Congregation/Choir (15:34)

You see?

Pastor Tim (15:35)

Now where's the cane? Where's the cup? Where's the beggar garment that you used to wear? And all of a sudden it is Bartimaeus going, it's gone. Jesus healed me. I have to just pause here for a second. The 1 o' clock service is crazy. You guys, you guys seem to say, if I can just get a couple more Hours of sleep. I'm coming in locked and loaded today. And all of a sudden, it's Bartimaeus going. He had mercy on me, touched me and gave me my sight, he said, and. And he's now he's in Jericho. And all of a sudden, I could see Zacchaeus, this man going, is he nearby? He just walked through the gate. Well, I want to see him, Bartimaeus. I've been wanting. I've been hearing about him, and all of a sudden, maybe, just maybe, our character in chapter 19, Zacchaeus, the hated man, the traitor, the tax collector, all of a sudden starts running, running to the commotion that he sees. And all of a sudden he realizes that as he's running there, he can't see him, not only due to the crowds, but the Bible tells us for some reason, it's going to tell us that this man was short in stature. So here's a man trying to see. No one's going to let him through because they hate him. So no one's going to move out of the way. There's not an excuse me. He can make that someone's going to move and show him a politeness. But this is a man that is kept at bay. It's the only power that they have is to say, you can't get by us. So here's a man not even having the height to get on his tippy toes to see if it was Jesus. He doesn't stand a chance. And the Bible story that we're going to read says he climbs up into a sycamore tree, and while he is there, he's thinking, maybe I can get a view. Maybe I can both hide myself, but still get a view of who this Jesus is.

Congregation/Choir (17:33)

See?

Pastor Tim (17:34)

Keep this in mind. I believe they knew each other. I believe, or there was the possibility that they knew each other for this reason. Jericho, ancient Jericho that we read about of the first century, was not a big city. They said maybe 2,000 people, maybe 2,000 people were there. It is not this busting metropolis. It is a city that probably people knew, neighbors knew each other. And I have to believe that maybe even Zacchaeus, the tax collector, the hated man, knew the cursed man, because maybe he would put some coins in his cup to try to relieve himself of the guilt, to try to soothe his conscience. And so maybe he began to do that and was familiar with them. I was thinking about this. Even between service. I was talking to a young lady that was up here from Dallas, Texas. This young lady that got saved in our service just Last year, she was visiting, working for a financial firm, this lawyer. And she was telling me the story. She said, I showed up at service. She said, you have to understand, people have been telling me about Jesus, but I wasn't interested. She says, I am a practicing Hindu. She said, every morning, she says, and I was a devout Hindu. Every morning I woke up and with pictures, and I would pray to my 5000 gods every single morning. She said, but people were telling me about Jesus. And she said this. She said. My response was always this. They would say, you need to know Jesus. And she would say this. She says, yes, you're Jesus. She said, I was very respectful. Your Jesus is great, but my God is older than your Jesus, is what she would say. But she has never encountered the resurrected Jesus until last spring when she showed up at church. And it was on that moment like. Like Bartimaeus, her eyes opened up and she saw the resurrected Jesus. Like God got a hold of her. And we were. We were praying for her. And she just said. She says, pray that my family. My family who are devout Hindus, pray that they would know God. I said. And I looked at her and I said. I said, I want you to listen to me. I said, you're gonna be like Bartimaeus. You tell them. And right now they're gonna be on tiptoes, and they're gonna go into trees to try to see who this Jesus is. But I'm telling you, Jesus can get ahold of them as he has gotten ahold of you. Well, that's exactly what happened. As Bartimaeus is beginning to come into town with Jesus glorifying God, an infectious praise that is now built. And now everybody is wondering what's going on. Let me read to you the story. He entered Jericho and was passing through, and there was a man called by the name of Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. Zacchaeus was trying to see who Jesus was and was unable because of the crowd. And he was small in stature. So he ran on ahead, climbed into a sycamore tree in order to see him. For he was about to pass through that way, and he didn't want to miss Jesus. Verse 5. When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, zacchaeus, hurry and come down for today I must stay at your house. And he hurried and came down and received him gladly. And one version says joyfully. And when they saw it, they all began to grumble, saying, he's gone to be the guest of a man who is A sinner. It's amazing to me. They're telling Zacchaeus to be quiet. They're telling Bartimaeus to be quiet. Now they're yelling at Jesus because he's inviting, in a sense, traitors to have dinner with him. Everybody seems to be against Jesus, but everybody who comes to Jesus seems to get changed. I'm just telling you, here's a thought for you. Hang out with Jesus. Everybody has an opinion.

Congregation/Choir (21:27)

Ah.

Pastor Tim (21:27)

You shouldn't sing this. You shouldn't say this. You shouldn't go with Jesus. Here's what happens. He's gonna be the guest of a sinner. Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, behold, Lord, half of my possessions I'll give to the poor. If I've defrauded anyone of anything, I'll give back four times as much. And Jesus said to him, today, salvation has come to this house because he too is a son of Abraham. For the son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. That's the mission of Jesus. The tax collectors consider the worst, the traitors of the Jewish culture. To call somebody a tax collector, you couldn't call them a worse name. Like, if I was to try to think of a name that I wouldn't even bring up today, but if I was to think of the worst name or the worst thing you can say to somebody, this was it. I don't even know what we would associate it with today. But there are things that if you say to someone, yes, it would hurt, yes, it would. It would begin to evoke emotion. But this man, this was hard. As I thought about it, the Bible says he wasn't just a tax collector, he was the chief. So whatever you said, this man was at the top of the list of the worst. Did you get that? Top of the list of the worst. It must have been a strange sight to see a rich man. A rich man climbing a tree like a boy hiding amongst the leaves. So he thought nobody would see him. So he was hoping that. That the Jews wouldn't see him because of their animosity towards him. But then. But this curiosity, this thought of maybe, just maybe, I can see Jesus and maybe something can happen to me. Probably not knowing what could happen to him, but maybe something can happen to me that happened to Bartimaeus. Though I'm not blind, I need a change in my heart. And then the key verse came, verse 5. When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house. I love those words. Like every word is packed with power. Packed with power. He looked up, he said the name Zacchaeus. Hurry down. Come down. Today I must stay at your house. I kept looking at these phrases and how important they were for a man who was trying to come in incognito and be unnoticed. That, my goodness, you couldn't have packed more words here. Think about it. Jesus looked up. He looked up. What does that mean? Jesus noticed him. The Jesus of Luke 19 was acting like the Jesus, the shepherd in Luke chapter 15 that would go after the one sheep and leave the 99. Jesus is walking, in a sense, with the 99 in the crowd, looks up into the tree and sees the one sheep that's there. The sheep. Always remember this. Sheep don't find the shepherd. The shepherd finds the sheep. And here's what's so important. And it's the shepherd who rejoices. People talk of finding Christ. Can I just help you? Christ was never lost. You never found Him. He has found you. And you just finally acknowledged it. And then he said his name. Zacchaeus, this is always amazing to me. It looks like Jesus is about to walk by stops and says his name. Can you imagine, Zacchaeus? How does he know me? How does he even know my name? I've never told him. Who told him I was there. I've never introduced myself. Always remember this. He knows your name and he knows who you are. He knows where you are hiding. He knows what you're covering up. And you don't need to hide from him. You just need to submit to Him. But listen carefully, listen closely, open your ears and be attentive. He may just be calling your name today. And not only does he call it, he gives him a command and says, hurry. Oh, I think of Proverbs 27:1. It says, do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. If he's calling you now, hurry, do it now. Don't put Jesus off. Listen. I think of the words of the great English preacher Spurgeon, who said, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. Alas, tomorrow never comes. It is in the calendar of fools. Come down. Jesus says, folks, can I just tell you, you will never meet Jesus from a high place. You have to humble yourself and come down. And the humility starts with this. I am a sinner that needs a Savior. And then finally, Jesus says, today, today, salvation has come. Today it has come into your house. And then Jesus says, I must. I must stay with you. I must come. It's the must. It's the urgency. It's the necessity of salvation. You must be born again.

Congregation/Choir (26:26)

Now.

Pastor Tim (26:26)

It didn't take long for. For the chief tax collector to have a change in his life. Zacchaeus was converted between the branch and the ground. Something happened to this man from the branch to the ground. That's how effective salvation is. And then when it happened, verse six is amazing. So he hurried, came down, and received him joyfully. That's the word, joyfully. When you encounter Jesus, you discover joy. I'm just telling you, when you find Jesus, you find joy for the very first time because you've heard your name in your soul. You've heard him speak to you. Joy comes when heaven speaks. Joy is inevitable. When you encounter Jesus, joy is close behind. Joy is the result of the presence of Jesus. Joy is the result of the words of Jesus. Joy follows a God encounter. Always remember this. In your presence, there is fullness of joy. Hallelujah. And when Jesus is not present, then joy must be manufactured. I have been in places that have better lights, better sanctuary, bigger sanctuary, more people, more this. More instruments, bands, an orchestra. And if there's no joy in the place, then you're just singing songs. I'm telling you, friends, joy doesn't come from a circus. It comes from the presence of Jesus. There are people today trying to manufacture hand claps. They're. They're. They're coming in on cables from the ceiling. They're bringing in motorcycles and Harleys. They're showing up with live animals. I'm telling you, that doesn't bring joy. Jesus brings joy. Mark it down that if you don't have joy. I've watched it. We've tried. I'm speaking to the American church. They've tried everything. They figured they would caffeine you up, put lattes in the hallway and come in with a latte, and all of a sudden, if we can get your caffeine, then you'll get excited.

Congregation/Choir (28:38)

No, no, no, no.

Pastor Tim (28:40)

That doesn't come that way. It's his presence that brings fullness of joy. It's Jesus presence that comes. A joyful church has the presence of Jesus because joy follows God. So let me say this. There is a verse that I want to speak to you. There's. King James will use the word quicken. The new American standard uses the word revive. Revive us. Quicken. Revive. I want to talk to you about revival for just a moment. I want to give you a verse and a couple thoughts here. I see. I'm reading through as I'm Reading through the Psalms, I see these words. Revive us. Revive us. Revive us. Let me explain what revive is. Revival. Revival is like a spiritual defibrillator. It delivers that shock to this heart to reset its rhythm, restoring its normal heartbeat. When revival comes, it's like those paddles on our soul that says, beat again, Beat again for the things that are supposed that really matter. That things. There's something here, as I was reading through this verse. Let me read it to you. Psalm 85. 6. Don't miss this. The psalmist says, will you. Will you not yourself revive us. There it is. That's the. Those are the paddles. Revive us. Here's what he says again. That your people may rejoice in you. Look at. Keep those words on the screen, please, for a moment. You know what he says? That word again means we lost something. We lost a heartbeat. We lost something. That the word doesn't make our. Make our hearts beat as we discover who God is. That when we start to sing songs that something inside of us would allow us to spectate, but not worship Him. We don't have a worship that infects others, that. That begins to stimulate others and be others. Look and go, man, I want to be that way. I want to look. I want to look that way. There are some people that they. Their face has. Or let me put it this way, I think this. Someone said it like this. Their heart has forgot to inform their face that it's been forgiven. Let me say that again because some of you just missed it, because I'm hoping this shocked you that some of you sit here and your heart has forgot to inform your face it's clean, forgiven and set free. God lives inside of your heart. And something in us needs that defibrillator that begins to set it beating again. Will not. Will you, not yourself. That's God doing the work. Not me, not the music, not a denomination, not your theology stance. It's God coming down and saying, be again with the things that really matter. Four times in that verse. Look at it. Will you not yourself revive us again. That your people may rejoice in who you. Four times. Not in songs, not in preaching, not in sermons, not in. Not in nonsense, but in your presence. It's God getting our hearts to beat the right way again. To beat for the right things again. There are people that are sitting here. Your heart beats more for NFL playoffs this weekend. About this trip over this. I bind you, Satan. Here it is. When it's all said and done, who cares whether they win or lose? Some of you are like, oh, Buffalo.

Congregation/Choir (32:19)

Buffalo.

Pastor Tim (32:22)

It'S New York. We always lose. Who cares? Here's the thing I keep remembering when I'm watching something or looking at a sport of it, whether you're looking at the. Let me speak to New York Knicks or the Nets or the Giants or the Yankees, whatever it is, let me just help you when it's all said and done. If they do win, have they healed you? Have they paid your bills? Have they set you free? Have they broken an addiction in your life? Do they bring you more sadness than joy?

Congregation/Choir (33:00)

Yes.

Pastor Tim (33:04)

I want you to understand. I want my heart beating for the right things. I want to be excited for the right things again. The psalmist is telling us it's a revival, then it's rejoicing. It's revival, and then it's a rejoicing. Our team. I was thinking of the story. Our team during the Christmas on Broadway last month, invited. They were on the streets inviting people, and I was told the story. They invited a Jewish woman to the Christmas on Broadway, and they knew she was Jewish because she said, why would I go? I'm Jewish. Why would I go to see this? And then our team just masterfully said, well, Jesus was Jewish. And she said, I'll come. She came, got saved, and like Bartimaeus went back. I'm just reading to you what I was sent to me, like Bartimaeus went back to our booth that was on the streets inviting people in between services. And these were the words. I just watched TSC on Broadway. Greatest inspirational singing and acting. Extraordinary, sensational. The message that Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior deeply touched and changed my Jewish heart. Only God can do that kind of thing. Revive us again. Revive us again. He's saying, set. Set heaven against my heart to beat for the right things again. What is. What is revival? I kept thinking about that. What is revival? What is. And not simply an event on a calendar, Not a. Not past or present. This is what I just wrote down in my own notes. I want to just read it to you. I think revival is this heightened awareness of heaven on earth. God is moving. It's a new sensitivity that God is present, God is with us. It's. Everything about us is going. We sense God, we feel God. We know God is here. When I'm reading the Word, God has revived my heart that I'm now reading the Word, going, I sense him here. There have been moments I've read His Word and I felt something deep inside. That's what happens when you start to sing a song and you start to cry. God is reviving. He's setting your heartbeat back. He's helping it to beat the right way for the right things. Some of you have walked into this place and you've been so far away from God, and you're going, why can't. Why am I crying? I didn't even do anything. I've walked in here and I just start crying. I've heard this story. What is it? God is setting your heart to beat again. Something is beating inside of you. It's your soul that's starting to beat. Not your physical heart, but the heart of your soul is starting to beat for what it was meant to beat for. And that was for Jesus himself. A revival is a heightened awareness of heaven on earth. It's a new sensitivity that God is here. And I just jotted down these thoughts. Let me just give them to you, and then we'll close. Here it is. A revived heart has a heightened awareness to the Holy Spirit that he's speaking. He's present, he's directing. I just received this letter two weeks ago in my office. Let me read it to you. It says, thank you, Pastor Tim and Tsch. My wife and I are foster parents. We recently received a sibling set of three children, and we also have four of our own, biological and adopted, bringing the total to our family to seven kids. How many can say, help them, Jesus? He said a few nights ago, the children were restless and wouldn't settle down for bed. I was starting to feel frustrated. Instead of reacting out of that frustration, it was as if the Holy Spirit began to guide him. The Holy Spirit. It was like this awareness of what to do. He said, what I decided in sense to do is I decided to play one of the TSC sermons to these restless kids. Can I just stop here and say, that is not what my dad would have done? Anybody with me know what I'm talking about? We had a thing called the wooden spoon. Anybody know what the wooden spoon was? We weren't. My dad wasn't playing a sermon. He was going, he says this is what he would say. You're crying. I'm gonna give you something to really cry about. How many know that language? I just, okay, this man is spirit led. I'm just telling you right now, he said, So I decided to play one of your sermons. Almost immediately, the room became quiet. The children began listening to me, and I honestly couldn't believe the change. The next night, as we got ready for bed, one of the girls said, hey, hey, can you play the guy from New York City again. And she said, I want to hear the man from New York City talk about Jesus. He said, most children in the foster system don't come from Christian homes. They come from very hard places. I just want to thank Times Square Church for helping me share the gospel in our home, for being part of being peace to our children at the end of the day. God bless you, Times Square Church folks. That's an awareness of the Holy Spirit. No one comes up with it. You don't come up with that. Kids are crying. Play a sermon that doesn't even make sense. But that's what the Holy Spirit, sometimes the Holy Spirit, if you just listen, he'll guide us. How does that happen? Revive my heart. Revive my heart to be sensitive to the things of God, to the things of heaven. And I want. I want whatever the Holy Spirit has. Number two, a revived heart has a heightened awareness to sin's destructiveness. We don't want to compromise. We see it now. We see what it is doing. That a heart that is revived, that it's beating for the right things, understands that before it was revived, my heart was beating for the wrong things. It was out of whack. The heartbeat was off. Wrong things were exciting me. And this is where the revived heart now begins to realize. They'll begin to sense, don't do this, do this. We used to call it this. I want to give you some old, old upbringing language that we used to hear. We used to say something like this. I feel a check in my spirit. Anybody hear those words before? That's a heightened awareness what God is doing when he revives your heart. He's saying this. If you were to take this in, it's going to set the heartbeat going off. It's going to hurt the heartbeat. It's going to begin to affect you. You take in this diet, you eat too much of this. I'm talking about spiritually. Now you begin to do that. It will affect you. At this moment, this is the spirit's conviction. I was sent an email from our online leaders of a story of one of the. Of a conversion of somebody who got saved. When watching online. I'll use her name as Sharon. It's not her real name, but they sent me the story. They said, we just want to remind you of what God is doing. And Sharon discovered TSC online. She was a former prostitute, drug addict. But here's the incredible thing. God revived her heart. She was a drug addict and a prostitute. And she is now attending Summit School of Ministry. It is an absolute miracle. They wrote to me and said she was one of the people who typed decided on YouTube chat and she joined us on our Zoom room after the service. When you said go to the Zoom room or to wait there and our team will bring her and this young lady, he says, I remember our leader said I remember the genuineness of her decision. Tears were flowing down like she had a water faucet. And he said I will never forget what God has done in that young lady's life. Let me just read to you a little bit of her story. How the Bartimaeus eyes opened up. How the Zacchaeus work of God. When she tuned in that it was hurry, come down today, salvation is coming to your house. That's what happened to this young lady. She wrote and she said this. My God has brought me out of so much. I was a prostitute for many years. I was introduced to it by a lifestyle from a man that I thought loved me. I was just 20 years old at that time when it happened. I would work my legal job by day and I would prostitute by night many times. I was so addicted to the fast money that I would quit my jobs in the healthcare field only to become a full time worker. I travel from state to state seeking attention and money from men. And she said, I've been depressed and my mental state has declined so much. Listen to this church. Weeks before I accepted Jesus Christ as my savior, I. I was ready to die. The devil wanted me bad. I would literally be at home. This is the part that just moves my heart. I would literally be at home with my gun loaded in my hand. But God never let me pull the trigger. God never let me pull the trigger because Jesus was about to pass by and he would do it online. I accepted Jesus Christ in August of this year and I've not looked back. I've been trying to quit the lifestyle on my own for so many years. And the minute I surrendered my life to Christ was the last time I ever prostituted again. The moment I accepted Christ, listen to this. I literally had men texting me days after I turned that I became a Christian. I turned everything down. I texted everyone that sent me an email that I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior and I would no longer be be in the business any longer. At this point, she said this. The devil has tried to throw things my way. There, there I but I have God's strength. I've declined it all. When I say God's hand is on me, I truly believe it. I can't even explain the peace I Have these days. I could not even hear my own thoughts at one point. It literally just felt like there was always a dark cloud, even though the sun was shining. God has shown me what true love feels like, what true love looks like, and he has taken away my anxiety and brought me joy. The feeling is better than anything I've imagined. And then she just wrote this. God is good, God is faithful, and I love him so much. Hallelujah. That's what God does. This heightened awareness that I don't want my heart to get off rhythm with those old things anymore. It's this compromise that. That wants to bring you in and throw the heartbeat off again. When God saves you, your heart is beating again for the right things. And finally, let me close with this. As the musicians come. A revived heart has a heightened awareness to the voice of God. You will hear his voice. You'll begin to hear, whether through the word or through a message or through someone's encouragement. I struggled with this to tell you this story, but I want to tell it to you. I just. The more I began to realize that this is this. The Lord did this. What a powerful time we had. Yesterday. I had the opportunity to be with our team and to. We had a volunteer banquet, a volunteer leaders banquet. Sibby and that whole team have just done a tremendous job to see those that have just given themselves to serving. Can I. Can I just remind you, I just want to. I really want to just throw out a challenge. God, God has created you to be on that playing field. God has not created you to be in the stands. God created you to put on that jersey, to put on those pads and do something for God. So I want to encourage you. When I looked at those volunteers, I'm telling you, my heart just leapt within me to see these people that have committed so much to seeing whether it's working with children greeting you at the door, taking an offering, security, whatever that meant online. I mean, these stories that I read online comes from all of you that are working with us from all over the world. Thank you. You can volunteer if you're online, but there's just something so special about that, and I want to thank our teams for doing that. So let me tell you what happened. So I had the chance myself. Elder Jerry. We had the chance to talk to the team, which. It was so such a special time. So I didn't stay. I didn't stay long because I was going home and they were serving lunch. And when I got home, I didn't stay for lunch, but I was hungry. And the worst thing you can do when you're hungry is look at pictures of food. Anybody ever notice that? It's like in New York, pictures of food. I was. So I'm looking at pictures and I found, man, I saw the best cakes in New York City. And I just go, these are the cakes. Wow, I love cake. I'm just telling you right now. And it said, this place has the best strawberry shortcake in all of New York City. And I'm just going, it's snowing and what a great day to eat cake. That's what I thought. So I went in to talk to my girls. I said to them, and let me just say this, they were no help whatsoever. They were no help because I came in, I'm going, hey guys, I found this cake place. What do you think? And instead of them going, no, let's eat healthy, they're going, woo, yeah, let's do it. And I just thought, nah. So I just said, nah, let's not do it. We probably shouldn't do it. So I go back in and they can tell you. My youngest could tell you this. I came back out and I just said this. I said, I feel. And I felt it was hunger. I. I just said, I feel like we're supposed to order this cake. And I'm listen, full disclosure, it was not the Holy Spirit, it was me that was just saying this. I wanted to try. The picture looked too good. So I just said, let's get cake. So I ordered it. Three different pieces of this stuff that we did. And I'm just telling you, I couldn't wait to see that cake come. And we were waiting for it and I'm just. But here's what I didn't know. That, that feeling that I had. I'm not trying to be silly here. It was God. And let me tell you why. So we're sitting, I find out that the guy's at the door with the cake. I am elated at this point. And so I open up the door and he's standing there with this box. And as soon as he sees me, he goes, times Square church.

Congregation/Choir (47:19)

Folks.

Pastor Tim (47:21)

He goes, pray for me. I have been away from God. Pray for me. Pray right now. And I'm going, I think I was supposed to order cake. I laid him and he told me he was coming. I don't even know if Charles is here today. Charles is. I just wanted to make sure. I said, charles, you need to be in church. I just want to make sure he didn't sneak into the 10 or the 1, he goes, I'm coming. I'm coming to church. I'm coming, he said. And he just. And even when he's left the building, someone met him downstairs. They go, who is that cake guy who delivered? Like, something is different on him, like he saw something. And I'm telling you, folks, I didn't know. I didn't know that. That feeling. I thought it was hunger. It was God that was speaking to say, order the cake. And when that guy came up, we prayed in that hallway. We asked God to come down and change Charles and to work a miracle inside of him. I think what happens when you ask God to revive your heart? There's good. Sometimes you may not know if it's hunger and cake or if it's God, but God will help get it right. God will help do that. God began to use a silly situation and say, I am going to begin to show you that maybe I can take this cake thing that you wanted and get a guy back to the Lord. Of all the people that would deliver on this day, Charles would deliver and show up, and God would begin to touch his heart to start a journey back to God. Today, only God can do that. And folks, you know what took place. I felt. I felt God telling me, just going like. It was almost like putting that defibrillator and just going like, let me just jump start your heart again. Don't just know that your heart's gonna beat again. Listen to my voice. Don't take things for granted. It's my voice that's coming. Listen to me. Let the heightened awareness. It's God beginning to set the heartbeat right again. To set our heartbeat. Revive me, God. Revive us. Oh, God, revive us that we may rejoice in you. In you that we may rejoice. You know, I was trying. Stand with me. I'm done. I want to, I want to tell you something. I want to, I want to, I want to take you back. Is Mama May here? We kicked her out. We kicked her out. We shut the choir down. Is Mama May in this place? I just wanted me there. She. Mama May. Come on up. Come on. I had this old song hit my heart this weekend, and I said, send it to Willie and get Mama May and elder Vicky. And here's what I do know. I know three people will know every one of these old songs. Her, her, and him. Those are the three. And most of the times, even Kareem. Those are the ones I'm going. And I. As I was going, God, revive my heart. Let it beat again. Open up the heavens come down. Remember what he says. Let me. Let me read it to you again. Psalm 85. 6. Listen to the words. He says this. Will you not. And then he emphasized it. Yourselves revive us again, he says. Will not you. There's. So let me help you. There's no sermon or song that revives the heart. It's him. It's him. He says. Will not you yourself revive us again? It is when. When we leave Jesus out. Listen, preachers, ministers, there's nothing you can do. I can do. There's no song we can sing that gets the heart beating again. It's is an encounter with Jesus. That's what happens. It's when God opens up the heavens and shows up, puts those paddles on that spiritual heart and say, beat for the right things again. Beat for the things that matter. Beat for eternity. Beat for the word of God. Beat for lost souls. Beat for the kingdom of God. Beat for the gifts of the Holy Ghost. Beat for. For the things that would begin to bring heaven down in this place. Beat for prayer and fasting again. That's what God does. And that's what I started to pray. You yourself. You yourself will not yourself revive us again. Will not yourself revive us again. And as I kept doing that, I sat down at my desk and I just started to sing this old song. I'll read it to you and then I want. We're gonna teach it to you. Have this sense they're gonna sing it better than the 10 o'.

Congregation/Choir (52:05)

Clock.

Pastor Tim (52:07)

I do. I have a sense you will because this is the. This is the. You're out there, you live like just the old song. I used to hear this in the 90s at this church, this very stage. It says, the windows of heaven are open, the fire is falling Tonight I've got joy, joy, joy in my soul Since Jesus made everything right and here's the part I love. I gave him my old filthy garments he gave me a robe of pure white Now I'm feasting on manna from heaven and that's why I'm happy tonight. Now you've got to get this right. Listen, you bet. You're gonna have to clap, right? You're gonna have to sing right. You're gonna have to sing loud. And so I'm gonna need some help on this. Can you. Can you help us on this? Come on, let's. This is how the song goes. Come on.

Congregation/Choir (53:08)

The windows of heaven the windows of heaven are open the fire is calling to. Tonight I got joy, joy, joy in my soul Since Jesus Made everything right I gave him my own filthy G and he gave me a robe of your eyes I'm feasting Amanda from ever that's why I'm happy tonight I had.

Pastor Tim (53:47)

Higher hopes but they, but they, but. Okay, you guys don't know how to clap. Okay, so let me just help. Okay? Okay, you're gonna hear it. Just. Just play that, play that, play that. It's gonna go. There you go. And it goes like this.

Congregation/Choir (54:07)

Here goes.

Pastor Tim (54:08)

The windows of heaven are open There you go.

Congregation/Choir (54:12)

The fire is open.

Pastor Tim (54:14)

Help me, ladies.

Congregation/Choir (54:24)

Everything right. I came in my old filthy garment and he gave me a rope of your eyes I'm feasting on man of your name and that's why I'm happy tonight Come on. That's. That's why that's why I'm happy that's why I'm happy that's why I'm happy tonight I got joy, joy, joy in my soul Since Jesus made everything right I gave him my old filthy G and he gave me a All up your mind I'm feasting on.

Pastor Tim (55:19)

Verse one.

Congregation/Choir (55:19)

That's why church. Let's sing it. Come on. The windows of heaven through the windows of heaven I'm open the fire is falling tonight Here we go. I got joy, joy, joy in my soul Since Jesus made everything right I gave him my whole filthy G and he gave me a Roll up your mind I'm feasting on that up from him and that's why I'm happy Come on, sing about. That's why I'm happy that's why, that's why I'm happy that's why I'm happy that's why I'm happy tonight I've got joy, joy, joy my soul Since Jesus made everything right I gave him my opening G and he gave me a ro of your eyes I'm feasting on Anna from heaven that's why I'm happy tonight Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Folks.

Pastor Tim (56:45)

If Jesus is here, joy comes next. That's why. Listen, that's some of you going like. Then why are you saying haps? You always get people that are gonna nitpick. Then why are you saying happy? How come I'd say he said happy and joy? Because when you can have happiness and joy at the same time, when things are going good, but when things are going bad, happiness leaves. Joy stays put. I, I, I'm, I get. I have the happy. Happy is the emotion part. Joy is what's deep down in the soul. Joy is what goes through the fire. That's why, folks, I'm telling you that for some of you, God has to set that heart beating again. That heart beating again that you can begin. I. We were talking about one of the things that I love that Ricardo does. He'll always sit there and say, say hallelujah. Some of you going, like, I'm not saying hallelujah no more. He says it too many times. Let me tell you something. That word is so important because that word in the New Testament is only used in one book, and it's the book of Revelation. It's the word of heaven. Heaven says hallelujah. And some of you are sitting there going, like, I'm tired of saying hallelujah. Well, you better get rid then. You don't want to go to heaven then, because that's going to be our main word. You're going to look at people going, hallelujah, Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You're going to look at the Lamb of God. Go, hallelujah. The Lamb of God.

Congregation/Choir (58:02)

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Pastor Tim (58:04)

And I'm telling you that's why, let's.

Congregation/Choir (58:06)

Throw up a hallelujah right now. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Pastor Tim (58:36)

Come on, put. You feel that heart beating again? Something is starting to take place. Let me ask you this. We're gonna. We're gonna do this. I know sometimes you have an altar call and you gotta have, like, the somber music to get you down here. And so you walk down like it's a funeral. No, no, no, no. We're doing this different today. How many need that heart to beat again? How many needs the heart to beat again? On some areas. Raise that hand high. Say, I need. I need. I need that. That defibrillator to come and God to make my heart beat. We're gonna sing this song again. The windows of heaven are. Oh, I believe it. And I believe he's gonna come and revive those hearts again. Revive it again. What does again mean? It means it be it. It was beating for the right thing at one time.

Congregation/Choir (59:16)

Yes.

Pastor Tim (59:17)

And now he needs to get it beating again. And I believe he's gonna do it. I believe that. If you're here, just quickly. Balcony, main floor. As we sing this, we're gonna sing with joy. You come. You come. Get out of your seat, come down here quickly, as fast as you can. Let's sing this. As they come, we're going to believe for. Come on.

Congregation/Choir (59:33)

The windows of heaven the windows of heaven are open the fire is falling Tonight I got joy, joy, joy in my soul Since Jesus made everything right I gave him my all 50G and he gave me a room of your eyes Now I'm king I'm better from it.

Pastor Tim (60:06)

That's why I'm happy that's why I'm.

Congregation/Choir (60:07)

Happy that's why I'm happy tonight that's.

Pastor Tim (60:10)

Why Sing it to.

Congregation/Choir (60:12)

That's why I'm happy that's why I'm happy that's why I'm happy tonight Sing it. I've got joy, joy, joy in my soul Since Jesus made everything I gave.

Pastor Tim (60:29)

Him Come on, Church.

Congregation/Choir (60:31)

I gave him my old filthy. He comes and he gave me a roll of your eyes I'm teaching a man from him.

Pastor Tim (60:44)

Sing the chorus one more time.

Congregation/Choir (60:45)

That's why I'm happy Come on, let's sing it the loudest. Come on. That's why that's why I'm happy that's why I'm happy that's why I'm happy tonight Joy, joy, joy in my soul Since Jesus made everything right oh, I gave him my old filthy garments and he gave me a robe of you.

Pastor Tim (61:16)

I'm gonna sing the chorus one more time with no music.

Congregation/Choir (61:18)

I'm feasting a man from hell. Come on. That's why I'm happy that's why I'm as loud as you can.

Pastor Tim (61:25)

Sing it for us, just you.

Congregation/Choir (61:26)

Here we go. Singing. That's why I'm happy that's why I'm happy that's. Come on.

Pastor Tim (61:36)

I've got joy.

Congregation/Choir (61:36)

Sing it. I've got joy, joy, joy in my soul Jesus made everything right oh, I came in my own filthy comment and he gave me a Roll up your eyes I'm pre. Sing. That's why I Just praise him right now. Come on. Just praise Sam. That's why I'm happy Come on, Church. That's why that's why I'm happy that is that's why I'm happy that is that's why I'm happy I've got joy, joy, joy in my soul It's Jesus made everything right, you know. I gave him my old filthy garment he came. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.

Pastor Tim (63:34)

Hallelujah.

Congregation/Choir (63:35)

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Pastor Tim (63:44)

Those at this altar, look at me for a second. Here's Psalm 85. 6. Psalm 85. 6. Will not you yourself revive us again? Will not you yourself. What does that mean? The heart was beating for the right things at one point. And the intake, the spiritual intake, messed up the beat it messed it up. And now we're beating for certain other things. I want to get rich. I want to get this. And listen, it doesn't mean that God's blessing doesn't come, but it's not what we're, it's not the priority of the heartbeat. My, the priority is to go. I am in love with God. I am in love with the word of God. It's the heartbeat that begins to come back again. So he says, this will not you, yourself, himself, revive us again. He revives us. And so I want you to do this. We're going to do this. Take, take those. Let, let's pretend these are, these are the defibrillator. Put those over the heart. And I just want to pray for you, God. Let the heart beat again. Let the heart beat again, God. Father, our hands are over our heart only as a symbol. We can't make, we can't get it beaten on our own, but you can, Father, I pray that, Lord, you would open up the windows of heaven, stretch down and get our hearts beating for the right things again. Beating for the right things. Let the right things begin to bring joy. Joy. God, Father, I thank you that joy always follows the presence of God. Joy is always there. You took a hated man, you took a cursed man, and they started to infect others. Homes started to be changed, people started to praise. Something started to happen, God, I, I, I look at the Bartimaeuses and the Zacchaeuses and God, I'm going, something happened. And I'm saying, it can happen today, Today in this place. So, God, I'm praying, let the heart beat again. The heart beat again. Oh God, revive us. Come on, ask him to revive me. Say, revive me, oh Lord. Revive me, O Lord. Let our hearts beat for the right things again. Revive us, O Lord. You know, let me, let me just say this. When I think of Zacchaeus and I think of Bartimaeus, think about it. The cursed and the hated. The cursed and the hated. The cursed and the hated. This cursed man. His, his discovery of Jesus infected others. So his joy got, like we said, got. Everybody else praise him. Everybody else praise him. There's some of you that, that we want to be careful when you think of when God touches us and joy comes. I want to, I want to be around joyful people. Can I just tell you that I want to be around joyful people. Look at the person next to say, are you joyful? Ask them that. Say, are you joyful? And say if. And look at the, look at them and Say if you're not, we can't hang out anymore. Tell them that right now. If you're not, we can't hang out anymore. I don't want to look like them. I want to look like Joy. I want to. I want joy inside of me. Let me tell you this, and then think of Zacchaeus. Think of Zacchaeus, the traitor, the hated man. His home was going to be changed. That so? You have one man infecting everybody with praise. The other man. His home is about to be changed. This is what Jesus said today. Salvation has come to your house. How many need a salvation in your home? Come on. How many need that? Lift those hands and say, God, revive my home. Revive my home. Revive my home. Let the heart beat again to my children, my grandchildren. Lord, I'm praying for mom and dad, Grandpa, grandma. Let the heart beat again for the things of God. Revive our homes today. Oh, God. Hallelujah. And here's how we're gonna end today. I can't leave without even just asking you. You may be here today, and maybe you've never discovered Jesus. And I'm here to tell you, you find Jesus, everything changes. Not this church. There's not a denomination. I'm inviting you to a relationship with Jesus. If you're here today, the windows of heaven are open. He's calling your name today. The greatest term that Jesus uses about that heart change is to be born again. It's a second chance. It's another chance. Today can be as you have a first birth. Today is a second birth date. It's when God comes in and changes you from the inside out. That can happen right now. And I'm telling you, you have searched for joy. You have searched for it and you've not found it. But I'm telling you to discover Jesus. Joy comes next. You're going after the wrong thing. You're going after. You're going after the wrong part. Go after Jesus. Joy comes. Homes are changed. Lives are changed. Everything's changed. If you're here today, balcony, main floor, watching online, you're just going, I need Jesus in my life. I need him in my life. Would you pray for me, Pastor Tim? Wherever you're at, if that's you, just very quickly raise your hand, say, I just pray for me. I need God in my life.

Congregation/Choir (68:55)

Life.

Pastor Tim (68:56)

Hold your hand up aside as you can. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Balcony, let me see. But yes, yes, yes. All in that. Thank you online. Just stay put. Come on. Pray this with me for everybody. Everybody out loud say Jesus, I need you. I thank you. I heard my name you're saying come down today I'm must come to your house Salvation come to my house. I believe Jesus died for me. I believe Jesus rose for me. I believe Jesus is coming for me today I receive him. Amen. Hallelujah. So here's what I'm going to ask you to do. We're going to to close service today with this song and here's what's gonna happen. But if you made that decision online, you can just email decided to growth at TSC NYC in person. You can text it or you can go right over to exit 7 where those wonderful ladies are waiting. We're gonna get you, take five minutes with you, get your bible, get whatever you need and to get you started. But I want us to leave this place with joy today. I want you to move people away from you and get get your hands ready for praising. Here's what's gonna happen. We're gonna sing this while the curtain is coming down. Our prayer teams will be over there. They're gonna be happy. They're gonna pray with pray with you with joy upon them. But if you need special prayer. But come on, let's sing this one more time. Come on. Mama May. 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 NY 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 platforms at Times Square Church. Thanks for tuning in today. Have a great week.