Why Revival | Pastor Phua Seng Tiong

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Why revival? Okay? So what happened to all the past

revivals that you and I have read about all over

the world, The move of God, the impact of lives,

society transformed, and the amazing impact that has helped families

know only the reconcile, become very passionate for themselves and

for God. We praise the love for that. And in

Malaysia we also did have a number of places where

there was a revival that had happened, which I would

share with you later on about some place that I've

been that would encourage you and I pray that would

spur you to do what the law wants you to do.

In the in the seventies, the Burrial revival, the Bakalalan revival,

h the tag Nabo, those of you from Sabah taken Abo.

There was an amazing move of God's spirit there and

also in Sitiawan, over in Para Side and in a

number of places that pockets and pockets of revival. Why

would all these things happen? You know, when we think

about what God is doing in different places. Why revival

would take place in all these places? And how is it?

What are the some of the keynotes that we need

to understand so that we would know what it means

to really come together and seek the Lord and ask

him to do there Some of you remember, I think

with two three years ago? Was it before COVID? I

can't remember now. The Ashbury Revival something like about sixteen

days young people, you know, munisity students all meeting and

praying and worshiping NonStop, twenty four the whole time, and

a lot of people just lining up to come and

seek the presence of the Lord. What does that mean?

Is that what we want to see? Is that? Is

that the visible thing that we were talking about? Uh?

You know, it seems like I met quite a number

of people who are post pastors now and leaders in

the in the world. They're all part of this Jesus

movement revolution. Yeah, and a lot of them. There's all

a hippies, drug headaches, et cetera. All turn around and

now become effective for the Lord. But then you see

there's always a climax. It seems like there is always

ah descending kind of situation. The revival is not sustained.

Maybe they've lost bookers and UH. And I think that

your texts UH from UH from Habacok chapter two, chapter three,

verse to UH says it, let me read it. I

read the UH, the the New Living Testament, UH, rendering them.

I have heard about you, Lord. I'm feeled with all

by your amazing word wow. And this time of our

need in in our knee, help us or revive us

again as you did in years gone by, and in

your anger, because we have seen against you in your anger,

because we have lost boocus. In your anger, we seem

to concentrate on the revival and not you, Lord, remember

us with mercy. In some eighty five or six it

says like this, will you not revive us again? That

your people may rejoice in you? Yeah? Yeah, so that

says the thing. There's some recently where dear friend of

mine who passed away, and I was texting the wife.

I said, you know, I just want to say that

you know this, this this risk wrings in my heart.

It says in your presence in some succeed verse eleven,

in your presence there is fullness of joy. Do you

know where your husband has gone to? She he is

now in the fullness of joy, which I envy him

that he's there. And so that's how we we we

connect most of the time. You know, I like this

guy because he says, hey, uh, passport, when are you

going to change address? I said, So, what do you

mean by that? He said, oh, from your from your

what do you call it? Temporary address? To your permanent address?

And how many of you have this kind of thoughts out?

It's good, good to have these thoughts. Then you realize

that you have a permanent place somewhere. That's what Jesus said,

is it? In John said the fourteen He said, letting

on your hearty trouble, you believe in God, believe also

in me in my father's house. That are many mentions.

If you were not so, I would not have told you.

Jesus told his disciples. And then he says, you know

where I would prepare pray for you, and where where

I I'll come again and bring you to myself. So

there's a permanent addresser. Okay, that's why Thomas Thomas couldn't

understand all the time. Very yeah, he said, But if

he if Thomas would live today, he said, but how

do we go there? We don't have gps MA. But

you know, the Lord says on the way we say that.

Just now I'm the truth and I'm alive. All right.

All who come to me must come through, come to

the Father, must come to me. Amen, Praise the Lord.

So today I was thinking, how do I share with

the church revive? Yeah, but you know, I don't know

what what is the state and condition of your church?

But it's okay ah ah, because we're always talking the

other church, but this is a church. Hey, when you

point something, three fingers point to yourself. No. So I

would tell Bible stories. I'm not sure where the the

children will understand my Bible stories. By trust you catch

some truth, catch some points for revival. Ex Church, God

wants to revive you. Amen. So if you, if you

in your in your home group, maybe it's good to

just look through some of these old tuta men kind

of situation where we can glimpse certain kind of a

truth from all these places. I want to share with

you from first Semel Chapter one to four. Not I'm

not going to read the scripture references and on. It's

just for you to make note to follow what I'm

trying to say. What the Lord has put up my heart.

It is about reality, it's about spirit condition of God's people.

Even as we read in chapter one, in chapter one,

there is a woman by the name of Hannah, and

she was a desperate wife, desperate woman. She was being

looked down upon because she couldn't give any give birth

to any any child. She was being goaded all the

time by society and by the first wife of Elkanah.

But Kinna said, you know, look, I really love you,

and so on. That's not good enough because there's something

that needs to rebirth from her heart and on. And

the Lord answered the prayer. And if you read in

chapter one when the Lord answered the prayer, wow, But

you see the way she prayed in chapter one, would

would also help you to understand why revival must take

place when there is a desperate cry and prayer to

the Lord. She she cried, she prayed bitterly, She prayed

with great sense of depth, no crying. We said, just now,

we want to dive deeper, dive deeper, dive deeper. And

that's what she did. And even she was misunderstood by Eli,

the high priest. You said, are you drunk so too

early to get drunk. You see, you don't know what

I'm talking about me be if she's quite witty, she say,

I'm drunk in the Lord. But that's what Paul says

that ah ah, do not be drunk with wine. What

is it? Be filled with the Holy Spirit. That's what

it means by being drunk in the Holy Spirit, because

when you're drunk the spirit you see when you are drunk.

When you're drunk because of alcohol, alcohol becomes king. No,

and so you don't know what you're talking about. Yeah,

some of you. Maybe you look at my size when

you think do I do I really play this game?

I play Rubby? You know, so yeah, I represented a

slangonna stay before. But you know when I see all

this basally after the game, drinking, drinking until all Then

they challenge me, He said why don't drink? I said, no,

I cannot. You know why I cannot because there's somebody

I need to be the person bringing you home. You

cannot drive, you know, Yeah, I saw I will be

your driver, and so so to be. She was so

pretty and the Lord heard a cry. And there's something

that we need to grasp when we talk about revival.

It has something to do with your be longing and

your desire to see God unswering the depths of your heart.

And and she when when when she received, when she

conceived Samuel, and she said, Samuel. The name Samuel means

it is what because this is what I asked the

Lord for. And I know that in her desperation, that's

what happened. And because of that, you know, but God's

plans unnoticed, because who is Samuels not just a baby

or name. By the time she was he was ready

to be in the temple. He was She offered Samuel. See,

when we talk about revival has to do with sacrifice,

has to do with giving, is to do with giving

of yourself. And the most precious person that she asked

of the Lord was given to the Lord to serve

in the temple. You know, the state of affairs during

the time of the of of what you call it,

the the condition of the children of visual rights and

so on, it is very very small and very uh.

You we like to say, uh, somehow things are not

right and uh and people seem to exhibit and that's

one of the things that the law wants to say

to you and to me. If things are not right

we don't address it. You got a problem. Yeah, So

that's why. That's why when when Samuel's put there children

a small boy learning from Eli. Yeah, he's a he's

a new bee, but he Eli is an old b Yeah.

And the old being you know what it does you

read incepret three. He is always in his usual place

in except one sorry first cemeter the tree verse one. Yeah,

and and the scripture tells us in that time of Eli,

there was hardly any vision. The word of the Lord

was rare. In other words, the connection is not there.

A lot of time situations like this, even in your

own life, in your family, in the in the community

that you're part of, in this church and so on,

things are not happening. It's like what a good friend

of mine keeps saying. He said, you know, it's same old,

same old things, same thing, same thing, until it is

same old Yeah. And so that's what happened Eli. But

you know, you're so good. God's plan is to read

to enable sam or to know the presence of the Lord,

and the scripture tells us in verse two, he says,

even though Eli was in his usual place, he's not

in the temple. Samuel was lying in the temple beside

the arc of the Lord. And that's something that you

and I need to grasp when you talk about revival,

is about the presence of the Lord. So am I

in the presence of the Lord? Oh am I going

all places? Yeah, and and and this, Yeah, this is

my work. This is my ministry. Sorry, it's not your ministry.

Is the lots of ministry? Yeah, okay, So that's why

in Hiperca, I observe your work. It is your work,

it's not my work. And because it is your work,

something is gonna happen because you are going to do that.

All right. It seems like in the samar No life

zone with Eli, there is all complacent, this neglect since

not address allowed to carry on. If you read in

chapter three, yeah, chapter three, his sons were were terrible,

wicked sons and so on. They dishonored the Lord in

so many ways, and yet Eli didn't do anything. He

just asked him why you do all this? Why you

do all this? Yeah? But he didn't do anything, and

the Lord's judgment was upon her. So if you see

the scenario like this, yeah, could there be a reviver? Yeah,

there could be if things were being addressed. But you

know they went into battle. You read in chapter four

and when they were into battle the loss and they said, oh,

maybe it's a good idea, Hopney and finnhas these are

the two guys who disgraces their father Eli, and they said,

let's take the ark of covenant, be goot powerful, bring

the presence of the Lord. And true, yeah, the first

thing's all got frightened. But the Lord was not going

to vindicate these two guys, and a lot of them

if you read in the scriptures of something like oh

thirty thousand of them lost their lives and so on.

And one guy always could come back and tell Eli Eli, Eli,

something has happened. Something has happened. What happened? He said,

both the sons are cure. Or besides that, what happened?

The ark has been stolen? Wow, that's way. What about

the presence of the Lord in you? Has it been stolen?

So when you talk about revival, is there the presence

of the Lord, Because if there's a powerful presence of

the Lord, people will notice. If there's a very powerful

presence of the Lord, people will be impacted by it.

I ask you, is that so for you? As you

pick up all the things. And you know when when

he was told that your two sons of kid, but

the art was stolen. You know, he was in his

usual place in where no in his rocking chair. Yeah,

he says that, and then he fell back and broke

his neck and he died. And that triggered the daughter

in law was pregnant and going to give birth, and

they said, oh, name name since this guy's name if

Eli said, no way, no way. You know why he

named she said, give the name to this boy Cabod.

And the word I cabod in Hebrew means no more glory.

The glory of the Lord has been taken away. So

he said, in many places that I've been to, it

seems like at once was something that's happening. But people

so that there will be since an address, there will

be things that are covered. A lot of people look

so good and well. Yeah, and uh so when I

asked them, are you in the welldem in the well?

I said, sorry, I don't seem to sense it, you know, yeah,

because the impact of the presence of God must be there.

And and that's why there's no impact of the presence

of God. Yeah, And that's why God raised Samuel. So

if you read Actually to the Tree, the Beginnings of

Learning to hear God. Yeah, because because uh Samy was

such an obedient boy and he heard one day he

heard his name and suddenly he thought Eli was calling.

Yes I'm here. No, No, I did call you a

hob he he got, he got no coma go get

track all. Yeah, because that's what the scripture says. He

couldn't see, you know, he couldn't see, probably not only

with his fiscal eyes, with his spiritual eyes. So he said, no,

I didn't call you. Secondy Again, No I didn't call you.

Third time, No, I didn't call you. Then he realized

that's about the best thing that Eli did for Samuel.

He said, the next time, when you hear this, say

speak Lord. Your servant is listening. I'm asking you to

this morning, when you hear the voice of God, are

you saying, speak Lord, I'm listening, because that's what revival

is all about. Because God will impart to you word

upon word, precept upon precept. Are you listening, because if

you're listening, that's what it is, and so on. You know,

the glory has left, but God still speaks to those

whose hearts are drawing clothes in And where was Samuel.

He was lying in the temple near the ark of Coveny,

near the presence of the Lord, even though later on

the ark would have been taken away. That's many other

different stories you read. You that it's an exciting time,

but you know that's what happened. I want to bring

to you that when Samuel heard the Lord and the

Lord spoke to him, the scripture tells us in the

same chapter that from then on, whatever Samuel spoke, no

word dropped to the crown. In other words, so powerful,

so accurate, so to the point. And that's what the

Lord wants to do in the in the sense when

there's a revolver movement, God will speak, and when he speaks,

you listen. And when you listen, you know that we

can move on. You know, for forty years. The children

of Israel life, this is the next story. You all

know this story. And they wondered in the wilderness. They complain, complain, complain,

because why they're all very egib Yeah, the Egypt already

inside them. Yeah, so how to take away to Egypt? Yeah,

So a lot of times we have the world still

inside us. Yeah, And that's why Jesus prayed in John

Tapter seventeen. You know, I pray that you do not

take them out of this world, but you will protect them.

You protect them because why they are still here doing

what you want them to do as you send me

on a mission. So I want to pray, pray that

this is something that you would begin to understand. And

so they were all in the wilderness for forty years.

Miracles happened, pillow club, pillow fire, this and then and

so on, and their shoes on every one. Now, no,

can you imagine that forty years shoes never worn out? Cloth,

no need to change one. Whah, I don't know how

how forty years wear the same thing? Uh? Yeah, today

I see all way more bad bad bagosh. So so

it is like this so this way himself is a miracle.

And then when when I say we we we won,

we won? Uh food food came from heaven? Mana, they

are mana? You know what's a mini of manna? What's this?

Why is this? It means? Why is this? Are so

you gotta beig curass lord when you move? What is this? Yeah,

because it's going to provide for you? And so on

and you say, we need meat. All meat came quails,

all games on until they eat until almost h w

people eat Durians right la and gos sick. Yeah. Yeah,

so so that's why when when when, when all these

things happen? When they need water, water was given to them,

et cetera. And yet you read in Some one zero

six there's account of them wandering to the wilderness, and

there at least three times it is said they did

not remember the kindness of the Lord. They did not

remember in verse seven, verse verse thirteen. I think they

forgot all that the Lord has done for them. Yeah,

and that was twenty one or so. And many many

times they wasted. They were wasted in their own sin.

Let's move for it. It is an old testament. There's

also a new testament. The last week of Jesus' life.

You all just celebrated resurrection Sunday. Yeah, And yet the

run up to the resurrection Sunday was something that was

so impactful. He started with Jesus in John recording for

us in John to be twelve, Jesus was telling them,

or what is to come? You know, I didn't just come.

There is an outcome of my mission here that's why

when when he said to the to the disciples, because

they asked, you know, what food are you gonna eat?

He said, my food, the food that I eat. You

don't understand. And so in John four thirty four he says,

my food is to do the will of him who

sent me, and to finish it. And that's what he did.

And the cross, he says, it is finished. Yeah, that's

that's how how as we cross what what what? What

the word of God is spoken will be fulfilled. That's

why Jesus said, I didn't come to abolish the law.

I come to fulfill it. And the Jews themselves couldn't

understand how this is possible, except step by step by

scriptures he took that donkey writing in they all said, oh,

this is our savior, this is our redeemer. This is

the one who's gonna take us uh and and and

get rid of all the Romans and so on. They

lost focused. They didn't understand who Jesus is. So he

is a king blessed, is a king that comes in

the name of the Lord. So it started with there.

And then when he said in chapter twelve, or John

in chapter twelve or Study two he says, if I'm

lifted up, I would draw all men to myself. They

didn't understand that, because Jesus is going to be crucified

and say, as we move move on. In chapter twelve,

Chapter thirteen, he says, in verse one, Jesus saw that

he was going to leave them, and he loved them

to the full extent. In other words, he loved them completely.

And how did he show his love? He showed his

love by washing the feet. He washed the feet the

person who is going to betray him. The wash the

feet of these person who's gonna deny him. He washed

the feet of those we're gonna run chabled in as

recorded for us, he Matthew twenty six firty six. I

want to bring that scenario to you. And so why

because there's so much high hopes about Jesus. Just like

the two guys who were working on the road to

the emails, he said, we had hope is a wrong expectation.

And a lot of times when we want revival, we

have wrong expectations. We say we want to see the

movement or we don't see God in it. We haven't

seen God in it, and that's why there's problem a

lot of times. Why there's a climax, and yet they

have lost focus. So there's something that we need to learn.

And Jesus talk about the resurrection, and when you talk

about the resurrection, you know these people couldn't understand him

initially when Lazarus was raised. In chapter eleven, exciting things

in Jesus tell mother, I am the resurrection in the

life those who believe in me, though they die, yet

shall he live? And in verse twenty six, those who

believe in me shall never die. But the question that's

not the end. He says, do you believe this? At

our times we only pay lip service to what is said.

We do not believe it. That's why Jesus keep asking

do you believe this? In March of the nine, verse

twenty three, he told this man who brought his son, Yeah,

who was who is this? A deaf and damn spirit

in him? And he says, you know, do you believe?

He says, help my unbelief, because Jesus said in verse

twenty three of chapter nine, he says everything is possible

to those who believe. And that's why they were still

very puzzled. They were already challenged. You will you must

remain in me and I remain in you. There were challenged,

I'm going to come and take you with me. I'm there, challenge,

it's so many Chapter fourteen of John, Chapter fifteen and

chapter sixteen told them the Holy Spirit is going to come.

But you know, when Jesus was arrested, everything ran out

of the window. Where are you Jesus? And a lot

of times in our desperation we asked that question. Two

And when we ask that question, it's not because he's

not there. You don't know. He had lost touch with him.

I like this guy who whom I met in prison

and ask him why do you do what he did?

And what do you do? He said kidnapping? I said

he deserved to be here? He said, yes, I deserve

to be here. I said, so, I said were you when?

Were you Christian? And me? He said, were you a

Christian when you do a kidnapping? He say yes? I said,

wh why you do that? Man? How can you do that?

He said? And what he said to me was very

very bretinent, because I've long left the Lord. He spoke

to me in Chinese or hunt you. That's why I'm

in darkness, That's why I do the works of darkness.

Now you understand where are you Jesus? But you're still

in darkness. Where are you, Jesus? What do you still do?

Cannot see? And light shines brightest in the darkness of places.

And this is a guy who taught me something that

the the the prisoner. He said, you know, yeah, it's true.

I was outside in darkness, but now I'm in the prison.

I'm in the light. I say, I say, don't talk nonsense.

You are in the prison, man, I'm not in a prison.

How can I be Yeah, I'm outside in the line

or so. I say, yeah. And then I promise him

and I have said this before, It's okay to depeat. Yeah,

because I'm already eight years old. I yeah, I can

repeat many things. So he says, you know fast, you listen.

I say, okay, I will listen. He says light does

not depend on the absence of darkness, but darkness depends

on the absence of light. When he first told me that,

I say, see again. I I don't quite grasp it.

You know, I say again, light does not depend on

the absence of darkness, but darkness depends on the absence

of light. That's why I don't have that line. I'm outside,

I do bad things. Law Now in the prison I

do good things. Are I said, what good things you do?

I pray for all my friends. Now, yeah, I pray

that you'll come to know the Lord. So anyone came

to know the Lord? Yes, because I'm in the light.

They see. It changed my life. You want to talk

about revival is about transformation. That that's why Paul says

in Romans twelve, verse two, he says, you know, do

not becomeformed to the patterns of this world, but be

transformed by the renewing of your mind. And when your

mind is renewed, Wow, something is gonna happen. So so

as you, as you begin to grasp this with these disciples.

Even when Jesus resurrected in Monch of the sixteen, verse eleven,

when the women came to tell them, he said, ah,

this is not all women's nonsense. Cannot be mah. Yeah,

you read that in March chapter sixteen, verse eleven, or

in Real chapter twenty four, verse ten eleven. He says

that the women came didn't believe. They didn't believe. Yeah,

that's why he's so good. Jesus asked this question to

Master and to you also to me, also do you

believe this? I like the way somebody put it this way.

If you believe Jesus's reason, do not live as if

he's dead. Come on, is your live? He's real lived.

We will declared that just now, and I were saying,

just now, don't just sing come on. That's what it

means my spirit and truth. And I want to pray

that this is something that you need to focus and

so on. And as they didn't believe, then even the

guy who who who said I don't have the gps A,

he says, no, I didn't see him. Until I see him,

I won't believe. This is in John chapter twenty, verse

twenty five. Feel the doubts, fear, all kinds of sense

of hope, withness, lost expectation. A lot of times you

come into their concentration, but didn't Jesus tuk them unts

in such a way. And yet the real thing that happened,

the whole scenario. A lot of times when the real

thing happens, we don't see because why we are just

like Peter, when Jesus was walking in the water and

invited him to come come on, he did he look

at Jesus, he walk on the water, but when you

look at the waves, he fell inside. And the shortest

prayer is Lord saved me and the Lord saved him.

I want to share this with you because when you

talk about revival, it is when when Hypocrits says, I

heard We need a fresh word from the Lord to

say that, yes, I heard you, Lord, I heard you.

Now what are you going to do? All right? And

he says, I'm in awe of you? Wow, they're the

word in other versions says I fear. I'm afraid. It's

not afraid meaning you're so tuck good until you've going

to hide yourself. I'm afraid because why, Wow, I'm just

rismerized by your present. I'm musimerized by what you say

to me. Yeah, it's just like Samuel hearing the world,

hearing God speaking to him and wondering whether and when

did the Lord spoke to him? And he says, speak

yourself and listen. The Lord downloaded so amazing things to him.

This is what God wants to do, even for these days.

And we all know that in except one something happened.

Except the one verse two, verse three, verse four. He

says like this, Jesus went about proving to all those

who came to see him that he's alive. He spent

forty days doing revision costs, because all forgternity, all all fossilized,

fossilized by doubts, fossilize of fear, fossilized by all kinds

of hopeless situations. Come on, raise up in hope, Jesus

will tell them, and so on. That's why he walk

with the two guys from Jerusalem to Ymaeus and explain,

and what did What did they say? He said, when Jesus,

After Jesus did what he did and broke bread. And

then they say, this is Jesus too lately. Yeah, but

they recognized Jesus, and this is what they said. He says,

we're not our hearts burning revivals, fire burning. If that's

what it is, then I say to you actuals. Come on, yeah,

be on fire for the Lord. Okay. So the Lord

told them. In verse five of chapter one acts, he says,

wait in Jerusalem, because the Father's gift is about to

be given. We sang this now, Holy spirit fall, Holy

Spirit fall? Are you serious about it? When it falls?

You don't know what's happening when he falls. I've seen

literally what happened in a group of Bangladeshi people. I

was talking to them and said, we're talking about the

Holy Spirit, and said, Lord, you come, you come, and

all of them was so prepared vessels. I was shocked

because they were not shocked. Because all of them start

holding down all the whole hour. I only wish I

could show their picture and so on. The whole house

is all line out, but the next one now all

lying down. I said, Lord, what's going on? You shut up?

You don't know what you're talking about. You just see,

just see and hear. And when I and now before

the Lord, I cried and cried, cried. After one hour,

one by one day lifted up, they got up and

so on. I said, what the cod say to you? Wow,

amazing things men on. It was never the sain again.

You know why? Because they heard the word, they were

touched by the spirit and they move on. That's what

it should be all the time when we talk about revival.

So what happened while waiting the ten days? In except

one verse fourteen, what does he say? Regularly? They met,

They met women, children, a doubts, old people, all those

who cannot walk. Also, there are yeah, a lot of Dixes.

What were they doing? They were seeking the Lord and

revival has got to do is seeking the Lord. And

I pray that this is what you'll be seeking the Lord.

Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon

him while he's near. And he's so near. They didn't

even because Jesus told him, yeah, you wait here, you

wait here, So wait doesn't mean don't do anything. Wait

means do something actively by seeking the Lord and so on.

But there was something among them that needed to be

that way, because every time they look at all the

apostles that Jesus appointed at one shot down and it

reminded them of Judas, reminded them of betrayal, redeminded them

of Pangianak. And how do we get rid of this?

Be placed with someone, And that's what they did with Matthias,

and the betrayaled spear was cleared Chapter one, chapter two.

As they were worshiping lots more worshiping, seeking the Lord,

waiting for the Lord. What happened? The horl is beak

came down when the rules became Now that on the

day of Pentecosts. What happened. They could hear sound wind,

they could see frames of tongues of fire, and they

could speak. They spoken tongues. So there was your sight

and there was also speech. Wow, and all those around

Suddenly this coward guy who who sway by heaven by

earth that he will be with Jesus, and he ran away.

He denied Jesus three times, stood up with the rest

of the disciples and addressed a big group of people. There.

Can you mention that's what unusual happenings will take place?

In twenty twenty four, I was with the pan people

in long Kabok in Barham. I've heard about Panan's before.

I've ministered to them before, and they're all malu malu

no ni banu bahlou you know. When I try to

get nearer to talk to them and so on, they

all yes. So they are so what they call it

of low self esteem because that's how they are looking

upon because they are nomadic people and so on. Can

God do something like this among them? I don't know.

A lot of people have been praying, and so from

among them a whole group have been praying. Not only

that they were fighting each other compound against campong. They

were sometimes killing each other. Many things are happening, but

you see and not really that is the most unhygienic places,

if they are in a campound. All right. I remember

the yb who was there at the place where I

was with him. He said, you know something has changed here.

I said, what do you mean? When I come here,

I have to avoid and look and look down because

everywhere there's a lot of you know, fysis or not

only dog physis, human physis. It's so unhygienic. People are

sick here and so on, and they're all very unkemp.

They're not used to doing that. He said, But today

I don't see the dogs around. They didn't kill the dogs.

I don't see any all the phyces around, not even

human phyces. Wow, the amashey is so amazing. Can you

imagine a thousand Banan people for forty different compounds met together.

Some came one one whole day, riding from Limbang all

the way four on the motorbile in Timber Road and

coming down just to hunger for the word of God.

And when I saw them, Wow, it was a different

kind of pananda I've seen, because it seems like no

I didn't see hello, but I saw the sense of

the presence of the Lord in them. I want to

tell you, you see this, this is what it is.

So then I asked them what happened. He said, we

have been praying and then the Lord has been moving

in a compound. I said, tell me about more stories.

And this is what is it. You know, when we're

praying and worshiping with NonStop almost every day, every day,

every day they're having you know, at nine, you know, intercession.

They go out, work, come back, pray and so on.

He said, Then we saw people along the road. They

are not believers. They fell down. They cried, and they

cried why because they're so affected by what the Lord

has done. And they move and he said, tell us

what to do, tell us what to do. And they

handed up all the amulets and all the giman and

all that kind of thing, and to be purned. Deliverance

took place, healing took place, Miracles took place. But that's

not all. At that point in time, a lot of them.

At the foot of the of the slope, we were

meeting the colleague God book it sorry. And then as

you were meeting and so on, suddenly there was a

word of the Lord Ah and then and then people

all between all the two come from all hugging each other, crying,

asking for forgiveness, repenting, and so on. That's one of

the key things that happened. And that's the first thing

that Peter said to the people who heard her message

of Atpedicause, what must we do in accept the two

verse thirty seven? What must we do? And he said,

repent and be baptized and receive the forgiveness of sin

and the gift of the Holy Spirit. There's something that

that that that seemed to be like the patent in

the revival, that the repentance must take place because you've

heard the Lord. Repentance must take place because the Lord

has convicted them. Repentance must take place because you long

for the holiness and the presence of the Lord, and

so on. And that's why being baptized as a witness.

Baptized is just a declaration of the witness that you've

seen in your life has happened. Yeah, I like the

way this oracy when I went to his compound, uh

some somewhere in the hall he We have visited the

place a number of times with the Then one day

he said, Hani mas ayah. I said, I said, uh, mama,

sort of patiosus Mama so aa, I said, oh my,

so i of baptism. Okay, yeah, a bit a bit,

a bit blur a bitter. So then I said, zeppa Siah.

Then TIGGERINSI okay, okay, so yes, every pended sudha. Then

they he said, they're all these, all the all the

images and whatever they have. And I said, I said, okay,

where where is the place? Is it the river there?

And the river there's a platform. Okay, it's quite deep.

So I said, no, I'm not going in it. Too deep.

I cannot swimmer. So there was another puzzle game. I

say you you thought, yeah, okay, you go inside that.

But actually there's a platform there. So they all went in.

The four guys went inside there. And then then this

I saw this too, but he was laughing away, say

hey yeah, yeah, yeah, my mind. So I said, your witness,

come on a say yes sah yeah, but yes it too.

It can digil. There's a lost humor of hope. Where

he said that. I couldn't help Marvin. I said, goodness

or thank you Lord, thank you Lord for the fish. Yeah,

and they all advertise it odd. Yeah. So when when

you actually see the outcome of the visitation of Holy Spae,

they're all recorded for you in except the two verse

forty two to forty seven, in Except four, verse thirty

two to thirty seven. Yeah, these are things are happening

among the long couple people and so on. And as

we begin to realize for the for the church at

that time, when Jesus rose again, they doubted the fearful, hopeless,

et cetera. It seems like all dogs were cast out,

born to place, all fears will diminished. They could stand up.

And when you're told not to preach about Jesus in

accept four, verse twenty, he says, you know we cannot help,

but shared I appreach the things Ah that were seen

and heard, and this is you and I have you seen?

Have you heard? Have you experienced? If that's what it is,

then we need to carry on to speak that and

the Lord will bring to his power signs and won days.

In March of the sixteen, verse twenty, he says, when

Jesus say, go and preach the gospel, and these are

the things that happened. You read from verse fifteen right

up to verse verse nineteen in verse twenty, the scripture

records for us they went everywhere to share the good news.

Obedience they heard, they obeyed, and because they obeyed with

the preaching we talk about the good news system. We

sank now the good news. And then what happened the

Lord working with them with the proclamation of the word

was science miracles. Miracles are not the focus, but miracles

will help them understand that. Yes, Lord, this is what

you're doing, even in our medicine, Solan. And it is

just like in Execuel tip twenty seven, the Lord used

Ezequiel to give us a picture of the state of

affairs in the among the children of his words. They were,

in example, they've lost all hope. They never dreamed they

could go back anymore. But then again, you see when

when that happened, then the Lord brought him and he says,

this vision is a value of the dry bones in

Execul tip to thirty seven and verse one fourteen, and

in the venue dry bones. And he brought me there,

and the exequel say, I saw, yeah, so many bones

all dried up there and so on, And the Lord

asked him this question, son of men, can these bones live?

And what did the Lord say, the lots? Can these

bones leave? And I answered the Lord, oh, sovereign Lord,

only you know, So the focus is on the Lord,

not on the bones, because the bones can live, because

only you know. In verse eleven of Ezekiel thirty seven,

he says, you know when when when the Lord told

him to prophesy, then then this this was the command,

he said, you know, this was what they say. That

means those who are all dead bones, all lying there already.

This is what they used to say. He said, you know,

we we are dried up. We are there's no hope,

and we're cut off. That's why we need revival. If

you are dried up, the Lord wants to refresh you.

If you are if you if you come into a

situation where you have no hope, hope comes only from God. Yeah.

In Romans of the fifteen, verse thirteen, he says, made

the God of hope, grant you joy and peace as

you trust him and overflow with hope by the power

the Holy Spirit. You read it, it's said in Romans

fifteen thirteen. So as there's no hope, yeah, there's no

hope means you're cut off. Now reconnect and that's why

when when when when the when the Lord spoke to Ezekiel,

he says, oh, only you know, then speak speak to

the bones, prophesied with the bone. So the word, the

powerful word of God. Get back to the word, get

back to the to what God is saying to you,

Get back to all that He's going to speak to

you so dearly and so on. Yeah, the word is

so important. Yeah, it's not a focus on just reading

the word. No, is a focus of saying that the

word of God is not only just word of God,

is word of life. And when you read in Book

of Acts, he says, and the word increase and the

word grew Why because people were touched by the word

of God. And I say to you, that's what it is.

This guy who used to be condemned, prisoner, and so on.

And he says, I have only twenty three hours. I say,

what you mean twenty three hours? Because one day twenty

four hours, one hour I can come out and walk.

After that I must twenty three hours in my cell.

I said, then what do you do this? Someone gave

me a Bible. I read, I read, I read, I said,

did you understand said fallen. For many times, I don't

I don't know what it is. Yeah, and I don't

know why I'm reading. But I suppose that's the only

book I have to read. So how many times you read?

Many times? I read and read and read. And one

day I saw this word, seek the Lord and he'll

be found. And I saw the Lord. I said, Lord,

I don't know what this means. If I believe in

this word, it means true, and make it true in

my life. And then he came to know the law

by himself. And not only that, he wrote in a cell.

I said, where do you go? In? Right there? For

what he said, so that the next guy can see. Man.

So he keep writing, writing, writing all that. No, and

then no need that. Then the toies, rainy, I'm free now,

they said, you you got met ready? I saw a maazola.

That's what they say, and so but true. One day,

at his last appeal, three judges as a prosecutor, what

what are the changes. He's been condemned to death already,

this is an appeal, he said, we drop all charges.

He's today, he's all being on he said. Then the judge, well,

he's standing here. You're free now, how free my things

in the prison. See take the agib out, come on.

But they did bring him back, and so yeah, long

story shot. Yeah, today's she's saving the Lord. He he

attended tumbling, but every day he's a tiktoking every day.

TikTok me. Yeah, I said, stop talking me. I'm a

believer already, TikTok other people. Yeah, so I want to

say to you, Yeah, amazing things happen when, yeah, revival

takes place. So it's sannamon, can these woman's leave only

you know? Then the Lord says, prophesy over the bones,

use a word. Then when when there was some movement

and so on, but you know they all still bud,

We're all skeletons, all right, clear away, he said, speak

breath into the met And then in verse eleven, he says,

when that has happened, you know what happened the whole place,

It became a vast arm. So there's a mission. God

doesn't bring revival just like that. He brings revival so

that not only the spirit is present, not only the

word is known, not only his voice is heard, is

so that we can move on. Actious. This is what

God wants you to do. This is what God is

saying to you. Yeah, even as you move on, even

as he speaks to you. You know, when this guy,

when I first met him, he came to know the Lord.

But then something happened. I didn't see him for some time,

and then I heard he was hospitalized. And he was

in the hospital and he has a very strange blood

disease which the doctors don't even know what to do.

And as he was lying there, his friends called me.

He said, Passer, what do we do? I say, what's happening.

He's in a coma. Oh cooma, oamar. All the tubes

are and the doctor said, Er, I think very soon.

Better take him home, better to die at Homer. That's

what happened. So they didn't take him. They said, I

remember you said, Passer, you said these words in joints

of the sixth verse sixty three. Jesus said these words,

the spirit gives life, the flesh counts for nothing. The

words said, I speak a life and spirit. So I said, yeah,

I did. So what are you going to do? Well?

One of us have this idea? I say, is it

your idea or somebody's idea? No? Is the Holy Spirit?

Tell us? I said, what the Holy spit tell you

from nine pm to six am, read all the words

of Jesus. Why because in a comma you can hear,

you can hear the word of God. So then they

asked me, canna, I said, I didn't tell you to do.

It's a holy spirit told you, so he must follow

lor don't follow me, follow holy Spirit. Okay. So they started.

They took their own turn. Day one, day two, day three,

day four. By the time day five or eady, doctor

said a time to take him home and then he

said no, No, They continued. They continued, they continued. By

the day nine, something happened. The guy reading already lost

all hope, wondering what's going to happen, And then there

was a stirring. He thought, oh, maybe this last breath today,

and then he started. He tried to get up, he

tried to sit up, he tried to stand up. He said.

Then he called the medical person. I said, this guy

stood up and wow, and in his incubator day he's

telling them I heard every word that he spoke. I

heard Jesus words, and I saw Jesus. And he says,

go back and tell the people. Within the week it

was his charge within three months. With three months, I

went to interview him. He told me all these things

and says, so, what are you going to do about it?

He says, this is what he said, And I want

to say to you as in conclusion, there's no reason

why I should not follow him all the way. You

want revival, That's what happened. You want revival, You need

to hear God's word. You need you need to hear

what God is saying to you. You want revival, get

back to the Word because it is a word of life,

all right. That's why. That's why Paul wrote to Timothy.

Do you know that all scriptures is inspired by God?

It is positible for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, and

for training in righteousness. About Verse seventeen says, so that

the man of God. It means you are that man

of God that God is set aside. You will be

fully thoroughly equipped. In other words, we need to be equipped.

We need to be equipped with a word which we

need to be to be filled with the spirit and

be moved as God wants to do. And as you

read these very words from Hybaco, then let me just

end know with this I have heard about you, Lord,

Are you hearing him? The fresh word needs a comer.

I am feeled with awe by your amazing words. Are

you in awe of fear of His holiness? In the

time of our need? Revive us, Lord, we are desperate.

Our condition may not be dry bones like this, but

we're dry. Our condition may not be cut off, but

we are. We feel cut off. Lord, revive us so

that we have hoped in you and no nean.

Just revive reaviv us now so that means a desperation

needs to be there, and in your anger, yes, unfair, repent.

So that you'll be here and be made whole. I

want to challenge you, brothers and sisters. You may say, oh, well,

that's amazing message. Maybe hopefully it is what I want

to say to you. It is not about me. It's

not about the message is about what the Lord has

spoken to you. You didn't come this morning just to

listen to a message. You came to be transformed by

the spirit. You came so that when you leave this

place people will experience amazing touch of God that they

have had beginning in a house in a household. And

I like this guy who used to be an extremist

when he came to know the Lord. He said, do

you know the first person that noticed that I know

Jesus is my wife because I treated her. I did

it like an object. When I say when she did

something nice, I said, thank you so young? My wife

told me you've got mad. It's good to go mad

for Jesus. Yeah, that's how young people are. You all

use a lot of ecronyms. I cannot said, this is

the one young people. The window came me, come back, pastor,

we're all mad. I said, what did the speakers say

to you? Yeah, he told us we're all mad Christians.

I said, what is mad Christians? What does it mean?

He said, you're not mad for Jesus. Huh, m Ad

means make a difference a pastor you don't know? Are

Oh how come you don't know? I said, But so

do you think I'm meant or not say you're not?

You're mad? Pastors? All, So let me just close its.

I appeal to you from Romans steps of twelve US one.

I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, that you present

your body as a living sacrifice. God is not interested

in dat. People. Homer people God is interested in those

that were be alive in Him so that it will

be an acceptable worship to you.

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