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A Baptism of Fire!

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  1. You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week,

  2. we hope you enjoy this message from Justin Carpenter.

  3. If you all recall last week I mentioned about I

  4. don't remember exactly what day it was, but it was

  5. before Sunday, obviously, because it was last Sunday, I believe

  6. I mentioned this.

  7. And it was either Friday night or Saturday night a week.

  8. Ago, where the Lord put Asbury's Revival in front of

  9. me in the night, and I was reminded of Asbury,

  10. and I thought, huh, that's interesting.

  11. And then.

  12. After hearing Charlie Kirk's wife's press release, there's a couple

  13. of things she said that I really believe could truly spark.

  14. A movement in a way.

  15. You know this, We've been talking forever about revival and

  16. the church and awakening to the nation.

  17. But I really believe that the Lord's response is going

  18. to be outpouring with all my heart. I believe that's

  19. his response.

  20. See, God does not repay evil with evil, otherwise evil advances.

  21. So we move in righteousness in spite of evil when

  22. we bless those that curse us. So but I was

  23. reminded of that Asbery outpouring and I've been pondering that

  24. and obviously praying and asking the Lord to do that

  25. here locally, in the high schools and universities, and because

  26. we are in need of a desperate.

  27. Move of God in this nation.

  28. But his wife said this, the evildoers responsible for my

  29. husband's assassination have no idea what they've done. They killed

  30. Charlie because he preached a message of patriotism, faith, and

  31. of God's merciful love.

  32. They should all know this.

  33. If you thought my husband's mission was powerful before, you

  34. have no idea. You have no idea what you just

  35. have unleashed across this entire country and this world.

  36. You have no idea.

  37. You have no idea the fire that you have ignited

  38. within this wife, The cries of this widow will echo

  39. around the world like a battle cry. You know, moves

  40. of God have absolutely been built on.

  41. The blood of martyrdom.

  42. And I know that's not an easy statement or a

  43. light one. Interestingly, since Charlie's untimely death, there's been over

  44. thirty two thousand and Turning Point USA flooded with new

  45. campus chapter request thirty two thousand requests for Turning Point campuses.

  46. You know, for years I've.

  47. Told the church that persecution was coming to the United States.

  48. There was no way around it that it would come.

  49. And I've also mentioned that we have not had a

  50. healthy theology on the sufferings of Christ. We have been

  51. so blessed and so fortunate in the Western Church, but

  52. we were not able to steward that prosperity properly. So

  53. therefore the church has grown weak. It's starting to wake up.

  54. It's not going to get easier, y'all.

  55. I'm not going to.

  56. Say here and tickle your ears, but things have shifted

  57. and there is no going back to the old normal.

  58. So you need to understand that the times and seasons

  59. we're in are turbulent. They're not going away, and God's

  60. calling his bride to a higher standard.

  61. I can't think of a of a time that.

  62. Or a need at least in this time that we

  63. need a move of God. See, I don't think the

  64. Lord's gonna move because we're so amazing. I think for

  65. his namesake and his covenant that he's cut with us,

  66. and for his namesake, he's.

  67. Going to react.

  68. I want to encourage you do not buckle the fear

  69. in this hour. There are two very important things in

  70. this moment that you need to hear. If you don't

  71. hear anything else I say today, and that is lawlessness

  72. will harden your heart if you're not careful, and the

  73. spirit of lawlessness is loose, all sin is lawlessness according

  74. to the scripture, and we are seeing lawlessness. You can

  75. choose to believe that this is a political situation, but

  76. it's not.

  77. It is about good and evil.

  78. It is about.

  79. Principalities and powers. It's about a fight of the enemy

  80. trying to slow things down. See many times when we

  81. talk about spiritual warfare, we really don't understand spiritual warfare.

  82. The enemy is not fighting God. It's not even a contest.

  83. He's coming after us to try to inflict pain to

  84. the Lord's heart.

  85. Secondly, the enemy.

  86. Is doing everything he can to keep you sound asleep,

  87. because if you're asleep, the kingdom is not advancing. And

  88. if the Kingdom is not advancing, then the Great Commission

  89. is not being fulfilled. And if the Great Commission is

  90. not being fulfilled, then he has more time. Why because

  91. he knows the reality that when the fullness of the

  92. gentiles comes in the incomes, he knows his time is short.

  93. So he's actually doing everything he can to slow this

  94. process down, and he does it by getting us deceived.

  95. He does it by getting us to be unwilling to

  96. surrender our lives fully to the Lord Jesus, and that

  97. slows things down. He wants us entertained, he wants us happy,

  98. he wants us ignorant, and he wants us fighting with

  99. each other. And guess what, y'all look around the Big

  100. C Church in the United States when we are literally

  101. living in a moment where people think the rapture is

  102. gonna happen September twenty second. That is complete ignorance of

  103. the scriptures. How many times do we have to be

  104. reminded that no one knows the hour or the day.

  105. And if you have come under the delusion that you're

  106. gonna take your helmet off and get raptured out of

  107. here on the twenty second and the kindest way possible,

  108. that's not going to happen. I could totally go off

  109. on an end Times teaching right now, but I'm not

  110. going to that's what That's not where I want to head.

  111. But I will say this. It wasn't until the late

  112. eighteen hundreds.

  113. A young lady by the name of McDonald had a

  114. vision of which she called the Rapture Schofield I have

  115. a hold of this teaching and made it very popular.

  116. Up until the late eighteen hundreds, no one ever separated

  117. Jesus's return into two parts.

  118. It was always the Second Coming.

  119. Now.

  120. I know some of you all want to throw tomatoes

  121. at me right now because the pre tribe, pre millennial

  122. position has been so big in the Western Church.

  123. But what if there is no rapture?

  124. Yeah, what if there's only the Second Coming? But what

  125. if our understanding of the tribulation period a.

  126. Lot of it's already happened.

  127. What if a lot of the stuff that we're fighting

  128. over right now doesn't actually even change your commission, but

  129. the enemy would rather have you distracted arguing with each

  130. other over things that don't change your commission.

  131. That's my pastoral smile.

  132. My teeth aren't quite as.

  133. Sparkly because I drink lots of coffee. But y'all, we

  134. need to understand the times and seasons we're in now.

  135. If all you just heard was Justin doesn't believe in

  136. a rapture, he's going to hell, then you're wrong. But

  137. what I'm saying is I think when Jesus puts his

  138. literal foot.

  139. Down on the Mount of Olives. When he shows up,

  140. we're all going to be shocked on the way it

  141. played out.

  142. So regardless of your end Times perspective, it does not

  143. change your commission. You're to be making disciples of all nations,

  144. and you start building in your backyard, and when you're

  145. able to actually stewart what's in your backyard, then you're

  146. found worthy with that talent to actually increase and have

  147. more responsibility in the kingdom. The disciples response to persecution was, Lord,

  148. look at this. Would you stretch forth your arm and

  149. signs and wonders and tick them off more? That's my paraphrase.

  150. Their response was, give us more power to bring more persecution.

  151. Do you understand Paul when he's talking about persecution, he

  152. was filling up in his physical body what was lacking

  153. in the sufferings of Christ with the church. He was saying, listen,

  154. some of y'all aren't living a life that's worth being persecuted.

  155. So I'm standing in the gap and I'm filling up

  156. the sufferings of Christ in my physical body on your behalf,

  157. because you have grown asleep or fallen asleep. You're either

  158. a target or a victim, and there is no difference,

  159. and there is no middle ground. If you think you're

  160. in the fence, the enemy owns it. Jesus said, when

  161. I come back, will I find faith? Listen, if he

  162. comes back on the twenty second, awesome, I'm ready let

  163. her rip. Like I know, I know him, and I'm

  164. doing what he's called me to do. Whether I like

  165. it all the time or not. I mean, I know

  166. y'all always like everything you do every day. It's just

  167. I'm telling you my part. But the reality is, it

  168. says judgment starts first with the House of God.

  169. So pay attention. What are we seeing.

  170. We're seeing the elders judged. We're seeing the leaders judged.

  171. And I'm not talking about the wrath of God. There's

  172. no condemnation in Christ. I'm talking about his correction, his

  173. loving compassion and correction. He's correcting his leaders. But it

  174. starts first.

  175. There. Understand something.

  176. When you see a nation begin to come under attack

  177. and lose what some would call divine protection, this is

  178. what happens. Here's God, here's his protection over our nation.

  179. Proverb says righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a

  180. reproach to any people. So as a nation collectively chooses lawlessness,

  181. they begin to pull out from underneath his protection because

  182. sin separates, and to the degree of separation allows.

  183. The enemy to legally come in.

  184. Because Proverbs also says that a curse cannot fall without

  185. or take flight without a right. And so as a nation,

  186. we start pulling away from the Lord. We tell him

  187. to leave us alone, We kick him out of our schools.

  188. We do all these things under the watch.

  189. Of the church.

  190. Because we were too comfortable to get get too involved

  191. into the mountains of influence to actually bring transformation. And

  192. now we're walking through the consequences as a nation and

  193. the consequences of the big Sea Church being asleep. Are

  194. y'all you with me? I don't want to lose you

  195. Stay with me, but I'm going Can moves of God

  196. happen without persecution? Yes, but I don't know how many

  197. times I've seen it, especially sustained move. I think the

  198. Lord in this hour is challenging many believers if they're

  199. going to give up their American dream for His dream

  200. so they can actually see the harvest. Do was again

  201. a man who gains the whole world and loses his

  202. own soul. Or what shall a man give an exchange

  203. for his soul? Hebrews twelve twenty nine says, for our

  204. God as a consuming fire.

  205. He's a jealous god.

  206. So when you stepped into the kingdom, there was a

  207. holy jealousy over your life that he refuses to back

  208. off of. And anything or anyone that becomes a threat

  209. to that he puts his righteous arms around.

  210. Them out of his love and jealousy.

  211. And then we sometimes don't have the discernment to know

  212. the difference, and all of a sudden, we lose relationships,

  213. people are taken out of our lives, and we are

  214. earthly focused and we miss the bigger picture.

  215. Jesus said, do you love me more than these?

  216. What is it that God has taken his big creator,

  217. pointer finger and pointing on in your life this morning?

  218. What's he asking you for? Ane for a divine exchange

  219. over The worst thing in the world for anybody in

  220. this room would be to stand before the Lord Jesus

  221. at the end of your life and he says, hey,

  222. I just want you to know you're here by my blood.

  223. You made it, but let me show you everything you

  224. didn't get because you wouldn't surrender, And then he plays

  225. it before you of what he longed to do through

  226. your life, what you could have seen him do.

  227. But then it's too late, because you have one life

  228. to live in. Your life's a vapor.

  229. See, the enemy wants you demoralized, scared to death, and

  230. full of hatred right now in this moment. He wants

  231. you to respond with evil with evil, but he wants

  232. to deceive you in thinking that it's righteous.

  233. Matthew three eleven.

  234. John the Baptist says, I baptize you with water for repentance.

  235. But he who is coming after me is mightier than I,

  236. whose sandals I'm not worthy to carry. He will baptize

  237. you with the Holy Spirit and fire. Actodus three two.

  238. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in

  239. a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.

  240. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it

  241. was knocking over and over and over. We see God

  242. showing up with fire, fire falling from heaven, consuming sacrifices,

  243. cloven tongues of fire, a pillar of fire leading Israel out.

  244. You know, the hotter a flame burns, it actually begins

  245. to disappear. It goes from orange to blue to well, literally,

  246. you won't even see it when it gets that hot.

  247. What are you holding on to this morning that you

  248. won't let God burn up? What are you petting this morning?

  249. What have you named? What are you pacifiring this morning?

  250. Because you think it's a better option than surrender, totally

  251. violating the kingdom principle that if you don't lose your life,

  252. you don't find it. So to the agree you surrender,

  253. you actually find life. Yeah, we can play church, y'all.

  254. You can come in here and sing a bunch of

  255. amazing songs and have your soul feel good, and then

  256. the moment you leave here, you're left with your heart untouched, unchanged, untransformed.

  257. The weapon of intimacy is so important right now. You

  258. gotta fight for your intimacy with the Lord, and the

  259. crazier things get, you're gonna have to fight even harder

  260. to protect your relationship with Jesus. You gotta You're gonna

  261. have a million things pulling at you. You're gonna have

  262. people falling away. You've got people falling away like crazy.

  263. Right now.

  264. Deconstructing I love what Bill Johnson said. You can only

  265. deconstruct what you built. You can't deconstruct God's kingdom. You

  266. can't deconstruct truth. You may not like it, and you

  267. may you may heap on doctrines of demons. By seducing

  268. spirits so that you feel better, so that you feel

  269. that you actually deceive yourself and believing that you're spiritual

  270. without true transformation, which is one of the key things

  271. of a religious spirit, will absolutely make you feel spiritual,

  272. holier than everybody else, and yet full of pride and

  273. judgment and condemnation and bitterness. Mark nine forty nine says,

  274. for everyone will be salted with fire. Psalms twenty nine

  275. seven says the voice of the Lord flashes forth flames

  276. of fire.

  277. Psalms one O.

  278. Four four says he makes his messengers wins his ministers

  279. a flame of fire.

  280. And Deuteronomy four twenty.

  281. Four for the Lord, your God is a consuming fire,

  282. a jealous god. Y'all we ought to be so on fire.

  283. When people touch us, they get burned. Hey, he's looking

  284. for a bride that's pure and spotless, without compromise. He's

  285. looking for a bride with oil in their lamp. What

  286. does it take to offend you and turn you away?

  287. Right?

  288. Now, and I'm seriously asking this question, what will it

  289. take to offend you and turn you away from God?

  290. Because I promise you, if that is in your heart,

  291. if there is something that can offend you and turn

  292. you away from the Lord the days we're.

  293. In, it will happen. So will you live unoffendable?

  294. Because the falling away is a real thing, y'all Scripture

  295. talks about there will be a falling away?

  296. So what will it take in this moment for you

  297. to fall away?

  298. And you need to ask that question, honestly, you need

  299. to say, Jesus right now, in this moment, what's in

  300. my heart that could cause me to fall away? Because

  301. the ting of your faith, it will be tested, guaranteed,

  302. and it will be tested even greater our faith.

  303. Will in the days ahead.

  304. Years ago, the Lord, I was at my dining room table,

  305. probably ten years ago, somewhere around there, and the Lord

  306. began to show me and let me feel the weight

  307. of future words that I would have to give, and

  308. felt the weight of it, and I remember buckling over

  309. at the dining room table by myself, crying. Solomon said,

  310. with much knowledge comes much grief two Samuel twenty two

  311. eight to thirteen. Then the earth reeled and rocked, the

  312. foundations of the heavens trembled and quaked. Because he was angry,

  313. Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from

  314. his mouth. Glowing coals flamed forth from him. He bowed

  315. the heavens and came down. The thick darkness was under

  316. his feet. He rode on a cherub and flew. He

  317. was seen on the wings of the wind. He made

  318. darkness around him his canopy. Thick clouds are gathering of

  319. water out of the brightness before him. Coals of fire

  320. flamed forth. Can I tell you that anyone that claims

  321. to have gone to heaven and had a throne room encounter,

  322. and they tell you they did anything but.

  323. Fall flat on their face, they are a liar. Period.

  324. You don't stand before this God, this creator.

  325. With this holiness and this race and go in there

  326. and high five them like he's grandpa.

  327. The fear of the Lord is coming and it's moving.

  328. You cannot sustain intimacy with the Lord without it. You

  329. cannot see him move through your life in a mighty way.

  330. Without holiness.

  331. Turbulent times, I sit there and think of what we're

  332. going through the shakings that have happened that seem to

  333. be increasing.

  334. And I think of what my own boys.

  335. Have gone through in the last five years, and I

  336. think about their future and what they might have to face. Y'all,

  337. we cannot afford to have a mindset like Hezekiah. Well,

  338. at least there's peace in my day. No, that is

  339. not a kingdom mindset. Our mindset needs to be us

  340. leaving a legacy and this generation, as we move into

  341. a sage stage of our life, we need to be

  342. very focused on raising up that next generation for people.

  343. To know the Lord.

  344. The only way we're going to see something sustained is

  345. if we steward it with righteousness and holiness, and that

  346. this upcoming generation sees it. You understand that, Charlie Kirk,

  347. more than anything. If you think this.

  348. Was just political, you've already lost.

  349. This is about good and evil, and this is about

  350. a man who the Lord was using to wake up

  351. the next generation all across this nation and through the

  352. universities and beyond. He was a threat to the evil one,

  353. a major threat. But I promise you once again, God

  354. will have the last word. So now you have thirty

  355. two thousand applications to have turning point offices or however

  356. they call them chapters. All the enemy did was poke

  357. at a bride that's not that asleep. Now, Watchmen on

  358. the Wall, let me tell you months ago when we

  359. started the watch at six pm on Sundays, it was

  360. from a burden that we needed to be watchmen on

  361. the wall in this time and things that all of

  362. these shakings that are taking place, it's only proving that

  363. we need to watch and pray. Jesus said, watch and pray,

  364. Watch and pray. And what I say to you, I

  365. say to everyone, watch and pray. Luke twelve forty nine

  366. to fifty says, I came to cast fire on the

  367. earth and would that it were already kindled. I have

  368. a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is

  369. my distress until it's accomplished.

  370. Y'all? Do you understand this? God wants you so happy?

  371. And then if there's any discomfort that it's not his

  372. will show me that in the scripture, please, because I

  373. mean I would love for that to be true.

  374. He says.

  375. If you want to follow me, deny yourself, take up

  376. your cross daily, and let's go a daily dying to

  377. your flesh. Do you understand God will absolutely call you

  378. to do things you don't want to do. That's called

  379. baring your cross. He's not nearly as concerned about your comfort.

  380. As your transformation. Sorry not sorry.

  381. In fact, some of you are headed down a path

  382. of comfort and personal dream that the Lord has nothing

  383. to do with because you've been sold the American Gospel.

  384. You're welcome one Kings eighteen thirty eight.

  385. Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the

  386. burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust,

  387. and lit up the water that was in the trench.

  388. Y'all.

  389. There was nothing left. When the fire of God came.

  390. They drenched that was This was the literally right before

  391. he ran from Jezebel. This was the big showdown, y'all.

  392. I've said this and I'll say it again. We are

  393. heading in two days where you say, you go ahead

  394. and call on your God and I'll call on mine.

  395. And the one that answers by fire, he's the Lord.

  396. And you better understand that there are those showdowns coming.

  397. The Enemy's not hiding. While we were busy.

  398. Trying to perfect Sunday morning services, our children were being

  399. discipled by the evil one. I thank God for a

  400. town that has schools that let people pray in the

  401. name of Jesus.

  402. I would pray in his name anyways because I don't care.

  403. But it's but it's.

  404. Encouraged in our schools, y'all. Kim and Kylie and who's

  405. the third and Chay. Yeah, the very first week they

  406. for the Bible study, they had.

  407. Almost fifty kids. This is the next generation.

  408. How do we want to leave our How do we

  409. want to leave this nation to the next generation. Our

  410. fighting's not done, y'all. We're just getting started. We cannot

  411. leave this mess to our kids.

  412. Period.

  413. We cannot leave this mess to our kids. See a

  414. lot of people thought when the Orange Man got into

  415. office again that somehow our fighting was done, and it's not.

  416. We don't wrestle against flesh and blood. Okay, I'm gonna

  417. start descending. You can take your oxygen mask off here

  418. in a minute. Leviticus nine twenty three to twenty four,

  419. And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting,

  420. and when they came out, they blessed the people, and

  421. the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people,

  422. and fire came out from before the Lord and consumed

  423. the burnt offering and the pieces of the fat on

  424. the altar, and when all the people saw it, they

  425. shouted and fell on their faces. Do you think for

  426. a moment that encounters like that don't mark you for life?

  427. I shared this last year. I think it was when

  428. it happened. My wife and I were just simply sitting

  429. in the backyard talking about the glory of God and

  430. talking and dreaming together of what it's going to be

  431. like as the Lord begins.

  432. To increase his intentional.

  433. Presence, and literally we look over and there is a

  434. glory cloud over our garage in the natural race light,

  435. and it literally grew and grew and grew in front

  436. of our eyes, and then poof disappeared. I don't need

  437. to write that down. That's a spiritual tattoo like that

  438. that we were just and then we just sat there. Now,

  439. I wish things like that happened, like when you asked

  440. him to all the time. Last time I checked. We

  441. don't get to vote on that, right, You don't get to.

  442. Vote on your encounters with the Lord.

  443. But what you do get to do is when you

  444. are humble, hungry and teachable, position yourself in a place

  445. for him to encounter you. However, he sees fit, so

  446. he let him with a cloud that covered by day,

  447. in the appearance of fire by night. And in Deuteronomy,

  448. the Lord spoke with you face to face at the

  449. mountain out of the midst of the fire. Now watch this,

  450. We're gonna dive really deep for a couple of minutes.

  451. So hang in there and Acts two two to four.

  452. And suddenly there came from having a sound like a

  453. mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where

  454. they were sitting, and divided tongues as of fire appeared

  455. to them and rested on each of them, and they

  456. were all filled with the Holy Spirit and begin to

  457. speak in other tongues of the Spirit gave them utterance.

  458. If all you do is read this scripture and focus

  459. on the baptism and tongues, you're missing a whole lot

  460. that is actually in this chapter, and specifically in these

  461. couple of verses. The word for divided tongues, the word

  462. the Greek word, means to divide, to distribute, to a portion,

  463. to partition, thoroughly, distribution, or dissension. Interestingly enough, it's the

  464. same word that is found in Deuteronomy thirty two seven

  465. to nine. Remember remember the days of old, consider the

  466. years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will

  467. show you your elders, and they will tell you. When

  468. the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance. When

  469. he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples

  470. according to the number of the sons of God. This

  471. is benigh aloheen. He's speaking of angels, not man. And

  472. he divided the nations unto these sons of God. And

  473. when did this happen. This took place in Genesis eleven.

  474. And the Lord said, behold, they are one people, and

  475. they all, and they have all one language. And this

  476. is only the beginning of what they will do. And

  477. nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible

  478. for them. Y'all, this was the power of the soul.

  479. All of their wills united together other for one purpose,

  480. and that was in the soul. Come, let us go

  481. down and there confuse their language so that they may

  482. not understand one another's speech. By the way, the new

  483. earpod threes that are coming out this week, they have

  484. language translation in them like any language.

  485. And if you.

  486. Have EarPods in the three air pod pros whatever. If

  487. I have them in and you have them in, it

  488. doesn't matter what languages we speak.

  489. As we begin to talk.

  490. To each other, it's automatically interpreted and you hear exactly

  491. what they're saying in your own language.

  492. Yeah.

  493. Remember, and Daniels said, knowledge will increase, man will run

  494. to and fro.

  495. So he goes, let us go down.

  496. And there confuse their language so that they may not

  497. understand one another's speech. So the Lord dispersed them from

  498. there over the face of all the earth, and they

  499. left off building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel,

  500. because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth,

  501. and from there the Lord dispersed them over the face

  502. of the earth. This is exactly what Deuteronomy thirty two,

  503. seven and nine is talking about when it says, when

  504. the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when

  505. he divided mankind, he divided mankind. In Genesis eleven, y'all

  506. with me.

  507. And then all of a sudden.

  508. In Genesis eleven, the Lord calls Abram to start the

  509. process of recovering the scattered nations. Genesis fifteen, the Lord

  510. tells Abram to look up in the night sky and

  511. try to number the stars.

  512. Genesis seventeen.

  513. The Lord promises to make Abraham the father of many nations.

  514. Many nations will come from you. So Tower of Babbel, division, divided, nations, scattered,

  515. put under the Divine Council Psawm.

  516. Eighty two.

  517. They begin to rule unrighteously, and God brings them into

  518. a council for judgment because they're no longer leading the

  519. nations towards righteousness, but nudging them towards lawlessness. See, if

  520. you don't understand the big picture of spiritual warfare, you

  521. really don't understand the fullness of the role of the

  522. Holy Spirit either.

  523. So what happens.

  524. You go back to Acts two, and suddenly there came

  525. from heaven a sound like a min and rushing wind

  526. fills the house. Divided tongues as of fire appeared on them,

  527. rested on each of them, and they were filled with

  528. the Holy Spirit and begin to speak.

  529. And other tongues.

  530. The gift of interpretation, the gift of tongues and the

  531. interpretation every language present heard them in their own language.

  532. It's part of the recovery of the nations. It's a

  533. part of Abraham's promise that he would be the father

  534. of many nations. And guess what on that day when

  535. Peter stood up and three thousand souls were saved, they

  536. dispersed back to their lands, and all of a sudden,

  537. now the Gospel of the Kingdom is being preached in

  538. multiple languages, and one New Man.

  539. Is beginning to be formed.

  540. And I might even add that the ten nations that

  541. were scattered are being brought back through gentile blood, part

  542. of the mystery of the One New Man.

  543. So as we're in this moment.

  544. Seeing all of these crazy things happen, you know, in

  545. the Old Covenant, there's a scripture that says, you are

  546. killing people that should not be killed, and you are

  547. keeping alive people that should not be kept alive. And

  548. he's talking about the government, the authority of the nation,

  549. not just anybody doing whatever they want. It's Romans thirteen, right,

  550. that is a sovereign authorities were put into place by

  551. the Lord himself. Yeah, Jesus is not nearly as easy

  552. to get along with as we try to paint him.

  553. I've said this a couple of times in the last

  554. few months, but I love what Bobby Connor said that

  555. We're way too familiar with the God we barely know.

  556. And I don't know about you. But the closer I

  557. get to him, the.

  558. Less I know about him, because I recognize how much

  559. bigger he is than my Then remember that dot that

  560. Sean put on this timeline. If that's the dot and

  561. the timeline of eternity, where's your tiny little hind in

  562. and that thing? I want to do something that's probably

  563. gonna make everybody very uncomfortable, including me.

  564. But mister Micah, where we come. Get on the keys.

  565. We got a few minutes left, and I just want

  566. us to sit still and wait on the Lord. And

  567. I'm gonna do some identificational prayer of repentance, and we're

  568. just gonna ask the Lord in his mercy to move

  569. over us. We cannot twist God's arm, we cannot make

  570. him move, but we can posture ourselves in a place

  571. of humility and repentance that positions our hearts open to

  572. what He wants to do. And I believe with all

  573. of my heart the heavens, even the heavens, are the lords.

  574. But He's given the earth to the sons of men.

  575. We have a responsibility over this earth. We have a

  576. responsibility right now, in this hour, in this season, to

  577. be the light and assault. We have a responsibility to

  578. make disciples of all nations, regardless of your in time's perspective,

  579. Son of Day.

  580. Even have mercy. Father.

  581. We stand in the gap right now, in the midst

  582. of the ashes, sorrow, loss, trauma, grief.

  583. Lord, we mourn with a family who's lost a husband

  584. way too soon. Father, Our nation is to.

  585. And the evil one would love nothing more than to

  586. make it worse. Lord, Father, have mercy over us. Lord,

  587. awaken your sleeping beauty to the roar of your son,

  588. that the fear of the Lord would shaken us awake

  589. from slumber, that the lion of the tribe of Judah

  590. would roar. God, you are a consuming fire, and you've

  591. baptized us with your spirit and fire. Would you cause

  592. your spirit, your fire inside of us, Lord, to consume.

  593. Everything not of you.

  594. Would you forgive us for what we've made the gospel

  595. so many times?

  596. Lord?

  597. Would you forgive us for so many times preaching a

  598. narcissistic gospel making it all about us? Lord, Father, we

  599. stand in the gap and ask that you would give

  600. us righteous leader's Lord, we pray for those in authority

  601. over us, that they would rule with righteousness and justice. Lord,

  602. that you would pull down the fallen council members over

  603. our nation and put in righteous principalities Jesus, that you

  604. would put a fire inside of us for intimacy that

  605. could never be quenched no matter what. That you would

  606. remove the question marks out of our heart. Lord, that

  607. we would trust you.

  608. With the tension of mystery.

  609. That you would awaken the Church, that you would revive

  610. the nation, Lord, Father, that.

  611. You would pour out over this next.

  612. Generation through the School's Lord, that the Gospel, which is

  613. the power under salvation, would be preached by this next

  614. generation with love, boldness, power, signs and wonders, that Heaven

  615. would respond to truth, that the signs and wonders would

  616. follow after us. Lord, that they would run us down

  617. because we're running after you.

  618. Lord.

  619. That we wouldn't just rend our garments, that we wouldn't

  620. us look spiritual to others, but that you.

  621. Would break our heart for what breaks yours. God.

  622. Don't leave us this way, Lord, don't leave this nation

  623. this way.

  624. Don't leave this reason this way.

  625. Lord.

  626. Lord, We need.

  627. You, We need a fresh baptism of your spirit and

  628. fire like never before.

  629. Lord. So here we are. We're contending for you to

  630. do what only you can do. We're asking you.

  631. To move over us, in us and through us, that

  632. you would transform us, Lord, from glory to glory into

  633. your image. God, in the midst of being so blessed. Lord,

  634. help us steward our prosperity with the mind of Christ,

  635. with kingdom behavior, with heavenly thinking. Lord, forgive all the

  636. innocent bloodshed over this nation. Lord, through abortion, through murder, Lord,

  637. through assassinations, through trafficking. Lord, we plead your blood Jesus. Lord,

  638. you said you're close to the broken heart. That you

  639. restore our souls, that you heal our hearts, that you

  640. break us out of captivity and out of the prison.

  641. Lord.

  642. So would you stretch forth your.

  643. Arm Lord, even now in this moment, would you bring

  644. divine deliverance over strongholds in people's lives. Lord, Would you

  645. bring physical healing in people's bodies?

  646. Right now?

  647. Lord, Lord, we're asking that you would do these things

  648. for your name's sake.

  649. Lord, that you would.

  650. Look upon your bride and you would not be able

  651. to stay away from us. Lord, Holy Spirit, would you come,

  652. Would you bring confirmation to your word that's been preached.

  653. Would you cause fresh oil to come over this house

  654. and then ignite, ignite the fresh oil, that we would

  655. be burning ones for you, Lord, that we would be

  656. burning ones for you.

  657. Lord, here we are. Send us, Lord, he said, who

  658. will go send us?

  659. Lord, that we would be bold as lions, that we

  660. would have foreheads like flint, that we would not be

  661. quiet and allow your word to be shut up in

  662. our bones, but that we would proclaim your word, which

  663. is like a fire and like a hammer.

  664. Father, I asked that you would stir a hunger inside

  665. of us, Lord.

  666. That would lead us to seeking you in ways we'd

  667. never sought you before. And we would wake ourselves up

  668. praying and praising in the night. Lord, because it's so

  669. permeated and so transformed our very being. Lord, we got

  670. a hammer in one hand and a sword in the other,

  671. and you're raising up Nehemiah's Lord, release your fiery ones,

  672. commission your fiery ones. Lord, Shake us awake, Lord, shake

  673. and bake, purify your bride. But the fear of the Lord,

  674. which is pure, That the fear of the Lord would

  675. come more Lord, more Lord, rund our hearts and not

  676. our clothing cause the fear of the Lord, the conviction

  677. of the Holy One to come. Soften our soul's. Lord,

  678. give us eyes to see and ears to hear.

  679. Come with your authority and your power.

  680. Lord More, Lord, Holy Spirit, would you move mightily right

  681. now and draw us to the sun. Lord, cause your

  682. fire to come, or just a baptism of fire that

  683. would shut our hearts a flame for.

  684. You, Jesus, the Ancient of days.

  685. Eyes like fire, air like wool, the voice from the burning.

  686. Bush, the Angel of the Lord, the captain of the army.

  687. Before Abraham was. You are.

  688. The one that holds everything together by the power of

  689. his word.

  690. Worthy, Worthy is the one to open the scroll.

  691. Holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy

  692. holy holy holy holy.

  693. Holy holy holy Holy.

  694. Are you Lord, just ask if the prayer team would come.

  695. M hm.

  696. Hm Father, we give up our right to be right.

  697. Lord, we give up our right to know why everything happens, and.

  698. Our hearts are postured to worship you in the midst

  699. of all of this, Lord and Spirit and.

  700. Truth, you are good. You are good. You're still good.

  701. After the loss of loved ones, the flood, assassinations. Lords,

  702. You're still good. Lor Do we proclaim your goodness. Lord,

  703. You're good, and your mercy endures forever, and you only

  704. give good gifts. Son of David, have mercy, Son of David,

  705. have mercy over us.

  706. We love you.

  707. Lord.

  708. It's m.

  709. M B.

  710. B S.

  711. And that's.

  712. Bad. And let's.

  713. Let's start saying in praise the Lord's Spanish species.

  714. Father, we love you, We thank you, We thank you.

  715. That you are a rewarder of those that diligently seek

  716. after you. So, Father, we stand before you today.

  717. You're the author, You're the finisher, Lord.

  718. Of everything.

  719. That has purpose.

  720. Lord, light us up, Light us up, Lord, so we

  721. can be burning ones in this hour for your namesake,

  722. for your glory.

  723. Lord, sacrifice, Lord, sacrifice of praise. You are.

  724. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

  725. Thank you for listening.

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