1 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,400 It's so, so good to be here. Could you turn in your Bibles 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:10,560 please to second Chronicles chapter 29 and when I read a 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:14,400 couple verses from there and and then get into to what I feel is 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:16,239 on my heart for for you all tonight. 5 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:19,200 Second Chronicles 29 to verse one. 6 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:22,240 And while you take your time to get there, I was trying to have 7 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:23,720 just a little bit of fun on worship. 8 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:26,600 Not this much fun. So when I have that much fun, my 9 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,080 voice goes, so I need a little bit of holler back. 10 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,080 Are you is this the kind of church that hollers back at the 11 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:35,880 preacher? OK, we got we got two people 12 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:37,720 there. Is there any any other holler 13 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:42,080 backers? OK, OK, so you know, Rory always 14 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,280 tells me this is a free church. Is that right? 15 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,160 OK, so if you need to stand up and say no, I disagree, that's 16 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:50,480 cool. Let's talk, you know, but let's 17 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:52,320 do this together as we open the word of God. 18 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:54,360 Amen. Have you found it? 19 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,200 Good. If you haven't, it'll be on the 20 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:58,800 Bible. Just give up at this point. 21 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,120 All right, Second Chronicles, chapter 29, verse one. 22 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:07,240 Hezekiah began to rain when he was 25 years old. 23 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,160 Anybody give or take 25 years in this room tonight? 24 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,400 No, like you're Jay. Sit down. 25 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:15,880 No, no. That bed. 26 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:17,720 Like when? Like, say it. 27 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:18,600 Yes. Me. 28 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:21,480 OK. This is the very quiet church. 29 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:23,160 All right. OK. 30 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,640 Thank you. Anyone like between 20 and 25, 31 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,240 just holler at me. OK? 32 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:29,280 Thank you. Good, good, good. 33 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,680 Hezekiah began to reign when he was 25 years old, and he reigned 34 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,960 for 29 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abija, the 35 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:41,680 daughter of Zechariah. And he did what was right in the 36 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:46,600 eyes of the Lord according to all that David his father had 37 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:48,520 done. Stop there for a second. 38 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,560 Hezekiah has been on my mind as I've been thinking about this 39 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:55,680 Sunday night service here at 3 CI, partly because there's a lot 40 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,320 of young UNS in here and you're really only as young as you 41 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,440 feel. So anyone around 25 in this 42 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,600 room. OK, that's all of us. 43 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,640 Thank you. When when I look at the the mess 44 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:10,160 that Hezekiah inherited as a king, it was a great big mess. 45 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:15,160 His dad was more evil than most of the kings. 46 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,680 The Bible tells us Hezekiah stepped into a situation where 47 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:22,240 wars were coming against Israel. There was a lot of bad things 48 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,720 happening. And here comes this 25 year old 49 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:27,400 and he takes over as as king in there. 50 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:30,360 And I want to look at what he inherited and what kind of 51 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,640 transformation came from the decisions that this young man 52 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:36,040 made at the beginning of his rule. 53 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,160 Amen. But let me quickly introduce 54 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,960 myself a little bit more if you're confused by my accent. 55 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,720 So am I OK? I have lived in my wife and I 56 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:48,760 have lived in America for 24 years. 57 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,640 We lived in South Africa for, you know, two years or 24, 58 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:55,440 depending on how you counted and a little bit of somewhere else. 59 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:58,400 So Akus Afrikaans. Yeah. 60 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,000 In a three month, you saw worse course work up to Khan. 61 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:04,440 Oh, come Lach. Yellow. 62 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,760 Yellow. OK. 63 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,360 So, yeah, honey prepared Afrikaans protein. 64 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,520 I'm going back to English. My wife and I found each other 65 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,680 at Hatfield Church. Clint, sorry to create you, but 66 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,160 we were never in three CI. We were at Hatfield, but we were 67 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,520 buddies with people here. Steve and I used to play in 68 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,480 bands together, and it was just the party. 69 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:29,800 We have 4 kids. Can I show you a quick picture? 70 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:33,120 Yeah. So you you look at me and you 71 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:34,960 think like, David, you're like 29, right? 72 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Yep, that's right. Our son Connors, 21, Abigail 73 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,960 with a radish here is is 19, Nasia 15, Charlotte 13. 74 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,400 And they're upfront here. And we just, I love my kids and 75 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,440 we live in Ohio. Ohio is in the USA. 76 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,480 We live in a city called Columbus where Ohio State is the 77 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:55,600 Buckeyes. And as Clint said, I was in 78 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:59,080 finance for 25 years, but about 10 years ago, we we felt that 79 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,160 the cultist started church called 614 Church. 80 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,240 If you're wondering about the 614, if it wasn't Pretoria, it 81 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,640 would be 01/2 Church. Nice and easy. 82 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,720 Good, you got that one. That's exactly what it was. 83 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,160 And then a few years ago we purchased this old 100 and 84 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:18,760 something year old Lutheran Church and we renovated this 85 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:20,440 building. There's a picture up here that 86 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:21,600 we're going to see in just a minute. 87 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:23,640 That one there in the middle. Isn't that cool? 88 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,560 Is there? The sand glass window picture 89 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,360 coming up. That's it. 90 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:30,600 That's right there in the middle of our church. 91 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,680 We have two of those that literally fill both sides of our 92 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,560 auditorium. And this is where the glory of 93 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,600 the Lord loves to live. Let me tell you, He loves to be 94 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,880 here with us. We're also about a few blocks 95 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:46,600 from Ohio State University. The shirt that Clint was 96 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:51,840 wearing, 68,000 students from 50 States and 112 countries at our 97 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:54,280 doorstep. And let me tell you, God has 98 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:58,800 been moving on the campuses, the universities of America, and I 99 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,400 believe around the world as well. 100 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:02,600 And I'm going to tell you a little bit about that tonight 101 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,040 because I don't know where you're at in your walk with the 102 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,800 Lord or your relationship even with the country that you live 103 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,000 in. But what Hezekiah came out of a 104 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,040 big mess. And I'm telling you, if we do 105 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,840 things the way the Lord calls us to do it, transformation can 106 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:22,520 happen. Transformation is possible, and 107 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:23,600 that's what I want to talk about tonight. 108 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:25,520 You with me? Any chance? 109 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,080 Years in here. Skimpity. 110 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:30,840 Come on. Yeah. 111 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,400 Yeah. So I want to share about 6 or 112 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:39,040 767 things every Anyone with me. OK. 113 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,720 About 6-7 things here. My daughters love that one. 114 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,240 All right, let's start. Let me tell you a little bit 115 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,680 about Hezekiah. If you don't know what 6-7 is 116 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,640 about, it doesn't mean anything, But it's a thing these days. 117 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:55,440 So here you go. As I said, Hezekiah came from 118 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,800 not so good as stock. His dad was Ahaz. 119 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,440 He was consistently remembered through our scripture as a 120 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:05,320 wicked, wicked king. Ahaz embraced idolatry and he 121 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,480 sacrifice one of his own sons in the fire. 122 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:12,160 Imagine that being your dad, all right, and want to have some bad 123 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,520 family stories. OK, try this one. 124 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,360 He he, he followed the Moloch worship. 125 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,280 He, he closed the door of the temple. 126 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:23,040 He closed up the altars in every street. 127 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,760 And the nation of Judah was suffering because of this wicked 128 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,760 king. Now you guys, I, it's been a 129 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:31,880 while since I've been in South Africa, but you've got a few 130 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,040 little problems here, right? A couple little things going on. 131 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,920 I know there's high unemployment, corruption, crime, 132 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,120 gender based violence feels like America as well. 133 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,800 But but there's things going on in this country and some of you 134 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,440 are feeling it in terms of your own job security, in terms of 135 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:51,000 your own future, in even in terms of your own hope for what 136 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,840 God has in this country. But if I'm, if I'm going to show 137 00:06:53,840 --> 00:06:57,960 you correctly here from Chronicles 29, that the Lord can 138 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:02,280 bring about national transformation when we turn to 139 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:06,040 worship him again, when we turn to do what he calls us to do, 140 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,720 when we turn to become the people that God has called you 141 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,960 and I to be, an absolute national transformation can 142 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,360 happen. And we've got to believe that is 143 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,640 what is happening here in this country. 144 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,560 I love seeing this room so full. Is God moving in this place? 145 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,880 Is He moving in your heart? Is He moving in your friends and 146 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:26,200 in your families? This is just the beginning, 147 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,080 friends. It's just the beginning of a 148 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,840 revival that is is hopefully going to sweep this nation and 149 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:34,760 bring the kind of transformation that God has in mind and has 150 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:36,560 always prophesied over this country. 151 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:38,800 Amen. There is a hope. 152 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:40,800 There is a hope. There is a hope. 153 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:44,080 I mean, America is in a mess too, but we don't go into that. 154 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:45,840 They like to publicize all their messes. 155 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,200 So you all can quote America's messes because they like stats 156 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:56,920 and they just tell everybody. So we are seeing I, I hesitate 157 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,960 to call it revival because I don't think we're there yet, but 158 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:04,880 we're seeing hundreds, hundreds of people in just our city ask 159 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,800 questions about the Lord, the whole Charlie Kirk assassination 160 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,360 just a few weeks ago. That Sunday, we saw so many 161 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,160 people come to our church. One guy sat and spoke to me. 162 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,840 He said, I haven't been in church in 17 years. 163 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:19,840 I said, what brings you here, Sir? 164 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,040 He said, well, I live about an hour and a half away and you 165 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:26,240 know, one of my kids told me about this place and I just knew 166 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:30,600 I had to be somewhere else than in my living room watching the 167 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,960 mess that's going on here. Another couple came to me, 168 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,840 hadn't been in church in 25 years, and I found them in the 169 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:38,480 lobby. Why are you here? 170 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:43,320 Well, I don't know, but but we need Jesus. 171 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,320 We need Jesus, and that's just one man's assassination. 172 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,200 That that is just the cherry on the top of what God has been 173 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,720 doing over the last few months and years in our city, in our 174 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:55,600 campus. There's a many, many little 175 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:59,280 revival going on in Ohio State, a public university. 176 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:02,680 And you guys know, America has removed God from schools, 177 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,120 removed God from colleges. There is. 178 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:09,320 I was at an event two weeks ago where nearly 2000 students on a 179 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:13,280 public university on the ground, sanctioned and sponsored by the 180 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,920 university, allowed them to worship and preach the gospel. 181 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,000 Football players, American football players. 182 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,600 Ohio State football is at the moment, the best in the nation. 183 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:31,360 And it's about akin to you guys saying the Springboks are like 184 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:33,600 you like the Springboks? Yeah. 185 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,240 Was that fun last night? That was pretty good. 186 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,920 Hey, I mean, there's a slight little bit of idolatry, but But 187 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:43,240 no, you know, we do, we do the same thing, right? 188 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,640 We love our football players. There were 5 or 6 football 189 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:50,080 players sitting on the stage giving their testimony about how 190 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:52,880 Jesus has saved their life, how Jesus has trained and 191 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:55,600 transformed their life. For instance, it is happening in 192 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,840 our city and it's happening specially in Gen. 193 00:09:57,840 --> 00:09:59,560 Z. And I trust that you're going to 194 00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:02,080 begin to see the same thing happening in this place. 195 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:04,640 From the look of it, you are Amen. 196 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:08,720 Change is possible. Can you look at Second 197 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,400 Chronicles chapter 30? I started in chapter 29, the end 198 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:16,520 of the next chapter after he did all these things to bring back 199 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:21,560 worship to the Lord. Is that rain come on in that 200 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:26,760 glory? Yes, Second Chronicles 30 verse 201 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:30,000 26 it says so. There was great joy in 202 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,520 Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David, king 203 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,240 of Israel, there it be nothing like this in Jerusalem. 204 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:40,680 Then the priests and the Levis arose and blessed the people, 205 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:44,360 and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to His holy 206 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:48,560 habitation in heaven, the prayers of the Saints. 207 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:53,120 The incense arose to the Father, because the nation turned back 208 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:56,680 to the Lord, and they restored the altars, they restored the 209 00:10:56,680 --> 00:11:00,120 place of worship, they restored the focus of worship and 210 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,880 bringing out their lives consecrated to Him. 211 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:08,360 That's what happened there. Church and revival history tell 212 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,760 us that a lot happens when people begin to pray, when a 213 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,400 people begin to call on the name of the Lord, when worship 214 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:18,440 becomes a a focus and a priority within a community. 215 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,640 Maybe you've heard of the Moravian revival back in the 216 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:26,440 1700s where a small group of people in Germany began 24/7 217 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:33,440 prayer that lasted 100 years and that sparked global revival when 218 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,400 a group of people got together to pray, to make worship and 219 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:41,680 prayer the main thing, to make ministry to the Lord, the main 220 00:11:41,680 --> 00:11:45,400 priority of their lives, and called on the God who saves, who 221 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,880 heals, who delivers, who can change a nation in one moment. 222 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:51,880 They called on Him and transformation started 223 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:55,600 happening. Recently in America, you've 224 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:59,520 perhaps heard of the Asbury, I say revival in courts. 225 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,400 It wasn't quite a revival, but there was an awakening going on. 226 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,440 Anybody heard about Asbury? That's about 3 or 4 hours from 227 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:10,400 Ohio State, from where we live. And for a few months, the the 228 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:14,720 concept of worship and prayer just spread out throughout that 229 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:17,920 campus. And the Lord was moving as they 230 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:24,480 came to, to repent at the altar, to consecrate their lives at the 231 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:28,520 altar, and to offer worship to Him was worship. 232 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:32,520 It was not a big production. It was not a big, big produced 233 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:36,760 thing or an advertised thing. But people all over the world 234 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:38,240 heard about what was going on there. 235 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:42,240 And that has had a ripple effect over the last two years that I 236 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,840 believe is, is igniting a fire in the universities of America. 237 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,760 And let me tell you, the universities of America are not 238 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:54,600 a pretty place for clean living. It's a mess that the Lord is 239 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,760 reviving Gen. Z he is reviving them he's 240 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,720 they're turning back to him. Our story at 614 church. 241 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,680 I showed you the picture, but we started this college ministry 242 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:07,720 about just over 2 years ago. My friend Danny, who's with us, 243 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,720 leads this college ministry for us right now. 244 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,840 And our our goal was to to to reach college students at the 245 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:19,200 most impressionable and life. How many big decisions did you 246 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,960 make when you were in college about your career, about your 247 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,440 partner, about where you're going to live, the kind of 248 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:28,080 person you're going to be to reach kids at that age and 249 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,480 introduce them to Jesus and introduce them to a church where 250 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:33,920 they can grow and be spiritually formed. 251 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:38,080 So we have this college ministry and we have hundreds of kids who 252 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:40,920 have come through the doors of this college ministry couple. 253 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,720 100 most Thursday nights come and worship for almost an hour. 254 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:47,160 I know it's scheduled for 30, but it goes an hour. 255 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:49,920 They preach and then we go back to ministry and then they 256 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:51,880 worship for another 30 to 60 minutes. 257 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,960 Again, college students with no mom or dad told them to go. 258 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:59,960 They choosing to come, choosing to walk there and encountering 259 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,240 Jesus. Amen. 260 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:04,880 We made Thursday night a big focus. 261 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:07,040 Life groups, small groups, connect groups. 262 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:08,960 What do you call yours? Life groups? 263 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:12,120 A big focus because that's where connection happens and where 264 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,040 spiritual formation happens in each believer's heart. 265 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,800 That's a big deal for us. And people are getting safe. 266 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,120 They're being baptized in the Holy Spirit. 267 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:22,400 Danny, I love him. He's my friend. 268 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:25,840 You know, part of me thought, let's do a college ministry and, 269 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,560 you know, entertain a little bit, have some fun, you know, to 270 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:31,080 play some games. And then he's like, I don't want 271 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:32,480 that. And people don't want that. 272 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,720 I was like, OK, So what do you want to do? 273 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,320 Well, let's preach the word and let's worship Jesus. 274 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:40,320 OK. It's always been a good recipe 275 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:43,000 with me. And it's happening and people 276 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,240 are encountering Jesus. Let me tell you about one young 277 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,160 man named Isaiah. Isaiah. 278 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,680 Isaiah came about a year ago. It was about a year ago. 279 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:55,240 And very depressed. There's ministry at the end of 280 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:57,000 our sermons. And he comes forward and he 281 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,880 says, I need prayer. I said, what for? 282 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,680 He said, well, a lot of depression, a lot of anxiety. 283 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,520 Can you pray for me? It's it's big and, and it comes 284 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:08,560 like his waves and waves and he tells me his story for just a 285 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:10,440 minute and I start praying for him. 286 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:11,760 The Lord gives me something for him. 287 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:15,360 But I felt the Holy Spirit say, oh, he needs he needs me. 288 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:17,720 He needs to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. 289 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:20,440 He needs a, an empowering of the Holy Spirit. 290 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:22,120 He's trying to fight this on his own. 291 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,680 So I said to the young Isaiah, I'm like, Isaiah, have you been 292 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:28,600 baptized in the Holy Spirit? And he looked at me, if you can 293 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,520 see my face, frown on my face. What do you mean? 294 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,760 I'm Baptist. I said, yeah, but have you 295 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:37,720 received the Yeah, I'm a Christian. 296 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:40,000 I said, OK, I know what you mean. 297 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,120 But have you received the infilling of the Holy Spirit 298 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,400 like we see in Acts chapter 2? And he said, no. 299 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,240 I said, well, I'm not going to make you do anything, but could 300 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:50,720 I pray for you? He said, sure. 301 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,720 So we start praying within a couple minutes. 302 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,160 This kid, I have not seen that much snot coming out of one 303 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:00,640 human being in a long, long time. 304 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,840 There was a pool of it. It got sticky on the wooden 305 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,600 floor. But the Lord started meeting 306 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:10,680 this young man, his whole body vibrating, vibrating. 307 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:13,080 As we were praying. I was just praying quietly. 308 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:14,680 I'm like, I don't know what to do with this kid. 309 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:16,960 Like I'm like more than double his age. 310 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,160 I can't identify with Batsis, where he comes from or anything. 311 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,040 I'm just Holy Spirit. Will you fill him? 312 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,400 The next thing I know, he's talking and he's talking and and 313 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:26,800 he's saying something. I'm like, what? 314 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:30,520 Sorry, what? And and he's just bubbling over 315 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:32,680 and we never once talked about tongues. 316 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:35,000 Never once. I'm like, I'm not trying to put 317 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,400 that on anybody, but this kid started bubbling over in 318 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:40,040 tongues. He's a Baptist. 319 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:43,760 They don't do that. Is that OK to say here? 320 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:50,320 You're going to get some emails, All right, But nobody talking 321 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:54,000 about this, this young man simply opening himself up to all 322 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,120 that the Lord has got filled with the Holy Spirit and his 323 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:00,280 life was transformed. He was sitting there for over an 324 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:05,280 hour just weeping and just more and more just coming out of this 325 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,280 man and a life was transformed. Amen. 326 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:13,359 Another story. It's OK. 327 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,319 Baptisms. We love baptisms, my goal, my 328 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:19,599 dream and I speak to the Lord like this. 329 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:23,160 I said, Lord, if we could do like 3 CI and have baptism every 330 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:24,880 Sunday during worship, that would be awesome. 331 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,319 And and it's getting there. We're getting most or every 332 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:31,360 other week we're seeing people get baptized, but Danny was 333 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:33,760 doing some baptisms with the kids at the college ministry as 334 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:37,960 well, and believing that baptism isn't just a symbol. 335 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,800 There's something that the Lord does in a young man and woman's 336 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,480 heart as it happens. And then we prayed for this kid 337 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:47,880 before it happens, and he manifested just before he got in 338 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:50,800 the water and had a little bit of a session going on there. 339 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:55,160 The Lord set him free, and then he got baptized, came out, life 340 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:59,520 transformed. France, this isn't pretty. 341 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:02,760 We're not trying to put up a nice show. 342 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:05,200 We're not trying to put up a nice clean message. 343 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,120 We're trying to say that our lives are a mess. 344 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:12,240 Our country is a mess, our politics is a mess. 345 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,840 Our ability to save ourselves, to change ourselves isn't 346 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:17,840 working. That's why everybody's stressed 347 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:20,080 out, full of anxiety and full of depression. 348 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:24,440 There is so much lack of connection in in in most of us 349 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,520 today. So we're pointing people to 350 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:30,400 Jesus and we're not ashamed of the gospel. 351 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,160 You guys are going through Romans chapter 8, but it starts 352 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,480 in Romans one, verse 16. I'm not ashamed of the gospel, 353 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:41,080 for it is the power of God to salvation for all who believe. 354 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,360 There's power. There's power in the gospel. 355 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,840 Just two nights ago, three nights ago, a young Muslim girl 356 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:54,160 who'd been coming around for about a year on and off. 357 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:57,160 And I'll take a long story, make it really short, but on Thursday 358 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:01,560 night came into the meeting and her phone just blowing up her 359 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:05,680 very religious Muslim family, giving her a lot of grief about 360 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,280 where are you, what are you doing? 361 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:10,560 And her basically just putting it down, coming to the front and 362 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,360 saying I would like to give my life to Jesus. 363 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:16,520 And she gave her life to Jesus, Amen. 364 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,400 And I started praying for her. And again, we don't make 365 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:22,960 deliverance a big deal in our church. 366 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,040 We're not trying to say, hey, we're the deliverance church or 367 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,600 the tongues church or anything. We're not trying to be any of 368 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:29,040 that. We're just trying to say, Holy 369 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:31,040 Spirit, would you come and fill this young lady? 370 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:35,080 And before you know it, she had a major deliverance on Thursday 371 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:37,680 night. And her life is going to look 372 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:40,200 completely different. And she's going to have a hard 373 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,200 time getting out of that Muslim family and dealing with it. 374 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:44,720 And but we're going to be there for her. 375 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,160 Amen. This is what the Lord is doing 376 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:48,680 with us. Can I show you 2 quick little 377 00:19:48,680 --> 00:20:17,400 videos? I don't know why that kid was 378 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,240 jumping on our chairs, but we'll deal with that. 379 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,120 Like our service is on only an hour and a half. 380 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:25,280 We like it like that, and God moves a lot in it. 381 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:28,600 But we just couldn't close the meeting one after another wanted 382 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,160 to get baptized. We went another hour long and 383 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:32,720 worship was just going on like that. 384 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:34,200 Friends, let me tell you, we're not. 385 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:36,000 I wish I could tell you how we did it. 386 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,560 I wish I could tell you I can't. I can't. 387 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:41,680 But we have been praying for years now. 388 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,280 There have been other people praying on our campuses for 389 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:47,560 decades now that the Lord would bring a move of God to that 390 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:50,160 place. And, and the only thing I can 391 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,680 point you to right now is Scripture when I look at what 392 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:54,520 Hezekiah did. Let's look at that. 393 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,440 Just man, I'm going. So can we look quick, go back to 394 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,280 the Bible, Second Chronicles 29. Are you with me? 395 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,120 I get so excited. You guys told me to speak about 396 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:05,080 614 and then, you know, I get going. 397 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,960 You with me, you with me, Church. 398 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,160 All right, Second Chronicles 29, verse 3. 399 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:18,400 Here's Hezekiah 25 just takes over in the first year of his 400 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,360 reign. In the first month he opened the 401 00:21:22,360 --> 00:21:25,360 doors of the House of the Lord because his dad had shut them 402 00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:29,200 and he repaired them. Verse four, He brought the 403 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,680 priests and the Levites and assembled them in the square on 404 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,120 the east, because his dad had done away with them. 405 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:40,280 And he said to them, Hear me Levites, now consecrate 406 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,840 yourselves and consecrate the House of the Lord, the God of 407 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,000 your father's, and carry out the filth from the holy place. 408 00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:55,080 The very first act this young man did was get worship restored 409 00:21:55,600 --> 00:22:00,800 back in the nation of Judah. He opened the temple again. 410 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:04,400 He brought the priests again the the altars were back so that 411 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:08,880 worship could be re established in the nation of Judah. 412 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:13,040 Consecration is we start there. We don't just select, OK, I read 413 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,720 it and we're going to try now. We start in inwardly. 414 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:22,440 Lord, I bring myself the idols. I put them down the, the, the, 415 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,280 the wrong thinking. I put it down the idolatry in my 416 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,520 mind. I put it down the way I've been 417 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,000 living. I put it down the girlfriend I'm 418 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,720 sleeping with. I put it down the money I've 419 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,680 been stealing. I stopped that practice. 420 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,960 I consecrate myself. I want to set myself apart, 421 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,240 Lord, and I want to come back into the presence of the Lord 422 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:44,200 and say, Lord, all I have is yours. 423 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,200 All I have is yours. Friends, there's no more time to 424 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,640 play games. There's no more time to play 425 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,360 games. This country needs you, needs me 426 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,360 to come and and consecrate ourselves and bring ourselves 427 00:22:57,360 --> 00:23:00,520 back to the altar of the Lord and worship him and minister him 428 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,960 and say Lord, you are above this building. 429 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,800 You are above my home, you're above my life. 430 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,280 You're above my Internet usage, you're above my phone usage. 431 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,360 You're above the way I conduct my life. 432 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:15,760 I consecrate myself to you. Lord, I set myself apart for 433 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:17,920 you. We're not going to see the 434 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,160 results of the great revivals by playing games. 435 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,880 We're not going to see it. We're not going to see the 436 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,240 result of great revivals by by not consecrating ourselves 437 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:36,120 suffering for the sake of His name that others may get to know 438 00:23:36,120 --> 00:23:39,800 about the great name of Jesus. This is what we've been called 439 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,600 to in this house, our house at six on four. 440 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,320 We've been made this commitment that it is a House of prayer as 441 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:50,640 Jesus declared it to be. We pray every Wednesday morning 442 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,640 at 7:00 AM. Now that's ridiculous. 443 00:23:54,080 --> 00:24:00,120 College students, 7:00 in the morning, sometimes eighty, 9000 444 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:04,120 people come 7:00 in the morning and they come and call on the 445 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:08,600 name of the Lord. It's not anything we did, but 446 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,240 it's a group of people whose hearts have been gripped by 447 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,920 Jesus and saying, Lord, I'm going to give you my all, going 448 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,200 to give you my all. We pray before services. 449 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,200 We pray long before college nights. 450 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,320 We pray in our life groups. We, we make a commitment daily 451 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,400 to pray. You know, they say that you, you 452 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:29,120 create culture by what you tolerate and by what you 453 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:32,960 celebrate. And we are creating a culture of 454 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,920 prayer, of prayer, of prayer in this place so that we can as a 455 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,840 church, say, Lord, would you? Would you come back? 456 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:42,920 Would you come back? Would you come back to our House 457 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:44,760 of worship? Would you come back to our 458 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,800 houses? Would you come back to the way 459 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,960 we live and conduct our lives? Can you imagine planting a 460 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,640 garden but letting the weeds just go unchecked? 461 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:56,920 Soon the weeds will just take over. 462 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,520 The weeds don't ask for permission, they just happen. 463 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,520 But the things that things that we tolerate in our lives is what 464 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:08,200 your garden is going to look like, the things you tolerate in 465 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:09,440 your lives. And I'm not trying to get 466 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,720 legalistic here with anybody. I'm just trying to get us to be 467 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,520 sober about the fact that if we want to see the Lord move in 468 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,400 this country, are we going to give our all to him? 469 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,600 Are we going to concentrate, consecrate our lives, our 470 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:26,520 families, this place to say, Lord, may this be a House of 471 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,600 worship. This is the call to us. 472 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:35,440 Look at verse 10. Now it is in my heart to make a 473 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,600 covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, in order that His 474 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,680 fierce anger may turn away from us. 475 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:44,160 Verse 11. My sons, do not now be 476 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:48,800 negligent, for the Lord has chosen you to stand in His 477 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:54,080 presence, to minister to Him and to be His ministers and make 478 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:58,320 offerings to Him. He was saying this to the 479 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,480 Levites as he was bringing worship back. 480 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:05,480 But can I read this to you? Peter tells us you're a royal 481 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,120 priesthood, you're a chosen people. 482 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:11,880 You're a, a royal, a holy nation. 483 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,080 Can I read this to you? And this is, this is the word of 484 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:19,440 the Lord to you. My sons and daughters, do not 485 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:24,640 now be negligent for the Lord, the Lord, the Lord has chosen 486 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,880 you. The Father has chosen you, 487 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:35,720 friends, to stand in his presence and to minister to him 488 00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:39,040 and be his ministers and make offerings to him. 489 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,720 I go to a lot of church. I'm a pastor now. 490 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,960 This is what I is what I do. I left the bank about four years 491 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:48,360 ago. So now I'm in a lot of church 492 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:51,640 services. Friends, do you know how often I 493 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,480 stand in the front and I'm in worship? 494 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:58,480 And I'm like, I'm a musician, so I can hear when the drummer 495 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:02,320 doesn't do a good job. So I'm like, OK, miss that beat. 496 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,840 All right, keyboard. I don't like this song. 497 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:12,160 That backing vocalist is flat. Look at that electric guitars. 498 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,640 He looks like a rock star. Like, who's he doing this for? 499 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:19,280 I can so easily become so critical about worship because 500 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,120 that's that my thing. And then I stand here, and 501 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:24,760 before I know it, I've made worship about me. 502 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,960 I've made worship about my preference, about how I think it 503 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,280 should be. When what Hezekiah is calling 504 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,560 you and I to be is will you consecrate? 505 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,680 Will you stand before the Lord? He chose you to stand before 506 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,880 him, to minister to him, to minister to him. 507 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,880 So now when I'm standing in worship and I begin to get all 508 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,240 consumerist, are there any consumers in here? 509 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,880 My wife was trying to keep their American economy going with her 510 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,920 Amazon purchases. Any, any, any anybody else? 511 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,960 You know, I mean, we're all, we're all consumers here, you 512 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,120 know, but, but, but are you going to be a consumer at 513 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:04,680 church? Are you going to be OK? 514 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,600 All right, we'll, we'll correct that later. 515 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,400 She said all the shopping's for me, but OK, maybe it is Maybe. 516 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,440 But are we going to stand here on a Sunday morning or on a 517 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,400 Sunday night? And we're going to be, I wonder 518 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,080 if they're going to play my song tonight. 519 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,040 I need some more upbeat songs. Why don't we sing in Afrikaans 520 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,880 every now and then? Why don't we do this? 521 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,200 Why don't we do that? Are we going to be consumers? 522 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,120 And eventually, so I don't like this church anymore because they 523 00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:35,560 don't minister to me anymore. Or we're going to say, the Lord 524 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:40,000 has chosen you. He has chosen you to stand in 525 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,960 his presence where a whole generation before Jesus was 526 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,000 unable to come into the presence of God. 527 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:50,320 Now when you are, you're chosen to stand in the presence of God, 528 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,520 to minister to him. So now that when I come and 529 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,560 worship, I'm like, I don't care about this song. 530 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,720 I love you, Jesus. I love you, Lord. 531 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:02,800 You saved me again this week. You saved me apart this week. 532 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:04,760 You helped me. You redeemed me. 533 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,680 You brought me out of my mess. And we come and we worship the 534 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,560 Lord. We come and minister to the Lord 535 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,960 and begin to see how insignificant the Music Choice 536 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:20,360 becomes when our focus is Him and our focus is Him, Amen. 537 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:26,000 Friends, we have to war against consumerism in the church, not 538 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,160 just take a lightly. We don't just tolerate it, we 539 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:32,400 war against it because this is a House of prayer for all nations. 540 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,480 This is a house where we have been called with the presence of 541 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:40,320 God is here so that you and I chosen can come and minister to 542 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:44,680 Him, Amen. The consumers mindset is like 543 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:48,440 being in a movie theater. You sit back, cross your arms 544 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,080 and expect to be entertained. You critique the acting, you 545 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,800 critique the pacing and the ending of the story. 546 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,720 And I'm going to critique a lot of Marvel movies lately. 547 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,240 They're just ticking me off. But the worship mindset is more 548 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,320 like, it's like in a marriage. You don't sit back and critique 549 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,280 your spouse's performance. Well, some of you do. 550 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:10,680 That could be why you're having this problem. 551 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:16,200 But you know, you give of yourself to your wife, you give 552 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,480 you serve your wife. You're not a consumer in your 553 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,440 marriage. You're in a covenant 554 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,240 relationship. When we come into the presence 555 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,880 of the Lord, we don't come to be served. 556 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,280 We come to serve. We come to serve, we come to 557 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:36,280 give ourselves to Him. Restoring the altar isn't built 558 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:40,800 one revival moment at a time, but by thousands of small 559 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:45,400 decisions to prioritize the presence of the Lord, to seek 560 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:50,800 Him, to honor Him, and over time begin to recognize that it's 561 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:56,880 presence over performance is living in the Holy Spirit, 562 00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,960 living with Him and ministering to the Lord. 563 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:07,440 Amen. My sons, do not now be 564 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,000 negligent, for the Lord has chosen you to stand in His 565 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:15,840 presence, to minister to Him, and to make and to be His 566 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,760 ministers and make offerings to Him. 567 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,520 This is not just Hezekiah's call to a nation thousands of years 568 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,080 ago. This is the Father's call to His 569 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,440 children today. We have been called to minister 570 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,720 to the Lord. We have been called to put Him 571 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,040 first. Jesus put it this way, seek 572 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:36,160 first the Kingdom of God in Matthew 633. 573 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:41,640 Seek first the Kingdom of God and then your paycheck will come 574 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:45,640 after, then your provision needs will get met. 575 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:51,800 Seek first the Kingdom of God. So I want to ask you today, 576 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:57,440 obviously I don't know most of you in this room, but Are you 577 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:01,520 ready to to give your life to Jesus? 578 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,680 Perhaps you've been a church attender. 579 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,960 Perhaps you've been someone who's who's done the Christian 580 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,520 thing, but you haven't ministered to the Lord. 581 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,400 You haven't said, Lord, you are my All in all. 582 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,360 I would love to lead you in a prayer tonight that that it's 583 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,040 not say these magic words after me. 584 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,680 I just want to give you some language to begin to have an 585 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,680 honest conversation with the Father, to surrender your life 586 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,320 to him. Would you mind closing your eyes 587 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,960 for a second? Is there anyone in this room 588 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,360 during worship, during this, this talk I've just given during 589 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,120 this time of, of greeting your heart as just it's, it's like 590 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,080 there's a there's a call, there's a tug in your heart. 591 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,440 You know this more and you want to give your life to something 592 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,920 that matters far more than the life and the existence you've 593 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,880 been living. Is there anybody here would like 594 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,840 to give their life to Jesus? If that's you, would you just 595 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,000 stick up your hand so I know who I'm praying for? 596 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:05,760 Thank you. I'm looking this side. 597 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:11,760 Hands all over the place. You like to give your life to 598 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,880 Jesus. So many hands over here. 599 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:21,480 Oh Lord, here on this side. Anyone you like to give your 600 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:26,960 life to Jesus? The call to follow Jesus will 601 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:33,480 cost you everything, but it's in losing your life in Him that you 602 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,400 truly find who you were made to be. 603 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,840 There's so many of you have lifted your hands tonight. 604 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,040 Church, can we all pray this together? 605 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:47,600 Say, dear Jesus, I believe you are the Son of God and I want to 606 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:53,040 give you my life tonight. Jesus, I admit that I'm a Sinner 607 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,160 and I ask you for your forgiveness. 608 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:03,320 I believe that you are Lord. I believe that you died on the 609 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,600 cross. I believe you rose from the 610 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:14,239 grave, and I commit my life now to following you for the rest of 611 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:18,480 my life. Jesus, will you help me to 612 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,120 follow you? Amen. 613 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:23,719 Friends, this is just the beginning. 614 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,520 This is this is just some language I wanted to give you, 615 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,040 but if you made that decision for the Lord tonight, the Bible 616 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,159 says all heaven rejoices with every soul that comes in. 617 00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:37,040 Can we just give a big hand for those people? 618 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:53,000 Since I'm going long, can I just finish here? 619 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,600 I mean, there were a lot of you who responded now friends that 620 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,680 that's the best decision you've ever made in your life. 621 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,880 But I believe for all of us, there's a moment here for us to 622 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:10,040 respond to consecrate our lives to the Lord, to make a decision 623 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,600 tonight. Jesus, I, I've been living for 624 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,560 me, I've been living for my kids, I've been living for my 625 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,680 career. I've been living for to just be 626 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,880 safe in this country. And that's been my main 627 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,040 priority. And what the Father is saying is 628 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:28,040 you have been chosen to stand in his presence and to minister to 629 00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,920 him. I want to ask you, how are we 630 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:32,840 going to respond to this night tonight? 631 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,840 Maybe you're a student, you're and you're in res or a dorm or 632 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:38,080 you're, you're living with friends. 633 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,960 Is could you, could you set up an altar, quote UN quote, in 634 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:43,960 your house and begin to pray with your roommates? 635 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:50,480 Maybe you've been feeling a tug to to start a life group and 636 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,960 support the incredible things that's happening in this church. 637 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,240 But but just by taking a step forward and say, Lord, I want 638 00:35:56,240 --> 00:35:57,720 to, I want to give you more of my life. 639 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,680 Make a commitment tonight to speak to one of the leaders. 640 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:05,640 So how do I, how do I give more? How do I, how do I offer my life 641 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:11,320 up to you? But even deeper tonight, What 642 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:15,960 are the idols in your life that have to be put down tonight? 643 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,000 What are the idols? It's easy for me to say this in 644 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:21,920 America. I've been living there for so 645 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,480 long, but in America that the biggest idol is Self. 646 00:36:26,720 --> 00:36:31,640 The biggest idol is self in the Constitution is, is this right, 647 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:36,440 this pursuit of happiness? And we have this right to pursue 648 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:40,000 happiness. And all it does is it makes you 649 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:45,440 the center of everything. When this tells me Jesus is the 650 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,400 center of everything. Jesus is the center of 651 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,720 everything. No wonder we're so confused when 652 00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:53,480 we are the center of our lives and we're spinning around it 653 00:36:54,240 --> 00:36:57,880 versus spinning around Jesus, looking at him, gazing on his 654 00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:58,280 beauty.