WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.880 I am going to be speaking a message that going into this, because this year with how busy my 00:07.880 --> 00:13.140 wife and I are, we're not really getting into a series and Pastor kind of gave us that preparation 00:13.140 --> 00:21.420 in the beginning of the year. So I'll be filling in pockets as needed as today. And I was going 00:21.420 --> 00:25.600 to speak this message. I'm like, well, it's just one Sunday and I'll be done. Well, then 00:25.600 --> 00:28.900 I started looking over my notes and I started looking over everything that I've studied 00:28.900 --> 00:35.900 and got into. And I was like, well, it might be more than one Sunday, Lord. So I want to 00:35.900 --> 00:41.260 get into a message that is, from my perspective, it's a very prophetic message. And what I mean 00:41.260 --> 00:47.980 by prophetic is that this is a message that I believe God is currently... I mean, there's 00:47.980 --> 00:52.040 so many things that God is emphasizing as you kind of go. But this is something that 00:52.460 --> 00:58.620 that I believe is a big emphasis and has been. And it's something that God is really 00:58.620 --> 01:04.680 trying to show the church and prepare for now rather than when it comes, we're missing out. 01:05.300 --> 01:09.220 You guys have heard me say a lot of times that the urgent hour in the kingdom of God 01:09.760 --> 01:16.180 is far before the hour actually comes. That's how God treats the urgent hour. You know, 01:16.240 --> 01:22.920 where we here, I feel like in America, we're constantly reacting to the things that 01:22.920 --> 01:27.240 have already occurred. Where I believe the way that the kingdom operates is God 01:27.240 --> 01:33.940 likes to urge us and get us ready for something prior to it happening. Now, do we 01:33.940 --> 01:38.580 have the full understanding of how everything, every little facet of detail? 01:38.820 --> 01:43.740 No. And I think there's a reason why God does that. Actually, one of the reasons why I 01:43.740 --> 01:48.600 believe God doesn't give us the full thing, like to the t into the dot, is 01:48.600 --> 01:53.120 because if God gave us the full thing to the t into the dot, I guarantee you 01:53.120 --> 01:58.220 none of us would sign up. I'm telling you, I guarantee you none of us would sign up. 01:59.180 --> 02:04.000 I'll share with you a quick story. I heard a man of God share a dream he had. 02:04.140 --> 02:08.780 This is years ago. And he said, in the dream, it was him and I think two other 02:08.780 --> 02:12.060 people. And he said, all of a sudden, this school bus pulls up. And they're 02:12.060 --> 02:16.020 kind of like... I'm trying to remember the dream, so don't quote me 02:16.020 --> 02:19.720 exactly for it, but I'm getting the context of it. He said, a school bus 02:19.720 --> 02:23.600 pulls up, and I think it was two or three of them, and they were kind of like at a 02:23.600 --> 02:27.940 cliff canyon areas where the road was. So they got into the school bus, and they 02:27.940 --> 02:30.640 sat down, and all of a sudden, they didn't know who the school bus driver was. 02:31.060 --> 02:34.780 And all of a sudden, they started driving. And this school bus driver was 02:34.780 --> 02:40.260 just like Tokyo Drift, man, like, you know, corners and all these things on 02:40.260 --> 02:42.980 the edge and just doing all this stuff. And everybody in the school bus is 02:42.980 --> 02:46.300 holding on, and they're like, dude, slow down, slow down. Then when the 02:46.300 --> 02:51.020 school bus gets to a stop, the man who turns around is actually Jesus, and he 02:51.020 --> 02:56.160 was driving the school bus. And what the guy got out of the dream is that he 02:56.160 --> 03:01.560 said, I guarantee you that if Jesus Christ came and laid out his playbook 03:02.420 --> 03:05.620 fully, like, here's what we're doing, this, this, this, and that, he goes, 03:05.760 --> 03:10.560 I guarantee you nobody would sign up to follow that playbook. They said 03:10.560 --> 03:14.720 nobody would get on the school bus to actually ride it if they knew 03:14.720 --> 03:22.520 exactly the road that it was going to take. So I say all that to say that God 03:22.520 --> 03:27.420 prepares his people, and let me even underline that a little bit. He prepares 03:27.420 --> 03:34.600 the people that want to be prepared. Let me say that again. He prepares the 03:34.600 --> 03:40.360 people that actually want to be prepared. You know, we can say, well, 03:40.440 --> 03:43.980 that God's not fair. How come he didn't tell that church across the 03:43.980 --> 03:47.000 street, or the other church across the street? Who says he didn't tell them? 03:49.820 --> 03:54.500 Who says the alarm has not been sound? The Scripture says sound the alarm. 03:55.260 --> 04:01.080 Who says that the alarm has not been sound for the church to now respond to 04:01.080 --> 04:06.380 the very hour that we're living in? So that's why I say that God prepares 04:06.380 --> 04:10.880 those who actually want to be prepared. Now let me take it a step further. 04:10.880 --> 04:14.880 You ready for this to make it personal? You could be sitting here in a church 04:14.880 --> 04:19.840 that is alert, pastors that are alert to the things of God, and we can be 04:19.840 --> 04:25.460 sounding the alarm from the stage. We could be sounding the alarm from different 04:25.460 --> 04:29.780 classes, from different things that we do in this church. At the end of the day, 04:29.940 --> 04:34.560 I can sound the alarm as much as I can as a pastor at the end of the day. 04:34.700 --> 04:39.940 It is your choice if you want to be prepared or not for it. It's like 04:39.940 --> 04:43.720 you're dressing your kids in the morning. I got little kids. You lay out their 04:43.720 --> 04:47.980 clothes. And one of our boys is at that age where he's like, he's in that 04:47.980 --> 04:52.680 transition age. He's used to mom and dad getting him dressed. But now he's at 04:52.680 --> 04:55.380 that age where I'm like, hey, it's time for you to get dressed yourself. 04:55.800 --> 04:58.560 Oh, you're not dressing me? No, it's time for you to get dressed yourself. 04:58.840 --> 05:04.540 It's in the same way. God prepares those who want to be prepared. 05:04.760 --> 05:07.820 And you could be sitting here. You could be eating the good food. 05:07.820 --> 05:11.800 And I'm talking about the spiritual food. You could be receiving. 05:13.260 --> 05:17.560 But are you implementing it? Is the word becoming flesh in you? 05:19.640 --> 05:22.240 Is the word becoming flesh in you? 05:24.560 --> 05:28.920 So this morning, I want to speak a prophetic message that the Lord actually 05:28.920 --> 05:34.000 gave me to speak not just in our local church, but I actually already spoke 05:34.000 --> 05:37.460 this message at a different church this year. And as the Lord opens doors, 05:37.840 --> 05:41.620 I'm going to be speaking this message, catering it to every local body the 05:41.620 --> 05:45.440 certain way that God wants me to cater it to them. The context stays the same, 05:45.480 --> 05:49.300 but every house has an anointing. My wife and I like to call them, 05:49.380 --> 05:54.880 every house has a flavor. And the Lord, I believe the Lord's already 05:54.880 --> 05:57.720 opened up some doors. And as time goes, I'll be speaking this 05:57.720 --> 06:03.040 message in different local bodies. But I have the ability being that 06:03.040 --> 06:07.080 I'm a pastor here, I have the ability to not just condense it for you 06:07.080 --> 06:10.560 and just... but I actually have some time where I can unpack a little bit this. 06:10.940 --> 06:14.460 So you guys get first hand pick here by the way. So I know, right? 06:16.300 --> 06:18.940 If you have your Bibles, open up to Revelation chapter 2. 06:20.120 --> 06:22.200 Revelation chapter 2 starting at verse 1. 06:24.960 --> 06:28.860 Here's what I felt the Lord... this is a while ago I've been sitting on this 06:28.860 --> 06:33.020 for some time letting it brew in me, studying it on and so forth. 06:33.120 --> 06:36.900 But here's something that if I was to title this message, I would 06:36.900 --> 06:44.560 title this message Revival Is. . . . That's how I would title this message. 06:45.920 --> 06:50.120 Revival Is. . . . 06:50.120 --> 06:55.300 And with that, I think one of the 06:56.600 --> 06:59.160 frequent talked about things in the church 07:00.780 --> 07:04.320 and it doesn't just have to be in full gospel, Pentecostal circles. 07:04.520 --> 07:07.660 I believe they talk about this in Baptist circles. 07:07.960 --> 07:12.520 I believe they talk about this in Lutherans and probably even Catholics as well. 07:12.640 --> 07:17.020 I mean, this is just a topic of Revival Is in many different denominations. 07:17.480 --> 07:21.420 And I have come to the conclusion. This is now again my conclusion 07:21.420 --> 07:25.740 because I'm a people person, so I get to talk to a lot of different people 07:25.740 --> 07:30.100 and I love to meet new people and talk to new people and you learn stuff. 07:30.940 --> 07:34.800 And my conclusion is, could be wrong, but this is my conclusion, 07:35.380 --> 07:40.360 that majority of Christians don't know what Revival Is. 07:41.840 --> 07:46.500 That's my conclusion. We have ideas of Revival. 07:48.120 --> 07:52.240 But when it comes to the core and the essence of Revival, 07:52.640 --> 07:58.320 I actually don't even think we know what we're asking for when we're asking for Revival. 07:59.340 --> 08:03.300 And I'm hoping to, I kind of feel where the Lord wants me to land today. 08:03.360 --> 08:05.060 I'm not going to get through everything, but I kind of like, 08:05.220 --> 08:06.800 I think this is where you want me to land today, Lord. 08:07.660 --> 08:11.260 And I'm hoping to kind of show you and explain to you 08:12.620 --> 08:17.880 when we ask for Revival, scripturally, when we're asking for Revival 08:17.880 --> 08:20.660 or we're asking for God to come and rain down and do what you do, 08:21.040 --> 08:23.980 the move of the Spirit, all these things that we want, 08:24.340 --> 08:27.680 there is actually a tale that follows these things 08:27.680 --> 08:30.540 that oftentimes Christians don't even consider. 08:31.920 --> 08:34.280 And that's why it brings me to the conclusion 08:34.280 --> 08:38.620 that majority of Christians, we don't even know what we're asking for 08:38.620 --> 08:40.020 when we're asking for Revival. 08:41.420 --> 08:44.260 A man of God that actually has now graduated, 08:44.420 --> 08:45.380 he was a prophet of God. 08:45.920 --> 08:47.540 I'll name him, some of you might know him. 08:47.920 --> 08:48.980 His name was Harold Eatman. 08:49.580 --> 08:50.600 Anybody know Harold Eatman? 08:50.900 --> 08:51.940 If you do, just raise your hand. 08:52.560 --> 08:55.660 Yeah, Harold Eatman, he was actually a household name in Minnesota. 08:55.940 --> 08:57.280 He was very well known in Minnesota. 08:57.920 --> 09:00.280 And from my experience, a true prophet of God. 09:00.940 --> 09:03.420 So very accurate, very... 09:03.420 --> 09:06.280 not your fortune teller like we have these days. 09:06.640 --> 09:09.080 He was a fourth teller, not a fortune teller. 09:10.400 --> 09:12.460 And Harold Eatman actually said, he said, 09:12.540 --> 09:15.280 I believe 99%, now this is coming from his spiritual son 09:15.280 --> 09:17.660 that told me this, so I'm quoting his spiritual son. 09:18.400 --> 09:21.800 He said, Harold Eatman said that 99% of Christians 09:21.800 --> 09:23.520 don't know what Revival is. 09:24.560 --> 09:25.820 I was like snap, man. 09:26.140 --> 09:29.960 I didn't go that far, but he was a pretty direct man. 09:30.440 --> 09:32.260 He's pretty direct in a lot of the things he said. 09:33.320 --> 09:35.060 And I'm gonna be honest with you. 09:35.060 --> 09:38.960 I don't wanna be up here 09:41.640 --> 09:45.120 feeling like I know all of what Revival is, 09:45.280 --> 09:47.160 how it comes about on and so forth. 09:47.160 --> 09:50.400 Though I've studied, I've sought the scriptures, 09:50.600 --> 09:52.480 I've sought the Lord, but I don't wanna come off 09:52.480 --> 09:54.040 and seem like I got it all figured out. 09:54.080 --> 09:56.920 Because in all honesty, I don't. 09:59.320 --> 10:03.460 I can't say exactly how Revival is gonna come about 10:03.460 --> 10:05.900 or what exactly it's gonna look like. 10:06.180 --> 10:09.060 Do I have ideas that I'm confident in? 10:09.360 --> 10:11.800 Yes, it's coming from a scriptural basis. 10:13.300 --> 10:15.960 But I can't say that I have it all figured out 10:15.960 --> 10:17.780 and I know exactly when it's gonna happen. 10:18.040 --> 10:19.500 I know how it's gonna happen. 10:21.740 --> 10:24.380 I'm gonna be completely honest with you this morning. 10:24.640 --> 10:27.420 I can't say that I have it all figured out. 10:29.200 --> 10:32.040 But I would say this, I have enough 10:32.620 --> 10:34.660 that sometimes when I talk to people 10:35.080 --> 10:37.000 and we get in the conversation of Revival 10:37.000 --> 10:40.000 and some people start to tell me their perspective of Revival, 10:40.640 --> 10:42.700 most of the time I bite my tongue. 10:43.660 --> 10:47.100 But it's like, man, I think you're gonna be blown away 10:47.100 --> 10:48.920 when Revival actually comes. 10:49.520 --> 10:50.840 I think you're gonna be like, 10:50.940 --> 10:52.160 well, that's not what I was expecting. 10:54.740 --> 10:56.580 So I'm hoping that I give you enough today 10:56.580 --> 11:01.720 that you get maybe a better idea of it. 11:01.720 --> 11:04.040 Let me do this. 11:04.860 --> 11:06.980 So I just wanna kind of go off 11:06.980 --> 11:08.800 some of the things that I've heard over the years. 11:08.900 --> 11:10.820 This is not over the months, this is over the years. 11:11.440 --> 11:14.700 Some say Revival is the power of God 11:14.700 --> 11:16.800 coming and manifesting itself, 11:18.040 --> 11:19.480 which I can't disagree with. 11:20.020 --> 11:21.240 I really can't disagree with that. 11:22.040 --> 11:24.860 Some say it's a strong move of the Spirit 11:24.860 --> 11:28.120 or a great outpouring of the Spirit of God. 11:29.020 --> 11:30.760 Again, I can't disagree with that either. 11:32.020 --> 11:34.220 Some say it's the gifts of the Spirit 11:34.220 --> 11:37.260 operating in the church like never before. 11:37.740 --> 11:39.600 And I wanna pause there for a second. 11:40.380 --> 11:44.880 I feel like just because the gifts operated somewhere 11:44.880 --> 11:47.080 right away we're so quick to call it Revival. 11:47.780 --> 11:50.800 And it's like, yeah, maybe there was a Reviving 11:50.800 --> 11:53.300 of something that was dead, 11:53.840 --> 11:56.800 but I can't necessarily say just because the gifts are flowing, 11:56.800 --> 11:57.400 it's important. 11:57.620 --> 12:01.920 Now hear me here because the gifts are something 12:01.920 --> 12:03.620 that are overlooked oftentimes 12:03.620 --> 12:06.300 in full gospel Pentecostal circles. 12:07.100 --> 12:09.260 I'm not talking about the Baptist circles, 12:09.560 --> 12:10.280 the Lutherans, the Catholics. 12:10.360 --> 12:13.280 I'm talking about full gospel Pentecostal circles. 12:13.500 --> 12:15.300 We oftentimes overlook the gifts. 12:16.000 --> 12:18.040 And they are needed, and I'll even say this, 12:18.160 --> 12:21.320 they are needed more now than the early church needed them. 12:24.340 --> 12:26.120 Honestly, we need the gifts 12:26.120 --> 12:27.540 of the Spirit more now. 12:27.680 --> 12:30.860 The latter church, we need the gifts now 12:31.360 --> 12:34.760 more than they actually needed it in the book of Acts. 12:37.700 --> 12:39.600 We're the generation, if I'm understanding, 12:39.800 --> 12:42.540 the latter church is the one that's going to be 12:42.900 --> 12:45.820 ushering Christ to come as bridegroom and as king. 12:46.320 --> 12:49.480 We need the Holy Spirit more now than we did. 12:50.160 --> 12:51.340 Not to say they didn't need them, 12:51.360 --> 12:53.360 but I'm trying to compare it to you. 12:53.780 --> 12:59.280 We need the Holy Spirit now more than they needed them back then. 13:00.920 --> 13:03.260 Okay, maybe I need them more than you guys need them. 13:03.320 --> 13:05.240 I'm just going to be honest with you, I need the Holy Ghost. 13:06.700 --> 13:11.060 Some say that revival is a tingling feeling. 13:14.420 --> 13:15.120 You're laughing. 13:15.620 --> 13:17.580 But these are people that genuinely love the Lord, 13:17.640 --> 13:19.160 but that's their perspective of it. 13:21.700 --> 13:25.700 Some say revival is falling over under the power of God. 13:28.900 --> 13:31.600 Some say it's the billion soul harvest. 13:33.200 --> 13:37.640 Some say revival is the spirit of repentance falling on a people, 13:38.280 --> 13:39.780 both believers and unbelievers. 13:40.440 --> 13:44.080 And according to history, when you read some of the, you know, 13:44.080 --> 13:50.220 revivals that God moved, you saw a lot of these things. 13:50.560 --> 13:53.540 So I don't disagree with any of the things that I just read you. 13:54.060 --> 13:56.980 Now I want to read actually some of the descriptions 13:56.980 --> 13:59.480 that the fathers of the faith, people like John Wesley, 13:59.820 --> 14:02.000 Charles Finney, George Winfield. 14:02.660 --> 14:06.120 I want to read some of their descriptions and definitions of it. 14:06.880 --> 14:12.720 John Wesley viewed revival as the church's primary purpose 14:13.940 --> 14:18.360 famously stating that believers should spend and be spent 14:18.360 --> 14:21.100 in the work of saving souls. 14:21.760 --> 14:23.940 That was John Wesley's view of revival. 14:24.860 --> 14:25.800 Let me read that again. 14:27.140 --> 14:29.760 That revival... 14:29.760 --> 14:34.360 John Wesley's view of revival is that the church's primary purpose, 14:35.300 --> 14:38.340 famously stating, this is his famous statement, 14:38.340 --> 14:43.240 that believers should spend and be spent 14:43.240 --> 14:46.000 for the work of saving souls. 14:47.180 --> 14:52.180 Charles Finney described it this way. 14:52.300 --> 14:55.880 While acknowledging God initiates it, 14:56.860 --> 15:01.080 Finney argued that revival is a human duty 15:01.080 --> 15:05.520 suggesting it can be worked up through proper obedience, 15:05.980 --> 15:07.400 prayer, and methods. 15:09.180 --> 15:11.420 I mean, would you guys agree so far with some of these things? 15:12.220 --> 15:13.700 I mean, I don't disagree. 15:14.920 --> 15:18.600 I do believe that God is the one that actually initiates revival. 15:18.980 --> 15:19.300 He does. 15:20.200 --> 15:23.920 We can't force God and twist his arm and say, 15:23.980 --> 15:25.760 now you have to pour out your spirit, Lord. 15:27.800 --> 15:30.560 It's as he wills, but there is a part. 15:31.200 --> 15:33.060 And Jim, you touched on it a little bit this morning. 15:33.060 --> 15:36.760 There is a part that we play as intercessors, 15:37.380 --> 15:40.300 which, by the way, if you study revivals, 15:41.400 --> 15:42.980 to the measure that I've studied them, 15:43.340 --> 15:48.160 revival never started without people dedicated in prayer. 15:53.080 --> 15:56.680 Revival actually never started without people 15:56.680 --> 15:59.320 laying their lives down in prayer 15:59.320 --> 16:01.780 and seeking the face of God. 16:01.780 --> 16:03.340 I said hours a day. 16:03.580 --> 16:04.620 Hours a day. 16:07.160 --> 16:08.200 Study revivals. 16:08.460 --> 16:10.920 Just study the past history of revivals. 16:11.460 --> 16:13.800 A lot of the times people will come into a revival 16:13.800 --> 16:18.680 and they see the result of what's been done in secret 16:18.680 --> 16:20.040 by just a few. 16:21.180 --> 16:22.740 By just a few, I said. 16:25.960 --> 16:27.900 Let me throw this into the mix. 16:28.360 --> 16:29.720 We all want revival, right? 16:30.340 --> 16:32.920 But very few of us are willing to pay the cost for it. 16:36.890 --> 16:38.010 Do you see what I mean? 16:38.230 --> 16:39.730 See, I'm going somewhere here. 16:39.790 --> 16:42.170 I read these quotes and it's like I'm going somewhere 16:42.170 --> 16:43.050 because I get passionate. 16:43.270 --> 16:44.770 Because I'm like, people, wake up. 16:45.750 --> 16:48.610 We don't know what we're asking for when we're asking for revival. 16:50.470 --> 16:51.650 We all want it. 16:52.190 --> 16:53.750 We pray about it. 16:53.830 --> 16:54.710 We sing about it. 16:54.750 --> 16:55.710 We talk about it. 16:55.950 --> 16:58.670 But when it comes to actually doing the work, 16:59.310 --> 17:01.210 it seems that there is very few. 17:01.810 --> 17:04.090 And I'm not trying to throw... 17:04.090 --> 17:05.230 How does Pastor Verne say it? 17:05.250 --> 17:07.090 He says, if the shoe fits, then put it on. 17:07.530 --> 17:08.690 I'm not trying to... 17:08.690 --> 17:10.990 I'm not trying to have you wear a certain shoe. 17:11.310 --> 17:13.570 But to me, it's interesting that when we have 17:13.570 --> 17:14.810 our intercessory prayers, 17:15.850 --> 17:17.230 there's very few that show up. 17:20.630 --> 17:22.750 Well, Pastor Igor, I'm busy. Good, me too. 17:25.370 --> 17:27.390 Well, Pastor Igor, you don't understand. Good. 17:28.130 --> 17:29.650 You must not understand what I'm going through 17:29.650 --> 17:30.150 then as well. 17:34.390 --> 17:37.910 So I would agree with Charles Spinney that there is a part 17:37.910 --> 17:39.350 that we play. 17:40.090 --> 17:41.730 God initiates it. 17:42.350 --> 17:44.030 But we play a part. 17:44.290 --> 17:46.470 He said, improper obedience. 17:48.370 --> 17:49.870 Improper obedience. 17:50.450 --> 17:51.850 Improper prayer. 17:52.250 --> 17:53.930 And improper methods. 17:54.370 --> 17:56.410 So there is improper methods. 17:56.550 --> 17:58.270 And there is improper prayers. 17:58.550 --> 18:00.770 And there is improper obedience. 18:00.770 --> 18:03.130 If you flip the coin on the other side. 18:05.870 --> 18:09.010 Martin Lloyd-Jones, I'm not too familiar with him, 18:09.050 --> 18:10.290 but I really liked what he wrote. 18:10.790 --> 18:11.650 This is what he wrote. 18:12.730 --> 18:14.110 He's one of the fathers of the faith. 18:14.470 --> 18:18.470 He described revival as a sovereign outpouring 18:18.470 --> 18:22.210 of the spirit that goes beyond ordinary. 18:24.390 --> 18:26.370 Transforming not just individuals, 18:26.770 --> 18:28.610 but whole communities. 18:29.650 --> 18:31.990 Okay, now we want to see that, right? 18:32.870 --> 18:34.770 We want to see that as this house. 18:34.950 --> 18:35.550 I don't know about you. 18:35.650 --> 18:37.690 I want to see our community changed. 18:38.530 --> 18:40.970 Okay, get ready to put boots to the ground and work then. 18:45.400 --> 18:46.560 Friends, that's the truth. 18:47.700 --> 18:49.140 I'm just being real with you. 18:49.220 --> 18:51.660 This is what I mean is I talk to people about revival. 18:52.020 --> 18:53.580 And they're like, yeah, man, we're all four. 18:53.760 --> 18:55.260 Let's have the spirit of God come. 18:55.680 --> 18:57.020 Let's have the fire of God come. 18:57.220 --> 19:00.280 Okay, what sacrifice are you putting on the altar 19:00.280 --> 19:03.080 for the fire of God to actually come and consume? 19:04.500 --> 19:06.700 I've said this before and I'm going to say it again. 19:07.180 --> 19:10.140 If we do not put a sacrifice on the altar 19:10.140 --> 19:13.700 that is enough for the fire of God to consume, 19:14.060 --> 19:15.420 the fire of God won't come. 19:15.540 --> 19:16.260 Do you know why? 19:16.820 --> 19:18.360 It's actually for our mercy. 19:18.600 --> 19:20.400 Because if there is not a sacrifice 19:20.400 --> 19:23.480 that is big enough for the fire of God to consume, 19:23.800 --> 19:26.060 the altar itself will be consumed. 19:26.620 --> 19:27.900 That's talking about us. 19:28.920 --> 19:31.240 That's talking about us being unprepared, 19:31.400 --> 19:33.540 unready to receive the fire. 19:34.360 --> 19:37.000 A fire that actually destroys you 19:37.000 --> 19:40.240 rather than the offering that you're bringing on to the Lord. 19:42.860 --> 19:45.220 We want to see our community changed, friends. 19:45.680 --> 19:47.080 It's boots to the ground working. 19:49.260 --> 19:51.960 Hours in prayer and then properly, 19:52.160 --> 19:52.960 let me underline that, 19:53.420 --> 19:55.360 properly obeying God. 20:00.210 --> 20:01.950 George Whitfield wrote this. 20:02.830 --> 20:05.090 He viewed revival as a sovereign, 20:06.090 --> 20:07.790 transformative move of God. 20:08.230 --> 20:11.590 Which again, I don't disagree with any of those statements. 20:12.650 --> 20:14.590 But here's where... 20:15.610 --> 20:18.290 Here's where oftentimes when I talked to people 20:18.290 --> 20:18.890 over the years, 20:19.190 --> 20:21.230 here's where oftentimes people miss it 20:21.230 --> 20:22.310 when they talk about revival. 20:22.930 --> 20:24.310 And it's like, I'm going to say it 20:24.310 --> 20:27.050 and you're going to be like, well, yeah, I get it. 20:27.050 --> 20:29.070 But it's like, we need to actually pay attention 20:29.070 --> 20:31.570 to that thing more than everything else. 20:32.190 --> 20:34.070 The purpose of revival, 20:34.390 --> 20:36.230 the purpose of it, of why God 20:36.230 --> 20:39.090 even is going to send what we're waiting for, 20:39.190 --> 20:41.290 the great revival, the billion soul harvest, 20:41.430 --> 20:41.990 all this stuff. 20:42.350 --> 20:44.950 The purpose of it is actually found in Revelation 2. 20:46.270 --> 20:47.690 If you take revival 20:47.690 --> 20:50.730 and you get to the core and the essence of it, 20:50.870 --> 20:53.110 of God, why do we need revival? 20:54.410 --> 20:56.310 The core and the essence of revival 20:56.310 --> 20:57.770 and what it is, the purpose of it, 20:57.870 --> 20:59.810 is simply first love on to God. 21:00.370 --> 21:02.110 That's literally the core 21:02.110 --> 21:03.730 and the essence of it. 21:06.030 --> 21:07.110 That's revival. 21:09.470 --> 21:12.710 Revival is not just, oh, I love you, God. 21:13.070 --> 21:15.230 It's actually living a life 21:15.230 --> 21:17.330 in first love on to God 21:17.330 --> 21:18.830 and it's growing in that love. 21:20.130 --> 21:21.130 That's revival. 21:21.590 --> 21:23.390 Everything else is secondary. 21:24.550 --> 21:26.130 I'm gonna be honest with you. 21:26.730 --> 21:28.190 I'm not saying that it's... 21:28.190 --> 21:28.790 No, no, listen. 21:29.250 --> 21:30.010 It's secondary. 21:32.050 --> 21:33.410 The purpose of revival 21:33.410 --> 21:36.890 in even why God is wanting to serve the church 21:36.890 --> 21:38.630 and serve people is 21:39.090 --> 21:41.690 that he desires to be a God 21:41.690 --> 21:43.410 that is loved with first love. 21:45.490 --> 21:48.190 Did you know that you can have a move of the spirit 21:48.190 --> 21:49.310 yet not have love? 21:49.990 --> 21:50.970 Did you know that? 21:52.470 --> 21:54.330 You can actually have the gifts 21:54.330 --> 21:56.370 operate yet not have love. 21:58.450 --> 22:01.370 You can actually have people get saved 22:01.370 --> 22:03.790 yet people are not walking in first love. 22:07.160 --> 22:08.240 You can have a church. 22:08.400 --> 22:09.660 I heard this story, by the way, 22:09.680 --> 22:10.860 and I'm gonna get into it here a little bit. 22:11.740 --> 22:13.180 I heard a pastor get interviewed 22:13.820 --> 22:15.900 and he was talking about how their church 22:16.840 --> 22:17.720 experienced revival 22:17.720 --> 22:19.460 and like this thing just boomed. 22:19.940 --> 22:21.640 And the pastor says on this podcast 22:21.640 --> 22:23.020 and first I was like, that's kind of odd. 22:23.400 --> 22:24.640 But then the more I thought about it, 22:24.660 --> 22:26.320 I'm like, oh, that makes sense. 22:27.400 --> 22:29.560 He said, revival broke out 22:30.580 --> 22:32.800 and he actually, this is gonna sound super weird 22:32.800 --> 22:34.040 and some of you are gonna be like, that's weird. 22:34.480 --> 22:35.940 He actually shut it down 22:35.940 --> 22:37.720 in the midst of its highest peak. 22:40.140 --> 22:41.640 Because he said all of a sudden 22:41.640 --> 22:43.880 he said, I saw people coming 22:43.880 --> 22:45.560 what he called the revival seekers. 22:47.020 --> 22:48.360 They weren't Jesus seekers. 22:48.500 --> 22:49.420 They were revival seekers. 22:49.420 --> 22:51.820 And he said, I shut it down 22:51.820 --> 22:53.860 because I knew that that thing 22:53.860 --> 22:55.860 was gonna take a left turn into the ditch. 22:58.240 --> 22:59.540 You can have revival 23:00.140 --> 23:02.160 yet when the dust settles 23:02.160 --> 23:03.120 and everything comes down, 23:03.480 --> 23:05.340 all of a sudden Jesus ain't even there. 23:08.960 --> 23:10.940 You got people that are revival seekers 23:10.940 --> 23:12.560 rather than Christ seekers. 23:12.940 --> 23:14.500 So that's why I say at the core 23:14.500 --> 23:16.840 and the essence of what revival is 23:16.840 --> 23:19.600 and the purpose of it, why God is even bringing it, 23:19.600 --> 23:22.500 it's because he is a God that desires 23:22.500 --> 23:25.060 to be loved with first love from his people. 23:27.140 --> 23:29.240 That's the core and the essence of revival. 23:30.960 --> 23:34.840 When I see people actually falling in love with Jesus 23:34.840 --> 23:37.460 and walking in first love with Jesus 23:37.460 --> 23:40.020 that's when I can confidently say 23:40.020 --> 23:41.360 they're being revived. 23:42.820 --> 23:44.280 That's when I can actually say, 23:44.320 --> 23:45.780 yep, that individual's being revived. 23:46.100 --> 23:47.380 The Holy Spirit is 23:48.040 --> 23:52.020 birthing he is bringing life into within them 23:53.140 --> 23:54.800 just because you operate in the gifts 23:54.800 --> 23:56.380 which again, I am for them. 23:56.560 --> 23:58.380 I love the gifts. We need them. 23:59.240 --> 24:01.400 But just because you operate in the gifts 24:01.400 --> 24:03.680 does not tell me that you're walking 24:03.680 --> 24:05.040 in first love towards the Lord. 24:06.780 --> 24:08.500 See, first love is different 24:08.500 --> 24:09.800 and I'll get into it here a little bit 24:09.800 --> 24:11.140 but first love is different. 24:11.240 --> 24:12.040 It speaks different. 24:12.940 --> 24:14.580 It prioritizes different. 24:16.140 --> 24:18.400 It sets its schedule different. 24:22.260 --> 24:24.280 Revelations chapter two, let me read some of this. 24:25.280 --> 24:26.520 Starting at verse one. 24:27.000 --> 24:28.800 Again, this is Jesus addressing 24:28.800 --> 24:30.720 the seven churches in Revelation. 24:32.240 --> 24:36.080 And I'll give you this little nugget here. 24:36.960 --> 24:39.180 Some time ago when I was with the Lord 24:39.180 --> 24:42.080 he was bringing me through these seven churches 24:42.080 --> 24:44.280 and he asked me, he said, 24:44.420 --> 24:45.500 son, out of the seven churches 24:47.500 --> 24:48.700 what was the first church 24:48.700 --> 24:50.500 and what was the thing that I addressed there? 24:51.120 --> 24:52.780 And I'm like sitting and I'm trying to remember 24:52.780 --> 24:53.740 and I'm like, well, I think, Lord, 24:53.820 --> 24:55.620 you were regarding that they lost their first love. 24:56.080 --> 24:56.980 So he said, you're right. 24:57.060 --> 24:58.200 So I started reading it. 24:58.420 --> 25:00.840 And the Lord said it is strategic 25:01.240 --> 25:03.460 of why I addressed that church first 25:03.460 --> 25:04.280 out of the seven. 25:04.680 --> 25:06.600 He goes, because it all begins with first love. 25:09.420 --> 25:10.600 The Lord was telling this to me. 25:10.600 --> 25:12.780 He said, son, he goes, it all begins with first love. 25:12.900 --> 25:15.300 That is the foundational ground 25:15.300 --> 25:18.160 to the move of the spirit, to the signs, 25:18.620 --> 25:20.380 the miracles, the wonders, 25:20.940 --> 25:22.500 the souls being saved. 25:23.760 --> 25:26.380 How can I tell somebody to love Jesus 25:27.540 --> 25:29.580 if I myself don't even love him 25:29.580 --> 25:31.060 the way that he's asking me to love him? 25:33.260 --> 25:34.380 We become hypocrites. 25:40.600 --> 25:42.560 Revelation chapter two, verse one. 25:42.560 --> 25:45.400 And to the angel of the church of Ephesus, right. 25:46.040 --> 25:48.980 These things says he who holds the seven stars 25:49.420 --> 25:51.200 in his right hand, who walks 25:51.920 --> 25:54.620 in the midst of the seven golden lamp stands. 25:56.260 --> 25:59.280 I know your works, your labor, your patience. 25:59.580 --> 26:00.660 See, the Lord is so gracious. 26:00.860 --> 26:03.400 Even in his correcting, he tells us how good we are. 26:05.300 --> 26:06.180 He's just gracious. 26:07.300 --> 26:09.820 I know your works, your labor, your patience. 26:09.820 --> 26:12.880 And that you cannot bear those who are evil. 26:14.140 --> 26:16.360 And you have tested those 26:16.360 --> 26:19.120 who say they are apostles and are not 26:19.120 --> 26:21.000 and have found them to be liars. 26:21.160 --> 26:22.240 He's commending them. 26:22.900 --> 26:24.020 The Lord is commending them. 26:24.120 --> 26:24.840 He's saying, hey listen, 26:25.340 --> 26:27.040 you guys have really good discernment. 26:27.620 --> 26:29.500 You can actually discern 26:29.500 --> 26:31.760 when somebody comes into your meeting 26:31.760 --> 26:33.440 if they are a true apostle, 26:33.760 --> 26:35.140 if they are a true prophet, 26:35.520 --> 26:37.060 if they are a true evangelist, 26:37.060 --> 26:41.240 if they are of me, you have a gift of discernment. 26:41.980 --> 26:43.480 You see, the gifts are operating. 26:45.200 --> 26:47.100 The gifts are operating in that church. 26:49.060 --> 26:50.240 He's commending them. 26:50.840 --> 26:53.580 He's saying, I'm so glad that you have the ability 26:53.580 --> 26:55.260 to see and to test 26:55.260 --> 26:56.920 that who's a true apostle 26:57.740 --> 26:59.500 and you found them to be liars, 26:59.600 --> 27:00.460 so you've tested them. 27:00.980 --> 27:02.060 And then in verse three he says, 27:02.220 --> 27:04.880 and you have persevered and have patience. 27:06.660 --> 27:08.180 So you're not giving up. 27:08.300 --> 27:09.160 You have a vision. 27:09.320 --> 27:11.300 In other words, you have a vision. 27:12.780 --> 27:14.300 And the Lord is saying, listen, 27:14.480 --> 27:15.580 you've persevered. 27:16.440 --> 27:19.060 You've been patient to watch the vision. 27:19.380 --> 27:21.560 You've been patient to sow the seed, 27:21.940 --> 27:23.440 to watch the seed die, 27:23.720 --> 27:25.040 and now you're watering it 27:25.040 --> 27:27.260 and you're watching that seed begin to grow. 27:27.600 --> 27:28.960 He's commending them. 27:30.060 --> 27:31.200 There is vision. 27:33.160 --> 27:36.440 Friends, that church was not a church without vision. 27:36.740 --> 27:38.060 They had the gifts flowing. 27:38.420 --> 27:39.760 They had the vision there. 27:40.680 --> 27:41.920 Who does that talk about? 27:42.440 --> 27:43.540 Talks about us, right? 27:44.660 --> 27:46.560 We have a vision set in place here. 27:47.440 --> 27:49.880 We have the gifts of the Holy Spirit flowing, 27:50.060 --> 27:51.280 signs, miracles, wonders. 27:51.620 --> 27:53.140 We have it happening here. 27:55.600 --> 27:56.720 We're patient. 27:57.800 --> 27:58.920 We're persevering. 27:59.020 --> 28:00.620 We're standing in faith 28:00.620 --> 28:02.380 and he continues to commend them. Listen. 28:04.300 --> 28:07.160 He says, and have labored for my name's sake 28:07.160 --> 28:09.260 and have not become weary. 28:09.800 --> 28:10.620 So he's saying, hey, 28:12.560 --> 28:14.440 you can discern hallelujah. 28:15.540 --> 28:17.420 You've persevered and you're being patient. 28:17.540 --> 28:18.380 You're watching the vision. 28:18.700 --> 28:19.520 You have vision. 28:19.840 --> 28:20.600 That's awesome. 28:21.960 --> 28:23.080 You're laboring. 28:24.200 --> 28:26.800 You're laboring and you're not growing weary. 28:27.040 --> 28:27.760 In other words, 28:28.100 --> 28:30.300 you're doing the things that I'm asking you to do. 28:30.300 --> 28:31.900 Good job. That is awesome. 28:32.080 --> 28:34.120 I am commending you for it. 28:34.240 --> 28:36.160 But then he says this in verse 4, 28:37.560 --> 28:39.520 nevertheless, I have this against you. 28:41.440 --> 28:42.600 That's gut-wrenching. 28:47.180 --> 28:48.380 I'm going to be honest with you. 28:48.440 --> 28:50.480 If I was a pastor of that church and the Lord came, 28:50.980 --> 28:52.840 that would be gut-wrenching for me to hear. 28:54.600 --> 28:55.980 Here I am on the outside. 28:56.360 --> 28:57.720 Everything looks like it's great. 28:57.820 --> 29:00.420 We have everything working for us. 29:00.420 --> 29:04.700 We're doing it the way that we should be doing it. 29:04.820 --> 29:06.640 But yet to hear the Lord say, 29:06.780 --> 29:08.500 nevertheless, I have this against you. 29:10.520 --> 29:12.000 I have this against you. 29:12.980 --> 29:14.120 You've left your first love. 29:17.260 --> 29:19.180 You see, we can have revival. 29:19.540 --> 29:21.060 Friends, you can have, 29:21.420 --> 29:22.440 I'll even put it this way, 29:22.520 --> 29:25.000 you can have a form of revival. 29:25.700 --> 29:27.520 Yet when the dust settles, 29:29.240 --> 29:30.380 Christ ain't there. 29:33.480 --> 29:34.920 First love ain't there. 29:36.120 --> 29:40.040 So the purpose of the revival that God is intending 29:40.040 --> 29:43.020 to actually pour out on the earth is 29:43.020 --> 29:46.380 the first thing is I want a people to love me 29:46.380 --> 29:48.680 with all of their heart, with all of their soul, 29:49.060 --> 29:49.900 with all of their mind. 29:50.020 --> 29:51.940 I want them to be sold out for me. 29:54.620 --> 29:56.320 That's the purpose of revival. 29:56.320 --> 29:58.920 That is revival in my books. 30:00.860 --> 30:03.400 Revival is dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, 30:04.020 --> 30:05.080 first love onto him. 30:07.820 --> 30:09.640 The sovereign move of the Spirit, 30:10.240 --> 30:12.920 trust me, will come if we love him well. 30:15.320 --> 30:19.000 The souls will come if we love him well. 30:19.240 --> 30:21.680 More than that, if you love him well, 30:21.920 --> 30:23.040 how can you contain it? 30:23.040 --> 30:25.640 Like I'm gonna be honest with you, 30:25.700 --> 30:27.840 if you love the Lord 30:27.840 --> 30:31.840 and you've recognized the price that he's paid for you, 30:32.180 --> 30:34.020 you're not gonna hold that within you. 30:34.060 --> 30:37.700 You're gonna tell Betty, Steve, Joe, and Greg about it. 30:39.940 --> 30:42.500 You're gonna tell your aunt that is an atheist 30:42.500 --> 30:44.980 and you're gonna tell how much Jesus loves her. 30:47.980 --> 30:48.980 That's first love. 30:49.260 --> 30:52.200 See, that's why first love is the core 30:52.200 --> 30:53.100 and the essence of it. 30:53.520 --> 30:55.660 Revival is first love. 30:56.160 --> 30:58.780 Lord, I love you and I'm willing to do anything for you. 31:01.300 --> 31:04.500 Jesus, I love you and I'm willing to do anything for you. 31:06.280 --> 31:11.260 And I get a group of 200, 400, 600, 800 people like that. 31:11.800 --> 31:12.840 Man, the roof would blow off. 31:16.380 --> 31:16.860 Amen. 31:17.820 --> 31:20.140 Verse five, remember there are four. 31:20.320 --> 31:21.420 So let me finish verse four. 31:22.480 --> 31:24.960 He says, nevertheless, I have this against you. 31:25.400 --> 31:27.560 That you have left your first love. 31:28.700 --> 31:30.540 So you got all this stuff going on. 31:31.800 --> 31:34.240 But the purpose and why you're doing it, 31:34.920 --> 31:36.280 you forgot all about it. 31:39.060 --> 31:41.620 You're tithing because you have to 31:41.620 --> 31:43.620 and because we just went through a tithing series. 31:43.860 --> 31:46.020 So you feel convicted because you're not, you know, 31:46.020 --> 31:47.060 it's like, man, we just did a series. 31:47.200 --> 31:47.940 I probably should tithe. 31:48.500 --> 31:50.660 But it's not coming from a place of first love. 31:53.040 --> 31:56.540 You're praying for people because Jim is constantly on your case. 31:56.840 --> 31:58.040 You need to pray for people. 32:01.560 --> 32:03.660 But it's not coming from a place of first love. 32:06.100 --> 32:06.980 You're preaching. 32:08.720 --> 32:10.900 You're preaching because you're called to it. 32:11.860 --> 32:14.100 But it's not coming from a place of first love. 32:18.000 --> 32:19.700 You're in the children's ministry 32:19.700 --> 32:21.720 because you need to fill in a need 32:21.720 --> 32:23.760 but you're not doing it from a place of... 32:23.760 --> 32:25.880 I'm just trying to draw you something here, friends. 32:26.760 --> 32:28.420 I'm trying to draw you. 32:28.740 --> 32:31.420 If we're after revival and we want revival, 32:31.720 --> 32:33.460 friend, if you don't have first love in your life, 32:33.500 --> 32:34.180 you're going to miss it. 32:35.240 --> 32:36.320 You're going to miss it. 32:37.320 --> 32:38.980 You're going to watch it fly by you. 32:43.960 --> 32:45.280 Verse five, he says, 32:46.000 --> 32:47.660 So he says, I have this against you. 32:47.980 --> 32:49.080 You left your first love, 32:49.080 --> 32:50.420 but he doesn't just leave us there. 32:51.000 --> 32:53.940 The Lord isn't just like, hey, you left your first love. 32:54.780 --> 32:56.160 Deuces, figure it out. 32:57.720 --> 32:58.860 He's still gracious. 32:58.980 --> 33:01.300 Even when he corrects us, he's still gracious. 33:03.200 --> 33:04.160 He says, remember, 33:05.080 --> 33:06.860 therefore from where you have fallen, 33:07.300 --> 33:09.700 that's actually the Lord giving us a way out, by the way. 33:11.580 --> 33:13.140 That's actually Jesus saying, 33:13.260 --> 33:15.120 hey, you went this way, 33:15.200 --> 33:17.060 but if you come back this way, 33:17.060 --> 33:18.820 it'll be good for you. 33:21.100 --> 33:22.480 He says, remember, 33:23.700 --> 33:26.600 therefore from where you have fallen, 33:27.620 --> 33:29.580 repent and do the first works, 33:29.780 --> 33:30.600 or else, 33:31.380 --> 33:32.740 and then he gets back into it. 33:36.230 --> 33:38.110 What does he mean when he says, remember? 33:41.270 --> 33:43.330 Remember where you lost it. 33:44.610 --> 33:46.570 Remember where that point was, 33:46.570 --> 33:48.510 where this became of, 33:48.910 --> 33:50.230 I have to do it, 33:50.350 --> 33:53.650 rather than I'm doing it because I want to do it. 33:57.520 --> 33:59.180 I'm going to get real honest with you. 33:59.220 --> 34:01.000 I'm going to get real transparent with you this morning. 34:02.680 --> 34:04.900 I have to check my heart, 34:05.200 --> 34:08.340 and I have to guard my heart constantly 34:09.080 --> 34:10.220 of Holy Spirit. 34:10.840 --> 34:12.540 Make sure that my have to 34:14.540 --> 34:16.900 doesn't come from a place of, oh, I got to do this. 34:16.900 --> 34:17.660 I got to go preach. 34:17.820 --> 34:18.460 I got to go pray. 34:18.580 --> 34:19.180 I got to go this, 34:19.420 --> 34:20.840 because the flesh likes to get in the way. 34:20.960 --> 34:23.240 I constantly have to be on my heart. 34:23.300 --> 34:24.460 I have to guard my heart 34:24.980 --> 34:26.640 that I'm not losing my first love. 34:29.700 --> 34:31.760 I'm going to get real transparent and honest with you guys. 34:31.860 --> 34:31.960 Ready? 34:33.340 --> 34:35.140 Years ago, I've shared this story 34:35.140 --> 34:36.860 and there's more pockets of the story. 34:36.940 --> 34:37.860 When the Lord corrected me, 34:38.020 --> 34:39.500 He said that you love the pulpit 34:39.500 --> 34:41.820 more than you love being with me. 34:41.900 --> 34:43.520 That was part of the whole first love thing. 34:45.840 --> 34:48.580 But it's easy when you're called to something 34:48.580 --> 34:50.060 and you have a gifting in it. 34:50.420 --> 34:52.040 You can come up and you can preach 34:52.040 --> 34:53.060 and let your gifting flow. 34:54.640 --> 34:55.860 I'm coming from a preacher's, 34:55.900 --> 34:57.400 I'm getting real transparent with you guys here. 34:59.020 --> 35:01.260 It's easy when you're called to speaking 35:01.260 --> 35:02.800 and you have a gift in it 35:02.800 --> 35:03.840 for me to come up here 35:03.840 --> 35:05.360 and just let my gift flow. 35:07.060 --> 35:08.620 But there comes a difference 35:09.160 --> 35:11.240 when somebody who is called and gifted, 35:11.580 --> 35:12.540 yet at the same time 35:12.540 --> 35:13.940 they're walking in first love, 35:14.180 --> 35:15.600 there's actually a difference 35:15.600 --> 35:16.680 in the way that they preach. 35:17.540 --> 35:19.560 All of a sudden, God shows up. 35:23.340 --> 35:24.220 Because unfortunately, 35:24.700 --> 35:25.820 there's not enough people 35:25.820 --> 35:27.500 that have the discernment 35:28.220 --> 35:30.680 nor the knowledge of recognizing 35:30.680 --> 35:32.040 that's just a gift 35:32.520 --> 35:34.260 and that's actually the gift 35:34.260 --> 35:35.620 and God showing up together. 35:37.040 --> 35:37.840 You didn't catch that. 35:37.960 --> 35:38.780 No, no, you didn't catch that. 35:38.880 --> 35:39.720 Let me say that one more time. 35:41.820 --> 35:44.720 Unfortunately, in the church world, 35:45.260 --> 35:47.200 we don't have enough discernment 35:49.140 --> 35:52.320 to recognize when that's just a preacher 35:52.320 --> 35:54.280 preaching under the gift 35:54.280 --> 35:56.200 and that's a preacher 35:56.200 --> 35:57.360 preaching under the gift 35:57.360 --> 35:59.660 and the call and the Lord shows up. 36:02.640 --> 36:04.180 I've sat in services 36:04.180 --> 36:05.740 where preachers would preach 36:05.740 --> 36:07.000 and it's like, yeah, that was good. 36:07.080 --> 36:07.700 He's gifted. 36:08.580 --> 36:10.400 But I don't think God was on that. 36:10.620 --> 36:11.640 But it was good. 36:16.120 --> 36:18.580 I've learned, one way that I've discerned it 36:18.580 --> 36:20.200 is when I sit under somebody 36:20.200 --> 36:22.700 who actually walks in first love, 36:22.820 --> 36:25.940 when they preach and their gift is activated 36:25.940 --> 36:28.000 and the Lord shows up, it's cutting. 36:29.760 --> 36:30.520 It's cutting. 36:31.460 --> 36:32.940 It makes you feel uncomfortable. 36:34.280 --> 36:35.660 It makes you recognize 36:36.620 --> 36:38.400 you're in a holy place here. 36:40.620 --> 36:42.780 All of a sudden, conviction comes. 36:48.250 --> 36:50.790 So the Lord says, remember, where was it? 36:51.490 --> 36:54.670 Where was that place where you tipped over 36:54.670 --> 36:56.910 and you became where you're doing it 36:56.910 --> 36:58.150 because it's an obligation, 36:58.690 --> 37:00.290 rather you're doing it because 37:00.290 --> 37:02.290 God, you called me to it 37:02.970 --> 37:05.890 and I want to keep loving doing this. 37:12.440 --> 37:13.700 And then he says, he says, 37:13.780 --> 37:14.360 when you remember, 37:15.500 --> 37:18.620 remember, therefore, from where you have fallen 37:18.620 --> 37:19.740 and repent. 37:21.420 --> 37:23.880 I'll give you a quick thing of repentance 37:23.880 --> 37:25.200 of what repentance is. 37:25.880 --> 37:27.760 Or if you're a foreigner, you might pronounce 37:27.760 --> 37:29.040 repentance as repentance. 37:29.540 --> 37:30.760 That's how I used to pronounce it. 37:31.000 --> 37:31.720 But that's all right. 37:32.280 --> 37:33.820 I'm a foreigner, give me a break. 37:37.320 --> 37:39.880 When the Lord is saying remember where, 37:40.920 --> 37:42.260 so there was somewhere, 37:42.260 --> 37:44.180 somewhere along the line of the church 37:44.180 --> 37:46.440 that they turned away from the Lord. 37:48.000 --> 37:49.720 So when the Lord is saying repent, 37:49.920 --> 37:50.820 we oftentimes think, 37:50.860 --> 37:52.360 okay, change the way of my thinking. 37:52.900 --> 37:53.600 That's what we think. 37:53.760 --> 37:56.360 We think, okay, I gotta change my thinking pattern. 37:56.880 --> 37:58.260 Yes, I'm not gonna disagree, 37:58.720 --> 38:01.180 but I've learned over the years that true repentance 38:01.180 --> 38:03.700 is not just turning away from something 38:03.700 --> 38:05.520 or changing the way that I'm thinking, 38:05.720 --> 38:08.680 but it's actually turning to someone or something. 38:09.060 --> 38:10.320 In this case, it'd be Christ. 38:14.160 --> 38:16.480 Repentance, true repentance is not just me. 38:16.860 --> 38:19.280 Okay, I'm gonna stop doing this and that's it. 38:19.760 --> 38:23.100 Repentance is I'm gonna stop looking at this 38:23.100 --> 38:26.420 and I'm gonna turn and I'm gonna look at the Lord. 38:26.660 --> 38:27.900 That's what he's talking about. 38:28.020 --> 38:29.120 He's talking about first love. 38:30.060 --> 38:33.160 First love is I'm so captivated with you, Jesus. 38:33.520 --> 38:35.220 It's just like Heidi was singing this morning. 38:36.680 --> 38:39.180 I wanna know what you sound like. 38:39.260 --> 38:40.120 What do you look like? 38:40.120 --> 38:42.120 What do you feel like? 38:42.580 --> 38:44.160 What do you smell like? 38:44.800 --> 38:45.800 You're saying God smells? 38:46.040 --> 38:47.180 Yeah, he smells really good. 38:48.200 --> 38:49.700 God smells really good. 38:49.800 --> 38:52.580 There's an aroma of heaven that we are yet to smell. 38:54.320 --> 38:55.800 Ain't no Gucci or Prada 38:55.800 --> 38:57.880 or any other perfume company can make the smell 38:57.880 --> 38:58.960 that God makes up in heaven. 39:01.580 --> 39:03.080 So when the Lord is saying he said, 39:03.380 --> 39:05.220 remember, somewhere along the line, 39:05.600 --> 39:06.420 you turned away. 39:07.760 --> 39:09.620 But he says now repent. 39:10.140 --> 39:11.300 Turn back to me. 39:11.920 --> 39:14.960 Remember how we were when you just met me. 39:16.440 --> 39:18.220 Remember how it was like. 39:19.940 --> 39:23.300 You spent hours in prayer. 39:23.500 --> 39:25.540 You spent hours in seeking me. 39:26.080 --> 39:27.400 You thought about me. 39:27.900 --> 39:29.220 You dreamt about me. 39:29.820 --> 39:31.040 You talked about me. 39:31.620 --> 39:34.400 You prioritized your life around me. 39:34.400 --> 39:36.220 Friends, that's first love talk. 39:37.760 --> 39:39.340 First love talk is Lord, 39:39.460 --> 39:41.060 I want to do this thing with you. 39:41.320 --> 39:42.980 I don't just want to do it for you. 39:45.880 --> 39:47.660 We fall into that oftentimes. 39:49.420 --> 39:51.860 Obedience is not just doing something for God. 39:52.200 --> 39:53.360 Just because God told us, 39:53.440 --> 39:55.360 I want you to go do this, that, and the other. 39:55.800 --> 39:57.820 He's not wanting you to do it himself. 39:58.120 --> 39:59.980 But we are so quick to do it ourselves. 40:01.500 --> 40:03.080 Well God told me I need to do it. 40:03.080 --> 40:05.740 But did you know that when he asked you to do it, 40:05.860 --> 40:07.780 he actually wanted to partner with you 40:07.780 --> 40:09.880 in doing the thing that he asked you to do. 40:12.300 --> 40:15.400 And we're so quick to run and do a thing for God 40:15.400 --> 40:16.840 without even God himself. 40:19.720 --> 40:21.700 Where he's saying, but first love is, 40:22.420 --> 40:23.400 do this thing with me. 40:23.480 --> 40:24.660 I'm asking you to do something. 40:24.880 --> 40:25.460 Do it with me. 40:25.840 --> 40:27.420 Don't run along and do it yourself. 40:27.540 --> 40:29.980 And then come back like a child to his dad 40:29.980 --> 40:31.480 and say, daddy, daddy, I did it. 40:32.200 --> 40:34.040 God says, yeah, but I wanted to do it with you. 40:35.200 --> 40:36.600 I didn't want you to run 40:36.600 --> 40:38.300 and do that thing all by yourself. 40:38.420 --> 40:40.540 The desire of God's heart 40:40.540 --> 40:42.640 is for a people to love him. 40:43.320 --> 40:45.020 And part of obeying him 40:45.020 --> 40:47.720 is he wants to build his kingdom 40:47.720 --> 40:49.900 together here on earth. 40:52.900 --> 40:55.560 He wants to actually build his kingdom 40:55.560 --> 40:57.260 together with a people. 40:58.060 --> 41:00.020 He's not a God who sits in heaven 41:00.020 --> 41:02.660 and just says, go and do it, and then turns away. 41:03.060 --> 41:05.120 When he says it, I keep drilling this point 41:05.120 --> 41:06.300 because you got to hear this. 41:07.460 --> 41:09.480 He's not a God that says, go and do it 41:09.480 --> 41:10.920 and then expects you to get it done. 41:11.220 --> 41:13.040 He's a God that says, go and do it. 41:13.300 --> 41:14.740 Now let me do it with you. 41:15.080 --> 41:16.900 Let my spirit strengthen you. 41:17.120 --> 41:18.680 Let my spirit give you wisdom. 41:19.000 --> 41:20.540 Let my spirit give you knowledge. 41:20.880 --> 41:22.480 Let my spirit help you love. 41:22.980 --> 41:24.000 It's all together. 41:25.040 --> 41:27.500 He is the God that wants to partner with us 41:27.500 --> 41:31.220 to do the things that he wants to accomplish. 41:31.600 --> 41:31.960 Amen. 41:33.320 --> 41:35.140 I guarantee you, I guarantee you, 41:35.180 --> 41:36.140 this is just a testimony. 41:37.200 --> 41:40.060 I'm a man that is very observant. 41:40.840 --> 41:42.000 I'm very observant. 41:42.080 --> 41:42.820 I watch things. 41:44.260 --> 41:45.820 I track things. 41:47.000 --> 41:48.580 Not to hold it against people 41:48.580 --> 41:50.080 is just simply what I do. 41:51.440 --> 41:53.480 And knowing Pastor Vernon Mary 41:53.480 --> 41:55.600 for as many years as I've known them, 41:55.600 --> 41:56.840 I've tracked. 41:57.620 --> 42:00.400 And everything that God has asked them to do, 42:00.720 --> 42:02.540 I can't say one thing that I know 42:02.540 --> 42:03.860 that they have done without God. 42:03.940 --> 42:05.620 They've partnered with God in doing it. 42:07.320 --> 42:08.960 And I say that as a testimony. 42:10.000 --> 42:11.240 To get to this point, 42:11.620 --> 42:13.760 you can't just obey God and do it yourself. 42:14.120 --> 42:15.780 God has to be doing it with you 42:15.780 --> 42:17.060 to get to this point. 42:17.360 --> 42:19.160 And the story is not done yet. Did you hear me? 42:20.080 --> 42:21.560 I said the story is not done yet. 42:21.640 --> 42:22.180 Did you hear me? 42:26.500 --> 42:27.720 I said this before. 42:27.920 --> 42:28.700 I'm going to say this again 42:28.700 --> 42:30.900 to kind of put a little bit of responsibility on you guys. 42:31.680 --> 42:33.160 Where we are headed to as a church 42:33.160 --> 42:35.600 is going to take more than just Pastor Vernon 42:35.600 --> 42:36.320 and Pastor Mary. 42:36.640 --> 42:38.020 It's going to take all of us. 42:41.360 --> 42:42.760 It's going to take all of us. 42:46.500 --> 42:48.100 Can I say something to the young people? 42:48.200 --> 42:49.280 Because I feel like I need to say this. 42:49.420 --> 42:51.860 And the older generation, I'm not excluding you 42:51.860 --> 42:52.980 because you are very important. 42:53.340 --> 42:54.160 You are very important. 42:54.160 --> 42:56.360 But I feel I need to say this 42:56.360 --> 42:57.320 to the younger generation. 42:57.480 --> 42:58.800 And it's stirring in me fresh 42:58.800 --> 43:01.580 because my wife and I were just talking about this recently. 43:04.200 --> 43:06.380 Younger generation, it's time to step up. 43:06.540 --> 43:08.100 I'm just going to be completely honest with you. 43:08.220 --> 43:09.200 It's time to step up. 43:12.440 --> 43:14.440 The permission has been given to us 43:14.440 --> 43:15.580 to step up. 43:15.800 --> 43:16.980 It has been given to us. 43:19.400 --> 43:20.920 We don't have a soul 43:20.920 --> 43:22.380 that's chasing us 43:22.740 --> 43:23.820 from cave to cave. 43:23.960 --> 43:25.980 David, it's okay to come out of the caves. 43:28.080 --> 43:29.680 I speak that prophetically. 43:30.100 --> 43:32.500 David, it's okay for us to come out of the caves. 43:38.370 --> 43:40.170 And he finishes off his thought here 43:40.170 --> 43:42.010 in Revelation 2. 43:44.390 --> 43:46.890 He says, repent and do the first works. 43:46.970 --> 43:47.970 In other words, turn to me. 43:48.550 --> 43:50.450 And then he says, or else I will come 43:50.450 --> 43:52.570 to you quickly and remove 43:52.570 --> 43:54.390 your lampstand from its place 43:54.390 --> 43:56.270 unless you repent. 43:56.770 --> 43:58.110 This is what I mean 43:58.110 --> 44:00.850 by you can have a form 44:00.850 --> 44:01.630 of revival. 44:02.630 --> 44:04.330 But when the dust settles 44:04.330 --> 44:06.670 what will the Lord actually say? 44:10.280 --> 44:11.940 When the dust settles 44:11.940 --> 44:14.280 what will the Lord actually say? 44:15.880 --> 44:17.840 Because he says, if you don't repent 44:17.840 --> 44:20.200 he said, I will come quickly 44:21.100 --> 44:22.520 and I will remove 44:22.520 --> 44:24.020 the lampstand from you. 44:26.140 --> 44:27.960 And a lot of the times he does it 44:27.960 --> 44:29.720 and we don't recognize it till 44:30.340 --> 44:32.220 months, even maybe years down the road 44:32.220 --> 44:34.780 of, oh my goodness, this is all flesh. 44:36.120 --> 44:37.880 We're not even walking in first love. 44:38.460 --> 44:40.300 We're doing it out of a place of 44:40.300 --> 44:42.860 format, out of a place of just my gift. 44:44.760 --> 44:46.220 When the dust settles 44:47.560 --> 44:48.580 what will be left? 44:52.010 --> 44:53.370 I'll share with you another story. 44:53.450 --> 44:55.090 I'm sharing a lot of stories from my own life today. 44:56.470 --> 44:58.490 When the Lord, this is again years ago 44:58.490 --> 44:59.810 when the Lord was correcting me on things 44:59.810 --> 45:01.910 and changing my heart posture, there is 45:01.910 --> 45:04.070 something that a man of God said 45:04.070 --> 45:05.930 that the Lord emphasized in my heart 45:05.930 --> 45:08.450 and I've lived by it to this point 45:08.450 --> 45:10.150 and I've kind of adapted it 45:10.150 --> 45:11.670 to my own, but 45:12.610 --> 45:14.170 this is how I've adapted it 45:14.170 --> 45:15.550 to my own, is that when I am 45:16.950 --> 45:18.030 when I am older 45:18.030 --> 45:20.210 I don't want to say old because 45:20.210 --> 45:22.130 there's 70 year olds in this 45:22.130 --> 45:23.610 room and I'm not calling you old. 45:23.930 --> 45:24.630 When I am older 45:26.410 --> 45:27.850 when I am older 45:28.470 --> 45:29.470 and let's say 45:30.030 --> 45:32.070 the Lord has called me away from now 45:32.070 --> 45:33.910 preaching at pulpits, he's 45:34.430 --> 45:35.830 repositioned me. Now the younger 45:35.830 --> 45:37.750 generation after me, my kids come up 45:37.750 --> 45:40.010 when I am older and I am sitting 45:40.010 --> 45:42.150 in a rocking chair, when all the crowds 45:42.150 --> 45:44.050 are gone, when all the 45:44.050 --> 45:45.890 dust has settled, is God 45:45.890 --> 45:46.790 still going to visit me? 45:47.990 --> 45:49.990 That's how I began to live my life. I began 45:49.990 --> 45:51.550 to live my life in a way of 45:51.550 --> 45:53.690 yes, this is good for me to preach to people 45:53.690 --> 45:55.170 but at the end of the day 45:55.870 --> 45:57.730 Lord, if you're not meeting me privately 45:57.730 --> 45:59.810 if I'm not walking in first love and you're not meeting 45:59.810 --> 46:01.750 me privately, all this here is in vain. 46:05.430 --> 46:06.630 When the dust settles 46:07.790 --> 46:08.950 what do we have left? 46:11.850 --> 46:13.610 When the emotion, the hype 46:13.610 --> 46:15.570 the programs, when all of it 46:15.570 --> 46:17.390 when you leave this Sunday 46:17.390 --> 46:19.030 what do you have left? 46:21.090 --> 46:23.390 Honestly, what do you have left? Do you still 46:23.390 --> 46:25.390 have Christ and the first love 46:25.390 --> 46:26.810 in you on to Him? 46:31.390 --> 46:33.450 I got to bring this to a wrap here. I told you 46:33.890 --> 46:34.310 1201. 46:35.890 --> 46:37.270 2 o'clock. 46:39.150 --> 46:40.870 They may not come next Sunday 46:41.930 --> 46:43.490 and then Pastor Verne is going to be like 46:43.490 --> 46:44.270 what did you do man? 46:47.230 --> 46:48.130 First love is 46:48.130 --> 46:48.830 I'll just read you 46:48.830 --> 46:50.950 here's a few scriptures if you want to write them down 46:50.950 --> 46:52.030 Revelation is one of them 46:52.410 --> 46:54.270 First love, I'm just trying to give you some language 46:54.270 --> 46:56.350 to first love. Romans 12 46:56.350 --> 46:57.650 verses 1 and 2 46:58.510 --> 47:00.710 Luke 9, 23 to 27 47:01.530 --> 47:02.430 1 Corinthians 13 47:03.690 --> 47:04.370 4 to 8 47:04.370 --> 47:06.930 I know I'm just firing him off here, I just don't have time to read all of them 47:07.890 --> 47:09.130 1 Corinthians 14 47:09.130 --> 47:11.450 1 Revelation 22 47:11.850 --> 47:12.210 17 47:13.210 --> 47:14.910 Revelation 22, 17 47:14.910 --> 47:16.610 this is first love talk right here 47:16.610 --> 47:18.550 the spirit and the 47:18.550 --> 47:19.630 bride say come 47:22.850 --> 47:24.210 see that's first love 47:24.210 --> 47:24.610 talk 47:28.230 --> 47:28.750 husbands 47:30.070 --> 47:31.950 you ever said to your wife 47:31.950 --> 47:32.650 honey come here 47:32.650 --> 47:34.550 but like in a loving way 47:34.550 --> 47:36.650 no I'm the only one 47:38.790 --> 47:40.450 listen if Pastor Verne allows me 47:40.450 --> 47:41.450 I can teach you guys the 47:41.450 --> 47:43.790 we can have romantic classes here 47:43.790 --> 47:44.910 every Thursday if you guys want 47:45.450 --> 47:46.510 I can teach you 47:48.430 --> 47:49.870 yeah I can teach you 47:49.870 --> 47:51.570 I can even read from Song of Solomon 47:51.570 --> 47:53.590 and we can go through that and I can teach you 47:53.590 --> 47:55.310 how to talk with your wife 47:55.310 --> 47:56.950 and how to woo your wife 47:56.950 --> 47:59.010 that's all scriptural, she's being honest with you 47:59.010 --> 48:00.910 we give premarital classes by the way 48:00.910 --> 48:01.810 if anybody's interested 48:06.650 --> 48:07.630 it's good uh Jim 48:09.830 --> 48:10.590 you'll pass? 48:11.090 --> 48:11.390 why not? 48:11.570 --> 48:13.150 Song of Solomon my friend it's good 48:15.010 --> 48:15.750 but see 48:15.750 --> 48:17.830 that's first love talk 48:17.830 --> 48:19.530 the spirit and the 48:19.530 --> 48:21.130 bride say come lord 48:23.070 --> 48:24.110 nothing else 48:24.110 --> 48:24.950 will do 48:26.410 --> 48:27.690 that's first love talk 48:29.310 --> 48:31.170 one man said it this way 48:31.730 --> 48:33.930 and then I think I want to land where I want to land 48:34.770 --> 48:36.530 one man said it this way 48:36.530 --> 48:37.510 regarding revival 48:38.290 --> 48:40.150 he said there is no revival 48:40.150 --> 48:41.810 and this is again this is first love talk 48:42.450 --> 48:43.970 he said there is no revival 48:44.610 --> 48:45.970 without a life 48:46.470 --> 48:47.730 thrown to the ground 48:47.730 --> 48:49.170 like a seed 48:50.350 --> 48:52.090 and he's quoting John 12 48:56.160 --> 48:58.300 he's quoting John 12 where Jesus said 48:58.300 --> 49:00.920 if a seed does not die 49:00.920 --> 49:02.220 it does not produce 49:02.220 --> 49:04.120 that's first love talk that's revival talk 49:08.660 --> 49:14.560 You can't have revival if you haven't had people pay the price. 49:18.290 --> 49:21.330 I'm going to tell you something even more that's very humbling for me. 49:23.290 --> 49:27.790 What we're going to reap in our generation, I'm talking about the younger generation, 49:28.270 --> 49:32.150 what we're going to reap is not something that I actually laid things down for. 49:32.230 --> 49:34.930 It's what the generation before me laid down for. 49:36.710 --> 49:39.290 Now that's humility to recognize that. 49:39.910 --> 49:42.370 Do you know what fear of the Lord is on me? 49:42.590 --> 49:49.310 Is recognizing, wow, we're about to reap as a generation something that I did not even labor for. 49:49.730 --> 49:56.230 But this is something that my grandparents, that my parents, that their generation actually labored for. 49:56.550 --> 50:03.670 Now I get to step into it with my generation and I get to actually bear the fruit of what they labored for. 50:03.670 --> 50:07.710 That changes my attitude of the next generation now. 50:08.250 --> 50:11.790 Well, I know what I'm doing now. I'm actually laying a foundation. 50:12.170 --> 50:20.790 I am toiling, breaking up foul ground so that my kids and their generation can actually reap what I've labored for. 50:23.910 --> 50:27.650 Friends, we are about to reap something that we didn't even labor for. 50:28.530 --> 50:37.850 I'm being honest with you, there's men and women that have gone before us, that have cried out, that have travailed, that have asked God for revival. 50:38.410 --> 50:43.210 They've asked God that a church would walk in the fullness of first love. 50:44.250 --> 50:54.550 They've fasted, they've prayed, they've done all the things, the proper things, the proper obedience, the proper format, all these proper things, they've done it. 50:55.230 --> 51:03.190 And they've passed on, they've now graduated and they're becoming part of the cloud of witnesses in heaven that Hebrews talks about. 51:04.050 --> 51:09.370 And they're looking down and they're saying, you're about to reap something that you didn't even labor for. 51:13.740 --> 51:23.000 The question is that, or not the question, the reality is that a lot of people are not willing to labor for something that they don't see the results of. 51:24.160 --> 51:25.240 Did you catch me? 51:27.340 --> 51:32.240 We labor, we want to get paid. I get it. I get it. 51:33.540 --> 51:38.320 We do something, we've toiled, we want to see the results of it. I get it. 51:39.060 --> 51:48.160 But what if God in a sovereign, merciful plan wants the people to labor and he says you actually won't even see the full thing. 51:48.380 --> 51:49.920 You'll see it from the other side. 51:50.620 --> 51:52.580 How many people would sign up for that? 51:52.580 --> 51:53.820 Very few. 51:55.340 --> 51:56.320 That's the reality. 51:57.560 --> 51:58.900 That's the reality, friends. 52:00.000 --> 52:05.460 Is that very few are actually willing to sign up for something that they don't see the results of it. 52:08.000 --> 52:10.260 You don't think I want to see the great outpouring? 52:10.920 --> 52:11.940 Of course I do. 52:12.840 --> 52:14.740 Of course I want to see the billion soul harvest. 52:15.020 --> 52:16.740 Of course I want to see all these things. 52:16.980 --> 52:20.660 But I've come to the place, God, if it's not in my lifetime, 52:20.660 --> 52:24.120 I'm going to labor for it as if though it is. 52:25.460 --> 52:28.420 I'm going to pray for it as if though it is. 52:29.840 --> 52:34.560 And if my kids and their generation experience it, hallelujah, praise the Lord. 52:35.740 --> 52:39.220 I labored for it, I toiled for it like it was to be in my generation. 52:39.880 --> 52:41.020 Let me leave you with this. 52:41.920 --> 52:45.780 And then I'm going to, when I get back into this, I'll develop on this a little more. 52:45.780 --> 52:46.880 Isaiah 66. 52:49.040 --> 52:50.900 I'm kind of skipping ahead due to time. 52:51.560 --> 52:52.440 Isaiah 66. 52:54.580 --> 52:57.040 This is what I believe God is doing right now. 52:57.120 --> 53:00.800 This is the emphasis of the Lord in the hour that we are living. 53:01.580 --> 53:03.860 Isaiah 66, you guys have heard me quote this. 53:03.980 --> 53:08.700 I've said this so many times and I'm going to continue saying this until God tells me I don't need to say this anymore. 53:10.380 --> 53:11.900 Isaiah 66 verse 1. 53:11.900 --> 53:17.540 God says heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool. 53:18.380 --> 53:21.220 Where is the house that you will build me? 53:21.940 --> 53:24.260 And where is the place of my rest? 53:25.160 --> 53:30.680 For all those things my hands has made and all those things exist says the Lord. 53:31.700 --> 53:34.400 But on this one will I look. 53:36.100 --> 53:42.600 On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit and who trembles at my word. 53:43.520 --> 53:45.740 This is what I believe wholeheartedly. 53:46.140 --> 53:47.680 It's like a conviction in me. 53:48.040 --> 53:53.440 It's a burning passion in me of the Holy Spirit that in the hour that we are living in. 53:53.940 --> 53:56.740 The Holy Spirit is going to and fro. 53:57.200 --> 54:02.620 He's going to and fro and he is specifically looking for local bodies. 54:04.100 --> 54:07.680 And he's saying what kind of house will you build for me? 54:08.960 --> 54:12.080 What kind of resting place will you build for me? 54:12.800 --> 54:14.900 You see I'm not against conferences. 54:15.120 --> 54:16.420 I think conferences are good. 54:16.760 --> 54:19.100 I think Bible schools are good. 54:19.200 --> 54:20.760 I think all those things are good. 54:20.880 --> 54:28.800 But what I feel in my spirit with deep conviction that there is an emphasis of God on local churches like never before. 54:30.160 --> 54:32.260 Listen to me friends listen to me. 54:32.980 --> 54:39.820 I believe that there is an emphasis of God on local churches like never before. 54:41.160 --> 54:42.860 He's not against the conferences. 54:43.460 --> 54:44.700 I think conferences are good. 54:45.120 --> 54:46.620 He's not against the Bible schools. 54:46.840 --> 54:48.320 I think Bible schools are good. 54:48.440 --> 54:57.020 But there was something about a local body that God is paying far more attention to right now than he's ever done before. 54:57.020 --> 55:01.060 And he's asking every local church he's asking. 55:01.220 --> 55:01.800 That's what I'm saying. 55:02.100 --> 55:04.700 The spirit of God is going to and fro. 55:04.960 --> 55:05.780 He's looking. 55:06.320 --> 55:06.980 He's seeking. 55:07.480 --> 55:09.540 Will you build me a resting place? 55:10.160 --> 55:11.260 Of where I can dwell. 55:12.280 --> 55:14.560 Of where I can actually come and rest. 55:15.520 --> 55:18.700 Of where I can actually come and find pleasure in the people. 55:20.540 --> 55:24.200 Do you see why I feel the Lord asking me to preach this in other local churches? 55:24.200 --> 55:26.080 Because he's going to and fro. 55:27.240 --> 55:35.560 He's saying the hour is now for the local church to create a dwelling place for me to come and rest. 55:36.520 --> 55:37.840 And how do we do it? 55:38.060 --> 55:39.320 It's the next three things. 55:40.160 --> 55:42.720 God said, on this one will I look? 55:42.920 --> 55:43.140 Who? 55:44.160 --> 55:47.980 Poor, contrite spirit and trembles at my word. 55:48.300 --> 55:50.860 All three of those things talk about first love, by the way. 55:51.460 --> 55:52.840 I'm not going to get into them today. 55:52.840 --> 55:56.140 But all three of those things are talking about first love. 55:59.060 --> 56:03.280 The spirit of God is searching and he's looking. 56:04.420 --> 56:05.420 Where can I rest? 56:06.760 --> 56:14.280 Where can I come that the Father and the Son and the Spirit are pleased with what they see? 56:15.980 --> 56:17.500 There is first love that's there. 56:18.060 --> 56:22.260 There is a lamp stand that is burning and it's burning for Jesus. 56:24.520 --> 56:28.660 Not for the numbers, not for the notoriety, not for the popularity. 56:29.120 --> 56:30.920 They just want Jesus. That's it. 56:31.360 --> 56:36.560 They want to know what he looks like, what he sounds like, what he smells like, even what he tastes like. 56:37.900 --> 56:39.060 You're saying that's weird. 56:39.240 --> 56:39.760 Read your scriptures. 56:39.920 --> 56:42.040 The Bible says taste and see that the Lord is good. 56:43.060 --> 56:44.460 I'm quoting you scripture. 56:47.120 --> 56:52.860 Friends, this is what I believe. We as a house, as a local body, we are experiencing that. 56:53.200 --> 56:55.620 You're saying, well, Pastor Igor, doesn't God already dwell here? 56:55.920 --> 57:00.880 He does, but what if I told you there's realms of God that we have not reached yet that I desire to get to? 57:02.680 --> 57:04.120 Ah, come on, somebody. 57:07.100 --> 57:08.680 There's realms of God. 57:09.960 --> 57:21.560 Revelation knowledge of Jesus that we have not yet attained that I desire for us to come to corporately, not just individuals, corporately. 57:24.640 --> 57:33.120 There's realms of God that we can be trusted with that you don't even need to lay hands on the sick and they get healed. 57:33.120 --> 57:33.560 Amen. 57:36.400 --> 57:37.740 They will bring the paralytics. 57:38.280 --> 57:41.740 They will bring the crippled, the blind, the deaf. 57:41.880 --> 57:43.840 You're saying, what are you saying? I'm prophesying to you. 57:45.520 --> 57:49.100 They will bring them from the highways and the byways. 57:49.220 --> 57:50.120 They will bring them. 57:50.560 --> 57:51.080 Why? 57:51.500 --> 57:56.960 Because this house is to be a house of where God rests and dwells. 57:56.960 --> 58:04.580 And if we can catch the attention of God even more, revival is inevitable. 58:05.420 --> 58:10.800 You can't have revival, true scriptural revival unless God is looking. 58:12.200 --> 58:14.580 You're saying, are you telling me God doesn't look at other churches? 58:14.860 --> 58:15.360 Correct. 58:15.920 --> 58:17.920 Because he removes the lampstands. 58:19.020 --> 58:20.300 Does he still see? 58:20.440 --> 58:21.020 Yeah, he sees. 58:21.360 --> 58:22.920 But he is not focused in. 58:22.920 --> 58:26.780 He is not gauged in because first love don't exist there. 58:27.080 --> 58:30.120 And he is the God who desires and requires. 58:30.560 --> 58:34.320 I will even say that requires first love from his bride. 58:37.020 --> 58:43.120 I believe this house already is and even more is to be a dwelling place for God. 58:44.180 --> 58:49.420 It's been prophesied by Jim and without me even knowing, I prophesied this to pastors 58:50.020 --> 58:55.060 that we are to be like a John the Baptist of where people will run from the city 58:55.060 --> 58:58.500 and they will run to the wilderness simply to meet with God. 58:59.220 --> 59:00.000 That's it. 59:00.740 --> 59:06.860 It's not to hear this person or that person preach simply because God has a dwelling place 59:06.860 --> 59:08.570 at word of life ministries. 59:09.360 --> 59:13.760 Simply because God is pleased with what he sees us doing here. 59:13.980 --> 59:18.580 Simply because we have caught the attention of God because we are poor. 59:18.580 --> 59:20.840 God, we are with the contrite spirit. 59:21.140 --> 59:26.720 We tremble at your word and you say you promise us that you will look on us. 59:29.920 --> 59:33.600 It's a promise of God to us and to a people. 59:33.940 --> 59:38.320 If I am to be poor and have a contrite spirit and if I tremble at his word, 59:38.560 --> 59:40.720 he makes me a promise as an individual. 59:41.460 --> 59:42.700 I will look at you. 59:43.180 --> 59:44.820 You will catch my attention. 59:44.820 --> 59:49.280 And I will move upon your life that will blow your socks off. 59:50.000 --> 59:52.640 I will do a thing that you never even imagined. 59:55.460 --> 59:58.340 Revival is first love unto God. 01:00:00.560 --> 01:00:02.660 Everything else is secondary. 01:00:03.220 --> 01:00:06.280 These three things are talking about first love, friends. 01:00:07.080 --> 01:00:08.680 That's what they're talking about. 01:00:09.500 --> 01:00:13.040 You can't walk in first love yet not be poor in spirit. 01:00:13.040 --> 01:00:16.800 You can't walk in first love and not have a contrite spirit. 01:00:17.120 --> 01:00:20.460 You can't walk in first love and not tremble at his word. 01:00:21.300 --> 01:00:22.480 They go together. 01:00:22.620 --> 01:00:23.740 They're woven together. 01:00:24.920 --> 01:00:26.020 God says, I'll look at you. 01:00:26.920 --> 01:00:33.040 I will look at you and I will bestow a trust and a manifest presence on your life. 01:00:33.140 --> 01:00:34.660 That's a promise that God makes. 01:00:35.240 --> 01:00:36.200 Stand to your feet, please. 01:00:39.100 --> 01:00:40.480 Father, we thank you. 01:00:41.180 --> 01:00:42.700 Father, we thank you. 01:00:46.480 --> 01:00:47.980 Father, we thank you. 01:00:48.800 --> 01:00:50.500 We thank you for your word. 01:00:52.380 --> 01:00:55.400 We thank you that you make a promise to your people. 01:00:56.300 --> 01:00:59.120 Lord, you have watched us labor. 01:01:00.040 --> 01:01:02.160 You have watched us not grow weary. 01:01:03.400 --> 01:01:07.300 You have watched us be patient and watch the vision that you have given us. 01:01:10.180 --> 01:01:15.980 Father, I thank you that by your spirit you have not let the lamp stand fire burn out. 01:01:16.300 --> 01:01:21.400 But by your spirit, Lord, you help us keep our hearts guarded. 01:01:22.280 --> 01:01:25.940 That we as a church walk in first love onto you. 01:01:28.400 --> 01:01:31.580 And Father, I thank you for your promise. 01:01:33.160 --> 01:01:41.100 Lord, you said that those who are poor and have a contrite spirit and tremble at your word, 01:01:41.180 --> 01:01:43.960 Lord, you said that you would look at them. 01:01:44.840 --> 01:01:46.880 That you would gaze upon them. 01:01:46.980 --> 01:01:49.000 That you would rest upon them. 01:01:50.520 --> 01:01:55.080 And Lord, we desire to be that and grow in that. 01:01:55.360 --> 01:02:01.560 I said we desire to be that and grow in that as a church here in this place. 01:02:02.220 --> 01:02:06.780 And we will build an altar for you, God, that you would send down your fire. 01:02:07.280 --> 01:02:10.740 And we as living stones, we will lay ourselves down. 01:02:10.980 --> 01:02:18.360 Whether it's for this or the next generation, we shall do it simply for the glory of God to come and rest. 01:02:21.080 --> 01:02:22.560 In Jesus' name. 01:02:27.730 --> 01:02:30.790 In Jesus' name. Amen. 01:02:38.620 --> 01:02:38.780 In Jesus' name.