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00:04 >> I want to. 00:10 >> And 00:17 [MUSIC] 00:26 >> too. 00:31 [MUSIC] 00:36 >> I'm 00:42 >> and 00:47 >> I want to stand 00:52 too. 00:54 [MUSIC] 00:59 [MUSIC] 01:06 >> Hello, friends and welcome to 3 Indians Thursday night 01:10 live. It's always a blessing to have our friends and family all 01:12 around the world tuning in any time whether it's a live 01:16 program like this or whether it's a pre-recorded program, 01:19 whatever it is. We're so thankful that you are joining 01:21 us tuning in to spin this special hour. Except in this 01:25 case 2 hours, we're going to have together to really, 01:28 really dive deep into the word of God tonight in study 01:31 together. I just want to let you know, right off the bat. 01:34 If you're watching this via satellite cable, don't change 01:37 the channel. Okay. And no point throughout this program, 01:40 should you go? I'm not really get anything because I promise 01:43 you keep watching. You're going to be tremendously blessed by 01:46 tonight's topic to we're going have a 2 hour Bible discussion 01:50 to our Bible study. And I'm going to do smart our 01:53 panelists, our guest here in just a moment. But my friends 01:55 and just let you know, if you watch this, the YouTube, 01:58 maybe you're watching this via 3 being plus or however, 02:01 you're viewing this on your phone, your computer at home on 02:04 your television. Don't go away. Tune in to the fullness of this 02:08 program because we're dealing with a very sensitive, but yet 02:11 also very important in deep topic that is very, very much 02:15 important for the times that we're living in tonight. 02:17 We're talking about true and false revival in the end times. 02:22 And so as we have seen things happening in our world and 02:25 recently pertaining to revival, we're going to be asking a lot 02:27 of questions. We're going to be answering a lot of those 02:30 questions during the next 2 hours together. If I haven't 02:33 said so far, my name is Ryan Day. I'm your host this 02:35 evening. And then again, it's always a blessing to have your 02:38 love your prayers and support for 3 abs minister. Because 02:40 right now this signal is bouncing off satellites all 02:43 around the world. It's being streamed through the Internet 02:46 and there are potential million, maybe even billions of 02:48 people that are going to see this program. And we want them 02:51 to have that spiritual awakening, that revival that 02:54 they might need in their life to come to know Jesus Christ as 02:57 Lord and Savior. Want to take now the time to introduce a 03:00 special special guests. Of course, he needs no 03:02 introduction, but it's always a privilege. An honor to have 03:05 you. Pastor John Loma King joining us here for a special 03:09 Bible topping. 03:10 >> Well, thank you, Ryan, when you invited me in extended the 03:12 invitation and I heard about the topic of the day, count me 03:15 in when fall survival. Yes, we all need to know what that is 03:19 because he's so many things happening in the last days 03:22 and we want to make sure and give you the guidance that you 03:24 need from cars were absolutely no past or in your experience 03:27 over the years. 03:28 >> And, you know, the years you've been in ministry and in 03:30 a pastoral ministry, you have seen true and false revivals 03:34 break out across this nation and across the world, maybe 03:37 even in your own community and your own churches. And and so 03:41 we'll get into some detail in just a little bit us, too. 03:43 You know your take on that and how you've dealt with that and 03:46 how to, 03:47 you know, combat that counterfeit and bring about the 03:49 truthfulness of the true revival that we're going to 03:52 discuss it tonight. Of course, I'm so honored and privileged 03:55 to have my good friend Jordan Moore here with us and I have 03:58 to say Evangelist Jordan more because of Jordan. You are an 04:02 amazing facts. Evangelist of the evangelists for amazing 04:04 facts ministry and tell us a bit about yourself. Yes, 04:08 I have the privilege to work for amazing facts have been on 04:11 the team now for 3 years traveling doing Bible prophecy 04:14 seminars and it's it's been a great blessing. Great joy to do 04:17 God's work in the same at the same feelings. Pastor, when Ron 04:21 invited me on to talk about this subject, I thought 04:25 this is relevant and this needs to be addressed and people it's 04:29 it's a tough can be a touchy subject cure. But there needs 04:31 to be handled with care. And we look at what the 04:33 scripture teaches. Absolutely. Absolutely such an honor to 04:36 have you because I remember watching the show men grow up. 04:39 We're both from the same town, grew up in the same community, 04:41 went to the same high school Jordan. You are best friends 04:45 with my brother Dakota, who is also evangelists for amazing 04:49 facts international. And and just as in it, we have kind of 04:53 watched each other grow over the years. We've seen each 04:55 other come from the mire, I guess you could say from the 04:58 worldly Meyer from the from the the old man and now cries to 05:02 transform this into a new man, a new creature for him. And 05:05 you're a godly man in such a blessing and honor to have you 05:07 here. Joining us to study this most important topics and then 05:10 the other side and then. All right. Well, my friends, 05:13 before we jump right into this topic, we're going to be 05:16 blessed with some extra special music. Of course, anytime we 05:19 have a good friend, Tim part with this blessing us with 05:22 music. It's always such a tremendous blessing, but also 05:25 we have Miss Allison Spear her until we're going to be 05:28 performing or singing the song through it on Miss Allison 05:31 Spears going to be saying that forced a beautiful song classic 05:35 through it all 05:36 [MUSIC] 05:41 [MUSIC] 05:46 [MUSIC] 05:48 and then it to you. 05:50 >> Some saw a row. 05:53 I've had questions for 05:59 this time. 06:01 [MUSIC] 06:06 [MUSIC] 06:07 >> Bought in every 6 Asian 06:12 God gave me said Thompson nation 06:18 that I try to use 06:22 calm. Cool thing to me strong. 06:30 [MUSIC] 06:33 >> Well, it all. 06:35 [MUSIC] 06:40 >> I'm to trust in Jesus. The trust in God. 06:50 >> Little through little. 06:57 >> I have room to keep him calm. You were. 07:05 [MUSIC] 07:10 >> I'm saying Dassey. 07:14 [MUSIC] 07:18 Yeah. Soar. 07:21 [MUSIC] 07:25 >> Well, but all yeah, 07:30 those precious little boy, Jesus. So that means no out was 07:39 used to rule through it all. 07:44 [MUSIC] 07:49 >> I to trust in Jesus, the trust in. 07:57 >> Little. 08:00 [MUSIC] 08:06 >> I have to tape him up. All new word to today. Pitt 08:18 only his to it. I'm 08:34 >> world food 08:48 >> praise God, praise God and through it all through it all. 08:53 I've learned to depend upon his were. That's really what this 08:57 program is all about tonight. And that is to highlight true 09:01 and false revival from a biblical perspective. My 09:04 friends were living in the last days 09:06 and we need to depend upon the word of God and nothing else. 09:10 Before we get right into our discussion, though, I would 09:13 like to go ahead and have a prayer and then we're going to 09:16 set up appropriately and dive right in so fast. If you have 09:19 an opening prayer for sure. 09:20 >> Chris, his father and have a new word is a lamp unto my feet 09:23 and the light into a path. And as we 09:26 now handle this topic, we pray that your holy spirit handles 09:29 us 09:30 as we present the word. We pray that the word present us before 09:34 you 09:35 follow us 09:36 with a desire to it's all your name, father. We pray that we 09:40 deal with this topic also delicately. We know there are 09:43 many people that may be unaware what revival is all about. 09:48 We know that their precious people walking the earth and 09:51 you are not willing that any should perish and so speak to 09:54 us and through us, Lord, help us to do it. Humbly and 09:57 respectfully in a way that somebodys attention will be 10:01 caught. Somebody is ill be opened. Somebodys hobby touched 10:05 so guide us Father, T glory and honor. We pray in Jesus name. 10:10 >> Hey, man. Im having that members. Lauren, 10:13 in light of recent events that transpired on the campus of 10:17 Sperry University there in Willmore Kentucky. Well, 10:21 people are asking questions about revival because we have 10:24 while we have seen these type of events that have broken out 10:27 over time in many different places across the world. 10:31 Obviously, this is a major event being that, you know, 10:34 now days we have media coverage. We have things in 10:37 terms of, you know, social media and ways that that this 10:39 type of thing really take picks up and kind of catches fire. 10:43 And everybody knows about it in such a short time versus, 10:46 you know, that wasn't really the case 2025 years ago. 10:49 But now everyone's talking about revival. And it wasn't 10:53 just in spare, even though I'm referencing all sparing 10:56 university. While this kind of sparked the beginning of of 11:00 what many people are considering a nation, a 11:02 national or worldwide revival. Many people are finding that 11:07 this is happening at their churches and their local 11:09 communities and something's happening. And you know what, 11:13 I just want to just kind of throw it out there. Want to 11:14 start with you, pastor, because as I mentioned earlier, we you 11:18 know, you've been minister, you've seen a lot of things 11:20 over the years. You've seen the true you seen the fall. She 11:23 experienced it all. When you saw what was transpiring 11:27 through this, this Sperry revival that was happening. 11:30 What were some of your thoughts that came to mind as you've 11:33 seen this thing play out because this wasn't just 11:35 something that happened in a day or 2 in a few days as this 11:37 went on for weeks. So tell us your thoughts on the matter. 11:40 >> I know when I first became aware that I decided let me 11:42 just look it up. And I heard the term and in fact, somebody 11:46 says to me about it and I thought on and didn't hear 11:49 about that. What is it? What is, in fact, the odds Perry 11:52 revival. So I decided to look into it. And I found 11:57 I saw a lot of what I refer to. I was listening for one thing 12:02 to another part. And I couldn't say that it was there wasn't 12:05 there because I didn't see the beginning of the inception of 12:07 the catalyst 7, right? So I know how it started. But I just 12:11 saw what was being posted on the Internet, what was being 12:13 posted on Facebook and on a lot of social media platforms, 12:17 which was what I saw, just a very strong display of emotion 12:21 and people that were shouting and people in groups, a prayer 12:25 and some people very strongly emotional jumping up and down. 12:28 Yeah, Lord, we need your lawn. We desire you. And then you had 12:32 other times with the congregation was just all in 12:34 this mode of where everybody was singing the same song, 12:36 Cry Together just as like a praise service, pray session. 12:41 And the 2 things that came to my mind was I wouldn't doubt 12:44 that in that crowd, some of their as in all revival, 12:48 some of their for the inquisitive moment. Some people 12:51 say, well, 12:52 what this is all about, right? So it's like being in a camp 12:54 fire even started. But you feel the heat, right? And the closer 12:58 you get the warmer get until like the hearing in the fire 13:01 with ISIS. So I'm sure that there's some people that were 13:04 in that crowd that were not religious at all. Some people 13:06 go into to the university that will maybe agnostic or atheist. 13:09 Then it's got to be something going on here that I don't know 13:12 about. So the inquisitive mind was there, but I couldn't help 13:15 but want to stand was what is the catalyst holding it 13:18 together, right? How long is it going to last? Because I know 13:20 the true revivals have not only the president what we see, 13:25 but they has to be some glue to hold it together. Absolutely. 13:28 And so my approach to that is if it's not held together by 13:31 something stable 13:33 and constant like cars word, 13:36 then it's like a firework show, right? Lot of light, lot of 13:39 noise, but it just burns out. So my one of my concerns is 13:43 that people are getting caught up in something that is 13:45 becoming popular, right? Right. Absolutely. Rather than 13:49 founded on God's word because I look at the Bible, you know, 13:52 the word revival. And I think Jordan, I we talked about this 13:55 briefly and feel free to chime in a time, Jordan. But the ward 13:58 revive itself means well, you are alive at one point, you 14:02 know, somebody drowns and you think there, Johnny trying to 14:05 revive them. So that means they were breathing at one time, 14:08 right? So you're trying to get them back to the position that 14:10 they were. When you look at the scriptures, you find that one 14:13 of the great examples of the day of Pentecost was after when 14:17 Jesus is preparing to leave, he said in Matthew 10, 6 but goal, 14:20 rather to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. And this is 14:24 the reason he had given them the message for many, many 14:26 years. They went in rebellion and he wanted to revive them. 14:29 This what the day of Pentecost is all about the day of 14:32 Pentecost that revival of the day. Penny causes preceded with 14:37 humility of heart, right, searching of life, laying aside 14:41 of Sen thing aside, all the things that divided them, 14:44 they were and won a court in one place, a lot of prayer. 14:48 And then the outpouring of the holy spirit, which when you 14:50 look at it, we're going to go through that a little bit and 14:52 see it. But there was something holding them together, right? 14:55 Those the commission of Jesus to bring people back. Yes, 14:59 and the Oscar revival. I wonder how many people they were 15:01 Christians and so in the lives of some, maybe it was being 15:05 reignited 15:06 and the lives of others. Maybe they were just for the 15:08 first time hearing about it. So generally I can say it was 15:12 all emotion or non spiritual, but I think in that crowd 15:18 because of the Lord works in mysterious ways and and he's 15:21 not willing that any should perish, somebody is going to 15:24 come away with. Wow, I know how it got started, but now I found 15:27 something that always needed to. 15:30 >> Yeah. And we could say there's probably a conglomerate 15:32 or a mixture of experience as it was going on on that that 15:35 same time. Not all that work, probably non genuine, but there 15:38 were probably some genuine experience is happening there. 15:41 Absolutely. And and also also so some people, as I was 15:44 heading to the videos and I saw the great emotions of jumping 15:46 in the people just really. 15:48 >> I saw some people that I could based on my experience 15:51 look at and say they're caught up in the moment. Yeah, as I 15:54 feel looking around, kind of seeing what's going on, they 15:56 caught up in them or they just get back into it. 15:58 And then I could say, well, there are some others. And that 16:00 might be saying, well, done. Lot finally caught up with me, 16:03 some not to run away from him. So it's a mixture. But I'll 16:07 talk about why it's important not to get caught up in that. 16:09 >> Absolutely. We're going to dive deeper in just a little 16:11 bit. And what exactly is revival in a much more deeper 16:14 base is going to find that orbit. Just go to Jordan, 16:17 Jordan, when you're seeing all this unfold? You know, you're 16:19 probably seeing some of the that news news, a report you 16:23 may be reading it and some of the maybe some newspapers, 16:26 I don't know. Maybe you saw on Facebook or or Instagram or 16:29 social media or hat, maybe just word of mouth. But one name to 16:32 your mind as you saw this unfolding? 16:35 >> Yes, for me. So I had a I did when it first began. 16:38 I had no clue of what a good friend of mine to text me. 16:42 A little video or something he said. What are your thoughts on 16:44 this? 16:45 I was super busy that day and that weeks on never got to the 16:48 message. 16:50 When I was speaking on a prayer line 16:52 and the lady who called me to remind me that I was going to 16:54 be speaking on the prayer line. Thank you for those reminders 16:56 from she said, did you hear about what's happening and 17:01 Asbury? Not the right up the street not far from there and 17:04 I'm like, no, I think I thought our someone message me about 17:07 having having her together having a revival. 17:10 You know, you first hear that you're like, maybe not. I don't 17:12 know. You know. 17:14 And then that very next day 17:17 went to a Friday night vespers in our church. And then we're 17:20 sharing praises. And then one of the church member says, 17:23 hey, just want to praise the Lord for the revival that's 17:25 taking place there in Kentucky. I thought this is 3, 3, 4, 17:28 different people mentioning this thing. So what what's 17:31 going on here? You know, I've never looked at in really in 17:35 detail at it and then go back and click on the video or 17:38 anything. We just kept hearing more and more from other people 17:41 saw a few things on on. 17:44 Think about it on Facebook. I actually saw a few things 17:46 about it and it just got my own mind searching about what is 17:51 true revival. Yes. So when you when you ask me about coming on 17:54 the share, I thought this is this is good. You know. So 17:57 that's that was my initial introduction to it in that year 18:00 and again, kind of skeptical and verse. But but in total 18:04 agreement with what you guys just said, that 18:07 we are not the judges of people's hearts, right and got 18:10 can be working in mysterious ways and places where maybe it 18:14 may not all be genuine got is definitely a work in some 18:17 people's lives. You know, I think we need to be careful to 18:20 just label something false. Everything they're false, 18:24 you know, because that's the that's the danger that Jesus 18:27 spoke about. His attributing the work of God to the work of 18:30 the devil. Okay, glass and the of the Holy Spirit. So we need 18:33 to be very careful how we go about, you know, let's salute. 18:36 That's why now Finney has hinted that also he's told us 18:39 why we shouldn't just blanket statement, something 18:43 we should 18:44 the food inspectors. Yes. 18:47 >> That's the spirit hahahaha spirits when they are they are 18:51 scriptures and the Bible that give us, 18:53 you know, for example, if you say, well, how do I know a plan 18:56 to get on and the airport check? You take it out. That's 18:59 right. It's not just how you feel, which plan you like which 19:03 plane has more amenities or has a more attractive things 19:07 because a lot of the attraction is what people are caught up in 19:11 like Yankee Stadium. You know, you have 40,000 people at a 19:14 concert with the secular or religious. You could you can 19:17 get caught up in it. Whatever it is because there's something 19:20 unexplainable about a moment where 19:23 35,000 people around you saying, you know, move, move, 19:26 right, whatever the case, football, basketball, music, 19:28 Christian, the secular, you get caught up in the moment. 19:31 Absolutely. One of my concerns is that some think that could 19:33 get sparked it could it could start fast and it could burn 19:37 out. So we could be an uncontrollable fire, a complex 19:40 operation. But then it burns out of people say, what was 19:42 that? What happened to the Asbury? Well, you know, 19:45 all right about it when it happened and people go off and 19:47 in abject. 19:50 >> Of security and you know, nothing about right where their 19:53 lives that were changed so this summer and will go to the 19:56 scriptures and Apple. Absolutely. So this is a great 19:58 introduction and just bring some clarification what 20:00 actually happened at all spring want to spend a lot of time 20:03 talking about Oscar. This just kind of an introductory point 20:05 just to a point of reference to be able to launch us into this 20:08 topic. This what we want to do is we want to spend time a lot 20:11 of time tonight, the remaining of our time together diving 20:14 into the word of God too properly define what is 20:16 revival. What is true Biblical Godly revival. Holy Spirit led 20:21 to a viable and then of course, we know there's a counterfeiter 20:23 out there. The enemy is working hard to make sure that he's 20:25 counterfeiting the spirit of the Lord. We want to make sure 20:27 that we provide some biblical evidence, some biblical 20:30 scriptures and passengers and some knowledge for all of us to 20:33 be able to rightly divide the word of truth. And as we just 20:36 mentioned earlier to test the spirits, whether they are of 20:39 God just provide some some evidence for this or some some 20:42 background. This was a young man, all Sperry as they were 20:44 having their weekly, their weekly chapel service, this 20:48 particular young man, that step because he was speaking and he 20:51 began to confess some of his faults and then one thing led 20:55 to another and a spiritual moment broke out. And of 20:58 course, it didn't seem like to them just another spiritual 21:01 moment or just another spiritual chapel service 21:03 because this thing went on for hours and hours and hours. 21:06 And then it led into the next day and more hours and then 21:08 became a day and then became a couple of days and 3 days. 21:10 And then as of course, the media begin to really ignite 21:14 this thing, thousands of people from all over the world and not 21:18 just in the United States, but from all over the world from 21:20 different countries started buying plane tickets and flying 21:23 him because they wanted to, I think, first of all, they 21:26 wanted this experience it for them. So they want to see what 21:29 was going on. Kind of like what you said. They wanted to be 21:30 there to to visually see him take in and see what was going 21:34 on. But also many people wanted to feel or experience. What 21:38 they had heard was being reported was happening there. 21:41 And so again, as we have made very clear, there are true 21:45 experiences. There are some not so true or not genuine 21:47 experiences. We want to make sure tonight that from the word 21:50 of God that each and every one of us, if that revival is 21:54 necessary, if you need a revival in your life or you 21:57 know someone who needs revival in their life, we want to make 22:00 sure it's a true, genuine experience led by the true Holy 22:03 Spirit of God. And on that note, I'm gonna go right into 22:07 probably the most foundational question. Pastor, you briefly 22:10 touched on it a little bit. But now let's go a little 22:12 deeper. Let's go a little bit under the under the surface a 22:15 little bit and talk about what is revival. What identify that? 22:19 Sure. 22:20 >> Let's let's go back to the example. We find it all go to 22:23 the book of Jeremiah. Very briefly. Here we go to 22:26 Jeremiah, 22:28 we find in Jeremiah 50. Let's look at this because I 22:31 suggested a moment ago, according to scripture that to 22:34 be revived means he wants conscious somehow lost 22:38 consciousness in the case of a person that may have been in 22:40 the water too long drive or person that wasn't under too 22:43 much Anastasia, the trying to revive them or maybe just the 22:46 person, most consciousness that trying to revive, then that 22:48 means they're trying to restore you to the state that you are 22:51 in previously. And so in Jeremiah 50, let's go to share 22:55 my 15th in case my wife and I enjoyed meeting Jeremiah, 22:59 but just about finished, easy killed. 23:02 But the Lord and I'm referring to the children of Israel 23:07 and this is Jeremiah Tap to 50 23:09 and we see stop the first 4 23:14 it says in those days 23:17 and in that time says the Lord, the Children of Israel shall 23:21 come. 23:22 They and the children of Judah together with continual 23:26 weeping. They shall come and seek the lord their God. 23:30 So notice what the orders problem. But a lot is 23:34 prophesying. He's beginning to talk about how this revival is 23:38 going to start. Right. And he's pointing out where it's going 23:40 to start in Israel, particularly Judah, and they're 23:43 going to come with continual weeping and they shall come and 23:46 they seek the lord their God. So the initial phase of revival 23:50 is I'm turning back to God seeking God. I'm coming with a 23:55 hole opened heart. I'm coming in and notice that showed an 23:58 emotional side of that with the weeping, you know, the Bible 24:01 talks about those and easy kill those who are praying for the 24:07 sins in the Obama nations that are done in this era of. 24:10 So there's a pouring out of the hard right awakening of just 24:14 cleaning yourself out spiritual, but notice what it 24:16 says in verse 5 in the league over 6, they shout ask the way 24:21 to Zion. I want to go back to the Lord and with their faces 24:25 toward it 24:27 saying come and let us join our cells to the Lloyd in a 24:33 perpetual covenant 24:35 that will not be forgotten, right? So they're saying we 24:38 need to cope act. We need to just really connect with the 24:41 with God. Again, we need to get things right with God. And then 24:44 for 6 says 24:45 my people have been lost sheep, they're shepherds have led them 24:50 astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They 24:55 have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their 24:59 resting place. All who found them have devoured them 25:03 and their adversary said we have not offended because they 25:07 have sinned against the Lord, 25:09 the habitation of justice, 25:11 the Lord, the hope of their fathers. So you find one of the 25:15 reasons why the foreign nations were saying 25:19 we didn't do anything wrong. They messed up anyway, right? 25:22 But they realize their own conditions. So one of the first 25:24 things about revivals we realize are needed. There you 25:27 go. I was gonna say that you have to realize that 25:28 something's wrong. And that's the problem with live to see is 25:31 legacy of things. There's no nothing wrong, right? Right. 25:34 You got a first realize something's messed up in my 25:36 life, but I need to get right. And that's why, you know, 25:40 Proverbs 3. I think it talks about where problems when we 25:43 talk about I'm seeking it. I'm calling you. You're not 25:46 responding what you're not listening. And but in this 25:51 case, the children of God responded, they see their need 25:55 that coming to the law, the weeping a lot of that went on 25:58 at the Espy revival. Lot of people that they're weeping. 26:01 And that's why say in that crowd enjoyed a night and we 26:03 agree on this to some people that are probably saying that 26:06 young man began by confessing all the wrong in his life. 26:08 You know what I need to stop playing with a CA. I realize I 26:12 need to get right with God. But what we want to caution is 26:15 something that similar to that on Mount Carmel and I get there 26:19 on that, but not right away. Absolutely. Jordan, anything to 26:22 that. What is the U.S. as we think about the definition of 26:25 revival? 26:27 >> And we look at it in the scriptures and we're going to 26:29 be doing that in a moment. But the finding it from from 26:31 what we've looked at, what we thought about before coming 26:34 here, 26:35 I've to 2 26:37 2 definitions there. They're broadening compass. I believe 26:40 the full picture. 26:42 One, is this an extraordinary work of God's spirit 26:47 that produces and each extraordinary results, right? 26:52 So God is always at work in people's live. He's always 26:55 bringing people to conviction of sand and changing them and 26:58 redeeming them. Right. But when we speak about revival, we're 27:01 talking about 27:03 and extraordinary out of the usual God working his spirit, 27:07 working to bring about a change in a person or in a group of 27:12 people. That's that's one definition. And this one may be 27:15 fills it out a little more. 27:17 An unusual display of God's Grace that awakens 27:22 and save centers and brings new life in vigor to his people. 27:27 Right? 27:28 Repeat that an unusual display of God's grace that awakens and 27:32 save centers and brings new life and vigor to his people. 27:38 That's what as we look at the scriptures here in a moment, 27:41 that's what we see. That's what I see. At least a definition of 27:44 reliable. But absolutely that's a great point. I've heard both 27:47 of you. 27:49 >> Tom touch on this. And I do want to also read just to 27:51 reemphasize the fact that 27:53 you're going hear probably be repeated a couple of times 27:55 tonight about emotional. You know, we don't want to be 27:57 caught up in our motions, were not led by emotions, got to 28:00 make decisions based on our emotions or emotional 28:03 situations where feelings. But yet at the same time, 28:06 our God is the god of emotions in the sense that when he 28:08 touches your heart and he really grab spew and grabs onto 28:12 you and you have that spurt experience, there is going to 28:14 be a sense of emotion and probably a strong emotion that 28:17 comes along with it. As you were talking, pastor, the 28:20 pastor came to my mind was second Rochester, 12 Merced 28:23 him, which is I will pour out of the House of David on the 28:26 inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and 28:28 supplication. Then they will look on. They will look on me. 28:32 They have pierced. Yes, they will mourn for him as one who 28:35 mourns for his only son and grief for him as one degrees 28:37 for a first born. When you look up on the uplifted savior and 28:41 you grasp what Jesus Christ to show you done for you, it is 28:45 going to peer sure heart in a way that you never. I think 28:48 back to my own the revival experience. And we're gonna 28:51 talk a little bit about our own revival experiences tonight at 28:53 this time. But I think back to my own revival experience of 28:56 one, God really grabbed me and he woke me up and he breathed 28:59 life back into me. I just felt dizzy was a very strong, 29:03 emotional moment that I had of recognizing that I once was 29:07 blind. But now I see I once was lost. But I have been found a 29:11 once was dead. But now I was dead in my son, but I've not 29:14 been made alive in Jesus Christ. And so, yes, not all 29:17 emotion is bad. And sometimes we're quick. Sometimes 29:20 Christians are quick to judge when they see someone having an 29:23 emotional moment. The quick to judge that can't be right 29:25 because we're just getting caught up in emotionalism and 29:28 there is a reason why we talk about that. Yes, we're going to 29:30 talk about it again. But I was yes, there are many people who 29:33 are getting caught up in a non genuine counterfeit movement of 29:37 the spirit. And it comes with great emotion and it leads them 29:39 to make decisions based off emotionalism and not the truth 29:43 of God's word. But get a motion in and of itself is not 29:45 necessarily a bad thing. Again, we have to go back and 29:48 test everything by the word and make sure that everything is is 29:52 is according to God's word a pastor. I'm also just bringing 29:55 up here because we all kind of put her hits together and 29:57 creating a a general outline pastor added to this. But I 30:00 love what you outlined here. When you add to these 3 30:03 elements here, revival is a restoration of your common 30:06 allegiance to God alone. It is a red commitment to honor 30:10 to honor God's commandment citizenry, commitment of the 30:13 whole heart of the whole heart got of 2 God of his word. 30:17 Could you just kind of break that down for some tin? Walk us 30:20 through those 3 major points that you made there? 30:22 >> Yeah, the with the word revival simply means return. 30:25 Right? And as you know, we don't find a way revival in the 30:28 scriptures, but we find return return return. Malik, Ahmed 30:31 effect is to return book. If you want to summarize that 30:33 there are 6 ways that the Lord told the Israelites they need 30:36 to return. The one we just talk about the most, his return to 30:38 be our turn to you how you know, be all that high into the 30:42 store which is only one aspect of it, but not a cat 3 for 7. 30:46 The Lord in all Malakai the Lord point at all the ways that 30:49 the issue lies, the children of Israel had turned away from 30:52 them. And let's go to malakai. Let's just look through this. 30:55 It's if you have the Bible to last book in the Old Testament 31:00 and it's so beautiful how my wife, I have this new Bible 31:05 lamenting my old bottle. Chris is so high that it is so 31:08 amazing. So let's just talk about this. I start and Malik, 31:14 I chapter 3 chapter. Also now a Chi chapter, one located on 31:20 one. Look at the Lord brings out the condition of his people 31:24 continually. But they always say, well, I don't see that 31:27 right now. Look, I won one the burden of the word of the Lord 31:31 to Israel by Malakai. First 2. I have loved you says the Lord 31:36 yet you say in what way have you loved us calling got on the 31:41 carpet. So and you'll find you'll find continually 31:45 continually continually throughout the book of Molokai. 31:48 The Lord is saying this, but then but then you find work. 31:52 But you say, but you say right? But you say and so I want the 31:55 Malik I 3 verse 7. Let's look at an example here now, a cat 31:59 3. And for 7, it says, 32:02 well, I started for 6 for I am the Lord. I do not change there 32:06 for you. And I consumed sons of Jacob 32:09 from the days of your fathers. You have gone away from my 32:13 ordinances and have not kept them. And look at the word here 32:17 that associates with revival return to me and I will return 32:22 to you says the Lord of hosts, but you say 32:26 and what? We shall we return now we know that there 32:29 because people 32:31 there is returning to God and there's returned to got on his 32:35 conditions. Right? 32:36 And a lot of what will the Apostle Paul warns us about 32:40 this last days. They'll be a form of godliness but denying 32:43 the power. So today we live in an age and I've seen this 32:46 through the decades here. So I say to the decades of 32:49 ministry, 30 plus years of ministry, 32:52 I see we had the promise keepers time. Maybe you have 32:56 heard about the promise keepers, a gigantic multi into 32:59 the nomination of movement of men all coming back to God, 33:02 quote, unquote, filling the stadium whenever the stadium 33:04 was filling the arena 60,000 and they he said at the count 33:08 of 3 Bill Hybels was the one leading out a set on the count 33:12 of 3. We all mention of the nominations and the sound like 33:15 a cacophony of Dean, all these different names of the 33:18 nominations going up and he knew that he planned to kill 33:20 you. He said let's that that that just sounds so confusing. 33:23 Let's just try something else, Ana County through. That's all 33:25 just and say Jesus. So 60,000 men just imagine 60,000 men, 33:31 she says, I was just like this gigantic megaphone, Jesus. 33:36 And he said 33:38 if we just get together on his name, 33:40 that's why about the police laying on now. That was the 33:44 fault unity, right? Right. 33:46 But it seemed as though at that very moment, 33:49 the thought probably into the minds of maybe thousands of 33:52 those men, you know, you're right. If we just all focus on 33:55 Jesus, that's all we need. But real revival is not a false 34:01 Christ centered nests rent. 34:03 >> And we're living, in other words, just a declaration 34:05 cause. Some people have this idea and we want to make it 34:08 very clear what exactly what you're saying, pastor it and 34:11 you will want to obviously look to Christ. We wanted to be 34:13 crushed. Yeah, we want to be crushed focus but many people 34:16 in the evangelical world today, especially where it came from, 34:19 a special where you came from Jordan, you have, you know, 34:22 we have these experiences growing up or people just just 34:24 just declaring the name of Jesus will just caught up in 34:27 the name of the Lord shall be saved in the Bible does say 34:29 that. But then they take an extra step and they have this 34:32 idea that if you just associate yourself with your eyes, 34:34 only just we his name, you clean that he is your savior in 34:38 mind. You're convinced that he's died for yourself. That's 34:41 all you need all this other doctoral stuff and all this 34:44 other, you know, biblical. The difference is that perhaps 34:46 maybe separate the nomination from the nomination of that 34:49 matters just come together under the name of Jesus. 34:52 >> Right. And that's being pushed to give George a chance 34:54 to speak. That's being pushed in the evangelical world. 34:56 Yeah. This whole ecumenical movement. It started out as 34:59 Protestantism on the talk about that. It started out as the 35:01 Protestant movement. The Protestant reformation was a 35:04 move back to the Bible does not back to emotion running the ad. 35:08 But the ad that move in the early pioneers, they do allow 35:11 the Bible to be their guide. And in the Garden of 35:14 Temptation, Jesus is not a very candid, very straight here. 35:18 But line Jesus when he was being tempted by the devil, 35:22 he didn't say it is song. All right. He said it is 35:25 written to present today movements just like on the 35:28 planet. Dura now because that's when you hear all kinds of 35:31 music bound worship in today. Satan has taken that and then 35:35 office eyes that into a Christian music movement, 35:37 right? Nothing wrong with music. But when music is devoid 35:40 of obedience and honoring the commands of God and living up 35:43 to his requirements minutes, just a movement is going to 35:46 build up is going to die out. People going to be left 35:48 floating farther away from shore than they were at the 35:50 very beginning. Absolutely. Absolutely good. As we're 35:53 thinking about 35:55 this biblical picture of revival but pass on the Canes 35:59 was getting at there at the beginning. 36:01 >> We we we see examples. You know, I see in Second 36:05 chronicles and second kings, some of the most I as a 36:09 sideline and Hezekiah. Yes, and you could even this will be a 36:13 little different. I think this is the the larger umbrella 36:16 revival some people would would throw in jonah's preaching to 36:21 Nineveh. That was more of a spiritual waking to those 36:23 people because those were God's people try. But that was a type 36:26 of providing input coming to repentance in. But, you know, 36:29 turning from their ways and obviously the day of Pentecost. 36:33 When you go back and you look at these 36:35 these examples in these stories, 36:38 just CYA Hezekiah, 36:40 preaching of Jonah and the day of Pentecost, there are some 36:43 principles that are laid out there that show us the nature 36:48 of what true revival is. Yes, yes, that's that's what we 36:51 want to talk about here is is the nature of the true because 36:55 if we're trying to distinguish between true and false revival, 36:58 the only way we can understand the false right now, the 37:00 counterfeit is if we understand the true knot salute, right. 37:04 So we need to 37:05 we need to look at the true in in in those examples we see it. 37:09 I'm in the book. The Great controversy Chapter, 27 Modern 37:12 Revival. I'm sure we all kind of scan that before we 37:16 came here. I would highly recommend you guys read that 37:18 chapter. 37:21 I read it. And 37:22 I was like, man, I just want to read this whole chapter with 37:24 the people, but we're not going to read the whole chapters. 37:27 That reference again chapter 27 of the great controversy. 37:30 The title is modern Revival. OK? 37:33 What idea it is as I was reading it, I just made some 37:35 highlight points right of of a sheet that the 1st half of that 37:39 chapter she describes beautifully of what true 37:42 revival its 37:43 okay, what it is. All right. And so I just made some bullet 37:46 points here and as I share them and that's going to bring him 37:49 out from the scriptures as well, that what we see. Okay. 37:53 And you guys can just chime in here. The first thing that I 37:56 saw as I was reading that passage there in the great 37:59 controversy 38:00 is that the word of God 38:03 Central 38:05 and faithfully preached, as you just said, it's not song, 38:08 but it is written. Yes, the word of God is central and 38:13 faithfully. Yes, I love that. This is this is the key and the 38:17 foundation of what true a viable is. And we see this in 38:21 just size reformation. All right. That's right. The temple 38:24 had been totally forgotten and left. The looks buried away. 38:28 Looks that will be dusting up, you know, for his roles in a 38:31 pasta. See, not right. And then now what happens? He he 38:35 commissions to go and restore the the temple, ride it out, 38:37 get it off, set back up so we can begin to worship God again 38:40 and as they do. So they find the book of the law. He brings 38:44 it to the king. Anyone reads it before him and what happens. 38:47 But they began to weep O at the realization that we've not been 38:52 living up to got stand. We've been neglecting him going 38:56 contrary to his weight in their hearts were were touched, 38:59 you know. And so the word was central even in Jonas 39:02 preaching. He gave them the word of the Lord. That right. 39:05 This is what God told me. This is the situation. The word 39:08 was the center of that and also what I said, yes, what I hear 39:11 you saying is, you know, true revival comes on on the the 39:14 foundation of God's word is always a spark from are 39:18 rediscovering or earn under a better understanding of God's 39:21 work. 39:22 >> Yes, your own sense. 17 faith comes by hearing hearing 39:24 by the word of God and these are the things that Satan wants 39:28 to prevent. He wants to prevent the word of God from being the 39:31 central focus, right? Because it's based on how I feel right 39:34 then. Well, you know, when this is over, then I don't have the 39:36 feeling in the longest and must not be real revival. I've had 39:39 people and not just talk about one particular instance in on 39:42 church right here in Thompsonville. We had a person 39:44 that joined a church a number of years ago became another in 39:46 our church and he decided he wanted to go back to his church 39:49 and said what was the reason he's on the has nothing to do 39:51 with the doctrines has nothing to do with the teachings. 39:54 It's just that there needs to be little lot more emotion in 39:56 your church. I mean somebody to get up and say something. 39:59 And 40:01 I thought, well, people are saying and then some very now 40:04 that it's culturally different from church to church. I preach 40:08 in so many different avenues church and go to 40:09 African-American church within a church, a Caucasian church, 40:12 a nation church. The response is going to be different. 40:14 But he came from a movement where it was just, you know, 40:17 the constant motion. And I'm just going to be charismatic. 40:21 Here's Mary County. You know what I'm talking about come out 40:24 of that. And he said he didn't have enough of that and he won 40:26 more of that. Not that you walk away from the truth for an 40:29 emotional high. And he said, well, in a nutshell, I think we 40:33 need to have a lot more emotion. Oh, I need to find 40:36 that more. And that's what I mean. That's what I need right 40:38 now. And what about all the truth is all happening, Rob, 40:41 there's nothing wrong with that. But this is what I need. 40:43 And this is what I've seen. A lot of the Asbury, a revival. 40:46 Yeah, a lot of emotion and I've tried my best and look at all 40:52 the videos. I wasn't there, but I've tried my best to see, 40:54 OK, can I get a good 7 out of this as anybody preaching 40:57 anything as anybody sink open your bibles? And I'm looking in 41:00 the crowd by that. I don't see any not that they're not there. 41:03 But what is being posted is not saying to me, this is a revival 41:06 based on cots where right now 41:09 just confession is one thing. But 41:12 the Devils not afraid to confession. 41:15 He's a feast fearful of the sort that salute the word of 41:18 God. It is written right as written. And so with that 41:22 couple next to us, the word being the foundation is that 41:26 the Gospel that Jesus Christ and his gospel are prominent. 41:31 I'm all right. The Jesus Christ and his gospel are prominent. 41:36 All right. He does so beautifully on the day of 41:37 Pentecost crisis. Christ has preached faithfully from the 41:42 scriptures, the Old Testament. And so this this is very key to 41:45 a true, genuine revival. While it is true. What you guys 41:48 have already stated that, yes, it's not just Jesus homely and 41:51 we don't need to worry about anything else. I but Christ 41:53 must be. Absolutely. This is on the flip side of that. And I 41:57 think interrupt him. Yeah. But despite this point on the 41:59 flip side of what you're saying, 42:00 >> he's essentially there's this. There's these 2 extremes 42:03 and you can find yourself wanted to extreme. You could 42:05 find yourself in the extreme of what we described as the 42:08 individuals coming in. They're seeking for this emotional 42:10 response. But they it's void of of the word of God. It's void 42:13 of the truth. And the true biblical gospel got sports more 42:16 or less an emotional response and experience versus the flip. 42:20 The total extreme opposite of that. Is this legal a stick 42:23 approach of, you know, all of the rules void. The rumor 42:27 Christ is, in other words, we're going to keep the 42:30 Sabbath, but they don't know the Lord of the Sabbath. 42:32 Jesus is not in that mess. That there has to be a balance 42:35 in there has to be. 42:36 >> A proper biblical approached that your spirit and truth 42:39 spirit and try to talk about that's happened. Some people 42:41 think that the word spirit means emotion. It doesn't 42:43 really mean that in a spirit means look for the evidence of 42:46 the food at the spirit by the fruit. You'll know them by 42:49 their fruits. You'll know them. And David pray the prayer that 42:52 made me a clean heart ogata and renew yes, right spirit within 42:56 me. That was a prayer for revival. He wanted back what he 42:59 had lost its transgression past who are viable. But on the 43:02 other side of that, Matthew, 15 per se, this is these people 43:05 draw near to be with him out on a meal with their lips. But the 43:08 hardest moment for me. So we I heard a lot of mouth or heard a 43:11 lot of lift, but I can only God can tell about the condition of 43:15 the heart. These are these are points that we can't judge on. 43:19 But what's the condition of the heart is directing his tissue 43:22 because as a man think it's see out of the abundance of the 43:26 heart, the mouth speaks, right. Scott is concerned about that. 43:28 New hard that's every revival brings a new hot in July. 43:32 >> And we see that not just in the biblical examples of 43:36 revival, but even as you move through history in God's 43:38 working through history, known movement, a 7th Day Adventist, 43:42 you know, 18 88 18 89 is when righteousness by faith was 43:45 being brought again prominent and Christ and his 43:48 righteousness for being made the center right. And you see 43:51 revivals as Elian, 80 Jones and Wagner when preached and shared 43:54 this these messages and that this was the centre Jews was 43:58 being made in parliament and the foundation. So that was 44:01 that the other point, then the next one that I saw as I was 44:03 reading that section again, observing these these biblical 44:07 account says that through the preaching of Christ in his 44:10 word, 44:11 the Holy Spirit does what we're told that he will do in John 16 44:16 versus alright, diction of sin of righteousness and of 44:22 judgment to come. Okay. So as the gospel is preached as the 44:26 word is being made, the center, then the Holy Spirit makes the 44:30 word effectual by doing what the Bible tells us he will do 44:33 by convicting people of San showing them where they are 44:36 wrong, right? 44:37 Not only where they're wrong, but how to live the right, 44:39 the righteousness and also again pointing to Christ and of 44:42 judgment to come this this will be we're talking about the 44:47 nature of true revival. Okay. What will be the result of it 44:51 as we look at the script and we see it again and just size 44:54 example and has a coyote, right? We see these and they've 44:58 been across what must we do? We see our Santa. They were 45:00 pricked at the heart. The Bible said. So we see this taking 45:03 place there. 45:04 >> Absolutely. So Pastor, help us. I love that. Jordan, 45:07 thanks so much for sharing that. Help us to impact of a 45:09 few more of these real true elements that people are going 45:13 to experience and that we will see as fruit and others who are 45:16 experiencing true revival. Let's start with I'm thinking 45:19 of humility and with many people lack that that basic 45:24 aspect of of starting out in humility, you cannot approach 45:28 and have a change in a true genuine change in your heart 45:31 and in your life if you don't approach got with with humility 45:35 and humble to say, Lord, I recognize that I'm in need. 45:38 I recognize that I have. And that fog to recognize that 45:41 my son's mailed you too. 45:43 >> Across unpack to force a little bit storm at that point. 45:46 Let me at let's go to second chronicles 7.14, probably one 45:49 of the best. So I asked isn't Scripture is undoubtedly a 45:53 scripture of revival? Yes, and it starts out with conditions 45:57 with the very first word is what if. But I'm looking at the 46:01 type on Jordan's have some actually. Yeah. Haha small 46:06 writing 90 bunny was tiny this time. But let's let me have you 46:10 read that, Ryan. Let's let's go to the condition when we go to 46:13 the if and then we stop before we get to that then. 46:15 Absolutely. If a case of if 46:16 >> my people okay who are called by my name, I will 46:20 humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from 46:26 their wicked ways cause. 46:28 >> So if my people right away, the Lord is not really looking 46:32 for revival among those who are not his because you can't 46:35 revive somebody back to God who was not his in the first place, 46:38 right? They have to be brought to life, right? Might actually 46:41 you from the death of spiritual death speaking right after go 46:44 from death to life like okay. And then when they have this 46:48 spiritual falling away, you've got to revive. That's right. 46:50 But if you're not, if you have not known the Lord, I can't 46:53 revive you back to me, right? And so in this 50,100 1250 1025 46:58 250 colleges descending on Asbury. How many people were 47:01 there for the spectacle of how many people there knew the 47:03 lords him coming back to him? But it starts with humility. 47:07 If my people who are called by my name will do what humble 47:10 themselves. Okay. Humility means a laying of of selfless. 47:15 I want to give you a chance to talk about this and absolutely, 47:18 you know, 56. So humidity comes before on. You can't say the 47:22 Lord. I need this. I need that. I need this money that has to 47:25 be humility and then they have to have a themselves a stop to 47:29 talk about humility there. I think I think what comes to 47:31 my mind as we're talking about this. 47:33 >> The willingness to be humble, the willingness to 47:36 place yourself on the altar, kind of like Isaac did with 47:40 with Abraham that willingness to say, OK, I recognize lower 47:44 than what you're doing is much bigger than myself. And I i'm 47:47 your humble servant. And what comes to mind is, you know, 47:50 we sweeping we've referenced Israel a few times. We see this 47:54 for more than 140 years from Mount Sinai to the 70 years a 47:58 battle you captive it-i God is just even completing in 48:01 pleading and pleading for his people to return him to come to 48:04 him, to go with a come to him. The full with a come to come 48:06 the following just this constant and gosh, just 48:08 constantly be pleading for them. But then they go off in 48:11 the 7 years Babylonian captivity and got still finds 48:14 the mercy because the buses, he had compassion on, get 48:18 compassion on them. It's so he nothing return to their to 48:21 their native land. They rebuild the temple. They reestablish 48:26 Jerusalem as an independent statehood. But yet Daniel 48:29 Priest that prayer give us a second chance you are in this 48:32 case. 3rd chance technically. 48:34 But now we find Jesus the messiah showing up on the scene 48:38 and the problem with the leaders of the day of the 48:41 Pharisees, the center sees many of them lacked humility aspect. 48:45 And I just it might that exit comes to my mind is Jesus after 48:48 having this run-in with the Pharisees, the, you know, 48:52 the the home, the big council there. Forget forget the name 48:57 of the council there. And he just said he'd run council. 48:59 That's what those kids that read on it that much on the he 49:02 just had this big right in with the same hatred council, 49:04 the pharisees. And but yet it leaves him take give the 49:07 Guinness final outpouring appeal working. Essentially 49:10 he's calling them to be humble to having spent of humility, 49:13 Reese's Jerusalem, Jerusalem. 49:15 How long I have wanted to gather us. A hint gathers her 49:19 chicks under her wings. But you were not willing. And that's 49:23 where my mind when you're talking about the Shia militant 49:26 aspect of humbling yourself, you know, if my people who are 49:29 called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my 49:32 face. This is not just a Gotti sometime believe you got an a 49:35 in a very negative light. We see him as just he's to 49:38 stern judge caught standing up on the throne and its it comes 49:42 across as well. My people better humble themselves. 49:46 They bet on called up on my name. Don't they know who I am? 49:49 You know, some people see God as Dist. You know why he is a 49:52 god of judgment while he is a god that is going to, you know, 49:56 make decisions in the end to wipe out sinners and to bring 49:59 about a restored restoration of his kingdom. We see a god of 50:02 compassion pleading with us and saying, please just humble 50:06 yourself. But you have to say that the Jordan. 50:09 >> Yeah, the cuff, you text come to my mind. But the one 50:12 that I want to share his eyes a 57. Yes, as a 57, that 50:16 beautifully goes along exactly with what you both of you just 50:20 said, OK? I say 57 verse 15 50:25 beautiful text 50:27 for the says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity. 50:31 Whose name is holding? 50:34 I dwell in the high Holy place 50:38 with him 50:39 who has a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of 50:45 the humble and to revive the heart of the can try one. 50:50 Wow, this is who got her advice to those who have are willing 50:54 to have a humble heart 50:55 to be to realize their need of him. And and again, we're 50:59 thinking about revival. 51:02 The purpose of it is we want to be with God. We want God to 51:06 draw near. We want him to come in and make a change. That's 51:10 the other thing we see about true revival. An aspect that 51:12 revival is that as the word is faithfully preached as the 51:15 crosses uplifted and people see their sin, they then make a 51:19 decision, too, 51:20 have repentance towards God and faith in the Lord. Jesus. 51:23 Yes. And then there is a reformation, OK? There are a 51:28 change. 51:29 Every time there's 2 revival, there's a change in the lives 51:32 of the people who experience because God draws near. Yes, 51:35 and that's what we're really seeking were seeking to be 51:37 with, got to know more of him, who he is to have him in our 51:40 hearts. And there are many beautiful results of 51:45 of revival. You know, there there is peace. There is joy. 51:48 We're going to talk about that more and some of the 51:49 counterfeits of it. 51:51 We don't we want to make sure that we don't confuse the 51:54 benefits. Yes, with the person of God. It right. All right. 51:58 They let my kid and he has to be this if we're seeking him 52:01 because of who he is. I mean, read the text. He's high in 52:04 holy and have as he turned the and yet he dwells with the 52:07 lowly. I mean, our God is just 52:10 >> just I love. I love that. You said don't say that again. 52:12 Don't don't confuse what is again, we don't want to we 52:15 don't want to confuse and seek the benefits over the person of 52:19 God himself. This is this is key. I mean, this is 52:21 essentially what's happening right there in the implied 52:23 accusation that the devil brings against God in the time 52:26 of just a job 52:28 because he can appears right there that heavily council, 52:30 you know, where you've been a bit below the earth to and fro 52:33 the law in got. And what about my man, Joe, you know, you're 52:36 down there. You think this is your cure territory? You think 52:39 everything everybody just functions according or what 52:41 about my man? Jo Jo was a humble, a holy man. But then 52:44 there comes the implied accusation from the devil 52:46 himself that you know what? Let me add remove your pension 52:50 protection, remove all the goodies, the benefits from his 52:53 life and watch him. He will Kersh you, too, your face. 52:56 And I love the part that you just made there. There's a lot 52:58 of Christians, pastor, you've seen it over the years where 53:01 people are perfectly fine to serve God perfectly fine to 53:05 have this revival like experience as long as all the 53:08 goodies come with it. But the goodies aren't there, the 53:11 benefits in this case? You know, we know that those come a 53:14 few naturally see got, but many people want the benefits more 53:17 than they want the got. 53:18 >> And we can easily confuse those even in our own 53:21 experience of living, even if we know that this is to be the 53:24 case. Yes, it's if there's a fine line. We just we need to 53:27 always 53:28 how we can experience this true revival is is going to the the 53:31 passages in the text of scripture that reveal to us the 53:35 person of God. Yes, the comparative geier term and we 53:38 need to to see who he is. We need to be refreshed with 53:40 that and to know that we're seeking him. 53:44 >> And we find living in a day now we we believe in proclaim 53:47 that 3 angels messages, right? The very foundation of that is 53:52 this cost will go into every nation can drift and people 53:55 what better time with their beef put the devil done to try 53:58 to counterfeit of revival when the 2 of 5 of the 3 h's 54:02 messages. And the other thing that I look for is one of the 54:04 preaching. I haven't heard anything that contains any of 54:07 these messages, about God's judgment, about righteousness, 54:11 about repentance. Haven't heard any of that. And it could be a 54:14 number of reasons. One, it could be that the people the 54:17 leading out of this are ignorant of what that means. 54:19 But I like with Jordan said don't lose Christ and look at 54:23 all the benefits because I'm Micah 6, 8, says he has shown 54:27 you. Oh, man, what is good and what does the lord require of 54:31 you? Soul following the Lord is a requirement going to talk 54:34 about that? The requirement of lords, so many people want the 54:37 Lord, but they don't want what he requires. And which brings 54:41 me to the second one hit this real quick before the break. 54:43 The second part of Reformation is Nehemiah. 1, 9, Yeah says. 54:48 But if you return to me, yes. 54:50 >> And keep my come and go, oh, I was going. We're not going to 54:54 have time to unpack. And looking to go into the second 54:56 hour was spent some time on the obedience aspect. But we've got 55:00 2 minutes before we go since will try to start a give us an 55:02 introduction of the disobedience expectedly as some 55:05 people want a lot of what he. 55:06 >> What he brings with God is the conduit to everything, 55:10 right, OK, sic first and all the things we had to you said, 55:14 Okay, Lord, I want this. I want that. I want this. 55:16 I want that. But he says, OK now, but what I want, you know, 55:19 sort of the rich and will now he says, if you will, into it 55:22 like to turn, keep the commitments. And is that all 55:23 the things I've done to stop the youth? But the Lord was 55:25 saying that because he knew the condition was this man's heart, 55:28 right? The can manage revealed his true heart condition. 55:30 Yes, and he said, well, I guess I was didn't keep the 55:33 commandments. He didn't say that. But it's obvious by his 55:35 response to many people that say, I love the hey, I would 55:39 love to keep God's Commandments was go through them 55:41 individually and see what you have the Kate. So this is 55:44 what's happening in the Christian world today to falter 55:46 viable. But the law says, if you return to me and keep my 55:48 commandments, 55:50 are you ready for that? All right. And he was that all of 55:53 you, but 55:54 OK to be kind of open, we want to go in. But so far with this 55:58 and I've seen a lot of Christianity today with pastors 56:01 and leaders whom we'll call you, but so far and forget 56:04 about the command that act outside the law. That's all 56:06 that matters. 56:07 >> I actually interrupted you before you finish near my one 56:10 night. And if you want to read the rest of it or not cases. 56:14 >> But if you return to me and keep my commandments undo them, 56:17 though, some of you were cast out to the farthest part of 56:20 heaven, yet I will gather them from their revival and bring 56:24 them to the place which I have chosen as a dwelling place for 56:27 my name. 56:29 >> He's bringing him pass right based on their obedience. 56:31 Absolutely. We've got about 40 seconds or so before abta 56:34 transition to the yes. So just kind of summarizing the points 56:36 that we just shared about the nature of true vial that it's 56:39 found on the word of God, right, being faithfully 56:41 preached on Christ in his gospel being made prominent, 56:45 then the Holy Spirit comes in and brings that conviction of 56:47 Santa righteousness and judgment. And the people have a 56:50 change in their lives. They're truly change in that. Then they 56:54 begin to go out and share this with other people. It's not 56:56 just about themselves. 56:57 >> Well, great point. Great point. My friends were just we 57:01 kind of it just kind of scratch the surface, even though we've 57:03 gotten into some deep elements were not through yet. We still 57:05 have a few other elements we're going to cover in regards to 57:08 what is true revival. And then we're going to ask the tough 57:11 question. And that is, you know, if the enemy is 57:13 counterfeiting this, what what what do we need to know about 57:16 this counterfeit spirit that's at work and how can we make 57:19 sure that we're combating that are staying away from that 57:22 deceptive counterfeit? We'll talk about the Holy Spirit 57:25 influence a little bit more in just a few moments. And we're 57:28 going to get into some other great things as well. So hey, 57:31 don't go anywhere. Don't change the channel. Don't turn this 57:33 video off. Don't go to another YouTube video. 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