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Welcome to Tell the Truth, a weekly podcast

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Welcome back this week. We are very glad

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to be back. We've had a week off,

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as far as doing the live show. So

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it's really nice to be back with everyone.

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Brother Brian, how's your week been going? You

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got a lot of,

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rest and relaxation

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and food from what I hear last week.

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Oh, yes. I did. Yes. I did. We

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we hit a little cruise last week

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and for a few days and and got

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got to eat a lot of stuff, got

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to visit a few places and, you know,

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lay on the beach and swim in the

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water and,

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just, just get some rest and

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recharge a little bit, I guess. And,

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and it was good. It was really good.

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Well, awesome. I'm really glad you guys got

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to do that because that recharge is always

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necessary. Kind of keeps you going. Yes. What

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about you, brother, Dennis? You have a good

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week? Yeah. I guess, needing to recharge. You

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know? Needing to reach you. Needing to recharge.

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Well, hopefully, we'll be able to get you

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one soon. Yeah. Yeah. And, yeah. Just just

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the same stuff going on, you know, with

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my mom and that kind of thing. So

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it's heartbreaking stuff Yeah. Every day. And,

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just, just praying for the Lord's mercy on

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her. Amen. Yeah. And, and we are praying

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for you and your family and your mom,

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because I know most of us have, if

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we haven't been through it, you've had family

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that's been through it or known people that

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have, and it is

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exhausting to take care of somebody that's going

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through all of that.

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And that's, you know, not to say anything

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about what they're going through. It's just, it's

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tiring and it, it does, it's,

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it's rough on you. So we are praying

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for you. Cause I know it's, it's

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definitely not the most enjoyable thing to do.

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know? Well, this week I think we are

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going to be discussing

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revival tonight. Recharge. Yeah. Recharge.

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That's right. That's right. Yeah.

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You know, we we kind of wanted to

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talk about a few things,

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just kinda what what revival is, you know,

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what

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the purpose of it is, who it's for,

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just, you know, just answer a few questions

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there.

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And, I was I was just looking up

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some stuff,

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looking up some scripture and things

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today and and,

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and then I run across this,

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this actually, it's a definition

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of revival.

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this is this is from from gotquestions.org.

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It's really one of the I I love

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that website. It's It's all that to you.

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It's really good. Yeah.

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it's,

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they they've usually usually got some pretty solid

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stuff on there. If you got some biblical

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questions and you can't get ahold of your

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preacher or your preacher don't know or whatever,

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a lot of times, they I haven't read

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a whole lot in there that I disagree

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with. Most everything, you know, winds up biblically

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and seems to be pretty solid, but

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but I like what it says here. It

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says revival refers to a spiritual reawakening

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from a state of dormancy

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or stagnation

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in the life of a believer.

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It encompasses the the resurfacing

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of a love for God and appreciation of

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God's holiness,

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a passion for His word and His church,

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a convicting

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awareness of personal and corporate sin,

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a spirit of humility

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and desire for repentance and growth in righteousness.

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invigorates

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and sometimes

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deepens

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a believe a believer's faith

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opening his or her eyes to the truth

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in a fresh new way.

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the connotation of a fresh start with a

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clean state with a clean slate

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marking a new beginning of a life lived

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in obedience to God.

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breaks the charm and power of the world.

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I love that part of it. Revival breaks

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the charm

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and power of the world

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which blinds the eyes of men

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and generates

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both the will and power to live in

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the world, but not of the world. I

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thought, man, that's that's pretty pretty powerful statement

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about about revival.

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Yeah. It is. Yeah. It is. And we

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we see, and I I think most people

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when they think of revival, they tend to

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think of, like, you know, the great awakening,

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back in the 1800s

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or or some great thing like that. But,

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and and that's awesome, you know, when just

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back to God, getting closer to God, coming

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to God in the 1st place. You know,

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but in in revival, I guess, a lot

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of focus is always on, people getting saved.

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the people that are saved getting closer.

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Absolutely. That answer too is forward, doesn't it?

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Yeah. It's for believers. Yeah. It really is.

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I mean, if people get saved as a

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result of revival That's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah.

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Praise the Lord. But it really is for

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God's people

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to recognize him and, like it said, to,

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fall in love more deeply with him, more

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deeply with his word, to have a a

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stronger desire

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and a heart for him,

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because we can,

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excuse me, we can't get stagnant in this

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world that we live in, stagnant in the

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life that we live, getting caught up in

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our everyday things and things that are monotonous.

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monotony in it. Yeah. They can. Yeah. We

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start going through the motions.

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And that that's that same thing you're reading

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there talks about all the churches of Revelation.

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Mhmm. The letters to the churches of Revelation.

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one of them. Each one of them needs

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a a revival.

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Yes. Right? In Revelation,

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2, Ephesus needs to get back to their

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first love. Right. Right? And Pergamum needs to

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get out of compromise. That's right. Revival. Yeah.

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Tyre Tyre needs to revive the truth, God's

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word. They need to be living in that.

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Sardis needs to they're just going through the

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motions. That's right. Which is so many of

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us, so many so often. And, let's see.

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What was the other? Philadelphia,

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Endurance. Yeah. And Laodicea.

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all. Right? They're the they're the ones who's

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gonna bomb it out of his mouth. Right.

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corporate thing either. It's not just, you know,

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all churches everywhere need to be revived at

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the same time. It's it's it's individuals. It

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is individual because in so many times we

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think of revival as a week long period

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of time. Yeah. You know, if if you

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ask a lot of Christian people, what do

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you think? What what is revival? Well, I

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mean, we have revival in our church, you

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know, we had a preacher come last week,

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you know, and he preached a weak revival,

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and that was what revival is.

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And don't get me wrong. That can bring

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revival. Right? Yeah. We got a revival coming

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up in November,

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that I'm looking forward to. Brother Allen Carr

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is gonna be preaching for us, and,

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and it actually, this is a first revival

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we've had in several years,

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for for different reasons. But, you know, I

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think it got where and it gets sometimes

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where we count on

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some type of week long service

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to bring us revival.

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And when we do that, when we count

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on the preacher to

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that preacher's gonna bring revival with him. Yeah.

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We're looking at that wrong, you know, because

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the Holy Spirit that lives in us

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can revive us at any moment and any

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time. We just gotta ask for it. Yeah.

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like you said, we expect somebody else. God's

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just gonna pour this revival out on us

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and, hey, we're just sitting here doing our

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daily thing and all of a sudden,

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it starts with repentance. It does. Yeah. Right?

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It starts with us turning our hearts back

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to him. Yeah. The the psalmist said, you

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know, renew a right spirit in me. You

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know, that that's revival. Yeah. The word the

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actual word you say the word revive, you

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say the word renew

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in in the Bible, but you don't actually

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see the word revival in there, that full

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word revival, but but there's so many things

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that that

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indicate revival in his word. And so the

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psalmist is saying, lord,

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hey. If you find any unclean thing in

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me, remove it, and Yeah. I just wanna

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serve you. And so that that's that's that's

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really what it is. It's getting to and

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sometimes that happens when the preacher comes and

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and god gives him the the right message

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and and, you know, it grabs a hold

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of you and it changes you.

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But so often, what I hear and see

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our week long services or our,

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men's meetings

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or women's

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meetings, you know, that we go to. You

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can go out and they'll have some of

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the best speakers, some of the best preachers,

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some of the best singers,

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and and we get so fired up during

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that weekend time, during that period. Yeah. And

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and please don't get me wrong because those

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I've been to some great ones, and I

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I and I think it's good for me

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and to get together, for women to get

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together Yeah. And go to these things,

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so many times, I think we count on

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that, and we come back with this revival

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fire. And then if everybody else doesn't feel

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what we feel, then it's just kinda like

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flame gets put out. Yeah. Yeah. I used

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to when I was leaving the youth group

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years ago, we we had this youth event

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every year up in Gatlinburg, and there would

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be some some artists up there, you know,

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lots, the smoke, you know, all this stuff

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going on. It just puts everybody out in

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the mood. I saw Chris Tomlin there three

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times Yeah. Before he got big. Right. Right.

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And and you'd just be fired up. Oh,

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yeah. Fired up, and by the time you

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get back, it's like,

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yeah. You can't fire anybody else up because

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you don't have all the lights and the

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sound and all this other stuff going on.

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Right? Right. Yeah. I got to see casting

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crowns and 3rd day

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1 1 year at the same time.

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Did did the performance up at Gatlinburg and

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it was just I mean, it was awesome

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and all the youth and everybody and everybody's

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ready to go.

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And it yeah. It just

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Yeah. It's home, and there's nothing. Yeah. I

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saw 5,000 teenagers laying prostate on the floor.

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Yep. Prostrate. Procter. Yeah. Straight. Yeah. I mean,

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that's right.

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You know, amazing. Yeah. Amazing.

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Yeah. And it's this awesome thing, and it

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it gets

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the revival services and the the events like

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that are great

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to kind of put people in a mindset,

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but we have to remember that it's not

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about the emotion and stuff that you get

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from those services. That's it. It's the mindset

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that you're supposed to be getting in, and

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and we don't for some reason, people sometimes

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don't realize, no, it's the mindset of putting

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my focus on God, putting

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my my spirit back where it's supposed to

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be. Am I am I reading my bible?

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Am I am I being disciplined in studying?

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Am I praying daily? You know, am I

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am I taking things to God before I

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go and make any decision? Am I actually

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taking it to him? Or am I just

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doing my own thing? And

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then they get back home and okay for

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a week or for a couple of days

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or a weekend, you did it once or

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twice.

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You gotta keep doing it. And the discipline

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falls away, and then all of that

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gung ho

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zealousness that gets kind of

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fired up just fades out. Yeah. And it's

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like, no. God is renewing you.

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Let that renewing happen, and then you have

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to be disciplined in keeping that there. Yeah.

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Yeah. And I think in our teenagers talking

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about and I've been to so many different,

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you know, winter fest and different things, like

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you're talking about Gatlinburg through the years, and

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had had some, you know, great times with

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our youth and and and been fired up

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and came fired up came back fired up

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myself.

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And I think we fail them sometimes, you

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know,

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because

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as as older Christians, if you've been saved

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for a long time,

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that discipline should be there that we that

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we continue in what we've learned or what

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has brought us and revived us and we

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keep on in that.

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But so often times, we're dealing with young

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people who who've not

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been

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trained in that. You know, that's what that's

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and and that's what,

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discipleship is, really training our hearts and our

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minds to focus on God, to study His

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word, to fall in love with it, and

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to go out and to spread his word

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with other people. Yeah. And so when when

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our youth when they go to something like

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that,

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you know, brother Scott takes our youth or

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something and then they come back and and

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they're excited and they're fired up, the church

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should get behind them. Yeah. You know, we

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really should get behind them. We should fan

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that flame and not let it go out

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and take that time. Like, okay. Here we

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are. They're opened up now. Maybe they weren't

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before they went, but now they're opened up,

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and let's take this time to just move

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in and say, okay, let's just pour the

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word in. Yeah. I think too that maybe

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older people or older Christians or people who

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are more mature in the faith, well, however

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you want to say it,

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kind of downplay the emotional part of it

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a little bit too much too. Yeah. You

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know? Because somebody is on fire. You ever

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been around a new believer? Right. Well, they're

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on a high buddy. Yeah. I mean, they're

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up there, and that's where we want to

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be, and we try to

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maybe we're wet blankets to this. We are.

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We are. We are. Because they're sometimes we're

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wet blankets too because they're more excited than

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we are. Yeah. You know? Yeah. It's not

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about the emotion

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so much as it is the spirit of

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God that's dwelling in us, but

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I always say that the spirit of God

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dwelling in us does make us emotional.

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Beautiful. Right? That joy. Yeah. Yeah. And and

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encourage it. You know, definitely encourage it. Don't

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discourage that and downplay it. But you know,

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if you're talking to them about it, and

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I think that's where a lot of churches

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fail, they they express that in the wrong

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way. Instead of saying, look, it's not about

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the emotion. That's that's not what you're looking

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for. You're looking for what's behind the emotion.

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Right. And have those conversations. Don't be afraid

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to have the conversations with your youth. Goodness.

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We have youth groups that are around

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older Christians

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for a reason. It's so that we can

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disciple them, so that we can tell them,

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so that we can lead them a little

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bit and say, hey, you know, let's you're

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getting off in the weeds here. You're going

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off you're going after the wrong thing. You

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wanna know why we have so many denominations

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and stuff? It's because of people going off

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the wrong direction

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Yeah. And not having someone that understood where

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they were going to have that conversation. Say,

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wait wait wait. You're looking for the result

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of the Holy Spirit, not the Holy Spirit.

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And people get so caught up in that

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when they don't get those results, they're like,

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oh well this is just this church is

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just dead. And it's like, well, are they

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are they? And they may be. Sometimes that's

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not a unfair criticism. Yeah. But be careful

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about that because the criticism might actually be,

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hey, I'm just not ready to actually absorb

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the word and listen to what God's bringing

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to me in this message. Yeah.

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Yeah. Dennis talked about the great awakening which

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was in the 1700s. Yeah. Yeah.

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And and,

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man, there's some if you go back and

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read it, I mean, there's really some great

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stories and things that happened during that time,

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some awful powerful things.

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And then more recent, you know, back in

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2023,

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Asbury University, they had,

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you know, just several days

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weeks of revival going on and heard some

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great things coming from that and a lot

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of discouragement coming from that too, you know,

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from from,

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from Christian people like, you know, I don't

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know. And

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and, you know, we got again, we've gotta

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be careful. We don't wanna get, we don't

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want it to be all about the emotion.

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No. But, man, when our kids are fired

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up and I know

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a preacher friend of mine, his son,

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him and a few of his friends, they

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took off and then went up there,

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just, you know, stayed for a couple of

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days and and worshiped with him. And kids

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were just staying up

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all night long and singing song after song

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and preaching and just the power of God.

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My goodness. I mean, just, just moving all

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around us. So, you know, and and a

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lot of times, I think we get jealous

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of that a little bit you know because

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it may not be happening here. It may

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not be going on where we're at. Yeah.

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Again, we want to test it. We want

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to make sure it's real. We want to

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make sure it's it's solid,

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but let's don't tear it down when we

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hadn't even been there and we don't know

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what's going on. Absolutely. No. Well, and I'm

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reminded of, you know, Billy Graham

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every year.

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He would go out and he would have

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these massive revivals. Yeah. And a lot of

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the naysayers and a lot of the the

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atheists and stuff at the time were saying,

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well, the only reason you're having so many

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people come down was, I believe it was,

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I Surrender All may have been the song.

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I can't remember which song it was. He

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always closed his revival. Just As I Am.

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Just As I Am. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah.

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And you know, he would do that, and

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they said, oh, it's the it's the emotion

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of that song. That's what's drawing all these

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people. You know he ran like a week

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long revival where they did not sing for

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the invitation, and they had more people saved

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during that time than he had when they

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had their their actual altar calls with the

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music and everything. And he said, y'all it's

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not about the, you know, so and explaining

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that to people, I think we fail sometimes.

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It's not about

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all the trappings.

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It's about the spirit. Yeah. Let's test it.

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But, yes, once you get it, once you're

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in there and you're getting fired up, don't

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let us don't throw a wet blanket over

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it. Good lord. No. Stoke those fucking peeps.

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I what do you think it is about

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about Asbury College where,

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you know, it's people just suddenly got this

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massive hunger

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and thirst for God. Yeah. Just almost not

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out of the blue, but

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kinda. Right. Yeah. Right. And all of a

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sudden God's spirits just poured out somewhere like

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that.

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I think you know and and you said

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something earlier I think that gives us

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a pretty good answer to that,

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And it's the fact that revival starts with

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1 person. Yeah. It starts individually. I will

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say that. And and maybe that one individual

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person got on fire for God and and

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it was contagious.

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Well, that's why some Sunday mornings here. Somebody

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stands up, testifies, and it starts spreading. Everybody's

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slobbering and crying after a while. That's right.

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Yeah. Yeah. And and I don't think that's

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so much about emotion is is you feel

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the power of God. The presence of God.

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The presence of God is always here. Yeah.

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If it's, you know, it's not like we're,

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Lord, come down. Lord, break you know? He's

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already No. He's already here. We we're not

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praying God down. You know? We're not con

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we're not conjuring up a spirit. We have

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the holy spirit

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living inside of us, and so,

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and and it's it's when we yield to

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that. Right. It's it's when we give up

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ourselves, and we say, hey, God. Here I

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am. You just do with me what you

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want, and just use me. We tend to

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be really good brick layers, don't we? Yeah.

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We build up walls around our heart and

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around everything we believe and hold dear and

528
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just hold it in there. Yeah. Yeah. Well,

529
00:19:20,980 --> 00:19:22,660
you you bring up the thing about Asbury

530
00:19:22,660 --> 00:19:24,579
College. You know, that was, that was just

531
00:19:24,579 --> 00:19:26,579
last year that that happened. I was looking

532
00:19:26,579 --> 00:19:27,400
at it here.

533
00:19:27,875 --> 00:19:30,855
They were in a routine chapel service. Yeah.

534
00:19:30,994 --> 00:19:33,475
Mhmm. And you you wanna I mean, you

535
00:19:33,475 --> 00:19:35,335
wanna know what they were in a service.

536
00:19:35,634 --> 00:19:37,795
They put their hearts in the right place,

537
00:19:37,795 --> 00:19:39,715
and they started going, you know what? I

538
00:19:39,715 --> 00:19:41,710
need to get some stuff right with me.

539
00:19:41,710 --> 00:19:43,309
And then somebody else over here was thinking

540
00:19:43,309 --> 00:19:44,509
I gotta get stuff right with me. Somebody

541
00:19:44,509 --> 00:19:45,710
else over here went, man, I got these

542
00:19:45,710 --> 00:19:46,669
things, and I need to get them out

543
00:19:46,669 --> 00:19:47,890
of the way, and I need to start

544
00:19:47,950 --> 00:19:49,230
worshiping the way I'm supposed to. I need

545
00:19:49,230 --> 00:19:50,349
to start talking to God the way I'm

546
00:19:50,349 --> 00:19:51,950
supposed to. And and that get that it

547
00:19:51,950 --> 00:19:53,789
is. It's contagious. If you've ever been in

548
00:19:53,789 --> 00:19:55,230
a church service like that, and I know

549
00:19:55,230 --> 00:19:56,049
we all have,

550
00:19:56,484 --> 00:19:58,244
because we've had them here several times where

551
00:19:58,244 --> 00:19:59,704
people start going wait wait,

552
00:20:00,005 --> 00:20:01,365
I've got something that I need to be

553
00:20:01,365 --> 00:20:03,284
praying about. And then before you know it

554
00:20:03,284 --> 00:20:06,184
everybody goes from praying, to worshiping, to praising,

555
00:20:06,644 --> 00:20:10,184
to testifying, to and it just spirals

556
00:20:10,740 --> 00:20:12,900
because that's that is the spirit of God.

557
00:20:12,900 --> 00:20:14,839
It's contagious. It it spreads,

558
00:20:15,299 --> 00:20:16,900
flows from breast to breast is the way

559
00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:18,519
it's, you know, it's been said

560
00:20:18,900 --> 00:20:20,579
over and over, and that's what it does.

561
00:20:20,579 --> 00:20:23,880
And I I've seen broken hearts and contrite

562
00:20:23,940 --> 00:20:24,440
spirits.

563
00:20:24,964 --> 00:20:27,125
That that and that's what it takes for

564
00:20:27,125 --> 00:20:28,724
him to save us. It is. That also

565
00:20:28,724 --> 00:20:30,325
that's also what it takes for him to

566
00:20:30,325 --> 00:20:32,805
revive us. Yeah. Sometimes we gotta get back

567
00:20:32,805 --> 00:20:35,305
to that, and I've seen that. I've seen

568
00:20:35,445 --> 00:20:37,525
I've seen I've seen a young man one

569
00:20:37,525 --> 00:20:38,009
time

570
00:20:38,570 --> 00:20:40,970
in in our church run from the very

571
00:20:40,970 --> 00:20:43,130
back pew all the way to the altar

572
00:20:43,130 --> 00:20:45,390
and just I thought he was if anyone

573
00:20:45,450 --> 00:20:47,690
had gotten his way that day, I mean

574
00:20:47,690 --> 00:20:50,170
anyone, he would have took them out. He

575
00:20:50,170 --> 00:20:52,170
was headed for the altar. Nothing was going

576
00:20:52,170 --> 00:20:54,644
to stop him and he was rostered on

577
00:20:54,644 --> 00:20:56,164
the floor. He was I mean, he was

578
00:20:56,164 --> 00:20:58,745
just out, and god just just, you know,

579
00:20:59,045 --> 00:21:00,505
he he he he he

580
00:21:01,445 --> 00:21:02,025
he just

581
00:21:02,805 --> 00:21:03,305
relentlessly

582
00:21:04,565 --> 00:21:06,929
was going after Jesus, you know, and and

583
00:21:06,929 --> 00:21:08,549
he was not gonna get up until

584
00:21:09,009 --> 00:21:11,009
he had what, you know, he knew that

585
00:21:11,009 --> 00:21:13,750
he needed. And and I've seen people just

586
00:21:13,809 --> 00:21:14,309
have

587
00:21:14,929 --> 00:21:15,990
I've talked about

588
00:21:16,529 --> 00:21:19,089
a man that that, come to the altar

589
00:21:19,089 --> 00:21:21,345
one Sunday and just I mean, he was

590
00:21:21,345 --> 00:21:21,845
so

591
00:21:22,625 --> 00:21:25,025
broken and so upset about his life and

592
00:21:25,025 --> 00:21:26,545
where he was at. His I mean, his

593
00:21:26,545 --> 00:21:29,605
nose was started bleeding. You know? Mhmm. And

594
00:21:30,144 --> 00:21:31,105
and and I've just,

595
00:21:31,904 --> 00:21:33,920
I I remember I threw my handkerchief over.

596
00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:35,599
He said, I'm so sorry, preacher. He's just

597
00:21:35,599 --> 00:21:37,039
crying, and I threw my handkerchief over. I

598
00:21:37,039 --> 00:21:38,640
said, don't worry about it. Just keep praying.

599
00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,279
You know? And and and but but I've

600
00:21:41,279 --> 00:21:43,619
seen people be so broken, so broken,

601
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:46,099
and then get up and be so whole.

602
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,420
And and and the thing is

603
00:21:48,865 --> 00:21:50,784
is when we see that and when we

604
00:21:50,784 --> 00:21:51,524
have that

605
00:21:51,825 --> 00:21:54,065
then it's it's that it's time to take

606
00:21:54,065 --> 00:21:55,664
advantage of it, you know, not in a

607
00:21:55,664 --> 00:21:57,265
bad way but in a good way to

608
00:21:57,345 --> 00:21:59,744
okay let's keep this fire burning. You see

609
00:21:59,744 --> 00:22:02,304
what's going on here? Let's why why is

610
00:22:02,304 --> 00:22:04,325
this happening? Why is it happening because

611
00:22:04,630 --> 00:22:05,450
they have,

612
00:22:06,630 --> 00:22:09,589
just given themselves up. Right? They they have

613
00:22:09,589 --> 00:22:12,650
waved that white flag and said, hey, Lord,

614
00:22:12,950 --> 00:22:15,690
I surrender all. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

615
00:22:15,990 --> 00:22:17,669
Yeah. I love just long to see it,

616
00:22:17,669 --> 00:22:19,109
you know, and it happens in our personal

617
00:22:19,109 --> 00:22:20,985
lives, you know, even even away from church

618
00:22:20,985 --> 00:22:21,485
sometimes.

619
00:22:22,105 --> 00:22:24,365
It's millions and millions of stories of people

620
00:22:24,585 --> 00:22:26,664
drifted away from God for years, you know,

621
00:22:26,664 --> 00:22:27,805
and then all of a sudden,

622
00:22:28,265 --> 00:22:30,664
it's some something happens. God shakes you, or

623
00:22:30,664 --> 00:22:32,430
or something happens, and it's just

624
00:22:32,990 --> 00:22:35,390
boom. Amen. Amen. You know? We were coming

625
00:22:35,390 --> 00:22:35,710
back,

626
00:22:36,190 --> 00:22:36,690
Saturday,

627
00:22:37,710 --> 00:22:38,210
from

628
00:22:38,590 --> 00:22:40,190
we we had got on the boat in,

629
00:22:40,430 --> 00:22:43,230
Port Canaveral, and we were driving back, and

630
00:22:43,230 --> 00:22:45,150
we were listening to some worship music on

631
00:22:45,150 --> 00:22:47,654
the way back. And, I looked over there,

632
00:22:47,654 --> 00:22:50,855
and Nicole was just crying. Got her hand

633
00:22:50,855 --> 00:22:51,835
up, you know,

634
00:22:52,134 --> 00:22:54,534
just just all over me, you know? And

635
00:22:54,534 --> 00:22:57,095
I'm I'm praising the lord, and we're singing,

636
00:22:57,095 --> 00:22:59,434
you know, and just enjoying our time.

637
00:23:00,130 --> 00:23:00,630
And,

638
00:23:01,250 --> 00:23:02,849
I can say, yeah, it doesn't matter where

639
00:23:02,849 --> 00:23:04,210
it's at. It doesn't have to be in

640
00:23:04,210 --> 00:23:06,230
a church service. It doesn't have to be,

641
00:23:06,690 --> 00:23:08,769
in a revival service. It can be in

642
00:23:08,769 --> 00:23:10,529
the car going down the road or wherever

643
00:23:10,529 --> 00:23:13,029
you want it to be because God's presence

644
00:23:13,714 --> 00:23:16,434
is is here. Yeah. I know some of

645
00:23:16,434 --> 00:23:18,055
my some of my most

646
00:23:18,835 --> 00:23:21,335
intimate moments with God and most personal

647
00:23:23,714 --> 00:23:24,214
experiences

648
00:23:25,154 --> 00:23:25,894
have been

649
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,480
when I'm standing alone at home. Yeah. Yeah.

650
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:29,920
You know, be alone in the bathroom in

651
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:31,840
the morning getting ready. And then, you know,

652
00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:32,400
God just

653
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:34,820
and it's like, oh, okay.

654
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:36,640
Yeah. This this is what I'm doing for

655
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,160
the next few minutes. Yeah. And you can't

656
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:39,920
you can't you can't do anything else. That's

657
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:41,359
your focus for a little bit. And I'm

658
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,095
thinking, you know what? That was my focus

659
00:23:43,095 --> 00:23:44,134
all the time. I wonder how much more

660
00:23:44,134 --> 00:23:46,315
I get done. Oh my goodness. Yeah.

661
00:23:46,775 --> 00:23:49,255
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Man, I'll tell you and

662
00:23:49,255 --> 00:23:51,575
you know we can be revived in a

663
00:23:51,575 --> 00:23:52,714
lot of different places.

664
00:23:53,654 --> 00:23:55,460
We can be revived in the you

665
00:23:55,879 --> 00:23:56,379
know.

666
00:23:57,599 --> 00:23:59,679
I I told him last night, I, I

667
00:23:59,679 --> 00:24:00,659
still don't know exactly

668
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:01,779
where it's going, but,

669
00:24:02,319 --> 00:24:04,000
one of our one of the singers last

670
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:05,839
night in the group we had, he he

671
00:24:05,839 --> 00:24:07,359
said, you know, he said, he's the lily

672
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,200
in the valley, and I just started thinking

673
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:10,019
about that.

674
00:24:10,414 --> 00:24:11,855
I started thinking and I'll give a little

675
00:24:11,855 --> 00:24:13,534
sneak peek here, but I I of what

676
00:24:13,534 --> 00:24:15,794
the holy spirit started telling me. I just

677
00:24:16,095 --> 00:24:18,434
for some reason, I had never I've heard

678
00:24:18,974 --> 00:24:20,355
the lily of the valley

679
00:24:20,894 --> 00:24:21,554
a 1000000000

680
00:24:21,855 --> 00:24:24,914
times, but I just started thinking about this

681
00:24:26,380 --> 00:24:27,359
terrible place

682
00:24:27,819 --> 00:24:30,000
that's so dry and so awful

683
00:24:30,460 --> 00:24:33,259
and and so hopeless, and you're looking up

684
00:24:33,259 --> 00:24:35,660
in this valley on hills on both sides,

685
00:24:35,660 --> 00:24:37,019
and you're thinking how am I ever gonna

686
00:24:37,019 --> 00:24:39,205
get back on the mountain top and and

687
00:24:39,205 --> 00:24:41,525
and and it's dry and it's cracking and

688
00:24:41,525 --> 00:24:44,244
it's just a desert place, you know, but

689
00:24:44,244 --> 00:24:45,225
then there's this

690
00:24:45,924 --> 00:24:46,424
lily,

691
00:24:46,965 --> 00:24:47,865
this flower

692
00:24:48,884 --> 00:24:51,859
in the valley, like this this hope of

693
00:24:51,859 --> 00:24:54,519
growth, this hope of life, this hope

694
00:24:54,819 --> 00:24:56,419
of here he is, you know, and I

695
00:24:56,419 --> 00:24:58,659
thought, man, and just God. So I just

696
00:24:58,659 --> 00:25:01,079
started writing some stuff down. I I I

697
00:25:01,220 --> 00:25:02,419
turned the call and said, where's your pen?

698
00:25:02,419 --> 00:25:04,099
Where's your pen? You know, while they were

699
00:25:04,099 --> 00:25:05,325
singing, and I just but,

700
00:25:06,684 --> 00:25:07,744
you know, he's,

701
00:25:08,605 --> 00:25:10,625
he he comes to us

702
00:25:11,085 --> 00:25:13,904
in the strangest places in in the most,

703
00:25:16,365 --> 00:25:18,625
hard and tough times of our life, and

704
00:25:18,789 --> 00:25:20,549
and he speaks peace to us, and he

705
00:25:20,549 --> 00:25:22,470
speaks revival to us too. I think if

706
00:25:22,470 --> 00:25:25,269
we'll listen, you know. Yeah. Reminds me of,

707
00:25:26,950 --> 00:25:29,029
a bruised reed he will not break, or

708
00:25:29,029 --> 00:25:31,335
a smoldering candle he will not snuff out.

709
00:25:31,575 --> 00:25:33,974
Yeah. Yeah. And and like you said, the

710
00:25:33,974 --> 00:25:36,454
broken and contrite heart. Yeah. And that's where

711
00:25:36,454 --> 00:25:38,134
where we gotta be to to really let

712
00:25:38,134 --> 00:25:39,515
him in, I guess, you know.

713
00:25:40,694 --> 00:25:41,194
Yeah.

714
00:25:41,575 --> 00:25:43,095
Yeah. And I I think so, and I

715
00:25:43,095 --> 00:25:44,634
think we experience him

716
00:25:45,255 --> 00:25:46,554
sometimes more

717
00:25:47,390 --> 00:25:49,630
more in the valley than we do on

718
00:25:49,630 --> 00:25:50,769
the mountain top.

719
00:25:51,230 --> 00:25:53,630
Yeah. That's where we're really growing. It is.

720
00:25:53,630 --> 00:25:54,769
It is. And people

721
00:25:55,150 --> 00:25:55,870
I don't know.

722
00:25:56,350 --> 00:25:57,950
One of the songs that we were listening

723
00:25:57,950 --> 00:25:59,009
to the other day

724
00:25:59,470 --> 00:26:00,370
coming back,

725
00:26:01,505 --> 00:26:03,585
there was several different songs coming on, and

726
00:26:03,585 --> 00:26:04,404
I can't remember

727
00:26:04,784 --> 00:26:06,884
what the name of the song was, but,

728
00:26:08,865 --> 00:26:11,365
basically, in the song, they were saying, lord,

729
00:26:14,159 --> 00:26:15,679
I I just want you to break me.

730
00:26:15,679 --> 00:26:16,900
I just want you to,

731
00:26:17,279 --> 00:26:18,019
you know,

732
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,000
just whatever it takes, Lord. Basically, top song

733
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,679
is what it was. I cannot remember the

734
00:26:23,679 --> 00:26:24,579
name of the song.

735
00:26:24,894 --> 00:26:26,595
And I looked at Nicole and I said,

736
00:26:26,654 --> 00:26:28,815
I mean, those are pretty powerful words. Strong.

737
00:26:28,815 --> 00:26:31,234
Yeah. You know? Pretty powerful words because

738
00:26:31,934 --> 00:26:34,015
I I've been in some low spots before

739
00:26:34,015 --> 00:26:36,255
and and and some places that that I

740
00:26:36,255 --> 00:26:38,490
felt like were deep valleys and and I

741
00:26:38,490 --> 00:26:40,990
I I'm gonna enjoy it there, you know,

742
00:26:41,690 --> 00:26:42,910
so to speak. But,

743
00:26:43,769 --> 00:26:45,930
but I do know that that he he

744
00:26:45,930 --> 00:26:48,089
meets me there, and he he's in the

745
00:26:48,089 --> 00:26:49,130
midst of that. So

746
00:26:49,930 --> 00:26:50,910
Yeah. He is.

747
00:26:52,315 --> 00:26:53,934
He is. We have a Lord who understands

748
00:26:53,994 --> 00:26:55,134
suffering. He understands

749
00:26:55,994 --> 00:26:59,355
sorrow and pain. Yeah. And thank God. Oh,

750
00:26:59,355 --> 00:26:59,855
yeah.

751
00:27:00,394 --> 00:27:02,335
Yeah. Praise the Lord for that.

752
00:27:04,075 --> 00:27:06,075
You know, of course, there's there's so many

753
00:27:06,075 --> 00:27:07,880
there's so many different scriptures

754
00:27:08,259 --> 00:27:09,720
and, things, but

755
00:27:10,180 --> 00:27:12,259
I I just wanted to I look just

756
00:27:12,259 --> 00:27:14,740
the regular dictionary sometimes. You know, you can

757
00:27:14,740 --> 00:27:16,339
about preach a sermon out of the dictionary,

758
00:27:16,339 --> 00:27:17,779
and they don't even know what they're talking

759
00:27:17,779 --> 00:27:18,279
about.

760
00:27:19,140 --> 00:27:19,640
But

761
00:27:21,375 --> 00:27:22,994
the the dictionary definition

762
00:27:23,775 --> 00:27:24,275
of,

763
00:27:25,375 --> 00:27:25,875
revival,

764
00:27:27,134 --> 00:27:28,835
here's a few things. It says

765
00:27:29,375 --> 00:27:30,355
an improvement

766
00:27:30,734 --> 00:27:31,715
in the condition

767
00:27:32,335 --> 00:27:33,955
or strength of something.

768
00:27:34,789 --> 00:27:36,950
That's us. Right? I mean, that's that's our

769
00:27:36,950 --> 00:27:39,990
Christian lives. It it is an improvement in

770
00:27:39,990 --> 00:27:41,609
the condition or the strength.

771
00:27:42,069 --> 00:27:43,829
We get to a better place. We get

772
00:27:43,829 --> 00:27:46,470
we get stronger than we were before, right,

773
00:27:46,470 --> 00:27:48,089
when he revives us,

774
00:27:48,525 --> 00:27:50,365
and so it is. It's an improvement in

775
00:27:50,365 --> 00:27:52,545
the condition of strength or something. A revival,

776
00:27:53,644 --> 00:27:56,384
is is, an instance of

777
00:27:56,765 --> 00:27:58,545
something becoming popular,

778
00:27:58,845 --> 00:28:01,505
active, or important again. Now,

779
00:28:02,365 --> 00:28:03,424
I thought, you know,

780
00:28:03,990 --> 00:28:06,869
well, okay. So sometimes God's not too popular

781
00:28:06,869 --> 00:28:08,809
with us. Right? Sometimes,

782
00:28:10,390 --> 00:28:12,230
he's not our he he's not our go

783
00:28:12,230 --> 00:28:12,730
to,

784
00:28:13,029 --> 00:28:14,890
and sometimes we're not very active

785
00:28:15,269 --> 00:28:18,230
and, and but revival makes him important to

786
00:28:18,230 --> 00:28:19,894
us again. It makes him,

787
00:28:20,835 --> 00:28:22,914
it makes him puts him in his proper

788
00:28:22,914 --> 00:28:24,674
place Yeah. Where he's supposed to be at

789
00:28:24,674 --> 00:28:25,414
number 1.

790
00:28:26,515 --> 00:28:27,795
One of one of them was a new

791
00:28:27,795 --> 00:28:29,875
production of an old play or similar work,

792
00:28:29,875 --> 00:28:30,535
you know.

793
00:28:31,475 --> 00:28:32,115
I mean, just,

794
00:28:32,869 --> 00:28:35,029
again, it's it's he's the same god yesterday,

795
00:28:35,029 --> 00:28:37,590
today, and forevermore, but sometimes we have to

796
00:28:37,590 --> 00:28:38,090
be

797
00:28:38,549 --> 00:28:40,789
we have to be renewed. And then it

798
00:28:40,789 --> 00:28:42,090
it does give a religious,

799
00:28:43,350 --> 00:28:44,090
in a secular

800
00:28:45,065 --> 00:28:46,365
definition, a religious,

801
00:28:47,625 --> 00:28:49,484
definition here, a reawakening

802
00:28:49,865 --> 00:28:50,684
of religious

803
00:28:50,984 --> 00:28:53,224
fervor, especially by means of a series of

804
00:28:53,224 --> 00:28:55,785
evangelistic meetings or yeah. So that, you know,

805
00:28:55,785 --> 00:28:56,444
it kinda

806
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:57,740
brings,

807
00:29:00,519 --> 00:29:03,240
brings that up there, but a restoration to

808
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:04,940
to bodily or or mentally

809
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:05,900
vigor

810
00:29:06,279 --> 00:29:07,740
to life or consciousness

811
00:29:08,039 --> 00:29:08,700
or to,

812
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:10,779
success. So,

813
00:29:11,724 --> 00:29:14,044
you know, revival is it is. It it's

814
00:29:14,044 --> 00:29:16,365
just it's it's a renewal. It's a it's

815
00:29:16,365 --> 00:29:17,585
a it's a strengthening.

816
00:29:17,884 --> 00:29:18,625
It's a,

817
00:29:19,565 --> 00:29:20,384
it's it's

818
00:29:21,484 --> 00:29:21,984
being

819
00:29:22,444 --> 00:29:24,065
better than we were before.

820
00:29:24,599 --> 00:29:25,559
Yeah. So

821
00:29:26,039 --> 00:29:28,599
Yeah. And revival, it's I guess it's important

822
00:29:28,599 --> 00:29:30,519
to understand that revival you had to be

823
00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:32,380
alive in the first place to get revived.

824
00:29:32,519 --> 00:29:35,000
That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Right? But the result

825
00:29:35,079 --> 00:29:36,759
I mean, if people get saved out of

826
00:29:36,759 --> 00:29:39,585
this, well, how beautiful is that? Yes. Yeah.

827
00:29:39,984 --> 00:29:41,664
I thought I just think there's something kind

828
00:29:41,664 --> 00:29:43,284
of mysterious about it, you know?

829
00:29:43,664 --> 00:29:46,065
It's it does begin with repentance and us

830
00:29:46,065 --> 00:29:47,605
opening our hearts up to God,

831
00:29:48,065 --> 00:29:49,984
but I think there's a there's a kind

832
00:29:49,984 --> 00:29:52,144
of an outpouring that He gives in special

833
00:29:52,144 --> 00:29:54,480
times, you know? Yeah. And and when we

834
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,320
pray for it earnestly, I believe He does

835
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,400
it. I believe He's he's faithful to do

836
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,500
it. But right now, man,

837
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:02,580
how much do we need

838
00:30:03,039 --> 00:30:04,820
a revival in this country?

839
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:06,340
Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

840
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,075
Just this whole country to get set on

841
00:30:09,075 --> 00:30:11,794
fire for God. Yeah. And and how much

842
00:30:11,794 --> 00:30:14,194
would it change this country and and the

843
00:30:14,194 --> 00:30:16,534
politics that are going on? Yeah. Yeah.

844
00:30:17,154 --> 00:30:19,154
I mean, it really would. Because we talk

845
00:30:19,154 --> 00:30:21,750
about, well, you know, is, you know,

846
00:30:22,369 --> 00:30:23,889
is it gonna be the democratic party? Is

847
00:30:23,889 --> 00:30:25,569
it gonna be republican party? Is it gonna

848
00:30:25,569 --> 00:30:26,710
be the whatever.

849
00:30:27,730 --> 00:30:29,490
It doesn't doesn't matter. I know who I'm

850
00:30:29,490 --> 00:30:31,089
voting for. You know? I know I know

851
00:30:31,089 --> 00:30:33,190
I'm gonna vote for the conservative party,

852
00:30:33,569 --> 00:30:34,069
but

853
00:30:35,964 --> 00:30:38,224
it it really doesn't matter who's in there

854
00:30:39,325 --> 00:30:41,805
if if God's not in control. Right. If

855
00:30:41,805 --> 00:30:43,964
God's not giving his control you know. Right.

856
00:30:43,964 --> 00:30:45,724
And and he's a gentleman. He's not gonna

857
00:30:45,724 --> 00:30:47,565
force himself in you know. It's like we've

858
00:30:47,565 --> 00:30:48,545
talked about before.

859
00:30:49,370 --> 00:30:52,090
The people wanted a they wanted a king

860
00:30:52,090 --> 00:30:53,769
and he gave him a king, you know.

861
00:30:53,769 --> 00:30:55,870
It's like okay, you know, here you go.

862
00:30:56,009 --> 00:30:57,470
See how this works out.

863
00:30:58,170 --> 00:31:00,350
But the only thing that's really gonna change

864
00:31:01,365 --> 00:31:02,025
this country,

865
00:31:02,724 --> 00:31:03,625
its politics,

866
00:31:04,724 --> 00:31:05,125
its,

867
00:31:06,565 --> 00:31:10,345
relentless pursuit of sin, and violence, and violence,

868
00:31:10,404 --> 00:31:10,904
and,

869
00:31:11,365 --> 00:31:11,865
yeah,

870
00:31:12,325 --> 00:31:14,724
pornography and all the things that's just just

871
00:31:14,724 --> 00:31:16,589
tearing us down left and right.

872
00:31:17,470 --> 00:31:18,750
The only thing that's going to change is

873
00:31:18,750 --> 00:31:19,950
it's going to be a heart change. It

874
00:31:19,950 --> 00:31:22,210
is. And and that's that comes from

875
00:31:22,669 --> 00:31:24,829
that comes from revival. And it's a true

876
00:31:24,829 --> 00:31:27,970
grassroots thing Christianity is. It's not an organization

877
00:31:28,190 --> 00:31:30,684
and top down rule. Right. Christianity is all

878
00:31:30,684 --> 00:31:31,664
about the individual

879
00:31:32,044 --> 00:31:34,684
Yeah. And and working its way upward. Right?

880
00:31:34,684 --> 00:31:37,025
And and that's why I get kinda kinda

881
00:31:37,164 --> 00:31:39,664
bothered by when people talk about Christian nationalism

882
00:31:39,964 --> 00:31:41,184
or, you know, keeping

883
00:31:41,659 --> 00:31:43,579
religion out of politics, it's like, you know,

884
00:31:43,579 --> 00:31:45,819
if you've really got Jesus Christ, you can't

885
00:31:45,819 --> 00:31:47,900
get him out of you. Yeah. That's right.

886
00:31:47,900 --> 00:31:48,720
It's center

887
00:31:49,179 --> 00:31:51,740
central point of who you are Yes. And

888
00:31:51,740 --> 00:31:53,659
and how you believe and what you think

889
00:31:53,659 --> 00:31:55,305
and how you act and how you speak.

890
00:31:55,384 --> 00:31:56,985
You you can't remove that, and you don't

891
00:31:56,985 --> 00:31:58,904
wanna remove that because it makes somebody a

892
00:31:58,904 --> 00:32:01,545
better person. Exactly. It makes somebody wiser. It

893
00:32:01,545 --> 00:32:04,205
makes somebody more able to govern other people.

894
00:32:04,664 --> 00:32:07,225
And it it just there's just a basic

895
00:32:07,225 --> 00:32:07,725
misunderstanding.

896
00:32:08,769 --> 00:32:10,789
You know I'm reminded of Rich Mullins,

897
00:32:11,890 --> 00:32:14,289
sang a song long time ago, you know,

898
00:32:14,289 --> 00:32:16,450
that was about the Christian creed and part

899
00:32:16,450 --> 00:32:19,329
of the lyrics were I'm not making it,

900
00:32:19,329 --> 00:32:22,150
it is making me. Right. And and somehow

901
00:32:22,210 --> 00:32:23,509
we we have

902
00:32:24,105 --> 00:32:24,845
as Christians,

903
00:32:26,424 --> 00:32:27,785
I think it goes back to wanting to

904
00:32:27,785 --> 00:32:29,785
be peacemakers, wanting to kind of keep the

905
00:32:29,785 --> 00:32:31,865
peace with people and kind of we've let

906
00:32:31,865 --> 00:32:32,365
ourselves

907
00:32:33,144 --> 00:32:35,244
slowly over time over the last

908
00:32:35,625 --> 00:32:36,845
30, 40 years

909
00:32:37,625 --> 00:32:38,125
be

910
00:32:39,509 --> 00:32:41,450
duped into thinking that

911
00:32:41,830 --> 00:32:43,750
that no, you can you get to choose

912
00:32:43,750 --> 00:32:45,350
what your faith is. You get to decide

913
00:32:45,350 --> 00:32:47,690
your faith. No. We don't get to decide

914
00:32:48,070 --> 00:32:49,910
what is the truth of our faith. You

915
00:32:49,910 --> 00:32:51,850
either accept it or you reject it.

916
00:32:52,224 --> 00:32:52,724
And

917
00:32:53,264 --> 00:32:55,924
I see so many Christians that are afraid.

918
00:32:56,544 --> 00:32:58,544
They're terrified to just stand up and say,

919
00:32:58,544 --> 00:33:00,065
no. This is what I believe. This is

920
00:33:00,065 --> 00:33:01,424
what the Bible says, and this is what

921
00:33:01,424 --> 00:33:02,325
I'm gonna follow.

922
00:33:02,944 --> 00:33:03,444
Because

923
00:33:03,825 --> 00:33:05,605
and you know, the sad thing is,

924
00:33:05,910 --> 00:33:08,309
and y'all know this, and I assume our

925
00:33:08,309 --> 00:33:10,470
listeners know it too. Sometimes that means you

926
00:33:10,470 --> 00:33:11,130
lose businesses.

927
00:33:11,830 --> 00:33:13,910
Sometimes that means you might lose a job

928
00:33:13,910 --> 00:33:16,170
because you stand up and say, I cannot

929
00:33:16,630 --> 00:33:17,690
cross this line.

930
00:33:18,470 --> 00:33:20,954
And today we are being asked to,

931
00:33:21,515 --> 00:33:23,294
I saw a thing popped up

932
00:33:24,714 --> 00:33:25,454
last week.

933
00:33:26,315 --> 00:33:28,174
Some people got really upset

934
00:33:28,634 --> 00:33:29,855
because a church

935
00:33:30,554 --> 00:33:31,534
on their podcast

936
00:33:32,714 --> 00:33:33,214
said

937
00:33:34,220 --> 00:33:34,720
Christians

938
00:33:35,259 --> 00:33:37,359
should not celebrate Pride Month.

939
00:33:38,779 --> 00:33:41,740
And it tore people up. Yeah. To think

940
00:33:41,740 --> 00:33:42,799
that a Christian

941
00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:45,340
would say that we and I'm like and

942
00:33:45,340 --> 00:33:47,259
the person on the podcast even pointed out,

943
00:33:47,259 --> 00:33:49,554
he's like, it's one of the seven things

944
00:33:49,554 --> 00:33:50,534
that God hates

945
00:33:50,835 --> 00:33:53,234
is pride. We're not even we're not even

946
00:33:53,234 --> 00:33:56,034
looking at the the homosexual aspect or the

947
00:33:56,034 --> 00:33:58,434
the transgender aspect, any of that stuff. Just

948
00:33:58,434 --> 00:33:59,575
pride in general

949
00:33:59,875 --> 00:34:02,355
is something we are supposed to shun. We're

950
00:34:02,355 --> 00:34:04,169
supposed to stay away from it. And he's

951
00:34:04,169 --> 00:34:05,529
like, you know, but if I came out

952
00:34:05,529 --> 00:34:07,769
and said that we shouldn't celebrate murder, everybody

953
00:34:07,769 --> 00:34:09,690
would be on board. They'll get that. But

954
00:34:09,690 --> 00:34:11,690
here I am saying that another sin should

955
00:34:11,690 --> 00:34:14,010
not be celebrated, and everybody's like, oh, that's

956
00:34:14,010 --> 00:34:16,010
that. You just can't say that. And their

957
00:34:16,010 --> 00:34:18,809
takeaway was, well, they're equating being homosexual with

958
00:34:18,809 --> 00:34:20,485
murder. Yeah. And it's like,

959
00:34:21,025 --> 00:34:22,805
well, only in that they're both sin.

960
00:34:23,184 --> 00:34:24,965
Right. Yeah. Well We're not saying

961
00:34:25,425 --> 00:34:27,105
that that's It depends whether it's an unborn

962
00:34:27,105 --> 00:34:28,805
child or not too. It depends on that

963
00:34:28,864 --> 00:34:30,465
too. Yeah. You know, but I mean pay

964
00:34:30,465 --> 00:34:32,065
it in. For the most part, you know,

965
00:34:32,065 --> 00:34:34,070
it's like, we're we're not saying that it's

966
00:34:34,070 --> 00:34:35,829
the same thing, but we're saying that it's

967
00:34:35,829 --> 00:34:38,309
sin and Christians have gotten so afraid to

968
00:34:38,309 --> 00:34:39,769
just look at people and say, look,

969
00:34:40,710 --> 00:34:42,170
I'm not going to come out here

970
00:34:42,469 --> 00:34:42,969
and

971
00:34:43,429 --> 00:34:45,030
suggest that you be kicked out of the

972
00:34:45,030 --> 00:34:47,174
country for your sin. Yeah.

973
00:34:47,474 --> 00:34:48,994
But at the same time, I'm gonna tell

974
00:34:48,994 --> 00:34:51,074
you it's sin. Yeah. Well, we have to.

975
00:34:51,074 --> 00:34:53,074
That's that's love. Right? It it always involves

976
00:34:53,074 --> 00:34:54,994
truth. And and especially, like, you know, in,

977
00:34:55,234 --> 00:34:57,714
in Washington DC or the political class of

978
00:34:57,714 --> 00:34:59,609
our country, they they wanna hide it under

979
00:34:59,609 --> 00:35:01,730
a bushel basket because they think they're supposed

980
00:35:01,730 --> 00:35:04,070
to. They can't mix politics and religion.

981
00:35:04,369 --> 00:35:06,610
And that's that's garbage. It's garbage. It's who

982
00:35:06,610 --> 00:35:08,610
you are. Let the light shine. Right? We

983
00:35:08,610 --> 00:35:10,530
have a leader of this country that that

984
00:35:10,530 --> 00:35:11,909
is supposedly Catholic,

985
00:35:12,565 --> 00:35:14,184
and it's under a bushel basket.

986
00:35:16,324 --> 00:35:18,005
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No good is it. That's

987
00:35:18,005 --> 00:35:19,785
right. Yeah. That's right.

988
00:35:20,405 --> 00:35:22,724
You know, I I got to thinking, what

989
00:35:22,724 --> 00:35:24,664
what do you think is the the greatest

990
00:35:24,724 --> 00:35:26,769
revival in the Bible? What or one of

991
00:35:26,769 --> 00:35:29,010
the the instances of greatest revival in the

992
00:35:29,010 --> 00:35:29,510
Bible?

993
00:35:34,769 --> 00:35:36,289
Well, I I'll tell you what I

994
00:35:36,929 --> 00:35:38,324
one of them that I feel like is

995
00:35:38,324 --> 00:35:41,704
probably probably Jonah preaching to Nineveh. Yeah. Yeah.

996
00:35:41,925 --> 00:35:44,005
You know, I and and and I got

997
00:35:44,005 --> 00:35:46,824
to thinking about that, and it's really a

998
00:35:48,085 --> 00:35:51,304
it's really a motivation, I think, to preachers

999
00:35:51,844 --> 00:35:53,385
to don't not stop.

1000
00:35:53,909 --> 00:35:55,510
If you if you don't think you're doing

1001
00:35:55,510 --> 00:35:57,109
any good, if you don't think that it's

1002
00:35:57,109 --> 00:35:59,049
gonna do you any good, if you're thinking,

1003
00:35:59,429 --> 00:36:01,909
man, I, you know, I preach that message,

1004
00:36:01,909 --> 00:36:03,690
nobody come to the altar. I,

1005
00:36:04,230 --> 00:36:05,829
you know, God put that on my heart.

1006
00:36:05,829 --> 00:36:07,525
Why didn't they move? Or, you know, I

1007
00:36:07,525 --> 00:36:09,125
don't seem to be doing any good, and

1008
00:36:09,125 --> 00:36:11,085
people are not moving right now. You know,

1009
00:36:11,085 --> 00:36:13,445
you we you you can beat yourself up,

1010
00:36:13,445 --> 00:36:15,125
and you can get down and out, and

1011
00:36:15,125 --> 00:36:16,664
you can get to asking why.

1012
00:36:18,324 --> 00:36:19,065
And, you know,

1013
00:36:19,605 --> 00:36:22,744
God gave Jonah this message, this really

1014
00:36:23,579 --> 00:36:24,640
short message.

1015
00:36:25,579 --> 00:36:26,079
And

1016
00:36:27,019 --> 00:36:28,079
how do we know

1017
00:36:28,700 --> 00:36:29,840
how do we know

1018
00:36:30,780 --> 00:36:31,280
when

1019
00:36:31,739 --> 00:36:32,559
and where

1020
00:36:33,260 --> 00:36:35,980
that one time that it's just gonna click

1021
00:36:35,980 --> 00:36:38,574
is gonna happen? Right. And if we stop

1022
00:36:38,574 --> 00:36:39,795
short of that day,

1023
00:36:40,735 --> 00:36:42,815
if if Jonah and Jonah didn't wanna be

1024
00:36:42,815 --> 00:36:44,735
obedient to God. You know? I mean, he

1025
00:36:44,735 --> 00:36:46,175
ended up in in the belly of a

1026
00:36:46,175 --> 00:36:48,094
whale because he didn't wanna be obedient to

1027
00:36:48,094 --> 00:36:48,594
God.

1028
00:36:48,974 --> 00:36:50,015
And and,

1029
00:36:50,931 --> 00:36:53,826
he he really in fact, it just pretty

1030
00:36:53,826 --> 00:36:56,398
much hated Menuho because he's like, they're they're

1031
00:36:56,398 --> 00:36:58,971
a bunch of scoundrels, and they're never gonna

1032
00:36:58,971 --> 00:37:01,543
repent, and they're never gonna come to you.

1033
00:37:01,543 --> 00:37:04,275
And and God's calling him to this awful

1034
00:37:04,275 --> 00:37:06,434
place, this terrible place, and this is where

1035
00:37:06,434 --> 00:37:08,114
I want you to go now. Get your

1036
00:37:08,114 --> 00:37:10,214
hand in over there or else,

1037
00:37:10,674 --> 00:37:13,174
you know, and and this one message

1038
00:37:13,954 --> 00:37:16,275
this one message that he preached, he says,

1039
00:37:16,275 --> 00:37:17,680
hey. He says,

1040
00:37:18,059 --> 00:37:19,360
in 40 days,

1041
00:37:19,739 --> 00:37:23,340
God's gonna destroy this place. Yeah. And all

1042
00:37:23,340 --> 00:37:24,079
of a sudden,

1043
00:37:24,780 --> 00:37:26,000
Nineveh said,

1044
00:37:27,660 --> 00:37:29,900
I believe God. Yeah. All the way to

1045
00:37:29,900 --> 00:37:31,200
the king. Yeah.

1046
00:37:31,525 --> 00:37:34,085
I believe God. He's he's really gonna do

1047
00:37:34,085 --> 00:37:35,925
this. This is a man of God and

1048
00:37:35,925 --> 00:37:37,465
he has brought us this message

1049
00:37:37,925 --> 00:37:39,784
and what happened? Revival

1050
00:37:40,164 --> 00:37:43,445
broke out in Nineveh. People repented. Men, women,

1051
00:37:43,445 --> 00:37:44,105
and children.

1052
00:37:44,429 --> 00:37:46,269
I mean, it was one of the greatest

1053
00:37:46,269 --> 00:37:48,109
revivals that we see recorded in the word

1054
00:37:48,109 --> 00:37:48,769
of god

1055
00:37:49,230 --> 00:37:51,550
and it was just from this short message.

1056
00:37:51,550 --> 00:37:52,829
So, what does that tell you guys may

1057
00:37:52,829 --> 00:37:54,269
not have to preach that long either, you

1058
00:37:54,269 --> 00:37:55,329
know, but

1059
00:37:55,630 --> 00:37:55,949
but,

1060
00:37:56,510 --> 00:37:58,609
I don't take good advice from that but

1061
00:37:58,909 --> 00:37:59,409
so

1062
00:38:00,164 --> 00:38:01,545
but but you you know,

1063
00:38:02,085 --> 00:38:04,244
if Jonah had had not been obedient to

1064
00:38:04,244 --> 00:38:06,085
god and I guess what I'm saying right

1065
00:38:06,085 --> 00:38:08,724
now is men of god be obedient to

1066
00:38:08,724 --> 00:38:11,364
god and not just you preachers but if

1067
00:38:11,364 --> 00:38:13,960
god's calling you to say something to somebody,

1068
00:38:14,420 --> 00:38:17,239
it could be today that that individual revival

1069
00:38:17,380 --> 00:38:19,699
starts in that coworker's heart or starts in

1070
00:38:19,699 --> 00:38:22,179
that schoolmate's heart or starts in that brother

1071
00:38:22,179 --> 00:38:24,760
or sister or wife or mama or daddy.

1072
00:38:24,900 --> 00:38:27,344
I know I know husbands and wives that

1073
00:38:28,065 --> 00:38:30,625
either one or the other are struggling because

1074
00:38:30,625 --> 00:38:32,704
their spouse doesn't wanna go to church and

1075
00:38:32,704 --> 00:38:34,784
so, you know, they they have a hard

1076
00:38:34,784 --> 00:38:36,545
time keeping on loving them but that's what

1077
00:38:36,545 --> 00:38:37,984
the Bible's calling us to do and they

1078
00:38:37,984 --> 00:38:40,224
have a hard time saying, you know, hey,

1079
00:38:40,224 --> 00:38:41,829
this is this is the you know,

1080
00:38:42,210 --> 00:38:44,449
church was good today, and I'd love for

1081
00:38:44,449 --> 00:38:46,369
you to come. And so they they they

1082
00:38:46,369 --> 00:38:49,429
sometimes they just give up and they stop

1083
00:38:49,489 --> 00:38:49,989
trying.

1084
00:38:50,530 --> 00:38:51,510
But what if

1085
00:38:51,809 --> 00:38:52,469
what if

1086
00:38:53,329 --> 00:38:53,829
25

1087
00:38:54,210 --> 00:38:56,954
years and one day and one hour and

1088
00:38:56,954 --> 00:38:59,375
one minute and one second down the road,

1089
00:38:59,595 --> 00:39:01,855
you look at your spouse and you say,

1090
00:39:02,235 --> 00:39:05,195
God done something awesome in my heart this

1091
00:39:05,195 --> 00:39:07,675
morning. Your spouse looks at she would breaks

1092
00:39:07,675 --> 00:39:09,375
down Yeah. In tears

1093
00:39:10,230 --> 00:39:12,889
with a broken heart and a contrite spirit.

1094
00:39:12,949 --> 00:39:14,869
And that day is the day that they

1095
00:39:14,869 --> 00:39:16,869
come to know Jesus and get set on

1096
00:39:16,869 --> 00:39:19,449
fire for him. I'm just saying today,

1097
00:39:19,829 --> 00:39:21,530
revival is necessary.

1098
00:39:21,989 --> 00:39:23,610
Revival needs to continue

1099
00:39:24,230 --> 00:39:27,295
in our hearts, but let's not give up

1100
00:39:27,914 --> 00:39:29,534
letting god use us

1101
00:39:30,074 --> 00:39:31,454
like he used Jonah

1102
00:39:31,835 --> 00:39:34,315
to help bring the revival to somebody's heart.

1103
00:39:34,315 --> 00:39:35,375
You never know

1104
00:39:35,675 --> 00:39:38,289
what one person could do to set a

1105
00:39:38,289 --> 00:39:40,609
whole church on fire, to help a whole

1106
00:39:40,609 --> 00:39:43,190
family, a whole school was in Asbury.

1107
00:39:43,730 --> 00:39:45,349
You know? Amen. Just just

1108
00:39:45,730 --> 00:39:47,750
being obedient to God

1109
00:39:48,369 --> 00:39:48,869
one

1110
00:39:49,250 --> 00:39:52,144
more time, one more day. Yeah. Yeah. And

1111
00:39:52,144 --> 00:39:54,304
what what was Jesus' message when he started

1112
00:39:54,304 --> 00:39:54,804
out?

1113
00:39:55,664 --> 00:39:57,585
Repent for the kingdom of God as a

1114
00:39:57,744 --> 00:40:00,304
Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Simple. Yeah. Simple. Yeah.

1115
00:40:00,304 --> 00:40:02,704
And the gospel does the work. Yeah. Amen.

1116
00:40:02,704 --> 00:40:04,625
Holy Spirit does the work. And we're just

1117
00:40:04,625 --> 00:40:06,980
faithful to say it. Yeah. You know, and

1118
00:40:06,980 --> 00:40:08,920
and he does. He tells he tells

1119
00:40:09,219 --> 00:40:11,059
everybody he saw, repent. The kingdom of god

1120
00:40:11,059 --> 00:40:12,099
is at hand. And then what does he

1121
00:40:12,099 --> 00:40:14,260
say to the disciples? Just come follow me.

1122
00:40:14,260 --> 00:40:14,760
Yeah.

1123
00:40:15,059 --> 00:40:17,480
Drop drop what you're doing. Yeah. Just just

1124
00:40:17,699 --> 00:40:19,635
I I know you're out there, you're fishing,

1125
00:40:19,635 --> 00:40:21,655
or you're out here and you're collecting taxes,

1126
00:40:22,114 --> 00:40:23,815
or you're out here and you're doing this.

1127
00:40:23,875 --> 00:40:25,474
Just drop what you're doing and follow me.

1128
00:40:25,474 --> 00:40:27,474
Yeah. Yeah. And that was his call to

1129
00:40:27,474 --> 00:40:29,555
everybody when you break down all the different

1130
00:40:29,555 --> 00:40:31,155
conversations he had. He's he he just says,

1131
00:40:31,155 --> 00:40:33,550
just look I've got the answer just follow.

1132
00:40:33,550 --> 00:40:35,630
Yeah. Come with me and how many people

1133
00:40:35,630 --> 00:40:36,130
went

1134
00:40:37,150 --> 00:40:39,650
nah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think I will.

1135
00:40:40,590 --> 00:40:42,829
Yeah. I got better things to do. You

1136
00:40:42,829 --> 00:40:44,765
know I mean you remember some of them

1137
00:40:44,765 --> 00:40:46,525
are like, oh, I gotta go I gotta

1138
00:40:46,525 --> 00:40:47,965
go take care of my dad, you know.

1139
00:40:47,965 --> 00:40:49,724
Yeah. So it was he which he knew

1140
00:40:49,724 --> 00:40:51,744
was an excuse. He knew their hearts. Right?

1141
00:40:51,965 --> 00:40:52,364
You know,

1142
00:40:53,164 --> 00:40:55,885
yeah. Well, your dad's your dad's fine, and

1143
00:40:55,885 --> 00:40:57,325
he's at home right now, and he's not

1144
00:40:57,325 --> 00:40:59,559
even sick. That's what was really going on

1145
00:40:59,559 --> 00:41:01,800
there. A person was just like, you know,

1146
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,719
they, 10 years from now, I'm probably gonna

1147
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:04,599
have to take care of that, so I

1148
00:41:04,599 --> 00:41:05,659
better not go anywhere.

1149
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:06,619
And so

1150
00:41:07,319 --> 00:41:09,319
and god was just calling. I I I

1151
00:41:09,319 --> 00:41:11,000
mean, and and, well, you know, where am

1152
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,760
I gonna sleep? What am I doing? God's

1153
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,325
like, look. Foxes have holes and birds have

1154
00:41:15,325 --> 00:41:17,164
nests. The son of man has no place

1155
00:41:17,164 --> 00:41:19,744
to lay his head. You know? I'm just

1156
00:41:19,965 --> 00:41:22,045
saying, come and follow me. Any man that's

1157
00:41:22,285 --> 00:41:24,365
that that that doesn't wanna put his hands

1158
00:41:24,365 --> 00:41:26,045
to the plow, he's not fit for the

1159
00:41:26,045 --> 00:41:28,545
kingdom of God. Right. He said, forsake

1160
00:41:29,750 --> 00:41:32,389
father and mother, and he's not saying, listen,

1161
00:41:32,389 --> 00:41:34,550
don't take that wrong. Okay? When he says

1162
00:41:34,550 --> 00:41:37,429
that, he's saying put me first. Yes. Put

1163
00:41:37,429 --> 00:41:39,190
me first. I'll take care of mom and

1164
00:41:39,190 --> 00:41:41,684
dad. Right? I'll take care of of your

1165
00:41:41,684 --> 00:41:44,405
family and the situation, but he's saying if

1166
00:41:44,405 --> 00:41:45,545
I call you to something,

1167
00:41:46,164 --> 00:41:48,485
answer that call, and I will bless you

1168
00:41:48,485 --> 00:41:50,244
in it, and I will walk with you

1169
00:41:50,244 --> 00:41:52,724
through it every step of the way. Not

1170
00:41:52,724 --> 00:41:54,909
saying it may be easy. Right? Maybe laying

1171
00:41:54,909 --> 00:41:56,289
your head on a rock somewhere

1172
00:41:56,590 --> 00:41:58,909
but what I'm telling you is is I

1173
00:41:58,909 --> 00:42:00,670
will see you through. I will walk with

1174
00:42:00,670 --> 00:42:02,269
you every step of the way. Put me

1175
00:42:02,269 --> 00:42:04,110
first. Whoever wishes to save his life will

1176
00:42:04,110 --> 00:42:05,630
lose it and whoever gives his life up

1177
00:42:05,630 --> 00:42:07,230
for my sake will find it. Amen. And

1178
00:42:07,230 --> 00:42:09,324
he promised us life more abundant. Yeah. And

1179
00:42:09,324 --> 00:42:11,164
what he'll take this garbage life we got

1180
00:42:11,164 --> 00:42:13,405
and turn it into something eternally beautiful. Yes.

1181
00:42:13,405 --> 00:42:15,085
He will. Yes. He will. It may not

1182
00:42:15,085 --> 00:42:17,724
improve our circumstances here and now. That's right.

1183
00:42:17,724 --> 00:42:19,804
But but eternity and the joy we find

1184
00:42:19,804 --> 00:42:21,644
and the peace we find, the belonging, the

1185
00:42:21,644 --> 00:42:24,269
love That's it. The hope. I see it.

1186
00:42:24,269 --> 00:42:26,449
If we could just have that eternal mindset

1187
00:42:26,590 --> 00:42:28,429
knowing that this place is not our home.

1188
00:42:28,429 --> 00:42:30,429
Right? Amen. But we're looking for a place

1189
00:42:30,429 --> 00:42:32,269
that's not made with hands. That's right. Well,

1190
00:42:32,269 --> 00:42:34,110
and you look at, you know, we've been

1191
00:42:34,110 --> 00:42:35,949
on Wednesday nights now for a while, we've

1192
00:42:35,949 --> 00:42:36,690
been studying,

1193
00:42:36,994 --> 00:42:38,855
you know, Paul's letters to the churches.

1194
00:42:39,155 --> 00:42:40,515
On Wednesday night, you know, we went back

1195
00:42:40,515 --> 00:42:42,934
through some more of his his writings. Yeah.

1196
00:42:42,994 --> 00:42:44,614
Look at how he got called.

1197
00:42:45,235 --> 00:42:47,155
I mean, man, he was out there. He

1198
00:42:47,155 --> 00:42:48,755
he was doing what he thought God wanted

1199
00:42:48,755 --> 00:42:50,355
him to do. Yeah. He was a Jew

1200
00:42:50,355 --> 00:42:52,610
of Jews. He was he was following the

1201
00:42:52,610 --> 00:42:53,110
law.

1202
00:42:53,410 --> 00:42:54,929
He was out there. He was saying all

1203
00:42:54,929 --> 00:42:56,769
these people that are heretics, we're gonna stone

1204
00:42:56,769 --> 00:42:58,369
them. We're gonna get rid of all these

1205
00:42:58,369 --> 00:43:00,449
people that are saying these blasphemous things. And

1206
00:43:00,449 --> 00:43:01,110
then he's

1207
00:43:01,489 --> 00:43:03,090
heading to Damascus, and all of a sudden

1208
00:43:03,090 --> 00:43:04,769
here's Christ going, hey, why are you persecuting

1209
00:43:04,769 --> 00:43:05,269
me?

1210
00:43:06,025 --> 00:43:06,525
Yeah.

1211
00:43:08,025 --> 00:43:09,244
I mean, what

1212
00:43:10,025 --> 00:43:12,284
and then look at what he goes through.

1213
00:43:12,344 --> 00:43:14,844
Yeah. I mean, after all he did,

1214
00:43:15,144 --> 00:43:17,724
Christ shows up says, come follow me. Come

1215
00:43:17,864 --> 00:43:20,445
come be the thing that you've been persecuting

1216
00:43:21,300 --> 00:43:22,920
is the call he makes to Paul.

1217
00:43:23,539 --> 00:43:25,300
Was it a guy named Ananias? I think

1218
00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:27,140
he said to take the the scales off

1219
00:43:27,140 --> 00:43:28,340
his eyes and he said, I'll I'll show

1220
00:43:28,340 --> 00:43:30,199
him what he must suffer for my namesake.

1221
00:43:30,260 --> 00:43:33,974
Yeah. And then after that Yeah. Paul went

1222
00:43:34,034 --> 00:43:37,315
through absolute torment Yeah. And with a joyful

1223
00:43:37,315 --> 00:43:39,234
heart the whole time. Oh, yeah. He found

1224
00:43:39,234 --> 00:43:41,635
what's real. He did. He did. Yeah. Paul

1225
00:43:41,635 --> 00:43:44,034
didn't keep going through it because he thought,

1226
00:43:44,034 --> 00:43:46,195
well, you know, I've already committed to this

1227
00:43:46,195 --> 00:43:47,714
and this is what I'm supposed to do

1228
00:43:47,714 --> 00:43:48,510
and I don't wanna

1229
00:43:49,230 --> 00:43:51,070
be a quitter. No. Paul kept on because

1230
00:43:51,070 --> 00:43:52,670
he knew that god was real. He knew

1231
00:43:52,670 --> 00:43:55,550
that Jesus Christ was real. Right? He knew

1232
00:43:55,550 --> 00:43:56,110
that that the,

1233
00:43:56,750 --> 00:43:59,230
in the name of Jesus that every knee

1234
00:43:59,230 --> 00:44:01,550
shall bow and every tongue shall confess that

1235
00:44:01,550 --> 00:44:03,170
Jesus Christ is lord.

1236
00:44:03,644 --> 00:44:04,385
He understood

1237
00:44:05,085 --> 00:44:06,925
that all things had been given to the

1238
00:44:06,925 --> 00:44:09,164
son. Right? And that he had all things

1239
00:44:09,164 --> 00:44:11,085
and and then in turn, he gives all

1240
00:44:11,085 --> 00:44:13,405
to us and he knew that that Jesus

1241
00:44:13,405 --> 00:44:15,724
was gonna be the righteous judge that would

1242
00:44:15,724 --> 00:44:16,224
stand

1243
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,559
at the great white throne of judgment at

1244
00:44:18,559 --> 00:44:21,039
the end and judge the ungodly and right

1245
00:44:21,119 --> 00:44:22,500
I mean, he understood

1246
00:44:23,039 --> 00:44:26,000
all those things. He grasped those things, and

1247
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,559
that's why Paul kept on. That's why we're

1248
00:44:28,559 --> 00:44:31,164
here tonight. Praise God. That's why we're here

1249
00:44:31,164 --> 00:44:33,585
tonight. We could be we could be

1250
00:44:34,125 --> 00:44:36,204
smoking a chicken tonight or we could be

1251
00:44:36,204 --> 00:44:38,684
doing anything else, right, home with our wives

1252
00:44:38,684 --> 00:44:41,244
right now. But but I I believe God

1253
00:44:41,244 --> 00:44:42,729
called us to do this this podcast so

1254
00:44:42,729 --> 00:44:42,907
that somebody maybe tonight might hear the gospel,

1255
00:44:42,907 --> 00:44:43,085
the truth of the gospel, the truth of

1256
00:44:43,085 --> 00:44:43,835
the gospel,

1257
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:46,219
maybe tonight

1258
00:44:46,519 --> 00:44:47,739
might hear the gospel,

1259
00:44:48,039 --> 00:44:50,280
the truth of the gospel, and they might

1260
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,199
believe it like they did in Nineveh, and

1261
00:44:52,199 --> 00:44:54,039
they might believe it like Paul did on

1262
00:44:54,039 --> 00:44:55,019
the road to Damascus.

1263
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:56,860
And they might believe it

1264
00:44:57,184 --> 00:44:57,684
like,

1265
00:44:58,144 --> 00:45:00,304
like the eunuch did. Right? And had to

1266
00:45:00,304 --> 00:45:02,625
find a place to be baptized. They might

1267
00:45:02,625 --> 00:45:04,965
believe it like like, like the,

1268
00:45:05,505 --> 00:45:07,264
the the the people in in the book

1269
00:45:07,264 --> 00:45:08,625
of Revelation that,

1270
00:45:08,945 --> 00:45:11,824
that trusted God, right, more than they trusted

1271
00:45:11,824 --> 00:45:12,324
themselves.

1272
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,079
I mean, and refused to take the mark

1273
00:45:15,079 --> 00:45:15,739
of the beast.

1274
00:45:16,039 --> 00:45:18,760
It they that man, that is powerful, and

1275
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,840
that's why we're here. That's why we keep

1276
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,880
on keeping on one more day, one more

1277
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,840
Sunday. And I guarantee you guys, I guarantee

1278
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:27,340
you

1279
00:45:27,954 --> 00:45:30,434
that Satan has tried to put some kind

1280
00:45:30,434 --> 00:45:32,855
of discouragement in every one of our lives

1281
00:45:33,074 --> 00:45:35,394
this past week or this past month to

1282
00:45:35,394 --> 00:45:37,074
say, oh, man, that thing ain't doing no

1283
00:45:37,074 --> 00:45:38,674
good. It's just there's 2 or 3 people

1284
00:45:38,674 --> 00:45:40,690
listening out there. That thing ain't doing no

1285
00:45:40,690 --> 00:45:42,369
good. You don't need to go tonight. You

1286
00:45:42,369 --> 00:45:44,769
know, but but listen, god's called us to

1287
00:45:44,769 --> 00:45:47,090
a higher purpose. Right? He's called us to

1288
00:45:47,090 --> 00:45:48,949
proclaim the gospel one

1289
00:45:49,329 --> 00:45:52,130
more time. One more time, Brian. One more

1290
00:45:52,130 --> 00:45:54,734
time, Dennis. One more time, Tyler. Just speak

1291
00:45:54,734 --> 00:45:57,135
it out and don't be afraid and be

1292
00:45:57,135 --> 00:45:58,275
bold in it. Amen?

1293
00:45:58,574 --> 00:45:59,714
Because one day

1294
00:46:00,815 --> 00:46:01,554
one day,

1295
00:46:01,934 --> 00:46:04,094
what we don't see clearly right now, what

1296
00:46:04,094 --> 00:46:06,460
what is dim to us right now, it's

1297
00:46:06,460 --> 00:46:09,099
gonna open up to us. Faith will end

1298
00:46:09,099 --> 00:46:10,619
in sight, and we will get to be

1299
00:46:10,619 --> 00:46:13,680
there with Jesus, amen, for eternity.

1300
00:46:14,140 --> 00:46:17,260
What a wonderful picture of what he's done

1301
00:46:17,260 --> 00:46:19,440
in our lives, and I just wanna devote

1302
00:46:20,059 --> 00:46:20,559
myself

1303
00:46:20,934 --> 00:46:22,635
to Him. I wanna be revived

1304
00:46:23,094 --> 00:46:25,574
in a way that it doesn't stop until

1305
00:46:25,574 --> 00:46:27,194
He takes me home. Amen.

1306
00:46:28,054 --> 00:46:28,554
Amen.

1307
00:46:30,614 --> 00:46:31,914
I can't follow that.

1308
00:46:36,590 --> 00:46:38,590
I mean, that that's what that is. It's

1309
00:46:38,590 --> 00:46:40,829
what it's about. It's what we're called to

1310
00:46:40,829 --> 00:46:42,429
do. It's what we're called to do is

1311
00:46:42,429 --> 00:46:45,309
go out and tell people. Just telling people

1312
00:46:45,550 --> 00:46:47,010
Yeah. All the time.

1313
00:46:48,324 --> 00:46:49,465
He's coming back.

1314
00:46:50,005 --> 00:46:51,844
Yeah. He's coming back. It's not we don't

1315
00:46:51,844 --> 00:46:54,965
have long. Yeah. Yeah. Even if it's just

1316
00:46:54,965 --> 00:46:56,644
the rest of our lives, even if it's

1317
00:46:56,644 --> 00:46:58,405
just the rest of my life, it's that's

1318
00:46:58,405 --> 00:46:59,704
a drop in the bucket.

1319
00:47:00,085 --> 00:47:02,265
And this whole world's been spinning along for

1320
00:47:02,405 --> 00:47:03,945
few 1000 years now.

1321
00:47:04,460 --> 00:47:07,260
What's a 100 years? Yeah. Yeah. I mean

1322
00:47:07,420 --> 00:47:09,659
Yeah. And here's some encouragement for for anybody

1323
00:47:09,659 --> 00:47:11,579
that's a preacher that might be listening is,

1324
00:47:12,139 --> 00:47:14,059
sometimes you feel like you're saying the same

1325
00:47:14,059 --> 00:47:15,659
thing over and over, and you want some

1326
00:47:15,659 --> 00:47:16,940
new thing to say and send them a

1327
00:47:16,940 --> 00:47:18,775
new way to say it. Don't.

1328
00:47:19,715 --> 00:47:21,335
It's the good old gospel,

1329
00:47:21,635 --> 00:47:23,155
and it needs to be the good old

1330
00:47:23,155 --> 00:47:24,835
gospel, and it needs to stay the good

1331
00:47:24,835 --> 00:47:27,635
old gospel because it's simple, and the power

1332
00:47:27,635 --> 00:47:29,969
is in the gospel, not in us. That's

1333
00:47:29,969 --> 00:47:32,289
right. Amen. It's not in our clever words.

1334
00:47:32,289 --> 00:47:34,289
It's not in our object lessons. It's not

1335
00:47:34,289 --> 00:47:37,590
in, the structure and organization of our sermon.

1336
00:47:37,969 --> 00:47:40,609
It's in the gospel. That's right. That's right.

1337
00:47:40,609 --> 00:47:42,385
Yeah. I I was it's so funny if

1338
00:47:42,385 --> 00:47:43,905
you said that because I was just thinking

1339
00:47:43,905 --> 00:47:46,224
I'd I'd actually started writing something out, but

1340
00:47:46,224 --> 00:47:48,305
I I I had this thought about, you

1341
00:47:48,305 --> 00:47:48,805
know,

1342
00:47:49,585 --> 00:47:50,405
big words

1343
00:47:50,785 --> 00:47:53,505
sometimes bring small packages. You know, they they

1344
00:47:53,505 --> 00:47:55,150
don't have a lot of impact. I mean

1345
00:47:55,230 --> 00:47:57,070
Yeah. We wanna fill up a sermon and

1346
00:47:57,070 --> 00:47:58,750
we wanna fill up a Facebook post and

1347
00:47:58,750 --> 00:48:01,070
we wanna sound smart and intelligent. And we

1348
00:48:01,070 --> 00:48:02,670
wanna, you know, we want people to think

1349
00:48:02,670 --> 00:48:04,429
that we Yeah. That we're smarter than what

1350
00:48:04,429 --> 00:48:06,269
we are and and then we end up

1351
00:48:06,269 --> 00:48:07,789
using a big word in the wrong place.

1352
00:48:07,789 --> 00:48:09,295
Right? You know? But but it and it

1353
00:48:09,295 --> 00:48:11,054
doesn't even have the right meaning where it's

1354
00:48:11,054 --> 00:48:12,114
supposed to be, but,

1355
00:48:12,494 --> 00:48:12,994
listen.

1356
00:48:13,534 --> 00:48:16,175
Just just share the gospel of Jesus. Right?

1357
00:48:16,175 --> 00:48:17,795
I mean, just a simple gospel

1358
00:48:18,175 --> 00:48:18,675
of

1359
00:48:19,375 --> 00:48:21,614
repent. The kingdom of god is at hand.

1360
00:48:21,614 --> 00:48:24,719
Right? Yeah. Understand that and believe that, and

1361
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:26,800
it's it it works. Because then Paul did

1362
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,880
that. Right? Yeah. The church at Corinth could

1363
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:30,880
have been dumb when he was there. Yeah.

1364
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:32,880
And he said, I'd I'd determined not to

1365
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:35,619
know anything but Christ died and crucified

1366
00:48:36,079 --> 00:48:37,985
and risen. That's right. That's right. And he

1367
00:48:37,985 --> 00:48:39,765
said everything else is just done.

1368
00:48:40,304 --> 00:48:42,625
Yeah. Yeah. Yes. And this guy was one

1369
00:48:42,625 --> 00:48:44,385
of the smartest Christians to ever live. Right?

1370
00:48:44,385 --> 00:48:46,625
I mean, he knew the the old testament

1371
00:48:46,625 --> 00:48:48,704
inside and out could explain it all. Yes.

1372
00:48:48,704 --> 00:48:49,204
Yes.

1373
00:48:50,230 --> 00:48:52,630
Yeah. Christ crucified and risen. That's it. That's

1374
00:48:52,630 --> 00:48:54,170
it. That is it, man.

1375
00:48:54,550 --> 00:48:55,050
That's

1376
00:48:55,430 --> 00:48:57,590
the gospel. Yeah. Isn't it? That is that

1377
00:48:57,590 --> 00:48:59,030
is the truth. And we need to hear

1378
00:48:59,030 --> 00:49:00,550
it so often. We gotta hear it over

1379
00:49:00,550 --> 00:49:02,804
and over. We need it. We need Sunday

1380
00:49:02,804 --> 00:49:04,005
morning ought to be a hit and a

1381
00:49:04,005 --> 00:49:05,605
reset button for us when we come in

1382
00:49:05,605 --> 00:49:07,605
here. Right? Get the world's garbage out of

1383
00:49:07,605 --> 00:49:09,925
our minds That's right. And focus. And same

1384
00:49:09,925 --> 00:49:12,244
with Sunday night, Wednesday night, and really, we

1385
00:49:12,244 --> 00:49:14,025
need it every day. Yeah. Yeah.

1386
00:49:14,530 --> 00:49:16,530
You know, I think our worship falls to

1387
00:49:16,530 --> 00:49:19,010
the wayside sometimes. That was our our lesson.

1388
00:49:19,410 --> 00:49:23,170
Jake Jake was, teaching Sunday morning, and and

1389
00:49:23,170 --> 00:49:25,490
the lesson was on, in our Sunday school

1390
00:49:25,490 --> 00:49:26,855
class was on worship. And,

1391
00:49:27,894 --> 00:49:29,734
you know, and what it is and what

1392
00:49:29,734 --> 00:49:31,574
what what it looks like that kind of

1393
00:49:31,574 --> 00:49:34,454
thing, you know, and and, it's just again

1394
00:49:34,454 --> 00:49:37,114
it's getting our hearts right. It's getting our

1395
00:49:37,255 --> 00:49:39,034
our hearts in a place where that

1396
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,719
we recognize that God is there. Right? Yeah.

1397
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:43,980
He's always been there. He's always there,

1398
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:46,599
and then praising him and lifting him up.

1399
00:49:46,599 --> 00:49:47,179
I think

1400
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:49,420
if we lift him up,

1401
00:49:50,199 --> 00:49:52,644
he he said he'd draw all men nigh

1402
00:49:52,644 --> 00:49:54,005
to him, brother. You know, that's a that's

1403
00:49:54,005 --> 00:49:56,324
a really key thing too to revival, to

1404
00:49:56,324 --> 00:49:58,505
reviving yourself. When you get in these these

1405
00:49:58,565 --> 00:50:00,724
bad grooves where you're just, you know, my

1406
00:50:00,724 --> 00:50:04,244
job's bad, my life is falling apart, all

1407
00:50:04,244 --> 00:50:06,559
this stuff. When we start just singing praises

1408
00:50:06,559 --> 00:50:08,480
to God, buddy, it it resets our mind

1409
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:10,719
Yes. It does. And our hearts. It does.

1410
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:11,699
It sure does.

1411
00:50:12,159 --> 00:50:14,320
It it like, you know, it should clear

1412
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:15,920
our minds. Right? I mean, because we can

1413
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:17,139
get to thinking about

1414
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:18,800
I I don't know about you, but if

1415
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:20,900
I get to thinking about one bad thing,

1416
00:50:21,534 --> 00:50:23,054
I I I end up getting that one

1417
00:50:23,054 --> 00:50:25,054
track, man, and I think it to death.

1418
00:50:25,054 --> 00:50:27,375
It grows. Oh my goodness, man. And then

1419
00:50:27,375 --> 00:50:29,775
sometimes I'll lay awake at night and just

1420
00:50:29,934 --> 00:50:31,295
I can't get it out of my head.

1421
00:50:31,295 --> 00:50:32,894
I wanna shake it, and I'm like, Satan,

1422
00:50:32,894 --> 00:50:34,335
I don't wanna think about that. I don't

1423
00:50:34,335 --> 00:50:35,860
wanna, you know, I don't want that on

1424
00:50:35,860 --> 00:50:37,300
my mind. I I don't, you know, I

1425
00:50:37,300 --> 00:50:38,920
just wanna I just wanna rest.

1426
00:50:39,380 --> 00:50:40,199
And and,

1427
00:50:41,059 --> 00:50:42,900
but, man, you if you'll if you'll focus

1428
00:50:42,900 --> 00:50:44,199
on the goodness of God,

1429
00:50:44,980 --> 00:50:46,900
and and pick up his water, just read

1430
00:50:46,900 --> 00:50:48,414
it. You know, pick up your phone, turn

1431
00:50:48,414 --> 00:50:50,514
on your Bible out, whatever you wanna do.

1432
00:50:50,655 --> 00:50:52,574
Sing a song in your head, you know,

1433
00:50:52,574 --> 00:50:54,255
or sing it out loud. Keep your wife

1434
00:50:54,255 --> 00:50:56,894
awake but whatever but just just you know,

1435
00:50:56,894 --> 00:50:58,514
whatever you need to do,

1436
00:50:59,340 --> 00:51:00,640
whatever you need to do

1437
00:51:01,260 --> 00:51:03,260
to focus on him and get your focus

1438
00:51:03,260 --> 00:51:04,320
off the world because

1439
00:51:04,619 --> 00:51:06,800
that's that's why we have so many

1440
00:51:07,099 --> 00:51:09,840
mental issues, so many Yeah. So much anxiety.

1441
00:51:10,300 --> 00:51:11,875
And look, I and we've talked about this

1442
00:51:11,875 --> 00:51:14,434
in here before. Anxiety's real. You know, mental

1443
00:51:14,434 --> 00:51:17,815
issues are real, but but they get so,

1444
00:51:19,635 --> 00:51:21,335
I guess they get they get so,

1445
00:51:21,795 --> 00:51:22,295
multiplied

1446
00:51:23,075 --> 00:51:23,894
and and,

1447
00:51:24,275 --> 00:51:26,375
and grow so much because

1448
00:51:27,039 --> 00:51:28,579
we lose focus right?

1449
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,440
When we focus on him it settles our

1450
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,759
mind. It settles my mind right? I mean

1451
00:51:33,759 --> 00:51:34,980
it gives me peace

1452
00:51:35,359 --> 00:51:37,299
that passes all understanding

1453
00:51:37,759 --> 00:51:40,105
and that's that's what it's all about. You

1454
00:51:40,105 --> 00:51:41,945
know what I've taken to telling my kids

1455
00:51:41,945 --> 00:51:43,385
every night we go to bed, and if

1456
00:51:43,385 --> 00:51:45,065
there's something bothering them, there's something they're scared

1457
00:51:45,065 --> 00:51:47,244
about, they're worried about something, I'm like, look.

1458
00:51:47,625 --> 00:51:49,144
Y'all don't have anything to be afraid of.

1459
00:51:49,144 --> 00:51:51,960
You gotta remember that God is bigger than

1460
00:51:52,119 --> 00:51:54,280
any of this. Anything that can scare you,

1461
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:56,760
anything that can that that you're worried about,

1462
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,460
any of these worries, God is

1463
00:51:58,760 --> 00:51:59,579
way beyond

1464
00:52:00,039 --> 00:52:01,820
and way bigger than all of this.

1465
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,039
And sometimes, I think I think we as

1466
00:52:04,039 --> 00:52:06,780
Christians, especially older Christians, we forget. Yeah.

1467
00:52:07,125 --> 00:52:10,085
That applies to everything. Yeah. These worries, these

1468
00:52:10,085 --> 00:52:11,764
things that gnaw at us, these things that

1469
00:52:11,764 --> 00:52:13,204
keep us up at night. It's like, wait.

1470
00:52:13,204 --> 00:52:15,445
No. God, you're bigger than all of this.

1471
00:52:15,445 --> 00:52:16,565
I mean, you know, my kids grew up

1472
00:52:16,565 --> 00:52:18,324
what you know, are growing up watching Veggie

1473
00:52:18,324 --> 00:52:19,844
Tales, and, you know, God is bigger than

1474
00:52:19,844 --> 00:52:20,425
the boogeyman.

1475
00:52:21,140 --> 00:52:23,160
One of their favorite songs from it because

1476
00:52:23,300 --> 00:52:26,180
he is. He's so big. The whole universe

1477
00:52:26,180 --> 00:52:26,920
is encompassed

1478
00:52:27,619 --> 00:52:28,760
in his presence.

1479
00:52:29,380 --> 00:52:31,380
He he doesn't go everywhere in the universe.

1480
00:52:31,380 --> 00:52:33,940
It's literally within him. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

1481
00:52:33,940 --> 00:52:36,039
when you when you put that into perspective

1482
00:52:36,099 --> 00:52:37,385
and step back and

1483
00:52:37,684 --> 00:52:39,545
go, I can't take a breath

1484
00:52:40,324 --> 00:52:40,824
anywhere

1485
00:52:41,525 --> 00:52:44,105
and not be in God's presence

1486
00:52:44,405 --> 00:52:47,364
because he's all around me at all times.

1487
00:52:47,364 --> 00:52:49,045
Just like when you eat a piece of

1488
00:52:49,045 --> 00:52:52,170
food, your stomach surrounds it. It's It's inside

1489
00:52:52,170 --> 00:52:54,329
of you. That's how we are with God.

1490
00:52:54,329 --> 00:52:56,590
He's literally surrounding the entirety

1491
00:52:57,050 --> 00:53:00,170
of what is a near infinite universe. Man,

1492
00:53:00,170 --> 00:53:02,190
here's here's some brutal for you.

1493
00:53:02,809 --> 00:53:04,889
When we're worrying about something and it's keeping

1494
00:53:04,889 --> 00:53:06,030
us up all night,

1495
00:53:06,454 --> 00:53:08,534
we're assuming that God don't know how to

1496
00:53:08,534 --> 00:53:11,494
fix it. Yeah. We're assuming that he's limited,

1497
00:53:11,494 --> 00:53:13,655
that he's little, that we gotta help him

1498
00:53:13,655 --> 00:53:16,295
somehow. Yeah. Amen. Yeah. How am I gonna

1499
00:53:16,295 --> 00:53:17,815
fix this? How am I gonna get through

1500
00:53:17,815 --> 00:53:19,735
this? And God's over here going, hey. Hey.

1501
00:53:19,735 --> 00:53:22,210
Hey. You know? I got a thousand days

1502
00:53:22,210 --> 00:53:23,570
going on in the background. That's right. That's

1503
00:53:23,570 --> 00:53:26,210
right. Yeah. Yeah. And and like and like

1504
00:53:26,210 --> 00:53:27,890
Tyler said, you I mean, you got kids

1505
00:53:27,890 --> 00:53:29,329
over here, but I'm my kids grew up

1506
00:53:29,329 --> 00:53:31,010
watching Veggie Tales too, and then I can

1507
00:53:31,010 --> 00:53:32,849
still sing songs. You know? I mean, when

1508
00:53:32,849 --> 00:53:34,815
a broccoli can share the gospel and touch

1509
00:53:34,815 --> 00:53:36,335
a kid, then we ought to be able

1510
00:53:36,335 --> 00:53:37,934
to do it too. Well, first thing, when

1511
00:53:37,934 --> 00:53:39,614
you said Nineveh, I thought about getting slapped

1512
00:53:39,614 --> 00:53:41,795
with a fish. So Yes. Yes.

1513
00:53:42,534 --> 00:53:43,034
It

1514
00:53:44,014 --> 00:53:45,855
you know, that's the thing. It's so simple.

1515
00:53:45,855 --> 00:53:47,375
I go back, and we watch that on

1516
00:53:47,375 --> 00:53:48,594
Smile, and I'm like,

1517
00:53:49,054 --> 00:53:51,780
man, this is so easy. Yeah. They're they're

1518
00:53:51,780 --> 00:53:53,880
not going into these deep theological

1519
00:53:54,420 --> 00:53:57,059
things and having but but they present it

1520
00:53:57,059 --> 00:53:58,820
in just such a simple way, and I'm

1521
00:53:58,820 --> 00:53:59,320
thinking,

1522
00:54:00,099 --> 00:54:03,059
wait. That's the gospel. Yeah. Yeah. That's the

1523
00:54:03,059 --> 00:54:05,844
Bible. It's just, look, it's this easy. Yeah.

1524
00:54:05,844 --> 00:54:08,085
And and we we over complicate it. We

1525
00:54:08,085 --> 00:54:10,964
try to change things. Yeah. Just trust me.

1526
00:54:10,964 --> 00:54:12,964
Mhmm. And like you say, God's standing over

1527
00:54:12,964 --> 00:54:14,804
there the whole time going, look, whenever you're

1528
00:54:14,804 --> 00:54:16,980
ready. Yeah. Yeah. And and we know we

1529
00:54:16,980 --> 00:54:19,400
know we know that he wants the absolute

1530
00:54:19,460 --> 00:54:21,219
best for his kids. That's right. He's the

1531
00:54:21,219 --> 00:54:22,199
perfect father.

1532
00:54:22,900 --> 00:54:25,219
The the Psalms got it right. Trust and

1533
00:54:25,219 --> 00:54:27,300
obey because there's no other way to be

1534
00:54:27,300 --> 00:54:29,460
happy in Jesus but to trust and obey.

1535
00:54:29,460 --> 00:54:32,275
Right. Amen. Right. And, you know, we talk

1536
00:54:32,275 --> 00:54:34,535
about worship and we talk about the you

1537
00:54:34,914 --> 00:54:37,635
know, most churches sing for their collective worship.

1538
00:54:37,635 --> 00:54:39,555
That's how they get kind of in in

1539
00:54:39,555 --> 00:54:40,295
that mindset.

1540
00:54:41,075 --> 00:54:43,155
Stop and think about what you're singing sometimes.

1541
00:54:43,155 --> 00:54:45,119
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sometime when you're having those

1542
00:54:45,119 --> 00:54:46,719
songs and you're sitting there and you're singing

1543
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:48,960
amazing grace Yeah. Or you're singing trust and

1544
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:50,099
obey or you're singing,

1545
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:53,519
you know, whatever it is, victory in Jesus,

1546
00:54:53,519 --> 00:54:54,019
goodness.

1547
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:56,880
Yeah. Just stop and think about what you're

1548
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:59,144
talking about. And I go back to what

1549
00:54:59,385 --> 00:55:01,065
Solomon said. He said, Fear the Lord, keep

1550
00:55:01,065 --> 00:55:02,585
His commandments, for that is the whole duty

1551
00:55:02,585 --> 00:55:03,965
of man. We're here

1552
00:55:04,425 --> 00:55:05,244
for worship.

1553
00:55:05,625 --> 00:55:07,085
That's what we're here for.

1554
00:55:07,465 --> 00:55:08,284
And I'm like,

1555
00:55:08,744 --> 00:55:10,425
why do we let the things of the

1556
00:55:10,425 --> 00:55:12,824
world just weigh us down? There's a difference

1557
00:55:12,824 --> 00:55:14,260
between singing and praising.

1558
00:55:14,639 --> 00:55:16,559
It really is. Right. And and that's why

1559
00:55:16,559 --> 00:55:18,159
that's why I think that's why people like

1560
00:55:18,159 --> 00:55:19,679
the old songs so much because you've already

1561
00:55:19,679 --> 00:55:21,519
memorized all the words and you can just

1562
00:55:21,519 --> 00:55:23,440
praise. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Yeah. You don't

1563
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:24,789
have to look at the book so much,

1564
00:55:24,789 --> 00:55:25,454
you know, but

1565
00:55:26,255 --> 00:55:28,815
you know, but I just whatever it is,

1566
00:55:28,815 --> 00:55:31,055
no new, you know, if it if it

1567
00:55:31,055 --> 00:55:32,755
lifts up the name of Jesus,

1568
00:55:33,454 --> 00:55:35,135
that's what I wanna do. That's what I

1569
00:55:35,135 --> 00:55:37,215
wanna do. And and and I think we

1570
00:55:37,215 --> 00:55:37,715
get

1571
00:55:38,250 --> 00:55:40,090
we get called up in the monotony of

1572
00:55:40,090 --> 00:55:42,010
knowing the song too sometimes, you know, and

1573
00:55:42,010 --> 00:55:44,670
just like ta ta ta ta ta ta

1574
00:55:44,809 --> 00:55:47,210
ta ta. Oh, yeah. You know, that that's

1575
00:55:47,210 --> 00:55:49,289
all that's all we hear. Remember Hermann Parr

1576
00:55:49,289 --> 00:55:50,730
was here one time. We talked about being

1577
00:55:50,730 --> 00:55:52,304
in a church service. Well, they took they

1578
00:55:52,304 --> 00:55:53,905
took out him and drug it up one

1579
00:55:53,905 --> 00:55:55,204
aisle and down the other.

1580
00:55:55,905 --> 00:55:57,045
But, you know,

1581
00:55:57,505 --> 00:56:00,065
and sometimes we think of him, a hymn's

1582
00:56:00,065 --> 00:56:02,304
gonna start, you know, gonna bring revival too

1583
00:56:02,304 --> 00:56:04,224
and Yeah. You know, but it it really

1584
00:56:04,224 --> 00:56:06,144
is is the place of our heart when

1585
00:56:06,144 --> 00:56:07,320
we're singing that hymn.

1586
00:56:08,199 --> 00:56:10,140
I know there's been songs where

1587
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:12,380
our in our church

1588
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:14,760
where it's just really broke out and broke

1589
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,719
there's people praising, lifting their hands up, and

1590
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:18,219
just

1591
00:56:18,599 --> 00:56:21,480
worshiping, you know, whatever, new old song, whatever

1592
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:22,140
it is.

1593
00:56:22,594 --> 00:56:23,734
And and then,

1594
00:56:25,074 --> 00:56:27,795
I've had people that they requested almost every

1595
00:56:27,795 --> 00:56:29,335
Sunday, you know, and I'm like,

1596
00:56:29,714 --> 00:56:31,714
it's not about that song. You know? I

1597
00:56:31,714 --> 00:56:33,315
mean, that's a good song and it and

1598
00:56:33,315 --> 00:56:35,859
it reminds us of these things, but but

1599
00:56:35,859 --> 00:56:38,019
just because that worked last week doesn't mean

1600
00:56:38,019 --> 00:56:39,619
it's the song that's gonna set a solid

1601
00:56:39,619 --> 00:56:41,619
fire this week. It's not a formula to

1602
00:56:41,780 --> 00:56:44,920
Yeah. Jesus. The formula to Jesus is to

1603
00:56:45,699 --> 00:56:47,639
get in his word, to pray

1604
00:56:47,964 --> 00:56:51,085
and and and to just love him. Worship

1605
00:56:51,085 --> 00:56:53,324
him. Right? Yeah. Meditate on him. Yeah. You

1606
00:56:53,324 --> 00:56:55,324
know? Yeah. They did not. I was listening

1607
00:56:55,324 --> 00:56:57,005
to some, Charles Stanley sermons,

1608
00:56:57,324 --> 00:56:59,085
several weeks ago, and he was talking about

1609
00:56:59,085 --> 00:57:01,179
meditation. And and I thought, man, how little

1610
00:57:01,179 --> 00:57:03,579
meditation to actually do over over God's word.

1611
00:57:03,579 --> 00:57:05,420
I'll read it, and I'll study it. I'll

1612
00:57:05,420 --> 00:57:06,780
look at words, and I'll, you know, and

1613
00:57:06,780 --> 00:57:08,619
I'll try to consider all the things, but

1614
00:57:08,619 --> 00:57:10,300
but just sit down like with one verse,

1615
00:57:10,300 --> 00:57:12,219
it just really hits you hard, and just

1616
00:57:12,219 --> 00:57:14,324
think on it for a day or 2.

1617
00:57:14,484 --> 00:57:16,324
Yeah. Yeah. You know and just dwell on

1618
00:57:16,324 --> 00:57:17,784
it. Chew on it. Yeah.

1619
00:57:18,444 --> 00:57:18,944
Yeah.

1620
00:57:19,605 --> 00:57:21,125
Yeah. To slock a dry piece of gum

1621
00:57:21,125 --> 00:57:21,945
in your mouth.

1622
00:57:22,644 --> 00:57:24,644
But it but it never gets dry. That's

1623
00:57:24,644 --> 00:57:25,144
right.

1624
00:57:25,605 --> 00:57:27,364
And that's the thing the word of God

1625
00:57:27,364 --> 00:57:29,545
for us it it it should be

1626
00:57:29,889 --> 00:57:31,969
like the air we breathe. Yeah. I mean,

1627
00:57:31,969 --> 00:57:34,210
it's something we should crave. I mean, people

1628
00:57:34,210 --> 00:57:35,750
don't think about craving

1629
00:57:36,289 --> 00:57:38,210
air, but think about what would happen if

1630
00:57:38,210 --> 00:57:41,190
you didn't have it. Yeah. Yeah. You're dead

1631
00:57:41,250 --> 00:57:43,250
pretty quick. It doesn't take long to to

1632
00:57:43,250 --> 00:57:43,750
suffocate.

1633
00:57:44,885 --> 00:57:46,164
Why are we not treating the word of

1634
00:57:46,164 --> 00:57:47,764
God that way? Yeah. You wanna know

1635
00:57:48,804 --> 00:57:50,565
and going back to revival, you wanna know

1636
00:57:50,565 --> 00:57:51,864
how to have revival breakout?

1637
00:57:52,484 --> 00:57:54,085
That's the thing that we as Christians have

1638
00:57:54,085 --> 00:57:56,085
gotta do. We've got to stress, and we've

1639
00:57:56,085 --> 00:57:58,025
got to get discipline to remember.

1640
00:57:58,449 --> 00:58:00,849
We should crave the word of God because

1641
00:58:00,849 --> 00:58:01,829
that is life.

1642
00:58:02,130 --> 00:58:04,610
Yeah. Yeah. That is that's everything to us.

1643
00:58:04,610 --> 00:58:06,369
And if we will do that, we will

1644
00:58:06,369 --> 00:58:07,910
dig in. We will get that.

1645
00:58:08,289 --> 00:58:09,510
And, yeah, memorizing,

1646
00:58:10,369 --> 00:58:11,429
but more importantly,

1647
00:58:11,835 --> 00:58:13,514
applying it to your life. You can go

1648
00:58:13,514 --> 00:58:15,755
through and memorize the whole Bible. And if

1649
00:58:15,755 --> 00:58:18,014
you never apply any of it Yeah.

1650
00:58:18,394 --> 00:58:20,795
That was a worthless exercise. It's knowledge. Yeah.

1651
00:58:20,795 --> 00:58:22,795
It's knowledge. It's it's no different than knowing

1652
00:58:22,795 --> 00:58:24,679
how to calculate pi. Congratulations.

1653
00:58:25,059 --> 00:58:27,059
You you know something. Yeah. Good for you.

1654
00:58:27,059 --> 00:58:29,139
But dive in there and apply it to

1655
00:58:29,139 --> 00:58:31,960
our lives and take it out and don't

1656
00:58:32,179 --> 00:58:33,000
be afraid.

1657
00:58:33,460 --> 00:58:35,699
That is the one thing as Christians, we've

1658
00:58:35,699 --> 00:58:38,900
got to stop being afraid. Amen. Because that's

1659
00:58:38,900 --> 00:58:40,835
how a revival is gonna break out in

1660
00:58:40,835 --> 00:58:42,594
our churches. A revival is gonna break out

1661
00:58:42,594 --> 00:58:44,675
in our families, and revival will break out

1662
00:58:44,675 --> 00:58:47,074
in this country Yeah. If we stop being

1663
00:58:47,074 --> 00:58:47,574
timid.

1664
00:58:47,875 --> 00:58:49,554
And I'm not saying go out and start

1665
00:58:49,554 --> 00:58:50,694
fights over things,

1666
00:58:51,315 --> 00:58:53,954
but good lord, be willing to say, you

1667
00:58:53,954 --> 00:58:55,840
know what? I am a Christian. I'm a

1668
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:57,139
child of the living God,

1669
00:58:57,679 --> 00:58:59,599
and I'm not gonna back down. Amen. And

1670
00:58:59,599 --> 00:59:01,599
that should be I hope everybody can take

1671
00:59:01,599 --> 00:59:02,500
that, and that's

1672
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:05,119
make that your prayer this week. Don't be

1673
00:59:05,119 --> 00:59:08,045
afraid to step up and say, I'm not

1674
00:59:08,045 --> 00:59:10,605
going to move Amen. On these things that

1675
00:59:10,605 --> 00:59:12,125
God has called us not to move on.

1676
00:59:12,125 --> 00:59:13,904
Amen. Let me say this. If

1677
00:59:14,204 --> 00:59:15,344
if you heard this,

1678
00:59:15,964 --> 00:59:17,484
if you had a chance to listen to

1679
00:59:17,484 --> 00:59:18,625
the podcast tonight,

1680
00:59:19,650 --> 00:59:21,650
and and maybe it blessed you in some

1681
00:59:21,650 --> 00:59:24,050
way, maybe it blessed your heart. Again, not

1682
00:59:24,050 --> 00:59:26,289
for us, but I I I wanna get

1683
00:59:26,289 --> 00:59:27,670
the word out. I want,

1684
00:59:28,210 --> 00:59:29,889
and that we wanna get the word out.

1685
00:59:29,889 --> 00:59:31,190
We want people to hear

1686
00:59:31,585 --> 00:59:32,324
the gospel.

1687
00:59:32,864 --> 00:59:34,704
We want people to know what revival is.

1688
00:59:34,704 --> 00:59:36,625
We want people to know who Jesus is

1689
00:59:36,625 --> 00:59:38,785
most of all, and, and that he is

1690
00:59:38,785 --> 00:59:40,005
the source of that revival.

1691
00:59:40,704 --> 00:59:42,704
And so if if you were able to

1692
00:59:42,704 --> 00:59:43,920
listen to it on,

1693
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:46,319
one of one of your streaming networks and

1694
00:59:46,319 --> 00:59:48,500
you're able to share that on Facebook or,

1695
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:49,940
you know, YouTube,

1696
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:52,400
post it, whatever, you know, we'd love for

1697
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:54,319
you to do that and, just get the

1698
00:59:54,319 --> 00:59:56,099
word of God out any way you can.

1699
00:59:56,545 --> 00:59:57,525
Yes. Absolutely.

1700
00:59:57,985 --> 00:59:59,824
And that brings us down pretty close to

1701
00:59:59,824 --> 01:00:01,844
our our hour for tonight. So,

1702
01:00:02,704 --> 01:00:04,304
who would like to pray us out? Go

1703
01:00:04,304 --> 01:00:05,045
ahead, brother.

1704
01:00:05,505 --> 01:00:07,445
Father, thank you. Thank you for

1705
01:00:08,144 --> 01:00:10,545
your goodness, your goodness to us. Father, we

1706
01:00:10,545 --> 01:00:12,500
love you so much, and we trust

1707
01:00:13,199 --> 01:00:14,880
you. We know that you are the perfect

1708
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:17,039
father, that you want only what the best

1709
01:00:17,039 --> 01:00:19,199
is for your children. And father, we trust

1710
01:00:19,199 --> 01:00:21,760
in that. We count on that. You are

1711
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:22,420
our hope.

1712
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:25,525
Father, I pray for anyone listening who who

1713
01:00:25,525 --> 01:00:27,724
who has found themselves far away from You,

1714
01:00:27,724 --> 01:00:29,724
Father, that they would return to You, that

1715
01:00:29,724 --> 01:00:30,304
You would

1716
01:00:30,605 --> 01:00:33,324
you would, revive their soul, revive their heart,

1717
01:00:33,324 --> 01:00:35,565
Father, to to to let them see with

1718
01:00:35,565 --> 01:00:37,884
a fresh view of how how beautiful You

1719
01:00:37,884 --> 01:00:40,284
really are and how how much You love

1720
01:00:40,284 --> 01:00:40,679
us.

1721
01:00:41,239 --> 01:00:42,760
Father, I pray for anyone who might be

1722
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:44,839
listening who's not who doesn't know Your love

1723
01:00:44,839 --> 01:00:46,760
and Your beauty, that, Father, You would touch

1724
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:49,000
them for the first time. Father, don't let

1725
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:51,659
them sleep until they've responded to You, Father.

1726
01:00:52,119 --> 01:00:53,880
Give them eyes to see and ears to

1727
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:56,664
hear this beautiful, glorious gospel that you've given

1728
01:00:56,664 --> 01:00:59,144
us. Father, thank you. I pray for your

1729
01:00:59,144 --> 01:01:01,385
blessings on these guys sitting here tonight and

1730
01:01:01,385 --> 01:01:04,605
on everyone listening. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.

1731
01:01:04,664 --> 01:01:05,164
Amen.

1732
01:01:06,264 --> 01:01:08,204
Special thank you to Carter Pridemore,

1733
01:01:23,825 --> 01:01:24,325
listening.