>> Hi. I'm Warren Marcus, and I want to share with you
some incredible thing that happened to me.
You know, in the book of Ephesians it talks about
that God foreknew us before the foundation of the world
and he has a destiny and purpose for every one of us out there.
Now, I don't know how old you are or whatever,
but you might go, Well, that's too late for me.
No, it's not too late for you.
Now, here I was a Jewish kid. My parents were Jewish.
I go back to generations of Jewish people
in my family lineage.
And I was playing outside, five years old,
playing outside with my friend Bobby.
And all of a sudden, this summer storm,
thunderstorm began to happen, and Bobby got petrified.
And he said, I got to go home. And I said, Why, Bobby?
He goes, It's lightning. It could kill you.
I said, Bobby, lightning won't hurt you.
He goes, Yes, it could.
And he starts running home and he goes to his house.
And Mrs. Perigee, his mom comes out and she says,
Come, Bobby, quick, quick.
And I said, Mrs. Perigee, Bobby says
Lightning could kill you. And she says, It can kill you.
Now, you better go home right now.
And she slammed the door. The next thing to happen,
this lightning, this flash of lightning,
this thunderbolt hit 15 feet away from me.
And all of a sudden I get up, I'm hysterical,
I'm running into my house, you know,
I can't get there quick enough.
And there is my sister, my agnostic Jewish sister.
She picks me up, says, What's wrong, Warren?
I said, It's lightning. It can kill me. She goes,
Lightning can't touch you. It can't hurt you.
God will protect you. I said, God, who's God?
She says, Well, you can't see him.
He's invisible, but yet he lives in a place called heaven,
but yet he's everywhere.
So I was thinking, is he in my room at night when it's dark?
And she says,
Yes, he's in your room at night when it's dark.
Well, I got more frightened of this unseen entity named God
than I was of the lightning and thunder.
And I was in my room at night,
it was dark and I was really frightened.
I mean, I just, I didn't want to say anything.
I was just petrified. I fell asleep
and all of a sudden I found myself in heaven.
But it was lightning and thunder.
It was, like, really scary.
And all of a sudden in the distance,
I could see the clouds parting in a circular fashion.
And then it was, there was the most beautiful golden light.
And this golden light,
I didn't realize till later, it was the glory,
the shekinah glory of God
the father that was right there in heaven.
And so what happened is, I was feeling myself,
the lightning and thunder dissipated,
and I was feeling myself being drawn
into the source of the light.
And then these colorful beams of different colors
came towards me and all around me.
And it created a pathway as I was being drawn in
and I felt the most incredible shalom, peace.
I felt completeness. I mean, it was like the greatest high,
you know, drug addicts say, when they use certain drugs,
Oh, that's the greatest high.
And you're always trying to get that high back again.
Then they had to go into deeper drugs.
Well, I was like in the highest of high
that anyone could experience.
And then I heard a voice like I'd never heard before.
And the voice was in me and all around me, I heard it.
And the voice said, Warren, do not be afraid.
I am your friend. I will never hurt you.
And so I was shaking.
I was just so overcome by that dream.
I woke up and I didn't want to wake up.
I went downstairs to try to tell my mother and father.
I told my mother, Mom, I saw God.
And she says, You saw what? God! How did you see God?
In my dream.
Then my father, he was an agnostic Jew,
he comes down and I said, Dad, I saw God.
And he goes, What? She goes
Don't worry, Charlie, he saw him in his dream.
And so I tried to draw a picture in kindergarten class of God.
And, and I drew with a yellow crayon.
I still have the picture today.
And this picture was my way of trying to say to people,
I couldn't say with my mouth and,
and try to tell people exactly who God was.
But I tried to draw a picture
because a picture is worth a thousand words.
And that picture was something God put in me.
It's really weird
because before the foundations of the world he foreknew us,
and he has a destiny and purpose, in Ephesians,
the book Ephesians, it talks about that.
And so he put in me this desire to show forth
in picture form the revelation of God.
And so my mom took me to the movie theater,
Ten Commandments.
And in Ten Commandments, I was like blown away
because there was God, the God of Israel.
And he was doing these ten plagues to,
against the enemies of Israel, the parting of the Red Sea.
Then he's on Mount Sinai,
and the glory that I saw in heaven
was right there in front of me. I was able to see -
and I felt that same incredible high that I felt in heaven.
Now I want to tell you, my life was really pursuing God.
But she would take me,
my mom would take me to the Jewish temple,
and I would go weekly and I would go and I didn't feel God.
I didn't sense him.
And so when I went into the sanctuary,
I said, God, where are you? I need you.
I want you to show yourself like you showed Moses,
set the chair on fire, you know, I wanted a fiery chair.
But anyway, it was amazing how God did that.
I would go to churches with some of my friends,
I didn't sense the power and the glory of God there either.
And there's, there is a scripture in Second Timothy
and it talks about the fact they had a form of godliness,
they had a form of godliness that denied the power thereof.
And so that's what's happening.
Religion is just a form, traditions.
It doesn't really have what you need to,
to experience the glory and the power.
And now what we're going through in this world
I was going through those things, too.
I went to School of Visual Arts to study film.
And what happened was there were people using drugs, LSD,
hash, they were using speed, cocaine, marijuana.
I mean, I got caught up in it because somebody told me,
hey, it'll open the pathway to God for you.
And so I just started getting into the drugs
and all, meanwhile I'm studying film,
I went up on Madison Avenue making films, you know,
and, but the key is this: It was miserable.
Devil was trying to steal from me,
just like he's trying to steal from many of you.
Right now you might have even received
Jesus as your Messiah and Lord.
And you're seeing what the enemy is doing in our world,
a worldwide plague, COVID,
you're seeing, you're seeing craziness in the streets
where you're seeing crimes like never before.
You're seeing weather patterns, weather patterns that are crazy,
you know, and you're seeing, these are end-time things
that are happening in the world today.
And many people I know who really were on fire for God
have lost their faith.
And I just want to tell you that there's another level.
We can receive the issue of Jesus as our Messiah and Lord,
and we know we're going to heaven.
But the whole thing is what God has shown me
is we can begin experience heaven on earth.
Jesus gave a prayer. He said, Let your kingdom come,
God, on Earth as it is in Heaven.
I'll tell you how I pray it. Let your kingdom come in me
as it is in heaven, that it might pour out
and be affecting others around me.
And so I just want to tell you that I got to a point
where I said, there's got to be more.
I sat in my apartment. I was smoking marijuana.
I said, God of Israel, there's got to be more.
There's got to be more than all this.
And I had heard about Jesus.
And Jesus was someone that, I read
even a book with the prophecies
and all these things that Jesus said,
I am the way, the truth and the life.
There's no way to the Father except through me.
So I went, God of Israel, I need you to help me.
And I said, If Jesus is who these Christians say
He is, the promised Jewish Messiah,
the son of the living God, your son,
then I want him in my heart.
If he is not, then I don't want him in my heart.
I don't want to do anything to offend you.
Well, all of a sudden, that glory that I felt in heaven
came down, that atmosphere, right in my room.
To this day, I'm experiencing it.
And I immediately put down the marijuana cigarette.
I flushed marijuana down the toilet,
I threw alcohol down the sink.
I took books off my shelf that, this doesn't belong here,
that doesn't, porno, man, get rid of it.
I didn't have anyone preach to me or tell me it was wrong,
I could feel it, because I was so in commune with God.
And so I just want to tell you that there's something,
a prayer that can change your life,
I want to pray it right now over you.
Father God, I ask you for forgiveness
for all my sins against you, all the sins
I ever committed against you and others,
knowingly and unknowingly. Now, Father God, I receive Yeshua,
Jesus, as my Messiah, as my Lord.
Now fill me, fill me with the glory.
Fill me with your presence now. More of you, less of me.
I want you, Lord God, in my life like never before,
I want to begin to experience the same thing
Warren said he's experiencing,
walking in your fullness of your glory
with the supernatural power of God within Him
and flowing out from him.
Just keep coming closer, just take time.
Even after this is over, just take time with God and say
More Lord, more, more, less of me, more of you,
all of you, none of me. Just keep going after God now.
Don't stop. Don't stop until the glory comes.
Never give up
and he wants to have you walk in your destiny in purpose
that he envisioned you walking in
before the foundation of the world.
Amen.