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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE TUNING
IN. SOME OF YOU, THIS MAY BE
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YOUR VERY FIRST TIME SO
STAY TUNED AND STAY WITH US
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AS WE SING SOME SONGS AND
WE STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER.
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AND IF THIS IS NOT YOUR FIRST
TIME AND YOU JOIN US EVERY WEEK,
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A SPECIAL
WELCOME TO YOU AS WELL.
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AND WE ARE SO GLAD THAT YOU
ARE PART OF OUR EXTENDED FAMILY
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AROUND THE WORLD AND WE KNOW
THAT THERE ARE MANY OF YOU AND
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IT'S VERY EXCITING AND I KNOW
THAT ONE DAY WE WILL ALL GET TO
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MEET TOGETHER ON THE STREETS OF
GOLD AND HAVE A SPECIAL CENTRAL
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STUDY HOUR REUNION. AND
I HOPE THAT WE WILL ALL BE
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THERE AND WE'LL SING SONGS AND
HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME IN HEAVEN.
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WE'RE GOING TO START, LIKE
WE USUALLY DO, SINGING YOUR
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FAVORITES AND
TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION.
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#183 IS OUR FIRST SONG.
'I WILL SING OF JESUS' LOVE'.
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THIS IS FROM KENYON AND FELICIA
IN AUSTRALIA, THE JERVIS FAMILY
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IN THE BAHAMAS, MAX AND PEDRO IN
BARBADOS, AMEIDI AND ALCIRO IN
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BELIZE, RUSSELL IN BOTSWANA,
DAWN IN THE BRITISH VIRGIN
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ISLANDS, JUBETH IN CANADA,
JUDITH IN ENGLAND, MAISIE AND
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KARL IN FRANCE, KATHRINA IN
GUAM, DAVE IN INDIANA, CAMILLE,
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MERLYN AND JUDY IN JAMAICA,
NATASHA IN MARYLAND, ARELU IN
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NIGERIA, SANDY, VERN, JAMIE AND
JENNY IN NORTH CAROLINA, MARVIN
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IN PANAMA, VINCE, JEZER
AND RICARDO IN THE PHILIPPINES,
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MARSHA IN ST. LUCIA, BRITTNEY,
CHELSEA AND ALWYN IN ST. VINCENT
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AND THE GRENADINES, AND STEPHEN
AND LYSTRA IN TRINIDAD AND
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TOBAGO. ALL THREE STANZAS -
'I WILL SING OF JESUS' LOVE'.
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THOSE OF YOU AT HOME, SING LOUD
- WE WANT TO HEAR YOU AS WELL.
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(MUSIC)
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
SENDING IN THAT REQUEST.
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WE LOVE HEARING FROM EACH ONE
OF YOU. WHETHER YOU'RE LISTENING
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ON THE RADIO, WATCHING LIVE AT
OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG'
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OR ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION
NETWORKS, YOU SEND IN YOUR SONG
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REQUESTS AND IF YOU
HAVE ONE IT'S SO SIMPLE.
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ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GO TO
OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG',
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CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK
AND YOU CAN PICK ANY SONG IN THE
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ADVENTIST HYMNAL AND WE WILL
DO OUR BEST TO SING THAT FOR YOU
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SOONER RATHER THAN LATER.
OUR NEW SONG, AS WE CONTINUE OUR
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WAY THROUGH THE HYMNAL IS #61
- 'GOD IS HERE'. THIS IS A VERY
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PRETTY SONG AND IT'S AN EASY
TUNE SO I THINK YOU'RE GOING
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TO ENJOY THIS ONE. YOU NOTICE
THAT WE ARE ALMOST DONE WITH THE
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SECTION 'OPENING OF WORSHIP'.
WE HAVE TWO MORE SONGS AND THEN
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IT'S 'THE CLOSE OF WORSHIP'.
SO WE'RE TRUCKING RIGHT ALONG.
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#61 - 'GOD IS HERE' -
WE'LL DO ALL FOUR STANZAS.
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(MUSIC)
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>>WASN'T THAT PRETTY? DID
YOU PAY ATTENTION TO THOSE WORDS
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ON THAT LAST STANZA?
'KEEP US FAITHFUL TO THE GOSPEL,
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HELP US WORK YOUR PURPOSE OUT,
HERE IN THIS DAY'S DEDICATION,
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AS WE ALL HAVE TO GIVE - RECEIVE
- WE WHO CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT
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YOU, WE ADORE YOU, WE BELIEVE'
- BEAUTIFUL SONG AND JOYCE IN
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NAIROBI, KENYA REQUESTED THAT
ONE AS WELL. AT THIS TIME LET'S
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BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER.
FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE KNOW THAT
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YOU ARE HERE AND WE KNOW ALSO
THAT WE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU.
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I KNOW WE TRY, MANY TIMES, AND
WE THINK THAT WE CAN DO IT ON
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OUR OWN BUT THAT'S NOT THE
REALITY AND WE DO NEED YOU.
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WE NEED YOU DESPERATELY AND I
PRAY THAT TODAY YOU WOULD FILL
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US WITH YOUR SPIRIT, THAT YOU
WOULD SOFTEN OUR HEARTS AND HELP
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US TO BE VESSELS THAT CAN BE
USED BY YOU TO REACH THIS DYING
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WORLD. THANK YOU FOR LOVING
US - FOR NOT GIVING UP ON US.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PASTOR
DOUG AND HIS MINISTRY HERE AT
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CENTRAL AND AROUND THE WORLD.
I PRAY THAT YOU'LL BE WITH HIM
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AS HE BRINGS US OUR
LESSON STUDY. AND BE WITH OUR
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EXTENDED FAMILY AROUND THE
WORLD. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS
GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR
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SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO
CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
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CHURCH, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>THANK YOU DEBBIE AND
MUSICIANS. I REALLY SHOULD BE
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ABLE TO CLAIM ONE OF
THOSE SONGS THAT WAS REQUESTED.
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I DON'T EVER SEND THEM IN, BUT
'I WILL SING OF JESUS' LOVE' IS
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ONE OF MY FAVORITES SO PUT
MY NAME DOWN. HAPPY SABBATH
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EVERYBODY. GOOD TO SEE
YOU HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH.
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A NICE COOL DAY IN SACRAMENTO
AND IT'S BEEN FUN LISTENING TO
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PEOPLE ON THE NEWS ALL KIND OF
BEMOAN AND COMMISERATE ABOUT THE
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HEAT WAVE AND I THINK TO
MYSELF, 'WELL, IT'S SUMMER.
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THAT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR, DOESN'T
IT?' IT SEEMS TO GET HOT HERE.
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THERE'S A LITTLE WHILE -
WE'VE GOT A FEW WEEKS EVERY YEAR
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IN SACRAMENTO WHERE OUR ASPHALT
SORT OF LIQUEFIES AND A SEATBELT
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WILL DOUBLE AS A BRANDING IRON
AND YOU JUST KNOW IT'S GOING TO
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HAPPEN ONCE A YEAR. BUT
WE'RE GLAD THE CHURCH IS
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AIR-CONDITIONED, AMEN?
WE'RE GOING THROUGH OUR NEW
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QUARTERLY HERE DEALING
WITH REVIVAL AND REFORMATION.
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IF YOU'RE VISITING CENTRAL
TODAY, YOU'LL WONDER WHY WE'RE
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SO FAR AHEAD. IT'S
BECAUSE OF THE TV BROADCAST.
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WE STUDY OUR LESSON THREE WEEKS
IN ADVANCE OF THE REST OF THE
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COUNTRY. WE LIKE TO
STAY ON THE CUTTING EDGE.
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BUT THAT ACTUALLY GIVES US TIME
TO EDIT THE PROGRAM, WE PUT IN
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SUBTITLES AND THEN SEND IT
ON TO THE VARIOUS SATELLITES.
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TODAY WE'RE DEALING WITH LESSON
3, 'THE WORD: THE FOUNDATION OF
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REVIVAL' AND BEFORE WE GET
INTO TODAY'S LESSON, WE'VE GOT A
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STUDY GUIDE THAT WE
WILL OFFER FOR FREE.
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AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE POWER OF
THE WORD TO TRANSFORM AND IT'S
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CALLED, 'A LOVE
THAT TRANSFORMS'.
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IF YOU CALL THE FREE - CALL THE
NUMBER ON THE SCREEN - IT'S A
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TOLL FREE NUMBER -
866-STUDY-MORE - THAT'S
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866-788-3966. MAKE
SURE AND ASK FOR OFFER #710
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WHEN YOU CALL.
WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FREE.
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AND I LIKE THESE
LESSONS - IT'S NOT JUST A BOOK.
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IF IT WASN'T FOR COMIC BOOKS,
I NEVER WOULD HAVE LEARNED TO
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READ, BUT THESE HAVE PICTURES
- AND I'M NOT RECOMMENDING COMIC
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BOOKS, BUT I LIKE -
BECAUSE THEY'RE ILLUSTRATED.
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I'M A VERY VISUAL
PERSON SO YOU'LL ENJOY THAT.
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AFTER YOU READ IT, PLEASE SEND
IT OR GIVE IT TO SOMEONE ELSE
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AND IT WILL BE A
BLESSING TO THEM AS WELL.
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AND I WANT TO JUST MAKE A COUPLE
OF NOTES HERE AT THE BEGINNING
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OF OUR CLASS. ONE IS
THAT THE VARIOUS TEACHERS
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- MYSELF AND THE OTHER PASTORS
- SOMETIMES GUEST TEACHERS THAT
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TEACH HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH,
WE OFTEN HAVE NOTES AND WE PUT
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THESE UP. NOT ONLY
CAN YOU FIND THEM AT
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'SACCENTRAL.ORG' BUT
'AMAZINGFACTS.ORG' SO IF YOU'RE
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INTERESTED IN THE SABBATH SCHOOL
NOTES THAT WENT ALONG WITH OUR
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PRESENTATION - SOMETIMES THERE'S
A LOT MORE MATERIAL HERE.
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THAT'S THE CASE WITH MY LESSON
TODAY. I'M SURE THERE'S A LOT
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MORE MATERIAL IN MY NOTES THAN
I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO SHARE.
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BUT SOME OF THE OTHERS WATCHING
ALSO ARE TEACHERS AND IF YOU'D
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LIKE THOSE, YOU'RE WELCOME TO
THEM AND JUST GO TO THE SABBATH
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SCHOOL LINK - BOTH AT CENTRAL
CHURCH AND AMAZING FACTS AND
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YOU'LL FIND THE VARIOUS NOTES.
I ALSO WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO
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ARE PART OF THE CENTRAL
CHURCH AROUND THE WORLD.
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WE HAVE MEMBERS ALL OVER THE
COUNTRY AND ALL OVER THE PLANET
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THAT DO NOT HAVE A LOCAL CHURCH
THEY'RE ABLE TO ATTEND AND WE
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JUST LIKE TO PROVIDE A WAY FOR
THEM TO CONNECT WITH A CHURCH
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FAMILY.
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MAYBE YOU'RE IN THAT CATEGORY
AND YOU'RE WATCHING ON THE
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INTERNET OR SATELLITE AND YOU'D
LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT 'HOW DO
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I BECOME PART OF THE CENTRAL
CHURCH' OR 'THE ADVENTIST
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CHURCH?' WE'D LIKE
TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT
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THAT AND JUST E-MAIL
US AND WE'LL LET YOU KNOW.
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ALRIGHT, INTO OUR LESSON,
'THE WORD: THE FOUNDATION FOR
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REVIVAL'. DO YOU THINK WE NEED
REVIVAL? WE DO, AS A CHURCH.
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AND THERE ARE TIMES WHEN
THE CHURCH IS JUST FULL OF THE
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SPIRIT, THEY'RE ON FIRE, FULL OF
ZEAL, AND THEY'RE OUT DOING THE
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WORK OF THE LORD. AND THEN THERE
ARE TIMES WHEN THE CHURCH SEEMS
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TO KIND OF GO THROUGH
A TROUGH OF SPIRITUALITY.
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IF YOU LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF
GOD'S PEOPLE, THERE WERE TIMES
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WHEN THEY WERE ON FIRE, CLOSE TO
THE LORD, FIGHTING GOD'S BATTLES
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AND THEN THERE WERE TIMES WHEN
EVERY MAN DID WHAT WAS RIGHT IN
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THEIR OWN EYES AND
THEY WENT DOWN SPIRITUALLY.
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IN THE VARYING EBBS AND FLOWS OF
SPIRITUAL CONDITION, YOU READ IN
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THE SEVEN CHURCHES, REVELATION
CHAPTER 2 AND 3 THERE WAS THE
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CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA -
THE CHURCH OF BROTHERLY LOVE.
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THERE WAS THE CHURCH OF SARDIS
- GREAT PERSECUTION BUT GREAT
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DEDICATION. THEN THERE'S THE
CHURCH OF THYATIRA - LOW POINT -
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AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE
CHURCH OF LAODICEA - LOW POINT.
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HISTORICALLY, WE ARE LIVING IN
A SPIRITUALLY LOW POINT BEFORE A
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TIME OF GREAT REVIVAL
JUST BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK.
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SO IS THERE ANYTHING WE CAN DO?
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IS GOD JUST WATCHING HIS CLOCK
AND SAYS, 'WHEN WE GET TO A
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CERTAIN POINT IN HISTORY ON THE
CALENDAR, I'M GOING TO SEND THE
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HOLY SPIRIT AND
REVIVE EVERYBODY.
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ARE WE WAITING ON GOD
OR IS GOD WAITING ON US?
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GOD, THROUGH JESUS, SENT
THE HOLY SPIRIT 2,000 YEARS AGO.
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HE NEVER RETRACTED OR
WITHDREW THAT PROMISE.
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BUT WE, THROUGH NEGLECT, AS
THE CHURCH HAVE GONE THROUGH
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EPISODES OF DRIFTING FROM GOD -
BACKSLIDING - AND WHEN YOU'RE IN
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ONE OF THOSE TIMES OF - IS THERE
SUCH A WORD AS BACKSLIDDENNESS?
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SOMEONE WRITE IT
DOWN, IT'LL BE ON GOOGLE.
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IF YOU'RE IN ONE OF THOSE TIMES
OF BACKSLIDDENNESS, WHICH WE ARE
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NOW, THEN THE CHURCH SOMETIMES
NEEDS A WAKE UP AND WE CAN DO
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THINGS THAT WILL ENCOURAGE
INVITING THE SPIRIT AND
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INSTIGATING REVIVAL.
ONE OF THOSE VERY IMPORTANT
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THINGS IS THE WORD OF GOD. NOW
LET'S GO TO OUR MEMORY VERSE.
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THE MEMORY VERSE IS FOUND IN
PSALMS 119, VERSE 154 - PSALM
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119, VERSE 154 - YOU WANT TO SAY
THAT WITH ME? "PLEAD MY CAUSE
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AND REDEEM ME; REVIVE
ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD."
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REVIVAL CAN COME
THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD.
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WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE BIBLE, IF
YOU WERE TO SAY, 'WHERE IN THE
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BIBLE DO WE SEE THE
GREATEST SINGLE REVIVAL?'
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WHAT WOULD BE YOUR GUESS?
I ALREADY KNOW WHAT I THINK.
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I WONDER IF ANY OF
YOU THINK SOMETHING.
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ANY OF YOU THINKING
ANYTHING? DON'T BE THOUGHTLESS,
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THINK SOMETHING. WHERE
IN THE BIBLE DO YOU SEE
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THERE - DID I HEAR
- NINEVEH - I AGREE.
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THAT'S WHAT I WOULD SAY - JONAH.
YOU KNOW HOW THAT BOOK BEGINS?
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'NOW THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME
TO JONAH'. FIRST JONAH RUNS FROM
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GOD, LATER HE SURRENDERS AFTER
THE DETOUR THROUGH THE FISH.
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AND AGAIN IT SAYS, 'AND THE
WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JONAH'.
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AND JONAH FINALLY GETS TO
NINEVEH, HE ENTERS THE CITY, AND
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HE BEGINS TO DECLARE THE WORD
THAT GOD HAD GIVEN HIM - THE
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WORD OF THE LORD - AND
YOU HAVE THE GREATEST REVIVAL.
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THE KING, THE COMMONER, THE
RICH, THE POOR, THE ANIMALS -
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EVERYBODY REPENTS AND THERE
IS A GREAT REVIVAL AND THEY ARE
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SAVED. WHAT BROUGHT IT
ABOUT? PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD.
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NOW THERE, THE WORD OF GOD FOR
THEM WAS 'REPENT - FORTY DAYS
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GOD'S GOING TO
DESTROY THE CITY.'
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HE TALKED TO THEM ABOUT THEIR
SINS NO DOUBT - THAT WAS THE
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SUMMARY OF HIS PROCLAMATION BUT
HE WENT THROUGH THE CITY AND HE
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PREACHED A MESSAGE OF
COMING JUDGMENT. BUT THROUGH THE
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PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD,
THERE WAS A GREAT REVIVAL.
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IF YOU LOOK IN YOUR BIBLES - NOW
THIS IS NOT IN MY NOTES SO I'VE
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GOT TO LOOK REAL QUICK HERE - GO
TO MATTHEW CHAPTER NINE AND IN
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MATTHEW 9 YOU SORT OF HAVE
A SUMMARY OF THE MINISTRY OF
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JESUS. VERSE 35 - MATTHEW 9,
VERSE 35, "AND JESUS WENT ABOUT
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ALL THE CITIES AND THE VILLAGES,
TEACHING IN THE SYNAGOGUES,
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PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF
THE KINGDOM, AND HEALING EVERY
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SICKNESS AND EVERY
DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE."
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HERE THIS IS A GREAT
VERSE BECAUSE IT SUMMARIZES THE
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PRIORITIES OF CHRIST'S MINISTRY.
YOU NOTICE THERE'S A HEALING
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MINISTRY SO HEALTH
SHOULD BE PART OF IT.
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THERE'S A TEACHING MINISTRY
AND THERE'S A PREACHING OR
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PROCLAMATION MINISTRY AND YOU
NOTICE HE HAS A COUNTRY MINISTRY
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- THROUGH THE VILLAGES - AND IT
SAYS HE WENT INTO THE CITIES -
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HE'S GOT A CITY MINISTRY AND YOU
NOTICE THAT HE DOES IT IN THE
00:20:15.00\00:20:18.90
CHURCHES AND HE ALSO
DOES IT IN THE FIELDS.
00:20:18.90\00:20:22.93
SO THERE'S SOMETHING
THAT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN IN THE
00:20:22.93\00:20:24.46
CONTEXT OF WORSHIP AND HE ALSO
DOES IT OUT ON THE HILLSIDE IN
00:20:24.46\00:20:27.46
THE MEADOWS. THIS
ENCOMPASSES JESUS' MINISTRY.
00:20:27.46\00:20:30.40
BUT, YOU NOTICE, TEACHING AND
PREACHING - WOULD ANYONE DOUBT
00:20:30.40\00:20:34.53
THAT A GREAT REVIVAL CAME
BECAUSE OF CHRIST'S MINISTRY?
00:20:34.53\00:20:37.90
WAS IT - WELL, LET ME SAY IT
THIS WAY, WHAT WAS IT - DID THE
00:20:37.90\00:20:43.53
WORD PLAY A LARGE ROLE IN THE
REVIVAL THAT CAME THROUGH THE
00:20:43.53\00:20:47.93
MINISTRY OF CHRIST? WAS
THE CHURCH AT A SPIRITUAL
00:20:47.93\00:20:50.93
HIGH POINT OR LOW POINT
WHEN JESUS CAME? LOW POINT.
00:20:50.93\00:20:55.40
'WOE TO YOU SCRIBES
AND PHARISEES, HYPOCRITES!'
00:20:55.40\00:20:58.80
IT WAS ALL EXTERNAL RELIGION. IT
WAS A FIG TREE WITH LEAVES AND
00:20:58.80\00:21:03.20
NO FRUIT. IT WAS LIKE A KIND
OF A LAODICEAN CONDITION - THEY
00:21:03.20\00:21:07.66
THOUGHT THEY WERE RICH
AND INCREASED WITH GOODS.
00:21:07.66\00:21:09.36
WELL, WE'RE GOING
THROUGH THAT SAME THING NOW.
00:21:09.36\00:21:11.20
'YOU THINK YOU HAVE A NAME AND
YOU LIVE, BUT YOU'RE SPIRITUALLY
00:21:11.20\00:21:13.56
DEAD' WAS ANOTHER MESSAGE TO
THE CHURCH DURING A LOW POINT.
00:21:13.56\00:21:17.86
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME
- WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT SEVERAL
00:21:17.86\00:21:19.93
VERSES FROM PSALM 119 - I
THINK I GAVE SOMEBODY VERSE 153
00:21:19.93\00:21:24.73
AND 154. WHOSE HAND
IS THAT? RIGHT OVER HERE?
00:21:24.73\00:21:28.30
WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A
MOMENT BUT BEFORE WE DO, IN THE
00:21:28.30\00:21:32.66
TEACHINGS OF JESUS NOTICE -
MATTHEW CHAPTER 7, VERSES 24 AND
00:21:32.66\00:21:37.76
25 - WHEN CHRIST SUMMARIZES
HIS TEACHING - THE SERMON ON THE
00:21:37.76\00:21:42.20
MOUNT - HE SAID, 'THEREFORE,
WHOEVER HEARS THESE SAYINGS OF
00:21:42.20\00:21:46.26
MINE AND DOES THEM' - THESE
SAYINGS OF MINE - THE WORDS OF
00:21:46.26\00:21:50.76
CHRIST - 'I'LL LIKEN HIM TO A
WISE MAN WHO BUILDS HIS HOUSE ON
00:21:50.76\00:21:54.23
A ROCK AND THE RAIN DESCENDED
AND THE FLOODS CAME AND THE
00:21:54.23\00:21:56.86
WINDS BLEW AND BEAT ON THAT
HOUSE AND IT DID NOT FALL FOR IT
00:21:56.86\00:22:00.10
IS FOUNDED ON THE
ROCK.' AND WHAT IS THE ROCK?
00:22:00.10\00:22:03.13
'HE THAT HEARS THESE SAYINGS OF
MINE' - IT IS CHRIST, BUT MORE
00:22:03.13\00:22:07.03
SPECIFICALLY HIS WORD.
WHAT IS IT THAT BRINGS DOWN
00:22:07.03\00:22:12.60
GOLIATH? IT'S A STONE.
WHAT IS IT THAT BRINGS DOWN THE
00:22:12.60\00:22:18.70
IMAGE - THE IDOL
IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2?
00:22:18.70\00:22:22.10
STONE CUT OUT OF A
MOUNTAIN WITHOUT HANDS.
00:22:22.10\00:22:25.50
HOW DOES JESUS FIGHT THE
TEMPTATIONS OF THE DEVIL IN THE
00:22:25.50\00:22:27.86
WILDERNESS? 'IT IS WRITTEN.'
00:22:27.86\00:22:30.93
THE ROCK OF GOD'S WORD IS
WHAT BRINGS DOWN - WHAT ARE THE
00:22:30.93\00:22:35.10
TEN COMMANDMENTS WRITTEN ON?
STONE. WE ARE A SPIRITUAL HOUSE.
00:22:35.10\00:22:40.13
WE ARE LIVING STONES AND
JESUS IS THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.
00:22:40.13\00:22:45.50
THE WHOLE CHURCH IS BUILT
ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORD.
00:22:45.50\00:22:48.26
SO WHERE DO WE START AS A
PEOPLE? IF YOU TAKE THE BIBLE
00:22:48.26\00:22:50.76
AWAY FROM A CHURCH WHAT DO
THEY HAVE? THEY'VE GOT A CLUB.
00:22:50.76\00:22:54.90
YOU'VE GOT TO, YOU KNOW, CALL
IT ROTARY, MOOSE LODGE - CALL IT
00:22:54.90\00:22:59.26
ANYTHING YOU WANT, BUT IT'S
NOT A CHURCH ANYMORE, RIGHT?
00:22:59.26\00:23:03.53
THE WORD HAS TO BE THE
CONSTITUTION OF OUR CHURCH.
00:23:03.53\00:23:11.86
YOU KNOW - ALLOW A DETOUR
PLEASE. THIS WEEK - AND I KNOW
00:23:11.86\00:23:17.50
BY THE TIME IT BROADCASTS IT
WILL BE THREE WEEKS - BUT THIS
00:23:17.50\00:23:20.00
WEEK WE'VE GOTTEN A COUPLE OF
VERY IMPORTANT RULINGS FROM THE
00:23:20.00\00:23:22.93
SUPREME COURT AND, FOR
THE MOST PART, THEY ARE RATHER
00:23:22.93\00:23:27.03
DISAPPOINTING. FRANKLY, I THINK
THAT THE HIGHEST COURT IN THE
00:23:27.03\00:23:34.10
COUNTRY ISSUED SOME DECLARATIONS
THAT REFLECT COWARDICE.
00:23:34.10\00:23:40.20
THEY DID NOT DEAL WITH
THINGS THE WAY THEY SHOULD HAVE.
00:23:40.20\00:23:43.36
THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO UPHOLD
THE CONSTITUTION AND IT IS
00:23:43.36\00:23:48.60
ABSOLUTELY, PATENTLY CLEAR THAT
THE FRAMERS OF OUR CONSTITUTION
00:23:48.60\00:23:54.03
UNDERSTOOD THAT MARRIAGE WAS ONE
MAN, ONE WOMAN - MAN, WOMAN -
00:23:54.03\00:24:00.60
AND THAT'S THE CONTEXT IN WHICH
THE WORD MARRIAGE IS DEFINED.
00:24:00.60\00:24:04.90
BUT BECAUSE OF CULTURAL AND
MEDIA PRESSURE THEY DIDN'T WANT
00:24:04.90\00:24:11.00
TO MAKE THE TOUGH DECISION OF
SUPPORTING THE STATES THAT HAVE
00:24:11.00\00:24:14.73
SAID MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN - YOU
KNOW, IT'S A SHAME YOU EVEN NEED
00:24:14.73\00:24:17.86
TO SAY - NOT JUST MAN AND WOMAN
- THAT'S CLEAR ENOUGH - BUT WE
00:24:17.86\00:24:20.23
HAVE TO SAY ONE MAN AND
ONE WOMAN BECAUSE WE SEE WHAT'S
00:24:20.23\00:24:24.43
HAPPENING OTHER PLACES TOO.
IF THE FOUNDATIONS FAIL, WHAT
00:24:24.43\00:24:33.36
WILL THE PEOPLE DO? AND,
YOU KNOW, THAT'S ACTUALLY
00:24:33.36\00:24:36.16
IN THE BIBLE. WHEN
THE FOUNDATIONS CRUMBLE -
00:24:36.16\00:24:39.60
WELL, THE FOUNDATION
FOR THE CHURCH IS THE BIBLE.
00:24:39.60\00:24:42.86
THE FOUNDATION FOR OUR COUNTRY
IS THE CONSTITUTION AND BOTH ARE
00:24:42.86\00:24:45.53
AT RISK RIGHT NOW. ANYWAY,
I MIGHT SAY MORE ABOUT THE
00:24:45.53\00:24:48.13
POLITICAL THING LATER BUT
RIGHT NOW, LET'S GET BACK TO THE
00:24:48.13\00:24:52.50
BIBLE. PSALM 119 - I'LL
GET TO YOU IN JUST A MOMENT -
00:24:52.50\00:24:55.40
BUT PSALM 119, VERSE 25 -
WHAT'S THE LONGEST CHAPTER
00:24:55.40\00:24:59.70
IN THE BIBLE? PSALM
119. WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, 'I'VE
00:24:59.70\00:25:04.76
MEMORIZED A VERSE IN THE BIBLE,
THEY MEMORIZE 'JESUS WEPT' OR
00:25:04.76\00:25:10.56
'REJOICE FOREVERMORE' OR
SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND WHEN
00:25:10.56\00:25:14.20
THEY MEMORIZE A CHAPTER IN
THE BIBLE THEY'LL MEMORIZE PSALM
00:25:14.20\00:25:17.43
117, WHICH IS THE
SHORTEST CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE.
00:25:17.43\00:25:21.80
NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE HAVE PSALM
- I THINK I TOLD YOU, I WAS AT
00:25:21.80\00:25:24.30
CAMP MEETING AT OZARK - NO,
IT WAS IN MICHIGAN - I WAS AT
00:25:24.30\00:25:28.80
MICHIGAN CAMP
MEETING LAST WEEK, WOW! YEAH.
00:25:28.80\00:25:31.40
IT WAS GREAT, SOME KIDS GOT UP
AND THEY READ ALL OF MATTHEW 27
00:25:31.40\00:25:34.46
- THAT'S A LONG
CHAPTER - FROM MEMORY.
00:25:34.46\00:25:37.00
THEY MEMORIZED - ALL OF THEIR
CLASS HAD TO MEMORIZE ALL OF
00:25:37.00\00:25:39.10
MATTHEW CHAPTER 27 AND THERE
WERE ONLY FIVE OR SIX KIDS THAT
00:25:39.10\00:25:41.40
DID IT AND THEY
HAD BIG SECTIONS.
00:25:41.40\00:25:43.96
AND THEY DID
WONDERFUL. IT WAS INSPIRING.
00:25:43.96\00:25:46.20
MEMORIZE PSALM 119
AND YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING.
00:25:46.20\00:25:49.46
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT
THE CORE OF PSALM 119 IS?
00:25:49.46\00:25:53.43
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE
WORD. IT CALLS IT 'THE WORD'.
00:25:53.43\00:25:57.90
IT CALLS IT 'THE STATUTES'.
IT CALLS IT 'THE ORDINANCES'.
00:25:57.90\00:26:00.16
IT CALLS IT 'THE TESTIMONIES'.
IT CALLS IT 'THE WORD'.
00:26:00.16\00:26:02.76
IT CALLS IT 'THE LAW'.
IT USES ALL THESE DIFFERENT
00:26:02.76\00:26:05.50
WORDS TO TALK ABOUT 'THE WORD'.
AND SO, PSALM 119 IS ALL ABOUT
00:26:05.50\00:26:10.43
THE WORD OF GOD. AND
IT SAYS IN VERSE 25, "MY
00:26:10.43\00:26:14.46
SOUL CLINGS TO THE DUST; REVIVE
ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD."
00:26:14.46\00:26:19.43
THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM
OUR MEMORY VERSE, WHICH IS
00:26:19.43\00:26:21.40
VERSE 154. PSALM
119, VERSE 107, "I AM
00:26:21.40\00:26:26.13
AFFLICTED VERY MUCH; REVIVE ME,
O LORD, ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD."
00:26:26.13\00:26:31.86
AND THEN GO AHEAD READ FOR US -
I THINK WE'RE READY - PSALM 119
00:26:31.86\00:26:34.50
AND IT'S VERSES 153 AND 154.
>>"CONSIDER MY AFFLICTION AND
00:26:34.50\00:26:39.56
DELIVER ME, FOR I DO NOT
FORGET YOUR LAW. PLEAD MY CAUSE
00:26:39.56\00:26:43.96
AND REDEEM ME; REVIVE
ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD."
00:26:43.96\00:26:47.83
>>CAN YOU SEE IN THE BIBLE THAT
REVIVAL IS CONNECTED WITH AND
00:26:47.83\00:26:52.80
IT'S INTEGRAL
TO THE WORD OF GOD.
00:26:52.80\00:26:56.80
AND THE WORD OF GOD IS INTEGRAL
TO REVIVAL. SO IF YOU WANT
00:26:56.80\00:27:02.73
TO EXPERIENCE A REVIVAL, WHERE
DOES THAT OFTEN NEED TO BEGIN?
00:27:02.73\00:27:08.43
GOING TO A PLACE WHERE THE WORD
IS PROCLAIMED, PERSONAL BIBLE
00:27:08.43\00:27:12.40
STUDY, SURROUNDING YOURSELF WITH
- LISTENING TO THE WORD IN YOUR
00:27:12.40\00:27:17.23
DEVOTIONS AND THE
APPLICATION OF THE WORD.
00:27:17.23\00:27:21.10
AS YOU TAKE A STEP - WHEN YOU
HEAR SOMETHING FROM THE WORD OF
00:27:21.10\00:27:24.00
GOD AND YOU APPLY IT TO YOUR
LIVES, GOD WILL THEN REVEAL MORE
00:27:24.00\00:27:27.56
LIGHT AND MORE POWER TO DO
MORE. THAT'S WHAT REFORM MEANS.
00:27:27.56\00:27:32.66
YOU HEAR SOMETHING AND -
THE PROBLEM IS MANY OF US ARE
00:27:32.66\00:27:34.66
HEARERS OF THE
WORD BUT NOT DOERS.
00:27:34.66\00:27:37.26
SO IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HAVE
THE WORD COME ALIVE FOR YOU,
00:27:37.26\00:27:40.20
WALK IN THE LIGHT YOU
HAVE AND GOD'LL GIVE YOU MORE.
00:27:40.20\00:27:43.90
A LOT OF PEOPLE FEEL LIKE
THEY'VE COME TO A DEAD END IN
00:27:43.90\00:27:45.70
THEIR SPIRITUAL LIFE. CAN
I SUGGEST SOMETHING BOLDLY?
00:27:45.70\00:27:49.96
A LOT OF YOU WHO THINK, 'YOU
KNOW, I JUST DON'T GET ANYTHING
00:27:49.96\00:27:52.43
OUT OF THE BIBLE. I
JUST FEEL LIKE I'M AT A
00:27:52.43\00:27:54.56
CUL-DE-SAC. I'M NOT GROWING.'
IT OFTEN IS TRUE THAT GOD
00:27:54.56\00:27:59.60
REVEALED SOMETHING TO YOU THAT
YOU DIDN'T REALLY CARE TO DEAL
00:27:59.60\00:28:02.70
WITH AND THEN THINGS GOT QUIET.
BECAUSE IF GOD CONTINUES TO
00:28:02.70\00:28:08.60
REVEAL MORE TRUTH TO YOU AND
YOU'RE NOT WALKING IN THE TRUTH
00:28:08.60\00:28:11.30
HE HAS REVEALED TO YOU, ALL
YOU'RE DOING IS MAKING YOURSELF
00:28:11.30\00:28:15.10
MORE CULPABLE IN THE JUDGMENT
DAY, YOU SEE, BECAUSE YOU'RE
00:28:15.10\00:28:18.20
JUDGED ACCORDING
TO WHAT YOU KNOW.
00:28:18.20\00:28:20.20
AND IF GOD'S REVEALED TRUTH TO
YOU AND YOU'RE NOT FOLLOWING THE
00:28:20.20\00:28:22.40
TRUTH HE'S REVEALED, THE MORE
HE REVEALS TO YOU THAT YOU DON'T
00:28:22.40\00:28:25.43
DO, THE TOUGHER IT'S
GOING TO BE IN THE JUDGMENT.
00:28:25.43\00:28:28.43
BUT BECAUSE HE LOVES YOU HE
THINKS, 'LOOK, I DON'T WANT IT
00:28:28.43\00:28:29.96
TO BE ANY HARDER FOR THEM
IN THE JUDGMENT THAN IT IS.
00:28:29.96\00:28:32.10
THEY'RE NOT WALKING IN THE LIGHT
I'VE GIVEN THEM, WHY WOULD I
00:28:32.10\00:28:34.10
GIVE THEM MORE LIGHT?' AND
SO YOU END UP GETTING INTO A
00:28:34.10\00:28:37.63
DEAD CALM IN YOUR EXPERIENCE.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN BY THAT?
00:28:37.63\00:28:42.33
SAILBOAT GOING THROUGH THE
OCEAN, NO WIND, JUST GETS STUCK
00:28:42.33\00:28:44.66
IN THE DOLDRUMS - YOU DON'T GO
ANYWHERE. A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY,
00:28:44.66\00:28:48.30
'I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED,
YOU KNOW, I WISH GOD WOULD DO
00:28:48.30\00:28:50.40
SOMETHING. I NEED REVIVAL.'
YOU KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM IS?
00:28:50.40\00:28:53.16
HE SHARED SOMETHING FROM HIS
WORD AND YOU SAID, 'NAH, SHARE
00:28:53.16\00:28:57.06
SOMETHING ELSE. I'M
NOT INTERESTED IN THAT.
00:28:57.06\00:28:59.13
GIVE ME SOMETHING
NEW TO THINK ABOUT.'
00:28:59.13\00:29:02.76
I'LL OFTEN DO AN EVANGELISTIC
MEETING AND PEOPLE ARE SO
00:29:02.76\00:29:04.70
EXCITED BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU
GO FOR FIVE OR SIX WEEKS AND YOU
00:29:04.70\00:29:08.40
MEET THE PEOPLE AND YOU SEE THEM
AT THE DOOR AND THEY'RE JUST
00:29:08.40\00:29:10.03
LIKE, 'WOW! WHERE HAVE I BEEN?
00:29:10.03\00:29:11.40
I'VE BEEN GOING TO CHURCH ALL MY
LIFE AND I NEVER HEARD ANYTHING
00:29:11.40\00:29:13.46
LIKE - THIS IS WONDERFUL!'
AND THEY'RE MAKING CHANGES AND
00:29:13.46\00:29:17.03
THINGS ARE HAPPENING AND THEN
YOU PREACH A TESTING TRUTH - A
00:29:17.03\00:29:19.40
DIFFICULT SUBJECT - AND THEY GET
TO THE DOOR AND YOU SHAKE HANDS
00:29:19.40\00:29:23.00
AND THEY'RE
SUDDENLY KIND OF QUIET.
00:29:23.00\00:29:25.70
'SO WHAT DID YOU THINK
ABOUT TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION?'
00:29:25.70\00:29:28.03
'IT WAS INTERESTING.'
THAT ALWAYS SCARES ME WHEN THEY
00:29:28.03\00:29:31.73
SAY 'INTERESTING'. IT
JUST MEANS 'I'M GOING TO
00:29:31.73\00:29:34.33
THINK ABOUT IT. IT'S
A CEREBRAL EXERCISE.'
00:29:34.33\00:29:38.20
BUT WHEN IT COMES TO FOLLOWING
IT, NO. THEY KEEP COMING BACK
00:29:38.20\00:29:42.40
BECAUSE THEY WANT
SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S EASY.
00:29:42.40\00:29:45.23
IT MIGHT MEAN A
CHANGE OF THINKING.
00:29:45.23\00:29:48.60
FOR EXAMPLE, A PERSON COMES TO A
MEETING AND THEY LEARN THE TRUTH
00:29:48.60\00:29:51.90
ABOUT THE STATE OF THE DEAD AND
THEY GO, 'WOW, PRAISE THE LORD.
00:29:51.90\00:29:54.56
I WISH I HAD KNOWN THAT - THAT
REALLY HELPS - THAT MAKES SO
00:29:54.56\00:29:56.63
MUCH SENSE.' OR THEY
HEAR THE TRUTH ABOUT THE
00:29:56.63\00:29:59.30
PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED.
'I'M SO GLAD TO HEAR THAT
00:29:59.30\00:30:01.30
NOBODY'S BURNING IN HELL
YET. IT'S NOT THE JUDGMENT DAY.
00:30:01.30\00:30:04.26
WHAT A WONDERFUL TRUTH.
WHERE HAVE I BEEN AND HOW DID I
00:30:04.26\00:30:07.63
MISS THAT?' JUST A CHANGE
IN THE THINKING SO FAR. VERY
00:30:07.63\00:30:12.20
INTERESTING. THEN THEY HEAR THE
SABBATH TRUTH AND THEY GET REAL
00:30:12.20\00:30:15.83
QUIET BECAUSE NOW IT
MEANS A CHANGE IN THE DOING.
00:30:15.83\00:30:22.13
THEY SAY, 'I DON'T WANT TO
DO THAT. I'LL LOSE MY FRIENDS.
00:30:22.13\00:30:24.96
I MIGHT HAVE TO GO TO A
DIFFERENT CHURCH.' AND ALL OF
00:30:24.96\00:30:28.33
A SUDDEN THINGS GET QUIET
AND THEY WONDER WHAT HAPPENED.
00:30:28.33\00:30:31.93
THEY WERE SO ON
FIRE DURING THE MEETING.
00:30:31.93\00:30:33.66
THEY STOPPED
WALKING IN THE LIGHT.
00:30:33.66\00:30:35.53
OR THEY HEAR THE MESSAGE ON
TITHE AND THAT'S ONE OF THOSE
00:30:35.53\00:30:41.06
MESSAGES THAT YOU JUST
CAN'T SAY, 'PRAISE THE LORD!
00:30:41.06\00:30:42.96
THAT'S INTERESTING.' IT'S
ONE OF THOSE TESTING TRUTHS.
00:30:42.96\00:30:50.13
IT'S LIKE - I'LL NEVER FORGET -
I SAW A BUMPER STICKER ONE TIME,
00:30:50.13\00:30:52.83
YOU KNOW THEY USED TO HAVE ALL
THESE BUMPER STICKERS OUT THERE
00:30:52.83\00:30:54.83
AND THERE WAS ONE THAT WAS VERY
POPULAR IT SAID, 'IF YOU LOVE
00:30:54.83\00:30:57.26
JESUS, HONK' AND, YOU KNOW,
PEOPLE'D PULL UP BEHIND YOU AND
00:30:57.26\00:31:02.46
YOU'D FORGET YOU HAD THAT BUMPER
STICKER AND THEY'D GO 'BEEP
00:31:02.46\00:31:04.66
BEEP' AND YOU'D GET MAD AND
YOU'D TURN AROUND AND GO, 'WHY
00:31:04.66\00:31:06.43
ARE THEY HONKING?' YOU'D FORGET
YOU HAD YOUR 'IF YOU LOVE JESUS,
00:31:06.43\00:31:08.83
HONK' BUMPER STICKER. AND
THEN A WHILE AGO I SAW ONE
00:31:08.83\00:31:13.43
THAT SAID, 'IF YOU LOVE JESUS,
TITHE - ANYBODY CAN HONK'.
00:31:13.43\00:31:21.30
ONE OF THOSE TESTING TRUTHS.
SO IF YOU WANT REVIVAL, IT'S NOT
00:31:21.30\00:31:25.16
JUST HEARING THE WORD, IT'S
BEING WILLING TO - NOT JUST BE
00:31:25.16\00:31:28.00
HEARERS OF THE WORD
BUT DOERS OF THE WORD.
00:31:28.00\00:31:30.36
MAYBE YOU FOUND THERE WAS
A SPEED BUMP IN YOUR LIFE -
00:31:30.36\00:31:34.33
SOMETHING THAT THE LORD REVEALED
TO YOU AND YOU THOUGHT, 'UGH'.
00:31:34.33\00:31:36.93
PRAY THAT GOD'LL HELP YOU
TO BACK UP AND CORRECT THAT AND
00:31:36.93\00:31:40.63
WATCH WHAT HAPPENS. THE
WORD WILL COME ALIVE FOR YOU
00:31:40.63\00:31:43.53
AGAIN AND YOU'LL FEEL
REVIVAL IN YOUR EXPERIENCE.
00:31:43.53\00:31:48.23
BUT MANY CASES I
FIND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS.
00:31:48.23\00:31:50.36
LET'S LOOK AT WHAT DOES THE WORD
'REVIVE' MEAN HERE IN HEBREW AND
00:31:50.36\00:31:54.70
WE'RE READING IT IN PSALM 119.
THAT WORD THAT APPEARS IN HEBREW
00:31:54.70\00:31:57.03
IS 'KAYA' AND IT'S A PRIMITIVE
ROOT - IT MEANS 'CAUSEDLY TO
00:31:57.03\00:32:03.33
REVIVE; TO KEEP OR MAKE ALIVE;
TO GIVE LIFE; TO ALLOW TO LIVE;
00:32:03.33\00:32:09.20
TO NOURISH UP; TO PRESERVE
ALIVE; TO QUICKEN; TO RECOVER;
00:32:09.20\00:32:13.93
TO REPAIR; TO RESTORE; TO SAVE
ALIVE; TO MAKE WHOLE.' SO WHEN
00:32:13.93\00:32:20.33
WE SAY 'REVIVE' WE'RE ASKING GOD
TO GIVE US NEW LIFE. AGAIN, MORE
00:32:20.33\00:32:25.06
FROM PSALM 119, VERSE 50, "THIS
IS MY COMFORT IN MY AFFLICTION,
00:32:25.06\00:32:29.50
FOR YOUR WORD HAS GIVEN ME
LIFE." REVIVAL - NEW LIFE -
00:32:29.50\00:32:33.80
HIS WORD. PSALM 119, VERSE
74, "THOSE WHO FEAR YOU WILL BE
00:32:33.80\00:32:38.16
GLAD WHEN THEY SEE ME, BECAUSE
I HAVE HOPED IN YOUR WORD."
00:32:38.16\00:32:42.53
NEW LIFE FROM THE WORD,
PSALM 119, VERSE 116, "UPHOLD ME
00:32:42.53\00:32:47.46
ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD, THAT
I MAY LIVE; AND DO NOT LET ME BE
00:32:47.46\00:32:51.00
ASHAMED OF MY HOPE."
ALRIGHT, THE NEXT SECTION: THERE
00:32:51.00\00:32:55.53
IS CREATIVE POWER IN THE WORD
- AND THAT'S WHAT REVIVAL IS.
00:32:55.53\00:32:59.46
IF YOU ARE SPIRITUALLY
DEAD YOU NEED A RESURRECTION.
00:32:59.46\00:33:04.10
WHERE DID THE ORIGINAL LIFE
COME FROM? DOESN'T IT COME FROM
00:33:04.10\00:33:06.43
JESUS? DIDN'T HE
CREATE THE ORIGINAL LIFE?
00:33:06.43\00:33:09.66
SO IF REVIVAL IS A FORM OF
RESURRECTION - IF GOD IS THE
00:33:09.66\00:33:13.40
CREATOR OF ALL
LIFE - WHAT BRINGS LIFE?
00:33:13.40\00:33:16.93
ALRIGHT, WHO HAS HEBREWS
11:3 - WE GAVE THAT TO SOMEBODY.
00:33:16.93\00:33:20.23
HOLD YOUR HAND UP IF
WE GAVE YOU THAT SLIP.
00:33:20.23\00:33:22.43
HEBREWS 11:3 - AM
I MISSING SOMEONE?
00:33:22.43\00:33:25.46
ALRIGHT, RIGHT THERE.
ALRIGHT, YOU'LL BE NEXT.
00:33:25.46\00:33:28.20
PSALM 33, VERSE 6, HOW DID
THE WORLD COME INTO EXISTENCE?
00:33:28.20\00:33:33.33
"BY THE WORD OF THE LORD THE
HEAVENS WERE MADE AND ALL THE
00:33:33.33\00:33:37.03
HOST OF THEM BY THE
BREATH OF HIS MOUTH."
00:33:37.03\00:33:39.53
THE BIBLE BEGINS BY SAYING, 'AND
GOD SAID' - AND WHAT HAPPENED
00:33:39.53\00:33:45.36
AFTER GOD SAID? POOF - LIFE.
00:33:45.36\00:33:49.80
SO IF IT'S TRUE, IN THE WORLD
AROUND US, THAT THINGS CAME INTO
00:33:49.80\00:33:53.46
EXISTENCE BY THE WORD OF GOD
- LIFE WAS CREATED BY THE WORD -
00:33:53.46\00:33:58.00
THEN DOESN'T IT MAKE SENSE THAT
NEW LIFE OR REVIVAL WILL ALSO
00:33:58.00\00:34:01.96
COME BY THE WORD? IS THAT
RIGHT? OKAY, READ THE NEXT VERSE
00:34:01.96\00:34:05.46
FOR US. HEBREWS 11:3 PLEASE.
>>"BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND THAT
00:34:05.46\00:34:10.90
THE WORDS WERE FRAMED BY THE
WORD OF GOD SO THAT THE THINGS
00:34:10.90\00:34:15.93
WHICH ARE SEEN ARE NOT MADE
OF THINGS WHICH ARE VISIBLE."
00:34:15.93\00:34:21.00
>>THE WORD OF GOD BROUGHT
THESE THINGS INTO EXISTENCE.
00:34:21.00\00:34:25.06
IS THERE STILL
CREATIVE POWER IN GOD'S WORD?
00:34:25.06\00:34:28.13
A SIMPLE EXAMPLE OF THIS - AND
I'VE USED THIS BEFORE - IS WHEN
00:34:28.13\00:34:31.63
A LEPER COMES TO JESUS
AND HE'S COVERED WITH LEPROSY.
00:34:31.63\00:34:35.70
LUKE, A DOCTOR, GIVES THE
DIAGNOSIS THAT HE DOESN'T JUST
00:34:35.70\00:34:38.53
HAVE LEPROSY, HE'S FULL
OF LEPROSY - IT'S ADVANCED.
00:34:38.53\00:34:42.13
AND WHEN HE COMES TO JESUS,
BECAUSE HE'S UNCLEAN, THE CROWD
00:34:42.13\00:34:44.86
PROBABLY MELTS
BACK IN FEAR. 'GO AWAY!
00:34:44.86\00:34:47.93
YOU'RE UNCLEAN!' BUT
HE COMES TO JESUS AND HE
00:34:47.93\00:34:50.16
FALLS DOWN BEFORE HIM AND HE
SAYS, 'LORD, IF YOU WILL, YOU
00:34:50.16\00:34:53.66
CAN MAKE ME CLEAN.' AND
THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS REACHED
00:34:53.66\00:34:57.50
OUT AND TOUCHED HIM AND SAID,
'I WILL. BE THOU CLEAN.' AND AS
00:34:57.50\00:35:04.20
SOON AS HE SAID, 'BE CLEAN'
WAS HE REVIVED? BECAUSE THERE'S
00:35:04.20\00:35:09.13
CREATIVE POWER - THERE'S HEALING
POWER IN THE WORD OF GOD.
00:35:09.13\00:35:13.56
AND SO, JUST IMMERSING OURSELF
IN THE WORD IS ONE WAY TO BRING
00:35:13.56\00:35:20.20
ABOUT REVIVAL.
LET ME TELL YOU WHY.
00:35:20.20\00:35:23.10
THE BIBLE WILL KEEP YOU FROM SIN
OR SIN WILL KEEP YOU FROM THE
00:35:23.10\00:35:26.60
BIBLE. NOW THAT'S
NOT ORIGINAL WITH ME.
00:35:26.60\00:35:28.86
I'VE HEARD A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT
AUTHORS OF THAT QUOTE BUT I
00:35:28.86\00:35:31.73
HEARD DWIGHT MOODY, I THINK, IS
THE MOST COMMON NAME I'VE HEARD
00:35:31.73\00:35:34.73
WITH THAT - BUT IT'S TRUE.
THE BIBLE WILL KEEP YOU FROM
00:35:34.73\00:35:38.96
SIN OR SIN WILL
KEEP YOU FROM THE BIBLE.
00:35:38.96\00:35:40.96
YOU SHOW ME A PERSON WHO
IS NEGLECTING THEIR PERSONAL
00:35:40.96\00:35:43.63
DEVOTIONS AND BIBLE READING AND
I'LL SHOW YOU SOMEONE WHO HAS
00:35:43.63\00:35:46.96
EITHER BACKSLIDDEN OR IS ON
THEIR WAY - THEY'RE BACKSLIDING
00:35:46.96\00:35:49.76
AND THEY'VE LOST
THAT SPIRITUAL VITALITY.
00:35:49.76\00:35:53.50
YOU'RE IN THE WORD AND YOU FEEL
CONVICTED ABOUT YOUR SIN AND YOU
00:35:53.50\00:35:59.36
HAVE TO DEAL WITH YOUR SIN AND
YOU'RE TURNING FROM YOUR SIN -
00:35:59.36\00:36:01.76
YOU'RE TRYING TO LIVE A
GODLY LIFE. SIN'LL KEEP YOU FROM
00:36:01.76\00:36:04.70
THE BIBLE OR THE BIBLE
WILL KEEP YOU FROM SIN.
00:36:04.70\00:36:07.16
PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING IN SIN
FEEL GUILTY AND WHEN THEY READ
00:36:07.16\00:36:09.26
THE BIBLE - SO THEY STOP READING
THE BIBLE BECAUSE IT MAKES THEM
00:36:09.26\00:36:11.46
FEEL BAD OR YOU READ THE BIBLE,
YOU'RE CONVICTED AND YOU TURN
00:36:11.46\00:36:15.46
FROM YOUR SIN. THE
TWO DON'T GO WELL TOGETHER
00:36:15.46\00:36:17.46
VERY LONG. ONE
STARTS TO GET NEGLECTED.
00:36:17.46\00:36:20.90
YOU START NEGLECTING SIN WHEN
YOU'RE READING THE BIBLE OR YOU
00:36:20.90\00:36:23.00
START NEGLECTING THE BIBLE AND
CHURCH WHEN THERE'S SIN IN THE
00:36:23.00\00:36:26.70
LIFE. TYPICALLY TRUE.
SOMEONE ONCE SAID, 'A BIBLE THAT
00:36:26.70\00:36:31.46
IS WORN OUT USUALLY
BELONGS TO A PERSON WHO IS NOT.'
00:36:31.46\00:36:35.10
SPIRITUALLY, THAT
MEANS. I WORDED THAT WRONG.
00:36:35.10\00:36:41.10
'A BIBLE THAT IS FALLING APART
USUALLY BELONGS TO A PERSON WHO
00:36:41.10\00:36:44.26
IS NOT.' WHEN WE'RE FALLING
APART SPIRITUALLY IT'S BECAUSE
00:36:44.26\00:36:49.16
OUR BIBLES ARE IN GOOD CONDITION
BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT BEING USED.
00:36:49.16\00:36:55.13
SO YOU NEED TO BE IN
THE WORD - THAT'S THE KEY.
00:36:55.13\00:36:59.00
2 TIMOTHY 3:16 AND 17,
"ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN BY
00:36:59.00\00:37:03.33
INSPIRATION OF GOD AND IT
IS PROFITABLE FOR" - FOR WHAT?
00:37:03.33\00:37:07.80
- "FOR DOCTRINE, FOR REPROOF,
FOR CORRECTION AND INSTRUCTION
00:37:07.80\00:37:10.96
IN RIGHTEOUSNESS" - WHY? -
"THAT THE MAN OF GOD" - AND
00:37:10.96\00:37:14.06
THE WOMAN OF GOD - "MIGHT BE
COMPLETE, THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED TO
00:37:14.06\00:37:17.06
EVERY GOOD WORK." IT'S
THE WORD OF GOD THAT HELPS
00:37:17.06\00:37:20.03
US TO HAVE THAT COMPLETENESS.
IN THE BOOK 'EDUCATION' PAGE
00:37:20.03\00:37:24.20
126, E.G. WHITE WROTE, "THE
CREATIVE ENERGY THAT CALLED THE
00:37:24.20\00:37:28.63
WORLDS INTO EXISTENCE
IS IN THE WORD OF GOD.
00:37:28.63\00:37:33.03
THIS WORD IMPARTS
POWER. IT BEGETS LIFE.
00:37:33.03\00:37:36.23
EVERY COMMAND IS A
PROMISE ACCEPTED BY THE WILL.
00:37:36.23\00:37:39.96
RECEIVED INTO THE SOUL IT BRINGS
WITH IT THE LIFE OF THE INFINITE
00:37:39.96\00:37:43.63
ONE." YOU HEAR THAT?
00:37:43.63\00:37:45.13
EVERY PROMISE OF GOD RECEIVED
INTO THE SOUL BRINGS WITH IT
00:37:45.13\00:37:50.10
LIFE - THE LIFE OF THE INFINITE
ONE - "IT TRANSFORMS THE NATURE.
00:37:50.10\00:37:54.90
IT RECREATES THE
SOUL IN THE IMAGE OF GOD."
00:37:54.90\00:37:58.60
THERE IS CREATIVE
POWER IN THE WORD OF GOD.
00:37:58.60\00:38:03.20
GOD'LL RECREATE THE
WORLD THROUGH HIS WORD AND HE
00:38:03.20\00:38:05.40
RECREATES US THROUGH HIS WORD.
SO, IF YOU'RE WONDERING - IF
00:38:05.40\00:38:11.66
YOU'VE EVER BEEN SICK AND YOU
FELT LIKE YOU HAD TO RUN TO THE
00:38:11.66\00:38:14.33
DRUG STORE TO GET THE REMEDY
- WELL, IF YOU'RE SPIRITUALLY
00:38:14.33\00:38:18.70
SICK, THE MEDICINE
CABINET IS THE BIBLE.
00:38:18.70\00:38:22.66
THERE YOU FIND THE PROMISES
BY WHICH WE ARE ABLE TO BECOME
00:38:22.66\00:38:26.86
PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE.
EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS
00:38:26.86\00:38:30.16
PROMISES IN THE WORD OF
GOD WHEN YOU CLAIM THEM.
00:38:30.16\00:38:32.90
SAY, 'LORD, THIS IS WHAT YOU
SAID' - AND YOU PRAY - 'I PRAY
00:38:32.90\00:38:35.76
THAT YOU'LL HONOR YOUR WORD AND
ANSWER THIS PROMISE IN MY LIFE.'
00:38:35.76\00:38:40.80
AND YOU CLAIM THESE
PROMISES AND YOU BELIEVE.
00:38:40.80\00:38:43.66
JESUS SAID, 'ALL THINGS ARE
POSSIBLE TO THOSE THAT BELIEVE.'
00:38:43.66\00:38:45.86
BUT IT BEGINS
WITH THE WORD OF GOD.
00:38:45.86\00:38:48.00
ALRIGHT, NEXT
SECTION, 'JESUS AND THE WORD'.
00:38:48.00\00:38:52.66
SOMEONE PLEASE LOOK UP FOR
ME JOHN 5, VERSES 39 THROUGH 40.
00:38:52.66\00:38:58.03
WHO'S GOT THAT? OVER HERE.
00:38:58.03\00:39:01.00
FRANK, WE'LL GET
YOU IN JUST A SECOND.
00:39:01.00\00:39:02.63
JOHN 5:39, 40, BUT FIRST
I'M GOING TO READ LUKE 24:27.
00:39:02.63\00:39:06.80
NOW, CHRIST RISES FROM THE DEAD
AND THERE IS A WINDOW BETWEEN
00:39:06.80\00:39:12.50
THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS
AND THE GREAT REVIVAL IN THE NEW
00:39:12.50\00:39:15.63
TESTAMENT. THE GREAT REVIVAL IN
THE NEW TESTAMENT IS PENTECOST.
00:39:15.63\00:39:19.90
HOW MANY AGREE? THOUSANDS
CONVERTED IN A DAY - OKAY?
00:39:19.90\00:39:24.83
WHAT HAPPENS PRIOR
TO THAT GREAT REVIVAL?
00:39:24.83\00:39:28.63
WHEN CHRIST ROSE FROM THE DEAD
HE HAD BIBLE STUDIES WITH THEM
00:39:28.63\00:39:33.93
EVERY TIME HE MET WITH THEM.
AND IT SAYS, 'BEGINNING WITH
00:39:33.93\00:39:37.16
MOSES AND ALL THE PROPHETS HE
EXPOUNDED UNTO THEM IN ALL THE
00:39:37.16\00:39:40.13
SCRIPTURES THE
THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF.'
00:39:40.13\00:39:42.60
HE'S STUDYING WITH THEM
THROUGH THE SCRIPTURES REVEALING
00:39:42.60\00:39:46.50
HIMSELF. THEN LATER IN
THAT SAME CHAPTER - VERSE 45 -
00:39:46.50\00:39:50.50
WHEN HE APPEARS IN THE
UPPER ROOM TO THE DISCIPLES HE
00:39:50.50\00:39:53.40
OPENED THEIR UNDERSTANDING THAT
THEY MIGHT COMPREHEND THE? -
00:39:53.40\00:39:57.23
THE SCRIPTURES. BIBLE STUDY.
AND WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD AND
00:39:57.23\00:40:01.46
READ FOR US THEN JOHN 5:39.
>>"YOU SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES FOR
00:40:01.46\00:40:08.43
IN THEM YOU THINK
YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.
00:40:08.43\00:40:11.23
AND THESE ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY
OF ME BUT YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO
00:40:11.23\00:40:15.76
COME TO ME THAT
YOU MAY HAVE LIFE."
00:40:15.76\00:40:19.33
>>SO, IS CHRIST SAYING YOU THINK
THAT THE SCRIPTURES GIVE YOU
00:40:19.33\00:40:23.60
ETERNAL LIFE? HE'S
AGREEING WITH THEM.
00:40:23.60\00:40:27.46
HE'S SAYING, 'YOU SEARCH
THE SCRIPTURES FOR IN THEM YOU
00:40:27.46\00:40:29.30
BELIEVE YOU FIND ETERNAL LIFE
- AND YOU DO - BUT YOU DON'T
00:40:29.30\00:40:32.43
REALIZE THAT I AM ETERNAL LIFE.'
SO CHRIST IS MARRYING THAT LIFE
00:40:32.43\00:40:38.60
COMES THROUGH THE WORD AND
HE IS THE WORD. HE IS LIFE. YOU
00:40:38.60\00:40:44.16
UNDERSTAND? THE
THREE GO TOGETHER - THEY'RE
00:40:44.16\00:40:46.16
INTERCHANGEABLE. SO REVIVAL
- LIFE - COMES THROUGH CHRIST -
00:40:46.16\00:40:50.26
STUDYING THE WORD. HE
SAID, 'YOU SAY YOU BELIEVE
00:40:50.26\00:40:52.16
THE WORD, BUT
YOU'RE REJECTING ME.
00:40:52.16\00:40:53.56
YOU CAN'T DO BOTH BECAUSE
I AM THE WORD INCARNATE.'
00:40:53.56\00:40:57.00
JOHN 16:14, SPEAKING OF THE
SPIRIT, "HE WILL GLORIFY ME FOR
00:40:57.00\00:41:02.70
HE WILL TAKE WHAT IS
MINE AND DECLARE IT TO YOU.
00:41:02.70\00:41:08.63
ALL THINGS THAT THE
FATHER HAS ARE MINE.
00:41:08.63\00:41:10.73
THEREFORE I SAID THAT HE, THE
SPIRIT, WILL TAKE OF MINE AND
00:41:10.73\00:41:13.90
DECLARE IT TO YOU."
DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT SHARE
00:41:13.90\00:41:17.10
SOMETHING SEPARATE
FROM JESUS WITH US?
00:41:17.10\00:41:20.83
I ALWAYS - I BECOME CONCERNED
- DEEPLY CONCERNED WHEN I HEAR
00:41:20.83\00:41:29.60
PASTORS PUT SOME SEPARATE
EMPHASIS ON THE HOLY SPIRIT LIKE
00:41:29.60\00:41:33.60
THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS GOT SOME
FRESH OR DIFFERENT INFORMATION
00:41:33.60\00:41:36.36
OTHER THAN THE WORD.
WILL THE HOLY SPIRIT EVER SAY
00:41:36.36\00:41:40.60
SOMETHING THAT CONFLICTS WITH
THE WORD OF GOD? OR DID JESUS
00:41:40.60\00:41:44.00
SAY, 'HE WILL TAKE WHAT I SAY
AND HE WILL DECLARE IT TO YOU'?
00:41:44.00\00:41:47.10
'THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL BRING
TO YOUR REMEMBRANCE WHATSOEVER
00:41:47.10\00:41:49.03
I HAVE SAID.'
THAT'S WHAT CHRIST SAID.
00:41:49.03\00:41:51.56
SO THERE'S PERFECT HARMONY
BETWEEN WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT -
00:41:51.56\00:41:54.83
THE REAL HOLY SPIRIT -
THERE'S A COUNTERFEIT OUT THERE.
00:41:54.83\00:41:58.33
THE DEVIL'S SPIRIT CAN SOMETIMES
MASQUERADE AS THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:41:58.33\00:42:02.06
IT'S HARD TO TELL THEM APART.
ONE WAY TO KNOW THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:42:02.06\00:42:05.30
IS HE WILL NEVER IMPRESS YOU
WITH SOMETHING THAT CONFLICTS
00:42:05.30\00:42:09.06
WITH THE WORD OF GOD - NEVER -
BECAUSE HE WILL TAKE WHAT JESUS
00:42:09.06\00:42:12.23
SAID AND HE WILL DECLARE
IT TO YOU. THERE'S NO CONFLICT
00:42:12.23\00:42:15.66
BETWEEN THE TWO. AND SO
IT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT BRINGING
00:42:15.66\00:42:21.66
THE WORD TO LIFE
THAT GIVES US REVIVAL.
00:42:21.66\00:42:24.83
WHEN YOU SAY, 'OH,
I'VE GOT THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:42:24.83\00:42:26.46
THAT'S WHAT'S GIVING ME
REVIVAL.' WELL, EXPLAIN THAT.
00:42:26.46\00:42:29.43
'THE HOLY SPIRIT'S IMPRESSING
ME WITH THE TRUTH OF THE WORD.
00:42:29.43\00:42:36.26
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS HELPING
ME ACT OUT THE WORD. THE HOLY
00:42:36.26\00:42:39.73
SPIRIT IS HELPING ME OBEY THE
WORD.' THE BIBLE SAYS GOD DOES
00:42:39.73\00:42:42.96
NOT GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT
TO THOSE THAT DO NOT OBEY HIM.
00:42:42.96\00:42:45.83
AND SO, WHEN PEOPLE ARE OBEYING
THE WORD AND SURRENDERING TO THE
00:42:45.83\00:42:49.53
WORD, IT'S THE SPIRIT
THAT WILL ALWAYS BE IN HARMONY
00:42:49.53\00:42:51.90
WITH THE WORD.
ALRIGHT, 'REVIVAL AND THE WORD'.
00:42:51.90\00:42:56.40
WE'RE GOING TO - THERE'S SO MANY
GOOD THINGS IN THIS LESSON ON
00:42:56.40\00:42:59.26
THE BIBLE, I'M JUST TRYING
TO GET IN AS MUCH AS I CAN.
00:42:59.26\00:43:03.06
LUKE - ONE MORE THING - ON THAT
LAST SECTION, FROM THE TIME THAT
00:43:03.06\00:43:08.83
JESUS BEGAN HIS MINISTRY IN
27 AD - AT HIS BAPTISM - HE WAS
00:43:08.83\00:43:15.36
ANOINTED, WHAT
HAPPENED IMMEDIATELY WHEN HE WAS
00:43:15.36\00:43:18.36
ANOINTED? HE BEGAN TO
PREACH WHAT? THE WORD.
00:43:18.36\00:43:23.13
NOT THAT JESUS SAID EVERYTHING
ORIGINAL - TEN PERCENT OF
00:43:23.13\00:43:26.66
EVERYTHING JESUS SAID HE
WAS QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:43:26.66\00:43:30.16
JESUS WAS A BIBLE PREACHER.
AND EVEN ON THE SERMON ON THE
00:43:30.16\00:43:34.16
MOUNT HE OFTEN
REFERS TO THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:43:34.16\00:43:37.40
SO IT BEGAN WITH JESUS PREACHING
THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
00:43:37.40\00:43:42.56
SO REVIVAL, THROUGH THE
WORD, MAY NOT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT,
00:43:42.56\00:43:45.93
SO THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
REVIVALS IN COUNTRIES - THE
00:43:45.93\00:43:49.03
GREAT REVIVAL IN ENGLAND AND ONE
THAT CAME TO AMERICA - YOU KNOW
00:43:49.03\00:43:51.96
WHAT IT CAME THROUGH?
SEVERAL YEARS OF PRAYER AND
00:43:51.96\00:43:54.53
PREACHING OF THE WORD
AND THEN THERE WAS A REVIVAL.
00:43:54.53\00:43:57.73
SO IT'S NOT SOMEONE READING ONE
VERSE AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN,
00:43:57.73\00:43:59.96
YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING SHAKES.
THERE WAS A DIGGING INTO THE
00:43:59.96\00:44:03.96
WORD THAT PLAYED ITSELF
OUT. THREE AND HALF YEARS JESUS
00:44:03.96\00:44:06.73
PREACHED. THEN HE DIED ON
THE CROSS. WHEN HE ROSE HE SPENT
00:44:06.73\00:44:10.53
FORTY MORE DAYS DOING
BIBLE STUDY WITH THE APOSTLES.
00:44:10.53\00:44:14.56
AND THEN THROUGH COMPLETELY
SURRENDERING THEMSELVES TO OBEY
00:44:14.56\00:44:17.16
THE WORD AND HUMBLING THEMSELVES
AND CONFESSING THEIR FAULTS,
00:44:17.16\00:44:20.30
THEIR HEARTS WERE PREPARED TO
RECEIVE THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY
00:44:20.30\00:44:23.50
SPIRIT AND THE PEOPLE WHO HAD
BEEN LISTENING - THE GROUND HAD
00:44:23.50\00:44:29.43
BEEN PLOWED UP THOROUGHLY BY THE
WORD - SO THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS
00:44:29.43\00:44:32.96
POURED OUT - THOUSANDS
WERE BAPTIZED IN A DAY.
00:44:32.96\00:44:37.16
ALRIGHT, 'REVIVAL:
FAITH AND THE WORD'.
00:44:37.16\00:44:40.50
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME,
PLEASE, HEBREWS 4, VERSE 12.
00:44:40.50\00:44:45.03
WHO HAS THAT?
MIKE, RIGHT UP HERE.
00:44:45.03\00:44:47.56
THANK YOU, FOSTER, IF
YOU'D BRING HIM THE MICROPHONE.
00:44:47.56\00:44:50.00
I'M GOING TO READ LUKE 18:8,
"AND I TELL YOU THAT HE WILL
00:44:50.00\00:44:56.13
AVENGE HIMSELF SPEEDILY.
NEVERTHELESS, WHEN THE SON OF
00:44:56.13\00:44:59.90
MAN COMES, WILL HE
REALLY FIND FAITH IN THE EARTH?"
00:44:59.90\00:45:04.53
SO IT'S NOT JUST A PREACHING OF
THE WORD, IT'S HAVING FAITH IN
00:45:04.53\00:45:08.93
THE WORD - WHEN GOD ASKS US TO
DO SOMETHING BELIEVING THAT HE
00:45:08.93\00:45:12.53
CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN.
ROMANS 10:17, "FAITH COMES BY
00:45:12.53\00:45:17.66
HEARING AND
HEARING BY THE WORD."
00:45:17.66\00:45:21.10
WOULD YOU LIKE MORE FAITH?
MORE WORD BRINGS MORE FAITH.
00:45:21.10\00:45:26.13
FOR EXAMPLE - LET ME SHOW YOU
- YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, 'PASTOR
00:45:26.13\00:45:29.16
DOUG, I THOUGHT THAT REVIVAL IS
GOING TO COME THROUGH PRAYER.'
00:45:29.16\00:45:31.80
YES, AND PROBABLY A WHOLE
CHAPTER ON THAT IN OUR LESSON,
00:45:31.80\00:45:36.43
BUT CAN YOU READ IN THE BIBLE
THAT YOU NEED TO PRAY? SURE.
00:45:36.43\00:45:41.30
YOU READ IN THE BIBLE YOU NEED
TO PRAY - FAST AND PRAY - 'IF MY
00:45:41.30\00:45:44.06
PEOPLE WILL HUMBLE THEMSELVES
AND PRAY AND SEEK MY FACE.'
00:45:44.06\00:45:46.90
SO, YES PRAYER IS GOING TO BRING
REVIVAL, BUT WHERE DID I JUST
00:45:46.90\00:45:50.16
READ IT? IN THE BIBLE.
SO EVEN THE NEED FOR PRAYER
00:45:50.16\00:45:55.00
YOU'LL OFTEN READ ABOUT IN
THE BIBLE. AND SO THE BIBLE'S
00:45:55.00\00:45:58.33
FOUNDATIONAL - YOU SEE THAT?
WHATEVER YOU'RE GOING TO LEARN
00:45:58.33\00:46:01.70
BRINGS REVIVAL,
YOU GET FROM THE BIBLE.
00:46:01.70\00:46:04.66
SO IT'S REALLY THE
FOUNDATION, THE STARTING POINT.
00:46:04.66\00:46:07.76
HEBREWS 4:1 AND 2, "THEREFORE
SINCE A PROMISE REMAINS OF
00:46:07.76\00:46:12.80
ENTERING HIS REST, LET US FEAR
LEST ANY OF YOU SEEM TO HAVE
00:46:12.80\00:46:15.90
COME SHORT OF IT.
FOR, INDEED, THE GOSPEL WAS
00:46:15.90\00:46:18.10
PREACHED TO US AS WELL AS TO
THEM, BUT THE WORD WHICH THEY
00:46:18.10\00:46:20.60
HEARD DID NOT PROFIT THEM NOT
BEING MIXED WITH FAITH IN THOSE
00:46:20.60\00:46:24.66
THAT HEARD IT."
ALRIGHT, THAT'S THE PART YOU
00:46:24.66\00:46:26.46
CAN'T MISS: IF PEOPLE HEAR THE
WORD BUT THEY DON'T MIX IT WITH
00:46:26.46\00:46:30.40
FAITH, IT DOESN'T PROFIT.
DOES THE DEVIL KNOW THE WORD?
00:46:30.40\00:46:36.50
IS IT GOING TO SAVE HIM?
NO. SO IT'S ONE THING TO GO TO
00:46:36.50\00:46:40.20
CHURCH AND LISTEN TO THE WORD,
IT'S ANOTHER THING TO HAVE FAITH
00:46:40.20\00:46:42.90
AND SAY, 'I AM GOING TO ACT
ON WHAT I'VE HEARD BECAUSE I
00:46:42.90\00:46:46.90
BELIEVE THAT THIS IS GOD'S WILL
AND HE WILL HELP ME BE A DOER
00:46:46.90\00:46:51.03
AND NOT JUST A HEARER. IT
NEEDS TO BE MIXED WITH FAITH.
00:46:51.03\00:46:54.43
SO IF YOU GO TO A BIBLE STUDY OR
IF YOU'RE LISTENING TO THE BIBLE
00:46:54.43\00:46:58.20
- THIS WEEK I WAS UP IN THE
MOUNTAINS MILES FROM ANYBODY.
00:46:58.20\00:47:07.43
YOU KNOW, WE HAD RAIN LAST WEEK
- IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE RIGHT NOW
00:47:07.43\00:47:09.40
WE HAD SOME RAIN LAST WEEK - AND
I NEEDED TO DO SOME ROAD WORK
00:47:09.40\00:47:12.50
AND I'VE GOT AN OLD BULLDOZER
AND I THOUGHT, 'OH, THIS IS THE
00:47:12.50\00:47:14.96
LAST CHANCE THIS
YEAR TO DO THAT WORK.'
00:47:14.96\00:47:17.53
AND SO I WENT UP THERE, I WAS
ALL BY MYSELF, I MEAN WAY OUT IN
00:47:17.53\00:47:20.26
THE WOODS DOING MILES OF ROAD
- JUST FIXING THESE DIRT ROADS
00:47:20.26\00:47:23.50
BECAUSE THEY WERE IN BAD SHAPE
AND I TOOK MY PHONE THAT HAS THE
00:47:23.50\00:47:27.53
BIBLE ON IT AND I PUT MY LITTLE
EARPHONES IN AND - BECAUSE ON A
00:47:27.53\00:47:31.76
BULLDOZER - THEY'RE LOUD. I
THEN PUT EAR PROTECTORS OVER
00:47:31.76\00:47:34.63
MY EARPHONES AND I WAS
JUST DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD.
00:47:34.63\00:47:38.76
IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY THAT DAY
AND I'M LISTENING TO THE BIBLE
00:47:38.76\00:47:41.53
AND I'M LEARNING SO MANY THINGS
AND I'M RUNNING A BULLDOZER AND
00:47:41.53\00:47:44.00
IT MADE THE TIME GO SO FAST
BECAUSE I WAS THINKING ABOUT ALL
00:47:44.00\00:47:48.06
KINDS OF THINGS. I WENT THROUGH
THREE GOSPELS IN GOING DOWN
00:47:48.06\00:47:54.10
THE ROAD WITH A BULLDOZER.
THAT WAS A SWEET EXPERIENCE.
00:47:54.10\00:47:56.33
I DON'T KNOW
WHY I TOLD YOU THAT.
00:47:56.33\00:47:59.63
I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS
INTERESTING BUT I JUST THOUGHT,
00:47:59.63\00:48:03.43
YOU KNOW, 'I'M GOING TO BE
OUT HERE JUST KILLING TIME.'
00:48:03.43\00:48:05.30
LISTEN TO THE BIBLE - WE OUGHT
TO BE THINKING ABOUT THAT AND
00:48:05.30\00:48:08.66
YOU MIGHT HAVE A REVIVING
EXPERIENCE. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD,
00:48:08.66\00:48:13.60
YOU WERE GOING TO READ FOR US.
I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN, I JUST READ
00:48:13.60\00:48:15.76
HEBREWS 4:1 AND 2 - YOU'RE
GOING TO READ HEBREWS 4:12.
00:48:15.76\00:48:20.10
>>HEBREWS 4:12, "FOR THE WORD OF
GOD IS LIVING AND POWERFUL AND
00:48:20.10\00:48:23.96
SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED
SWORD; PIERCING EVEN TO THE
00:48:23.96\00:48:27.93
DIVISION OF SOUL AND SPIRIT AND
OF JOINTS AND MARROW AND IS A
00:48:27.93\00:48:32.76
DISCERNER OF THE THOUGHTS
AND INTENTS OF THE HEART."
00:48:32.76\00:48:36.56
>>WHEW, DO YOU SEE THE
CONVICTING POWER OF THE WORD
00:48:36.56\00:48:38.30
THERE? IT'S A SWORD.
JESUS SAID, 'THINK NOT I CAME TO
00:48:38.30\00:48:41.20
SEND PEACE BUT A SWORD.'
IT DIDN'T MEAN THAT JESUS CAME
00:48:41.20\00:48:44.86
TO BRING WAR, BUT THE WORD
CREATES DIVISION - IT CREATES
00:48:44.86\00:48:48.73
A DIVISION IN US. IT
KIND OF CARVES US UP INSIDE
00:48:48.73\00:48:52.00
SOMETIMES. IN JAMES
2, VERSES 17 AND 18,
00:48:52.00\00:48:58.96
"THUS ALSO FAITH, BY ITSELF, IF
IT DOESN'T HAVE WORKS IS DEAD.
00:48:58.96\00:49:03.66
IF SOMEONE SAYS, 'YOU HAVE FAITH
AND I HAVE WORKS' SHOW ME YOUR
00:49:03.66\00:49:06.06
FAITH WITHOUT YOUR WORKS, I'LL
SHOW YOU MY FAITH BY MY WORKS."
00:49:06.06\00:49:09.40
SO IF YOU'RE READING THE WORD
AND YOU HAVE FAITH, BE A DOER OF
00:49:09.40\00:49:12.06
THE WORD AND NOT A HEARER ONLY.
WOW, I'VE GOT SO MUCH TO COVER,
00:49:12.06\00:49:16.33
I DON'T HAVE TIME.
ALRIGHT, LET ME TELL YOU -
00:49:16.33\00:49:17.66
ANOTHER GREAT REVIVAL - I TALKED
ABOUT THE GREAT REVIVAL OF JONAH
00:49:17.66\00:49:21.76
- THERE'S ANOTHER GREAT OLD
TESTAMENT REVIVAL - WHO KNOWS
00:49:21.76\00:49:23.90
WHERE IT IS? THEY
WERE CLEANING UP THE TEMPLE
00:49:23.90\00:49:27.96
AND THEY FOUND
SOMETHING. WHAT'D THEY FIND?
00:49:27.96\00:49:34.56
DURING THE TIME OF KING JOSIAH
- THERE WERE TWO CHILD KINGS -
00:49:34.56\00:49:38.90
WELL, THERE'S THREE INCLUDING
MANESSEH - BUT TWO PROMINENT
00:49:38.90\00:49:41.36
CHILD KINGS THAT HAD REVIVAL.
ONE WAS JOASH, THE OTHER JOSIAH.
00:49:41.36\00:49:44.76
JOSIAH, ONE OF THE GREATEST OLD
TESTAMENT KINGS - NEXT TO DAVID
00:49:44.76\00:49:47.80
HE'S ONE OF THE
GODLIEST, ACTUALLY.
00:49:47.80\00:49:50.20
AND THEY'RE RENOVATING THE
TEMPLE AND LO AND BEHOLD THEY'RE
00:49:50.20\00:49:53.63
CLEANING UP THE TEMPLE AND THEY
FIND THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY
00:49:53.63\00:49:55.96
WRITTEN BY MOSES - I THINK THEY
FOUND THE ORIGINAL, WHICH IS
00:49:55.96\00:49:59.36
REALLY SOMETHING. AND
HERE THEY'RE TRYING TO DO
00:49:59.36\00:50:02.26
THE RIGHT THING BUT
THEY'RE DOING IT BY TRADITION.
00:50:02.26\00:50:04.16
THEY HADN'T REALLY BEEN READING
THE BIBLE AND SO THEY COME AND
00:50:04.16\00:50:06.43
THEY READ IT TO THE KING
AND THEY READ THE ENTIRE BOOK OF
00:50:06.43\00:50:09.93
DEUTERONOMY TO THE KING, WHICH
REVIEWS THE WHOLE HISTORY OF
00:50:09.93\00:50:12.93
GOD'S
DELIVERANCE AND HIS LEADING.
00:50:12.93\00:50:14.53
AND THE KING, WHEN HE
HEARD THESE THINGS, HE WEPT.
00:50:14.53\00:50:17.63
HE'S CONVICTED. HE TEARS
HIS CLOTHES. HE PRAYS. HE FASTS.
00:50:17.63\00:50:22.73
HE SENDS TO THE PROPHET AND
SAYS, 'WHAT'S TO BECOME OF US?'
00:50:22.73\00:50:26.36
AND THEY SAID, 'WELL, THERE'S
JUDGMENT COMING BUT BECAUSE YOUR
00:50:26.36\00:50:29.06
HEART WAS TENDER AND BECAUSE
YOU'RE HUMBLING YOURSELF, I'M
00:50:29.06\00:50:31.96
GOING TO GIVE YOU
PEACE IN YOUR DAYS.
00:50:31.96\00:50:33.90
AND HE AFFECTS A GREAT REVIVAL -
THEY RESTORE THE PASSOVER, THEY
00:50:33.90\00:50:37.43
CLEAN OUT THE TEMPLE AND, YOU
NOTICE, IT'S IN THE CLEANSING OF
00:50:37.43\00:50:41.43
THE TEMPLE THEY FIND THE BOOK.
NOW SOMETIMES THE WORD COMES
00:50:41.43\00:50:46.66
ALIVE - WE REDISCOVER THE
WORD WHEN WE CLEANSE THE TEMPLE.
00:50:46.66\00:50:51.50
DID JESUS HAVE A COUPLE OF
TEMPLE CLEANSINGS DURING HIS
00:50:51.50\00:50:54.10
MINISTRY? AND YOU KNOW
WHAT? HE CHASED EVERYBODY OUT.
00:50:54.10\00:50:57.30
HE CHASED ALL THE MONEY CHANGERS
OUT THEN HE SAT DOWN AND HE
00:50:57.30\00:51:00.06
TAUGHT THE WORD.
SOMETIMES THE WORD WON'T COME
00:51:00.06\00:51:03.30
ALIVE TO YOU UNTIL THERE'S
A CLEANSING - YOU'VE GOT A
00:51:03.30\00:51:06.76
ROADBLOCK IN YOUR LIFE
AND YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS.
00:51:06.76\00:51:09.66
YOU NEED TO DEAL WITH IT.
THAT HAPPENS AND THEN THE WORD
00:51:09.66\00:51:13.10
BEGINS TO FLOW AGAIN.
IT'S AFTER THIS REVIVAL, IN THE
00:51:13.10\00:51:17.03
DAYS OF JOSIAH, YOU
NOTICE HE BEGINS TO SEEK GOD.
00:51:17.03\00:51:23.20
HE MAKES ROOM FOR GOD
BY REMOVING THE IDOLS.
00:51:23.20\00:51:26.60
THEY HAD IDOLS -
REMEMBER WHAT I SAID?
00:51:26.60\00:51:28.66
YOU'VE GOT TO GET
SOMETHING OUT OF THE WAY?
00:51:28.66\00:51:30.20
HE KNEW THAT IDOLATRY WAS WRONG
- EVEN THOUGH THEY HADN'T BEEN
00:51:30.20\00:51:32.66
READING THE BIBLE THEY STILL
KNEW THAT, SO HE CLEANSES THE
00:51:32.66\00:51:34.73
LAND OF IDOLS. SO HE
DOES THAT - HE BEGINS TO
00:51:34.73\00:51:37.36
RESTORE THE TEMPLE.
IT HAD BEEN NEGLECTED -
00:51:37.36\00:51:39.26
AND ITS SERVICES.
THEY RESTORE THE TEMPLE AND
00:51:39.26\00:51:42.13
LO AND BEHOLD THEY FIND THE
BOOK. SOMETIMES THERE'S THINGS
00:51:42.13\00:51:45.96
THAT WE KNOW JUST NEED
BEING DEALT WITH. AND AFTER THAT
00:51:45.96\00:51:50.50
HE READS IT, HE REPENTS, HE
THEN READS IT TO THE PEOPLE -
00:51:50.50\00:51:54.26
IT'S NOT ENOUGH WHEN YOU FIND
THE WORD, YOU THEN SHARE IT.
00:51:54.26\00:51:56.93
BEST WAY FOR YOU TO KEEP THE
WORD IS SHARE IT WITH OTHERS.
00:51:56.93\00:51:58.96
HE READS IT TO THE PEOPLE AND
THE KING AND THE PEOPLE DECIDE
00:51:58.96\00:52:02.76
TO TAKE A STAND
FOR THE WORD OF GOD.
00:52:02.76\00:52:04.86
BY THE WAY, THIS IS ALL IN
2 CHRONICLES 34:1 THROUGH THE
00:52:04.86\00:52:08.76
WHOLE CHAPTER. 2
CHRONICLES 34 IS WHERE YOU'LL
00:52:08.76\00:52:10.80
FIND THIS. THEY TOOK A STAND.
00:52:10.80\00:52:13.20
THEY MADE A COVENANT TO
FOLLOW THE THINGS THEY READ.
00:52:13.20\00:52:16.50
IT'S ONE THING TO READ THEM -
TO FOLLOW THE THINGS THEY READ.
00:52:16.50\00:52:19.13
AND A MIRACULOUS REVIVAL
TAKES PLACE. YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:52:19.13\00:52:21.53
GOD GIVES THEM PEACE
FROM ALL THEIR ENEMIES.
00:52:21.53\00:52:23.56
WOULD YOU LIKE PEACE? THEY
END UP HAVING GREAT VICTORIES.
00:52:23.56\00:52:26.40
YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE WAYS THE
BIBLE IS MIRACULOUS, LET ME JUST
00:52:26.40\00:52:30.63
SHARE WITH YOU A LITTLE BIT.
THE BIBLE IS MIRACULOUS IN ITS
00:52:30.63\00:52:34.66
ORIGIN - IT COMES TO
US BY DIVINE INSPIRATION.
00:52:34.66\00:52:38.60
THE BIBLE IS MIRACULOUS IN ITS
DURABILITY - IT'S OUTLASTED THE
00:52:38.60\00:52:42.90
OPPOSITION OF THE CRITICS AND
SURVIVED THE ATTEMPTS OVER THE
00:52:42.90\00:52:45.53
AGES OF PEOPLE TO EXTERMINATE
IT BUT IT STILL ABIDES.
00:52:45.53\00:52:49.96
THE BIBLE IS
MIRACULOUS IN ITS RESULTS.
00:52:49.96\00:52:52.60
YOU TAKE PEOPLE THAT ARE JUST
TOTALLY HOPELESS - DRUG ADDICTS,
00:52:52.60\00:52:56.56
ALCOHOLICS AND THE WORD OF GOD
GETS AHOLD OF THEM AND THEN THEY
00:52:56.56\00:52:59.20
SUDDENLY BECOME SOUL WINNERS AND
THEIR LIVES ARE TURNED AROUND,
00:52:59.20\00:53:02.26
THEIR FAMILIES ARE REDEEMED -
IT'S MIRACULOUS IN ITS RESULTS.
00:53:02.26\00:53:06.40
IT'S MIRACULOUS IN ITS HARMONY.
IT AGREES IN ALL OF ITS PARTS
00:53:06.40\00:53:10.43
EVEN THOUGHT IT WAS WRITTEN
OVER A PERIOD OF 1600 YEARS BY
00:53:10.43\00:53:13.10
APPROXIMATELY 40 DIFFERENT
AUTHORS FROM EVERY STRIPE AND
00:53:13.10\00:53:16.50
TYPE OF SOCIETY AND YET
THERE'S ONE UNITED MESSAGE.
00:53:16.50\00:53:21.40
IT'S MIRACULOUS IN ITS MESSAGE.
IT TELLS OF MANY OCCASIONS WHEN
00:53:21.40\00:53:25.36
GOD SUPERNATURALLY INTERVENES IN
THE AFFAIRS OF MEN TO ACCOMPLISH
00:53:25.36\00:53:29.03
HIS REDEMPTIVE PURPOSES.
ALL THESE PROPHECIES THAT ARE
00:53:29.03\00:53:31.53
GIVEN ARE FULFILLED
- A MIRACULOUS MESSAGE.
00:53:31.53\00:53:34.53
AND IT'S MIRACULOUS
IN ITS PRESERVATION.
00:53:34.53\00:53:37.60
IT'S MAINTAINED ITS ACCURACY AND
ITS RELIABILITY DOWN THROUGH THE
00:53:37.60\00:53:40.80
AGES EVEN THOUGH ANY OTHER BOOK,
OVER THAT PERIOD OF TIME, WOULD
00:53:40.80\00:53:45.23
NOT BE RECOGNIZABLE TO ITS
ORIGINAL, BUT THE BIBLE HAS
00:53:45.23\00:53:49.00
MAINTAINED ITS CONSISTENCY.
WE KNOW FROM THE DEAD SEA
00:53:49.00\00:53:51.26
SCROLLS AND OTHER MANUSCRIPTS
IT'S CONSISTENT. AND SO GOD
00:53:51.26\00:53:55.50
HAS THIS MIRACULOUS BOOK
HE'S PROVIDED FOR YOU AND I.
00:53:55.50\00:53:59.90
PSALM 119, VERSE 9, "HOW CAN
A YOUNG MAN CLEANSE HIS WAY?"
00:53:59.90\00:54:05.03
ANSWER: "BY TAKING HEED
ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD."
00:54:05.03\00:54:09.70
YOU WANT REVIVAL? YOU
WANT CLEANSING? DON'T JUST BE A
00:54:09.70\00:54:12.50
LISTENER, BE A DOER. TAKE
HEED ACCORDING TO HIS WORD.
00:54:12.50\00:54:17.70
SOMEONE SAID - I READ THAT HENRY
STANLEY, WHEN HE CROSSED AFRICA
00:54:17.70\00:54:20.80
WITH HIS BIG CARAVAN TO FIND
DAVID LIVINGSTONE - THEY KNEW IT
00:54:20.80\00:54:24.13
WAS AN EPIC JOURNEY. HE
STARTED OUT WITH 180 POUNDS
00:54:24.13\00:54:28.30
OF BOOKS. HE
CROSSED 780 MILES OF AFRICA.
00:54:28.30\00:54:31.03
WHEN HE FINALLY GOT TO DR.
LIVINGSTONE HE ONLY HAD ONE
00:54:31.03\00:54:35.36
BOOK LEFT BECAUSE THEY WERE TOO
HEAVY AND HE JUST DIDN'T THINK
00:54:35.36\00:54:37.80
IT WAS WORTH THE LIFE OF
THE PORTERS TO BE CARRYING HIS
00:54:37.80\00:54:40.63
LIBRARY AROUND. HE THREW
AWAY EVERYTHING BUT THE BIBLE.
00:54:40.63\00:54:43.03
HE STARTED OUT AS AN AGNOSTIC.
DURING THE TRIP HE READ THE
00:54:43.03\00:54:45.76
BIBLE THROUGH SEVERAL
TIMES AND HE BECAME A CHRISTIAN.
00:54:45.76\00:54:49.60
EVERY OTHER BOOK WAS GONE.
THE WORD IS FOOD FOR THE SOUL.
00:54:49.60\00:54:54.46
SOMEONE HAS JOB 23:12.
WHO'S GOT THAT? OVER HERE. OKAY.
00:54:54.46\00:55:02.33
JOB 23:12. I'LL GET TO YOU
IN JUST A SECOND. JEREMIAH 15,
00:55:02.33\00:55:06.36
VERSE 16. "YOUR WORDS
WERE FOUND AND I ATE THEM.
00:55:06.36\00:55:11.60
YOUR WORD WAS, TO ME, THE JOY
AND REJOICING OF MY HEART FOR I
00:55:11.60\00:55:15.66
AM CALLED BY YOUR NAME."
IT'S FOOD THAT NOURISHES US.
00:55:15.66\00:55:19.73
WE CAN ALSO READ WHERE JESUS
SAID, "IT IS WRITTEN" - MATTHEW
00:55:19.73\00:55:22.96
4:4 - "MAN SHALL
NOT LIVE BY" - WHAT? -
00:55:22.96\00:55:26.30
"BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD."
00:55:26.30\00:55:29.56
ALRIGHT, READ FOR
US, PLEASE, JOB 23:12.
00:55:29.56\00:55:33.06
>>"I HAVE NOT DEPARTED FROM
THE COMMANDMENTS OF HIS LIPS.
00:55:33.06\00:55:36.56
I HAVE TREASURED THE WORDS OF
HIS MOUTH MORE THAN MY NECESSARY
00:55:36.56\00:55:41.03
FOOD."
>>HUNGERING AFTER THE WORD.
00:55:41.03\00:55:44.96
YOU'VE GOT TO -
MORE THAN YOUR FOOD.
00:55:44.96\00:55:47.56
YOU KNOW, WE DON'T MISS TOO MANY
MEALS BUT HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT
00:55:47.56\00:55:50.40
YOUR SPIRIT - WHAT HAPPENS?
YOU EVER HAVE LOW BLOOD SUGAR?
00:55:50.40\00:55:53.70
ANY OF YOU STRUGGLE WITH
LOW BLOOD SUGAR? I'M NOT SO BAD.
00:55:53.70\00:55:56.53
I'LL JUST - I CAN MISS A MEAL
- IF I'M BUSY HAVING FUN WORKING
00:55:56.53\00:55:59.50
OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I'LL
LOOK AT THE CLOCK AND SUDDENLY
00:55:59.50\00:56:01.90
FIND OUT IT'S 3:00 AND I HAVEN'T
HAD LUNCH YET OR IT'S 1:00 AND
00:56:01.90\00:56:04.80
I HAVEN'T HAD BREAKFAST. I
MEAN, KAREN, SHE HAS A LITTLE
00:56:04.80\00:56:08.00
CLOCK INSIDE. SHE
STARTS KNOWING THAT THERE'S
00:56:08.00\00:56:10.23
GOING TO BE A CRISIS AND -
BUT, YOU KNOW, CHURCHES CAN GET
00:56:10.23\00:56:15.93
SPIRITUAL LOW BLOOD SUGAR
BECAUSE THEY NEGLECT THE WORD
00:56:15.93\00:56:19.83
AND THEY START TO
GET WEAK SPIRITUALLY.
00:56:19.83\00:56:25.13
IT IS FOOD. IT IS
GLUCOSE FOR YOUR SOULS.
00:56:25.13\00:56:29.96
YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO RUN
OUT OF TIME BUT THERE'S ANOTHER
00:56:29.96\00:56:33.03
REALLY IMPORTANT
CHAPTER I RECOMMEND YOU READ.
00:56:33.03\00:56:35.33
IN EZEKIEL 37 YOU'VE
GOT A VALLEY OF DEAD BONES.
00:56:35.33\00:56:39.16
WHAT BRINGS THAT VALLEY TO LIFE?
THERE'S AN ARMY OF SKELETONS IN
00:56:39.16\00:56:44.83
THIS VALLEY. WHAT
BRINGS THAT ARMY TO LIFE?
00:56:44.83\00:56:48.50
GOD SAYS, 'SON OF MAN, I
WANT YOU TO PREACH TO THEM.
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PREACH THE WORD
THAT I GIVE YOU.'
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AND AS HE PREACHES THE
WORD, THIS ARMY IS REVIVED.
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WHAT BRINGS REVIVAL TO THAT
ARMY? PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD.
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WHAT WILL BRING
REVIVAL INTO OUR LIVES?
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GIVING THE WORD THE
PRIORITY IT DESERVES.
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IT IS OUR NECESSARY MEAT, AS THE
BIBLE SAYS, IT IS OUR NECESSARY
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FOOD. WELL, OUR
TIME IS UP AND WE'VE
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GOT A LOT MORE
WE CAN TALK ABOUT.
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YOU MIGHT WANT TO
DOWNLOAD THE NOTES.
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IF YOU GO TO 'AMAZINGFACTS.ORG'
OR EVEN GO TO 'SACCENTRAL.ORG'
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YOU'LL FIND - OH, POKE AROUND
THERE - YOU'LL FIND THE NOTES
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EVENTUALLY. IF YOU
DON'T, WE WANT YOU TO LOOK AT
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EVERYTHING ELSE
ANYWAY. SO NO, THEY'RE THERE.
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AND DON'T FORGET OUR FREE
OFFER 'A LOVE THAT TRANSFORMS'.
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WHERE'D I PUT IT? AND
WE'LL SEND THAT TO YOU JUST
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FOR ASKING. IT TALKS
ABOUT THE PRIORITY OF
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THE WORD IN YOUR LIFE AND HOW IT
HAS THAT TRANSFORMING REVIVING
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POWER. WE'LL SEND
IT TO YOU JUST FOR
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ASKING. MAKE SURE
AND ASK FOR OFFER #710
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WHEN YOU CALL. GOD
BLESS YOU FRIENDS, WE'LL
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STUDY TOGETHER AGAIN,
GOD WILLING, NEXT WEEK.
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(MUSIC)
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