We learned today that Jon doesn't do well with movie titles. 😆

AMEN, my brother.

Really want the song charts on this. Would love to sing it with my community asap. If anyone knows how to find it!

Life experience Is in most cases more God minded . what only God can answer .

Thank you , this message goes for lots of people with degrees , Don't ever underestimate the simple minded . they Have the dayly interaction with God , what they are most of the time not even are aware of . they might talk to God mayby more often than Farizaries all together .

According to Solomon in the Book of Ecclesiasties, all of these things that we Chase are vanity.

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That opening story 😂

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Great song full of the Spirit!

Really struggling to die to myself guys. If anyone is reading this please pray for me. I know I’m the only one that can do this

The difference between this and the other arguments that I've seen is that Suzy uses the entire Bible as reference, rather than isolating one passage and trying to understand context from only that. While this is a topic is very heavy, I think she did a really good job of demystifying God's plan since the beginning.

God is so good

Such an annointed song!! Thank you for gifting this to us!

I needed to hear this today!

Thank you. I was at the youth group in Iceland were you made your first appearance on the Pentecostal Kotmót. Your sermon yesterday (August 3, 2024) was the most amazing, funniest and impactful delivery I think I've ever heard in person. The analogies were brilliant! I wanted to applaud mightily but you quickily disappeared from the stage when the worship started. Just wanted to thank you. I will never forget this sermon in Iceland for as long as I live. It was the highlight of the whole event. Thank you again. God bless you brother ❤️🙏🏻

my heart is so moved by this. i want in.

Yes! May every church become a praying church 💯 Lord please ignite your people to the sacrifice and service of intercessory prayer 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Wow so good 🎉❤

Please read below my response to Jon Tyson's interview on biblical masculinity on Remnant Radio (link below). kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZfCaGmphJlob8k This episode is floating in mid air. How so? The trinity includes the Father and the Son and yet the topic of this video was "Is There Biblical Masculinity?" How bizarre. Let me be cheeky and answer the question of the show now - “Let’s hope so!”. No mention of the masculinity of either Jesus or the Father is made anywhere in the video - yet no idea is theology unless it can be traced to the trinity and to the character of God. The US church is so committed to mining truth from Christianity for personal gain (more on that below) while ignoring God himself - and certainly Jon Tyson - that it's possible for episodes like this to exist. Many/most people would have you believe that people are free to choose BETWEEN: - complementarianism - where manhood is defined by Christ’s masculinity - and womanhood by the church in dwelled by the Spirit - AND - egalitarianism - which is defined by whichever book written by someone with a PhD ‘interprets’ contended passages of the bible in a way that appeals to you. The interviewers respond to this reality by asking Jon how he interprets 1 Timothy 2 - and Jon obliged them with a PhD answer (apparently it’s not possible for a teenager to be left alone with 1 Timothy 2 and for he or she to reach a reliable conclusion as to its meaning - since it's actually about the women of Artemis! Traps for young players). Instead the interviewers should be asking questions designed to get to the heart of the issue - such as the following three: 1. Why (THEOLOGICALLY) must marriage be between a man and a woman? (“For reproduction” is not an answer - because if marriage is DEFINED by having children then people who cannot have children should not marry. “For parenting” is not an answer - because if marriage is DEFINED by parenting then a same sex couple who agree to adopt should be able to get married. “For mutual comfort” is not an answer - since if this is what DEFINES marriage then a same sex couple should be able to marry. This question would have required Jon to reveal whether the differences he is willing to admit exist between men and women have ANYTHING to contribute to explain marriage). 2. Why (THEOLOGICALLY) is homosexuality forbidden? And here’s a question which would have been perfect for Jon - who says he believes in complementarianism without hierarchy: 3. Is there any reason why Jesus could not have been a woman? Without egalitarians being able to provide answers to the first two questions it isn’t possible to consider egalitarianism a POSSIBLE theology of sexuality. It isn’t possible to view egalitarianism as anything other than primary doctrinal failure. The latter is proven in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 where we find out that sex differences are so fundamental - so central to the heart of the gospel - that EVERY SINGLE TRUE BELIEVER JUST KNOWS - from the moment they are saved - without being taught - that they must honour sex differences by refraining from homosexual acts. To the host's credit - and after the guest had associated manhood with "giving your life away for others" - he asked: "I would wonder what someone would say if they are listening on the other end - saying "well can't a woman be feminine and do this? Can't a woman sacrificially adopt responsibility for others? Wouldn't that also be Christ like?" How would you respond to someone who is processing that?" To which the guest replied (this was the end of the interview - the guest revealing that he has no ideas that relate to being a man - as distinct from being a believer of either sex (all true ideas about manhood CONTRAST with womanhood): "Well of course she can - but this is a conversation about how men are formed - not a conversation about how women are formed". Got that? The guest is talking about qualities common to men and women as qualities of men because this is a conversation about how men are formed! Then Jon Tyson discusses Proverbs 31 - where at least men and women are spoken of separately - however he manages to talk about the things that godly men do in that passage without reaching any clear conclusion about how men and women are different. He doesn't recognise that the things men do in that passage make men Christ figures - those who are supposed to establish justice (women can establish justice too - keep reading for the key THEOLOGICAL difference between men and women!). Presumably Ephesians 5 is in his bible - but remember Jon believes that this passage is about a Jesus who ISN'T head of the church - he's an equal partner with the church. To believe this is to deny our need to be saved (I have concluded that Ephesians 5 is not limited to husbands and wives - that instead it reveals required qualities of all men - and all women. I reach that conclusion because Genesis 2 moves straight from man and woman being defined as individuals - where woman is a helper to man - into defining marriage). Then the guest - determined to prove that his ideas about man and woman are NOT Christ and the church - NOT the cross - bangs the "freedom" drum - as the US 'church' is currently doing (“we must fight to preserve our FREEDOM to worship etc”). He says men aren't in contexts which give them THE FREEDOM - the opportunity - to become men. This idea is the very antithesis of the cross - which is about Jesus limiting his freedom for others - foregoing his rights (both of these explained in Phil 2). A Christian is formed through being united with Christ in his death and resurrection. Perhaps then the way to form a man isn’t to “set them free to be men”? Then the guest told us that only when boys have a CONSCIOUS JOURNEY which leads them to break away from boyhood to embrace manhood do boys become men. Has Jon not heard of puberty - when boys put some distance between them and their mothers as they begin to be attracted to women? With this distance enabling their character formation to include formation in the distinctives of their sex? Instead of recognising that God already has this covered - and instead of recognising that biblical masculinity MUST be founded on Christ and the Father - Jon sensed an opportunity. He decided to tell the Christian world - filled with men looking for a way to avoid the cost of real discipleship - that becoming a Christian - welcoming God as Word and Spirit - and attending a church in which one is formed through a diversity of relationships - wasn't enough to cause someone to become a man. Instead people need to go on a four day Forming Men retreat with Jon and Jefferson Bethke - which will cost them US$2500 a ticket. Ka ching! Jon is a con artist. He's an eloquent New York pastor with a large church - he can talk his head off - he can quote forty books before his sermon has reached half an hour in length - but he's a con artist whose ENTIRE spirituality is separated from Christ and the cross (except when it is expedient for them to be one). When Jon's theology is orthodox it is only to QUALIFY to get whatever he wants from his position.

SO GOOD.

Yes, so thankful for the power & authority!

Amen! New York needs more Christian churches like this!

Come to the table...

Amen! Glory to the saviour of the world, the King of Kings, Jesus Christ❤ blessings from the UK

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You mean you've been preaching across the ditch and didn't come visit Loved this message So inspiring I'm listening again God Bless

The preacher disagrees with the idea that Christianity is obsessed with sin. He says (quoting Ayaan Hirsi Ali) that Christianity is obsessed with love. He therefore leaves us trying to imagine a love which is unrelated to our sin (due to his CONTRASTING the idea of God being obsessed with sin with the idea of God being obsessed with love). But God is obsessed with sin precisely BECAUSE he is love. God is obsessed with sin because sin separates us from him and he wants to relate with us. To suggest that Christianity is obsessed with love instead of with sin is to deny the cross. Christian love is holiness, justice, mercy, and grace. It is God enabling us to be united with Jesus in his death (we die to everything selfish in us) so that we may then rise with Jesus to new life. The gospel and sin are inseparable. I just searched for the word sin and the word love in the New Testament. The word love occurs 235 times. The word sin occurs 392 times. Instead of seeing the latter references as in conflict with love we should see them as proof of God’s self-giving love - his desire to be re-united with us. When this preacher preaches he presents a huge amount of content at a very fast pace. It is clear both that he can find the words to describe ideas and also cross relate a lot of concepts with ease. What isn't certain is whether what he talks about is birthed in him. Just because he can process truths INTELLECTUALLY and ORALLY doesn't mean that he has processed - and is processing - the things he speaks about RELATIONALLY. Preaching is truth and embodiment - it is godly persuasion due to Christ being PRESENT - not just TRUE. It is a serious issue when embodiment is short circuited. Let me give you a different example of how embodiment can be bypassed. US pastor Stephen Furtick - when preaching - reaches heightened emotion before those who are listening to him have the chance to feel emotion. It inevitably causes people to give way to the preacher (people feel inadequate - "Why don't I feel as deeply about him about these things?"). When this preacher preaches it's the same problem. Instead of people going on their own journey with God - people are being railroaded into experiencing the preacher's 'journey'. It leads to the congregation accepting whatever the preacher says is true. I doubt that the people in the congregation were able to recognise that in this sermon the preacher denied the cross - I doubt that the average member of the congregation recognised that his message was unhinged from the foundations of the gospel. One final example - there is a very famous woman bible teacher who has a million followers on X. Whenever she shares ideas she does so by explaining HER RELATIONSHIP with the ideas. To engage with the ideas she shares requires the person engaging to do so THROUGH HER EYES. It's a perfect way to build a following - by BINDING people to oneself. These three examples are each examples of FALSE TEACHING. Saying what is true is not enough (not that the preacher here said what was true) - being a godly preacher of God's word includes presenting in a godly manner. It's time for the church elders at COTC NYC to do something about this. And it's time for people at COTC NYC to recognise the inappropriate pressure being placed on them - that it leads to their comparing the preacher's skills with their own - and to their 'giving way' to the preacher - ENTRUSTING themselves to him. John 2:24-25 ESV But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

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I am always so blessed & divinely convicted by the teachings in this church but I ask why do the musician come up so early & play so loudly? They play beautifully but I find it distracting while trying to listen to the sermon. I do truly love you all & am so grateful to God for the way He uses you all in my life.

A friend who goes to your church sent me this sermon and it was exactly what I needed to hear. I've been battling with this spirit for a while. Thank you for preaching on this. I am encouraged to keep showing up, take God's Promises as Truth, and Fight another day. May God bless you Pastor Tyson and your ministry.

Very well prepared and delivered. Blessed to hear it.

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It would be amazing to hear an exposition on the Feast of Tabernacles from Jon Tyson! I came across a study the LORD showed me because I was hungry for understanding. I leapt out of my chair with so much joy at what was revealed to me that I had done artwork on it-artwork on Psalm 19!

This man has discovered joy, joy abundantly.

This was such an anointed messenger. Powerful. Thank you for making your ministry available.e to the world.

I don’t want to here the man speak I have Jesus I want to hear the singing ❤

Awsome servant.

I needed this word Samuel! Thank you

Yes Lord do it our time 🙏

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Is a key part of making people spiritual to remind them they are going to die? Is the wish of the average person to not talk about death - or think about death - proof of their lack of spirituality? I don’t believe so. It's proof of people's SENSITIVITY. The key to being spiritual is to focus on how it is that we have chosen to use our lives in the light of God's perfect character - and the CONTINUING age to come. How should we respond to people who behave as if they want to be immortal? Christians can hardly criticise this - they know (or are supposed to know) that ALL humans beings ARE immortal - it is perfectly sensible that people who wrongly believe that life has a finish point to want to be immortal. The only thing reprehensible is refusing to submit one's destiny to God. Why? Because his perfect character has earned our submission. Wanting to be immortal isn't in every case idolatry. Focusing on death does help to elevate the preacher though. He appears to be the one who is deeper than the rest of us - when he isn’t deeper only in having a greater awareness of death. It isn’t the fact that we will die which shapes our spirituality in the present - it’s the fact that in Christ there is the OBLIGATION to live. The preacher mentioned cheap grace - cheap grace isn't cheap because it fails to rub people's noses in their impending physical death. It is being bound to God by his holiness and justice which creates the foundation for authentic robust discipleship. The preacher also confuses people's not wanting to confront physical death with their not wanting to die to sin - when the two things are completely different. There is ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with the statement "Jesus died so you don't have to" - if it refers - as most people would think it does - to mortality and immortality. Yes - a SEPARATE issue is that no person should dare to imagine they can be in the presence of a holy God wihtout dying to sin - without repentance - without receiving Christ's righteousness - but this is UNRELATED to people's attitude to physical death. Jesus would view the fear of people of physical death (separated from their unrepentance) as evidence of them being sheep without a shepherd. Nothing more or less. I dont' think that the preacher advanced his cause by mocking the things that people say to comfort themselves when they have no comfort. Why not shepherd people instead? The problem with American Christendom is not that there are no people willing to die for the gospel. Hollywood is certainly happy to identify with the one who runs towards the enemy - looking death in the eye. The problem with American Christendom is that it cannot bear the idea of LIVING for the gospel. Living for the gospel means having to shed one's right to assert an identity - it will mean being a nobody (someone whose identity is ONLY about God's acceptance - instead of something earned). That's my challenge to the preacher - how about 'getting wrecked' by the person who TRULY humbles themselves - instead of using Christianity to fulfil the American Dream? 1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. I liked the preacher's "Our Assumption" "Jesus' Subversion" chart. But why is Jesus' approach different to what we expect? For an answer please read below. Jesus LETS Lazarus die - and then he raises him from the dead. This is a micro expression of a macro reality - God is purposely letting things go wrong. Why? What BETTER thing happens through his doing this? The answer I have for this question is that God's intention was never for Eden to remain as Eden (he knew that people would use their freedom to sin). Eden had one 'weakness' which God had no power to remove creatively. The weakness is that the price of human freedom is that people may choose to turn away from God. God's intention is that through the training of trials and suffering people would end up being gathered to himself for eternity who would NEVER use their FREEDOM in the age to come to turn from him. (Just as this life is a test to determine that those appointed to hell will never use their freedom to turn TO God).

I loved this message, so well researched and delivered in a creative and whimsical manner.

Thank you, Tim! This is a wonderful sermon. 🙏

"Hello - my name is Pastor Jon" What’s with the Pastor Jon and Pastor Ashley thing? Do you call your prophets Prophet? And your preachers Preacher? We need a friendly and not too pompous one for Apostles - how about Andy 'the Big A'? Please - as a tip of the hat to Broadway - we must have Elder Silk Rojas. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6e7dnesaLyYm6M 1 Timothy 3:2-5 ESV Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? Titus 1:5-6 ESV This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you- if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. 1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. Why do you teach the bible - if you have no intention of doing what it says? Since Jesus shows no favouritism everyone needs a name. I'm thinking: 'Guy Who Serves Coffee' Brad And ‘Puts Out the Chairs' Charlene. Wouldn't it be simpler if you skipped the titles and whenever Jon walks past everyone in the congregation licks his shoes? He's already rubbing your nose in it. Pastoring in New York City is a gift to the person with ungodly intentions - since which paid member of staff wants to pick a fight with the senior pastor - if tomorrow they won't be able to pay their rent? Jon has you right where he wants you. Sorry - PASTOR Jon - lick lick. There is nothing unintentional that happens at Church of the City NYC. Jon is making sure that you are required to bow all the time - that you are required to give thanks. That way when someone realises that Jon shouldn't be running four day retreats for men which cost $2500 a ticket to become a man - instead of coming to church for free - they will remember that he's Pastor Jon - and that there is no such person as Whistleblower Wilma. 1 Corinthians 12:22-25 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. Matthew 23:5-12 ESV They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others. But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ. The greatest among you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. COTC NYC is a Shakespearean tragedy in three acts - and it's currently Act III. It is led by a bunch of elders who wouldn't recognise an area of pastoral concern if Joseph Smith handed it to them etched into two gold tablets. You will all recognise these pastoral issues eventually - one way or another - just as eventually at the name of Jesus everyone will bow. PS Is there a moment when anyone in the congregation can ask Jon anything they like - while others listen to the question and the answer? Your non-accountable culture is there for all to see. If it isn't to establish a godly culture what is Jon Tyson's job? And the job of the elders?

Phenomenal message and insight. Meta understanding of a biblical concept, great understanding of that scripture, beautiful application to the personal struggles of life!!! You even answered questions I've had for years about that scripture!!!! Thank you!! I will listen again and again!

We were made for God or it was an accident. God has it written out. What story of your life are you reading?