car. And it was providence. We walk in to a firestorm. There was a gentleman cursing and yelling at the people in the seats. And while everybody moved to the back, I'm going, hot dog, we're in the right train. This is it. We were supposed to be be on this train. And this man, and we invited him, he may even be here today. Let me tell the whole story before, before you talk to me, it looked combative. Everyone moved to the back of the train. But there was something in me that said, stay and go to the fire. And so I did. I put my hand on this man that was cursing at this family, this husband and wife. He had a Met jersey on. I said, listen, you already won today, let's be joyful, let's do this. And then all of a sudden, like something that God showed up on the 7 Express. The guy goes, what's your story? Tell me your story. And his wife the whole time is going, thank you, thank.
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The guy looked at me and he said, what do you do? And I said I'm a pastor in Manhattan, across the street from Wicked. I said, that's where I pastor. He looked at his wife, he said, let's give him money, let's give him money for the. I said, okay, hold on. I said we don't want any money. I said I don't want any money. And there myself, my son in law was with me as we're sitting there and he was amazed. In fact, he looked at my son in law, he said, did you become spiritual when you went to that church? He says, no, it's Not a spiritual thing. We don't even like to use that word. It's a relationship with Jesus that you need there. And I'm looking at my son in law, I'm going, all right. My daughter married pretty good as Jesus. And these two finance Wall street people were blown away. Not only was the situation diffused, God was glorified. And hopefully these two wonderful finance Wall street people are coming to church. It was a fire snatching moment on the seventh train. No one asked for help, no one asked for us to be there. And folks, I get it, it could have gone wrong. But we knew that there was an opportunity that God just all of a sudden said, there's a fire, don't wait to be invited. You get into that thing while everybody else is walking away. Who knows what God can do? And we watched on the 7 train, folks, that's a miracle. God show up on the 7 train. Those that are watching around the world, listen to me, it's a mirac. God showed up on the 7 train. That you just pursue. You never know what God will do when you just go, let's believe and let's show up. Maybe God will allow us to reach in our hand through a firewall and jerk someone out. And we watched the guy leaving the train who wanted to beat up a couple starting to hug us before he left the train. Only God can do those kind of things. And finally, let's close with this. Every fight is a night fight. The Bible says he divided his forces against them by night. Always remember this. Hell is strong, but God is stronger. Every fight for a soul is a night fight. Abraham went at night. There's darkness involved. You know, I kept thinking of this song. Kareem, come. I'm gonna ask you to come and help me. As we were, as we were. As I was preparing this, I just kept singing this song over and over again. It's an old, old song and the words go, you are stronger. You are stronger. Sin is broken. You have saved me. Hallelujah. It is written. Christ is written. Jesus, you are lord of all. How many have ever heard that song before? Would you just sing it? Come on, Cream, sing it with me. You are stronger. Come on, you sing it with us.
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You are stronger. You are stronger. Sin is broken. It is Christ is risen.
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Jesus, come on, sing it again. You are stronger. Come on, lift those hands and sing it. You are stronger. That's all there is. Let's sing it one more time. Come on. You are stronger. Sing it. Times Square. There's a bridge to this Come on. And it goes like this. Help us, Kareema.
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Let your name be lifted higher? Be lifted higher. So let your name be higher? So let your name be higher, higher, higher. Say it one more time. So let your name, Let your name be lifted higher.
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You are stronger, stronger.
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Savior, you are stronger. You are stronger. Praise Jesus.
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We're gonna go a little higher.
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You are stronger. Sin is broken. You have sa. You are stronger. You are stronger. Come on, sing a chur.
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You are stronger. Hallelujah. It was a night fight. That means hell is strong, but God is stronger. Amen. Let me close with this. Last Sunday we dealt, apart from this series, we dealt with Israel in Iran last week. It was a very intense week that was filled for those that are part of our staff and our leadership team is a week that was filled with battles and blessings. Testimonies that came out of that Sunday are amazing. We're so thankful. It was a businessman was burdened for souls that heard what we're going to do for Iran for the new Iranian station on Farsi. And the businessman said, I'm in. I'm gonna pay for that. And so we are not only gonna get that started to reach the 90 million people of Iran, our Hebrew station is already being worked on with the, with, with all of the translations. And now we're going to be able to do it in Farsi. When God is moving, God moves. When you break through the firewall, God moves. If you're going to put your hand through the firewall and bring people out, folks, I can I just tell you this, It's a night fight. I believe that the LED wall on, on that we're talking about that million dollar wall that we, that we're going to put around the church. And I'm thinking, can I tell you something? I believe that's fire snatching. You know what? I started to pray. Listen to me. I started to believe that backsliders are going to be walking these streets at night seeing the gospel and seeing services that is going to be able to touch. I'm telling you, it's going to snatch them at night as they're looking to party on Broadway. They're going to look up going, oh man, it's going to snatch them from that fire. That I believe that I believe an LED wall will be a tool for prodigals. The language channels will be a tool. While preaching to you on Sunday, God spoke to me these words. I want you to listen to this. God spoke to me these words that as we were reading about the day Of Pentecost. I just, I felt like the Lord said, I want you to get a Pentecost. The Pentecost Project. What's the Pentecost Project? These are the TSC language channels. Remember this verse? And we hear all these people speaking in our own languages about the wonderful things God has done. That was the day of Pentecost. I believe that God is going to help us fight this night fight. Putting TSC sermons in the languages so 90% of the world has excess access to the preached word of God. You know what I found out? You ready for this? This excited me. I want you to listen to this choir man. I want you to listen to this. The top 10 languages in the world that are reaching up to 6 billion people. You ready for this? These are the languages. English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian. Leave them up there. Look at me for a second. We already have nine of them. We already have nine. Indonesia represents 140 million people. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to go. We're going to get Farsi. We're going to go ahead and get. Indonesian is going to be next. And we can do it. We just got a text from one of the closed nations in the world and they simply got this last night that said, we listened to the message. If you put it in Farsi, you can reach the 40 million in our country. And so we're going to believe that God's going to do. But it's a night fight. I want the gospel on led, I want the gospel online. I want to go fire snatching all over New York City and all over the world. But the second miracle that even showed up, and I'll just say it like this, we got a phone call from a. From you think, can I. What do you think? She says yes. Was asking my assistant because she's the one we got, folks, I think this is part of what God is doing. So even after the message, we got a phone call, an email from somebody Orthodox Jewish rabbi said, I listen to the message. We agree with everything. Can we meet? And so we're believing for God just to do that. God, blessings and battles. So as we were meeting, here's where we close. I'm going to read this verse. As we were, as I'm getting ready for this meeting this week, meeting with this precious Jewish rabbi this week. This is what, what I believe. Remember our, our position is always to stand with Israel. Our posture is to weep for Iran. And our prayer is God, we bless our Enemies. We said that last week. And I kept thinking of the fire that. In order to snatch humanity from that fire. I've been reading through Isaiah 53 over and over again, saying, God, this is the chapter that I'm praying that our Jewish brothers and sisters are going to get. This is the prophecy of the suffering servant. This is the prophecy. And I've been reading it every single day, asking God to move. I want to read it to you. Who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm? My servant grew up in the Lord's presence like a tender green shoot. Like a dry root and gr. Like a root and dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance. Nothing to attract us to him. He was despised and rejected. A man of sorrows acquainted with the deepest grief. We turned our backs on him. We looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weakness that he carried. It was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God. A punishment for his own sins. But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins, beaten so we could be whole, whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have gone astray. We've left God's paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all. He was oppressed and treated harshly. This is the fire, folks. He went into the fire for us. He never said a word. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. He was sheep as a sheep, silent before the shearers. He didn't even open up his mouth. Unjustly condemned, he was led away. No one cared that he died without descendants, that his life was cut short in midstream. But he was struck down for the rebellion of my people. He had done no wrong. He has deceived no one. But he was buried like a criminal. He was put in a rich man's grave. But it was the Lord's good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life. Life and the Lord's good plan will prosper in his hands. Two more verses. When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous. For he will bear all their sins. I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier. Because he has exposed them to himself. To death. He was accounted among the rebels. He bore the sins of the Many. And he interceded for the rebels. That's Jesus who went into the fire and snatched us out. Just close your eyes for a moment. Leslie Flynn tells this story. There was an orphan boy who was living with his grandmother when their house caught on fire. The grandmother, trying to get upstairs to rescue the boy, perished in the flames. The boy's cries for help were finally answered by a man who climbed an iron drainpipe and came back down with the boy hanging tightly to his neck. Several weeks later, a public hearing was held to determine who would receive custody of the child. A farmer that was a next door neighbor. A teacher who was the boy's instructor. Even the town's wealthiest citizens all gave reasons that they would raise the boy as their own. But as they talked, the lad's eyes remained focused on the floor. Then a stranger walked from the front to the front, slowly took his hands from his pockets, revealing the scars on them. As the crowd grasped, the boy cried out in recognition. This was the man who saved his life. His hands had been burned when he climbed the hot pipe. When the boy leaped into his arms around the man's necks, he held on to him again, the second time for dear life. The other people walked away silently, leaving the boy and his rescuer alone. And this is what they said. Listen to these words. The scarred and marred hands settled the issue. The scarred and marred hands. Look at me now, folks. Those hands on Calvary settles the issue. Settles the issue. Can I just go on a fire snatching mission right now for just a moment? Just want to snatch a fire with everybody standing to their feet. Listen carefully. If you're here today and you're behind that wall, I'm telling you, we as a church, whether you're online or in person, I'm going to reach out. Jesus is reaching out. Do you know who you belong to? You don't belong to this world. You don't belong to abuse. You don't belong to this culture. You don't belong to the government. You don't belong to Supreme Court decisions. You belong to the man whose hands have been scarred for you, who climbed down. Those hands, those smart hands, settled the issue. The scarred hands of Jesus settle the issue. You listen, young ladies. Don't put your hands in some guy just because he can FL flatter you with his words or because some guy puts a ring on your hand. You're going like, he must really love you. Forget all that. Start with the hands that have the scars. Start with the hands that have the scars. So can we just fire snatch For a moment, those that are here today, listen, listen, listen while you're. While you're trying to think to yourself, how am I going to get out of this? How am I going to get out of this? I'm here to tell you the hands of Jesus. He truly is as Kareem. Let us. You are stronger. You are stronger. Sin is broken and you have saved me. It is written, Christ has risen. And I'm telling you, he's come to save you today. You don't have to bow your heads. You don't have to close your eyes if you're here today and just say, pastor Tim, I need to be snatched from this fire today. This thing which is trying to control my life, we're reaching out now to snatch. Say, I need God in my life to breathe air again, to breathe joy again. To know that my life is changed by Jesus today. It could be changed if that's you and you say, pastor Tim, just pray for me. I'm reaching. Just reaching through the firewall. And there's a night fight. I know as I'm saying this. Hell, look at me. I watch it. I watch it. As soon as I get to this point, I watch people walk out of church. I don't need this. I'm going to get and I'm going. You're missing it. That's the night fight. That's hell. Telling you, you don't need this. Go out. That's the rel. That's the religion that just says, you're fine. I'm here to cry out to you. I'm reaching through a firewall to say, there's joy, there's heaven, there's forgiveness, and there is freedom for you today. And some of you. The night fight is saying, just walk out. To walk out into what? Into what? The flames are out there. You can be set free today. If you're here and just say, I need to be set free. I want out from that. Hold up your hand. Say, I want to be set free. Hold them up high. Hold them up high. I want to see every hand. Every hand. Keep them up. Keep them up. Balcony. Keep them up. Here's what we're going to do. Keep them up. Hold them up high. I want to see them. Here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna fire snatch today. If you raise your hands, I'm gonna walk right down here. I know it's 12 o'. Clock. Who cares? Okay? I want you to come right down here, meet me. We're gonna sing that song one more Time. One more time. You are strong. Get out of your seat. Meet me right here. Come on. I'm walking down there. You meet me right here. Come on. Come on. You Come. Come.
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You are stronger. Sin is broken. You have saved me. It is written, Christ is risen. Jesus, you are Lord. You are stronger. Sin. You are stronger. You are stronger. Sin is broken. You have saved me. It is written, Christ is risen. Jesus, you are Lord. So let your name so let your name be lifted higher Be lifted higher Be lifted higher. So let your name be lifted higher Be lifted higher Be lifted higher. So let your name be lifted higher higher Be lifted higher. So let your name be lifted higher Be lifted. You're strong. You are stronger. You are stronger. Christ is risen. Jesus, you Lord of all. You are stronger. You are stronger. You are stronger. It is written Christ is risen. Jesus, you I know. So let your name so let your name be lifted higher Be lifted higher. So let your name be lifted high Higher. Be lifted higher Be lifted higher.
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I am so happy to see all of you here today. Let me just say I didn't even get all the stories. I'm talking to my brother from Belize who's here for a business trip. He says, you mentioned my country. He said, I'm here for a business trip. The people I was staying with told me to come to church today. And here you are. And then my friend from France, second time here. I said, how did you get here? So my grandparents told me about this church. And so he shows up today and they hear, my friend from Texas, and I love this. My friend from Puerto Rico. I said, how did you get here today? He said, my first time here, said, how did you get here today? He said, I work on 53rd. I walked by the church and showed up today. And nothing blesses me more than to see Maurice, who I met today, that assist would bring her brother first time here today. And to see you here today. Thank you for good family members. You know what you did? You know what you did, sweetheart? You were fire snatching. You went fire snatching is what you did. That's what you did. You're going to get to breathe again. Come on. Those at the salter, just lift your hands to them right now. Who's this? You raised your hand. What's your name? What is denarius and how old are you?
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Six.
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Six. She raised her hand today. Let's lift your hands right now. Lift your hands and just say, God, snatch me out. Tell them just say, God, snatch me out today, Father, I'm gonna pray for them right now that God, they're gonna breathe again. Joy is coming. Freedom is coming. Would you just, as you lift your hands, just say, God, I surrender my life right now. Just tell him. Just say, I surrender my life. I've been living on the wrong side of the firewall. And today, God, they've been snatched. They're being snatched from the fire. And today is a day of freedom. Set free today. Those that have been away from the Lord, God, you've done something today. From Belize to France to Puerto Rico, from right here, I've talked to others in Connecticut and Texas, from those that are represented all over the us, New York City and around the world. This moment. We were fire snatching today. And those that are online, oh God, that you're setting free. So Father, on this day we declare. Come on. Just say, God, you are stronger. Tell them right now, just say you are stronger. Sin is broken. Hallelujah. Just say it is written Christ is risen. Hallelujah. So Father, on this day start a mighty work in these lives. Get them across the other side and work your miracles in their lives in Jesus name. And everybody said amen and amen. And amen and amen. Thanks so much for listening. We hope you've enjoyed this message and be sure to subscribe so you can receive new messages each week. Visit TSC NYC for all the latest info on how you can stay connected. Also, don't forget that you can follow us on social media on all major platformsquarechurch. Thanks for tuning in today. Have a great week.