WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Revival – Layers Publishing Date: 2021-01-24T05:00:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/revival-layers/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.000 Okay, so if you want a title for today's teaching it's called a revival-layers 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:19.400 L-A-Y-E-R-S layers. I want to read from Revelation chapter 5, 9 to 14. 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:29.320 Revelation chapter 5, 9 to 14. Announcements, we might have a midweek 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:35.360 meeting if God so wants. Just wanted to give you a heads up and other than that 00:00:35.360 --> 00:00:42.440 oh yeah, Manoj came back and he's back from India and he's 00:00:42.440 --> 00:00:52.640 back alone. He's quarantining alone just so you know. As for his roommate, once we 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:55.800 locate him we will let you know. 00:00:55.800 --> 00:01:17.960 Revelation chapter 5, 9 to 14. We touched on this, can I have some more volume in 00:01:17.960 --> 00:01:26.800 the room because I might start shouting otherwise. Revelation chapter 5, verse 9 00:01:26.800 --> 00:01:33.280 to 14. And they sang a new song with these words, you are worthy to take the 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:38.120 scroll and break its seals and open it for you were slaughtered and your blood 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:43.480 has ran out. Let me read from the message, it's so stark in the message. 00:01:43.600 --> 00:01:51.400 Revelation 5, 9 to 14. And they sang a new song, worthy take the scroll open 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:57.480 its seals slain, paying in blood you bought men and women bought them back 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:02.720 from all over the earth bought them back for God. Then you made them a kingdom 00:02:02.720 --> 00:02:07.960 priests for our God, priest kings to rule over the earth. I looked again and I 00:02:07.960 --> 00:02:12.320 heard a company of angels around the throne, the creatures and the elders ten 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:16.800 thousand times ten thousand their number, thousand after thousand after thousand 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:24.400 in full song. The slain lamb is worthy, take the power, the wealth, the wisdom, the 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:29.920 strength, take the honor, the glory, the blessing. Then I heard every creature in 00:02:29.920 --> 00:02:35.960 heaven and earth in underworld and sea join in all voices in all places singing 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:40.840 to the one on the throne, to the lamb, the blessing, the honor, the glory, the 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:47.200 strength for age after age after age and the four creatures called out, oh yes 00:02:47.200 --> 00:02:53.160 the elders fell to the knees and worshiped. We read this passage during 00:02:53.160 --> 00:02:59.800 the Shekinah week and just want to say as we go with this teaching that listen 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:05.000 as one who has no options, listen as one who has no options as in there's nothing 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:10.760 in this teaching that is optional. It is something that we just have to embrace 00:03:10.760 --> 00:03:16.280 for the sake of the one unto him who is on the throne and unto the Lamb be all 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:22.000 glory. Take it oh God, take it it's yours. We don't have options in this. So listen 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:25.680 to this teaching as one who has no options and you will begin to burn with 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:32.160 a holy fire inside you because that's what God intends and so to just recap 00:03:32.200 --> 00:03:38.160 something from what seems like ages ago we are saying that the disruptive glory 00:03:38.160 --> 00:03:49.920 of God disruptive glory of God the disruptive glory of God is flowing like 00:03:49.920 --> 00:04:09.920 water is flowing like water breaking dry ground breaking dry ground giving life 00:04:09.920 --> 00:04:22.800 to soil and seed giving life to soil and seed giving life to soil and seed 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:30.920 reviving young men and women across the earth reviving young men and women across 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:40.360 the earth young men and women across the earth that kind of summarizes what we've 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:48.080 been talking about for the last two weeks. I was kind of arguing with God 00:04:48.080 --> 00:04:52.120 saying can't I just leave it as the glory of God instead of saying the 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:56.480 disruptive glory and I felt God saying nope that's how you I started you guys 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:00.360 off on this that my glory is going to be disruptive it cannot be accommodated it 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:06.440 can only be surrendered to to use the word disruptive glory and that's why I'm 00:05:06.440 --> 00:05:09.840 defining it this way what we've been talking about for the last while is the 00:05:09.840 --> 00:05:17.560 disruptive glory of God is flowing like water breaking dry ground giving life to 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:21.920 soil and seed that's a strange thing with watery when you pour it on ground 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:27.160 it gives life to soil as in it changes the nature of the soil it makes it 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:35.160 receptive it makes it ready and it also gives life to seed because seed that is 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:39.560 dry the moment you put it even in a in cotton that soaked in water we did this 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:45.560 in school the bean would immediately sprout there's something to this where 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:49.440 as soon as it comes to touch comes in touch with soil and seed it gives life 00:05:49.440 --> 00:05:54.680 and in the process it will revive young men and women across the earth we also 00:05:54.840 --> 00:06:00.240 said that God is riding this cloud sorry riding this revival God is riding this 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:08.400 revival as purifier God is riding this revival as purifier and because he's 00:06:08.400 --> 00:06:17.280 riding this revival as purifier out of this revival will rise 13 to 30s 13 to 00:06:17.280 --> 00:06:24.520 30s a generation of teens 20s and 30s who will be God seers because 00:06:24.520 --> 00:06:33.080 blessed are the pure for they shall see God and who will be ancient gate openers 00:06:33.080 --> 00:06:38.680 as in Psalm 24 where it says lift up your doors lift up your ancient gates 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:44.240 but who can do that the ones that have the ability to present to the Lord pure 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:49.160 hearts and clean hands so that the king of glory may come in that's the kind of 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:56.760 generation we are looking forward to and somehow we said what God is doing or 00:06:56.760 --> 00:07:02.320 birthing here and what God is doing across the earth has some kind of 00:07:02.320 --> 00:07:07.760 connection to the Hebrides revival from 1949 in the outer Hebrides islands of 00:07:07.760 --> 00:07:15.480 Scotland and it's almost like revival 2.0 unless we forget remember that Jesus 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:20.560 was only 30 when he started and most of his disciples were between 15 and 35 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:25.280 John being the youngest probably 15 which is why he brought his mother to a 00:07:25.280 --> 00:07:30.480 fight and 15 to 35 that was their age group and that was the group that turned 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:39.560 the world upside down so this is very natural in the kingdom to bring 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:46.120 generational change through starting with ones that are young so what broke 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:51.040 out here two weeks ago and the weight of those words sometimes makes me feel that 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:58.000 we've been so presumptuous but yet it is true what broke out here or bought broke 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:04.480 forth from here two weeks ago has a radial trajectory as in almost like one 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:12.960 of those sound wave things has a radial trajectory that we are supposed to track 00:08:12.960 --> 00:08:20.760 with and if we do we'll end up accomplishing two things we will arrest 00:08:20.760 --> 00:08:28.360 we will arrest historical desolation we'll arrest historical desolation as 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:35.080 in so much has been made desolate over the last 70 years so much future 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:40.240 generations have been stripped to the bone in the last 70 years so much has 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:44.920 been robbed so many heritages have been left desolate and so we'll arrest 00:08:44.920 --> 00:08:52.920 historical desolation and we launch generational restoration these are not 00:08:52.920 --> 00:08:57.480 big words they are just words that sum up what would take two sentences to say 00:08:57.480 --> 00:09:04.760 launch generational restoration and that goes back to Isaiah 49 verse 8 where it 00:09:04.760 --> 00:09:10.000 says and you will restore desolate heritages this is how God does it this 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:14.840 is how God does it this is his sovereign stepping in his sovereign 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:20.640 stepping into a situation because it's like enough I'm drawing a line my 00:09:20.640 --> 00:09:25.280 question to God during the week was if you are sovereignly doing it what if we 00:09:25.280 --> 00:09:29.040 don't cooperate what happens does this get hindered or do you just move on and 00:09:29.040 --> 00:09:35.760 the answer is both he will go looking for a remnant but it will be hindered 00:09:35.760 --> 00:09:43.920 too because the best examples are when Jesus would go to Nazareth when he would 00:09:43.920 --> 00:09:50.900 go to Capernaum you read the passages before what happens and you see him 00:09:50.900 --> 00:09:54.960 healing people coming to the Lord demons being chased out the sick being healed 00:09:54.960 --> 00:10:00.800 and what is the response of the people we don't want you here and what happens 00:10:00.800 --> 00:10:08.840 Nazareth and Capernaum miss out on their own homebred son so yes it's a sovereign 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:13.320 move of God but if one chooses to opt out two things happen one God goes 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:19.200 looking for another remnant two you do hinder what God wants to do here on earth 00:10:19.400 --> 00:10:24.960 the other thing that happens when one resists the move of God is that that 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:34.640 generation dies in the desert and the very ones that they prevented from 00:10:34.640 --> 00:10:40.200 being revived will be revived but that generation will die in the desert it is 00:10:40.200 --> 00:10:45.040 happening to so many denominations and so many churches the only problem is we 00:10:45.040 --> 00:10:48.400 don't even know that we're dying in the desert we're just going around Mount 00:10:48.400 --> 00:10:51.960 Sinai singing hallelujah and we keep saying every time we sing it our shucks 00:10:51.960 --> 00:11:01.120 have seen this mountain before this is the this is a I mean God is not into 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:08.000 penalties and punishment but this is the this is the consequence of ignoring a 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:14.920 move of God I pray that we don't take I pray that I don't so if we were to track 00:11:15.040 --> 00:11:21.400 this radial kind of trajectory there are there's a pathway that we need to 00:11:21.400 --> 00:11:32.080 follow and so that's what we'll talk about for the rest of the afternoon if 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:36.240 you have any questions feel free to send them 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:50.800 okay so the first thing we said layers of revival the first thing then that 00:11:50.800 --> 00:11:55.800 has to happen is we got to make sure we keep paying attention to personal 00:11:55.800 --> 00:12:02.240 revival personal revival personal revival 00:12:06.520 --> 00:12:18.520 so that's the first personal revival personal revival revival is birth in the 00:12:18.520 --> 00:12:24.880 heart of God and then can be transferred to the one who has faith for the 00:12:24.880 --> 00:12:30.320 impossible revival is always birthed in the heart of God but can easily be 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:36.160 transferred to anyone who has faith for the impossible therefore when God starts 00:12:36.160 --> 00:12:46.880 something like this it is required of all of us to to exert faith so that he 00:12:46.880 --> 00:12:52.120 can transfer what is in his heart into our hearts into my heart because this is 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:56.580 impossible it is impossible and that is the beauty of most revivals that God 00:12:56.580 --> 00:13:02.800 starts he starts it with the people that are incapable of doing it he's not 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:07.840 looking at a conference he's not looking at a meeting where people come to get 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:13.200 something no no this this has the ability to go out you don't have to come 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:24.080 to get it it goes outward so be devoted to this present cause say be devoted to 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:29.200 this present cause and I say this present cause because if this is the 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:33.240 cause that a president occupies the heart of God for us it must occupy our 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:40.960 heart too be devoted to this present cause use your life and use your voice 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:46.360 effectively to prepare the way be devoted I love the devotion of John the 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:54.520 Baptist man he knows that someone is coming he knows that this one who is 00:13:54.520 --> 00:13:58.960 coming is far greater than him he knows that he has to begin to prepare the way 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:03.480 he knows there's a cost to pay to prepare the way he knows that it'll put 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:10.520 him against all sources of power but there's a devotion to the cause where he 00:14:10.520 --> 00:14:16.240 uses his life and voice effectively to prepare the way so be devoted to the 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:23.360 cross the second one is you need a disciplined relentlessness disciplined 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:34.360 in disciplined relentlessness in disciplined relentlessness in removing heart barriers in 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:41.560 removing heart barriers this is how personally we can be revived because 00:14:41.560 --> 00:14:49.560 what's the point if everyone gets it but us disciplined relentlessness in room 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:54.400 removing heart barriers so this is something that I've been doing during 00:14:54.400 --> 00:14:58.840 the week saying father can you remove from my heart barriers that have lasted 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:04.480 for so long and that keeps surfacing that just keep getting provoked when 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:14.400 circumstances happen is it unworthiness is it offense where you take offense at 00:15:14.400 --> 00:15:30.920 things is it anger what is it is it guilt is it God is punishing me perhaps 00:15:30.920 --> 00:15:39.240 because of what I did what is it I mean just think of taking care of just one 00:15:39.280 --> 00:15:44.840 thing offense as in deciding that I'll remove the heart barrier of offense from 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:48.720 my heart or God help me with this revive me in this you remove offense and then 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:54.040 suddenly you realize that you no longer have a desire for revenge you no longer 00:15:54.040 --> 00:16:09.160 have pride you no longer have fear and you no longer injured easily in one shot 00:16:09.160 --> 00:16:19.480 you remove four structures I think I've said this before I was watching a 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:23.680 interview with Michael W Smith and the guy asked him so what do you want this 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:29.480 year what's the greatest gift that you want this year he said if I could by the 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:35.200 end of this year be someone who does not take offense he said that would be the 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:39.120 greatest accomplishment and I thought what a thing to desire for all the new 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:44.240 year resolutions it was that could I become someone who is unaffended by the 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:51.240 end of the year and in that one shot all these things disappearing so be 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:56.360 disciplined it disciplined relentlessness in removing heart 00:16:56.360 --> 00:17:03.640 barriers and you know you know what happens when all these things go away 00:17:03.640 --> 00:17:10.760 you become the meekest man on earth because you remove those things and you 00:17:10.760 --> 00:17:19.600 have to turn meek obviously that means I have some work to do 00:17:19.600 --> 00:17:35.640 did I hear a collective no not you Jacob okay and the third one within personal 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:41.720 revival is first love keep going back to first love they keep going back to going 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:46.480 back to first love keep keep going back to first love and first love is always 00:17:46.560 --> 00:17:50.720 activated through intimacy with Christ first love is always activated through 00:17:50.720 --> 00:18:01.600 intimacy with Christ keep going back to first love because many revivals are 00:18:01.600 --> 00:18:09.960 undone by the falling away from the place of first love what strikes me 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:16.120 about Jesus's letter to the church that lost its first love was repent see how 00:18:16.120 --> 00:18:20.440 far you have fallen that was the statement it's almost as if you fall 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:27.000 out of this place called first love you fall big time and most revivals is the 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:31.520 first thing that is a cost that is paid because people get so caught up in it 00:18:31.520 --> 00:18:35.680 that first love is lost and this is why we start with this idea of personal 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:46.520 revival keep these things in mind guys devotion to the present cause a heart 00:18:46.520 --> 00:18:53.400 that exerts faith to receive from God the impossible that has been birthed in 00:18:53.400 --> 00:19:01.600 his heart disciplined relentlessness in removing heart barriers and driven by 00:19:01.600 --> 00:19:24.720 first love driven by first love go ahead don't yeah so how do we remove 00:19:24.760 --> 00:19:32.240 these heart barriers and what if there are mental illnesses that one is 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:39.400 struggling with and you have heart barriers at the same time let me answer 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:43.120 the first part I think it's impossible to remove heart barriers without 00:19:43.120 --> 00:19:53.160 confessing that I have heart barriers and confessing not to God but confessing 00:19:53.200 --> 00:20:02.400 one to another so that you may be healed James chapter 5 so this last week I've 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:07.560 had opportunity to deal with one or two heart barriers and I've gone and spoken 00:20:07.560 --> 00:20:14.240 about it loudly one to someone who I respect and can help me and I look up to 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:20.840 and one to ones who respect me and look up to me and yet I thought now I got to 00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:27.840 speak it out aloud heart barriers aren't nothing in the heart is removed till you 00:20:27.840 --> 00:20:34.280 speak it beat love or beat hate both have to be brought to the surface before 00:20:34.280 --> 00:20:39.280 they can be removed that's the first step and if I'm struggling emotionally 00:20:39.280 --> 00:20:46.200 or mentally then I will need help to get to that place but there is something to 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:50.920 bringing things to the surface that after all these years still holds good 00:20:50.920 --> 00:21:03.600 in my life James chapter 5 I think it's five confess your sins one to another 00:21:16.200 --> 00:21:24.800 James chapter 5 15 and the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick and 00:21:24.800 --> 00:21:27.600 the Lord will raise him up and if he has committed since he will be forgiven 00:21:27.600 --> 00:21:31.040 therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another but you 00:21:31.040 --> 00:21:35.320 may be healed the prayer of a righteous person has great power at its working we 00:21:35.320 --> 00:21:39.760 always separate those verses because to hold them together becomes too 00:21:39.760 --> 00:21:46.080 problematic but the fact remains that this is step one and so once you get 00:21:46.080 --> 00:21:49.880 to step one then we can move on from there and that is where the healing 00:21:49.880 --> 00:21:58.080 starts the next step after personal revival the next one is corporate 00:21:58.080 --> 00:22:05.800 revival corporate revival corporate revival 00:22:05.800 --> 00:22:19.720 man I never end up drinking the coffee that I so lovingly brew before I come 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:42.000 corporate revival you know we used to have a young people's conference of 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:47.520 sorts in Bahrain 11 years ago even before the Bahrain Church started then 00:22:47.520 --> 00:22:52.080 it used to be called he brews and we used to have these coffee mugs with he 00:22:52.080 --> 00:23:07.160 brews written on it was that Jane or Charlene already don three months 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:19.960 corporate revival corporate revival is fueled corporate revival is fueled by a 00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:28.720 spontaneous by the spontaneous call by the spontaneous call of the spirit and 00:23:28.920 --> 00:23:43.800 the strategic sending out of the spirit so corporate revival is fueled by the 00:23:43.800 --> 00:23:48.440 spontaneous call and the strategic sending of the spirit what do you mean 00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:53.840 by that if we want to stay in a place of revival we have to be like dogs that 00:23:53.840 --> 00:24:02.000 have their ears cocked to their masters whisper sound car keys opening of the 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:08.440 gate smell footsteps it doesn't matter what it is your ears are cocked you and 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:14.400 it is it is critical to sustaining a revival not to have a week of meetings 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:20.080 and then switch off but to increasingly become highly aware of his greatness and 00:24:20.080 --> 00:24:23.240 his nearness because it's only supposed to increase it's not supposed to be 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:32.360 static or stagnant so over the last week you may have recuperated from long 00:24:32.360 --> 00:24:38.440 nights late nights but I hope you didn't recuperate from the alertness to God if 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:48.160 anything it should increase it's like job 37 11 to 13 which is quickly 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:59.880 becoming one of my favorite verses job 37 11 to 13 I'll read it from two 00:24:59.880 --> 00:25:05.600 different versions first one he loads the thick cloud with moisture the clouds 00:25:05.600 --> 00:25:11.160 scatter his lightning they turn around and around by his guidance to accomplish 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:14.840 all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world whether for 00:25:14.840 --> 00:25:19.440 correction or for his land or for love he causes it to happen let me read it 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:25.160 from the message and yes it's God who fills clouds with rainwater and hurls 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:30.000 lightning from them every which way he puts them through their paces first this 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:34.160 way then that commands them to do what he says all over the world whether for 00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:40.000 discipline or grace or extravagant love he makes sure they make their mark this 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:44.400 is the idea of being fueled by the spontaneous call of the spirit and the 00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:49.080 strategic sending of the spirit it's on one hand it does not require our 00:25:49.080 --> 00:25:55.840 permission it is it is it is surrendering to his desire as and when 00:25:55.840 --> 00:26:01.240 any time of the day and on the other hand it is this idea of doing what he 00:26:01.240 --> 00:26:05.740 very specifically plans there's an order to it in strategic and that is the way 00:26:05.740 --> 00:26:11.160 God does with the clouds he puts them through the paces in initially to have 00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:14.960 the move which of a way he wants but then he has very deliberate intent to 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:19.400 either bring grace or correction or extravagance to the land that's how this 00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:25.640 works that's why I said if tomorrow the Lord says hey guys do another three days 00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:29.760 even if it means that there'll be only one person on stage because it's too 00:26:29.760 --> 00:26:36.240 abrupt so be it it's a majority of one right 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:45.760 so may you live in an increasing awareness of his greatness and nearness 00:26:45.760 --> 00:26:50.040 this week one of the ways to do it is to invite people to pray with you during 00:26:50.040 --> 00:26:58.680 the week not pray for something pray pray for God pray for God not pray for 00:26:58.680 --> 00:27:04.320 the pastor or pray for the church or pray for revival to break out sometimes 00:27:04.320 --> 00:27:09.720 it is just to pray for God there's something that happened this week where 00:27:09.720 --> 00:27:19.320 I'd call people to pray for God and you would be you would know that our shucks 00:27:19.320 --> 00:27:26.400 if it means going out for a walk or calling someone in your bubble or soon 00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:30.360 zoom and live stream will be words used in the Bible at the rate it's going I 00:27:30.360 --> 00:27:38.640 hope not the other thing that's required for corporate revival is one 00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:44.880 accordness one accordness as in if you thought that there was some kind of 00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:50.320 unity in the church now we're talking about an increase in it one accordness 00:27:50.320 --> 00:27:58.520 and this one accordness is always through relational ownership through 00:27:58.520 --> 00:28:10.880 relational ownership as in you own me not I own you you own me that's how one 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:28.040 accordness happens where you begin to become sacred community that lives life 00:28:28.040 --> 00:28:37.760 together allowing for relational ownership leading to one accordness yeah 00:28:37.800 --> 00:28:48.240 pray for God means father don't want anything like this what you don't want 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:58.040 anything actually you can have everything but give me Jesus and you'll 00:28:58.040 --> 00:29:02.120 find that if when you pray like this actually you can have everything becomes 00:29:02.120 --> 00:29:08.320 a reality because you know it's a great trade-off and so your hand gets stronger 00:29:08.320 --> 00:29:15.200 on someone called Jesus and your hand gets looser over everything else once 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:20.120 your hand gets looser over everything else God begins to then find it very 00:29:20.120 --> 00:29:27.600 easy to direct you to start disbursing it be grace gifts wealth lifetime it 00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:35.760 just goes easily half the time God is struggling with me to have me give 00:29:35.760 --> 00:29:38.920 something away because I got one hand on him and one hand on that 00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:55.400 I pray that our one accordness increases it's not it's not bad at all it actually 00:29:55.400 --> 00:30:00.760 I'm marvel at how how you serve each other how you esteem each other more 00:30:00.760 --> 00:30:07.640 than yourself I'm marvel at it I almost think I didn't model it then I think to 00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:12.040 myself now take the credit but the point is this that you guys are already so 00:30:12.040 --> 00:30:16.160 good at it but then we are trying to step into a place of greater one 00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:25.960 accordness where there is relational ownership you own me and so we live 00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:32.240 effectively as a sacred or consecrated community and then when we do this guys 00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:40.640 Isaiah 40 verse 3 to 5 will happen Isaiah 40 3 to 5 Isaiah 40 3 to 5 will 00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:47.320 happen which is so important in a revival Isaiah 40 verse 3 to 5 so then 00:30:47.320 --> 00:30:53.280 we become that voice a voice of one calling in the wilderness prepare the 00:30:53.280 --> 00:30:57.760 way of the Lord make straight in the desert a highway for our God every 00:30:57.760 --> 00:31:02.760 valley shall be raised up every mountain and hill be made low the rough ground 00:31:02.760 --> 00:31:07.760 shall become level the rugged places of plain and the glory of the Lord will be 00:31:07.760 --> 00:31:11.480 revealed and all the people will see it together for the mouth of the Lord has 00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:22.720 spoken awesome this is what happens when we begin to run in this pathway that God 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:37.840 arranged this for us a the third thing is regional regional or territorial 00:31:37.840 --> 00:31:44.520 revival regional or territorial revival 00:31:45.360 --> 00:31:57.640 regional or territorial revival Sue had written texted me saying we should keep 00:31:57.640 --> 00:32:03.160 a chronicle of the things that happened during this time so that someone can 00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:08.200 read it like we read the Hebrides revival and I agree so when things happen in 00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:12.920 your life in this area keep writing them down keep writing them down keep writing 00:32:13.120 --> 00:32:19.520 your personal revival and your encounters with God because some of them 00:32:19.520 --> 00:32:24.960 you may not be able to speak yet or discuss yet but chronicle them a time 00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:33.560 will come territorial or regional revival this operates on two levels this 00:32:33.560 --> 00:32:38.360 operates on two levels regional or territorial revival operates on two 00:32:38.360 --> 00:32:49.680 levels first level is subduing regional or territorial spirits and the second 00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:57.920 and the second is opening doors and ancient gates in the territory opening 00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:13.160 doors and gates and ancient gates in the territory or in the region so this is 00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:17.360 territorial or regional revival it operates on two levels one subduing 00:33:17.360 --> 00:33:26.360 territorial spirits subduing territorial spirits and two opening doors and ancient 00:33:26.360 --> 00:33:38.840 gates in the region through prayer and action through prayer and action I think 00:33:38.840 --> 00:33:43.480 we'll be talking about this next week in detail because this is an important part 00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:48.800 of revival that we haven't touched and not touched deliberately because I think 00:33:48.800 --> 00:33:52.960 there's a time for it but maybe it's next week why should we do this so that 00:33:52.960 --> 00:34:06.400 the king of glory may come in so that the king of glory may come in and so that young prisoners 00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:18.680 may come out it's both ways eh so the king of glory comes in and young men and women come out 00:34:19.680 --> 00:34:27.560 the king of glory comes in and young prisoners come out it'll be awesome these are true things 00:34:27.560 --> 00:34:39.600 have the faith for the impossible these are things in the heart of God hopefully we'll deal with it 00:34:40.040 --> 00:34:50.920 when it comes to territorial or regional revival marry the land as in commit to its young men and 00:34:50.920 --> 00:34:57.240 women commit to the land commit your heart to the land that you've been given commit to the young 00:34:57.240 --> 00:35:05.000 men and young women commit to loving them and not taking offense commit to them when I was in a 00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:10.920 certain Middle Eastern country long ago I remember going for a meeting where people were asking for 00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:16.080 a revival of the country and then at one point I asked them whether they really like the people 00:35:16.080 --> 00:35:23.520 in the country and the answer was no they found them cruel they found them unfair masters they 00:35:23.520 --> 00:35:32.280 found them exploiters and they just didn't think very highly of the people that they were praying 00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:37.560 would be touched with a revival and so we may not think like that but we may have neutral hearts 00:35:37.560 --> 00:35:52.880 about the land that we are in old prisoners yeah so the the question is what about we keep talking 00:35:52.880 --> 00:36:01.120 about the 1330s as in the ones who are teens 20s 30s early 40s we're talking about them what 00:36:01.160 --> 00:36:08.760 about ones that are older like Jacob terribly when I begin to own up to stuff like that what 00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:17.480 about the older I'm sure that they'll be included but the focus and the emphasis at present is on 00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:25.160 changing at least two or three generations down the line so rather than be all inclusive I'll 00:36:25.240 --> 00:36:31.680 just to stick to God's exclusiveness knowing that he cares for the old as much as the young 00:36:31.680 --> 00:36:39.480 because they're all kids in his eyes but because of the emphasis that he is putting on the 1330s 00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:49.960 I'll just stick with his emphasis for now but he is impartial yeah yeah 00:36:49.960 --> 00:37:01.920 so marry the land commit to its young men and women by committing to love them and not take 00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:08.120 offense I don't think we've done that yet in our hearts we are neutral to it I want to get to a 00:37:08.120 --> 00:37:16.600 point and I'm just saying what I want and I'm sure it's more amplified in your heart what I 00:37:16.600 --> 00:37:22.760 want is that every time I see this group that God at present is running after that something 00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:29.480 triggers in my heart that there's some kind of cry that begins to rise in my heart that I'm drawn 00:37:30.120 --> 00:37:44.480 we said this before a burden allows you to co-labor with God's heart a burden allows you to 00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:50.520 co-labor with God's heart ask for this gift day ask for this gift it's a gift that God could 00:37:50.520 --> 00:37:57.240 give us we prayed for it that day do I think shekinah 4 or shekinah 5 we prayed for it but 00:37:57.240 --> 00:38:05.080 a burden allows me to co-labor with God's heart ask for this gift pray Lamentations 2 19 someone's 00:38:05.080 --> 00:38:09.080 been going through the book of Lamentations trying to see God's heart and the whole thing 00:38:09.080 --> 00:38:18.240 Lamentations 2 19 Lamentations 2 19 and we read this verse last time I want to read it again 00:38:18.240 --> 00:38:24.520 arise cry out in the night as the waters of the night begin pour out your heart like water in the 00:38:24.520 --> 00:38:29.280 presence of the Lord lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children who faint from hunger 00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:34.880 at every street corner guys I hope it happens there I hope you're woken up in the night Lamentations 00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:42.160 2 verse 19 and that when you're woken up in the night you're either given a specific young person 00:38:42.160 --> 00:38:48.880 to pray for or you're given a group to pray for a city to pray for and that Lamentations 2 19 becomes 00:38:48.880 --> 00:39:00.040 real that John 4 10 becomes real when you're walking on the streets John 4 10 begins to cry 00:39:00.040 --> 00:39:06.480 out from your heart till it forces you to do something Jesus answered her if you knew the gift 00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:11.440 of God and who it is that asks you for a drink you would have asked him and he would have given 00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:18.480 you living water that inside you there's this gnawing desire to go up because you know you 00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:23.400 have what they need that will bring them to a place where there'll be no more tears no more 00:39:23.400 --> 00:39:36.120 fear no more sorrow that first King 17 20 to 24 will be something that really bothers you where 00:39:36.120 --> 00:39:41.840 Elijah stretches himself out on the boy hand to hand feet to feet mouth to mouth and revives them 00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:49.840 one thing I know guys is the is how my heart begins to beat when I see a young man or a 00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:57.040 woman who wants to run for God how poor myself out man it is so worth it it is not that I'm 00:39:57.040 --> 00:40:03.240 not interested in people my aid but sometimes God puts in your heart this passion for this 00:40:04.240 --> 00:40:06.720 back exactly where it should be 00:40:12.720 --> 00:40:20.360 and may it be a burden they may we carry it I've never asked God for burdens but his burden is 00:40:20.360 --> 00:40:24.440 light and his yoke is light and his burden is easy and he will teach us how to walk under it 00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:26.520 I pray that we have disturbed nights 00:40:26.520 --> 00:40:38.360 territories regions are the place where you live territories a place is given to you region is 00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:44.560 the place where you live territory is a place given to you so I believe that yes I live in 00:40:44.560 --> 00:40:49.960 Vancouver but I also believe that territories a place is given to us I believe that Bahrain 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:59.000 is given to us that we have clout in Bahrain I believe that this little city called Kaunas 00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:05.280 in Lithuania is given to us that I've only been there once but my god that city is mine 00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:12.760 how presumptuous how boastful absolutely because my boss is in the Lord 00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:26.680 once these territories and regions are approached this way with the subduing of 00:41:26.680 --> 00:41:31.600 territorial spirits and the opening of doors and ancient gates you will see how this revival 00:41:31.600 --> 00:41:36.800 that we are talking about this this disruptive glory of God which is flowing like water breaking 00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:42.160 dry ground giving life to soil and seed reviving young men and women across the earth will begin 00:41:42.200 --> 00:41:47.280 to happen it's just mind-boggling man what are we doing in this 00:41:47.280 --> 00:42:14.400 the next so personal corporate regional and the next one is societal societal 00:42:14.520 --> 00:42:29.000 societal revival societal revival as in you begin to use your vocation your wealth your 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:38.520 sphere of influence to affect spiritual and physical changes you begin to use your vocation 00:42:38.600 --> 00:43:02.720 your wealth your sphere of influence to bring physical and spiritual change to everybody but 00:43:02.720 --> 00:43:17.880 in our present circumstance to the 1330s what is this did you ask a question or were you just 00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:24.160 stretching okay so what does this look like let me give you some examples that are already 00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:33.440 happening guys so there are some guys in this church who have put together a group that is 00:43:33.440 --> 00:43:44.920 already beginning work in schools and secular institutions dealing with the damage that porn 00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:55.600 can bring to life there's material being written courses being put together not not for not for 00:43:55.600 --> 00:44:04.440 believers in churches they're included but for colleges universities schools institutions there 00:44:04.440 --> 00:44:14.040 are people who have decided that they'll begin to focus on certain ethnicities that may need 00:44:14.160 --> 00:44:22.240 legal help or counseling help so that in that ethnic group there's a reaching out that can 00:44:22.240 --> 00:44:27.920 change both physical and spiritual circumstances there's someone else who's decided that they'll 00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:38.520 take a lump sum of money and put it towards water projects in cities or nations where just a drop 00:44:38.520 --> 00:44:46.880 of water will unleash spiritual and physical change amongst the 1330s places where there 00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:55.280 are rescue homes for girls and there'll never be a dirt for daddy and for boys abused rescued 00:44:55.280 --> 00:45:06.360 I'm just giving you a few that come to mind societal revival is when Isaiah 58 grabs the 00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:19.280 heart of a people will you be a torchbearer for the great move of God it can be local it can be 00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:27.400 global it can be regional but I'm saying to you that every person in this church has the 00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:37.240 potential to bring about societal revival it's a starfish story so what if it is one girl my 00:45:37.240 --> 00:45:42.280 god can you imagine what a difference it makes to one girl can you imagine that 00:45:49.560 --> 00:45:56.000 this is a cool thing about God he takes your smile small flask of oil he takes your two fish 00:45:56.000 --> 00:46:13.680 that's how he works then he adds it all up then he adds to it that's what societal revival looks 00:46:13.680 --> 00:46:18.960 like and I really believe that every person in this church has the ability to do this every 00:46:18.960 --> 00:46:28.680 person you're suddenly looking at there's a really an analogy that I have absolutely no 00:46:28.680 --> 00:46:34.960 expertise in it's like everybody bringing a potted plant of flower and then putting them 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:41.280 together and they look like one beautiful whatever it looks like when you 50 people bring flowers 00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:48.440 it's that kind of a thing it just looks amazing yeah well if it helped so be it 00:46:48.440 --> 00:46:55.840 with your masks on I don't know whether you're scoffing or laughing yeah I 00:46:55.840 --> 00:47:12.400 noticed however that there was no sound from Charlene's corner sorry what does it say 00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:34.080 like a friend of mine would say no coffee for you the next revival is cultural cultural revival 00:47:34.760 --> 00:47:45.400 no this is not a mouth thing cultural revival cultural revival is training young minds to 00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:54.080 process and live the word of God publicly cultural revival is training young minds 00:47:54.080 --> 00:48:16.520 to process and live the word publicly live the word publicly there's a dirt of this guy 00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:25.640 there's no dirt of worship for young people there's no dirt of programs and camps and 00:48:25.640 --> 00:48:34.760 conferences and hikes and treks and stuff like this there's no dirt of that but there is a 00:48:34.760 --> 00:48:42.960 severe dirt of the young that already exist in churches and you're talking about millions 00:48:43.120 --> 00:48:52.520 millions that already exist that do not know how to process the word or live out the word 00:48:52.520 --> 00:49:04.920 that the word is not becoming flesh cultures shift when the collective mindset of the thinking of 00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:11.920 a people shifts and unfortunately it is the collective mindset of the world that still is 00:49:11.960 --> 00:49:23.120 used by the ones in the church to process life with bookends of prayer and worship 00:49:23.120 --> 00:49:35.960 this must change and it can change it is absolutely doable I have seen it but these 00:49:35.960 --> 00:49:41.520 young men and women know how to process and live the word publicly at cost at cost it doesn't matter 00:49:41.680 --> 00:49:47.840 to them they become young men and women of godly character able to articulate the word in flesh 00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:54.440 calling themselves to a life of sacrifice of generosity of abandonment of total obedience 00:49:54.440 --> 00:50:02.480 to Jesus and his teachings hey I've seen that in the young people in this church I've seen this 00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:09.680 outside of this church and if you are a young person and you don't feel counted among the ones 00:50:09.720 --> 00:50:25.480 I've mentioned well then rise up if we don't work with what we have it's wrong to expect work 00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:30.920 amongst what we don't presently have we start with what we have we take our two loaves and 00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:49.680 five fish and multiply it you know John Wesley there's this John Wesley chapel in Bristol it was 00:50:49.680 --> 00:50:56.240 one of the first places I visited when I went there John Wesley when went to this town in Germany 00:50:56.240 --> 00:51:06.720 called Hernut I think ATRRNHUT and he was visiting this Moravian movement in Hernut and he comes 00:51:06.720 --> 00:51:12.960 back and his words were oh when shall this Christianity cover the earth as the waters 00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:19.560 cover the sea oh when shall this Christ he saw how the Moravians function how dedicated they were 00:51:19.560 --> 00:51:25.680 to the word how obedient they were how looking forward to the future they were even during times 00:51:25.680 --> 00:51:32.120 of funerals he was so moved by this that he begins to cry out saying oh when shall this Christianity 00:51:32.120 --> 00:51:37.960 cover the earth as the waters cover the seas and I'm saying the time is now and that we already 00:51:37.960 --> 00:51:49.920 have the first fruits in this church takes a couple of Daniels Josephs Azariahs Hananiahs and 00:51:50.800 --> 00:52:02.080 to change an entire Babylonian system it's doable I should ask Don to come up last I don't know when 00:52:02.080 --> 00:52:12.040 when planes used to fly Don and I went to this little nowhere town called Down near a place 00:52:12.040 --> 00:52:21.840 called Pune and spend some time with 600 young people yeah do you want to grab a mic because 00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:46.880 I'm not giving you mine you may want to stand here next facing the camera so in 2018 April 00:52:46.880 --> 00:52:59.840 Jacob and I we 19 April sorry it was April for sure and so Jacob and I we went to Pune and before 00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:05.280 I go there let me just quickly tell you something so one and a half years back God put something 00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:13.280 in my heart for young guys and it was a burden and I didn't know how to do anything with it and 00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:18.400 I've spoken with some of you guys about this passion for young men and women and I know that 00:53:18.400 --> 00:53:24.480 the same thing was put in some other people in the same in x29 and people started doing the same 00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:32.160 thing you know without like we didn't know about it but now when Jacob was telling about the revival 00:53:32.160 --> 00:53:39.200 among young people I know that God has been you know starting the process and preparing us towards 00:53:39.360 --> 00:53:45.520 it so I am for sure like my heart is rejoicing in what God is doing with this revival with young 00:53:45.520 --> 00:53:51.760 men and women and God has been using and preparing this church for what is about to come and in Pune 00:53:51.760 --> 00:54:00.960 what I saw was just truth setting people free and I'll give you one quick instance where Jacob 00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:08.560 was teaching about God being the master and mammon not being the master and this quick I probably 00:54:08.720 --> 00:54:12.960 told about this one before and this is for the guys who haven't listened to this story 00:54:13.680 --> 00:54:19.280 so Jacob talked about you know money not being the master but it should become our slave and God 00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:25.520 should be the master and towards the end as a symbolic action Jacob asked people to you know 00:54:25.520 --> 00:54:31.360 just drop money in front and this is around 600 people in a big camp so people started coming up 00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:36.080 there was a little bit of hesitation because people didn't know about this right for them it's a 00:54:36.080 --> 00:54:41.040 whole new thing where you know because you work hard for money you don't just give it away 00:54:41.040 --> 00:54:47.120 so this was a great thing where people just started coming slowly they dropped 10 rupees or 00:54:47.120 --> 00:54:52.240 you know 20 rupees little by little and then a lot of people started coming in and then 00:54:52.240 --> 00:54:57.520 so we have a heap of money right now and people thought that would be it right and they could just 00:54:57.520 --> 00:55:03.920 you know the church will take it but then Jacob said you know what if anybody here has anything 00:55:03.920 --> 00:55:10.480 like if there is a need for money come and pick it from this this heap here and nobody started 00:55:10.480 --> 00:55:17.120 responding so minute went by two minutes went by and then one person stood up and he he he's weeping 00:55:17.120 --> 00:55:24.720 he's bawling and he he comes and he takes a note from there and then slowly two or three or four 00:55:24.720 --> 00:55:30.800 people come and then there's this great I don't know how to express it but there's this great 00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:35.520 bondage being broken feeling the truth setting people free and then they realize this is what 00:55:35.520 --> 00:55:43.920 body means where you can come and take and God just does not you know he he does sometimes but 00:55:43.920 --> 00:55:49.680 it's not always about showering money from heaven to its you know people coming together using the 00:55:49.680 --> 00:55:54.960 body helping each other and people are just crying and as people are taking money more people come 00:55:54.960 --> 00:55:59.920 and they put money in and at some point people started throwing the whole wallets their credit 00:55:59.920 --> 00:56:08.720 cards their car keys so what I've realized that is that truth will set people apart that will set 00:56:08.720 --> 00:56:16.720 people free and you know I am coming from a similar tradition where for a long time God's 00:56:16.720 --> 00:56:22.720 face was distorted because of people because of traditions because of denouncing people's 00:56:22.720 --> 00:56:28.880 traditions because of denominations and everything they bring in and there are young men and women 00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:34.640 who are actively pursuing God but they cannot find the truth and that is where people like us 00:56:34.640 --> 00:56:40.880 who knows who knows the truth we should come in and we we should show the face of God and once 00:56:40.880 --> 00:56:46.160 we show the face of God forever their lives are transformed forever their lives are changed I 00:56:46.160 --> 00:56:51.280 know that Prashanth is meeting in a small group unbelievable things are happening and you know 00:56:51.280 --> 00:56:57.360 people are getting healed recently a girl from a Hindu background she she got saved and now she 00:56:57.360 --> 00:57:02.960 is going out and she's doing this we are just raising leaders guys and God is doing great things 00:57:02.960 --> 00:57:08.800 through this through this church and like I'm extremely happy that you know God is doing this 00:57:09.040 --> 00:57:12.960 revival and we can be part of it thanks 00:57:19.840 --> 00:57:24.400 guys what happened over the three days in this place that Don and I went to was remarkably 00:57:26.800 --> 00:57:33.760 like he said when when young people see the face of God and see it without distortion 00:57:33.760 --> 00:57:38.560 it does something to them because they're pursuing God even through the distortion 00:57:38.560 --> 00:57:44.800 and when they see it without distortion it does something to them it just flips them and just 00:57:44.800 --> 00:57:51.520 imagine what God can do when he starts a sovereign move like this I would say to you begin to pray 00:57:51.520 --> 00:57:57.440 that in the few that begin to pray that oh God would you end this pandemic so that this revival 00:57:57.440 --> 00:58:04.880 can take on the take on take on wings oh God that that we can actually go that it won't be through 00:58:04.880 --> 00:58:10.720 zoom that they'll see they'll see it in flesh and blood begin to pray for the end of this pandemic 00:58:10.720 --> 00:58:16.560 just so that what God has begun will begin to go guys these are good reasons to pray and enter 00:58:16.560 --> 00:58:21.360 something eh pray and enter something so that something else can start so that in different 00:58:21.440 --> 00:58:30.640 cities in Pune in in Slovakia in Lithuania in places that we haven't gone to yet that we will 00:58:30.640 --> 00:58:36.880 be able in the name of Jesus Christ I had to say name of Jesus Christ after doing that yeah so that 00:58:36.880 --> 00:58:44.640 we will be able to get together maybe 20 youth maybe 600 but change them dramatically show them 00:58:44.640 --> 00:58:50.080 the face of God tell them listen the time has come now is the time you will learn in a very 00:58:50.080 --> 00:58:55.040 short while what would have taken you much longer you will have the courage to step out of tradition 00:58:55.040 --> 00:59:01.040 to step out of the old wine skin even if that means who is my mother and my brother so be it 00:59:02.800 --> 00:59:06.160 because what is at stake is at least two or three generations 00:59:06.160 --> 00:59:21.920 Oh when shall this Christianity cover the earth as the waters cover the seas I will see it 00:59:27.280 --> 00:59:32.400 you don't realize how each of you has been set up for a time like this think back think back 00:59:33.280 --> 00:59:37.760 think back at how you became a believer think back through the story of your life think back 00:59:37.760 --> 00:59:42.320 at how you arrived at this ragtag bunch of guys called acts 29 think back 00:59:44.960 --> 00:59:47.360 and you'll realize he set us up for a time like this 00:59:47.360 --> 00:59:54.320 this 00:59:57.680 --> 01:00:01.840 I still remember an old man in white shirt and white 01:00:03.680 --> 01:00:10.400 pants I think I wasn't sure whether it was a dhoti or a pant but with a flowing white beard 01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:18.000 putting his gnarly big hand on my head and saying this man will serve God and he will see things 01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:24.800 and I think that that time is coming now 50 years later man we've been set up 01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:31.040 the last 01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:39.760 trajectory of revival that we should pay attention to is global revival global revival 01:00:41.120 --> 01:00:47.200 global revival so we've been through personal corporate territorial or regional societal 01:00:47.200 --> 01:00:54.720 cultural and finally global global revival happens to nations through cities two nations 01:00:54.720 --> 01:01:01.840 to nations through cities two nations through cities two nations through cities 01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:05.840 two nations through cities 01:01:08.160 --> 01:01:15.200 so nations are affected through cities and this is an old holy spirit strategy he'll pick certain 01:01:15.200 --> 01:01:23.280 nations he'll pick Antioch he'll pick Rome he'll pick Ephesus he'll pick these strategic cities 01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:29.680 because he knows their influence and he knows that if something can be established there 01:01:29.680 --> 01:01:35.440 it'll spread why rome why at that particular time because rome was building roads man 01:01:38.080 --> 01:01:39.440 things would travel faster 01:01:42.160 --> 01:01:47.680 you think god hasn't planned this revival perfectly so that things happen through zoom 01:01:47.680 --> 01:01:54.320 and live stream and then through real time flesh and blood his timing is so wise that satan is 01:01:54.320 --> 01:02:00.160 always kicking himself thinking i got him now i don't have him at all 01:02:04.640 --> 01:02:10.320 so global revival happens in nations through cities how does it happen initially it happens 01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:16.160 through peter and john and apollos initially 01:02:18.960 --> 01:02:19.920 it happens through 01:02:22.480 --> 01:02:33.440 initially it happens through peter and john and paul and apollos meaning it'll happen through 01:02:34.080 --> 01:02:40.720 people that god has raised for a time such as this they go out and they affect cities or they 01:02:40.720 --> 01:02:47.200 affect congregations so initially through equipers that god has set up for a time such as this then 01:02:47.200 --> 01:02:54.800 it happens through timothy's elijah's david's 01:02:59.600 --> 01:03:00.240 samuels 01:03:03.200 --> 01:03:08.960 so these are ones who run with a double portion because they've learned well from their fathers 01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:13.600 and they now begin to run with twice as much strength cover much more distance in a much 01:03:13.600 --> 01:03:20.240 shorter time just because of the of that scripture that they will join you at the break of dawn with 01:03:20.240 --> 01:03:30.880 a vigor of youth resplendent and holy armor then it goes to the syrophoenician woman 01:03:35.920 --> 01:03:37.920 the ethiopian eunuch 01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:44.240 the neyman's 01:03:53.920 --> 01:04:02.000 centurions these are people that are affected in the process by peters of john's paul's 01:04:02.560 --> 01:04:09.280 um elijah samuels timothy's these are people affected by them that have been touched by god 01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:18.320 these are people who are almost second generation they were affected by what god did through these 01:04:21.200 --> 01:04:25.280 by the syrophoenician woman the ethiopian eunuch the woman at the well 01:04:26.160 --> 01:04:34.560 the woman freed from divination in act 16 they begin to carry this into nations 01:04:37.280 --> 01:04:45.600 and then the last category is those that listen to your sermon on a mountain like people did 01:04:46.320 --> 01:04:52.560 listen to the sermon on the mount from jesus or those who come to argue with you at mars hill 01:04:52.960 --> 01:04:59.360 at mars hill like they did with paul in athens or those that gather in a church in troas 01:05:00.240 --> 01:05:08.560 till euticus falls off the windowsill because it's a midnight meeting or leaders in some 01:05:08.560 --> 01:05:16.400 church you've never met who gather at a beach in militus to listen to paul give them final 01:05:16.400 --> 01:05:23.040 instructions now these are unknown people that you may only meet once but the thing with torch 01:05:23.040 --> 01:05:32.320 bearers is once the torch is lit it will set on fire any piece of wood that is offered 01:05:40.320 --> 01:05:44.320 best that people not come anywhere near you with any kind of wood or anything flammable 01:05:45.280 --> 01:05:50.320 for the next little while because within two or three zoom conversations 01:05:52.000 --> 01:05:53.920 they'll find that you're not interested in the weather 01:05:56.000 --> 01:05:59.120 and as you're obsessed with this thing that obsesses the heart of god right now 01:06:00.400 --> 01:06:08.320 and either it's the fire is too hot or they'll catch it and run you won't be less fun you'll be 01:06:08.320 --> 01:06:15.920 as absurd and quirky as you already are but there'll be something obsessive about your 01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:30.480 quirkiness manoj won't change don won't change emily won't change cheldon definitely not 01:06:33.280 --> 01:06:37.200 but there'll be something about them that will be oh my god don't even go there 01:06:39.040 --> 01:06:44.240 but there'll be something quirky about them yet there'll be something that is so flammable about 01:06:44.240 --> 01:06:47.920 them i know i'm trying to make it light but it ain't light man 01:06:55.600 --> 01:06:58.560 there's this beautiful words in hosier 223 it says 01:06:58.560 --> 01:07:04.240 that is what happens in a revival the strangest of people josea chapter 2 01:07:06.800 --> 01:07:08.800 josea chapter 2 says 01:07:10.880 --> 01:07:16.240 my beloved and my people i will be called my beloved and my people as in 01:07:16.240 --> 01:07:23.600 those that are not mine will be called beloved and will be called mine and that is what happens in 01:07:23.600 --> 01:07:29.520 mine and that is what happens in a revival the strangest of people josea chapter 2 verse 23 01:07:29.520 --> 01:07:36.480 that is what will happen i want to say to you that you'll find in the next little while nations 01:07:37.600 --> 01:07:41.680 i'm talking about this global revival connections and nations that you never thought you would have 01:07:42.800 --> 01:07:50.160 that you never sought that come to you slovakia for instance i'll tell you something else bangladesh 01:07:50.160 --> 01:07:56.480 is coming but we'll have some kind of a inroad into bangladesh 01:07:58.640 --> 01:08:04.640 these are the nations that will come just because this revival is global