Why Revival Is Imminent

Get your Bibles out.

We're all here together, in one place and one accord we're going to lift our Bibles up.

It's our custom to wave them around and make Jesus glad, the devil mad.

Let's say this together, say Heavenly Father, I'm so glad to be in church.

I've been singing songs filled with redemptive truth and I am glad this morning.

I'm glad I'm saved, I'm glad I'm filled.

I'm glad I'm filled, I'm glad I'm healed, I'm glad I'm going over.

The Holy Ghost always puts me into victory and I rejoice today in Jesus' name.

Amen, you can be seated and let's turn in our Bibles a couple of places Isaiah, chapter 60, and also James, chapter 5.

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And Isaiah the prophet, very prolific.

We'll start reading with verse 1, a very familiar verse, where we're going to read all the way through verse six.

It says arise, shine, for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people.

But the Lord shall arise upon thee and his glory shall be seen upon thee, and the Gentiles shall come to thy light and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

Lift up your eyes round about and see All they gather themselves together.

They come to thee.

Thy son shall come from afar and thy daughter shall be nursed at thy side.

Then you shall see and flow together and your heart shall fear and be enlarged, because the abundance of the sea shall be converted under thee.

The forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.

The multitude of camels shall cover thee.

The dromedaries of Midian and Ephah, all they from Sheba, shall come.

They shall bring gold and incense and they shall show forth the praises of the Lord.

Wow, see, sometimes we leave those other four verses out.

We just talk about rise, shine and the gross darkness.

Everybody remembers that.

Just look around and you see it.

Hey, you know, it's good news this morning.

Amen, it's good news.

We can see the darkness, so the light's going to be shining that much brighter.

Let's look at James, chapter 5.

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I'll get into the message today, james.

And that much brighter.

Let's look at James, chapter five.

I'll get into the message today, james, chapter five, verse seven.

Be patient, therefore, brethren, under the coming of the Lord.

Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth and hath long patience for it until he receive the early and the latter rain.

Be ye also patient.

Establish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

So today I wanted to share a message, a simple message, but one that we need to hear right now, why revival is imminent.

Why revival is imminent.

Why revival is imminent.

I think sometimes we pray for revival and then we don't really believe it's coming, you know, because we look around and say, well, where is it?

I mean, all I see is darkness.

That's why I want to share this with you, because we've got to get our minds renewed to God's way of thinking.

My job is to watch after your soul as one that gives an account, in other words, your way of thinking, and I want us to be prepared for revival.

It's coming.

Some say it's already here.

Well, I don't argue with that, but I mean, the fullness of it isn't here yet, but it's coming.

I tell you we are living in the days that the prophet prophesied about.

We're seeing Bible prophecy fulfilled almost on a daily basis.

It's amazing that God chose us to live right now.

I mean, let's be impressed with the fact that God has chosen us.

He could have chosen us to live in the 1800s or the 1700s or, you know, there's all kind of ages we could have lived in, but we're living right now, the end days, and there is a special grace available.

I said there's a special grace available.

You know, I heard Billy Brim say this years ago 20, 25 years ago, she said no one has pastored a church in the end days.

20, 25 years ago she said no one has pastored a church in the end days.

And it just hit me like lightning because by that time God had given me a task, he'd given me a mandate wake up the church.

And I was still trying it on.

I was still trying to figure out what he meant.

I was still trying.

I was seeking the Lord, like we were singing about this morning.

I sought you, lord, you heard and you answered.

And he did hear and he did answer.

And he began to show me where I had been asleep to certain things and unaware of certain things, and how the church at large was even more so.

And he didn't just say wake up my word of faith people.

He didn't just say wake up my charismatic people.

He said wake up the church, the church.

And so she said that.

And I began to realize that I couldn't look back and look at John Osteen or any of my faith heroes.

I mean, yes, I do look at them and I listen to them, but not in this way, because they weren't living in that same age.

They were close, but they didn't have the same emphasis.

It just seemed like God had a different emphasis in my ministry and I had to get to believe that and I had to embrace that.

And so then, if no one has ever pastored a church in the end days, then no one has ever been a believer in a church in the end days.

I mean, no one's been like you.

I like to call you a trailblazing generation.

I believe that's what we are a trailblazing generation.

I called you the terminal generation.

This is the generation that's going to be here when Jesus comes back.

The terminal.

You know the end point.

I mean, this is quite something.

I want you to think this way.

I want you to, I want you to examine this and realize that revival of them, and I'm going to give you some reasons, of scriptural reasons, why I believe it, not just because I want it to happen, but because I believe the Bible puts us in that direction.

A trailblazing, what does that mean?

Well, you know, back when this country was settled, you know we started pretty much on the East Coast.

That's where the pilgrims landed, new England.

You know they didn't know how to.

You know this is New England and you know they started going westward, westward, and I know there was some people landed on the West Coast.

But I mean, I'm talking about, you know, the real beginnings of America was on the East Coast and you know they started going into Ohio and they started going a little further and a little further and when it got as far as west of St Louis on the Mississippi River, it just seemed like that was the departure place.

I mean, after that you didn't really know for sure how to go.

There weren't any GPS, there weren't any road maps.

All you knew out there in that vast wilderness, is there were Indians that wanted to scalp you and kill you.

You heard about them and you were afraid.

You didn't know how bad the weather would be.

You know they knew there was a Rocky Mountains they had to get through.

They didn't know how to get through them.

They didn't know.

You know you get to a river like the Platte River.

How do you cross the Platte River?

Well, you better have a trailblazer that went ahead of you, that found a shallow place, because if you got one of those Conestoga wagons down in that fast-flowing river, it'd be all over for you and everything you had would be floating down the river.

You'd be fortunate.

And even if you survived, you wouldn't survive very long because that's all your stuff, all your food.

So I mean you needed what a trailblazer.

You needed someone to go ahead of the group and prepare the way.

This is it.

This is what this church has been doing for since its inception.

It took me a while to figure it out.

We're not like everybody else.

We don't have the same emphasis.

We don't have the same exact it's all out of the Bible but there's a different emphasis.

Why?

Because it's the end times, amen.

And so I want you to think correctly about it, renew your minds to that situation.

You know, in the Bible, here in Luke 21, it just says that some men's hearts are failing them for fear of what is coming on the earth.

I mean this is there's a lot of people that are afraid right now.

I mean they look at the, they look at the wars, they look at the uh, the genocide.

And, by the way, it's not Israel committing genocide how stupid is that word for them to to say that, oh, israel is committing genocide.

Well, first of all, the Palestinians are Arabs, so if they were going to commit genocide, they'd have to get a whole lot bigger target than Gaza.

They'd have to attack everybody around them.

That's been attacking them for ever, since they became a nation, 1948.

I mean, the Arabs have been attacking Israel since 1948.

And this nation, to its shame, has demanded that they sit down with their enemies and try to make peace by giving them more land.

Do they need any more land?

Look at a map.

I'm getting excited because it's just.

This is what Democrats do and numbskull some, numbskull Republicans.

I mean good God, can't you read your Bible?

Can't you look at a map and see that that's not going to solve anything.

They don't want the land, they want to kill them Wars.

That war has been going on.

Psalm 83, read Psalm 83.

That's a war that's happening right now.

And what is the purpose of that war?

The inner ring nations right around Israel.

What is their purpose?

Their purpose is to annihilate Israel so that there's no more remembrance of them.

They hate them.

And who would come after that, in their thinking, america.

And what are we doing?

We're importing them across our border.

I mean, how stupid are these people?

They think they're importing voters and they're not.

These people are not going to vote Democrat.

In fact, they're all.

They're all crying against Biden right now.

They're mad at Biden because he's he's barely acting like he's supporting Israel.

He's really not doing much to help them.

All right Getting on.

So these are things.

People are afraid.

People are bummed out.

People are seeing the famines and the pestilences and persecution.

Let's face it, we're not the most popular now.

Now they write news articles when we want to get involved in politics and they call us Christian nationalists.

They want to return this country.

They want to get rid of the separation of church and state.

You bet I do, because it's wrong, it's not constitutional and it's not biblical.

This country is one nation, under the God of the Bible, not under the God of the whole world, the gods of the foreign gods.

They're not the gods we're under.

We're under the father of our Lord, jesus Christ.

We're under the God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob.

That God is the only true God.

Yes, I want to get us back to that point and I want all of our laws to reflect that truth.

We've got cities in this country that are under Sharia law.

Now you can't.

In Paris, france, there are huge sections where the Islam people have settled and they've got Sharia law.

Don't you gendarmes, even come in our neighborhood?

We'll cut your head off with a pocket knife, which means a little at a time.

I mean, this is the kind of ridiculous things that the left wing and some people that are just brain dead about the Bible.

They've gotten so far away from the Bible they don't know what it teaches.

This is all in the Bible, every bit of it.

So I said, pastor, I thought this was about revival.

It is.

You need to understand what time we're living in.

So when we see this darkness, when we see these things that are very disturbing, what do we do?

Hide, no, go back to bed and try to act like we didn't see it.

No, arise and shine.

We ought to look up and lift up our heads, for our redemption draweth nigh.

See.

That's what we should do.

Luke 21,.

Jesus said that.

Lift up your head.

When you see all these things starting to come to pass, lift up your head.

You know I've talked about it before, but you know you can watch a football game and you can see who's got momentum and who doesn't.

The people with momentum, man.

They're running to the line, they're ready to fire out and block their guy.

The running backs are hitting the hole with full speed.

The wide receivers have got sharp routes.

They're going out there and cutting and doing it, and the defense is standing around like this with their hands on their hip and they're looking down at the ground and they're thinking man, when is this game going to be over?

We're getting killed down here.

Man, I'm tired of this.

You know, you can just tell they're going to get beat.

Why?

Well, you know they're just not looking up.

When you're looking up and you throw your shoulders back and you say, all right, devil, there's nothing you can do about me.

I'm here, I've got the name of Jesus, I've got, I'm full of the Holy ghost, I've got the word of God Amen.

So revival is imminent and I want to give you some reasons why I believe that and why the Bible teaches that.

I like this description or this definition of revival.

Revival is the inrush of the spirit into a body that threatens to become a corpse.

You know, you see somebody asleep.

Sometimes you can't tell the difference between whether they're asleep or they're dead.

You have to go over to them and touch them or kind of do a little bit more.

It looks the same kind of really.

I mean you look and you can kind of see, you know they're breathing, maybe If they're breathing you can tell if they're breathing.

But I mean it's very similar.

And the church it looks dead but it's not.

I said the church in some cases looks dead but it's not, it's subject to being awakened and I really believe the church is about to become a mighty force to be reckoned with.

So why revival is imminent?

Why do I believe that Number one, jesus is coming soon.

Now, why do you believe that?

One simple answer Israel.

This is one of the things that I had to wake up to myself.

I had not really thought about Israel as a billboard advertising the second coming.

I just didn't look at it that way.

But right after God woke me up and told me and it's been 25 years ago, in March the 1st of, and it's been 25 years ago last March, in March the 1st of 1999.

It's been 25 years ago Seems like just yesterday, but it's been 25 years that God woke me up on six o'clock on a spring morning and told me to wake up the church.

I heard that military voice.

He said I want you to get up and I said I'm not getting up, devil.

I got to bed at 3 o'clock that morning, was out with preachers, fellowshipping.

We were talking about Brother Osteen going to heaven.

We were talking about Brother Hagin Went to his meeting and I heard how he got another three and it turned into four years.

God gave him more time.

He reset his clock.

He reset my clocks six years ago, gave me more time.

I could have gone to heaven back then.

But I I'm here.

I'm gonna stay here till jesus comes.

That's my plan.

You gotta have a plan.

Let's not just act like, well, whatever, que sera sera.

I know y'all don't know, doris Day, but she made the song popular Whatever will be will be.

It's the opposite of faith, anyway.

So Jesus is coming soon.

Why?

Because Jesus said in Luke 21,.

The disciples said you know what are going to be the signs of the end of the age and of your glorious appearing.

What are going to be the signs?

One of the first things Jesus said was take heed that you be not deceived.

So we talked about defeating deception last week.

A lot of people are deceived and that's the reason they're discouraged.

That's the reason they're fearful.

That's the reason why they're not doing what they should be doing right now.

We all we have a do list.

We have a to-do list from the Lord.

He didn't choose us to live in this last days just to sit around and twiddle our thumbs and complain.

He set us in the earth to make a difference and so he said take heed that you be not deceived.

Then he went through all the things there's going to be wars and rumors of wars.

People are going to.

Their hearts are going to melt because of fear of things that are coming on the earth.

I mean all kind of crazy weather patterns, and you've got these people blaming global warming.

It has nothing to.

That's just a goofy listen.

It's judgment.

Really get into judgment later.

But I mean it's just the earth is shaking right now and it has nothing to do with man-made anything.

It's not because we drive gasoline powered cars.

Come on, so he said later in verse 29 in Luke 21, matthew 24,.

Those are the two places in the Bible where Jesus gives us the signs of his return.

And the main sign he said is behold the fig tree and all the other trees Luke 21, 29.

Behold, what does behold mean?

Well, my dad used to say look at him now.

So look at him now.

At Israel, say I.

You know, before 25 years ago, I mean I knew Israel existed but I didn't really have a love for Israel particularly.

I didn't see that.

I didn't see that we owed Israel a debt.

I didn't.

I didn't practice that.

I didn't see that.

I didn't see that we owed Israel a debt.

I didn't.

I didn't practice that.

I didn't see that.

I didn't.

You know, I wasn't against Israel but I wasn't, you know, over overwhelmingly for them either.

I just kind of, you know, didn't pay much attention.

Well, he said, looky here now.

He said behold, israel and all the other trees are, you know, in Joel 1-7, the fig tree.

Behold, the fig tree, fig tree, joel 1-7 is Israel and all the other trees are the prophetic nations.

He said you know, when you see the trees put on leaves that summer is nigh, put on leaves, you know they have no leaves.

A deciduous tree has loses its leaves in the wintertime, but right before summer it starts putting in the springtime it starts putting leaves on.

Now, you know, if you didn't know, if you didn't have a calendar, if you didn't know anything, you could just look at the trees and know what time it is, you'd know what season it is.

Summer is what A season?

We're not going to know the day or the hour, but we can know the season.

I'm telling you right now summer is nigh Because these nations were basically fruitless, they were basically not.

You know, for 3,000 years it was still israel on a map, but they wouldn't, they weren't a nation.

They, their people, had been scattered, you know.

And then the same with syria, the same with, you know, lebanon.

All those countries are just inhabited mostly by, by people who are nomadic and they travel back and forth, in and out and, yeah, you have a few permanent residents, but they're not really in a place where they're really a nation.

Well, you know, in our generation, this terminal generation, this trailblazing generation, in my generation, israel became a nation and all these other nations around them started saying we're not going to let you be a nation, we're going to attack you.

I mean, as soon as the UN said they were a nation, the next day all the Arab nation, five Arab nations, egypt and all of those Arab nations around them attacked them.

The miracle they're a nation of miracles them.

It's a miracle, they're a nation of miracles.

I was reading recently.

They had a war hero there that Billy Brim was listening to recently at the Jerusalem prayer breakfast and he said you know, west Point, they study all wars but they never studied the 1967 war in Israel.

And somebody said, why didn't you study that war?

I said, well, we study wars, not miracles.

It's a miracle, we study wars, we don't study miracles.

I mean Israel is supernatural that it even exists and stays there.

Why?

Because this Bible, god has a covenant with them.

I mean he doesn't sleep.

He rises and goes to bed every night.

God doesn't go to bed but he never slumbers or sleeps.

But I mean everybody else goes to bed but he's still watching his land From the head of the year to the end of the year.

He's watching the land and he sees everything is going on.

So you know, in our, in our generation, then we can know that summer is nigh.

Because all those nations put on their leaves, they began to be active.

Put on their leaves, they began to be active.

Are y'all getting this now?

In Psalm 83, as a war, we think of war.

Like World War II lasted five or six years.

Some wars will last, you know.

Well, this war has been lasting a lot longer.

The Psalm 83 war is what we call the inner ring nations, that's Egypt and, by the way, egypt is trying to remain sort of silent, but they're helping Hamas.

They've been helping the Arabs all along.

So all the inner ring nations, the ones right around Israel, their motive for war is they hate Israel.

They want to wipe them off the face of the earth.

And then you have these numbskull college students that don't know anything out there shutting down our universities, shutting down freeways.

They all ought to be arrested.

This is not protest, this is riot, and riot ought to be punished.

Well, let's get somebody in charge that knows how to punish rioters.

That's not freedom of speech, that's a riot.

And the threats that they're putting out there?

They talk about hate speech.

They're the ones with the hate speech.

They're the ones that practice hate speech 24-7.

24-7.

If we say anything, oh, hate speech, hate speech.

Grider, that pastor over there, he's a hater.

Yeah, I hate the devil.

You got it right I'm a hater.

I hate the devil and everything he does.

I hate the devil.

You got it right I'm a hater.

I hate the devil and everything he does.

I hate him.

We love the sinner and we hate the devil, we love the sinner enough to tell him the truth.

So you know, the Bible says we ought to watch and pray and help Israel in her time of need.

We're doing that, but we also have to rejoice and look up.

Let's not just get all down in the mouth about Israel, about the things that are going on, because we know that that's a sign that Jesus is coming soon.

He has long patience for it, precious fruit of the earth, god does so we have to be patient, all right.

The second reason that I believe that revival is imminent is because of the darkness.

Now, there's always been darkness, but the darkness is covering the earth even greater now than ever before.

We are seeing unprecedented darkness.

We're seeing the craziest stuff go on that seems to be devoid of all common sense, devoid of all decency.

I mean, who would have ever believed that we would have parents take their children to the library to see men dressed up like women and this God-awful, horrible.

I hate that.

I hate every bit of it and it should not be allowed.

People like that used to get thrown.

Oh, you want to turn back the clock.

You want to take my LGBTQ and make it illegal?

Yes, I want to make it illegal.

It's immoral, it's wrong.

You shouldn't be allowed to be that way in public.

You know there's a difference between what you do in your home and what you do outside, where everybody else has to be subject to what you're doing and saying I'm sorry, we lost that.

We lost the ability to say no, you're not going to do that.

We need to own that again.

We need to get that back.

And a lot of the church is just I'm sorry.

The church has just been kind of well.

We had one Supreme Court justice that ruined marriage and redefined marriage and we had gay marriage and I think the church is yawned.

I mean, I said a few things about it, but nobody, there was no big thing about it.

I mean nobody.

And look where it led.

I said this on a Sunday morning.

I said you know this is going to lead to pedophilia being legalized.

Well, that's where we are right now.

That's exactly where we are.

Our children are being mutilated in the name of pedophilia.

Texas Children's Hospital, texas Children's it's been a revered hospital all my life and now it is a dump.

Because they believe in that stuff.

They're mutilating children over there.

Hate to tell you.

Our whole medical system has been turned upside down, while the church is sitting there trying to figure out what its response ought to be.

Well, this ought to be the response.

We ought to say no, we ought to.

You know, whatever we bind on earth is bound in the heavens.

Whatever we loose on earth is loose.

So we have the power to bind and to loose these things.

Let's start doing it.

Darkness is covering the earth, see.

So what is his response?

What is God going to do?

He's going to lighten the church.

We are going to be bright with the glory they take you.

Listen, you can't have the glory.

If you're not, if you're going to lie, if you're going to go along with this spirit, you can't have the glory.

I'm not going along with that spirit, I'm not going to consent to it.

I'm not going to pat it on the head and say, well, we're going to reach across the aisle and try to come to some.

There's no compromise with these people.

They have to be what Defeated.

They have to be defeated at the ballot box.

They have to be defeated in the arena of ideas.

They have to be defeated in every area.

And I don't know.

I just I believe now the church is beginning to awaken and say, oh, what has happened to our country, what has happened to our society?

Well, I'll tell you what happened.

The church went to sleep and allowed it all to happen.

Whatever we allow, be allowed.

God didn't allow it, we allowed it.

Well, god permitted it.

Everything happens for a reason.

Oh, get over it.

That's the stupidest.

You don't sound spiritual when you say that.

You sound like you're an unbeliever.

That's what unbelievers say.

Everything happens for a reason.

You can say that about anything.

The bottom line is it happened for the reason that the church didn't do anything about it.

The church allowed it, the church allowed it.

So darkness, see darkness has covered the earth and gross darkness the people.

So in response, god is sending light and glory and it says here in Isaiah 60 that this glory will draw to us.

I'll just quote here it says that all they will gather themselves together, they will come to thee.

Who's going to come?

The Gentiles, the uncoveted ones, the sinners will come to the glory.

The sinners will come to the glory.

What's in the glory?

Healing, deliverance, love, true love, the love of God.

I mean, a lot of these people are so desperate, they're so filled with rage and disillusionment and they mask it.

They keep trying to put this God-shaped hole that they keep trying to fill that God-shaped hole inside of them with all kinds of illicit things, wrong things.

I mean, you've got these women's basketball I don't follow women's basketball, bob you know, but recently there was this one girl, that's just.

You know.

She just graduated from, I think, iowa or somewhere and she's a really good basketball player, but she happens to be a.

She's not a lesbian and she's white.

And all of the professional most of the professional basketball players are black and lesbian, like Brittany Griner no kin to me that I'm not claiming kin on her, I'm not claiming Ken on her Arrested in Russia and we bailed her out and gave really horrible spies as a trade for her.

And I wonder what she's worth.

Is she worth that?

Is she worth people that were in our prison for the despicable things they were doing, russian spies and we let them loose?

For Britney to come back and disrespect our flag and prance around.

You know she's married to another woman and they have a child together and all of this stuff.

And then you've got this.

So then they go to the Olympics and they get rid of Caitlyn.

Caitlyn, just, oh, she doesn't, they cut her off the team.

It's racist, it's heterophobe.

I'm saying it on Sunday morning.

Anybody want to hear it.

I'm saying it, I don't care whether you like it or not.

I'm speaking into the camera.

I'm tired of it.

I'm not going to put up with any more of this baloney.

It's deception.

So what is that?

The glory.

See, I want the glory more than anything.

I want the glory of God.

I'm not going to put up with all this compromise.

Amen.

Romans 12, 21,.

Be not overcome with evil.

Overcome evil with good.

I'm going to preach the word.

We're going overcome evil with good.

We're going to preach the word.

We're going to get people saved.

We're going to get people healed.

When people get tired of that lifestyle, when they reach the end of their rope most of them do.

Most of them they're suicidal.

A lot of them are.

They don't know what to do.

They smoke weed until that doesn't do it, and then they put stuff in their arm and that doesn't do it.

And you know, at some point they get to a place where they're ready for the gospel.

We're going to be there.

Galatians 6, 9,.

Be not weary in well-doing, but in due season you shall reap if you faint not.

It's been 25 years since God told me to do this.

It wasn't a church growth.

You know, if you buy a book on church growth, this was not a church growth thing.

You know this is not the way to grow the church in numbers.

Just preach like I'm preaching this morning.

In fact, it's a dividing line.

When you drop the plumb line, you're going to always have some people that don't want to plumb up with that message.

They're going to leave.

They don't want to have to be disturbed in their compromise.

They don't want to have to be disturbed in the fact that they have gone ahead and said, oh well, let's live and let live.

That doesn't bother me, that doesn't bother me.

That's what the group in Germany did with Hitler.

Well, that doesn't bother me.

The brown shirts don't bother me, they're not coming to my house.

Oh, that doesn't bother me, that doesn't bother me.

Until the ashes started falling on their cars and they started breathing the ashes of the burned up dead Jewish bodies and they realized, oh, that's not too cool.

I like Eisenhower.

The one good thing he did is he forced those people over there to go to Dachau and made them so they couldn't forget and they couldn't say that it wasn't true.

He made them go look at those piles of dead Jewish bodies before they'd been burned, and made them look at the ovens and made them see what their complacency had done.

Well, you know, the church is awakening.

I'm telling you right now I have more.

I just have confidence in what God knows, what he's doing.

God's going to wake the church up.

We're going to do our part, amen.

So this gross darkness doesn't bother me.

I don't like seeing it, but to me it's a sign of revival.

It wouldn't be darkness, revival wouldn't be revival.

There wouldn't be darkness.

Revival wouldn't be needed if there weren't any darkness.

Right, but revival is needed.

Amen, All right.

The third thing that I believe, the reason why and I mentioned it briefly is the judgment of the nations.

Let's look at Matthew, chapter 3.

Matthew 3 · chapter mention

I want you to see something here.

It would be easy to read right past this, which I did for years, read right past it and miss a very important part of these verses, and this is quoting John the Baptist.

We'll go back to verse 11, matthew 3, 11.

He said I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance.

See who's he talking to the Jewish people out in the wilderness.

He said I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but he that cometh after me talking about Jesus is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to loose or to bear.

He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire Boy.

I like that Holy Ghost and fire.

Whose fan?

Or his winnowing fork.

What is a winnowing fork?

Well, it's the kind of thing that you scoop up wheat with and chaff the whole plant.

You throw it up in the air and the wind blows the chaff in one direction and the wheat is heavier and it falls down.

And so you have to have this winnowing fork.

You have to have this thing to separate the chaff.

What's the chaff?

Well, it's the outer crust around the wheat kernels.

I mean, you can't eat that.

It's trash.

The plant itself is trash.

All you want is the grain, you want the wheat.

So there's a process to separate your harvest from the stuff that's not usable and that's called chaff.

So what does he say?

He says who's winnowing for it?

Who's winnowing?

Jesus winnowing, for it is in his hand.

Well, where is his hand?

Is the hand in his head?

Does he have a hand inside of his head?

The hand is right here.

Come on.

Stick your hand out.

Here's your hand, here's the hand he's going to use.

The winnowing fork is in his hand.

What are we doing?

We're scooping up this beautiful potential crop and we're throwing it and we're having the wind of the Holy Ghost separated out.

Are y'all getting this?

Now?

I'm talking about judgment.

Now, you can't have a harvest without judgment.

We don't understand judgment.

I didn't understand judgment.

I had no teaching.

Brother Osteen didn't teach on judgment.

Brother Hagin very little on judgment.

Nobody taught on judgment.

Why?

Because no one's pastored a church in the end days.

We have to teach some things for people to understand what judgment is.

It's not negative, it's absolutely necessary.

Whose winnowing fork is in his hand and he will thoroughly purge his floor, separate everything out of it.

He will gather his wheat into the garner, but he will burn up the chaff.

He will burn up the chaff.

He will burn up the chaff.

He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Where is unquenchable fire at?

Well, it's the lake of fire.

Is what I think about.

See, we just want to take half of the gospel and say well, he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, praise God.

But then he kept going.

Jesus kept going that day and he that believeth not shall be damned.

So there's where's that?

That's separation.

There's coming a separation.

The separation has already started.

The chaff is already being separated from the wheat.

You know we keep going.

Oh, our country's divided.

Good, it's necessary.

The people that are not with us or against us, let's get away from them, because what's their future?

Fire, unquenchable, unquenchable fire.

Who's going to do it?

Jesus?

Y'all are looking at me like I thought this was a positive message.

It is.

This is the ingredients of revival.

We've got to have revival.

I believe it's near, because we're seeing all this happen right before our eyes.

God's not going to waste the harvest he's going to get.

How stupid would it be for him to throw the wheat up there and then burn all of it up at the same time?

Burn the wheat and the chaff?

I mean no, he's going to separate first.

That's where we're at right now, and he's going to use the church, the words of our.

The gospel is the great dividing line.

It's the great plumb line.

The word of God is the plumb line.

I'm going to get plumbed up with God.

That's all I know.

Are y'all getting anything out of this?

So we've been way behind on the issue of traditional marriage, on the rise of Islam?

That's another subject.

I hollered and hollered after 9-11 because I saw we were going in the wrong direction.

We had our President Bush.

What a.

I voted for him twice.

But I tell you right now, if it had been anybody else, better I would have voted for them, because I knew he was a knucklehead.

He gets out there in front of everybody and says oh, we all worship the same God.

No, we don't.

I was screaming at the television.

You don't even know what you're talking about.

You have no Bible knowledge at all.

I heard that you'd gotten saved sometime.

I'm not his judge.

I don't know if he saved or not, but I know one thing he did this nation a huge disservice by equating Islam with Christianity.

No, we don't worship the same God, you idiot.

They worship a foreign God, a false God.

I'm saying it on camera, I don't care whether you like it or not, it's true.

See, all this messing around, going around, trying to be, you know that's not working, folks.

What's going to work is the truth, and we've got people that came out of Islam right here.

They got saved.

They got out of that terrible religion.

There's lots of religions.

That's just one of them.

There's lots of religions.

I'm telling you right now, these Hindus, they can be just as mean as the Islamic people.

Are y'all with me now?

Are y'all with me now?

And so we've been behind in these things and it's time for the church to stand up and not allow certain things and allow other things.

So you know, persecution is the dividing line.

We're going to get persecuted.

When we decided that we were going to open for COVID and not close, gave President Trump 15 days, the Holy Ghost said well, you voted for him and you were for him, you advocated for him.

You can give him 15.

He's asking you for 15 days.

You can give him 15 days.

I had decided not to.

I'd even said it on Sunday morning we're going to open.

Everybody cheered Whoa, we're going to open during COVID.

And then I had to go back and say, no, we're going to close for 15 days.

And so it was embarrassing a little bit for me, kind of hard on my pride a little bit.

Well, that's okay, I'm under his orders.

And he didn't.

You know, he chose to let me say that and then he corrected me and I took the correction.

So we were closed for 15 days.

But the important part of that being closed for 15 days was that I realized that we were had been basically rendered irrelevant.

You know, we're not, we're not, we're not, we're not needed.

You know the, the package store, the liquor store it's necessary.

The grocery store it's necessary.

You know the hardware store, oh, it's necessary.

Academy, sports and outdoors, I mean it's necessary.

Church, not necessary.

So I'm glad that we were closed for 15 days because I got to investigate, I got to ride through all around here.

I saw all these crowds of people at, you know, at Academy.

I mean the whole parking lot was full of people and here we are, vacant, empty.

Oh, I tell you what we sued and I mean we didn't even have to go very far, we just put the lawsuit out there and things changed just like that, instantly changed.

I mean we didn't even have to go very far, we just put the lawsuit out there and things change just like that, instantly change.

I mean the governor just thought better of his.

You know, and you know the history.

I mean we opened during COVID.

A lot of churches did, every church could have opened and very few did.

But that's changing folks.

I want you to know that, yes, we're on the forefront, yes, we're pathfinders.

We have not been this way here to four.

But listen, god is with us, god is for us and revival is coming.

We've been set at the forefront.

You can't have harvest without judgment, you can't have it.

So I want to give you three things just to think about as takeaways, remember.

I mean, the reason I believe that we have revival now is because Jesus is coming soon.

I gave you that.

And then, number two, that darkness has covered the earth.

And number three, we're in the judgment of the nations.

They're all standing up in the United Nations and they're saying we're the goats, matthew 25, the goats and the sheep.

That's not talking about people, that's talking about nations, people, groups.

It's whole masses of people.

And what you're seeing in the United Nations is you're seeing all of them voluntarily saying we're goats, because it's all about Matthew 25, separating the sheep from the goats.

I've heard this all during my Christian walk.

I had to learn better when I woke up.

I had to learn better of my thinking.

Well, you know, as long as you do it to the least of these, my brethren, you do it unto me.

The Catholics used to have a little song, a little hymn.

The rest na na me.

Well, you know that's not talking about helping the poor generally.

It's talking about what you do for Israel when they are under attack.

That's what he's talking about.

My brethren is Israel Jesus.

They're the brethren of Jesus.

Jesus is going to reveal himself to his brethren one of these days.

There's going to be weeping.

They're going to be afraid, kind of like Jacob was when he saw Esau, and there's going to be a great reunion.

Kind of like Joseph and his brothers, joseph's brothers.

Man, when they found out Joseph was the high guy there in Egypt, except for the Pharaoh.

He's right under Pharaoh man.

They were afraid.

They just knew they were dead meat.

And so that's how it's going to be.

It's going to be Israel is going to, and they're going to weep for what they've done.

They're going to weep because they didn't believe they're going to all that.

He's going to comfort them All.

Israel shall be saved, according to 1 Corinthians.

So we don't have to be concerned about that.

God got that in mind.

But the nations and how they treat Israel.

That's what I want to say.

Let's contend for America.

We've done a lot of things right for Israel.

Let's, let's, be a sheep nation.

I would rather America be a sheep nation, so let's contend for that.

Um, so, anyway, we we get into this.

This area of revival is imminent.

So there's three things I want to leave with you.

Number one Revival is imminent.

So there's three things I want to leave with you.

Number one be strong, don't fear, don't fret.

Lift up your head, throw your shoulders back.

We've got momentum.

I said we've got momentum.

Things are moving in the correct direction.

Now, well, yeah, but this, this, this, yeah, I know that's going to happen.

We're going to have darkness all the way to the end, but out of that darkness we're going to get, the Gentiles are going to come to our light and they're going to bring their wealth Isaiah 60.

They're going to bring their wealth.

I see a transfer of wealth in the great, because we'll need the wealth to finish the job.

You can't take it with you.

I'm not talking about going to heaven with it.

I'm talking about using it until the very end, because the deeper we get into revival, the more money it's going to take.

Are you with me now?

So don't fear, don't fret.

Number two so be strong.

Number two be patient.

James said be patient, don't let anyone or anything move you out of position.

Don't let anyone or anything move you out of position.

Don't let family members you know we say things here that not everybody can agree with, and before you start blabbing about everything that you hear, let's make sure that the Holy Ghost is behind it.

Sometimes you just have to sprinkle.

You can't hit people with a fire hose.

If you hit them with a fire hose, it's over.

But if you just sprinkle, well, praise the Lord, hallelujah, glory to God.

What are you so happy about?

I'm just happy because I'm saved, you know.

I mean, if they get to the place where they want what you want, then they're more likely to listen to you when you say something.

But if you sit them down and say now let me tell you something, we're going to roll back the clock on this LGBTQ.

He's a hater.

He's a hater.

Stranger danger.

Got to sprinkle.

Don't let anyone or anything move you out of position.

Listen, I've seen people you know they're well-meaning and they send their kids off to school and kids get indoctrinated at school and they come back and they start talking to their parents and their parents don't have a really good way of of of convincing their kids.

They've lost control of their kids a long time ago.

They quit talking to their kids about real things.

They just tried to get through the teenage years and they tried to stay out of the way.

And now their kids come back and they have an argument that the parents don't know how to answer.

And the kids I've seen parents that came to this church be persuaded by their unbelieving kids.

And they drink the Kool-Aid.

They get the woke Kool-Aid, they get this.

Oh, can't we all get along?

The Rodney King.

Why can't we all get along?

I'll tell you why we can't get along because some people are saved and some people aren't saved.

It's just that simple, rodney and some people aren't saved.

It's just that simple, rodney.

Remember Rodney King.

And because of Rodney King then you got OJ got off the hook for murder, double murder.

He got off the hook simply because of that whole wanting to equalize things.

Listen, our justice system has to have truth.

It has to be blindfolded.

I mean, last week, you know, that judge in New York just ripped the blindfold off a lady justice and he just put his hand on the scales and decided that Trump is going to get convicted.

I mean, that's outrageous.

We're not going to allow that to stand.

We bind that, we forbid that.

That's not true, that's not right for him, it's not right for anyone, it's not right for whoever is in front of the judge to have the judge decide that and deny all of the defense.

Just deny the defense and empower the prosecution.

Let's just call us USSR, call us Soviet Russia.

That's what they did.

That's what they all do today.

A lot of them do that today.

They have a trial, but it's a fake trial.

So be strong, be patient, be bold, be bold.

You have to be bold.

Arise, shine, for your light has come.

Revival is imminent and I'm telling you, the church is about to be on the forefront of the greatest revival in history.

We're on the forefront of the forefront.

Come on, lift your hands and receive today.

Glory to God.

Did you get anything out of this today?

Was I too harsh?

I just, you know, I see all this mealy mouthed, you know, mess that look we've got to.

We can keep putting up with what we've been putting up with.

And here's my fear.

I said this last week.

I'm going to say it again.

The fear I have is not circumstances.

The fear I have is that God is going to see.

The church has not done what it's supposed to do in this generation and he'll just push pause.

What do you mean?

Well, he did that with Israel.

He paused 40 years, and all the naysayers and all the ones that didn't want to get involved and all the ones that complained and all the ones that wished they'd be on back to Egypt because they missed their cucumbers and their leeks and their onions and their garlic, all the ones that complained and all the ones that wish they'd be on back to Egypt because they missed their cucumbers and their leeks and their onions and their garlic.

And they, you know, they died in the wilderness, not having gone into the promised land.

And the ones that brought the evil before died before the Lord in a plague.

Right then the 10 spies.

Before it died before the Lord in a plague, right then the ten spies.

We've got our version of the ten spies that seem to speak for the church and they could drop dead at any time.

Because, I mean, they're not listening to the same Holy Spirit.

I'm listening to this permissive, this idea that the church just needs to go along, to get along, and all of that.

No, the church needs to be the plumb line.

The church needs to be the pillar and ground of the truth.

Amen.

So be encouraged today.

Praise God, come on, let's lift our hands.

Father, we thank you today for the word of God.

We're going to be bold, we're going to be strong, we're going to be fearless, and we thank you, father, for the Holy Ghost that puts us over.

He puts us over and gives us victory in every situation.

In Jesus' name,