1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:03,200 Can we give him a shout of praise tonight? 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:10,280 Every time I lean on the Lord, I know I can trust that he's going 3 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:16,239 to see me through. Hallelujah, I lean on you, Lord. 4 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:19,440 Amen. Sometimes we need to be 5 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,520 reminded. We lean on our own understanding 6 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:26,240 at times, and that doesn't get us very far. 7 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:32,720 And we have to be reminded to lean on the Lord trust in the 8 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,960 Lord, Amen, Amen, Amen. Thank you for your faithfulness 9 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:42,360 to the House of God tonight and I'm so thankful to be here. 10 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:46,120 I'll have to remember if I know how to do this after being a 11 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:48,480 dad. I'm joking. 12 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:54,840 I have had some funny moments. My wife and I have had it is it 13 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:59,560 has been a great privilege and blessing and just love it so 14 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:03,920 much. And the the the quick joke, I'll 15 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,560 tell you is that I had AI had a brain fog moment one day. 16 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,480 We were driving home and I was trying to we were talking about 17 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,720 some TV shows and stuff. And I was like, I cannot think 18 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,760 of this actor's name. And it was Tom Hanks. 19 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:19,960 And I said the guy that plays Woody. 20 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,160 And she was like, you mean Tom Hanks? 21 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:28,360 And I was like, yeah, that guy. And she said what is fatherhood 22 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:29,360 done to you? No, I'm joking. 23 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:35,680 But love and appreciate my wife so very much. 24 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:39,080 She is a trooper. She is amazing. 25 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:43,040 She is the wonderful mother of my child, our child. 26 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:49,400 And she is just, I can't say enough of how how amazing she 27 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:57,040 has been and just accolades, the accolades go to her. 28 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,040 And I love, love and appreciate her. 29 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:06,080 We just just remembered on Friday that we had been you 30 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,160 should always be dating. And those of you that aren't 31 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,920 married yet, you should always be dating your spouse. 32 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:18,360 We have been dating for 10 years, 10 years, whole decade. 33 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:25,320 So love that and love and appreciate them love and 34 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:30,520 appreciate my parents and everything that they have done 35 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:35,600 for us and and their support, endless support and love. 36 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:41,080 And I want to thank not only them but they they took care of 37 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,200 a whole week of meals for us and was it. 38 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,320 I know they're my parents, but I have to brag it just I love and 39 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,160 appreciate that soul bunch. It is. 40 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,440 It was a blessing. But not only did they do that, 41 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:57,680 then we had we had some of you church people come in and take 42 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:01,920 care of a week. Just you know, we, we had Reese, 43 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:05,520 we had Erica, we had Jen and Tyler, we had Zach and Malin 44 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,800 throughout the week. My parents picked up another day 45 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:15,120 too, but throughout the week blessed us and I am so thankful. 46 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,440 Thank you so much for loving and appreciating. 47 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,560 I, I, I could not appreciate more what you have done that you 48 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,120 took care of us in that time. You didn't have to. 49 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,800 We could have made it work, but you did that out of your, your 50 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,640 good old hearts. And I just love and appreciate 51 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:34,200 that. Can we give them a hand? 52 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,720 I'm so thankful for that. And that that is just the body. 53 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,960 That is just the body and I really appreciate that so very 54 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,480 much. If you will turn this afternoon, 55 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:51,800 evening, midnight, if you look outside to Judges 6 and verse 3. 56 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,920 Love and appreciate our pastor and his wife and so thankful for 57 00:03:57,920 --> 00:03:59,800 them. Glad that they are, they're 58 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,600 going to go and, and have a trip and so glad that they are going 59 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:07,080 to be able to get away and, and have a little bit of sabbatical 60 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:13,680 and celebrate 2028 years. Amazing 28 years. 61 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:17,800 Love and appreciate them so very much In your Bibles. 62 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:25,080 Judges 3 six verse 3, it says. And so it was when Israel had 63 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:29,000 sown that the Midianites came up and the Amalekites and the 64 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,520 children of the East. Even they came up against them, 65 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:37,400 and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of 66 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:41,560 the earth. Till thou come unto Gaza, and 67 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:46,840 left no substance for Israel, neither sheep nor ox, nor ass. 68 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:51,080 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they 69 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:56,040 came as grasshoppers for the multitude, for both they and 70 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,520 their camels were without number, and they entered into 71 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:03,080 the land to destroy it. And Israel was greatly 72 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,520 impoverished because of the Midianites. 73 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:10,240 And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, one more, one 74 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:14,080 more scripture would be familiar to you is John 4 and 35. 75 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:18,680 It says, say not ye, there are yet four months, and then cometh 76 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,880 harvest Jesus speaking here it says, Behold, I say unto you, 77 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:25,880 lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white 78 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,480 ready to harvest, ready to harvest. 79 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:41,280 I come tonight hoping for this to be more of a warning than a 80 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:47,480 than anything. We do not want to lose sight. 81 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,840 We do not want to lose sight. And so I'm going to speak 82 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:57,480 tonight on the eyes that see harvest, The eyes that see 83 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,000 harvest. Could you set your Bibles down? 84 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,400 Help me pray tonight, Lord, I ask you just to move in this 85 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,760 place, Lord, Your presence is already here. 86 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:08,600 You are already amongst us, Lord. 87 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,280 I ask you just to move, minister Lord to your people tonight, 88 00:06:12,280 --> 00:06:15,520 Lord, touch your servant, Lord, that that I may speak what needs 89 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,480 to be spoken, Lord. It is your will, not mine, Lord. 90 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,520 Anything, Lord, that comes from my lips, Lord, would be of your 91 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,520 word, Lord, and the of your volition, God, I ask you just to 92 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:26,880 move and touch hearts and minds tonight, Lord. 93 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:30,360 A planting ground for your word Lord that would would be 94 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,480 flourishing. God minister Jesus in this place 95 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,600 that would see harvest in Jesus mighty name that we pray and 96 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:43,480 everyone said Amen, Amen. You may be seated tonight. 97 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:48,800 Look at your neighbor and say the eyes that see harvest maybe, 98 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:50,960 maybe bug eye a little bit at him or something. 99 00:06:53,240 --> 00:07:01,040 In 2016, National Geographic explorer Mark Sonat, not snot 100 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:07,000 Sonat, boarded a Canadian icebreaker by the name of 101 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:13,880 academic Sergei Vavlov, and you'll have to forgive me for 102 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:18,560 that pronunciation to retrace one of history's strangest 103 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:20,800 disappearance. It was called the Franklin 104 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:27,680 Expedition through the Northwest Passage. 2 British ships HMS 105 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:34,920 Erebus and HMS Terror had set sail in 1845 to map out the 106 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:43,160 Northwest Passage and never returned. 129 men vanished into 107 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,600 the ice. For nearly two centuries, the 108 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:53,800 Arctic had kept its secret. Sanat's major modern crew of 109 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:59,240 today in 2016 carried every advantage, every advantage that 110 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:06,160 Franklin could have dreamed of. Radar, GPS, sonar, satellite 111 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:10,280 maps, ice forecasts. They had the power, they had 112 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:15,880 knowledge and communication to do this mission and find this 113 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:20,120 vanished ship. And when the wind shifted in the 114 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:25,440 Northwest Passage, within hours the sea hardened into a sheet of 115 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:29,200 ice. Their engines kept humming, but 116 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:33,000 the ship had stopped dead. They were dead in their tracks. 117 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:38,240 Sanaa even said it was like being alive inside a photograph. 118 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:44,120 No horizon, no sky, no sea. Just white in every direction. 119 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:50,200 For days they drifted nowhere, the ice creaking against the 120 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:54,920 hull of the ship, and the crew stood on the deck listening to 121 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:59,280 the sound of the pressure. And it it is, it is groaning 122 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:02,320 against the hull of the ship through the cracks of the ice, 123 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,840 though they conceive movement, you know, fish were flashing on 124 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:08,800 by, colors were going on by. You could see the fish. 125 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,960 And the strangest thing he said was realizing the world beneath 126 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:17,040 us was alive while everything else on the surface was locked 127 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,560 solid. They were not sinking, but they 128 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:24,160 were stuck. And then Snot said so. 129 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:26,240 Not said. That's when it hit me. 130 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:30,520 We weren't in danger of sinking. We were fine, but we were in 131 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,040 danger of staying. And I don't know if you know 132 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,960 anything about the Arctic. The more you stay, the more 133 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,040 danger you become. All right. 134 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:42,480 And so two weeks, two weeks went by and the wind actually turned 135 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:47,360 the ice and it loosened and the ship finally broke free. 136 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:52,040 And as they crept forward, sonar revealed a shape beneath the 137 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,880 surface and it was rectangular and it was wooden and it was 138 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:01,760 preserved and they had found the HMS Terror, Franklin's lost 139 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:05,480 ship, intact. Sanat had said. 140 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:11,680 What was lost wasn't gone. It was just buried under ice and 141 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:17,200 under the time, the time it just took time to find it. 142 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,400 And it was not lost. It was, it was just the vision 143 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:24,160 of not being able to see it until the ice broke. 144 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:28,200 It was just buried. And so when we get to Judges, 145 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,400 I'm going to come back to it. But when we get to Judges 6 146 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:37,200 here, we have 7 years of oppression that are going on. 147 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,960 You know, Israel's problem necessarily wasn't that nothing 148 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:46,840 was growing, wasn't growing. The text begins literally with 149 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:53,080 when Israel had sown, they had seed in the ground and the land 150 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,040 was producing once again. They were not in a famine. 151 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,880 They were in fruitfulness after years of struggle. 152 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:06,080 And their issue was timing. Every time a harvest stirred, 153 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,520 the enemy would show up. And it wasn't just random bad 154 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:13,720 luck, it was a pattern. And Israel had fallen into the 155 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,760 same cycle before. It may seem pretty familiar to 156 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:19,280 you. God blesses Israel. 157 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:24,240 Israel grows uncomfortable. Comfort becomes their 158 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,400 compromise. Their compromise turns into 159 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:31,400 rebellion and the rebellion turns into oppression. 160 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:36,080 And then what does Israel do but get on their knees and say, 161 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:40,520 Lord, we need you. They cry once again out to the 162 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:45,280 Lord that had taken them throughout time up to that 163 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:46,920 point. And we know throughout 164 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:51,240 Scripture, I've talked to students before here and at at 165 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:55,560 school, I've talked and joked about how whiny Israel has been 166 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:59,000 throughout time and how ironic that it is that they're whiny 167 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,040 because of how much they disobey God. 168 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,600 But then I also turn that joke into a lesson for the students 169 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:10,840 and that is us, that Israel is just a great representation of 170 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,080 humanity. That is all that they were 171 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:14,280 humans. We are human. 172 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,720 And we have to understand as much as we, when we're doing our 173 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,840 yearly Bible reading, we may be even getting tired of Israel. 174 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:25,160 You have to think, think of what God thinks of us sometimes, 175 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,000 right? We have to understand Israel is 176 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,960 just a good reflection mirror for us to look at. 177 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:36,600 The book of Judges repeats this cycle like a rhythm of a drum 178 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:38,640 beat. The children of Israel did evil 179 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:41,040 in the sight of the Lord, and then the Lord delivered them 180 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:44,000 into the hand of their enemies. And then after the pain and 181 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,680 after the suffering, the children of Israel cried out 182 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:50,720 unto the Lord. They were a nation that was 183 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:54,240 caught in a spiritual short term memory. 184 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:59,840 Every time God restored them, they relaxed their guard. 185 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,640 And every time they relaxed their guard, what would you know 186 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:08,640 it, an enemy returns. That's how the adversary still 187 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:12,680 works today. He is not omniscient, but he is 188 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:16,200 observant. When God begins to stir the 189 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:21,160 ground, when faith starts to breakthrough, the enemy moves in 190 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:26,080 to trample the crop. And so you have to understand, 191 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,280 Satan is not worried about the seeds. 192 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:32,360 You can plant as many seeds as you would like, plant as many 193 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,840 seeds as you would like, but the moment there starts to be a 194 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:43,920 harvest, you can bet that there will be an attack in our 195 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:45,920 opening. Jesus told the disciples. 196 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,520 He said lift up your eyes and look to the fields, for they are 197 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:52,360 white ready, all ready to harvest. 198 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,920 The the understanding of the tints of that statement is 199 00:13:55,960 --> 00:14:00,840 already the harvest wasn't this future hope, but it was a 200 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:04,920 present reality that they had been too busy and too tired and 201 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,160 too doubtful to notice. Ladies and gentlemen, the 202 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:12,600 harvest is already here. We have been experiencing this 203 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:16,000 for the past couple months. The harvest is already here and 204 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:20,440 we over the course of time we should not get too caught up 205 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:26,840 that we lose sight of that. And that is where Israel stood 206 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:32,440 in Judges harvest had started, but fear blurred their vision, 207 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:36,320 making blessing and a threat look like the same. 208 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:41,320 They ran for the caves, they they guarded their lives, but 209 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:45,000 they surrendered the harvest. I don't want it to ever be said 210 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,520 of me that I would surrender the harvest to guard my life. 211 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:53,600 We should put our lives on the line for the harvest, not the 212 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:55,360 other way around. Surrendering. 213 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:57,640 They were surrendering the harvest. 214 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,560 And you see, the devil doesn't need to uproot what is growing, 215 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:05,200 he just needs sometimes to make you believe it's not growing. 216 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:09,960 If he can distort your vision, then he will make you and he 217 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,080 will get you convinced that you will abandoned the field 218 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:18,800 yourself. It's almost like Pavlov's dog. 219 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,920 A good example description would be that there would be some sort 220 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,680 of tone for for a dog. And every time the tone goes 221 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:29,240 off, you give it a treat. Well, eventually the dog gets 222 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,240 used to that, right? And then whenever you do the 223 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,720 tone and you don't have the treat, but the, the dog's there 224 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:36,480 and it sits and it's ready for the treat. 225 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:41,400 That is exactly the same thing. It is almost as if sometimes we 226 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:43,400 get in this pattern. Israel was getting in this 227 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:47,760 pattern of getting oppressed and getting getting the enemy is 228 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:52,520 Satan Satan's forces coming up against them and they were not 229 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,120 going to the harvest because they were afraid. 230 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:59,080 They were associating it with the enemy. 231 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,800 We have to remember that harvest is not associated with the 232 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:05,840 enemy. Harvest just means that the 233 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:10,400 enemy is coming, so their field stands ready for harvest. 234 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:13,560 It is it is destroyed. It is they are coming in and 235 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:15,440 then the enemy is going to destroy it. 236 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:19,080 No one dares to gather it out of fear. 237 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:22,480 No one is daring to gather it. The the multitudes of Israel are 238 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:25,880 not daring to do that. That is where we are church. 239 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,960 We are in the trenches of revival and we can feel God 240 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:33,440 moving and opening doors and people walking through and faith 241 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:35,480 growing. But at the same time, the 242 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:39,120 pressure is going to intensify the conflict like the the 243 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:41,960 weariness, the second guessing will start to come in. 244 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,160 And that is the pattern we have to look at through Scripture and 245 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:49,360 understand that when the harvest of revival is coming, we have to 246 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:51,920 be warned of some things that are going to come down the 247 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:55,440 pipeline and be aware of it beforehand. 248 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:02,960 The enemy can't stop your revival from coming, so he he 249 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,240 fights to steal our sight of it instead. 250 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,280 Because once it's here, if he steals your sight of it, we just 251 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:12,880 have people sitting, not believing in the revival. 252 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:16,000 He wants the church to only see struggle. 253 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:20,359 He doesn't want you to see the significance of the harvest. 254 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:24,040 He just wants you to remember the shaking that comes with the 255 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,240 harvest. He wants you to associate 256 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:30,400 harvest with, If I do that, then Satan's going to come and it is 257 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:35,720 not going to be good for me. He wants you to remember that 258 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:37,680 and all. All you can associate the 259 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:42,040 harvest with is negative things because the enemy comes in and 260 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,800 then all you want to do is go to the caves. 261 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:46,760 You don't want to go to the harvest, you want to go to the 262 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:50,360 caves. And like in in, in Mark's snot 263 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:54,560 ship in the Arctic, the danger was that if they stayed stuck, 264 00:17:54,560 --> 00:18:00,040 then they were going to die. If we stay hidden like they did 265 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,600 in the caves, then the harvest is going to die. 266 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,160 We do not want the harvest to die. 267 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:10,760 Israel was paralyzed, if you will. 268 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:14,960 They were blessed, but they were blind because the enemy was 269 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:19,040 stealing that site of the harvest that God had for them. 270 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:23,480 It was theirs for the taking. I fully believe that if they 271 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,960 went and they take, they stood their ground and they kept going 272 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:31,040 towards the harvest and they continued and they decided to 273 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:34,920 actually thresh it and actually do the work that the enemy would 274 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:40,120 have been turned away by God. But they were afraid, and they 275 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:44,360 associated that fear with the harvest and God. 276 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:47,680 God was about to dress that blindness that they had. 277 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,960 But before he could raise a Gideon to fight, he had to 278 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:54,160 expose the forces that were causing it. 279 00:18:54,720 --> 00:19:00,960 Every revival has some 2 familiar enemies, strife and 280 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,200 weariness. They are not new. 281 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,360 They may wear new disguises, but they are not new. 282 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:13,040 In in Israel's story they wore the names of the Midianites and 283 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:17,800 the Amalekites. The word minion means literally 284 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:22,040 strife or contention or judgment. 285 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:27,400 It's not just a tribe, it is a spirit of constant conflict. 286 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:32,160 Wherever God tries to bring unity, you can guarantee Midian 287 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:36,040 is going to show up to try to bring and sow suspicion. 288 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,960 Midian is the unsaid tension in the room that you can't quite 289 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,920 put your finger on. Midian whispers they don't 290 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:48,040 really care about you whenever they truly do. 291 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:52,000 Midian is turning minor on misunderstandings into major 292 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,800 offenses. Midian is going to convince you 293 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:59,240 that every correction not only for God but from the man of God 294 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:02,440 is criticism and an attack. Midian. 295 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:05,000 When the spirit of Midian comes in, you are going to start 296 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,320 taking note of who raises their hands and who doesn't raise 297 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,840 their hands, who recognize, who is recognized and who is 298 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,760 overlooked. Midian is bringing comparison, 299 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:20,640 suspicion and complaint. The spirit of Midian works to 300 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:24,880 turn worshippers into spectators and then turn those spectators 301 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:30,160 into critics. The spirit of Midian is there to 302 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:34,640 create discourse, and he will show up whenever the harvest is 303 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:36,240 there. Whenever you try to grab the 304 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,720 harvest there, you can guarantee Midian. 305 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:42,760 The spirit of Midian is around the corner, looking, seeing who 306 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:48,800 could be impacted by him. And then there's him, Amalek. 307 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:54,560 His name traces back to roots meaning toil or vexation or 308 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,640 doubt. Amalek is finding the weary. 309 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:02,400 He is finding the ones who have fought the longest, prayed the 310 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,880 hardest and stayed the latest. He is not hitting head on. 311 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:11,440 But in Exodus 17 we can see that he comes in from behind. 312 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:16,080 Exodus 17 even shows us that when Amalek struck, it was the 313 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:21,280 tail of the Israelites line. Amalek is waiting till revival 314 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:25,320 feels like routine and then he comes in. 315 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,520 You've been doing this long enough, you're tired. 316 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,960 Just just go home. Just stay home. 317 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,720 They'll have church without you. It's fine. 318 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,240 He doesn't need you to backslide, he just needs you to 319 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:44,720 back off. And between the two, Midian is 320 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:49,000 going to divide and Amalek is going to drain the Saints. 321 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:54,040 And so together they form a nice perfect ambush. 1 is distracting 322 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:58,080 you with noise and issues that arise, and the other is wearing 323 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:01,680 you down with fatigue. And by the time you have 324 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:05,760 noticed, the field has already left unguarded because you've 325 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:10,960 got people hiding in a cave. They have lost sight of the 326 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:15,160 harvest. I am telling you that as things 327 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:19,480 continue to go through the revival fire, burning of 328 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:24,320 harvest, that these spirits are going to show up. 329 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:29,840 I can tell you and and I can tell you since Pastor Wilkes has 330 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:33,240 been here, I cannot tell you the amount of exhaustion I have had. 331 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:37,040 I can't explain it. I, I have you might, you can ask 332 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:38,320 my wife. I have taken naps. 333 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:39,560 It is not because of our daughter. 334 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,320 My our daughter is an Angel. She's fine. 335 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:46,160 I have taken naps like crazy. I've been exhausted. 336 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:50,520 I cannot describe it. It is not because of the time of 337 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,680 year for me. It is not because of the time of 338 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,680 year. It I have realized that it is 339 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,240 Amalek. Amalek has been. 340 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:01,760 The spirit of Amalek has been trying to wear me down. 341 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:06,280 You have to pinpoint these things and pray against these 342 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:10,760 things because we do not want it to be a hindrance to the 343 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,480 harvest. You got to. 344 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,440 You got to understand that these things are bigger than us. 345 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:21,560 We have to understand that we have power in our prayer and if 346 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:25,280 we allow it, we allow Satan to go unchecked. 347 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,680 He is going to get the best of us. 348 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,120 He is going to make us try to go back to the caves and lose sight 349 00:23:31,120 --> 00:23:36,000 of that harvest. So I'm putting, I'm putting the 350 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,080 spirit of Midian Amalek on notice tonight that there is a 351 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:44,160 warning going towards the Saints that the harvest will not be 352 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:48,840 lost sight of. Revival dies the moment enough 353 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,200 people replace those expectations. 354 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,520 When Minnie and Amalek come creeping in. 355 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:58,080 We have to understand that that harvest is close. 356 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,480 If there is a trying in your life, if there are things coming 357 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:05,480 up and where did this come from and oh, the sickness and I know 358 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,680 it's the time of year, but there is a difference. 359 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,840 When there are things that start to come up and it's just out of 360 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:15,880 nowhere, you can bet that probably revival is still, it is 361 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,720 here. And we have to, we have to pray 362 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,280 against that. That is, Gideon's generation 363 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,800 forgot. Gideon's generation forgot that 364 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:28,880 the harvest was close whenever the enemy came closer, and so 365 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,680 they let Midian's division and Amalek's exhaustion chase them 366 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:37,080 off of their own property. Instead of standing in their 367 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:41,000 fields, they hid in those caves. But in the middle of that 368 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:47,440 hiding, God was looking for a thresher that had not lost sight 369 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,960 of God's blessing, someone whose vision was still intact. 370 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,920 He didn't come to a soldier in armor. 371 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,680 He came to a farmer, so to speak, of clutching a handful of 372 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,600 grain, if you will. Getting was trying to protect 373 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,240 what was left. Judges 6 and 11 says. 374 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,320 And there came an Angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which 375 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:18,760 was in Ephora, that pertained to Joash the Abizarite and his son. 376 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:24,160 Gideon threshed wheat by the wine press to hide it from the 377 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,920 Midianites. We come up on Gideon. 378 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:31,080 He is threshing wheat in. He is threshing wheat by the 379 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,840 wine press to hide it. He is doing harvest work and 380 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,280 hiding. I want you to understand harvest 381 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:42,960 work is not a hiding work. Gideon was doing the best he 382 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,960 could, but that it was not what God intended. 383 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,600 Harvest work as a whole with grain, it is supposed to be done 384 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:55,720 in the fields, out in the open at this time, open on a hill 385 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,040 where where the wind can separate the chaff from the 386 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,720 grain. But here we have Gideon, and he 387 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,960 has no freedom for that. And he is doing sacred work 388 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,240 underground because the enemy has now turned the field into a 389 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:13,520 war zone and because the people had fled to the caves. 390 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,640 Gideon is not lazy, but he is traumatized. 391 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:22,240 He is not, but he is fearful. And Gideon is not idle. 392 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,920 He is trying to salvage. He is trying to keep some 393 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:32,040 remnant of what God gave Israel before it is all gone. 394 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,800 And it is there that the Angel of the Lord appears and says in 395 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:41,680 verse 12 that the Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor. 396 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,040 It wasn't because Gideon was fearless. 397 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,800 It wasn't because he was a man of valor in the sense of what we 398 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:53,160 think of where war, but it is this a sense that he was still 399 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:57,480 having the vision of the harvest through all of the ups and downs 400 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,360 of what Israel was going through currently. 401 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,920 He still had that grain and he was threshing. 402 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,920 He might have been looking over his shoulder, making sure that 403 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,280 that whenever you know, not knowing how deep he is in The 404 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,560 Cave, not knowing if the Midianites were going to come in 405 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,560 further and the Malachites, he was threshing because revival 406 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,880 does not begin with perfect people. 407 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:22,400 It begins with people who refuse to stop working even when they 408 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,600 are scared. We have to understand that there 409 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,400 are going to be times we are scared, but we have to keep 410 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,280 working. We have to keep going to the 411 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,200 harvest. Sanat said that he was in 412 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,520 danger. They were in danger of sinking. 413 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,200 They weren't in danger of sinking, but they were in danger 414 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,480 of staying. When we reveal that and then 415 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,440 look at that, that is a church's warning because we're not 416 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,200 sinking. There is not a sinking. 417 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,680 We're not dying. But if we stay where it's safe, 418 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,560 if we thresh our wheat underground while the fields are 419 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:03,200 full, then we will miss the harvest that is happening above 420 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,720 ground. God did not call Gideon to 421 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,760 survive. He did not call just the church 422 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:13,760 to just survive. He called them to see again, to 423 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:18,600 see the vision again. And so when we get to Judges 7, 424 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,880 Gideon has rallied an army of 32,000 men. 425 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,200 They camp beside the spring of Harad. 426 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,280 Harad. The spring of Harad means to 427 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:35,400 tremble or quake. Even a Hebrew phrase in Harad 428 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,840 translates to the eye of trembling. 429 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,800 They are camped at the place where fear and faith are going 430 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,640 to collide, trembling at the spring. 431 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:53,120 That spring, God says tell the fearful to go home and 22,000 432 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,640 leave. Now we're left with 10,000 and 433 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,720 they look like a loss to you. But that was clarity. 434 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,120 That was clarity. God wasn't downsizing. 435 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:06,120 He was purifying because you cannot conquer an enemy while 436 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,160 you're still negotiating with fear. 437 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,600 You fear is going to show us what we've been leaning on. 438 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:17,560 And then God has a second test for the rest at the water, 439 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,120 watching how they drink. I didn't have it up there, but 440 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,600 it's Judges 7 and five it says. So he brought down the people 441 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,040 into the water. And the Lord said unto Gideon, 442 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:32,160 Everyone that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog 443 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,800 lappeth him, shalt thou set by himself. 444 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:40,120 Likewise everyone that boweth down upon his knees to drink. 445 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,480 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to 446 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:48,000 the mouth, there were 300 men. But all the rest of the people 447 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,640 bowed down upon their knees to drink water. 448 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:55,040 And the Lord said to Gideon, By the 300 men that lapped, I will 449 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,680 save you and deliver the Midianites unto thy hand, and 450 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,520 let all other people go, every man to his place. 451 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,240 What on earth is this significance? 452 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:12,120 God, what does this mean when you read this lapping like a dog 453 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,560 and he's taking it to his hands, What's the difference between 454 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,000 take cupping it into his hands and then being on his knees? 455 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,680 The men that scooped the water up to their mouths, they stayed 456 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,360 alert. They they kept their eyes up, 457 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,520 they were watching their surroundings. 458 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,360 The others, they are in a more compromised and vulnerable 459 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,520 position. They are more relaxed when 460 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,840 they're on their knees. They are unaware of their 461 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,800 surroundings. God was after the ones who were 462 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,720 disciplined and watchful. Those that were ready for the 463 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,520 battle. Even in the small moments like 464 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,680 this, we're just drinking water. Why is that important? 465 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,880 Well, they still needed to be aware that there was an enemy 466 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,720 that was going to be a around the corner and it could come at 467 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:03,640 any moment. And so God is saying I can do 468 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:08,920 more with a few focused people and faithful people than with a 469 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,760 crowd of careless, unfocused people. 470 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,720 And so there were those 300 that the Lord said would use to help 471 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:23,360 Gideon win the victory. When we get to Judges 7 and 472 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,080 verse 20, it says the three companies blew the trumpets, and 473 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:31,240 they break the pictures and held the lamps in their left hands 474 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,240 and the trumpets in their right hands to blow with all. 475 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:41,720 And they cried, the sword of the Lord and of Gideon Gideon's 300 476 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,920 men, surrounding the enemy with clay jars and torches and 477 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,080 trumpets. I don't know about you, but that 478 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,680 does not sound like weaponry to me. 479 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:59,680 And at the signal they break the pitchers and the light lifted, 480 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:07,160 and those jars that once possibly stored grain, they now 481 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,720 hold a flame. God took the same vessels that 482 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:15,080 once preserved the wheat, the harvest if you will, and filled 483 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,960 them with fire. God is taking those ordinary 484 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:24,040 tools of Labor and turning them into instruments of revival and 485 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:28,400 revelation and victory. The jars were not special, the 486 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:33,160 soldiers were not elite, and the plan did not make a lick of 487 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,160 sense. But the moment that the vessels 488 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:40,640 broke, victory began and the enemy turned on itself. 489 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,280 Whenever you walk in faithfulness, even in the plan 490 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:49,960 that does not make sense, but it is from God, just trust that the 491 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:51,840 enemy is going to turn on itself. 492 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,160 It is not going to be you. There's going to be victory. 493 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:58,920 Even when it doesn't look right, even when it doesn't make sense. 494 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:04,000 We can't, we can't afford to, to nitpick at God's plan. 495 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:10,800 We have to allow it to move in the way He planned it. 2nd 496 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,520 Corinthians 4 and 7 even says, but we have this treasure in 497 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:18,360 earthen vessels, that the Excellency of the power may be 498 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:22,720 of God and not of us. We have to put ourselves in 499 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,960 check. Sometimes God allows things to 500 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,880 crack in so the light can escape, so to speak. 501 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:33,000 And so revival is always going to demand a breaking again. 502 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,120 The pressure is going to intensify. 503 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,200 Pride is going to break. Schedules are going to break. 504 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,120 Habits are going to break. The sound of shout uttering is 505 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:48,160 preceding the shine of glory. That's even how the ice broke 506 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,760 around in Sanat's ship. The same noise that terrified 507 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,600 them actually became their sound of freedom. 508 00:33:56,160 --> 00:34:01,240 When that ice fractured or when the jar burst, the light escaped 509 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,360 and the enemy panics and their freedom is restored. 510 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,440 Gideon's army never swung a sword. 511 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,560 That doesn't even say that they even had any swords on them. 512 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:17,320 They shouted the sword of the Lord and of Gideon, and they 513 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,800 stood still with those jars and broke them. 514 00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:25,440 God turned that enemy on itself. We win not by volume, but by 515 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,960 vision. They won because they were 516 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:33,280 aligned in the same godly vision. 517 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,760 Philippians 4 and seven says in the peace of God with path. 518 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:41,120 So path is all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds 519 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,760 through Christ Jesus. If you need to have an 520 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:48,800 understanding and and focusing on something, you need to have 521 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,960 the peace of God. Pray for the peace of God 522 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,280 because it'll give you understanding and it will keep 523 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:59,320 your heart and your mind through those times that Minion and 524 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,080 Amalek want to try to come up and destroy you. 525 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:06,600 It is going to keep you. When the church keeps its eyes 526 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,440 on Jesus, that peace is going to guard your perception. 527 00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:14,400 It is going to guard that noise of Minion Amalek outside. 528 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,160 It cannot blind you anymore. But the faith inside, that's 529 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,880 what's going to keep you. That is what's going to keep 530 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:25,200 you. And so we get to Judges 8 and 531 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,400 verse 28. And it says thus was Midian 532 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,520 subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up 533 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,960 their heads no more. And the country was in quietness 534 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:41,560 40 years in the days of Gideon. That's the thaw, if you will. 535 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:46,360 The ice finally is melting. The fields are breathing again, 536 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:52,680 the people of God, and in rest and harvest they are. 537 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,600 They have rest, but they have harvest. 538 00:35:54,920 --> 00:36:00,520 When you have victory over the spirits of Midian and of of of 539 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,640 Amalek, there's going to be rest, but there's still going to 540 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,880 be that harvest. There's still going to be that 541 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,560 victory that is going to bring substantial harvest. 542 00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:14,120 And we cannot allow that enemy to come in and take what has 543 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:19,400 been promised. Gideon's first altar is named 544 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,880 Jehovah. Shalom, which is the Lord is 545 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,960 peace. Peace doesn't mean quiet, it 546 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,360 means wholeness, alignment, as we saw everything in its 547 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,760 rightful place. When revival matures, it is 548 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:39,160 going to produce peace, Not the abundance of sound, but the 549 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:46,760 presence of order. Thinking again of Mark Sinat 550 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,520 after weeks of that frozen stillness that they were in, his 551 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,760 team found life beneath that ice. 552 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,200 They saw. They saw the fish and they saw 553 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,800 everything and they saw the truth behind the beneath the 554 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,720 myth, because that there was a myth that they couldn't find 555 00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:03,240 that ship. And then they found it and it 556 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:07,120 was what was once lost. It wasn't gone. 557 00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:09,920 It was just buried under ice and time. 558 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,760 The revival that we are seeing and we are going to go into 559 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:19,040 maturity with has not been gone and has not been lost to us. 560 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,360 It was just waiting under ice and time, if you will. 561 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:27,120 And we are at the point of time and season and we have to 562 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,960 understand that when those things that the enemy comes in, 563 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,760 we still have a right to that harvest. 564 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:37,480 We still have a right to that field that the enemy is trying 565 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:41,640 to make us lose sight of. That's what God was saying to 566 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,360 the church. Is that what you feared was 567 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,000 finished is still alive beneath the service. 568 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,080 What you thought you had lost in the cold of compromise, in the 569 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:56,520 silence of spiritual fatigue, if you will, is right beneath your 570 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,160 feet. You're standing in it. 571 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,560 The devil can't up, up, root, and outpour the spirit. 572 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,160 He cannot unpour the spirit. It has already been done. 573 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,840 He cannot unheal the sick. He cannot unsave the soul. 574 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:18,520 His only move now is to try to make us blind to what is 575 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,800 happening. Isaiah 4319 I behold, I will do 576 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,840 a new thing, and it shall spring forth. 577 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:29,120 Shall ye not know it? The challenge is, shall ye not 578 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,200 know it? In other words, can you not see 579 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:36,520 what I am doing? We can live in revival and still 580 00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:40,960 miss it if our eyes are focused on Midian and Amalek 581 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:45,880 complaining, comparing, critiquing, exhaustion. 582 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:50,240 The miracle isn't always loud, but sometimes it is a quiet, 583 00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:53,880 steady beneath the surface, something that is moving 584 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,880 underneath the surface. The church has to guard it's 585 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,760 sight, the ways those sailors guarded their hall, checking for 586 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:05,520 cracks, listening for the pressure, staying alert. 587 00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,240 Just like those men at the eye of trembling. 588 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,280 They have to. They have to have their eyes up 589 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,640 and focus. We do not have time to get 590 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:18,480 sidetracked with other things and the enemy trying to make us 591 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:23,000 lose sight of what is right in front of us that we are standing 592 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:29,520 in. Because in that story with Marks 593 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:33,960 and not the same wind that freezed is also the same wind 594 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,600 that freed. Depending on where your eyes are 595 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,520 fixed, that'll change your perception. 596 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:47,120 Music can start to come. Church, we are standing at the 597 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:52,040 eye of trembling. We are at a crossroads where we 598 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,480 if we want revival to mature, we have to understand that the eye 599 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:59,560 of trembling is not there to scare us, but is there to 600 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:04,240 stabilize. He is teaching us we need to see 601 00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:08,960 clearly while everything else shakes, while while while Midian 602 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:13,040 an Amalek, the enemy comes in when when we start to when 603 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,800 revival starts to mature, we have to understand that we need 604 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:21,080 to see clearly. We have to have eyes that see 605 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:26,360 harvest Marks and not said that. His greatest fear wasn't 606 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,240 sinking, it was staying. We have to have that, that 607 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:33,600 healthy fear as well. We cannot, we cannot stay frozen 608 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:37,160 and get caught up in the lives of the enemy trying to make us 609 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:41,240 lose sight of revival. Revival has already thawed the 610 00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:46,360 waters, but if we let fear freeze it again, we will drift 611 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:50,560 right back into patterns, the patterns that Israel even fell 612 00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:54,920 into, and we will hide from the revival that we prayed for, hide 613 00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:58,560 from the revival that we fasted for, that we've been promised. 614 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:04,520 Do not allow many in an amalek to creep in and hinder the 615 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:09,080 revival that is at hand. If we could stand, these altars 616 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:13,640 are open. Please take this as a warning 617 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:17,920 tonight. The revival that is maturing 618 00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:21,640 into something beautiful in order to see it. 619 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,480 We cannot allow the enemy to try to take our sight. 620 00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:28,560 We cannot allow the enemy to come in. 621 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,320 We don't let a fence harden your heart. 622 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,080 Don't let exhaustion close your eyes. 623 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,760 It is not an external battle that is ruining the harvest, but 624 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,680 it is the internal blindness of the Saints that would do it. 625 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,160 It is the blindness of the Saints that lets the field sit 626 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:47,840 there because we have allowed our sight to be tainted by the 627 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:52,040 whispers of the enemy. The Eye of Trembling was not the 628 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,800 place where harvest died. It was actually where it was 629 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:58,680 defined. Church, I am telling you, God is 630 00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:03,880 calling you to have eyes that see the harvest, that see 631 00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:07,440 revival. Not blinded by fear or strife 632 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:11,800 when the enemy comes in, not being frozen by fatigue, but 633 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:16,640 allowing allowing God to show you the truth. 634 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,560 When the enemy is going to come in and show you lies and try to 635 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:25,120 get get disunity in the church and try to wear you down, you 636 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,800 have got to speak and pray against that. 637 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,960 You have power in your prayer that you could speak against 638 00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,960 those things and speak against the enemy coming against the 639 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,320 church. That we would see the matured 640 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,520 revival that we have been promised moving forward. 641 00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:45,280 The harvest is at hand. We are standing in it, but we 642 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:50,320 have to go and pick it. We have to go and not allow the 643 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,200 enemy to come into our camp and take it. 644 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:57,080 We cannot allow the enemy to destroy it and destroy Troy, our 645 00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:04,400 sign church, come tonight if we want that matured revival. 646 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,560 We cannot allow our vision to be distorted. 647 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:18,600 When our vision gets distorted, things that have been promised 648 00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:25,840 get delayed or get swallowed up. And when that happens, then 649 00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:29,600 we'll go cry and Lord, Lord, just like the Israelites did. 650 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:39,840 But we have to fix our eyes steadfastly on Him, steady in 651 00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:46,360 peace and steady in what he would have for First Apostolic 652 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:50,800 Church, for the revival that has been promised many a years by 653 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:56,400 many of ministers. We have to take this warning and 654 00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,480 understand when the enemy is going to come in and hit it. 655 00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:02,440 They will. Those spirits will. 656 00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:06,000 Satan will come in. When we understand that that is 657 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:13,680 going to happen, we have to focus up and look up towards the 658 00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,280 harvest. Don't focus on anything else 659 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:20,200 around you. Don't focus on the the undertow 660 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:24,560 of of Midian and Amalek trying to create things and issues in 661 00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:28,400 the church and hinder revival. Focus on the harvest. 662 00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:30,400 The harvest been promised to you. 663 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,880 The harvest has been promised and you're standing in it. 664 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:36,520 All you have to do is pick by faith. 665 00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:45,080 We have to have that clarity at the eye of trembling that we 666 00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,400 would see the harvest. Hallelujah.