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Boom: Why Do We Need Revival?

June 21, 2023 · Cornerstone Apostolic Church (Chattanooga, TN)

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Summary

Summary prepared by Acts 2:38 Life from the transcript below — the preacher’s words follow in full.

What is different about this generation

  • Because of social media, this culture has made presentation mean everything; past generations worried more about surviving and the basic things.
  • Methods have changed — door knocking and handing out tens of thousands of crusade invitations — but God's message has not changed.
  • Whatever church people walk into, they are looking for community, authenticity, spirituality, and a feeling of belonging.

Scoffers in the last days

  • Peter stirs up pure minds by way of remembrance: in the last days scoffers will walk after their own lusts and say, where is the promise of his coming?
  • The Lord is not slack concerning his promise: one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and he is longsuffering, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
  • Noah stood on God's promise through the mocking for a hundred-plus years while he built — and God's plan was for the saving of his family.
  • The more we understand about hell and heaven, the more the urgency of the hour presses on us.

Scriptures: 2 Peter 3:1-9

God will have all men to be saved

  • Supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks are to be made for all men — for kings and for all that are in authority.
  • That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
  • God our Savior will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth; our own plans rarely work out, but his plan does not fail.

Scriptures: 1 Timothy 2:1-4

Sound doctrine for every age

  • Sound doctrine is stable, secure teaching: the aged men sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
  • The aged women are to teach the young women, that the word of God be not blasphemed; children will not learn to pray by accident.
  • Servants are to be obedient and adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.
  • The grace of God that brings salvation teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world, looking for that blessed hope.

Scriptures: Titus 2:1-5; Titus 2:9-15

Gentle, apt to teach

  • The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil.
  • A real relationship with God costs you something; it cannot be generated or faked.
  • Jesus changed everything in thirty-three and a half years, and everything since — councils, crusades, and today's headlines — is still about Jesus.

Scriptures: 2 Timothy 2:24-26

Beware lest any man spoil you

  • Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
  • In him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and you are complete in him, the head of all principality and power.
  • Revival emanates from a life that breathes Jesus in the secret place and carries his presence into Walmart, the job, and the place of business.

Scriptures: Colossians 2:8-10

Scripture index: 2 Peter 3:1-9; 1 Timothy 2:1-4; Titus 2:1-5; Titus 2:9-15; 2 Timothy 2:24-26; Colossians 2:8-10.

Transcript

here we are in the midst of June uh we are looking of course in 2023 at ways to accelerate everybody say accelerate thank you everybody say decelerate well that's what that sounded like everybody say accelerate come on act like you know what it means take your foot off the brake and hit the gas that got real loud didn't it lessons that we are talking about for the month of June are the principles of Revival boom Revival things happen I mean no Revival happens very quickly my grandmother I bless her heart she she I've talked about her all the time but she used to tell me I don't know how many times she would repeat it to me it's going to happen and he's going to do a quick work it's going to happen it's going to do a quick work he's not going to drag it out it's going to happen it's going to be a quick work and she'd say Raymond pray for quick work that you understand what you need to do in the quick work yes ma'am I'm teenager I don't know and that's what she would say it's gonna be quick it's gonna happen boom it's gonna be done uh tonight we're going to continue talking about the Boom the Revival and here's the question if you're taking notes good for you here's the question why do we need Revival now we we opposed this couple weeks ago we kind of talked about the principles of Revival Brother Gibson last week continued about doing your part and so forth but I want to talk about the need for Revival what does it even mean to do our part for Revival is that an okay question I mean shouldn't Revival simply happen I mean just just because you call on the name of Jesus isn't that sufficient is it not sufficient let's let's look at some things tonight I believe that in our present world that there are things that are different so the question is what is different about our generation than previous generations huh is anybody here third fourth generation Apostolic raise hand what's different now than was different presentation on what everything okay what does that mean that other Generations didn't have presentation I know where you're going they're okay very good there you go point is is because of social media it has generated a culture where presentation means everything agreed right uh past Generations they didn't care what their neighbor thought it was all dependent I got food on my table and you don't you know what I'm saying they worried more about surviving and the basic things and now things are what else is different what is that it used it used to be what church was going on somewhere somehow someplace with somebody okay I mean that's been in my day what else is different method what what does that mean okay it used for an example that's a great point it used to be anybody remember door knocking yeah that was fun right yeah I mean it was interesting my daughter hated it but only because the naked guy came to the door one time you gotta ask her about that one uh on the mission field as a child her and Stephen they would help us we passed out eighty thousand eight zero thousand invitations to two Crusade services in Uruguay you can't do that by just sitting in a chair we literally walked down the street this is what we did and who could say no to a girl this tall with braids down her hair and glasses and doing this so she got really good at just okay point is this methods have changed has the message changed certainly God's message hasn't but the voice that's being heard is that okay because of presentation because of we no longer meet Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday she mentioned for an example the message they're preaching and teaching has altered that okay to say let's look at something here as apostolics then in 2023 where do we fit in what does it mean to be Apostolic follow the apostles Doctrine in teaching is that right Apostolic so what is different about apostolics in this world than anybody else we mentioned the the methods the message what is different isn't every Church belief system the same what's different help me um I don't know but I know it's different now come on come on in but sir surely somebody's done some homework what's the difference that's right that's right yeah that's a that's a funny Point work Michelle and I work years ago with a guy and I was riding in the car with him and another guy was in the car I was in the back seat and this guy brought up what does it mean to be Pentecostal and the guy driving doesn't go to church the guy driving says I can answer that and I said tell him he said they believe literal word of God and the guy sitting there said what's different I leaned up and said tell him that I don't know well how you have one definition not the other isn't shouldn't we all be following the word but it's not true you realize that you could take anything and arrange it oh Lord I'm gonna face I'll fix old school y'all hang on to me my granny could get up and make biscuits to die for anybody else's granny used to do that huh what she put in them what else flowers oh yeah she you know what I'm saying they they you know this big and we just call them cat head biscuits I mean they're that big right the bad part about it you gotta have sausage to match it although I got to put like three or four churches broke out here here's here's my I'm gonna ask this question don't nobody answer so you don't get in trouble does anybody make homemade biscuits anymore you just answered 99 of us do what boom or my wife buys them in a bag you know you're zippering doing three four here's the point things used to be a certain way as we progress things change you find easier ways to do things and I'm going to ask again keep your hands down don't answer them I ask does anybody use a microwave does anybody use their stove besides a place to store sweaters we gotta ask Tim that one that's old old joke there here's the thing what are the likenesses of of any church and what are some of the differences because there are likenesses and differences what is one thing in any church meeting congregation that people are looking for Community what else being authentic yeah what else yes some kind of spirituality very good what else wanted yeah feeling feeling like they they belong sure what else and it really doesn't matter honestly what they believe because you really won't find that out until what to kind of get in there and start rubbing shoulders now this is what I do and you're probably the same if I if somebody invites me to a church or I get a a flyer or something from their church I go to their website what we believe are about us but I've noticed of late that there's a lot of even Church websites that have removed those statements what we believe and I don't know if it's on purpose or if they're trying to be Seeker sensitive or whatever so they they kind of tone it down but I'm wondering and again we're headed somewhere tonight it's 7 29 I've got some time I'm wondering sometime if you am I right Dorian check my time okay I'm wondering sometimes if the likenesses and the differences have caused more issues see it used to be in societies and cultures past that people simply believed in something bigger than them but now there's not much honestly that's bigger than a person because information matters and if you've got information you can make decisions and you can almost act like you know what you're talking about simply by the information hear me when it comes to your relationship with God the only thing you can test somebody with is what how much they know God that's why a little old lady can have zero to her name but have a relationship with God and she has a smile on her face because the stuff to her doesn't matter that's why on the other side of that coin somebody who has billions of dollars can be so miserable because they don't feel the value of something super and great in their lives so here we are 2023 is there a correct Doctrine is there a correct teaching yes or no okay there's a great big old Apostolic nod okay if there is a correct teaching or doctrine then why then are there so many other teachings and doctrines what makes you think you're correct I'm not asking for an answer I'm simply giving you something to to kind of twist around your brain a man what makes you really think that what you've got is all of that oh I mean okay well here's the thing about lining up with scripture oh you're fixing it in big trouble because do we all understand the scripture what does it take to understand the scripture and without there's a word I'm looking for without the spirit how will you understand so if you've got entire religions that don't believe in moving of the spirit how are they going to have understanding is that okay I mean honestly that's why I say man we're getting in big trouble if we start to figure this out mentally tonight I'm trying to just probe your mind a little bit to help us to realize why do we need Revival let me look at something go with me here with the Bible involved here now is that okay second Peter chapter 3. verse number one the second this Second Epistle beloved I write now write unto you in both which I stir up your pure Minds by way of remembrance that's what happens when your mind is remembering what God has done listen that you may be mindful of The Words which are spoken before by the holy prophets and of the Commandment of us the Apostles of the Lord and Savior verse 3 knowing this first that there shall come in the last day scoffers walking after their own lust and saying where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation for this verse 5 says willingly are ignorant of that by the word of God the heavens were of old and the Earth standing out of the water and in the water where by the world that what then was being overflowed with water perished but the heavens verse 7 says and the Earth which are now by the same word are kept in store reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and Perdition of ungodly men keep stay with me verse 8 but beloved be not ignorant of this one thing that one day is with the Lord is a thousand years a thousand years is one day the Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness but is you ready for it long-suffering to who SE word not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance the word here of course that Peter is in his letter he's given some clear indication here there will come a time when scoffers and and people will make fun and and folk will not receive they will not have good ears to hear and then to respond but instead they're going to say you've been talking Jesus is coming and he's not here yet evidently he has forgotten your desire it even goes for Forest to say this that that if God made a promise he is not slack concerning that promise does anybody here still believe in hell so if you believe in hell do you still believe in heaven how much do you know about the two I'm convinced as as as as I have lived in my life I'm convinced that the more I understand about hell it will push me to heaven but see a lot of folk in our world consider themselves to be living in a Hell therefore it has to be as bad as it ever gets because of their ignorance of the word they don't even realize that the hell that is spoken of in the scriptures is 180 degrees different than the heaven that they're hoping that they make it to you with me if you'll ever explain hell to somebody it will give them a clear indication that they need to make Heaven their home nobody and I mean nobody wants to run to hell anybody no therefore I need to understand as much about heaven and hell together so that I can learn to appreciate and to love the fact that God has come and made a way for me to go to heaven and that is through the name of Jesus Christ therein is your witness friend let me tell you something Jesus loves you yeah I know that's a Bible verse that's a Psalm we said no no no no no listen to me Jesus loves you oh I know we used to sing that and said no no listen to me Jesus loves you can I explain this to you and you start through the word unfolding the mystery so that instead of them listening to their flesh and what they thought was right the spirit begins now to speak have you ever had a revelation of things in the word man I I'm guilty of this I'm a lot of times because I'm hard-headed and it has to come very fast to me I'm reading a verse and I'm like that's cool that's cool all of a sudden fish and I went whoa anybody else or that just weird me huh when I went down and then we call it a rabbit Trail because here the rabbit goes and I take off after it and I'm like 40 feet deep into this thing and then I'm like oh I gotta stop okay and then I gotta go where was I why does the word do that huh sometimes you you know you may know this you may not really recognize sometimes you and I may be in conversation and my mind go and it looked like I'm not listening and probably not if my mind goes not not true a thought will come to me in the middle of it and I'll go oh my whoa are you done talking so I can go chase this rabbit here's my point if we understand that the God of all creation is not slack he has not forgotten his promise then we need to understand something if he says he's coming back he's coming back you need to settle that right now he's coming back if he's coming back guess what you better be watching for him to come back as plain as I y'all hear how I'm trying to be soft tonight in my voice because I want us to understand something Revival comes because of our understanding of the urgency of the hour Peter in this letter he's writing to the churches and he's explaining something he's telling them listen what this world needs is good sound teaching Doctrine some would say that that the word of God is is hard and it is you know that one person who says you know God if there's really a god then how can this bad stuff happen and quickly we can refer to what well God is also going to be a judge and although there might be some really nice judges out there everybody who stands before a judge is waiting for what for the verdict of what he just came up with and we're going to hope and pray it's it's good right you know my old Pastor yourself time people people spend a life sowing Bad Seed and then they pray hard for a bad Harvest the truth is is that if we got what we deserve many times it would not look good at all would it Peter's reference here was to the day of Noah all right let's do this help me let's go to the days of Noah how were things listen things were so good during the days of Noah God said I'm going to kill it and destroy it all I'm gonna mash it and I'm gonna start over again but I found one man that I want to save through this one and God put this in Noah and 100 plus years Noah built Noah built Noah worked it was not for the saving of the world it was for the saving of his family it just so happens listen to this God's plan was perfectly right I want your family saved Noah why because you found favor now this is what I'm going to do in the process of you building what I'm telling you to build if you'll do it the way I tell you to do it you're going to watch animals come and you're going to watch these guys and they're going to come right into the thing that you spend 100 plus years building and all you're going to do is you're going to see you're going to make preparation for them what among animals what what is going on here don't aminal stink in his brain you know what he's thinking out of all of humanity God gave me this chance God could have picked anybody you better know Noah knew what he was doing God could have chose anybody and through all of the mocking and all the laughing and all the things the only thing that Noah could stand on was God's promise because when the time came Noah getting the boat buddy take your family here they come are you in there you know the story anybody heard it now you wait right there and when the time is perfect and the moment is right I'm going to close this door what door the door you built that I told you how to build imagine with me if you would what if Noah simply would have said I'll cut a corner here and I'll risk every animal and every human on earth huh now God God could he could have restarted the whole thing but instead he chose a man listen to me friend the promise that spoke of here is for you when God filled you with his glorious Spirit he was allowing you to be part of the plan now who would it be for us in this hour to Simply scoff at it wash our hands of it yeah I'm a Christian yeah and not believe it okay y'all want me to go back old school again I'll go back anybody remember the days when Services went long and nobody cared uh some of y'all young folk would just die if you had to stay in church to midnight oh like a phone right now and I could just interact everybody I said kids didn't I okay Mama that oh tell me I'm lying anybody the thoughts the teachings the way that Jesus Jesus wants for men to come to repent his desire is that we would walk after the plan that Jesus gives us nothing else really matters nothing else really matters now it matters to us how many here want to be a bomb and live on the side of the road somewhere no we want to have things we want to have a name we want to have something for our kids to be able to connect to we want to we want to be able to retire you know all those things that we do is there anything wrong with that no but here's the problem the problem is that so many times we put our plans into action and they don't match gods so here's the question who pays for that you or God y'all ready for Jesus Christ the same apparently he's not affected by it Seth artiaga the same none of y'all don't even want to see I'm saying how quick that is one name sorry Seth had a pick on you I mean it was just a reflection I couldn't tell you or Daryl but anyway two in a row right Steven's back there catching it all it's going boom boom sorry boy I went down quick didn't I the end of it all is going to be God's plan did anybody here put anything into Motion in the beginning so you can't even decide how it's going to end okay ready for it I'll give it to you down simple did anybody hit this anybody in this place remember your first breath anybody then how do you know you have breath you simply assume that everything here is working guess what who was there at your first breath because it wasn't when you got out of the womb it was already wasn't it happening in whoo yeah I spent a week with my grandchild in down my hand yeah and Brittany would eat something and I said did the baby enjoy it yeah it was ice cream I was good for her I like that listen to me why revival there's a question Timothy First Timothy 2. verse 1 I exhort therefore first of all supplications this is this is letter supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men verse two for kings and for all that are in Authority that we may lead a quiet and Peaceable life and all godliness and honesty for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our savior who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth God the plan is is that everybody get this now will everybody go to heaven why not or why do you think for one moment that God would create any God you picked the god would create have a plan and put everything into motion and not know the end result that'd be that doesn't even make good sense it's not enough enough for you to think that God would do that what about in your life anybody ever sit down and make a plan this this a b c a dog to Z and then start the plan anybody sure and the plan work 100 percent huh you can't even get close to 50 percent I don't care how good you are you CA I bet we can't get the 30 of that plan how do I know that because I do the same thing and somebody I may have my act together but somebody else come on this is the they well if they hadn't done that they don't know what they're doing they're they I just tell you what they don't know who's the day you know the day I realized that in their car I'm the they don't know what they're doing well in their car they're saying the same thing and I'm over I'm like wait a minute I got thrown into this well you threw me into yours like somebody tell you all how you doing buddy I'm living the dream I'm like wait this is your fault then why am I in your dream them is that okay I'm living the dream man whether why am I going through all of this can I get out of your dream because mine was better I just fell apart didn't I God wants that everybody come to knowledge knowledge is what having the ability to know the ability to connect understand to grip it to realize the necessity of it but you've got to be able to take the word of God receive it and then let your spirit that's within you activate with something that is given to you why am I talking about why revival I'll tell you why because as humans every generation is the same come on there's no new things things happen to one generation that generation Paul that passes another one comes it might not be the exact same piece of information but things by and large don't really change huh anybody here have bills to pay well man your grandparents had bills to pay now again I've talked many times my grandfather built his house on a handshake back this truck up the lumber yard load up what he needed took it built it took back what he did and told the guy what he had the guy shook his hand he said okay and he paid the 1700 built this house now I tried that at Home Depot I was very kind I even gave him a list I've driven off with this stuff can I didn't work at all that way well I'm drawing you know what I'm talking about yeah then come after me listen to me what has changed then is the the way the practices of things in the scripture though Heaven and Hell I'll ask it this way is anybody here building something in hell are you fabricating anything that will be present in hell you realize that you can't fabricate the sin sin didn't come from you sin came from what one word disobedience when you're born into sin what does that mean you're born into a spirit of disobedience you know the first word every baby learns is what mine mine the second word they learn is what why because Mom and Dad teach it to them this is not yours it's mine no mind the right mind get caught in that Loop No don't touch that no don't tell me no no don't you see I'm saying that the controvert the conflict is there from a little child then you grow up and you figure out that you actually have ideas and then you start working those huh anybody here dumb sorry that was an example well you don't want to identify I'm the dumbest guy in the building oh no you you want to have thoughts you want to have intentions you want to have dreams and visions and if somebody asks you your input you want to be open it up and speak about it well here's the thing in the plan of God here's do you know the path that you take I mean you might set some Direction but God is there people are there influences are there come on none of us would hope for a wreck none of us would hope to be bankrupt none of us have hoped for things to fall apart but it could happen to us and the problem is is how we respond when those things happen is that okay again why revival follow me a minute Titus says it this way chapter 2. but I speak thou the things which became become excuse me sound everybody say it sound Doctrine say it sound Doctrine say it again sound what is sound doctrine that is not the doctrine of sound it is stable secure teachings those things have become secure teaching that the aged man listen to this be sober grave temperate sound in faith and charity in patience these are the older folk why is it important that the older folks live this way huh why but why is it important an example of what of their stuff that they've been through now what invariably happens from young people to old people oh they don't know nothing I used to think the same thing about my dad well over there he's just an old footy yeah that's a that's an old word but he does he don't know nothing I know I'm 17. I mean you know true I'm all that and the box of Cracker Jacks I'm not just the prize that come on now I had to sell my wife on this years ago and now I'm 58 and I wish to God I had dad to talk to a lot of decisions I made I made mistakes because I didn't have a dad to bounce them off of and I just just that's my story not yours it's mine I wish that I would have picked up the phone I could pick up the phone Dad how do I buy this car Dad what am I on buying a house I don't know how to do it or whatever dad what would you do in this case now I got hopes because of the word that someday off stand with him and he'll have the table set because that's where I want to go and be with those that have gone before but I'll never get there until I do what here I've got to understand that growing learning having the experiences making me who I am Titus notice what it says sound in faith charity patience the aged women didn't leave you out likewise that they may be in behavior and becometh Holiness not false accusers not given to much wine teachers of good things that they may teach the young women to be sober to love their husbands to love their children to be discreet chased keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands that the word of God be not blasphemed this is associated listen when I don't I don't want to meddle tonight I'm not going to I'm just simply going to tell you that in our world and in our culture because of the divorce rate and the rate of people not communicating and connecting it's causing effects in the spirit world because they're not learning how to be chaste and they're not learning to to allow God to work in their families and therefore they can throw it away and think it costs nothing but statistics numbers for all of us knowledgeable number folk it means something you know out of a hundred kids this is and here's the outcome and sure enough why is that because the older folk have to act a certain way the older men the older ladies their whole principle in doing this is to teach the younger ones and pass along knowledge to them why that they would learn and that they would not blaspheme against the things of God can I can I say something and not be misunderstood tonight as Pastor can I Pastor for just a moment Mom and Dad if you think your children are going to grow up and know how to pray by accident it's not going to happen now I'm not telling you beat him over the head with it I'm telling you let you make them understand the importance of it Mom and Dad when your children reach a certain age do not bring toys for them to church now I'm going to Pastor a minute yeah but I need them to be occupied no you don't they need to get into prayer and worship too or they're only five I don't care they can still love God they're teaching them so I'm not saying leave them sit their chair like this the whole time with tape around them so they don't move and tape over their mouth no they're still children but what I'm saying is they can worship in the altars I've had children pray other children through in the Holy Ghost I've watched it there's a Sunday school class that some of you may know about because they're on Facebook every weekend prayer requests for our Sunday school class put them here freedom on Jerry Barlow Nashville for a couple of years now they've been praying I mean outstanding prayer requests anybody watch that Cancers and diseases and sicknesses and he has his Sunday school kids pray over it you know what healings and miracles happen because a six-year-old prays don't think for one moment that just happens it's going to be because somebody says I believe in your prayer now you get up and pray huh oh no stay with me stay with me stay with me connect with me here okay you ready for it exhort servants to be obedient to their own masters and to please them well in all things not answering again not having to come back and say well this is why but honestly giving themselves not poor loaning but chewing all good Fidelity that they may Adorn the doctrine of God our savior in all things for the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to who all man teaching us what here's the teaching denying ungodliness worldly lust we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and the Glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify him and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works these things speak exhort and rebuke with all authority let no man despise thee Titus the young preacher receiving this instruction he receives a letter from Paul and Paul is trying his best to get this young preacher to recognize things listen old folk young folk alike they are in a process and a cycle young folk listen to Pastor for just a moment if you don't get anything else out of this lesson tonight you get this listen to me you're listening young folk listen to me carefully listen you're not always going to be young and within a couple of days you're going to be an old person that's how fast time's going to go mom and dad tell me if I'm lying blink it's there you're like what just happened do you realize do you realize 40 years ago I graduated high school I know I look at because I feel it 40. are you 40. I've been out of school long you see what I'm saying I'm looking at that I'm like Oh my how's that impossible I mean I know but it's as if you wake up one day and you're like what just happened where did my two-year-old go and now they're walking down the aisle and now they're calling saying they're going to have a baby now things they're buying their own houses they're on cars they're making paying their own bills and all that I'm standing back going what just happened yeah why because life happens to all of us some of you that that are having kids you're like oh this kid's driving me crazy good wait till they're not there anymore it's a little different feel any old folk understand any parents understand when they're not there all the time you know I'm just reminiscing here Titus got this and this was the teaching that he received from Paul there is a such a thing as sound Doctrine sound Doctrine the old folk the young old women old men young men servants they need to understand their place in the Kingdom so tonight I'm watching we're eight o'clock listen to me why revival I'll tell you why because what Revival will do if the church truly understands Revival we will understand that it is an incredibly large powerful opportunity that we have to help others know about Jesus our singing will not save them my preaching will not it'll help the singing will help but what we need in this hour more than anything is a move of the spirit of God and an understanding of our time on planet Earth means something I applaud the old-timers that came before nobody has ever thrown a tomato at this church no one has ever booed and driven by with a car and thrown eggs at it anybody no now when I was a kid people would drive by and honk their horn and yell because we were in tent meetings I do remember the drunk coming through the back of the tent and coming up to the front to get his wife and he knocked down flat of his back in the middle of the aisle speaking in tongues as the pastor went no you don't boom he hit the ground we all went I remember I remember sleeping under the pew and watching them roll and shouting I told you my job as a kid growing up was collect bobby pins because they were everywhere can can we even do that now we got chiropractors everywhere oh Lord don't let me get stuck in this one can I say something not be misunderstood but say it with all the love in my heart some of us were sicknesses and illnesses we could probably fix it with one good shout service I'm just telling you there have been times I've stood at this Podium and I couldn't I didn't feel well my body was aching my mind must cough and God would come in and he would gracefully touch me and I was able to minister I can't explain it to nobody I'm convinced that a lot of the elements of today could be solved if somebody would simply yield to the worship that God is drawing them into I'll say it this way and I'll move on to close my 83 year old mom says it all the time to me Raymond I wish I could shout like I used to can't your mom know my knees are shot my back I can't I can't but she said I pray hard as somebody gets on their feet she said I pray at every service I'm there God let them shout for me because that's how I Want To Worship the Lord how much this is an 83 year old I'm afraid that I haven't done enough for God God let me understand what that means and not just simply hear it my grandmother died on her deathbed at 77. I wish I would have done so much more for God this world desperately needs people that will stand and declare the good news of God it will not come when you pass judgment against what the pastor says the preacher says or the word says if you prejudge that you have lost all it doesn't even matter if you want to go to heaven you can't because that spirit will never enter the gate it won't the letter to Second Timothy said this servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle to all men I have to teach patient and meekness instructing those that oppose themselves if God for adventure I read this a couple weeks ago we'll give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil who are taken captive by by him at his will the devil's will not even your will Paul's teaching says You must be apt to teach now in our generation I'm learning that that we don't know everything we think we know and guess what I'm learning it from I'm learning it from a computer that's called artificial intelligence I found out now that you can use it and turn my son the other day easy and it's videos and stuff I mean hours and hours to edit videos he did he told me I did they're good in 10 minutes Dad I said how'd you do that it cut pays chopped it off put it inside threw it into AI program it took him and cut all the stuff out brought it back and it took all these sermons and it put it in 10-minute format it started and it stopped so how did another do that he said it was going through the data as it was playing and it was attaching things and it caught and he said what would have taken me 20 hours to edit it took 10 minutes I said was it was it good he said 10 minutes I said yeah but then Dad 10 minutes it doesn't even matter hang on to me I'm listening to this going well that is crazy he said no dad I used to have to go to my mouse and copy cut paste on the slide listen listen later it's real time right he said no I put it in there my son-in-law hey I wrote this program how'd you write he said well I don't know how to do this so I put it in AI what'd it do you wrote it said put this in don't fix it we don't even need people now I'm wondering when the day will come when I can get up here and say message about salvation come on Deron you want the same thing song about healing y'all need to know something if that ever happens if that ever happens I'm gonna be the one in the altar shouting oh Hallelujah Lord hallelujah listen to me you know that's silly that's mechanics that's our world and I promise you if I reached out to somebody through artificial intelligence they would know that it's fake but a real relationship with God cost you why do we need Revival I tell you why because we need to invest now I've said this multiple times we all pray for healing right but none of us want to be sick to have to be healed we all pray for blessings but none of us want to do without until huh anybody here again I've revert back to brother titiclov you say all time when somebody comes a pastor I want you to pray that the Lord blessed me I want you to pray the Lord a worker work model he said okay let's pray right now Lord I pray you would send all of this damnation to them send all this trouble and all this that whoa whoa whoa he said well that's not what I said well it's through Temptation it's through testing it's through Strife that these things come and if you're asking for me to pray for it it comes with the price all of a sudden you know I'm good I'm blessed I am so blessed Lord you know I'm blessed huh that's why in everything you give oh Lord don't let me start there Jesus laid it all out for us this is probably the one of the most intriguing things about Jesus he simply had 33 and a half years to change everything and he did it listen to me but he didn't do it until he died and when he died the only thing that they could revert to was gone now we don't even know where he went he's not behind The Rock he's not in the Tomb we don't know where they laid him all we know is this he is not there if you do your research after that Ascension happened after that come on if some of y'all go a little further than than what you simply get in the letters and you start doing some historical accounts and you find out in 120 and you find out in 210 you find out man the argument was still there Jesus come on the Council of nicaea was all about Jesus the Crusades was all about Jesus the Spanish Inquisition all about Jesus hey we're in 2023 guess what every news article you watch everything that comes on all the negative and all the junk that pops up it's about one thing Jesus well man it's all messy and all that that's right Jesus is showing up there they need me come on we don't have to think about I often I mean y'all know my heart I often wonder where are we in the end time in in the church and how are we going to have Victory Revival in the church with all the negative stuff going on and I have to back up sometimes and I have to think well you wouldn't need Revival if the folk weren't first dead you want to know I'm excited when somebody gets baptized because they've decided I want life that's Revival you want to know I get thrilled when somebody's praised through to the Holy Ghost speaking in tongue come on it ain't a handshake it ain't a floppy flop it's them speaking in tongues they're counting has changed you know why because that's the spirit of God in our day still working listen to how the letter is in Colossians 2 and 8 beware come on brother John lest any man listen to what it says spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men after the rudiments of the world are not after Christ for in him dwelleth all the fullness of the godhead bodily listen you are complete in him which is the head of all principality and Power that's Jesus here's the thing the spoiling you through philosophy and vain deceit anybody know what's that spoil means I know some of y'all think it burnt milk no I mean what what is it what is it really referring to anybody confusing I'll take it what else spoil you vain philosophies deceit anybody boil you what okay when you think of the word spoil and you have children what do you think of yeah okay okay there's several ways you can look at the understanding of spoil it's true beware unless any man take you gotta go this route you ready for it Kings and kingdoms would battle and what went to the victor the what what are the spoils stuff beware lest any man with stuff philosophy vain deceit come on if I just had another hundred thousand dollars in my bank account I could retire and live forever that's a spoil and it will destroy you is there anything wrong with a hundred thousand in your bank no but if you leave Jesus out of the equation I can tell you right now it's not gonna mean anything why do we need Revival I'll tell you why because Jesus wants us to have it but in order to have Revival friend this world needs a church needs individuals people young and old that will simply live the way he wants you to live you don't have to be fake you don't have to wonder what to say how to say it what to do if you're depending on yourself you already know you fail but if you will get under the spout where the anointing of the Lord moves and you'll let God move in your life I promise you doors will open opportunities will come it might be standing in the line at Walmart about to blow your top because you're mad having a standard check yourself out and have to pay more money for it you know like I do I have to check myself Lord somebody's watching somebody watching I have I've I heard I got a testimon for brother Arnold's church I'm joking he's watching them joke my name you wonder my name my name is Seth artiago hola you know what I'm saying you got to watch why because they're watching you but oh the joy I word to God that somebody here would worship on Sunday they would do the same thing on Tuesday I'm gonna say it like this and I'm done it's 8 13 listen to me when was the last time that in the secret place became such an overwhelming presence that you didn't care the clock you didn't care who was around you simply breathed in Jesus and breathed out Jesus and all the stuff just kind of found its place I cherish my mornings with the lord they're not shouting they're not dancing around either mostly sitting there in a chair on the swing with my cup of coffee but I Breathe It In Lord I love I so want your presence in my life and as I pray for my wife and my children and and put your grandchildren I pray for health I pray for for provision I pray for you I pray for the church and churches around one just simple prayer what I'm saying is God bathe this day in your spirit therefore when I go into that Walmart or I go into that job or I go into that place of business guess who was with me and that one sitting behind a desk that's soon to commit suicide that one sitting in the car beside you that would just rather run his car into a bridge because his life is a mess that one person if we could find ourselves in a place that God could simply Usher us that is Revival beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men the rudiments the teachings the ways of this world not after Christ because in him dwells lives doesn't shift gears it doesn't take place it dwells at least all of the fullness of the godhead bodily I want you to Bow your head with me right now Lord we want Revival we pray God for Revival and Lord you know what it's going to take in these last days it's already been prophesied it's already been spoken about in the last days this will happen this will happen and this will happen it's already there but in that God you would that none would perish but that all would come to repent turn around come to you you would God that we would run after you and hunger for you and thirst for you you would God that we would not be spoiled we'd not be taken or drawn away through the philosophies of the world through deceitful things Lord in the way men see it or or the way the world sees it but that we would hunger for you and then all day-to-day walk Revival would simply emanate from us because your word is in us your spirit is in US Jesus Jesus helpless God get us to a place to be I pray us Lord as a church into position greatest Harvest to man will come before you come former the latter rain together Lord will be greater than before you come if we'll call on your name we can be saved if we'll run to you our lives can be changed it is you Jesus that we stand for it's altars open for anybody who wants to spend some time with the Lord tonight it's 8 17. I don't know how big of a hurry you're in or where you need to go is there anybody that would come to an altar and just God I've got lost loved ones that need you would you help me I've got neighbors and co-workers Lord that are hurting and falling apart God would you would you help me to be what I need oh God there's a city that need come on is there anybody to just spend some time I mean honestly time with Jesus he is still the answer he is still the answer nothing else will do nothing else will matter nothing else has significance without Jesus come on would you cry out to him some of us here tonight we need we need to cry we need to weep before the Lord at an altar we need to let ourselves grow and to be broken in the presence of the Lord so he can continue and do the work that he wants to do Jesus Jesus come on that's right call on the name of the Lord God help me Lord be found doing my part for the kingdom in this hour yes Jesus your presence Lord is heaven your presence Lord can change us oh come on somebody are you hungry for the Lord is there something in you that's driving you to intercession is there something in you that's causing you to want more of him than the things of the world come on is there something in you that is pushing you into a place you really don't understand but you are so hungry for demonstration of God's power in your life come on he can forgive sins in a moment yes he can he can wash yes he can he can make completely whole yes he can but are we hungry for are we thirsty for it do we desire the things of God more than the things of the world do we desire the power and the blessings of God more than the stuff around us Jesus I love you come on somebody open your mouth right now pray open your mouth call on the name of the Lord Jesus come on Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus come on speak to him right now talk to him lift your voice to him right now come on lift your voice to him Lord I'm trusting you I am trusting you Jesus I'm believing you Lord Apostolic Authority Apostolic anointing in this hour Jesus I Need You Lord I trust you Jesus my faith God is in you tonight Revival Revival come on are you hungry for it Revival Revival Lord raise us up Lord in this hour let us desire more of you more of you Lord in this hour more of you Lord in this hour I love you Jesus I trust you Jesus I praise you great God I love you Lord I desire your word your spirit in my life Jesus come on I know it's midweek but the Lord is here tonight and he wants to move in a church we need Revival foreign to get up close to somebody and pray with them right now come on find your somebody and just pray with them God you see their desires Lord you you understand where they are what they're going through come on believe for it God you can speak into their lives hope Lord you can break down barriers God that perhaps they have built between you and them come on pray Jesus you can do anything Lord in them come on believe for it Jesus Jesus the spirit of the Living God fall fresh Upon Us o God tonight we need you Lord we need you Lord we need you Lord holy is the Lord Holy Is Our God blessed be the name of Jesus blessed be the name of Jesus oh come on believe for it Jesus we need Revival we want a supernatural move the Holy Ghost hear Jesus Jesus Jesus great is your name great is your name Holy Is Your Name Lord your name Jesus Jesus Jesus oh yes yes yes yes yes hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah the name of Jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah aren't you glad to know the Lord we read tonight in the letter of Peter the second one that some will say where where's the promise of his coming since our fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning nothing's I mean you keep saying Jesus is coming but where is he the word of God from the old and then and everything is just the same it's it's all that we know and it appears that nothing's changing and Peter said it that are scoffers they don't believe God can fulfill his word here's the question listen carefully if you doubt God if you doubt his word at one point you might as well throw it all away you better believe all of it you know I because it is everything you need for salvation don't cherry pick your favorites and live by those and forget the rest huh as much as you love the New Testament you better love the Old Testament you better love the law you better understand the law understand the Fulfillment of the law huh why because it is the map that we've been given to get to heaven all right now we're all in trouble I realize because I'm reading one of those books again man it's just yeah so you all probably get some of that too can we all Stand Together thank you so much for coming out on Wednesday night I it's 8 26. I sure hope your coupon's still good Lord thank you so much for our time together Revival in our day Lord we we want Revival a new breath Lord to breathe into our church into our families into our lives holy ghost power the unchanging hand of God I pray Lord we would seek after that you are not slack you know exactly what you're doing Lord in this hour help us to submit to that and to believe it Lord to accept it Lord and to to move forward in it Lord giving you all the honor and Glory keep us this week Lord I pray leading guide our steps order them every day help us Lord to draw nearer to you we love you we claim victory in the name of Jesus Heaven is still in view Lord God and we're still working to get there in Jesus name we pray somebody say Amen

Scripture references as spoken: 2 Peter 3:1-9; 1 Timothy 2:1-4; Titus 2:1-5; Titus 2:9-15; 2 Timothy 2:24-26; Colossians 2:8-10.