WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.800 I want to wrap up the series. I want to wrap it up next week of Revival is 00:05.900 --> 00:09.420 Just so I'm not dragging it too long. So today and the next Sunday 00:09.420 --> 00:15.600 I want to bring it to a wrap and what I want to focus on these next two Sundays is I want to give you I 00:17.180 --> 00:22.300 Want to give you points and scriptures obviously to it so that you can see what a biblical 00:22.860 --> 00:24.200 revival looks like 00:25.300 --> 00:29.460 because like I've already talked about especially last Sunday is that we 00:30.000 --> 00:32.620 In the charismatic full gospel circles 00:32.620 --> 00:36.200 We so desperately want revival that we've 00:36.200 --> 00:40.340 Watered down the actual meaning of what it is and like I gave the examples 00:40.340 --> 00:46.040 We'll hang banners and we'll say revival meetings and it's like people are like oh, we're having revival 00:46.040 --> 00:50.020 Well, technically technically coming from a scriptural perspective 00:50.940 --> 00:56.540 It takes far more than just hanging a banner to say that you're having revival or that you're in revival 00:57.240 --> 01:03.160 It's more than just we had some people healed. So now we're in revival. It's like well 01:03.820 --> 01:05.720 That's a layer of revival 01:05.720 --> 01:12.000 But if we're talking about if we're talking about the revival that we are all waiting for 01:12.660 --> 01:19.120 Especially what the scriptures talk about the last day's outpouring. It's more than just a banner that we hang 01:19.120 --> 01:23.500 It's more than just what we got one or two people healed or one or two people saved 01:23.500 --> 01:26.320 there's far more that a 01:26.320 --> 01:33.520 End-time biblical revival entails or or comes with it and as I go through some of these points 01:33.520 --> 01:37.600 I think once I get to the end I probably won't get to them today for the sake of time 01:37.600 --> 01:42.480 But once I get to some of the last points, I think some of you are gonna be like what? 01:43.500 --> 01:45.220 that's a biblical revival and 01:45.900 --> 01:50.640 That's because when I was studying this out and I began to the Lord began to lead me through it in the 01:50.640 --> 01:54.360 Scriptures of what an of what actual biblical revival entails a 01:55.300 --> 01:58.500 Part of me was like, I don't know if I even want that revival 01:59.280 --> 02:00.640 I'm gonna be honest with you 02:01.300 --> 02:07.160 Because when I saw as a certain principles that go with it or the certain things that go with a biblical revival 02:07.160 --> 02:12.080 It makes you really think do I really want this thing because there is things that follow 02:12.800 --> 02:16.320 So we'll start with this axe chapter 2 02:17.260 --> 02:20.580 At verse 1 that's what we're gonna start if you have your Bibles open up there 02:20.640 --> 02:22.260 and this is 02:23.460 --> 02:26.300 This is the the foundation 02:28.200 --> 02:30.760 To to a biblical revival 02:30.760 --> 02:38.000 Aside from the purpose of it walking in first love and why God is even doing this, but a biblical revival 02:38.520 --> 02:44.800 You have to have the Holy Spirit engaged and leading it a 02:47.770 --> 02:53.670 A biblical revival has to be started by the Spirit of God 02:54.250 --> 02:56.350 Otherwise, it's just a flesh thing 02:58.490 --> 03:02.630 Let's read acts to chapter or acts chapter 2 verse 1 to 4 03:02.630 --> 03:06.070 We all know this really well, and we're gonna work through it here a little bit. It says 03:06.650 --> 03:10.110 When the day of Pentecost had fully come 03:10.730 --> 03:14.230 They were all with one accord in one place and 03:15.190 --> 03:15.990 Suddenly 03:16.750 --> 03:25.890 There came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting and 03:26.470 --> 03:30.930 then appeared to them divided tongues of fire and 03:31.450 --> 03:39.150 One sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as 03:39.150 --> 03:44.210 The Spirit gave them utterance. I 03:44.210 --> 03:45.790 Few things here 03:47.170 --> 03:49.910 When the Scripture says that suddenly 03:50.870 --> 03:53.990 There came people think that well 03:54.770 --> 03:57.190 They were probably up there for a night or two 03:57.190 --> 04:02.330 Maybe it was a week that they were only up in the upper room and then suddenly the Holy Spirit came 04:02.330 --> 04:07.910 I want to give you something that I learned years ago that changed my perspective on the Scripture 04:08.630 --> 04:11.990 The suddenly will never come unless there is a waiting 04:11.990 --> 04:16.840 Let me say that again. 04:18.180 --> 04:23.220 The suddenly will never come unless there is a waiting. 04:27.520 --> 04:31.240 If you actually read Acts 2 in the full context, 04:32.460 --> 04:40.780 the reason why the apostles and the 120 were up in the upper room is because the Lord told them to do it. 04:42.660 --> 04:45.080 He said now go and what? Wait. 04:48.160 --> 04:56.440 He said now go and wait until the promised one, the Holy Spirit, the power comes. 04:57.640 --> 05:01.800 They were not up there for a day or two. I believe they were up there for weeks. 05:01.940 --> 05:06.840 There was a period of time before the suddenly came. 05:08.120 --> 05:11.340 Because we read that and we think, okay, if I just get in prayer, 05:11.620 --> 05:15.160 if I go to intercessory prayer one night, boom, it's going to happen. 05:15.320 --> 05:20.340 No, there has to be a waiting for the suddenly to come. 05:22.600 --> 05:28.840 You don't have the suddenly unless there is a waiting of a people that are hungry 05:28.840 --> 05:34.120 and they're desperately crying out for the Lord to come and move. 05:34.120 --> 05:38.660 Touch our hearts, touch our cities, touch our families, touch our nations. 05:39.060 --> 05:43.260 There is a constant waiting and then the Scripture says, 05:43.700 --> 05:50.160 suddenly, suddenly there came a sound from heaven. 05:51.820 --> 05:57.880 When the chyros moment came, that's where time and the prophetic now meet 05:57.880 --> 06:01.800 and the Scriptures are not the Scriptures, the Greek call it a chyros moment. 06:03.200 --> 06:07.120 The suddenly comes and things begin to happen. 06:07.320 --> 06:12.380 That which you've been praying for, fasting for, interceding for years. 06:13.300 --> 06:16.580 Now when the Holy Spirit comes, when the suddenly comes, 06:16.900 --> 06:19.540 what took you years can happen in a moment. 06:19.780 --> 06:21.400 Why? Because the suddenly came. 06:23.960 --> 06:30.100 So a biblical revival, you cannot have it unless the suddenly comes. 06:30.840 --> 06:35.360 And we so desperately want them that in our churches, 06:36.100 --> 06:38.260 we are like, well, we fasted for a month. 06:38.460 --> 06:41.120 We took that Daniel fast in the beginning of the year. 06:41.300 --> 06:44.160 So now the revival has to happen. No, it doesn't. 06:46.260 --> 06:50.140 You wait until God says now it's time. 06:53.290 --> 06:57.410 You sit there and you wait until the suddenly comes. 06:59.390 --> 07:03.870 There is still some dying to our flesh that needs to happen 07:03.870 --> 07:08.210 for us to handle that which God has promised to the church. 07:10.810 --> 07:15.910 There is some more conforming that has to happen into the image of Christ 07:15.910 --> 07:22.070 before God can trust us, before the Father can trust us with the measure of power 07:22.070 --> 07:23.850 so that we would handle it correctly. 07:26.490 --> 07:33.710 Friends, a biblical revival, it starts and it is led by the Holy Spirit. 07:35.050 --> 07:40.850 You can't call it revival unless the Holy Spirit is the one who started it, 07:41.770 --> 07:43.610 unless the suddenly came. 07:44.770 --> 07:48.730 If you actually read the vision book about the Father's Day revival 07:48.730 --> 07:51.670 that happened here at Word of Life in the modular, 07:52.350 --> 07:53.850 it was a suddenly. 07:55.530 --> 08:00.210 Pastor didn't go and advertise. Here we're going to have revival meetings. 08:00.670 --> 08:05.090 Here we're having this and that. No, it was a regular Sunday from what I understand. 08:06.590 --> 08:09.910 It was an ordinary Sunday just like we're having today. 08:14.570 --> 08:19.030 You got some people that are missing from church because they're probably fighting a cold. 08:19.310 --> 08:21.570 But God's like, listen, I'm not working on their time. 08:21.690 --> 08:23.590 I have a time when I'm pouring out my suddenly. 08:25.090 --> 08:28.370 That's why the Scripture says you have to be ready in season and out. 08:31.850 --> 08:35.250 You know, it's interesting and I've caught myself in on this. 08:35.930 --> 08:38.150 This is just evidence of how selfish we are. 08:39.530 --> 08:44.650 It's interesting that we will look at our lives and in the season that we're walking in 08:44.650 --> 08:48.430 and we're like, okay, God, you're probably not going to move right now. 08:48.570 --> 08:50.610 The suddenly probably isn't going to come right now 08:50.610 --> 08:52.550 because, well, I'm building a house. 08:52.730 --> 08:54.430 Well, I'm getting a promotion. 08:54.430 --> 08:58.410 Well, my kids are still in school, so it's kind of inconvenient for me right now. 08:58.550 --> 09:01.730 But when it's convenient for me, then you're going to pour out your suddenly. 09:02.170 --> 09:04.170 Have you ever caught yourself in those thought process? 09:05.630 --> 09:06.270 I have. 09:08.810 --> 09:09.470 I have. 09:09.790 --> 09:12.390 Where it's like, okay, you're probably not going to do the suddenly right now 09:12.390 --> 09:13.850 because I'm in the midst of a build, God, 09:13.930 --> 09:17.090 and you know how much time that's consuming God's like, friend, listen, 09:17.510 --> 09:19.050 I ain't working on your time. 09:21.090 --> 09:24.530 I'm not working according to the season that you're in. 09:24.690 --> 09:26.870 I have times that I have set. 09:27.830 --> 09:31.050 And if it's inconvenient for you, that's your problem. 09:31.570 --> 09:34.990 That is evidence that you're not dead to a realm of your flesh. 09:38.060 --> 09:44.360 The suddenly will come whether you're ready now or you're not ready now. 09:44.940 --> 09:46.240 It doesn't matter. 09:47.640 --> 09:49.800 We can take the parable of the 10 versions. 09:51.940 --> 09:52.840 Five were ready. 09:52.980 --> 09:53.840 Why were they ready? 09:54.940 --> 09:55.800 Because they were ready. 09:58.220 --> 09:59.180 Why were they ready? 09:59.280 --> 09:59.860 Because they were ready. 09:59.920 --> 10:00.880 That's my answer for you. 10:01.420 --> 10:02.320 Why were they ready? 10:02.460 --> 10:03.240 Because they were ready. 10:04.620 --> 10:06.740 They were doing what God said. 10:06.860 --> 10:07.380 He said, wait. 10:08.600 --> 10:10.820 Yes, Lord, how do you want me to wait on you? 10:11.760 --> 10:12.820 Ever been to a restaurant? 10:13.720 --> 10:15.840 How do they wait on you in the restaurant? 10:16.940 --> 10:17.900 They serve you. 10:21.370 --> 10:24.490 We wait on the Lord by doing what he's told us to do. 10:24.690 --> 10:26.590 We're serving our master. 10:27.210 --> 10:32.650 So here's my question to you because the reason why I'm asking you this question is because God reminded me on Friday. 10:32.730 --> 10:34.630 I was driving in the morning and I was talking to him. 10:35.070 --> 10:38.510 And he simply reminded me the first two things of why we came here. 10:38.590 --> 10:41.090 He said, son, he said, why did I ask you to come here? 10:41.190 --> 10:41.710 Remember that. 10:42.250 --> 10:43.210 So I said, okay, Lord. 10:44.330 --> 10:47.970 Because sometimes he's got to remind us because we forget and we try to do this. 10:47.970 --> 10:48.630 That and the other. 10:48.770 --> 10:51.990 And he's like, just remember what I asked you to do right now. 10:52.530 --> 10:57.770 In the doing what he's asked me right now is actually my waiting on the Lord. 11:00.050 --> 11:02.730 So what is he asking you to do right now? 11:04.970 --> 11:13.010 Would you not forget what he told you back in open heavens 26, back in open heavens 25, back in open heavens 24? 11:13.010 --> 11:17.910 What did the Lord ask you to do and to maintain? 11:19.610 --> 11:24.750 Go back to that and forget about all the other little things that you think you need to do. 11:25.150 --> 11:25.590 Go back. 11:25.870 --> 11:26.650 Wait on him. 11:30.620 --> 11:36.960 Biblical revival has to start by the suddenly coming and then the Holy Spirit leading. 11:37.180 --> 11:39.780 And you see this thread throughout Acts. 11:40.880 --> 11:44.200 If you want to study revival, just read the book of Acts. 11:44.200 --> 11:47.040 The greatest revival that this world has ever seen. 11:48.040 --> 11:51.920 And we're about to experience one that surpasses this one, by the way. 11:55.280 --> 11:58.460 The apostles are going to ask us, how was it? 12:00.520 --> 12:01.540 Tell me, how was it? 12:02.860 --> 12:04.480 How was the coming of the Lamb? 12:07.060 --> 12:11.360 How was it when you saw the sky tore open and he's coming to tell us? 12:11.980 --> 12:14.460 My wife gave me that perspective years ago and I ponder it. 12:14.520 --> 12:16.760 I'm like, huh, Paul's going to come up to me and he's going to talk to me. 12:17.080 --> 12:17.820 This is cool. 12:18.820 --> 12:21.640 I look forward to meet him and he's going to be asking me questions. 12:25.580 --> 12:30.580 Revival, revival or a biblical revival has the gift of repentance. 12:32.660 --> 12:36.340 Let me say that again, because we look at repentance in a wrong way. 12:36.400 --> 12:38.740 And maybe I'll get into a series next year or something. 12:38.920 --> 12:39.220 We'll see. 12:41.400 --> 12:43.140 Repentance is a gift. 12:46.620 --> 12:54.900 Repentance is a gift given to us by the Father through his Son, empowered by the Holy Spirit. 12:57.280 --> 13:01.540 A biblical revival, or let me just even say a revival. 13:02.140 --> 13:02.740 It is biblical. 13:04.100 --> 13:06.300 A revival, a true revival. 13:06.300 --> 13:12.280 It is a must that the gift of repentance is there. 13:13.380 --> 13:20.080 If people are not repenting in what we call revival, it's not a revival. 13:21.200 --> 13:22.340 It's not friends. 13:24.700 --> 13:26.800 And if you don't believe me, let's open up the scriptures. 13:27.180 --> 13:28.300 We're still in the book of Acts. 13:28.860 --> 13:31.100 Chapter 2, verse 37, let's read that. 13:35.260 --> 13:37.700 Verse 37, it says now when they heard this. 13:38.040 --> 13:42.660 By the way, this is when Peter preached the best sermon of his life. 13:43.720 --> 13:48.060 I think this is like the greatest sermon that the apostle Peter could have ever preached. 13:49.900 --> 13:53.000 They're in the upper room again, just giving those that maybe don't know their Bibles. 13:53.360 --> 13:55.180 They're in the upper room, the Holy Spirit comes. 13:55.840 --> 13:56.840 Boom, they get lit up. 13:58.340 --> 14:01.520 The Holy Spirit lights them up with power. 14:01.520 --> 14:03.940 They begin to speak in other tongues. 14:04.260 --> 14:06.920 I actually believe repentance was already right there. 14:07.660 --> 14:12.440 And I'll tell you why, because they begin to turn and look at the Lord in greater ways. 14:12.720 --> 14:14.040 Which is what repentance is. 14:14.600 --> 14:15.920 And I'll get into that here a little bit. 14:16.660 --> 14:18.240 So then all this happens. 14:18.760 --> 14:23.560 Now all the people in the city begin to hear them speaking in different languages. 14:23.860 --> 14:25.460 What they heard was different languages. 14:26.420 --> 14:28.680 And they're like, these men are drunk with wine. 14:29.060 --> 14:30.660 It's interesting that they never talked about the women. 14:30.660 --> 14:32.440 They just said the men are drunk with wine. 14:32.580 --> 14:33.640 Ever thought about that? 14:34.200 --> 14:37.560 It's like, why only the men? There was 120. There was women there too. 14:39.400 --> 14:40.660 Yeah, it is true. 14:42.440 --> 14:45.740 So they're saying they're drunk, they're filled with wine. 14:46.300 --> 14:50.140 And then Peter gets up and preaches the best sermon ever. 14:51.760 --> 14:54.960 And here in verse 37 it says that when the crowd, when the people, 14:55.440 --> 14:59.040 when they heard this, they were cut to the heart. 14:59.040 --> 15:00.640 That's repentance. 15:03.740 --> 15:09.300 When you sit under a sermon or a preaching that cuts you deep, 15:09.820 --> 15:11.640 friend, that is the beginning of repentance. 15:13.540 --> 15:14.740 It's a gift. 15:17.420 --> 15:20.840 To be cut to the heart is not to be condemned. 15:21.400 --> 15:24.240 To be cut to the heart is to be convicted. 15:24.240 --> 15:28.780 It is a gift that the Holy Spirit gives us. 15:33.180 --> 15:36.660 Cut me to the heart, Lord. Cut me deep, surgically. 15:37.860 --> 15:39.140 Cut me in my spirit. 15:39.780 --> 15:44.140 Give me this gift that is mine because of what your son has done. 15:47.820 --> 15:51.900 They heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter 15:51.900 --> 15:57.480 and the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do? 15:58.940 --> 16:02.940 The gift of repentance or I should say repentance is this 16:02.940 --> 16:05.720 and I've said this again and I'm gonna try to elaborate here more. 16:05.960 --> 16:09.280 It is the turning away from something 16:09.880 --> 16:13.840 and then turning to someone or something. 16:15.380 --> 16:19.140 We call it as getting new information, changing the way that you think 16:19.140 --> 16:21.100 and I don't disagree with that. 16:21.580 --> 16:23.940 I don't disagree with that, but here's the problem. 16:24.360 --> 16:26.080 You can sit in your chairs 16:26.080 --> 16:31.420 and you can get all the information, all the wisdom, all the knowledge. 16:32.280 --> 16:37.320 But if you're not turning to it, if you're not turning away, 16:37.420 --> 16:38.760 let's say this is old information. 16:39.300 --> 16:42.540 If I am not turning away from the old information 16:43.560 --> 16:48.020 and if I am not turning away from it to now turn to new information, 16:48.180 --> 16:49.760 I'm actually not repenting. 16:50.060 --> 16:52.580 Though I can say, well, I got new information. 16:52.580 --> 16:57.080 You haven't repented until you've now turned to the new information 16:57.080 --> 17:01.140 and you're beginning to implement the new information in your life 17:01.140 --> 17:05.100 and you're living it out and you're walking it out and you're living by it. 17:05.140 --> 17:06.940 You are now becoming the scriptures. 17:07.440 --> 17:08.560 You following me? 17:08.980 --> 17:10.860 Are you following what I'm saying? 17:11.560 --> 17:15.080 That's why we see so many people come up and repent 17:15.080 --> 17:19.260 for the same issue over and over and over. 17:20.120 --> 17:24.720 Because you've got the information, but now you're not turning to it. 17:26.380 --> 17:29.280 And you're thinking, pastor, I've repented though. 17:30.340 --> 17:31.440 I've repented it. 17:31.620 --> 17:33.180 God, God, I've done everything. 17:33.580 --> 17:34.360 Turn to it. 17:35.120 --> 17:37.180 Begin to implement it in your life. 17:39.080 --> 17:42.220 So repentance is Peter stands up. 17:43.120 --> 17:45.160 He preaches the best sermon of their life. 17:45.160 --> 17:49.500 In other words, he describes Christ to them in a way 17:49.500 --> 17:53.500 that these men and women, this crowd, has never heard about Christ. 17:54.680 --> 17:59.500 He begins to talk about Jesus in a way that the Holy Spirit came 17:59.500 --> 18:03.660 and empowered and these people began to be cut to the heart. 18:05.360 --> 18:06.380 They were cut. 18:06.540 --> 18:11.440 They're like, whoa, we just crucified the Lamb of God. 18:11.440 --> 18:14.080 We crucified the Lamb of God. 18:16.300 --> 18:18.980 We are the ones that hung Him on the tree. 18:19.360 --> 18:21.480 They were cut to the heart. 18:23.220 --> 18:26.380 They were now shown, listen, you can churn away 18:26.380 --> 18:30.420 from your traditional Jewish-like things from your sin 18:30.420 --> 18:35.500 and you can churn to the Lamb of God who has forgiven you of your sin. 18:38.260 --> 18:39.220 That's repentance. 18:41.540 --> 18:43.680 It is a gift given to us. 18:44.080 --> 18:46.860 And going back to a few parts ago when I preached 18:46.860 --> 18:50.060 is that we must live a life of repentance. 18:51.340 --> 18:54.660 Why? Because every day I have an opportunity 18:54.660 --> 18:59.640 to churn away from self and to look to the Lamb of God 18:59.640 --> 19:01.200 who takes away the sins of the world. 19:03.320 --> 19:07.340 Every day I have an opportunity to repent, 19:07.640 --> 19:10.180 to churn away from the old information. 19:11.140 --> 19:13.540 The information that has produced me nothing. 19:14.300 --> 19:16.280 It has given me nothing in my life. 19:16.480 --> 19:20.620 And I have the opportunity to get new information right here. 19:21.640 --> 19:24.020 Right here. New information. 19:25.260 --> 19:28.200 Empowered by the Holy Spirit for me to implement 19:28.200 --> 19:29.960 and to walk out and to live out. 19:29.960 --> 19:34.120 That's why we must live lives of repentance 19:34.120 --> 19:37.760 as we live lives of prayer, as we live lives of fasting, 19:38.300 --> 19:39.760 as we live lives of serving. 19:40.260 --> 19:42.300 It's all the fundamentals of our faith. 19:44.540 --> 19:45.580 That's repentance. 19:46.200 --> 19:49.360 And you cannot have a biblical revival 19:49.360 --> 19:53.060 unless there is a gift of repentance that comes. 19:54.660 --> 19:58.320 If people are not churning away from old ways 19:58.320 --> 20:01.760 and turning on to the Lord or looking on to the Lord, 20:02.100 --> 20:03.080 that's not revival. 20:04.380 --> 20:07.360 I don't care that you had a bunch of people 20:07.360 --> 20:09.660 delivered and healed. Cool. 20:11.380 --> 20:14.280 But what about was repentance there? 20:17.040 --> 20:19.000 Because you can... ah man, this is... 20:19.000 --> 20:19.740 I got to go here. 20:20.260 --> 20:22.000 You can get somebody healed 20:22.000 --> 20:24.020 and you can get somebody delivered 20:24.020 --> 20:25.980 and that healed and delivered person 20:25.980 --> 20:27.140 will still end up in hell. 20:31.080 --> 20:33.100 There is a whole bunch of people in hell 20:33.100 --> 20:34.520 that are healed and delivered. 20:35.320 --> 20:37.040 But because they didn't repent, 20:38.140 --> 20:40.800 because they didn't turn away and look to the Lord, 20:42.940 --> 20:44.640 are you following me? 20:48.380 --> 20:49.960 Biblical revival must, 20:50.920 --> 20:52.680 when the Holy Spirit actually comes, 20:52.760 --> 20:53.940 according to John 16, 20:54.500 --> 20:55.920 when the Holy Spirit comes, 20:57.040 --> 20:58.520 you know what one of the first thing he does 20:58.520 --> 21:00.740 according to John 16, when Jesus talks about him? 21:01.940 --> 21:03.400 He convicts the world of what? 21:06.580 --> 21:09.020 That's one of the first things the Holy Spirit does. 21:12.530 --> 21:13.730 And you go to churches, 21:15.230 --> 21:16.350 ah I'm not going to go there. 21:16.710 --> 21:17.490 I'm not going to go there. 21:17.990 --> 21:20.030 I get riled up and my flesh gets involved 21:20.030 --> 21:21.110 and I don't want my flesh there. 21:23.630 --> 21:25.290 Romans 6, let's read that too. 21:25.430 --> 21:26.990 This is biblical repentance 21:27.430 --> 21:29.150 or I'm sorry, this is biblical revival 21:29.150 --> 21:30.530 which is the gift of repentance. 21:30.950 --> 21:36.790 Romans 6, verse 20, verse 23, 21:36.890 --> 21:37.690 we know the Scripture. 21:44.540 --> 21:46.680 Romans 6, verse 23, 21:53.380 --> 21:54.980 for the wages of sin is death, 21:55.440 --> 21:57.740 but the gift of God is eternal life 21:57.740 --> 21:59.260 in Christ Jesus our Lord. 21:59.700 --> 22:02.720 Paul is giving new information. 22:06.770 --> 22:08.550 The gift of repentance 22:08.550 --> 22:12.790 is understanding how and what sin is 22:12.790 --> 22:13.530 and what it does. 22:15.010 --> 22:16.430 That's the gift of repentance. 22:17.550 --> 22:18.750 You're saying how? 22:19.170 --> 22:22.230 Because now that I know what sin is 22:22.230 --> 22:23.630 and what it does, 22:24.150 --> 22:27.710 I now see Jesus, the Lamb of God 22:27.710 --> 22:30.290 who has paid for all of this. 22:30.550 --> 22:32.230 So I don't have to look at this. 22:33.150 --> 22:36.030 I don't have to think that this right here 22:36.030 --> 22:36.730 is my future. 22:36.730 --> 22:40.270 I don't have to be tormented by this thing. 22:40.370 --> 22:40.630 Why? 22:41.070 --> 22:43.250 Well, because according to what Paul is writing, 22:43.670 --> 22:46.750 the gift of God, Jesus Christ given to me, 22:47.030 --> 22:48.510 I can now cling to the Lord. 22:50.010 --> 22:52.250 I can now cleave and I can cling 22:52.250 --> 22:54.150 and hold on to Jesus. 22:55.750 --> 22:59.350 I am turning away and I am looking to 23:04.260 --> 23:06.660 a revival or a biblical revival. 23:06.800 --> 23:07.700 The next point here 23:08.500 --> 23:10.780 is it awakens us 23:12.280 --> 23:14.340 from our sleep and our slumber. 23:14.640 --> 23:19.260 It awakens us to greater things of the Lord. 23:20.460 --> 23:22.980 And this is where I really want to get into some stuff. 23:23.880 --> 23:26.220 Because I love how pastor says it. 23:26.280 --> 23:28.520 He says when the dust settles, what's left? 23:31.340 --> 23:33.280 A biblical revival, 23:34.200 --> 23:36.720 according to the scriptures, Ephesians 5.14, 23:36.720 --> 23:38.660 you can put it up on the screen. I'll quote it. 23:39.580 --> 23:41.460 Ephesians 5.14 says this, 23:42.060 --> 23:45.180 Awake, O sleeper, rise from the dead 23:45.180 --> 23:47.680 and Christ will shine on you. 23:50.740 --> 23:53.520 A biblical revival must, 23:54.060 --> 23:58.160 must have an awakening that's within us 23:58.160 --> 24:01.140 to greater things of the Lord. 24:01.820 --> 24:05.880 Meaning, meaning that when the dust settles 24:05.880 --> 24:07.620 and all the hype is gone 24:07.620 --> 24:09.280 and all the emotions are gone, 24:09.780 --> 24:11.320 what is left in you? 24:15.150 --> 24:16.910 What's left within your heart? 24:17.130 --> 24:18.570 What have you been marked with? 24:19.810 --> 24:22.110 Did you walk away from a great experience? 24:22.430 --> 24:24.150 We saw some people fall over. 24:24.410 --> 24:26.050 We saw some hooting and hollering. 24:26.290 --> 24:27.390 We saw some dancing. 24:27.670 --> 24:30.410 We saw this, that what was left in you? 24:32.710 --> 24:34.870 Was there a revelation of Christ 24:34.870 --> 24:38.650 that you were awakened to by the Holy Spirit 24:38.650 --> 24:41.450 that despite that we may come to a service 24:41.450 --> 24:43.490 and it's not so hooting and hollering, 24:43.830 --> 24:45.830 you're still maintaining a path. 24:46.090 --> 24:46.570 Why? 24:47.390 --> 24:50.330 Because you have been awakened to things. 24:51.450 --> 24:54.630 You've been awakened to things of the Lord 24:54.630 --> 24:57.590 that now sustain you regardless 24:57.590 --> 24:59.950 if there is a coasting season. 25:02.710 --> 25:05.230 Regardless if you're walking through a wilderness 25:05.230 --> 25:07.950 regardless if you're walking through a drought, 25:08.090 --> 25:10.370 a desert, whatever it may be 25:10.370 --> 25:13.910 but a biblical revival awakens you. 25:14.810 --> 25:17.530 It awakens you to the deep things of God 25:17.530 --> 25:19.730 so that when it settles 25:19.730 --> 25:21.470 you walk away from that thing 25:21.470 --> 25:22.990 and you're like, yeah, that was great 25:22.990 --> 25:24.850 and yeah, it may not be the same 25:24.850 --> 25:27.810 but man, I have a revelation of Jesus 25:27.810 --> 25:31.350 that regardless if I see this, that and the other 25:31.350 --> 25:34.410 I'm still maintaining, I'm still going 25:34.410 --> 25:36.230 because I've been awakened to things. 25:37.170 --> 25:39.890 You can't tell me these things are not. 25:40.170 --> 25:41.550 I've been awakened to them. 25:43.030 --> 25:45.170 That's like you waking up in the morning 25:45.170 --> 25:47.710 and somebody tells you you're still sleeping. 25:47.870 --> 25:49.090 You're like, no man, you're crazy. 25:49.450 --> 25:50.850 I'm awake. Look at my eyes. 25:52.850 --> 25:55.910 Bro, you're sleeping. No, I've been awakened. 25:57.970 --> 25:59.890 I've been awakened from my slumber. 26:00.070 --> 26:01.910 I've been awakened from my dullness. 26:02.590 --> 26:04.270 From my callous heart. 26:04.430 --> 26:07.730 I have been awakened to the things of God 26:07.730 --> 26:09.450 and you can't tell me otherwise. 26:10.310 --> 26:12.890 You could put a gun to my head and say, that ain't it. 26:12.970 --> 26:15.650 I say, bro, you're deceived. I'm not deceived. 26:18.070 --> 26:19.430 It's maintaining things. 26:19.710 --> 26:21.850 It's holding the line and you're going. 26:22.030 --> 26:23.670 That's what a biblical revival produces. 26:24.550 --> 26:26.850 And how many times that I've talked to people 26:26.850 --> 26:29.830 that have been in so-called, I was in a revival 26:29.830 --> 26:32.670 and you look at their life and there is no follow-up. 26:33.670 --> 26:35.030 Like, what happened, man? 26:36.330 --> 26:37.970 Yeah, but we saw people fall over. 26:39.870 --> 26:42.010 Cool. Yeah, but we had people saved. 26:42.830 --> 26:44.870 Cool. But what about you? 26:48.230 --> 26:49.270 What about you? 26:51.510 --> 26:53.190 We see this in the book of Acts. 26:53.190 --> 26:56.850 Revival comes, I'm saying the Holy Spirit comes, 26:57.450 --> 26:59.770 lights up these apostles, never the same. 27:01.570 --> 27:02.730 They're never the same. 27:02.850 --> 27:04.670 Friends, they're never the same. 27:05.590 --> 27:09.090 I believe the reason why the Apostle Peter preached 27:09.090 --> 27:12.890 the best sermon of his life is because he was awakened 27:12.890 --> 27:16.770 by the Holy Spirit to some things about Jesus 27:16.770 --> 27:20.730 that he wasn't, so he stood up in boldness. 27:22.490 --> 27:25.050 By the way, the scriptures tell us they were in one accord. 27:26.030 --> 27:28.790 Where when you read them, when they followed Jesus, 27:29.530 --> 27:32.610 they had some... they weren't so much in one accord, man. 27:34.550 --> 27:36.870 We had two of them go to their mom and say, 27:36.890 --> 27:39.790 hey, can you go ask Jesus if we can be at his right 27:39.790 --> 27:40.550 and at his left? 27:41.590 --> 27:45.050 That's what we saw in the disciples when they followed the Lord. 27:45.330 --> 27:48.490 But now the Holy Spirit comes or they're waiting for him 27:48.490 --> 27:49.990 and the scriptures tell us they're in one accord. 27:51.630 --> 27:54.750 They were awakened to some things that made them say, 27:55.990 --> 27:58.770 man, it's better for us to be in one accord 27:58.770 --> 27:59.790 than try to fight each other. 28:02.810 --> 28:04.970 May we as a church, I feel the Lord on this, 28:06.910 --> 28:09.950 may we as a church, as a congregation, 28:13.310 --> 28:16.310 come to... come to a conclusion 28:16.310 --> 28:18.350 or a settling in our heart. 28:19.370 --> 28:20.370 Listen to me. 28:22.450 --> 28:25.910 That it is better for us to be in one accord 28:27.810 --> 28:30.870 than trying to bite at each other's necks. 28:32.190 --> 28:34.750 You're saying, well, that doesn't happen in our church, pastor. 28:36.610 --> 28:38.470 Come to this side of the pulpit. 28:41.690 --> 28:44.050 May it settle in our hearts 28:44.950 --> 28:48.470 that it is better for us to be in one accord 28:49.050 --> 28:52.090 than to try to fight each other 28:52.090 --> 28:55.150 or point out each other's wrongs. 28:56.450 --> 28:58.390 May we come to the realization 28:58.390 --> 29:00.910 that the apostles did in the upper room 29:00.910 --> 29:03.990 in one accord, waiting for the subtly, 29:04.170 --> 29:06.610 waiting for the promise of the Lord. 29:10.320 --> 29:11.680 Let's go through two more. 29:13.740 --> 29:15.920 Revival or a biblical revival, 29:16.180 --> 29:19.300 you see signs, miracles, and wonders. 29:19.620 --> 29:20.700 And I'll even say this. 29:21.420 --> 29:22.680 I'll quote Pastor Vern here. 29:23.440 --> 29:25.260 The supernatural is at its peak. 29:29.460 --> 29:33.840 A biblical revival must have signs, 29:34.980 --> 29:37.180 miracles, wonders, 29:37.480 --> 29:41.960 and the supernatural at such a peak 29:41.960 --> 29:43.280 that it's with ease. 29:48.250 --> 29:50.850 That the moving and the brewing 29:50.850 --> 29:54.210 of the Holy Spirit and the supernatural activity of the Lord 29:54.210 --> 29:56.130 is at such a peak. 29:57.010 --> 30:00.890 It is at such a peak that it is done with ease. 30:02.550 --> 30:03.890 It is done with ease. 30:06.010 --> 30:08.850 Sometimes I feel like we want it so bad that we work for it. 30:08.870 --> 30:10.870 We're like, if I pray a little louder, 30:10.990 --> 30:12.250 if I scream a little harder, 30:12.250 --> 30:15.570 if I come on, it's like we're pushing it out. 30:15.650 --> 30:19.230 It's like, no, that's not how the biblical revival, 30:19.350 --> 30:20.430 it's with ease. 30:22.950 --> 30:25.170 We see that in the book of Acts all over. 30:26.830 --> 30:27.950 John and Peter are what? 30:28.090 --> 30:29.490 They're going to the temple to pray. 30:31.930 --> 30:33.370 Person there on the side of the road. 30:35.290 --> 30:37.150 Peter wasn't like screaming at him, 30:37.150 --> 30:37.710 get up. 30:39.110 --> 30:41.230 He just made it really simple. 30:43.050 --> 30:43.910 Stand and walk, man. 30:44.510 --> 30:45.530 I don't have silver or gold. 30:45.790 --> 30:48.630 I can't help you, but that which I have, 30:49.770 --> 30:53.050 I give to you in the name of Jesus, 30:53.470 --> 30:54.370 stand and walk. 30:56.270 --> 30:57.090 What happened? 30:57.530 --> 30:58.370 He stood and he walked. 31:00.590 --> 31:03.890 Biblical revival must have 31:05.190 --> 31:07.430 signs, miracles, wonders and supernatural. 31:07.650 --> 31:08.630 Let's read Acts 3. 31:08.870 --> 31:10.290 Let me go back to Acts. 31:11.050 --> 31:12.130 And then we're going to hit one more 31:12.130 --> 31:13.270 and we'll wrap it up for today. 31:18.050 --> 31:19.230 Acts chapter 3. 31:32.180 --> 31:32.940 Versus 1. 31:33.160 --> 31:35.440 This is the story. I want to read it for you. 31:35.520 --> 31:37.320 Now Peter and John went up together 31:37.320 --> 31:40.360 to the temple at the hour of prayer, 31:41.020 --> 31:41.720 the ninth hour. 31:42.040 --> 31:44.540 And a certain man, lame from his mother's womb, 31:45.160 --> 31:47.760 whom they lay daily at the gate of the temple, 31:48.080 --> 31:49.180 which is called beautiful, 31:49.840 --> 31:52.780 to ask alms of those who enter the temple. 31:52.960 --> 31:54.560 So seeing Peter and John 31:54.560 --> 31:56.620 about to go into the temple, 31:57.000 --> 31:57.900 asked for alms. 31:58.000 --> 31:59.940 And fixing his eyes on him 31:59.940 --> 32:02.240 with John, Peter said, 32:03.000 --> 32:03.640 look at us. 32:05.160 --> 32:08.480 So he gave them his attention, 32:08.680 --> 32:12.740 expecting to receive something from them. 32:12.740 --> 32:15.420 Then Peter said, silver and gold I do not have. 32:15.860 --> 32:18.080 But what I do have, I give you 32:18.080 --> 32:20.820 in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. 32:21.300 --> 32:22.740 Rise up and walk. 32:23.320 --> 32:25.120 Can you imagine with such ease, 32:25.480 --> 32:26.600 let's say you're going to Walmart. 32:28.300 --> 32:30.100 Let's say you're going to the Cambridge Walmart. 32:31.360 --> 32:32.980 And somebody in their pajamas 32:32.980 --> 32:34.120 comes up to you and says, 32:36.200 --> 32:38.000 can you give me some money 32:38.000 --> 32:39.460 to this, that and the other? 32:39.520 --> 32:40.960 Maybe they're sitting outside and they're homeless. 32:41.580 --> 32:42.780 And maybe they're crutch. 32:42.900 --> 32:45.540 I'm just trying to make this personal to you 32:45.540 --> 32:47.700 of what actual biblical revival looks like. 32:48.220 --> 32:48.760 With ease. 32:49.580 --> 32:50.440 You're at Walmart. 32:50.880 --> 32:52.160 You got somebody at the front door 32:52.160 --> 32:53.160 asking you for money. 32:53.780 --> 32:55.560 But you legitimately don't have money 32:55.560 --> 32:56.580 because the only thing you have 32:56.580 --> 32:57.880 is enough to buy for your family. 32:58.640 --> 33:01.100 But you obviously see that this person is crippled 33:01.100 --> 33:03.140 and they need something more than just money. 33:03.740 --> 33:04.840 If they were healed, 33:05.220 --> 33:06.220 they could go and work 33:06.220 --> 33:07.400 and make their own money. 33:08.660 --> 33:10.740 So with ease, you tell this person, 33:11.760 --> 33:13.720 sorry, I don't have any money. 33:14.340 --> 33:16.520 But in the name of Jesus, my Lord, 33:17.240 --> 33:18.820 I command you to stand and walk. 33:18.900 --> 33:20.680 And this person up and starts walking. 33:22.820 --> 33:24.600 That's the supernatural at its peak. 33:24.740 --> 33:25.820 It's done with ease. 33:29.080 --> 33:29.860 I long for that. 33:30.480 --> 33:32.880 I've said this before, I long for the day 33:32.880 --> 33:34.880 where I don't have to lay hands on people 33:34.880 --> 33:35.500 to get healed. 33:35.500 --> 33:37.600 But because they enter this building 33:37.600 --> 33:39.680 and because God has trusted us 33:39.680 --> 33:40.940 with a measure of power 33:40.940 --> 33:41.800 that people get healed 33:41.800 --> 33:43.480 from the moment they walk in through those doors. 33:43.980 --> 33:45.220 I long for that day. 33:46.340 --> 33:46.900 You know why? 33:47.300 --> 33:48.700 So that no man can take credit. 33:50.460 --> 33:51.780 You're saying, why are you so against 33:51.780 --> 33:52.600 laying hands on people? 33:52.740 --> 33:53.040 I'm not. 33:53.420 --> 33:54.780 I think it's a privilege and an honor 33:54.780 --> 33:56.800 to lay hands on people and pray for them. 33:56.880 --> 33:57.760 I'm not against it. 33:58.240 --> 33:59.660 But I long for that day 34:00.360 --> 34:01.840 that the presence of God 34:01.840 --> 34:03.560 is so thick and tangible 34:03.560 --> 34:05.340 that we are in that revival 34:05.340 --> 34:07.320 and the supernatural is at its peak 34:07.320 --> 34:09.360 that no man has to lay hands 34:09.360 --> 34:11.860 so that no man can take credit. 34:14.400 --> 34:16.100 So that no man can take credit 34:16.100 --> 34:18.160 that all glory can be on to him. 34:18.440 --> 34:19.380 Let's go through one more. 34:19.640 --> 34:20.420 John 15. 34:20.640 --> 34:22.460 Let's open up the Gospel of John. 34:24.820 --> 34:26.720 This is one that we talk about 34:27.600 --> 34:29.980 but we don't... 34:31.220 --> 34:32.980 We don't pin it to... 34:34.760 --> 34:36.420 This is part of a biblical revival. 34:36.560 --> 34:37.380 This is John 15. 34:37.560 --> 34:38.420 This is the Lord talking. 34:38.860 --> 34:40.340 Verses 18 to 25. 34:42.920 --> 34:44.200 Let's read it first here. 34:46.540 --> 34:47.400 Jesus says, 34:48.160 --> 34:49.500 If the world hates you, 34:50.380 --> 34:51.700 you know that it hated me 34:51.700 --> 34:52.760 before it hated you. 34:53.900 --> 34:55.160 If you were of the world, 34:55.360 --> 34:59.060 the world would love its own. 34:59.060 --> 35:01.640 Yet because you are not of the world, 35:02.060 --> 35:04.080 but I chose you out of the world, 35:04.500 --> 35:05.860 therefore the world hates you. 35:06.500 --> 35:08.760 Remember the word that I said to you. 35:08.920 --> 35:11.080 A servant is not greater than his master. 35:11.840 --> 35:13.500 If they persecuted me, 35:14.160 --> 35:16.160 they will also persecute you. 35:16.900 --> 35:18.640 If they kept my word, 35:18.920 --> 35:20.900 they will keep yours also. 35:22.080 --> 35:23.280 Let me just pause there. 35:24.580 --> 35:25.940 A biblical revival. 35:26.880 --> 35:27.520 Always. 35:28.000 --> 35:28.900 Listen to me. 35:29.900 --> 35:31.980 Always has persecution that follows. 35:34.120 --> 35:35.820 But we never talk about that. 35:36.800 --> 35:38.220 We talk about persecution. 35:39.400 --> 35:42.160 But we never combine that with revival. 35:43.160 --> 35:44.540 That's why I'm saying 35:44.540 --> 35:46.660 the more and more that I was going through these points 35:46.660 --> 35:47.620 and studying it out, 35:48.120 --> 35:49.040 the more and more I'm like, 35:49.320 --> 35:50.100 Do I even want revival? 35:53.790 --> 35:54.430 You see, 35:56.150 --> 35:57.650 this might be a harsh statement 35:57.650 --> 35:59.270 and I'm still weighing it out in my spirit. 35:59.350 --> 36:00.210 I think I've settled it. 36:00.750 --> 36:03.590 But I don't think... 36:03.590 --> 36:04.690 Yeah, I can say it confidently. 36:05.790 --> 36:07.350 Here in the western world, 36:08.690 --> 36:11.810 we actually have not experienced persecution. 36:16.440 --> 36:18.520 What we call persecution 36:21.960 --> 36:22.520 is... 36:23.440 --> 36:25.500 is minuscule in the eyes of 36:25.500 --> 36:27.980 people that are actually experiencing persecution. 36:29.180 --> 36:30.500 Here's an example. 36:31.320 --> 36:32.300 You lost your job 36:32.300 --> 36:34.100 and you know how many times I've heard people say, 36:34.140 --> 36:35.060 Man, I lost my job. 36:35.180 --> 36:36.840 I'm being persecuted because I'm a Christian. 36:37.260 --> 36:37.760 Are you sure? 36:39.000 --> 36:40.360 It wasn't because you were late. 36:43.220 --> 36:44.400 Man, I'm being persecuted. 36:45.180 --> 36:45.880 Ah, that devil. 36:46.320 --> 36:48.720 He's working through my boss 36:48.720 --> 36:50.820 because he just knows I'm a Christian 36:50.820 --> 36:52.160 and I do Bible studies. 36:52.500 --> 36:53.820 I did Bible studies 36:53.820 --> 36:56.480 and they fired me for that. 36:56.480 --> 36:58.680 Are you sure you were doing Bible studies 36:58.680 --> 37:00.760 in the hour that you were given 37:00.760 --> 37:02.120 to do your break, 37:02.220 --> 37:03.500 or are you doing Bible studies 37:03.500 --> 37:04.920 in the midst of your work? 37:07.440 --> 37:08.440 I've heard that, too. 37:08.960 --> 37:09.780 I've heard people say, 37:09.880 --> 37:11.080 Well, I was doing Bible studies. 37:11.200 --> 37:12.400 Okay, when were you doing it, though? 37:12.960 --> 37:13.720 Well, I mean, 37:14.760 --> 37:16.680 you were called for that eight hours 37:16.680 --> 37:19.020 to work that line or that machine, whatever. 37:19.380 --> 37:21.400 That's not the time for you to be a Christian. 37:21.800 --> 37:23.360 Like, and what I mean be a Christian 37:23.360 --> 37:24.720 is do Bible studies. 37:24.720 --> 37:27.320 You can be a Christian another way while still working. 37:29.620 --> 37:31.320 What we call persecution 37:31.320 --> 37:33.840 is by no means persecution 37:33.840 --> 37:35.060 here in the Western world. 37:38.160 --> 37:40.500 Persecution, according to the definition of it, 37:40.540 --> 37:41.840 is something that's far more 37:41.840 --> 37:44.120 than just your feelings were hurt. 37:44.620 --> 37:45.400 Have you noticed that, 37:45.520 --> 37:46.840 that we call things persecution 37:46.840 --> 37:48.100 when our feelings get hurt? 37:48.780 --> 37:50.680 I'm persecuted by my family. 37:51.400 --> 37:53.120 No, just died of your flesh. 37:53.920 --> 37:55.940 And what your family says about you 37:55.940 --> 37:57.040 won't even matter. 37:59.340 --> 38:01.280 Who cares what people think about you? 38:02.160 --> 38:03.700 I've died to that years ago. 38:04.780 --> 38:06.620 Seriously, I'm like, I don't care. 38:07.340 --> 38:07.940 You like me? 38:08.100 --> 38:09.920 You guys remember back in 2024 38:09.920 --> 38:11.460 when I was here for Open Heavens? 38:11.580 --> 38:12.780 I kept on saying this phrase 38:12.780 --> 38:14.160 and then Pastor Vern came up. 38:14.480 --> 38:16.360 I said, I don't care if you guys like me or not. 38:16.740 --> 38:17.820 I'm not here to be liked. 38:17.920 --> 38:18.860 I'm here to bring you to gospel. 38:19.300 --> 38:20.640 And then Pastor Vern came up 38:20.640 --> 38:21.960 and he said, hey, we don't like you. 38:27.520 --> 38:29.020 But then you added something. 38:29.140 --> 38:30.100 See, I could have stopped there. 38:31.440 --> 38:32.580 I could have stopped there 38:32.580 --> 38:34.100 because you did say we don't like you. 38:34.340 --> 38:35.860 You said, we love you. 38:39.440 --> 38:41.060 So what we call persecution 38:41.060 --> 38:43.180 is not what the Bible calls persecution. 38:44.220 --> 38:46.020 And here's what I found really interesting 38:46.020 --> 38:47.680 as I was studying and looking at this 38:47.680 --> 38:51.340 is that where there is biblical revival 38:51.340 --> 38:52.680 there is always persecution. 38:53.520 --> 38:55.120 And where you find persecution 38:55.740 --> 38:57.560 you find the power of God. 38:58.580 --> 39:00.580 Oh, you got to hear me. 39:00.940 --> 39:01.840 Listen to me. Listen to me. 39:02.340 --> 39:04.440 If you read the book of Acts 39:04.440 --> 39:06.080 because I literally just went through it this week 39:06.080 --> 39:08.640 just to reconfirm that what I'm teaching is correct 39:08.640 --> 39:09.920 and I'm like, man, this is awesome. 39:10.400 --> 39:11.600 You read the book of Acts 39:12.480 --> 39:14.600 from Acts 2 when the revival starts 39:14.600 --> 39:16.220 all the way up to where you get to like 39:16.220 --> 39:19.320 chapter 28 when you're into the life of Paul. 39:19.320 --> 39:21.700 And you find this pattern. 39:22.640 --> 39:24.420 Where greater persecution came 39:24.420 --> 39:26.280 there came greater power 39:26.280 --> 39:28.140 that God bestowed upon them. 39:31.220 --> 39:33.040 Where greater persecution came 39:34.140 --> 39:37.920 and if we handle that persecution correctly 39:39.080 --> 39:41.200 God says, I can trust you with more power. 39:42.720 --> 39:45.200 You're saying, how do I handle persecution correctly? 39:45.380 --> 39:46.960 According to the scriptures it says 39:46.960 --> 39:52.100 I find it all joy when trial and tribulation is here. 39:56.450 --> 39:59.510 You see, I believe one of the reasons 39:59.510 --> 40:02.330 why we as a church lack in the power of it 40:02.330 --> 40:03.690 here in the Western world 40:03.690 --> 40:05.550 because how many times have we heard 40:05.550 --> 40:08.770 why are we seeing the supernatural in Nigeria? 40:09.310 --> 40:11.390 Why are we seeing the supernatural in Mexico 40:11.390 --> 40:12.810 in these other countries? 40:13.070 --> 40:14.610 Why are we seeing the supernatural? 40:14.970 --> 40:17.070 Look what's happening to our brothers and sisters 40:17.070 --> 40:17.890 across seas. 40:19.110 --> 40:20.510 They're being beheaded. 40:21.830 --> 40:23.890 They're being put into positions 40:23.890 --> 40:27.270 where it's actual, true persecution. 40:27.970 --> 40:29.610 And now they're handling that right. 40:31.470 --> 40:33.330 God says, yeah, I can trust you with power. 40:35.150 --> 40:36.950 Where power is found in the scriptures 40:36.950 --> 40:38.610 you will find persecution. 40:39.130 --> 40:41.030 Where persecution is found in the scriptures 40:41.030 --> 40:42.370 you will find power. 40:42.510 --> 40:43.350 They go hand in hand. 40:44.410 --> 40:46.110 And if we mishandle 40:46.110 --> 40:47.850 the persecution that comes 40:47.850 --> 40:49.950 we will lack in the power 40:49.950 --> 40:51.650 that God actually wants us to give. 40:53.730 --> 40:56.890 So if we as a church are asking for revival 40:56.890 --> 40:59.990 if we are saying God we want to be a part 40:59.990 --> 41:01.630 of the end time revival 41:01.630 --> 41:02.990 friend buckle up. 41:04.390 --> 41:06.350 I said friend buckle up 41:06.350 --> 41:08.470 because the persecution is going to hit you 41:08.470 --> 41:09.410 like a train. 41:12.130 --> 41:14.450 What is persecution? Let me read it to you here. 41:14.450 --> 41:16.430 Just so you are understanding 41:16.430 --> 41:19.610 persecution is a cruel treatment. 41:21.350 --> 41:22.370 It's cruel. 41:22.930 --> 41:25.230 It's by no means they're being nice to you. 41:25.370 --> 41:26.710 It is a cruel treatment. 41:26.890 --> 41:30.370 They have disregarded who you are. 41:30.550 --> 41:31.850 They can care less. 41:33.130 --> 41:35.670 I don't care who you are. 41:36.030 --> 41:38.410 They will treat you even if you were the son of Trump 41:38.410 --> 41:39.770 I don't care who you are. 41:39.850 --> 41:41.850 They will treat you with cruelty. 41:42.930 --> 41:46.490 They will disregard you as a human being. 41:50.510 --> 41:53.050 They don't care who you were in the military. 41:53.670 --> 41:56.670 They don't care what position you held 41:56.670 --> 41:58.490 in whatever government. 41:58.790 --> 41:59.650 They don't care. 41:59.830 --> 42:01.590 They will persecute you 42:01.590 --> 42:04.390 and treat you cruel to the point 42:04.390 --> 42:06.290 that you are going to feel like a worm. 42:09.290 --> 42:10.270 But you say 42:11.370 --> 42:12.870 I find joy in it. 42:15.470 --> 42:17.580 But I find joy in it. 42:18.120 --> 42:18.480 Why? 42:19.220 --> 42:20.660 Because God is trusting me with Himself. 42:24.600 --> 42:27.020 The Lord is trusting me with Himself. 42:28.760 --> 42:30.280 He is trusting me 42:31.020 --> 42:33.020 to now handle the power 42:33.020 --> 42:36.360 to be a witness, to be a martyr to these people. 42:38.940 --> 42:40.700 I sometimes ponder 42:42.580 --> 42:44.580 about my bloodline, 42:45.340 --> 42:47.720 about my dad, my uncle, my grandpa 42:47.720 --> 42:51.240 and sometimes I'll get into deep thinking 42:51.240 --> 42:54.200 and I almost like shiver in my skin 42:55.100 --> 42:56.780 because at 18 years old 42:56.780 --> 42:58.980 I'm thinking of myself when I was 18 42:58.980 --> 43:00.460 what I have done, what my dad did. 43:02.480 --> 43:04.100 At 18 years old 43:05.120 --> 43:06.800 to have a gun pointed to your head 43:06.800 --> 43:07.960 they didn't care who he was. 43:08.340 --> 43:10.020 We don't care that your last name is Kandratyuk. 43:10.580 --> 43:12.760 We can care less that you served for two years. 43:12.760 --> 43:13.840 We don't care. 43:15.540 --> 43:17.060 All we care about is that 43:17.060 --> 43:19.020 unless you deny Christ right now 43:20.420 --> 43:22.100 there's going to be a bullet in your forehead. 43:23.720 --> 43:24.900 At 18 years old 43:24.900 --> 43:26.420 I would sit and I would be like 43:26.420 --> 43:28.320 man, what would I do? 43:29.180 --> 43:30.720 Like honestly, like what would I do? 43:30.860 --> 43:32.720 I put myself in the 43:32.720 --> 43:34.020 book of Acts 43:34.820 --> 43:37.180 to be stoned like the Apostle Paul. 43:37.960 --> 43:39.240 You go to a city 43:39.240 --> 43:40.300 to preach the gospel 43:40.300 --> 43:41.640 and here in America 43:41.640 --> 43:43.720 we have now used the pulpit 43:43.720 --> 43:45.540 to be liked by people. 43:46.980 --> 43:48.600 I want you to hear me here. 43:49.700 --> 43:51.120 We have used 43:51.120 --> 43:53.020 this stage right here 43:53.020 --> 43:54.480 to be liked 43:54.480 --> 43:55.480 by the people. 43:56.100 --> 43:57.860 But according to the scriptures 43:57.860 --> 43:59.600 where revival was 44:00.100 --> 44:02.280 every city that Paul would go to 44:02.280 --> 44:03.580 he would be hated. 44:05.860 --> 44:08.360 And the further he went the more he was hated. 44:09.560 --> 44:11.300 You know what? Somebody wants prophesied 44:11.300 --> 44:12.340 and I'm not going to say their name 44:12.340 --> 44:13.980 but they know who they are because they're in this room. 44:15.180 --> 44:16.120 Somebody prophesied to me 44:16.120 --> 44:17.040 and I'm like whoa. 44:18.540 --> 44:19.000 They said 44:21.380 --> 44:22.180 how do they say it? 44:22.200 --> 44:23.360 I'm trying to remember word for word. 44:25.420 --> 44:26.060 They said 44:27.800 --> 44:28.780 in the latter days 44:28.780 --> 44:30.220 of your ministry, when I'm going to be 44:30.620 --> 44:32.700 traveling, all that stuff 44:32.700 --> 44:33.620 not going to get into details. 44:34.200 --> 44:36.080 They said in the latter day of your ministry 44:36.520 --> 44:37.980 people are going to hate you 44:37.980 --> 44:39.660 more than they're going to like you. 44:42.180 --> 44:43.260 And I was like whoa. 44:43.760 --> 44:44.980 Maybe I don't want to preach anymore. 44:47.140 --> 44:48.420 It's kind of nice to be liked 44:48.420 --> 44:49.260 by your church people. 44:51.580 --> 44:52.480 Not that I don't care 44:52.480 --> 44:54.040 but you know it's... 44:54.040 --> 44:55.360 but it gives you a perspective 44:55.760 --> 44:57.480 of what actual persecution is. 44:59.860 --> 45:01.520 They will treat you cruelly. 45:01.760 --> 45:04.080 They will treat you unfairly 45:04.080 --> 45:06.080 and that's not unfairly like 45:06.080 --> 45:08.160 you get two cookies but I get 45:08.160 --> 45:09.980 four. It's not that kind of unfair. 45:12.040 --> 45:14.400 It's like oh you're a Christian? 45:15.120 --> 45:16.360 Yeah you can't even get on this bus. 45:17.560 --> 45:19.040 You're going to have to walk 40 miles. 45:19.500 --> 45:19.900 I don't care. 45:21.440 --> 45:22.500 Oh you're a Christian? 45:23.280 --> 45:24.700 I don't care that your baby's hungry 45:24.700 --> 45:26.420 at home. I can't sell you 45:26.420 --> 45:26.920 this formula. 45:29.380 --> 45:30.460 Oh you're a Christian? 45:31.080 --> 45:32.900 Yeah all the money that you had saved 45:32.900 --> 45:34.580 in your account. Yeah it's gone. 45:34.720 --> 45:36.480 We've given it to whoever needs it. 45:38.440 --> 45:39.700 See now that's persecution. 45:40.920 --> 45:42.060 Treating you cruelly. 45:42.560 --> 45:44.380 Treating you unfair. Let me read some more here. 45:45.700 --> 45:46.900 They are very hostile 45:46.900 --> 45:47.800 towards you. 45:49.800 --> 45:51.240 They could simply hate you 45:51.240 --> 45:52.500 because you're white. 45:53.840 --> 45:55.240 They could simply hate you 45:55.240 --> 45:55.600 because 45:56.700 --> 45:58.880 your religion, your beliefs, your identity. 45:59.480 --> 46:01.040 They don't need a reason. 46:01.600 --> 46:02.600 Biblical person like 46:02.600 --> 46:04.980 you read the book of Acts and you read it's like 46:04.980 --> 46:06.980 they had no reason 46:06.980 --> 46:09.080 because here they're giving the truth. 46:09.300 --> 46:10.960 Here they're talking. They're going... 46:10.960 --> 46:12.200 Paul is going way back. 46:12.700 --> 46:14.560 Stephen in Acts 7 46:14.560 --> 46:16.800 goes way back and talks about 46:16.800 --> 46:18.640 the patriarchs. 46:18.640 --> 46:20.460 And he talks about Abraham, Moses 46:20.460 --> 46:22.960 and he talks about all the forefathers 46:22.960 --> 46:25.220 and he unveils to them the truth 46:25.220 --> 46:27.040 that Christ is from that 46:27.040 --> 46:28.120 lineage of people. 46:28.120 --> 46:29.620 They didn't care. 46:31.620 --> 46:32.820 They didn't care. 46:33.260 --> 46:34.640 All they heard was 46:34.640 --> 46:36.040 this guy right here 46:36.040 --> 46:37.540 is preaching about some guy 46:37.540 --> 46:39.320 that died and rose from the dead. 46:39.720 --> 46:40.340 Let's stone him. 46:42.940 --> 46:44.140 A Biblical 46:44.140 --> 46:45.300 revival 46:45.300 --> 46:47.800 has persecution that's tied to it. 46:48.020 --> 46:49.000 You can't have it. 46:51.020 --> 46:52.580 You can't have a revival 46:52.580 --> 46:53.640 unless there's persecution. 46:54.380 --> 46:56.400 And the way we handle persecution 46:56.400 --> 46:58.400 will depend on how much power 46:58.400 --> 46:59.920 God will entrust us with. 47:00.380 --> 47:01.660 Can I hit one more pastor? 47:04.920 --> 47:05.880 He's shrugging his shoulders. 47:09.340 --> 47:10.360 I'm going to hit one more 47:10.360 --> 47:11.880 and then maybe next Sunday. 47:12.600 --> 47:15.120 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Second Thessalonians 2. 47:15.280 --> 47:15.960 Are you guys still good? 47:16.260 --> 47:18.340 You guys still good? Okay, I want to hit this last one here. 47:22.130 --> 47:23.870 He's shrugged his shoulders. Usually he's like, 47:23.930 --> 47:25.490 yeah, go ahead or don't do it or 47:26.710 --> 47:27.970 I'm looking to you. 47:29.810 --> 47:31.430 And he's saying, look to the Lord, son. 47:31.950 --> 47:32.630 I can hear it now. 47:34.950 --> 47:36.430 Second Thessalonians 2. 47:37.290 --> 47:38.070 I got to read you this 47:38.070 --> 47:39.510 because this is something that 47:40.110 --> 47:41.790 shook me and really had me say 47:41.790 --> 47:42.950 do I want revival? 47:43.830 --> 47:45.890 Second Thessalonians 2, verses 1 47:45.890 --> 47:46.250 and 3. 47:47.250 --> 47:49.230 I don't know what it says on top of your Bible 47:49.650 --> 47:50.810 but on top of mine 47:51.430 --> 47:53.210 above chapter 2, it says the great 47:53.210 --> 47:53.770 apostasy. 47:56.310 --> 47:57.330 Verse 1. 48:00.010 --> 48:01.170 Now brethren, 48:01.830 --> 48:03.850 concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 48:03.850 --> 48:05.430 and our gathering together 48:05.430 --> 48:07.270 to him, we ask you 48:07.270 --> 48:08.930 not to be soon shaken 48:08.930 --> 48:11.250 and mind or troubled, either 48:11.250 --> 48:12.770 by spirit or by word 48:12.770 --> 48:14.530 or by letter, as 48:15.170 --> 48:17.010 from us, as though the day 48:17.010 --> 48:19.110 of Christ had come. So in 48:19.110 --> 48:21.110 context, we got people 48:21.110 --> 48:23.290 in Thessalonica that were believing 48:23.290 --> 48:24.850 that Jesus already came. 48:26.210 --> 48:27.190 That's the context 48:27.190 --> 48:28.410 of it. So Paul is like, hey, 48:28.610 --> 48:31.290 calm down. He hasn't come yet 48:31.290 --> 48:33.350 because here is the signs 48:35.050 --> 48:36.950 because here is the signs 48:36.950 --> 48:38.910 that we will see before the coming 48:38.910 --> 48:39.450 of the Lord. 48:41.250 --> 48:41.730 Revival 48:42.610 --> 48:44.570 is part of the coming of the Lord. 48:44.770 --> 48:46.210 Just making sure we're on the same page. 48:46.770 --> 48:47.390 Verse 3. 48:47.390 --> 48:49.450 So Paul comforts them. 48:49.570 --> 48:51.650 He says, let no one be... I don't know if this is comforting, 48:51.730 --> 48:53.310 but he's trying to comfort them. 48:53.630 --> 48:55.190 He says, let no one deceive 48:55.190 --> 48:57.010 you by any means. 48:57.750 --> 48:59.590 For that day will not 48:59.590 --> 49:01.390 come unless the falling away 49:01.390 --> 49:03.610 comes first. Biblical 49:03.610 --> 49:05.750 revival produces 49:05.750 --> 49:07.470 a great falling away. 49:09.190 --> 49:11.050 Especially if we're talking about 49:11.050 --> 49:13.290 the end times revival. You're saying, 49:13.350 --> 49:14.390 what are you talking about, pastor? 49:14.390 --> 49:16.170 Matthew 24.10 49:16.170 --> 49:18.030 Jesus quotes that many, 49:18.290 --> 49:19.630 many will leave. 49:22.050 --> 49:24.730 So if we're talking about the end times revival, 49:24.850 --> 49:26.310 according to what Paul is writing 49:26.310 --> 49:28.010 to the Thessalonian church, 49:28.330 --> 49:30.330 he's talking about a great multitude 49:30.330 --> 49:32.710 will fall away in the midst 49:32.710 --> 49:33.550 of this revival. 49:36.170 --> 49:37.910 That means this could be loved ones. 49:38.490 --> 49:40.270 That means that this could be people 49:40.270 --> 49:42.570 that we have brought to the Lord. 49:43.430 --> 49:44.290 This means 49:44.290 --> 49:46.050 this could be so many people 49:46.710 --> 49:48.630 that in the midst of the gathering 49:48.630 --> 49:50.670 of the harvest that the Scripture tells us 49:50.670 --> 49:52.190 that people have called the billions 49:52.190 --> 49:54.130 whole harvest, in that midst 49:54.130 --> 49:56.290 you will actually, according to the Scripture 49:56.970 --> 49:58.490 you will actually see 49:58.490 --> 50:00.130 people falling away from the faith. 50:03.560 --> 50:04.620 Biblical revival 50:04.620 --> 50:06.500 produces a falling 50:06.500 --> 50:08.240 away. Not that God wants it 50:08.240 --> 50:10.360 to happen, but because 50:10.360 --> 50:11.720 there is a lack of 50:11.720 --> 50:13.900 repentance, because there is 50:13.900 --> 50:15.640 a lack of looking on to the Lord 50:15.640 --> 50:17.720 because there is a lack of actually 50:17.720 --> 50:19.320 the Holy Spirit leading 50:19.320 --> 50:21.660 because there is a lack of all these 50:21.660 --> 50:22.560 other things 50:24.000 --> 50:25.680 people are going to start turning away. 50:28.860 --> 50:30.880 When I preached this at a different church 50:31.860 --> 50:33.280 I told the people this 50:33.280 --> 50:34.640 I said, may we have 50:35.720 --> 50:37.780 a revelation of the Lord 50:38.860 --> 50:40.460 not what pastor says 50:40.460 --> 50:42.140 not what grandma says 50:42.140 --> 50:44.420 not what grandpa says, but would I 50:44.420 --> 50:45.000 have 50:45.000 --> 50:47.920 a revelation of Jesus 50:48.380 --> 50:49.800 to such a measure 50:50.460 --> 50:52.080 that it would sustain 50:52.080 --> 50:54.100 me in this day 50:57.720 --> 50:59.500 that I would know him 50:59.500 --> 51:00.480 in such a measure 51:00.480 --> 51:02.480 that I would not find myself 51:02.480 --> 51:04.660 in a company of people 51:04.660 --> 51:07.000 that are falling away in the midst 51:07.000 --> 51:08.980 of all this revival that's happening 51:08.980 --> 51:12.600 you will find people 51:12.600 --> 51:13.900 as the Pharisees 51:15.320 --> 51:16.860 he's operating under a demonic 51:16.860 --> 51:17.320 spirit 51:17.980 --> 51:19.400 we will hear that stuff 51:19.400 --> 51:21.380 people will be so offended 51:21.380 --> 51:23.900 by the way that God is going to move 51:23.900 --> 51:25.900 I shared this story before 51:25.900 --> 51:27.640 and I'll share it again as a reminder 51:27.640 --> 51:29.440 the Lord told me once 51:29.440 --> 51:31.200 he said son, he said 51:31.200 --> 51:33.100 if you don't know me in private 51:34.000 --> 51:35.840 he said you will be offended 51:35.840 --> 51:37.640 by the way I move in public 51:41.590 --> 51:42.070 offense 51:42.070 --> 51:43.810 causes us, I'm not even going to get into that 51:43.810 --> 51:45.450 we've hit that so hard it should be 51:45.450 --> 51:46.350 drilled in your head 51:47.950 --> 51:49.570 but a biblical revival 51:49.570 --> 51:51.490 according to what Paul is writing to the 51:51.490 --> 51:53.310 Thessalonians church he says 51:53.310 --> 51:55.490 but the day of the Lord won't come 51:55.490 --> 51:57.450 meaning that Jesus won't return 51:57.450 --> 51:58.670 on the cloud yet 51:59.590 --> 52:01.370 until we see the great falling 52:01.370 --> 52:01.690 away 52:04.630 --> 52:05.970 you sure you want revival 52:08.940 --> 52:09.980 no I'm being honest 52:09.980 --> 52:11.260 you don't have to answer that 52:11.260 --> 52:13.000 but are you sure you want revival 52:14.420 --> 52:16.020 are you sure you're ready 52:16.020 --> 52:17.980 and sustained enough in the Lord 52:17.980 --> 52:20.060 that when the suddenly comes 52:21.080 --> 52:22.440 you don't find yourself 52:22.440 --> 52:24.260 in a company of those that are rejecting 52:24.260 --> 52:25.900 the Lord rejecting 52:25.900 --> 52:27.780 brothers and sisters in Christ 52:27.780 --> 52:29.360 but you're with the company 52:30.020 --> 52:32.060 that is standing and finding joy 52:32.060 --> 52:32.940 in the persecution 52:34.900 --> 52:35.880 that's a question 52:35.880 --> 52:37.320 that we should really ask ourselves 52:37.320 --> 52:43.220 Am I sustained enough in Jesus? Is He really my source? 52:45.440 --> 52:48.580 Am I not living off of what is preached on a Sunday? 52:48.940 --> 52:54.280 But am I living a day-to-day, daily bread with God that I am sustained enough 52:54.280 --> 52:58.040 that when this suddenly comes and all these things follow 52:58.040 --> 53:01.760 that I don't find myself in the company of those that have fallen away? 53:03.460 --> 53:04.400 You with me? 53:06.200 --> 53:09.500 Let's stand for prayer. Do you want to say anything after, pastor? 53:12.420 --> 53:15.160 Okay, let's pray. Father, we thank You. 53:16.700 --> 53:18.040 We thank You, Lord. 53:19.500 --> 53:24.040 We thank You for Your Word that is a lamp unto our feet. 53:24.180 --> 53:28.100 It prepares us. It prepares us. 53:28.380 --> 53:32.340 It sets our feet and readies our feet for battle. 53:34.240 --> 53:36.440 Father, we thank You for Your Son. 53:36.840 --> 53:42.220 We thank You for Your Spirit. Precious Holy Spirit, help us. 53:44.100 --> 53:45.640 Help us, Holy Spirit. 53:48.100 --> 53:52.760 Help us to be led by You and not our emotion, not our traditions. 53:53.560 --> 53:57.960 Help us to be led by You that we would see Christ and see Him rightly. 54:01.940 --> 54:04.640 Father, we thank You that You are patient with us 54:04.640 --> 54:09.560 and that You see that we as a church, we are waiting the best that we know how. 54:09.780 --> 54:14.100 We are readying ourselves, God, the best that we know how. 54:14.400 --> 54:17.400 Give us tools. Equip us even more. 54:17.920 --> 54:18.860 Awaken us. 54:20.640 --> 54:24.340 Awaken us, God, that when this suddenly comes, 54:25.640 --> 54:27.760 that when this suddenly comes, God, 54:28.400 --> 54:31.440 we are found ready with oil in our lamps 54:31.440 --> 54:34.340 and the door is not shut in front of us. 54:39.050 --> 54:40.770 Just pray in the spirit for a little bit. 54:40.790 --> 54:42.690 Can you do that? Just pray in the spirit all over this place. 54:43.950 --> 54:44.750 Heba soto. 54:47.090 --> 54:48.790 Reba soto manayela. 54:51.890 --> 54:54.110 Leta mano robo shati eila. 54:55.770 --> 54:57.350 La besoto romoma. 54:59.570 --> 55:00.650 Berarobo sola. 55:01.470 --> 55:03.330 We are polling on You, Lord. 55:03.450 --> 55:05.310 We are polling on You. 55:07.350 --> 55:10.170 That You would ready us as we are readying ourselves. 55:10.430 --> 55:12.490 That You would set our feet firm. 55:15.630 --> 55:16.890 La beso ryenda. 55:21.120 --> 55:23.160 Le besoto ramani eita. 55:25.600 --> 55:26.900 Holy Spirit. 55:29.120 --> 55:30.820 Holy Spirit, we love You. 55:35.020 --> 55:36.740 Holy Spirit, we love You. 55:39.520 --> 55:41.220 I don't feel like I should move here. 55:41.300 --> 55:43.320 I feel like we need to just stay here for a bit, Pastor. 55:56.480 --> 55:58.020 We gather oil, Lord. 55:58.120 --> 55:59.820 We gather oil in our lamps. 56:04.750 --> 56:06.050 La besoti eiba. 56:10.700 --> 56:13.320 Holy Spirit, we love You and we honor You. 56:15.220 --> 56:19.780 So as the Lord continues to do things for us and in us and with us, 56:21.340 --> 56:23.960 there's going to be people who come against us. 56:24.020 --> 56:26.820 That's just the way the two kingdoms wrestle with each other. 56:27.000 --> 56:28.240 Kingdom of light, kingdom of darkness. 56:29.000 --> 56:31.240 We're going to get criticized for the building. 56:31.520 --> 56:32.580 Wait till it goes up. 56:33.300 --> 56:34.760 Wait till the shell goes up. 56:35.140 --> 56:40.280 There's going to be all kinds of negative talk about us and whatever. 56:40.860 --> 56:41.900 I mean, that's how it works. 56:42.580 --> 56:46.720 But the thing that I wanted, that I felt the Holy Spirit said emphasize this 56:47.760 --> 56:49.360 is something He taught me. 56:50.020 --> 56:52.880 Oh, He talked to me about a year, year and a half ago, 56:52.900 --> 56:54.740 and that's handling persecution correctly. 56:56.520 --> 57:01.040 If you didn't, Matthew 5, the Beatitudes are actually getting a person 57:01.040 --> 57:08.740 in the position mentally and emotionally to handle verse 10 and 11 and 12. 57:09.800 --> 57:13.040 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake. 57:14.020 --> 57:18.340 Well, if we haven't learned how to be a peacemaker, be pure in heart, 57:18.560 --> 57:22.780 be merciful, hunger and thirst for righteousness, the Beatitudes, 57:22.960 --> 57:25.780 if we haven't learned those, it's going to be difficult 57:26.820 --> 57:30.660 when the righteous for righteousness' sake persecution comes. 57:31.720 --> 57:32.480 Verse 11, 57:32.700 --> 57:36.080 Blessed are you when they revile you, persecute you 57:36.080 --> 57:39.940 and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for my sake. 57:41.020 --> 57:47.120 So it puts us in a position, persecution, exactly what Pastor Igor said, 57:47.320 --> 57:50.460 it unleashes the power of God in our life. 57:52.080 --> 57:55.920 The more we're persecuted, the more the power flows. 57:56.280 --> 57:58.420 That's that word, blessed. 58:00.020 --> 58:03.820 Empowered to prosper or move forward and have success. 58:04.820 --> 58:11.060 Blessed are you when you're reviled, you're persecuted, 58:11.440 --> 58:15.340 you're spoken evil of, all kinds of lies are being said about you. 58:15.820 --> 58:18.320 This increases the power of God. 58:20.440 --> 58:22.240 Did you catch that in that verse? 58:23.140 --> 58:23.320 Okay. 58:23.820 --> 58:26.680 Here's the correct way of handling those things. 58:28.280 --> 58:30.840 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad. 58:34.240 --> 58:36.780 That is the correct way of handling it. 58:38.380 --> 58:40.840 Rejoice when people are lying about you. 58:41.680 --> 58:45.780 Rejoice and be glad when people are saying all kinds of evil against you. 58:45.900 --> 58:49.700 Now you don't forget the last two words of verse 11 or last three words. 58:50.460 --> 58:51.340 For my sake. 58:53.180 --> 58:57.080 If you're out there acting like a fool and they're talking about you and saying, 58:57.140 --> 58:58.920 what a jerk, you deserve it. 59:01.080 --> 59:05.940 This has to be for the sake of I am trying to live for God. 59:06.260 --> 59:10.500 I'm trying to do what he asked me to do and now I'm being lied about. 59:10.820 --> 59:12.240 I'm being spoken evil of. 59:12.420 --> 59:13.960 People are reviling me. 59:14.100 --> 59:15.720 They're persecuting me. 59:16.240 --> 59:18.020 It's got to be for the kingdom's sake. 59:19.280 --> 59:23.760 But the attitude when that stuff happens is rejoice and be exceedingly glad. 59:25.500 --> 59:27.660 So easy to talk, hard to do. 59:28.800 --> 59:33.980 So I'm going to give you one thing the Lord told me a year, year and a half ago. 59:34.020 --> 59:35.560 I don't think this is news to anybody. 59:36.020 --> 59:42.840 There's a number of videos out there about Word of Life and TBO that are really bad. 59:45.020 --> 59:46.660 I mean, they are... 59:47.580 --> 59:48.540 I'll just say that. 59:48.840 --> 59:51.420 I could describe, but I'll just say that. 59:52.280 --> 59:56.040 So after the first couple came out, 59:57.460 --> 59:59.020 I don't know the exact timing. 59:59.200 --> 01:00:02.320 It was after the first couple or so came out. 01:00:03.880 --> 01:00:05.340 This wasn't the Holy Spirit. 01:00:05.440 --> 01:00:06.120 This was the Lord. 01:00:06.260 --> 01:00:07.240 He asked me this question. 01:00:08.860 --> 01:00:17.460 He said, what would you do if you ended up talking to face to face, 01:00:17.660 --> 01:00:20.920 ran into the person who's making these videos about you? 01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:22.940 What would you do? 01:00:26.100 --> 01:00:29.860 And I did exactly what that little sign language was. 01:00:30.100 --> 01:00:31.820 I said, I know what I would feel like doing. 01:00:33.940 --> 01:00:39.000 You know, the flesh side, I know what I would feel like doing. 01:00:40.680 --> 01:00:42.120 Human like everybody else. 01:00:43.040 --> 01:00:44.120 Just all quiet. 01:00:44.700 --> 01:00:46.660 He didn't respond to that. 01:00:47.260 --> 01:00:47.960 It's all quiet. 01:00:49.440 --> 01:00:52.000 I said, finally I got the gumption to say, 01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:54.020 well, what should I do? 01:00:55.660 --> 01:00:56.700 Because it could happen. 01:00:57.320 --> 01:00:58.500 What should I do? 01:00:59.740 --> 01:01:01.520 And this is what the Lord said. 01:01:02.280 --> 01:01:03.520 He said, you should thank him. 01:01:07.830 --> 01:01:08.510 Thank him? 01:01:11.630 --> 01:01:12.970 Yep, you should thank him. 01:01:14.250 --> 01:01:20.570 I said, why should I thank him for that? 01:01:23.210 --> 01:01:24.970 And this is what he said. 01:01:25.490 --> 01:01:26.410 He said, track it. 01:01:28.390 --> 01:01:31.370 With every new video, within two to three months, 01:01:31.570 --> 01:01:36.530 you gain families and your income goes up as a church. 01:01:41.280 --> 01:01:43.100 And I thought, well, that's interesting. 01:01:44.400 --> 01:01:45.800 So I'm going to track it. 01:01:47.100 --> 01:01:48.920 You could predict it. 01:01:50.720 --> 01:01:52.040 Because I'm not looking for him. 01:01:52.100 --> 01:01:53.060 Someone would come to me and say, 01:01:53.060 --> 01:01:53.800 hey, you know what? 01:01:53.800 --> 01:01:56.140 There's a new video out about TBO, Word of Life. 01:01:56.360 --> 01:01:56.800 Oh, really? 01:01:57.060 --> 01:01:57.560 Good or bad? 01:01:57.760 --> 01:01:58.140 Well, it's bad. 01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:00.840 Okay, when did it come out? 01:02:01.100 --> 01:02:03.220 And they'd say, well, last week, two weeks ago, whatever. 01:02:03.660 --> 01:02:05.320 And I said, okay, I'm going to track it. 01:02:05.680 --> 01:02:08.020 Within two to two and a half months, 01:02:09.660 --> 01:02:13.880 we gained one or two families and the income 01:02:13.880 --> 01:02:15.700 went up noticeably. 01:02:17.640 --> 01:02:18.520 Every time. 01:02:21.140 --> 01:02:23.580 You know, in my head still goes, thank them. 01:02:23.960 --> 01:02:25.440 But that would make sense. 01:02:26.560 --> 01:02:28.000 You're helping our cause. 01:02:29.360 --> 01:02:32.860 Because the power of God moves forward 01:02:32.860 --> 01:02:35.720 when persecution comes. 01:02:35.980 --> 01:02:38.860 If we handle it correctly. 01:02:41.400 --> 01:02:44.780 So when this starts happening in our lives, 01:02:44.940 --> 01:02:46.800 in your lives, in the church, 01:02:47.680 --> 01:02:50.400 we have to learn what Pastor Igor was talking about. 01:02:50.600 --> 01:02:53.940 Or we can literally, how would you say, 01:02:54.660 --> 01:02:56.740 paralyze God from doing what He wants to do. 01:02:58.420 --> 01:03:03.580 We have to learn to handle this correctly, 01:03:03.840 --> 01:03:06.560 not get a bad attitude, not mouth off back to them, 01:03:06.800 --> 01:03:09.760 not get back in their face and bless God, 01:03:09.880 --> 01:03:11.580 I'll give them a piece of my mind 01:03:11.580 --> 01:03:13.120 and, you know, that whole thing. 01:03:14.600 --> 01:03:16.640 We have to learn to handle it correctly, 01:03:17.040 --> 01:03:23.320 which is rejoice and be exceedingly glad. 01:03:25.540 --> 01:03:27.620 That's going to take a work of the spirit in us. 01:03:28.700 --> 01:03:30.260 I mean, that's just what it is. 01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:31.540 And that's why I've got you standing. 01:03:31.740 --> 01:03:38.620 So Lord, we as human beings struggle 01:03:38.620 --> 01:03:41.000 to do what you ask us to do. 01:03:44.280 --> 01:03:46.640 We as human beings, especially Americans, 01:03:46.640 --> 01:03:48.240 rose color everything, 01:03:48.500 --> 01:03:51.260 like even some of the things Pastor Igor was saying this morning. 01:03:52.720 --> 01:03:56.740 That is the territory of the moving of the Spirit of God, 01:03:56.860 --> 01:03:58.660 and that's what comes with it. 01:03:59.820 --> 01:04:02.620 But we in America don't like to think down those lines. 01:04:02.780 --> 01:04:05.360 We just want the candy and the good things, 01:04:05.420 --> 01:04:08.760 but we don't necessarily want the bitter things that come with it. 01:04:08.840 --> 01:04:10.260 And there are bitter, it's both. 01:04:11.620 --> 01:04:14.600 There's things that are not happy things. 01:04:16.200 --> 01:04:19.840 There will be people who will for once and for all 01:04:19.840 --> 01:04:26.880 choose a dense God when he begins moving in our midst. 01:04:27.260 --> 01:04:28.880 And they could be your spouse, 01:04:29.180 --> 01:04:30.220 they could be your children, 01:04:30.420 --> 01:04:31.520 they could be your relatives, 01:04:31.860 --> 01:04:34.860 they could be your best friend, someone at work. 01:04:36.540 --> 01:04:39.160 But once the Spirit moves, 01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:41.960 he will force them to a choice. 01:04:41.960 --> 01:04:44.540 And they've been dancing on the edge 01:04:44.540 --> 01:04:45.960 and playing on the edge 01:04:45.960 --> 01:04:47.640 and kind of one foot in the world 01:04:47.640 --> 01:04:49.140 and one toe in the kingdom 01:04:49.140 --> 01:04:51.220 and just kind of doing... 01:04:51.220 --> 01:04:54.040 They may just totally walk away from the whole thing 01:04:55.340 --> 01:04:57.560 because the Spirit of God moved. 01:04:58.940 --> 01:04:59.740 Revival came. 01:05:03.030 --> 01:05:05.950 There will be people who will fall over dead, 01:05:06.150 --> 01:05:08.270 like Ananias and Sapphira. 01:05:09.830 --> 01:05:12.990 That comes with the power of God. 01:05:15.880 --> 01:05:20.320 And Father, we just want you to know right now 01:05:21.240 --> 01:05:23.000 by your Spirit, 01:05:23.780 --> 01:05:27.800 prepare us so we handle these things correctly. 01:05:30.300 --> 01:05:35.560 So that in the middle of you doing great things, 01:05:37.000 --> 01:05:41.280 we don't handicap the whole thing 01:05:41.280 --> 01:05:44.260 by picking up the wrong attitude. 01:05:47.020 --> 01:05:48.600 So right now as a body, 01:05:48.720 --> 01:05:50.560 we stand before you and we say, 01:05:50.760 --> 01:05:52.740 Holy Spirit, teach us in these things. 01:05:53.620 --> 01:05:55.380 Because the Scripture makes it plain. 01:05:55.540 --> 01:05:57.180 The deeper we get into the last times, 01:05:57.280 --> 01:05:58.720 the more these things will increase. 01:05:59.000 --> 01:06:00.440 The world will grow more evil. 01:06:01.160 --> 01:06:04.740 We have to be able to handle these things 01:06:04.740 --> 01:06:06.860 in a godly, righteous manner 01:06:06.860 --> 01:06:09.240 for the power and the blessing of God 01:06:09.240 --> 01:06:10.940 to continue to grow and move forward. 01:06:11.940 --> 01:06:13.960 So we're asking, teach us, 01:06:14.920 --> 01:06:15.900 change us, 01:06:16.500 --> 01:06:17.960 not just give us knowledge, 01:06:18.540 --> 01:06:21.060 change us and help us submit 01:06:21.860 --> 01:06:23.940 to doing it your way, not our way. 01:06:24.920 --> 01:06:26.120 In Jesus' name. 01:06:26.940 --> 01:06:28.560 Amen. Amen. 01:06:28.800 --> 01:06:29.940 Be blessed. Have an awesome day.