Revival - What does it mean? | Elder Terence Atkinson

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The title of today's message is revival. What does it mean?

So if you've seen that, you see I'm very bad

at art. Okay, I'm very bad, but I tried. You

see the dream, I thought, wow, this is pretty good

dream and then revival, And actually what I should have

done is I should have also put d I should

have put a dream and revival because the second one

is activated. Okay, first one is activated discipleship. Now this

year revival is activated. And of course you know what

E means, right, evangelism? Do you know that evangelism and

revival go hand in hand? So yeah, let's move forward

and we'll discover it as we go along. I want

you to know there is a meaning for the word revival,

and the dictionary describes us as this an important an

improvement in the conditioned strength of fortunes or someone or something.

So how many of you need this kind of revival

in your life? Praise the Lord the few honest ones,

So put your hands up. May the Lord give to

you even as you have desired. Okay, yeah, it's true.

We all you.

Know covered this kind of revival in our lives. It

is also an instance or something becoming popular, active or important.

Again.

Do you remember Ebba, the Ebber the father, but the

Ebber the singing group. Do you know that in the

eighties eb was a bad word? You know why anyone

who said that they like Ebb the music? People say, wow,

what's wrong with you? It was like, yeah, no class,

you know, it's like low standard. But then came Mama

Mire and suddenly ever became fashionable again. All right, so

it is something that becomes important again. It is well,

this is the dictionary explanation, a reawakening of religious fervor,

especially by means of evangelistic meetings.

All right, So revival, So.

This is what the world thinks revival is all right

because the word the word is being described in a dictionary.

But the word of God has its own meaning, all right,

It has its own understanding. And in the biblical sense,

revival is God restoring spiritual life, awakening believers and renewing devotion, pentance,

and obedience. I had a problem with this word revival

all my Christian life because I heard this revival is coming.

Revival is coming.

And we talked about the great tent revivals. Well, these

happened in other countries, the great tent Revivals of the fifties,

or the Great Revival that happened in Sarawah, you know,

or the great revivals that happened in Indonesia where hundreds

and hundreds and hundreds or not thousands of people.

Came to the Lord.

And you're not in my mind like you imagine, Wow,

suddenly huge crowds gathering together for revival.

And this is my idea of revival.

And I always thought, I mean, when it was prophesied,

revival is coming, Revival is coming. And I'm in my

head thinking when is it going to come? When is

this thing happening? I don't see people giving their lives

to the Lord by the hundreds and the thousands, so

and for years and years. Okay, I became a Christian

in the late seventies. All right, that's now forty five

years or you know, forty seven years ago.

How many of you have heard.

Things like that, and you've been waiting and waiting and waiting.

I mean, okay, you are too young. Because the eighties

are all these preachers that came out, Revival is coming.

Revival is coming, and yeah, and when is this revival

going to come? Right? Then the Lord.

Gave me an understanding. Look, it was always there, just that,

now only I understand. Okay, he gave me an understanding

of what revival actually meant. Many people confuse revival with

evangelism Number one me but they are completely different. Evangelism

is when lost people get saved. Revival is when saved

people get awakened. Now I ask this question, how many

of us need revival?

That's it? You see.

See, Revival was never about the millions of people coming

to the Lord. Revival was always about we having a

reawakening in us spirit. And then someone say, oh, that's

not true. Look at the Book of Acts, Wow, five thousand,

three thousand. When did they come to the Lord? They

came to the Lord only after the disciples were revived

by the power of the Holy Spirit. So when did

evangelism come before or after revival of the heart took place?

So actually, now I understand why dream dream, which is discipleship,

revival is evangelism. When does evangelism come after revival? You see,

I always thought revival was for somebody else. How many

of us thought that way? Can I can I see

if you were that, I'm the only one. So we thought,

or I thought revival was for somebody else. I did

not understand. Revival was for me. I needed revival. See,

you want the thousands to come to the Lord. It

has to start. Where does it start? It starts with.

Us.

So my spirit needed to get awakened. Now, you could

also take it in the sense that, yeah, thousands of

people came to the Lord, because in a real sense,

everyone born has the spirit of God, has the spirit

of God giving them life. So when they come into

a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, their spirit

is being revived.

You could take it like that. You could also take

it like that.

But really, revival is us changing first. So how can

we be personally involved with revival? Do you and I

want to be involved in revival? We should, We should

want the spirit of God to revive us to the

point that we are always doing what God wants us

to do. Hey, how many of you want to be

blessed all the days of your life? Do you think

you can be blessed all the days of your life

doing what you want to do?

Because you want to do it.

I'm here to tell you that after forty seven years

in the Lord. Uh, yeah, after forty seven years in

the Lord.

It doesn't work that way.

You want to live a good and great life, it

only comes when you.

Are doing what God tells you to do.

You are only successful when you are doing what God

tells you to do. What that means I got to

hear the Lord, yes, Because if you don't hear from

the Lord, you know what you'll be doing. You'll be

doing what you want to do. What you want to

do is fine, it's fifty to fifty.

You know what that means.

It can turn out for good and it can turn

out for bad. But when God is involved and when

he tells you what to do, it can only go

one way, one hundred percent victory because God's in it

all right.

So how to be personally involved with revival? Now? The

responsibility is ours?

You know, the responsibility for revival hasn't to do it,

how great the preacher is, It hasn't to do it,

how powerful your pastor is. It hasn't to do it.

What a great church you belong to. Revival happens because

you take the trouble to make it your responsibility. There

was a revival in the university in the US, maybe

a couple of years back.

You know how the.

Revival takes place. Took place The students got together, started praying.

You know what they did. They took responsibility. They took responsibility.

And because they came together and started to pray, guess

what happened. A revival took place and outpouring of the

Holy Spirit so much so that because they lifted up

the name of Jesus, people were drawn to that place

and a great thing happened. Lives were changed. You want

to see that happen in your lives. It can, it will,

but you see the reason. Perhaps it hasn't taken place,

or it doesn't take place because we are waiting for

somebody else to do. It doesn't work that way. It's

your responsibility. You start revival where you are. I will

if we go on, you'll get to see that revival

doesn't only mean the thousands. Revival also means the one

or the two that is also revival.

You gotta get with the program. You gotta understand what

the Lord is meaning.

Okay, now I'm going to be using a scripture not

necessarily really involved with this, but it is to give

you an understanding. So it is our responsibility. If you

remember in scripture, we're talking way back in One Samuel

chapter fifteen.

This was when.

Samuel told the newly elected or newly appointed Saul what

he had to do. He was told, rich, this land,

of this gods and this cows and this king, completely

get rid of them. Why because they were an abomination

before the Lord. The Lord had given him an instruction

to do. Now Saul decided to.

Him.

You see, you always have a choice when God tells

you to do something. You always have a choice. Do

I listen to God or do I listen to my self?

Now Saul listened to himself. So what he did was

he destroyed Ah, whatever, whatever, whatever, But he kept the God,

he kept sheep, and he did not destroy the king.

And it offended the Lord. We better learn something. You

want revival to happen in your life. Let's stop offending

the Lord. You know how we offend the Lord when

we do not listen to him and do not do

what he tells us to do. The instruction Who appointed Saul?

Did Saul appoint himself or God specially choose him? Do

you know that God has specially chosen each and every

one of us. You know how you know that, for

by grace you saved that of not of yourself, the

free gift of God. He predestined us to be children

of the Lord. Now I've explained his word predestined. It

doesn't simply mean oh, God only shows you. You you

what I means. God is unfair. I didn't choose that person. No,

God has predestined one hundred percent everybody is to be

his child and to get safe. It's your choice whether

you want to accept it or not. So you accept it.

Praise the Lord. You have accepted his predestination. Those that

have rejected it have rejected his predestined will.

That's what he means.

So now we have Saul, who takes medisine to its

own hands. He doesn't do exactly what the Lord has

told him, all right? So in One Samuel fifteen nineteen,

Samuel comes up to him and says, Saul.

Why didn't you do what I told you to do?

Why did you not obey?

Don't ever let God ever come up to us and

say why did you do what you want to do?

Why did you not obey?

Usually, when the Lord tells us that it means we're

so far off and we're in trouble.

We're in trouble.

You know, God doesn't leave us without a response, and

that is that if we do do such a thing,

it's not the end.

We can turn things around.

So the first thing that Samuel comes up to say,

what is this?

I hear the bleeding of sheeps.

And Samuel sorry, Samuel, and Samuel's very upset with Saul.

Why did you do such a thing? Let's not be

in that position. Remember it's the responsibility is ours.

So then.

You gotta understand what the scripture said. Do you know

why Saul did it? Because Saul wanted to honor himself.

You read it in since scripture just above in the

beginning part of US one Sevenuel fifteen. Saul did what

he wanted to honor himself. Guys, I know someone who

wanted to honor himself. You know what happened to him?

He was thrown out of heaven.

Who was he?

Lucifer? He wanted honor for himself. We got to learn

when we want honor for ourselves? Are we falling into

that category?

Always? Remember revival starts here. Yeah.

So now the second thing we got remember his contriteness.

What is contriteness. Contriteness is having a desire, having the

spirit of being sorry and and and uh, you know,

repenting of what you have done. You know what does

actually uh soul say?

But soul said, but I did obey?

What? Samuel confronted him, and he responds with, but I

did obey?

What?

How many of us respond to God that way? But

I did what you told me? How come nothing has happened?

Have you ever seen that?

To the Lord? I confess I have you see, Saul said,

I'm sorry, but I did obey. That was so fake?

You know, God can tell when we are fake. Sorry.

Look at David. Okay, now David did an even more

evil thing. I mean, Saul just didn't kill some sheep. Okay,

what did David do? He stold somebody's wife and he

murdered a husband. And when Nathan, I think it was

the prophet Nathan, came up to him and say, you've

done wrong.

You know what? Do you know what David said? I

have sin? I'm sorry? Lord? You see he said, I'm sorry.

Saul said, I'm sorry.

What was the difference between Saul sorry and David sorry?

Saul sorry? Was but I did oh way, what David

sorry was I'm sorry? Then he repented. There was a consequence,

and you know, David was sorry because he wore a

sackcloth and ashes when the consequence of his sin came

to line. But the moment the consequence was over, he

anointed himself. He cleansed himself. And you know what God

says of David, a man after my own heart. Hey,

can't we read between the lines?

What is a.

Person that is after God's heart? Someone who is truthful

with the Lord? Hey, we all make mistakes. Go up

to the Lord and tell it like it is.

God.

I did it because I liked it. God, I did it,

and I can't stop. God, I did it.

I'm so sorry.

If you mean it in your heart, when you apologize

to the Lord, he will forgive.

See.

That's the difference. Saul wasn't like that. Saul was fake.

I'm sorry, but I did ob I'm sorry. Can you

image the difference that I can imagine? That's how he

told Samuel, I'm sorry, it's okayutely, forget about it.

Is that right? Is that the right use of the

word okay, okay, thank you. Contriteness ownership.

One of the key components about being contrived before the Lord.

One of the key.

Components about asking the lord forgiveness. One of the key

components is you know what it is to take ownership

for what you've done. It's not somebody else. That person

didn't make the mistake because of somebody else.

It's us. If you make a mistake, don't blame somebody else.

Take ownership. You know, when I was leading a group

of people before I retired, if something went wrong, I

refused to say that person did it, much to my detriment.

Sometimes I would say sorry, I should have known better,

because it is my responsibility.

The people are under me. But you know, have you

seen in the world.

I have seen where there are some people who take

no ownership. It's always somebody else's fault. You very easy

to support somebody like that, you know, in leadership, very easy.

To spot somebody like that. You know how you spot

like that.

The company is like a turnpike, people coming and going

because nobody will stay under someone who's a bad boss.

Well, are you blame this person?

You blame that person will leave, next person come, the

same thing will happen. That is the easiest way to spot.

But you know what.

People without the Lord don't have discernment. So you have

some bosses who do not have discernment and do think

the world. All of such bosses, such such leaders. God's

not like that. God sees straight through the heart. So

you see what Saul did after he said I have sin,

he is acknowledging that he did wrong. But even that

was insincere because then he said I was afraid of

the men. What did the men got to do with it?

Did he build a monument in the man's honor?

He built a.

Monument you read, for his own honor, and now he's

blaming the men. So you can see it was insincere. Hey,

God can see through us. You want revival that happened

in your heart. Don't let God see through you that way.

If he has to see through you, say yeah, the

guys genuine a man after my own heart. God will

forgive you whatever you've done. I mean, if we can,

If we can forgive a murdering, a doubterer that like David,

how many of us fall into that, And don't put

up your hands. We don't murder, and we don't we're

not want not into adultery. And the Lord forgives us. Guys,

you gotta understand, we have to understand. Take ownership.

That's how revival takes place in your heart.

Take ownership. Character character. You want to have good character.

You gotta see through what you've done. Look at Saul

in one Semuel thirty, it's fifteen thirty A right, I

think that the fifteen is missing there?

Sorry for that again, he says, Second timer, I have sin.

He says that I have seen.

Then the true motive of his heart comes out again.

But please go back with me, Please honor me. You see,

Saul was more concerned about his own face. He was

not concerned about God's face. That was the difference between

David and Saul. You see, if God allowed David to

get away with it, it would have been a slap on

God's face. But David didn't do that. He acknowledged his

sin and he repented, and God did what he needed

to do. There is always a consequence. David went through

that consequence. He survived. Not only did he survive, he

prospered after that. But look at Saul, honor me, He said,

come back with me. I know I've sin, but come

in honor me. Very devilish Actually that was actually very

demonic of him because that was the devil straight. Uh,

that was exactly the devil straight. So you know what

happened to Saul in the end. So the first thing

you got to remember about having revival happen in your

heart is it is our responsibility. The second thing we

want to know, we need to know for revival to

take place, is share what you know.

God expects us to share what we know.

He doesn't expect us to talk about something we have

no understanding of, but he expects us to share our testimony.

He expects us.

To share our experience.

I tell you a funny story. Well, I don't know

where it's funny or not. It happened yesterday. So in

my house, right above my master bed, you know the ceiling,

in the middle of the night, certainly loud noise like

somebody's playing drums, like somebody was playing drums, though it

sounded like toms and cymbals all going at one time.

And it's so loud and so heavy that my two dogs,

all right, Nallah and Macie, would start bucking and getting

so disturbed and whining. And of course when all this

is happening, how to sleep seriously, you cannot sleep.

Now.

I thought it was a mussan, you know, because my

area we do have mussang. So I thought there must

have been a mussang in the ceiling. Now, how many

of you would set traps in the ceiling. Don't ever

set traps in the ceiling. If you forget about it,

trap and you catch it and it dies, then you

have smell and you go worms and you got all

these kind of things right now, you don't want bad, don't.

So what I decided to do was go into the roof. Yeah,

me go into the roof and put lights. Yeah, you

put lights, you know, because when you hear the activity,

you just turn on the light.

They run away.

They don't catch them, they run away, they don't come back.

They come back, You turn on the light again and

then they run away. Okay, that was the planner to

put lights in the roof. First you have the plan

in your head, then you have reality check. The reality

is a few years ago. I've been in the roof

so many times. I've done plumbing work, lighting, I did

so many things in the roof. Again, that was until

I reached this age. At this age, my knee it's

not exactly strong. In fact, it's very weak.

Right now, I can walk straight. All that is fine.

Sitting down, getting up is tough.

Navigating the staircase is tough because my knee is giving trouble.

So anyway, I put the ladder. If I bought a

new letder to go into the roof. Now you know

one of those times you just puller. You know it's

flat and then you just pull it goes up. Okay,

so it saves a lot of space. So I put

this ladder, opened the ceiling board. Then I went up

as far as I could go until here. Then I

looked around and what I usually could do is hold

the beam and pull myself up. This time my leg

can a movement holding the beam trying to okaynot go.

So this is not going to happen. I was not

going to make it into the roof.

And while I was there standing and watching everything, because

I had a light on.

Okay, there's a light I put.

I put a light on my hand, you know like

how they see, you know, movies, one hand.

So I'm sitting there, look I mean not sitting.

I'm standing in the roof and right up there, and

then I'm looking around and then I see the culprit.

Of the noise, A big fat rat.

Yeah, the rats body itself must have been about six

seven inches, not counting the tail.

And this rat was not afraid of me.

I'm in the roof at least up to here, and

then the rat just looks at me and just moves across.

I'm thinking to myself, this is my house. How dare

you do that?

You are the one who's giving me trouble all the time,

big fat rat. Now, in case you do not know

how my house, rats cannot come into the house because

I seal everything of Cocklages cannot come in, snakes cannot

come in, insects cannot come in. I use all the best

things so that none of these things. But the roof

is another story, okay, because you know you got access

from that sewage pipe that goes to the sea. There

are other ways that these rats come in. So I

thank God, how is it that I'm going to solve

this problem. I can't get in the roof, not anymore.

I can't even lift my legs, so I cannot get

in to seal the problem, to solve it. Then the

Lord gave another idea, said, don't worry about it. All

you need to do is make a small hole in

this corner, run a wire. You can run the wire

behind the cable. All that put it so it's okay,

it's fine. And so I said, thank you Lord. So

I did that, made the whole random wire, put the

plug point. I got plug point in my roof and

a ceiling plug points. Because the first thing that happens

is I put the light. If that doesn't work, I'm

gonna put a buzzer.

Again.

So anyway I put these things came down says turn

it on, halloljah.

It worked.

So in the nighttime, I shut off all the lights

in my bedroom and I turned on the light in

the ceiling and then you can see light escaping through

the small holes or.

Cracks or whatever.

It looks like a nice you know, like one of

these things you go to see nice nice lights in

the ceiling.

That's what it looks like. Anyway, what I want you

to know about this is.

You don't need to do something you're not able to

do to see revival happen.

God can give us ideas.

God can help us to share what we know to

see somebody else blessed in this case, I felt that

my idea was a complete failure because I couldn't get

into the roof to do it.

And I was so sad.

I went to the Lord, and the Lord gave me

another idea and I did it and it worked. Share

what you know, and for this I want to move

to Two Kings. If you read Two Kings, chapter seven,

it talks about Israel being besieged by the Syrians king

by King Aram, all right, and he was besieged. Israel

was besieged, besieged meaning that the king had circled them.

There was no access to food and water, and they

were struggling. And Elisha the prophet Elishah, said, don't worry.

God's going to take care of it. Don't worry, It's

all taken care of. God can handle the situation. Do

you know that God can handle every situation of ours,

irrespective of how difficult it may be. Hey, we can

be in the center, we can be dying, we can

be besieged by the world around us, trying to choke us,

trying to remove all success from us, trying to take

away food and water and our security. But God can

break through all of that. You say, because God's hand

is not shortened. You see, there's a world around us.

We cannot reach beyond the wall. But you see it's

God inside the wall. Where's God. God's in heaven. From heaven,

he can reach anywhere. There's nothing he cannot do for us.

You and I got to understand it. So here we

have Elishah, and what he did was he prophesied and say,

you don't worry. God's going to take care of this.

What is your problem today? What situation you're facing today?

You mean a say in revival as handling of your problem.

You better believe it, because with the presence of the

Lord coming into your heart, no difficulty can sustain or retain.

So here we see the king and the Israelites in

that inside that place, fearful, troubled, distraught. The word of

the Lord came from Elisha the prophet say don't worry,

it's going.

To be okay.

But they still continue to doubt, and they could not

see it. Do you know that the word of the

Lord will come to pass in your life.

Whether you see it or whether you don't.

What matters to us is what is the word of

the Lord that he intends for us? Some you can

make happen. Some just are there. Some of you God

chooses some of you. God chooses to let his glory

be seen in you. When that happens, usually some difficulties

come your way. Do not give up, because difficulties come

not to destroy you, but to build your character. Difficulties

come to make you a shining light to those who

will need that leading and guidance in the future. And

that kind of character comes when God develops you, because

he knows you can take it all.

Right.

So now the story goes on that there were four lepers,

hm who you know, those with leprosy those days, they

were shunned. Okay, they were not allowed to come into

the city. They were left outside. You know, they were outside.

Nobody wants to touch them, nobody wants to disturb them.

You just be all yourself and I'll be myself. That

kind of thing.

So these four leapers come to the gate, and then

they say to themselves.

What did they say? They said to one another, we're

sitting here and till we die. Are we going to

do that?

This is and two Samuel seven, verse three, and then

verse eight it says this.

The lepers.

Before that the Leopods decide why don't we just go

to the enemy's camp.

You know, worst comes to the worst.

They kill us, which is okay, even though they may

just give us something to you, which is also okay.

One way or the other, we'll be okay. This is

what they said to them. So so they went to

the camp and guess what happens. Okay, when they came

to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one

of the tents and they ate and they.

Drag while they found food.

God feeds everybody, if you will believe it. So why

does the world suffer from hunger? World suffers from Actually

a lot of those countries that are suffering from hunger

us because evil people are keeping the food from the poor.

You know, they steal the provisions and they sell it

to make money for themselves. You go, and you see,

that's what happened in Ethiopia. You know that we are

the world we are. You know how many millions was collected?

Do you know what happened to those millions? The Ethiopian government.

Evil people in the government did not pass food to

their people, and they kept.

The food for themselves. That's the truth. And when these

lepards came the outskirts.

They went in, they ate and they dragged and gets

what they carried from it, silver and gold and clothing,

and went and hit them. Now, I can never understand

why people who are going to war will carry silver

and gold. I can only think of one reason. Because

they are afraid they keep it behind somebody who will

steal it there, so they take it with them. Soever

they when they took their silver and gold, protecting their property.

I don't know, maybe other reasons.

So anyway, and they came back and entered into ten

and carried some of it also and went and hid it.

So in other words, they were having a great time

being provided for silver, gold, food, drinking out the children

of Israel.

What was happening to them?

They were suffering from hunger and no water and they

were but these four lepers were having the time of year.

So they're really enjoying themselves, you know, like when my

little dog lies on the back and then you're gott

to rub the belly as like that, And they're really

enjoying themselves. Okay, so then they sit to one another

Verse nine, we are not doing right. This day is

a day of good news, and we remain silent Look,

we are the lepers that God has provided for. We

are the rejected people that God has provided for. God

has provided us with silver and gold and food. And

we eat of the fat of the lad because God

has been good to us. But you see revival in

your heart takes place. Why when you come to thisunderstanding,

we are not doing right keeping this good news to ourselves.

How many have you been saved? And how many of

you tell people you've been saved? Wasn't this good news

for you? But if we refuse to share it because

we are afraid of being rejected, right, we are afraid

of what people will think of us. So we're so

worried about what people think of us, like Saul who

wanted a monument built in his honor rather than God.

What God thinks of us? Look at these four people.

If we wait until morning light, some punishment will come

upon us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the

king's household.

For us.

It should mean that if we keep good news to

us for a long time, God's not pleased. The Bible says,

go into the world, preach the gospel, making the disciples

right a noow Matthew twenty eight. So are we preaching

the gospel. What is preaching the gospel? Telling somebody the

good news? Telling somebody about Jesus? I mean the photocopy.

A guy comes into my office and tells me his

son was in hospital. I tell him, bring the boy

to church. We can pray he will be all right.

Or why don't you come and learn about Jesus because

Jesus loves you and loves your child. I shared with

him first time. I'm meeting him first time. I'm sharing

Jesus with him. You know why, I'm getting over the

fear of people telling me I'm not interested? You see,

because when they tell me they are not interested, they're

not telling me that they're telling God they're not interested.

So I let them handle it with God. For me,

I will do what God tells me to do. Share

the word.

Do not be.

Like I would say, be like these leperds who said

it's not good for us to keep it to us,

as we got to share it.

So they went and they called the gatekeepers. You see,

revival happened to them.

Now revival is going to happen to other believers. Okay,

they went and they call the gatekeepers and said and

told him when he went to the Syrian camp. Surprisingly,

no one was there, not a human sound, only horses

and donkeys tied and the tents intact.

Guys, look at this, What did they tell? Did they tell?

Oh?

You know, there was a great noise and the people ran. No,

they didn't.

They just swean and told them what they knew. God

only expects us to tell what we know. God had

taken care of all that. They didn't know what God did.

They only knew what they saw and what they experienced. Guys,

you don't need to tell what somebody else experience. Just

tell how God is in your life. So it doesn't

seem spectacular. So what.

Not?

All of us have spectacular lives. Sometimes God gives you

a normal life so that somebody normal can come to

know of the Lord.

Did you think of that? Guys?

Then the people went out and plundered the ten of

the Syrians, so that the sear of fine flowers sold

for a shekel to see us a balley for a shekel.

According to the word of the Lord. I want you

to know this revival first happened with believers, and from

believers to believers. And how does evangelism take place? You

share what you know, which is why evangelism comes after revival,

because revival is for you and for me. The Bible says,

when we lift up the name of Jesus, he draws

all men unto himself. You know why lifting up the

name of just maybe because we are not lifting up

the name of Jesus. So when we get revived, suddenly

we are reviving. We are lifting up the name of Jesus.

It causes something fantastic to happen and people are drawn.

That's what happened.

To the apostles when they were revived by the power

the Holy Spirit. And only then when they went out,

the people came by the thousands. So we talk about

revival in the land, revival with who, revival with the

believers that caused evangelism to take place. You see what

you're saying, what I'm saying. No, But we are thinking

revival is evangelism and we need to see the people

save in order for our lives to change.

No, no, no, is the other way wrong.

Let's take responsibility. Let's trust the Lord.

Okay.

And the last thing we got to know is you

gotta believe. You have to believe, you have to believe

that God can use you. But without faith, it's impossible

to please him. For He is who he who comes

to God must believe that he is, and that He

is a reward of those that diligent is he came

Hebrews eleven six. Hey, you want God to be pleased

with you, you have to believe in him. Believe in

God is the most basic of all human human considerations.

You know that, you know it's the most basic. Acknowledged

Acknowledgment of God is foundational to learning any more about Him.

Without believing in God, it is impossible to please him.

The basic thing is for our spirit to get close

to God again. It longs for God, for the wrath

of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and

unrighteousness of men who suppressed truth in unrighteousness, because what

may be known of God is manifest in them, and

God has shown it to them, the wrath of God.

For since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes

are clearly seen, being understood by all things that are made,

even his external power and the God had so that

they are without excuse. I will explain this because although

they knew God, they did not glorify him as God.

Nor were they thankful, but became futile in their thoughts,

and their foolish charts were darkened. Professing to be wise,

this world profess itself to be wise. But you know what,

the world has become a fool. This is what scripture says. Okay,

and change the glory of the incorrupt, incorruptible God into

an image made by corruptible men, of birds and four

footed animals and creeping things.

People are surrounded with proof of God's existence. We are you.

Just look into the heavens. You can see the greatness

of glory of God. And it is only through the

hardening of sin that men reject the proof. This is

in Romans. All that I read is from Romans one,

verses eighteen to twenty three. Why do I say this?

This world today thinks they're very smart, they think they're

very wise, and what did they do?

They become fools, absolute fools.

There's a story in Facebook about this man giving birth

to three babies, three children.

Just because you.

Take male hormones and grow a mustache doesn't make you

a man if you have the female parts. So I

put their nice try. Nowadays, I'm a little bit vocal

about this. I put their nice try. In fact, I

had some disagreements with some family members overseas over things

like this. I said, your delusion is yours to bear,

but do not project your delusion of understanding upon somebody

else who doesn't see it the way you do.

See.

I see a man as a man and a woman

is a woman. Just because a man dresses as a

woman doesn't make me doesn't force me to call him

a her, like in some countries you must do. That's

their foolishness, it's not mine. This is what description. When

you reject God, you become foolish in your thoughts. You

go wrong, you go off. So when you ask why

are they like that? Why is the world like that today?

Because they are rejecting God, don't you know what is happening?

The scene is being set up for the return of

Jesus Christ. All this is prophesied in scripture. We better

get with the program. So this is something, This is

nothing you God already said this was gonna happen. We're

just seeing it happen before our eyes.

The fool.

In verse fourteen, it says the fool. This is Psalms

fourteen one, The fool has said in his heart there

is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works,

and there's none that does good. It is foolish to

disbelieve in God.

So, as Christians, you say, this can't happen to us.

I'll end with this.

Just after Jesus had died, and then he was buried,

and then there was news of him resurrecting, there were

two men who were walking away from the action. They

were walking to a mouse. The Jerusalem was behind them.

They were headed to emounts, and Jesus appeared with them,

but they didn't know it was Jesus and this and

Jesus AS's already talking about and they said, don't you

know what has happened? You know all these things that happened,

And there's this good man, it's good profit and the

Pharisees killed him.

Better da dada.

They were saying all these things. Guys, Jesus had just died,

and they were already walking away. You see, that's believers,

you know, that's us. It wasn't the non believer that

was walking away. It was the believer that was walking away.

So soon after being so called left alone, they're walking

away I hope our faith is not like that that

we walk away. But I want you to know what

revival does for you. So when Jesus broke bread sunny,

the scales fell from their eyes and things, Oh, this

is Jesus, and he left them. And what did they do?

They turned back and headed to Jerusalem. Do you know

what revival in your hearts does? What revival in my

heart does? It realigns our vision and sets us back

on the path we need to go, the path towards Jerusalem,

the path towards a higher faith, the path towards a

higher calling, a path to where God has shown us.

That's the meaning of what Jerusalem. Heading back to Jerusalem,

they're walking away, and when the Lord revivesed their heart,

they turn one hundred and eighty degrees and walk the

other way.

So, guys, let it start with us first in our hearts.

And it's very simple.

Just acknowledge who Jesus is, worship him, be truthful with

the Lord, take responsibility.

Believe in him. It's going to be okay. Let's stand okay.

I I, oh Theyda. I was wondering where you went to.

I know you were coming up, But then I turned

around here where Praise the Lord. Well that's the word

for this morning. I hope you've been blessed.

Revival. Huh, praise the Lord. Let's let's.

Praise the Lord in the song. I want you to

know that when you whenever you hear the name Jesus

in a song, can you emphasize Jesus, Jesus, not Jesus.

That song that we did today, the second song, I think.

It was mm hmm, I know that, I know.

Uh, then I know, And then the chorus says something

about Jesus.

Right, yeah, it does Jesus. You so mean so good

to me? Right, okay? Yeah?

You know when when I was singing that song down there,

the Lord was saying, when you come to the name

of Jesus, are you emphasize it? You sing it out loud.

It does something for your spirit. And from now on,

when you hear the name Jesus in a song, you

cannot just sing it like Jesus.

Emphasize it. Let your spirit jump up.

Is it?

That is the name Jesus in it? It is? Okay?

In a bridge? Correct? Okay? Look, I know.

Usually we sing a slow song, we sing a thoughtful song.

But today can we sing this song okay, and I'll

show you what I mean when we get to that part. Jesus,

you emphasize it all right, with all your mights.

You will sense a difference in the atmosphere.

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