Ready for Revival | PR Jack

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So let's get into this and look into what revival

is again and how we can be ready for it.

So I I'm currently I'm not really reading Jeremiah all right.

I am reading you know a few other books as

well together with the family. You know, we are on

extra right now as a family.

We are.

So that's another revival that we are trying to you know,

that that we believe is happening in a family. We

did talk about, you know, one thing to keep our

devotion as a family going. And so every night now

every night now even though sometimes like tired and almost forgot,

but we say, he read the Bible, right, okay, yeah,

read the Bible. Let's go read the Bible, pray together.

So we are reading the book of Ezra right now

together as a family. We did aim us, you know,

and then we finished with that and someone picked Ezra.

I said, okay, let's read Ezra.

So many times you read go like, we don't really

fully understand everything, but just read, just read, and you

know it's still powerful because we have a glimpse of

you know, whatever is being read.

So that.

But I've been just sticking with Jeremiah, all right, because

I don't you know, whenever I seek God and say

what should I preach about, you know, it seems like

God is saying, just just keep to it right now,

A right, Jeremiah thirty one.

The last time now is thirty two. So but I

find it so amazing.

Every time I look into it, something comes out of it,

and it can and it goes with the theme. So

that's amazing. So let's get into it, all right. So

if you have a Bibles, you know, let's look at

our Bible. Let's read right now. I also have it

on the screen, okay, So here we go, Chapter thirty two,

verse one to three. All right, let's go the word

that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth

year of Zedekiah, King of Judah, which was the eighteenth

year of Nebukenza verse two. At that time, the army

of the King of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah

the prophet was shut up in the court of the

guard that was in the palace of the King of

Judah for Zadekaiah, king of Judah.

So that's his name.

Zedekiah had imprisoned him, saying, why do you prophesy and say,

thus says the Lord. Behold, I am giving this city

into the hand of the King of Babylon, and he

shall capture it Possia.

For a while.

Leave that, let's live on the screen for a while.

So what's happening here Jeremiah? You know, so from the

past chapters he's been talking about, you know, the judgment

and it's coming, the Babylonians are gonna come and uh

take over, uh and uh, you know there will be punishment.

And everyone has been rejecting him. Everyone is like, yeah,

please stop talking like that. Say something nicer, you know,

for us, prophesy, something better, you know. So but but

this is what he heard from the Lord, and he's

just saying it. He's not gonna change anything. So but

this is the it ends up this way. Jeremiah gets

in prisoned by said the Kaya that king why so

because Senekaiah doesn't didn't like what he heard, and uh,

I wanna, you know, speak to us for a while.

Sometimes that's what happens to us as well. We don't

it's like it's as if like we don't like what

we hear, whether from the preacher, whether from your homes leader.

Maybe you huddle. All right, you don't like, uh what

has been mentioned? So and we rather live in denial,

We rather live in lies and deception. All right, Tell

tell me something sweeter to my ear, don't you know?

Don't talk like that? Why is why so strong? Why

you why are you talking about like correcting?

You know, like what? Nothing's wrong with my life? Please

don't speak like that to me? All right? So let

me see I wrote something here.

Yeah, So for example, it's as if you know someone challenging.

Why are you telling me what God wants me to do?

Why are you telling me to serve?

Whoa? Wow?

All right, okay, chiller, all right, I'm not talking about

anyone here in particular, but if you feel it, don't

be angry at me. Ah see, don't try to imprison me.

Don't be exati KaiA. That's what I'm saying. We sometimes

we're like exact kaya. Don't like them, You're like, hi,

shut off. You don't shut the person like shut Jeremiah.

They shut up. That's the word profit was shut up

in the court. Right.

We don't close, but we close our ears maybe not physically.

I don't see anyone doing that. Thank thank you, But

that's what we feel sometimes, right. Why are you saying

like that? Why are you telling me to go? Why

are you telling me to come to homes?

All right? Why are you telling me how God wants

me to live? Right?

Why are you telling me how to live? Why are

you telling me about drinking? Why are you talking to

me about quiet time? Why are you telling me to

come for prayer? Remember I said last week, I said, hey,

you come for prayer, don't come for prayer? Tell someone,

tell your homes leader, be accountable? Why are you telling

me to be accountable? You're serious? Chiller, chill all right.

I'm just saying, okay, yeah, we will feel there's emotions

were human and uh but but I just want to

bring you the word of God.

Amen.

I said, okay, he said okay, yeah, And uh so

this is like zai KaiA right, He's like, I don't

like what this guy's saying. And because he's king, he's

able to do this. He imprisons this guy that don't

talk anymore. You're saying too much, all right, and so

uh let me see what else I wrote here? Why

are you telling me, What is going to happen to

me when I don't obey? Right, Jeremiah was telling Zeddekayah,

if you know, if you don't obey, this is going

what is going to happen?

All right? This is the punishment that's coming. Yeah, all right?

So uh, let's let's let's think about that for a moment. Right,

let's reflect on that. If you have been challenged, you know,

by your leader, you've been challenged by the pastor you've

been you know, asked to do something, are we able

to obey it? Are we able to say? Okay, perhaps

this is from God?

You know? If not, where where else? Who else? Who

else will represent God and speak to me? Right? Great?

If God speaks to you directly, it's good. Okay.

But then if you're not sure, then check check with

you know, someone you see us at least godly right,

who knows the word of God, and say, you know,

I heard this from God and I'm not sure I

want to verify this?

Right, let's talk, but let's hear the word of called.

Are we ready?

So the point there is are we ready for? What

did I write there? Ready?

Slightly? Ready to live in truth?

Are we ready to live in truth, ready for revival,

Ready to live in the truth.

If people tell you the truth, are.

You you feel like you want to imprison them? Do

you feel like you want to rejeck them? You want

to close your ears? Because that will be denial, living

in denial and living in deception in lies.

All right, we okay?

Yeah, So to be ready for revival, we need to

be ready to live in truth. I you know, sometimes

I see some of these conversations that take place around

you know, mostly in the US now, they talk about

you know, gender, they talk about abortion, and it's so

unbelievable just hearing some people speak saying, you know, you know,

the whatever has been formed in the womb, you know,

it's just a clump of cells that's not a baby

like and so what is it? And then the counterability

and then what is it? And then when does it

become a baby? So people are living in deception and denial,

just denying that it's.

Not baby so that I can get rid of it.

Abortion, right, So that's just one how many more other

lies right that people are actually living in because they

push away so that I can have my way, push

the way, push away the truth so that I can

have my way so that I can have my truth. Okay,

So you want to, we want to live, you want to,

we want to be ready for revival.

Let's be ready to live in the truth. Even when

you face persecution, even.

When you face opposition, people will come and you know,

put you down and scold you and shut you down.

But that is the truth, that is the truth. You

will face trouble, We will face trouble. But you know what,

God is good. God is good, God is bigger, God

is stronger, and he can help us.

He will stand with us. He will go through through

the fire with us. Amen.

And they and they will see, they will see that

God is there with us.

Amen.

All right, don't worry if you go through difficulty, you know,

Jill shaid about you know a situation.

Right now, all right?

And uh, you know, recently my dad also was in

the hospital for something, and so challenges after challenges. All right,

But thank god, I I'm still quite calm.

I'm still quite steady.

But I don't know, you know, maybe some peoples so

steady like you should do something, you should be worried

and do. But but I believe it's you know, it's

it's God's grace in my life.

And I won't really jump at stuff.

But yeah, it's but but when I think about it,

was wow, one after the other. And uh, I see

that God is is preparing us when we face when

we face these troubles. Are we shaken easily?

Right? There's more coming. There's more coming, all right?

And and uh uh God, you know because of this now,

what we're doing is every day we're doing communion together.

All right.

I felt that my life has also grown spiritually stronger.

You know, I said, God, I really need to trust you.

I really need to trust you now, you know.

And I love it.

I love that we're in We're not so comfortable. It's okay,

it's okay. Challenges help us. It helps us to be stronger,

not you know, just ourselves stronger, but in the Lord.

Stronger in the Lord, and the Lord will make you strong. Right,

Don't just be stronger by yourself, be strong in the Lord,

and the Lord will strengthen you.

Amen. That's that's better strength, supernatural strength. Amen. So that's

the first thing. Ready to live in the truth. We're

gonna move on.

Kids, okay, understand Wow, Amen, hallelujah.

Our kids have have advantage.

You know, when they go to school, they hear all

these things. Really here, right, what's abc right?

Okay?

Anyway, Yeah, So in Galatians, Galatious six seventy eight says,

do not be deceived. God is not mocked. For whatever

one sows that will he also reap. So don't live

in deception. For the one who sows to his own

flesh will will from the flesh reap corruption. But the

one who sows to the spirit will from the spirit

reap eternal life. So what do we need to do?

So in the spirit, So to the spirit. So in

the spirit, what is sowing in the spirit? Sowing in

the spirit. There's nothing else but be in prayer, you know,

speak to God, keep your prayer, pray continuously, right, Yeah,

you may have time that you pray, set a time

to pray, but be in prayer mode at all times.

Speak to God. He's there always, right, He loves you,

he loves to be in communication with us, in contact

with us.

Amen. All right, I think there's another scripture next. All right,

so wait, sorry, yeah, sorry, that's it. Okay, let's go on.

Jeremiah thirty two four to five Zaekaiah, King of Judah

shall not escape out of the hand of the Childians,

but shall surely be given in to the hand of

the King of Babylon, and shall speak with him face

to face and see him eye to eye. And he

shall take Zadekaya the Babylon to Babylon, and there he

shall remain until I visit him.

Jeremiah says that, right, declares the Lord.

Oh, sorry, okay, that's the Lord.

I'm not sure who's visiting him, but don't worry. Okay,

the clures the Lord.

So you fight against the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed, Okay,

I think until I visit him, declares the Lord that

should be God, saying he will visit him. So anyway, Uh,

what is happening here? Zenekaiah if I if I read correctly,

all right, according to the scriptures or rather some commentaries,

right says that Zedekaia actually answers to Nebukenza He's supposed

to answer to him, but you know I but then

he has not been doing what Nebuka wants him to do,

so he's been doing his own thing. And so that's

why Neba I agree with him. He doesn't like him. Now,

So what happened? What's happening now is U says, here,

shall shall speak with him face to face? Seem eye

to my meaning, Zedekaiah will need to face Nebukana at

that time is also known as the King of Kings. Right,

so in a way, you know, and you know, I

think there's a funny part in one of the scriptures

God calls Neba his servant.

Yeah all right, So.

Anyway, what does this mean when I when we read this,

it speaks of someone having to face the king, the

ultimate King, Who's the King of Kings, the true King

of kings? Can someone say, who's the true king of kings? Well,

only some of you know that, Okay, who's the true

king of kings?

Jesus. Jesus is the true King of kings.

And so this is a picture of someone facing the

King of kings. And how will he face him face

to face? All this time he's not been seeing him

where you don't see you know, your boss, not all

of you. But you know, sometimes if you're like, ah, chill,

relax now, suddenly the boss comes there. Oh okay, okay, okay,

I'm doing my work right now, right whatever, Okay? Sometimes

I mean that just happens, right or like parents, right,

the kids, you say, help wash the dishes.

Next moment you walk away.

Games doing something else distracted.

That's how you come like, hey, are you okay? I'm

doing it now.

I'm gonna watch you know, So this shows this. Finally

he has to face this king right ie to I,

and the King's gonna look at him go like, what

have you been doing? I've been hearing about you. You

have not been following what I want you to do,

all right, So what the hell does this apply to us?

Are we ready to meet the king face to face?

Are we ready to meet the Lord face to face?

When we meet him face to face? Are you going

to be trembling with fear that you did something wrong?

Or are you going to meet him and say?

What? Lord?

Finally I see you. I've been waiting for this. What

is the response?

This? Either or right?

Sometimes verse will be like, Jesus, don't come so fast.

I guess still got other things to do. I've still

not experienced this, this right, But you know what I

always tell my kids sometimes I hope you know, Jesus

don't come before I experience this. But but you know,

in heaven the experiences are far greater.

It's far better, So don't worry. You won't miss anything.

You won't miss anything on earth, all right, because in

heaven is better, definitely better, all right. Okay, either that

or you know, some of these desires we had here,

we don't have it there, so it's okay, no problem,

no problem, right, But this will you when you face God,

when you face the King, will you be like he's here?

Or will you be hallelujah? I've been waiting for this,

So which one? Choose one?

Now?

Choose one now already, because that shows whether we're ready

for revival? Are you ready for revival? When you see God,

you'll be like, oh, run, he's here, get out. That

shouldn't be the case. He's our father in heaven. He's

God who loves us. Why you want to run away

from him? He loves you, He loves you, he cares

for you. He sent Jesus to die for you. Right,

He's not here with a stick to beat you.

Right. That's that's other. That's other gods.

Okay, yeah, yeah, because I was in I was you know,

I was wisping other gods before as well, and it's

quite scary looking some of them. So anyway back to this,

So I think on a scripture there, John fifteen fourteen

to fifteen. Let's look at this, someone who sees God

face to face. Right, you are my friends if you

do what I command you. You want to be a

friend of God. There's a tip here. Ready, you want

to be a friend of God. You are my friends.

This is Jesus speaking. If you do what I command you?

Is he right? Is he right?

Answers given? You want to be God's friend to what

he commands you?

All right?

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant

does not know what his master is doing. But I

have called you friends for all that I have heard

from my father, I have made known to you he

God wants to be our friend.

He has made it known to us.

He has revealed to us more than enough to be

able to be his friend. He has not kept secrets

from us that we don't know. And then we're like blur.

You know, I love being a Christian. I love Jesus

because he doesn't hide stuff from us, and go like, ah,

I'm gonna catch you. You don't know what you don't

know what how to do right, so you don't know

what is right? And wrong, I'm just gonna I'm just

waiting to trap you.

Okay. God is not like this.

He shows us, He tells us, he gives us the

answer at the back already and then say now open

book exempt, do just do it?

All right?

And he not only that, he equips us. He practices

with us. He supplies our needs, and then we are

He helps us to be ready for it. All we

need to do is just make a choice and say, okay,

thank you, Lord, thank you for.

All this, and I will now walk into this. Right.

He wants to be our friend. But do we want

to be his friend? Do we want to be his friend?

We should choose as well. He has chosen, he says,

I will I'll call your friend because I have shown you.

I have made known to you all that I heard

from my father. I have made known to you. All right,

he has made his move, But what's our move? Do

we want to be his friend or do we want

to be his enemy?

Yeah? Okay, next next light?

Please, all right, let's look at a few more people

face to face with God?

Right the Lord.

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to

face as a man speaks to his friend. Wow again, friend,

face to face as a friend. When Moses turned again

into the camp, his assistant Joshua, the Sonnan a young man,

would not depart from the ten. Okay anyway, Genesis thirty

two thirty still there, right, So Jacob called the name

of the place panel, saying, for I have seen God

face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.

So this one is.

Jacob wrestled with God, all right. So sometimes there's a

bit of that as well. Okay, but he survived it,

so will we survive it? Will we be delivered when

we meet God face to face?

Are we ready? Are we ready to meet God face

to face? Amen? Let's be ready.

Let's be excited to meet God face to face rather

than afraid and fear and go I'm not ready. God,

don't come now. You can't do that. Don't come now, Lord,

No yet, you are not God. He decides when he comes,

and we need to be ready. So let's prepare. Let's prepare.

Tell your neighbor, let's prepare. Let's prepare to meet God

face to face.

Amen.

He's giving us time, He's always giving us time. It's

more than enough time, all right, So let's prepare. I'm

just looking at some points here I put here before

I move on. All right, good, okay, let's go on.

Jeremiah thirty two. This is the final point. This one

is a bit longer. I read the whole thing, okay,

Jeremiah said, the word of the Lord came to me. Behold, Hannamel,

the son of Shalum, your uncle, will come to you

and say, by my field that is at Anathos, for

the right of redemption, my purchase, by purchase is yours,

vinyas shall again be bought in this land.

All right. Then, Hanamel, my cousin.

Came to me in the court of the God in

accordance with the word of the Lord, and sid to me,

by my feel that is in Anathos, in the land

of Benjamin, for the right of possession, a redemption is yours.

Buy it for yourself. Then I knew that this was

the word of the Lord. God told Jeremiah to buy land, okay,

And what did he do?

And I bought the field.

At Anathos from Hannamel my cousin, and weighed out the

money to him seventeen shackles of silver. Next one, I

signed a deed, sealed it God witnesses and weighed the

money on scales. Then I took the sealed deed of

purchase containing the terms and conditions and the open copy. Okay,

posse for a while, so let's let's just get the

clear picture of this.

What has happened to Jeremiah right now? Whereas he in prison?

He's in prison, he gets a message from God by

the field. How do you go buy field when you're

in prison? How do you do property, you know, purchase

when you in prison? Definitely impossible?

Right?

But God told him he's going to bring Hannamel, his cousin,

to do this. And lo and behold it happens. Hannahmel,

the cousin comes to visit him in prison. What a

thing to do to come visit in prison that I

want to sell you my field.

This is all super bizarre. This is weird, but it's

happening right now. Okay. And what happened?

He seals the deal, right, he signs the thing, and

he got witnesses. It's all happening and all smooth flowing.

I tell you, when God wants us to do something,

everything will be provided He provides, and we will be

able to do it, obeying him in obedience to him,

all right, Okay, let's go on. And I gave the

deed of purchase to Baruk, the son of Neriyah, son

of Marsayah. This is his assistant who helped write this book. Okay,

Baruk in the presence of Hannamel, my cousin, in the

presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase,

and in the presence of all the Judeans who were

sitting in the court of the God, the guys who

were in prison as well.

I charged Baruk in their presence.

Saying, thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel,

take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase and

this open deed, and put them in an earthenware vessel

that they may last for a long time. You know

why he is that, I don't know how long I'm

going to be here in prison. I don't know how

long this is all gonna, you know, play out, Because

not only he's in prison, Nebukneza is taking over right now.

And so because Nambucanneza took over, this land is in

a way useless now because they can't do anything on it.

It is now enemy's property. But then he still buys it,

obeying God. It does not make business sense. You won't

buy a land, you know, without knowing thinking of the

future of it. But because he saw the future from

God's word, God told him to do it. And God

only not only told to do it, he actually said

that they will be buying and selling in the future.

If you read earlier, God told him the promise, and

so he took that word and he ran with it.

He said, okay, let's do it. I don't understand everything yet,

but let's do it. Okay, okay, let's let me finish

reading this. I haven't finished, right. That says a lot

of hosts, the God of Israel, take these deeds, okay.

For thus there's a lot of hosts all right, the

God of Israel. Houses and fields and vineyards shall again

be bought in this land. So God already told this

is going to be still gonna be good right in

the future when I bring them back, right when Nemu

is done, I will give them a hope again, a future,

a man. So this is amazing, this is powerful. So

you know he's in prison. He suddenly got a message

from God by land, and he's he obeyed you know,

and and the miraculous happened. The cousin came sold him

the land. And uh so now he keeps this deed

so that in the future he can take it back

out and do business again.

All right, So what's my next light? Here?

Ready ready to obey? Are we ready to obey? So

if we want to be ready for revival? Are we

ready to obey? And it says obey radically because some

things that God wants us to obey.

It may not make sense to you now, not yet,

but it will. It will make sense.

Because God knows the future and he tells us something

like you know, for example, when you spend time, when

you invest time, invest time in church. Right, we could

be doing anything else on Sunday, right morning, okay, and

every Sunday morning the weather very beautiful, and you could

be doing anything else. But you're investing time to be

here in his house. And if you can take that

a bit further, I invest time to serve. I invest

time to help ex kids. I invest time to sit

down with someone and disciple them. I invest time into

homes and build that small group. I invest time, you know,

if your campus student starting my small group praying with

my friends. I invest time into these things. It's got

investments because when you do those things, you don't see

immediate results.

Prayer you don't see things.

I mean, sometimes it does immediate result, we'll see, But

many times you pray, we don't see the immediate result. Right,

But there's investment. And when you give right, that's investment

as well. You could be giving so many other places.

You could be giving your money to Starbucks, You could

be giving your money to right, all these other places,

to the to TGV, but you saved it. No, I'm

not gonna watch movie this time because I still need

to give offering to the Lord. You see the way

you think, if you if you if you check the

way you think, you will see what are you investing in?

Right?

And so obey the Lord. Obey the Lord in what

he's telling you. First of all, you kind obey if

you're not listening to him. Now, you know you gotta

hear the Lord. You know, and and you know some

of us here. Simple obedience is like this, Just read

read the Bible. Read the Bible. You don't need to God.

You need't tell me, right, so I won't. You didn't

tell me, so I won't do it. His answer to

that is, I've been telling you read the Bible. He's

been talking every day, He's been talking all the time already, Right,

we need to read the Bible, and then from there obey.

Start with that.

Obey the Bible, Obey the word of God from the Bible,

and build your relationship with him so you can hear him.

And when you hear him his holy Spirit, then obey.

And when we're able to do that, we obey whatever

he tells us, right, and invest into the things that

he tells us to do, even though we don't see

the immediate result.

His promises are good. His promises are good.

It's yes and amen, Yeah, it will come to pass, hallelujah.

This reminds me of also, you know the story of Paul, Paul,

and you know he was blinded and then what's the

guy's name? Anonius? Anonius again is another one of those. Right,

God told him you need to go and visit Paul.

And he's like, what who the guy has has been

killing you know believers? So yeah, and so Anonius again,

how do you obey such a thing? But you know

why you obeyed because he's a man of God. He

trusts God. He knows God has shown me something and

I've done it and it always turns out good.

God is good.

And so that's why he's able to obey this and say, okay,

I'll go And when he goes to Paul, imagine if

he didn't go right.

Paul is now one.

Of the greatest apostles that you know, the Christianity ever had,

and he taught so many things and were from his

books so much. God used Paul mightily, but it started

from Annius. Annius had to go to Paul, and that's

radical obedience. I hope you got something here this morning

in church, Amen, and I pray and I pray that

we'll be able to do something from what we heard today.

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