Remember and Return to Revival | Pr. Jack

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And so the title this morning, remember and return to revival.

So revival is the theme this year, all right.

So coming from the words the letters D R A

E d R E A M Dream right, Dream Malaysia.

It's the five year well theme right that we have

for the church. Last year it was d What is it?

What does it stand for?

Again?

Discipleship, disciple first, all right, be a disciple first, and

also disciple someone all right. So I hope and I

want to encourage you. I want to challenge you to

continue to do that, all right. Don't throw away discipleship,

keep doing, in fact, do more because that's what uh

the you know, that's what Jesus told us to do. Yeah,

make disciples, make disciples of all nations and and also

be a disciple, be a disciple all right. So this

year is our which is revival revival. And I hope

you're catching it. You understand, you're getting what what revival is.

More than that, I I I pray and hope you're

experiencing revival, all right. Don't just know about revival and

stuff like that, and and yeah, okay, I know.

But step into it. Let's let's let's accept it.

Let's be obedient as Samuel chair just now, all right, okay,

let's step into revival. We we need it, we need it.

But uh, you know we we we said it before.

We can't just get into revival with no discipleship. Discipleship

needs needs to be there. It anchors us. And then

we when we have revival with discipleship, it's going to

be powerful, all right, and it will lead to E

E R right.

E stands for evangelism. We need to. It will flow

into that. It will flow into that.

When revival hits, we will evangelize.

All right, Amen, with the power of the Holy Spirit.

Okay, so remember and return to revival I'm basing it

on the book of Jeremiah again, chapter thirty. All right,

and if you've been following, you have kind of an

idea of the sequence. All right, But right now we're

at Jeremiah thirty. And so how does it go. Let's

begin right with this verse Jeremiah thirty. Verse two. Thus

says the Lord, the God of Israel, right in a

book all the words that I have spoken to you.

So God has been speaking to Jeremiah, and he's speaking

to speaking to him again.

So what does he say, write in a book all

the words that I have spoken to you.

How many of you here are writing in a book

this morning? Yeah, okay, all right, don't raise your hands,

it's okay, all right. Some of you are on your phones,

hopefully taking notes and not doing something else.

All right, we're in the house of the Lord. Okay.

I want to encourage you. Put aside all the other stuff. Okay,

take notes with your phone and that's it.

Okay.

If you're texting anyone, text them say you're missing church

this morning. That's all your text Okay, nothing else, don't

text anything.

I don't do work here and stuff like that.

Okay, okay, but I understand if some of you you're

on like youty this morning, but you're still here, well done,

well done, all right, And I tell your boss I'm

still I'm trying to listen to the message, okay, right,

and share something with him. So, okay, anyway, write in

a book. It says here all the words that I

have spoken to you. So God is telling Jeremiah to

write down something. Why Why does he want him to

write down something. When you write down something, what are

you trying to do? Remember, we're trying to remember something,

so God wants him to put it down because you know,

us people, we have short term memories.

Okay, we forget easily.

That's all of us. That's humans, all right. Okay, some

of you can remember things better. But that's our challenge,

all right. If we don't write it down, we'll forget

about it, all right. If we don't take a picture,

we'll forget about it. That's why you know my wife

loves to take pictures, all right, because she will always say,

when the time comes, you know, when the time comes,

you want to remember, you don't have the photo, all right.

So I will have the photo, okay.

Yeah, but we need to clear the space I cloud

right now. It's it's just the baxtup okay anyway, So yeah,

we need to manage the space. If we want to remember,

we want to write stuff down and take photos. So anyway,

back to writing down things on a book, and so

I want to encourage all of us as well, write down,

right down, especially what God tells you, what God is

speaking to you, write it down, okay, because it shows

that we're taking it seriously that Okay, God told me

something and I want to remember this.

Put it down now?

Thank God, there's a phone, right, and it's there a

bit like a longer term, right, because books get destroyed,

get you know, it disappears after a while, but phone

information stays there a bit longer. See, you know, it

seems so write down. God wants him to write down.

He wants us to write down. He wants us to remember.

Everyone say remember, all right, so what does he want

us to remember? He's telling Jeremiah something about the future,

something that is going to happen. So he wants us

to remember the future.

You know.

You know, every time I hear the word remember, I'm

always thinking about the past.

Remember what happened before? Right? Remember history. But you know,

if we are people of the Lord, when we are

people of the Lord, when we're in revival, we think

about the future a bit more than the past. Right.

I want to encourage you if you want to be

in revival, you want to you want to know whether

you're you're having revival or not. You will you check

yourself and you see whether you are thinking about the

future or the past more. If you're thinking about the

past too, much something is not going well.

You know, there's a lot of regrets.

It's okay to remember the past a little bit because

you know, it's wise to know, Okay, this happened, so

I need to know what I shouldn't do next time,

all right.

But people who know their God.

People who know that God, we know we have a

hope and a future, and we look at the future

because there's a vision, all right. And so the word

of God also tells us right without vision, my people

perish vision. Looking forward, knowing what's a hit helps us

to go forward, to move forward.

To know what to do next. Amen, all right? And

so this is this is the word of God.

It's so amazing when I when I when I realized this, Wow,

remember the future. God wants us to remember the future.

So that's why why we write notes. When we take

down notes, it is so that we know what to

do next for the future. And maybe some of us

here we need to have the practice of putting down

what we're not supposed to do on a daily basis,

right Because this is I'm talking about myself. I've always

got okay, I've got to do this, I got to

do this, I got to do this, it's all in

my mind. Then by the time I sit down in

my office, I can't remember what I was supposed to do,

and I don't do much. But I've also learned to

I've also learned to end practice putting down my tasks.

Someone told me before, you know, if you put five

or six tasks on that paper, just to accomplish that

five or six tasks.

In one day, you've done a lot. You are successful.

So I have that am I put down at least

five or six things that are key? And I write

it down because I realize I actually get things done

so fast just putting it down. Let's just put it down.

I feel like everything's done ready because it starts moving

really fast. Yeah, because my memory us is overcome. Just oh,

it's a reminder, now.

You need to do this. Gonna do this all right?

And uh, And I don't have.

The trouble of like what am I supposed to do again?

Struggling with that what am I supposed to again? And

I'm going to ask someone what what are we supposed

to do?

Again?

And it's actually quite embarrassing, all right, And somehow the

people in my in my office are like, keep asking

you know, aren't you a grown man?

Oh? All right? Because we keep asking what am I

supposed to do? Again? Is actually for kids? Okay? Okay, right,

no one offended here?

Okay, all right, okay, yeah sometimes husbands, all right, anyway,

I ask my wife a lot sometimes, like we's supposed

to again, what time is it again?

What time is that thing again? Yesterday? We're supposed to go.

For the teens thing as I'm supposed to send Judah,

all right, the teens thing, all right, it's supposed to

be at two. I didn't even see the thing. There

was a communication somewhere. Yeah, yeah, someone supposed to pick

him up, pick him up by two?

All right.

I was eating lunch at one forty with Judah, and

then my friend called, hey, where where are you guys?

Are eating lunch? That? Am I not supposed to pick

you up?

Like?

Is it? What time? All right? Yeah?

That's that's me sometimes, okay anyway. So that's why, God,

that's why we need to write things down. To put

things down, we need to be aware. Remember the future.

The future speaks of vision. When you have a vision,

you know, when you when you want to build a company,

you when you want to when you want to build

your family, you got to have a vision for your family.

You got to know what's the future for your family

looking forward. You know, just knowing that my future is heaven,

my future is eternity with God, with Jesus, gives me

so much hope. No matter what I face right now,

no matter what challenge I face right now, even if

it looks impossible, even if it looks very difficult, all right, challenging,

painful looking, I know my future is good. And so therefore,

this that this suffering that I'm going through for this moment.

It's okay.

It's okay because I've got a great future ahead. But

you know, imagine many people who don't know their future,

always just living in the past and just maybe the present.

They don't know what to look for. They don't they

don't have something to look forward to. There's nothing I

hit for them, and so that's why life becomes hopeless,

becomes sad and depressing, all right. That's why for families

as well, it's good. You know, when you have a vision,

even a vision and a plan. There's a long term plan,

of course, but it's also the short term plan where

you know, Puss the Kenneth, you know, reminded me before,

advice me before. He said, it's always good to have

a bit of a plan, you know, just something to

look forward to, something exciting for the family. That's why

a little you plan, a little bit of a short trip,

you know, for your for your marriage, for your family. Uh,

something to look forward to. So that then then homework

becomes less difficult for the children and they have something

to look forward to. When they have something to look

forward to, they will finish their homework. Yeah, it's motivation.

And so therefore the Lord knows this and he motivates

us by saying, there is this wonderful vacation for you

in the future. All right, so look ahead, don't worry

about what you go through. Now, work hard, go through it,

suffer a little bit, it's okay.

But then there's eternity ready for you.

There's no tears, right, no tears, no pain, no sickness,

no darkness. The Sun is the Lord. The light, you know,

is the Lord is the Light himself. Yeah, he's with you.

The presence of God will be there. It will be beautiful. Amen.

So don't worry, don't.

Worry, because we have a wonderful future here of us.

Okay, right, what's next? Next? Light?

Yeah, okay, all right, Jeremiah thirty verse three, Ken, we

can I go here? Okay, thank you for behold. Days

are coming, declares the Lord. When I will restore the

fortunes of my people Israel and Judah, says the Lord.

And I will bring them back to the land that

I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession

of it.

All right, what is this about? All right? So the

point here is.

I will restore the fortunes of my people, and I will.

Bring them back.

Bring them back, everyone say, bring them back, Bring them

back to the land that I gave to their fathers.

This, this speaks to me.

It tells me of you know, returning back to what

God gave first to us.

You know, if you remember what God.

First gave to you, what is the What was the

first thing that God gave to you when you came

to know him, when you first heard of Jesus.

He gave you his salvation, He saved you.

You can you remember the time you first realized you

were saved from all the guilt and all the sin

and all the shame that you had. If you can't,

maybe you need to be saved, means you don't have

that memory. You don't you don't maybe you're not saved yet.

But if you have been saved, you should have a

memory of how God saved you, what he saved you from.

If you don't know what God saved you from, that

means likely you're not saved because you don't even know

what you what problem you had, and what trouble you had.

Maybe you don't think you have a problem. Okay, so

you need to you need to be aware of that.

What is the sin, what is the shame, what is

the guilt that you had, and what Jesus had to

save you from. That is very powerful because once you

have that, you we go back to that, you know,

because sometimes, yeah, you know, God saved us, then we

went on with life and you know, like like.

The seeds, you know, the thorns came.

In troubled us and you know, maybe our roots they

didn't go so deep and we now forgot. But once

we go back to what we had, the first thing

that God gave us, the gift of salvation and of

the Holy Spirit, then we will remember.

And that's revival.

Let me tell you, Revival means you know, you come

back to realization.

I've been saved by Jesus Christ. So therefore I need

to do something about this. Because I've been saved. I've

been saved for something.

I've been saved so that I can live as a

son and daughter of the Most High God, so that

I can live differently from what I had in the past.

I don't need to live in guilt and shame and

the sin and the past anymore. I have a future,

and so I live right now a new life.

It's a new life, it's a new thinking, a new mind.

Right, we decide differently from from now on after we

got saved.

Right, I used to, let's say, I used to.

Bring with my friends because I had so much sorrows

and you know, getting drunk so that I can forget

all that pain for a moment, all right, But right.

Now I don't need that anymore. That's my past.

Because Jesus came to save me. All I need is him,

All I need is his presence, his power. He has

clansed me and saved me from my depression and my sorrows,

and so I don't need to rely on alcohol to

continue in life. In fact, I am more than a conqueror. Amen,

I have got I'm on the victorious side. He has

already won a man. So return to what God first

gave you. Do remember that? Can we all just take

a moment and think about that? How were you saved?

How did you meet Jesus?

Right?

How did you no salvation? That I no longer live

in darkness, I no longer live in the past. And

if you you feel like you're still living in darkness

and in pain and in shame and in guilt because

seem to can't get out of the cycle. You're in

a cycle of you know, sin. Then later when we

we will, we will invite you to follow Jesus. You know,

we'll have a salvation call you say that prayer you

you invite Jesus into your life and experience the salvation

of Jesus Christ.

Amen.

And from there you will have that memory of the

gift of salvation.

Amen.

All right, And then please tell us later when you

are when you when you are received the salvation of Jesus,

when you follow Jesus, when you decided that you want

to be saved.

Amen. Okay, let's go on, So return to that.

And then now verse four to seven, these are the

words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah. Thus

says the Lord, we have heard a cry of panic,

of terror, and no peace. Ask now and see can

a man bear a child?

Next?

Why then, do I see every man with his hands

on his stomach like a woman in labor?

Why has every face turned pale? Lass?

That day is so great? There is none like it.

That they is so great, There is none like it.

It is a time of distress for Jacob, yet he

shall be saved out of it. It's a terrible time,

but yet he shall be saved out of it. A man, Okay, okay,

that's it, all right. So this verse here speaks to

us because we were talking about remembering, remember the future.

Let's return to our first love, right when we fell

in love with Jesus a man, let me say, we

want to serve him all our lives.

Are you serving him right now? Right?

Remember those revival meetings you were part of and you said, yeah,

I give my life to Jesus. I want to follow him,

I want to serve him. I want to go full time.

All right, Remember that it's not too late. It's never

too late. Amen, And let's come back to it you can,

you can still serve him.

That's why the church is here, all right.

And if anybody wants to go full time, yeah, you

can talk to us and see if there's any space

for that. But and I'm sure there is, amen. So yeah,

time of distress and he shall be saved out of it.

So there's a point here. We want to remember the

Great day of the Lord. You know, when we're in revival,

or how do we know we're in revival? Like I said,

we look, we think about the future, and also we

think about this, the Great day of the Lord.

What's the Great day of the Lord?

The Great Day of the Lord reminds us of a

few different other verses in the Bible. Let us just

go through those verses. Not a button, okay, yeah, all right.

Zeph Andiah chapter one, verse fourteen says, the Great day

of the Lord is near, near and hastening fast. The

sound of the day of the Lord is bitter. The

mighty man cries all out. There is a time of suffering.

It's a time of pain. What's the great day of

the Lord? Revelation six seventeen says for the great day,

no yet, no yet, I will finish the Great Day

of the Lord. Sorry for the great day of their

wrath has come, and who can stand Wow, sounds horrible,

sounds scary, right next Revelation sixteen fourteen fifteen four. They

are demonic spirits, the Great Day of the Lord. All right,

there's spiritual forces involved here performing signs who go abroad

to the kings of the whole world.

The whole world is involved.

And nowadays if you look at news reports, there's a

global challenge going on.

There's wars going on, right, and we see signs of

these things.

I think it's not yet fully blown yet, right, but

he's getting there. He's getting there, all right, Kings of

the whole world, leaders of the world, to assemble them

for battle on the Great Day of God Almighty. Behold,

I am coming like a thief. The blessed is he

is the one who stays awake, stay alert, keep awake

on your toes. Right, it will be blurd, that's the word.

Keeping his garments on, keeping his garments on, ready, prepared, right,

pressed up for the day, not caught in pajamas, right, right,

keeping his garments on that he may not go about.

Naked and be seen exposed. Right, the Lord will suddenly

come the Great Day of the Lord. Why is it

called the Great Day of the Lord.

Yes, it's great suffering, is going to be great shaking,

but it's also going to be great for those who

love Jesus, A wonderful, great day where we will meet

him face to face.

Amen.

Next Matthew twenty four to twenty one. For then there

will be great tribulation such as has not been from

the beginning of the world until now, No, and never

will be.

It will be the final battle. It will be the

final tribulation, the final suffering.

And you know, you see the signs of it, you see,

you know, especially you know when we talk about Jeremiah

thirty and it's talking about that great day, they're talking

about the persecution of the people, of the Jewish people,

of the people of Israel, right, and we see that

going on even right now. Yeah, they're getting attacked back

and forth, front and back and left and right, and so.

These are we need to remember that.

We need to fix our eyes or rather our minds

on that and be in prayer.

That's why we pray.

If you were here with us this morning, we prayed

for the peace of Jerusalem. Yeah, we pray for the

people of God, that they will also experience salvation.

Amen, you know, because why do we need to remember that?

Because the suffering that they will go through we will

also go through.

We will also go through it. Okay. If you're not

going through it yet, eventually you will. Amen.

And we're together in this. So we are in prayer together,

all right. So this is the next point. This is

the next point. Return to be restored and rebuilt from

your incurable affliction?

What is this?

Okay, I'm gonna read the rest of jeremiaht thirty We're

gonna look at it together, eight to twenty two. Are

you ready for this? Are you ready for this? You're

gonna pay attention. We're just reading through right now. That's

the point here. What was the point again? Restore, return

to be restored and rebuilt from your incurable affliction, all right,

and incurable affliction that we some of us might be

going through.

So what is this about.

Let's read Jeremiah thirty eight to twenty two. Okay, let's go,

and it shall come to pass. In that day, declares

the Lord of Hosts, that I will break his yoke

from off your neck, and I will burst your bonds

and foreigners shall no more make a servant of him,

but they shall serve the Lord their God, and David

their King, whom I will raise up for them. And

then fear not, Oh Jacob, my servant, declares the Lord,

nor be dismayed or Israel. For behold, I will save

you from far away, and your offspring from the land

of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease,

and none shall make him afraid Verse eleven. For I

am with you to save you, declare the Lord. I

will make a full end of all the nations among

whom I scattered you, but of you I will not

make a full end. Praise the Lord. All right, the

Lord will make a full end of the enemy. I

will not make a full end of them.

Right.

I will discipline you, discipline you in just measure, and

I will, by no means leave you unpunished.

So they're still discipline right. For thus says the Lord.

Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous. There

is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your

no healing for you, nothing that can save you. All

your lovers have forgotten you. They care nothing for you.

You look for help, you know, from many many, from

many places. But they're not going to help you, says here.

Or your lovers have forgotten you. They care nothing for you.

For I have dealt you the blow of an enemy,

the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great,

because your sins are flagrant. One, why do you cry

out over your hurt? Your pain is incurable.

Because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.

I have done these things to you. Therefore, all who

devour you shall be devoured, And all your foes, every

one of them, shall go into captivity.

Those who plunder you shall be plundered. And all who

pray on you, I will make them. I will make

a prey. You're no longer you know the ones who

pray on you, But they will be made a prey.

For I will restore health to you, and your wounds

will I will heal, declares the Lord. Because they have

called you an outcast. It is Zion for whom no

one cares. That's what they said, But that says the Lord. Behold,

I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob,

and have compassion on his dwellings. The city shall be

rebuild built on its mound, and the palace shall stand where.

It used to be restoration and rebuilding.

Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving, hallelujah, and

the voices of those who celebrate. I will multiply them,

and they shall not be few. I will make them honored,

and they shall not be small.

A man about to end here there.

Are children shall be as they were of old, and

the congregation shall be established before me, and I will

punish all who oppress them. The prince shall be one

of themselves. Their ruler shall come out from their midst.

I will make him draw near, and he shall approach me. Right,

he'll be able to draw near and not stay far

and feel like, oh, I can't approach, for who would

dare of him to himself to approach me?

So yeah, this speaks of salvation. Right.

We can't approach God by ourselves, but God makes a

way for us to be able to draw near, declares

the Lord. And you shall be my people, and I

will be your God.

Amen.

It's what a wonderful few versus just to read through

write so much hope in there, but so much meaning

in there as well, I want to highlight a few

things here, all right.

Uh, it speaks of.

The affliction, you know, the incurable affliction that is talking

about some of us here were we're experiencing that, we're

going through challenges, pain and suffering.

You know, I can remember a few different people here that.

And you know, you went through accidents and pain and

torture and suffer not touched torture, torture at work and suffering.

And sometimes you wonder why or why why do I

go through these things?

But you know that, you know, after you went through

the pain and the suffering, it is God.

Who allowed it.

It is God who allowed us to go through that

because as mentioned here, it was discipline. Yeah, I kind

of like it's called punishment because you will not go unpunished.

It's just punishment because we needed to be disciplined, just

like our kids.

We all know that, right.

You can't You can't have kids without discipline, all right,

because kids with no discipline will end up being the

future criminals. Yeah, you treat them all nice now, no discipline,

but in the future they'll be asking you, why didn't

you teach me that?

Why do you teach me? Mom?

Why didn't you discipline me when I was younger, right,

So okay, pay a little bit of price for the discipline.

Don't have don't abuse them. Right.

Discipline just means setting limits, setting boundaries.

There's boundaries right.

Right, and you know, just like it just there's boundaries

like don't play with the knife.

Right.

It's not free for all freedom, do whatever you want. Right,

there's boundaries. Don't play with the fire, use it for good,

teach them right.

So that's discipline.

So the Lord disciplines whom he loves, He disciplines, amen,

So thank God for that. Let's be thankful for the

discipline that God gives to us. And sometimes he uses

your leader to speak to you and tell you something.

That man doesn't sound that nice. I thought my leader

is like all loving, like you know, the loving Jesus

in those pictures. But why did he say this to me?

Why did he tell me I can't do this? Why

did he tell me I can't go for that girl?

Right?

You know, even in serving, and especially in serving, we

will do the discipline, all right, because you signed up

for it.

You didn't sign up to do a job.

You didn't sign up just to press some buttons, right,

And then you go like, yeah, see, I made myself available.

I'm helping right now, and they can't do without me,

is it? No, that's not really the case, all right,

I tell you the truth. Right, at one point we

had no exkis teachers. We just just don't have ex kids.

It's okay. I mean, of course we love to have

ex kids.

It'd be great to have ex kids so the children

can have ministry, right and then parents can listen to

the message a little bit more, you know, at peace.

But we do have we call it fairly Sundays we

have the children sit with us as well. It's discipline

now for us, it's okay, and it's discipline for us,

it's disciplined for the children.

And you know what, our children are amazing.

They are able to sit in you know, of course

they're still children, but you know that's where we it's

really good. I love seeing that when you when we

get our children together with us. Yeah, sometimes they are

still playing, but we we will. I see parents just

going to their kids and speaking to them. That's opportunity

to teach them how to behave in the house of God. Right,

So yeah, if we don't have the person, then we

we it's okay, we'll just go simple, all right, But

it's it's two ways. I in a way, right you

you join, and then of course it's great that you're.

Part of it.

We appreciate that. Yeah, uh uh, and I believe you

know you're doing it for the Lord. You're doing it

for the Lord. It's not for anyone, all right. But

at the same time, it's.

In the dream teams you call it dream teams, in

the PC team, in the sound team, and the TV team.

That's where discipleship also takes place.

Everything is about discipleship. Holmes is about discipleship. Dream teams

are about discipleship. Huddles are even.

More about discipleship.

And Church on Sundays is about discipleship, all right, And

that's where we'll say, oh man, the spelling on the screen,

that's correct, that please, or the lyrics okay, it's just

those few words, come on, check it all right, check it.

That's that's we're also training you to do a job

in the future, because you know, people who are trained

in the church, when they go and finally get a job,

they're well trained, already have job exp instance, already got

scolded by bosses in the church. So another schooling from

my what's no problem? You know nowadays are they call

it very flaky flaky young people?

Right? Not. None of the young people are like that

here or solid tough young people here. We have.

But but they're saying, you know, a strawberry they call

it strawberry generation. Nowadays, those are you know outside there,

they don't know Jesus yet. We need this, so we

need to bring them in, toughing them up a bit, yeah,

because the strawberry a little bit pressed or criery water

come out. Okay, all right, so don't be like that.

Okay.

So I was saying what am I saying here?

The suffering, the punishment, the affliction that we go through.

God allows it or allows it because he loves us.

But when he brings us in, all right, it's incurable.

It is suffering some times that we go through our sin,

all right, is we cannot fix it ourselves. And so

that's why God needs to do that. That's why I

mentioned earlier the salvation of Jesus Christ.

That's the first thing, all right.

And then the work of the Holy Spirit in our

lives that we'll be able to transform us in our

spirit and God promises us restoration and rebuilding.

Amen.

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