1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:01,500 Hi. This is Dave Olson. 2 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:04,700 I'm the senior leader of Hartman church located in Ankeny Iowa. 3 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:08,000 I hope the following message, challenges, and courage, has and 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:14,200 ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us, we're 5 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,400 going to jump into something and I don't know where we're going 6 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,700 to end up. I've got four passages. 7 00:00:18,700 --> 00:00:22,700 I want to look at we went. And how many of you have seen 8 00:00:22,700 --> 00:00:25,100 the Jesus Revolution movie, raise your hand. 9 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:27,700 How many of you have not seen it yet? 10 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:29,900 Raise your hand. I would highly recommend. 11 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,900 Amend it. I would recommend going. 12 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,400 I remember those days. I was just a little kid. 13 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:36,800 Don't look at me like that. Like you did. 14 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:41,000 You could save their know, I was little, but our church in Duluth 15 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,000 was really impacted by the Jesus people movement and a bunch of 16 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,500 then came into our church. A lot of them, their minds were 17 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:51,500 scrambled, But as God restored them, they became leaders all 18 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:57,500 through the north up there and our pastor was open and receive 19 00:00:57,500 --> 00:00:59,500 them and it was an amazing thing. 20 00:00:59,500 --> 00:01:04,200 But And I wept through most of the movie and the biggest reason 21 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,100 was not because of memories. Although they had some good 22 00:01:07,100 --> 00:01:09,900 music man. I'm telling you peace baby. 23 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:16,200 It was it was awesome but the biggest reason that I wept is, I 24 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,200 could feel what was in the air at that time. 25 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:26,000 And I've felt that at various times in various places that 26 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,400 there was just an openness to the gospel. 27 00:01:28,700 --> 00:01:31,700 I believe, the movie opened with this scene, it was near the 28 00:01:31,700 --> 00:01:34,800 beginning and that's when I started crying, but all the 29 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:36,800 staff was with us. So I'm trying to keep my, you 30 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,200 know, if I watch a movie alone then I know I can really get 31 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,000 into crime, but, you know, you got to keep your masculinity 32 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:47,400 intact, you know, with staff. So but this this scene where 33 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,600 there's a bunch of these young hippies and just people in 34 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:52,600 general, General. This, this crowd of people and 35 00:01:52,607 --> 00:01:56,500 they Crest this hill and I don't believe that opens up the ocean 36 00:01:56,500 --> 00:02:00,000 and there's this massive baptismal service going on. 37 00:02:00,900 --> 00:02:04,200 And then the next scene that I that I felt that same thing was 38 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:07,700 that the same idea, but they're all this throng of hippies were 39 00:02:07,700 --> 00:02:10,800 making their way to what looked like a circus tent because 40 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,300 they'd outgrown their building and there was just this Buzz 41 00:02:13,300 --> 00:02:17,700 this expectancy in the air. And I was just so impacted the 42 00:02:17,708 --> 00:02:22,000 bike by that because I have felt that before If you have ever 43 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,600 been in a season of Revival, you know what that feels like? 44 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,700 It's like the air is alive and even unbelievers, begin to say. 45 00:02:30,700 --> 00:02:34,100 Wow God. Dwells among men, there's this 46 00:02:34,100 --> 00:02:37,800 possibility of meeting their creator and if there's just a 47 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,300 buzz at the end of the movie, I want to ruin it for you and this 48 00:02:41,300 --> 00:02:43,200 is just a little piece, it'll be good for you. 49 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,400 But at the end, these, these young people show up and there's 50 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,500 Greg Laurie sitting on that Cliff that same cliff and they 51 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:50,600 said, hey, is this where everybody? 52 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,000 Gets baptized and he said, yeah. And he's they said, well, we 53 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,700 didn't know how it worked. We want to come and get 54 00:02:55,700 --> 00:02:57,000 baptized. You said, where are you from? 55 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,400 They said Texas. Now, this is Southern 56 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,300 California. They drove across the country. 57 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:08,200 I remember when the outpouring happened here in 08, it started 58 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,800 on a Tuesday afternoon, I came out of my office. 59 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:13,000 I had been dealing with a conflict. 60 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,100 I came out in there were bodies laid on the floor by Saturday 61 00:03:16,100 --> 00:03:17,400 night. It was standing room only. 62 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,700 There were One Pastor was from Montana. 63 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,500 I mean, people come in from multiple States, when God is in 64 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:25,600 the air, people will flock there. 65 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,100 I'm telling you, they're there are hungry people in this nation 66 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,000 and all it's going to take as a spark and it's God's going to 67 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,500 ignite something. And so I was just, I was so 68 00:03:37,500 --> 00:03:41,300 touched by that and just I remember watching Doc back in 69 00:03:41,300 --> 00:03:44,100 the Brownsville day. Some of you were involved in the 70 00:03:44,100 --> 00:03:47,000 Brownsville Revival and I remember on the news they were 71 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,700 interviewing people in this one guy. 72 00:03:48,700 --> 00:03:51,900 He was he said yeah. You know, I've got an issue with 73 00:03:51,900 --> 00:03:54,500 drugs where you from, he was from Michigan, didn't know 74 00:03:54,500 --> 00:03:57,500 Jesus, but he said, I heard about these meetings drove from 75 00:03:57,500 --> 00:04:01,800 Michigan to the panhandle of Florida because God was in the 76 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:03,300 air. There was something that 77 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:07,800 awakened within him. And so I've been just chewing on 78 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,200 this and contemplating this and, and just asking myself. 79 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,700 What is that? What is that spiritually? 80 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:16,600 What is that? Because make no mistake about 81 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,600 it. There is an atmospheric Dynamic 82 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,300 to Revival like that. There's something that happens 83 00:04:23,300 --> 00:04:24,600 in. The atmosphere. 84 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:28,400 In the spiritual realm, something takes place, and all 85 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,000 of a sudden people are aware of God, even though they don't know 86 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,200 them. People that don't believe in God 87 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:36,800 suddenly are in his presence and God happens to them. 88 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,600 And they become Believers before they even know the fact, the 89 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,000 facts because they've encountered him. 90 00:04:45,300 --> 00:04:47,400 And so, I was just thinking about that Lord. 91 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:51,100 What is that dynamic in the air? What, what happens in those 92 00:04:51,100 --> 00:04:54,600 seasons of outpouring. And I think it's important for 93 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,800 us to Define that because that's what we're praying for. 94 00:04:58,300 --> 00:05:01,900 I'm not praying, just for individuals to awaken, I'm 95 00:05:01,900 --> 00:05:05,400 praying for something to happen in the atmosphere over this 96 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,700 nation. So that's people suddenly become 97 00:05:07,700 --> 00:05:10,100 aware that. There is a living God and that 98 00:05:10,100 --> 00:05:13,800 they can, they can meet him. But there's things that happen 99 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,400 in the spirit when that happens and I want it. 100 00:05:16,407 --> 00:05:20,700 So I want us to look at that this morning and so pause there. 101 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:24,500 That's the first thing we're going to talk about another 102 00:05:24,500 --> 00:05:26,200 element of this. I don't know which one we're 103 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,400 going to dive into. I'm a little I'm we're just 104 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:30,500 going to dive in and we're going to try to figure this thing out. 105 00:05:30,500 --> 00:05:32,800 The other thing I've been contemplating is this is the 106 00:05:33,100 --> 00:05:36,300 fascinating reality that there is the micro. 107 00:05:36,300 --> 00:05:39,500 Move in the macro move, there is the individual encounter with 108 00:05:39,500 --> 00:05:43,600 God, there's individual Revival. There's Individual Awakening. 109 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,300 Where we all of a sudden encounter, God, our eyes are 110 00:05:46,300 --> 00:05:48,300 open. We become aware of his presence, 111 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:53,300 and we get saved, and then there's this macro cultural 112 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:58,200 corporate encounter that can happen over a nation, where a 113 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,700 nation is shook by the power of God. 114 00:06:01,300 --> 00:06:05,100 Both of those are realities and both of those are something we 115 00:06:05,100 --> 00:06:08,100 need to contend for, but I'm telling you, this is what I 116 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:10,600 want. I want the macro, I want the 117 00:06:10,608 --> 00:06:13,200 corporate I want the And wide Awakening. 118 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:18,000 And, and the interesting thing is, is the Dynamics to these two 119 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,400 things are the same. It's just applying it on a much 120 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:26,200 larger scale and we can see this in Ephesians chapter 4 and 121 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:28,100 Romans chapter 1. And so we're going to look at 122 00:06:28,100 --> 00:06:31,600 those two passages this morning. So guys, if you want to put up 123 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:36,400 Ephesians chapter 4, we're going to look at that passage. 124 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,700 And and the other thing I want to say is my apologies to the 125 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:44,200 intercessors. We I process my Theology and 126 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,800 prayer and so often they get the they get the first wave of a 127 00:06:47,808 --> 00:06:52,100 message during the week as we meet up front and then we unpack 128 00:06:52,100 --> 00:06:56,200 it the rest on the weekend. So I just I so appreciate the 129 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:00,500 intercessors. You know, it's almost 3 years 130 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:05,200 now that we've been meeting Tuesday through Friday every 131 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:06,700 week. Crying out to God for this 132 00:07:06,700 --> 00:07:11,700 nation and I think it's important that we remember that. 133 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:14,500 What was the Catalyst for us to start to meet? 134 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:18,700 and what it was is it was a Sunday morning and we were 135 00:07:18,700 --> 00:07:24,400 talking about the state of this emerging generation. 136 00:07:26,100 --> 00:07:28,400 My oldest son had given me a book. 137 00:07:28,500 --> 00:07:32,900 He's always recommending all these eclectic books to me and 138 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,200 this particular one was called the Primal scream. 139 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:42,600 And it was by a Catholic sociologist by the name of Mary, 140 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,200 a bird stat know if anybody has any of you have ever read 141 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,400 anything by her but it is an absolutely fascinating but very 142 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:52,300 Godly woman. Brilliant. 143 00:07:52,300 --> 00:07:55,700 You start reading what she says. She's absolutely brilliant and 144 00:07:55,700 --> 00:08:00,100 the subtitle was something about the where it was more eloquent 145 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:02,100 than this but it was saying you know, where the heck did 146 00:08:02,100 --> 00:08:05,200 identity politics come from. That's that's essentially what 147 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:09,900 the book was about. And her premise was that 148 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:15,300 identity politics come from the lack of identity in the emerging 149 00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:19,600 generation and she traces that to the sexual Revolution, which 150 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,700 resulted in the the gist? The absolutely decimation of the 151 00:08:23,700 --> 00:08:28,300 nuclear family. And she uses this phrase. 152 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:33,400 She said we are hopelessly communal beings as human beings. 153 00:08:33,900 --> 00:08:36,799 We are made to be communal. Were made to be relational. 154 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:39,500 Were made to be in family, were made to have those 155 00:08:39,500 --> 00:08:42,500 relationships. And the first place we find our 156 00:08:42,500 --> 00:08:44,800 identity is Under the Umbrella of our family. 157 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:48,300 I am an Olsen, I Am the son of Jim and fails and I'm the 158 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:52,200 brother of several siblings and that's where my, my identity 159 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:57,500 began to be formed. But we see the the sexual 160 00:08:57,500 --> 00:09:01,800 revolution of the 60s, the late 60s, and early 70s, which is 161 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,700 what that the timeframe that movie. 162 00:09:03,700 --> 00:09:11,000 The Jesus Revolution is about That timeframe there was what 163 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,200 was known as the sexual Revolution that absolutely has 164 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,300 decimated. The family there were several 165 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:24,500 things that converge to cause that, you know, the the I knew I 166 00:09:24,500 --> 00:09:28,200 was going to have this problem. My mind, I'm having a hard time 167 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:29,600 finding words this morning. We need to pray. 168 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,400 Father, Lord, I ask that you would Grace me this morning. 169 00:09:34,500 --> 00:09:38,500 Lord give me the words to discharge what's on my heart. 170 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,600 And Lord, I ask God that you would speak through me. 171 00:09:43,300 --> 00:09:47,700 Lord that you would awaken Faith Lord, that you would awaken an 172 00:09:47,700 --> 00:09:53,400 ache within us Lord God, that we would not be the generation that 173 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:57,800 This is a move of God lord we want to see you move and great 174 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:01,400 power Lord. Our heart breaks for this 175 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:07,000 generation and Lord were asking visit it once again in Jesus 176 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,100 name. Amen. 177 00:10:11,700 --> 00:10:13,800 Birth control pill. That's what I was looking for. 178 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:15,800 Can you believe that I'm tell we're in trouble? 179 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:20,300 If God doesn't ride in on this birth control enabled, people to 180 00:10:20,300 --> 00:10:25,600 be, to begin to liberated sexually without the 181 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,800 consequences. And so, the breakdown of the 182 00:10:28,900 --> 00:10:33,500 no-fault divorce, all of these things, converged to decimate, 183 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:37,000 the family and so she begins to look sociologically what that 184 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,100 did to the American Family, what and really globally? 185 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:45,100 That, you know, you have people with, you know, stepfathers and 186 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,700 their mother has a boyfriend that has siblings that move in 187 00:10:48,900 --> 00:10:50,800 with them and are they related to them? 188 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,000 Or are they not? And if it's a, you know, just 189 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,100 all this confusion so people don't know who they are. 190 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,000 And so what's happened? And she, she traces this out 191 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,700 that what? And not finding our identity. 192 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:06,800 In our homes. We identify by our woundedness. 193 00:11:07,900 --> 00:11:12,700 Then we look to a tribal affiliation with those who share 194 00:11:12,700 --> 00:11:16,500 our woundedness. And then we go to war against 195 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:21,200 anybody that would disagree with our woundedness and that is 196 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:27,400 identity politics. It was fascinating about two 197 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,900 years later. I read the book by Carl Truman 198 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:32,900 and he went into how Wilhelm Reich was. 199 00:11:33,100 --> 00:11:37,800 He was one of the fathers of CRT critical race Theory and he was 200 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,900 a vowed Marxist. And his, his ideology was this 201 00:11:41,900 --> 00:11:47,800 he said capitalism has produced too much wealth for us to 202 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:52,300 overthrow the West. We can't, we can't pit the poor 203 00:11:52,300 --> 00:11:56,400 against the rich anymore because capitalism has really raise the 204 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,000 water level of a society financially. 205 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,800 So he said we've got to find another way to cause Division 206 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,400 and one of the things he said is we've got to make war against 207 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,400 the family. We've got to do away with the 208 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:13,600 father's in the homes. We've got to do with gender 209 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,000 identity in the sense of, you know, the distinction between 210 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,100 male and female. We've got to create confusion in 211 00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:20,900 these. And so, what was fascinating to 212 00:12:20,900 --> 00:12:24,300 me is Mary a burst at she looked at the result in Reverse, 213 00:12:24,300 --> 00:12:27,300 engineered it and said, Logically, this was the problem. 214 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:32,400 Meanwhile, route Wilhelm Reich many decades earlier had already 215 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:35,000 engineered it in advance. It said, this is what we're 216 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:41,500 going to do to reach our goals and it worked And the answer for 217 00:12:41,500 --> 00:12:47,800 this is the family of God, God sets the lonely in families. 218 00:12:49,300 --> 00:12:54,000 And if the world ever needed churches that can receive people 219 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,500 in love and wrap around them and provide the family, they never 220 00:12:58,500 --> 00:13:01,600 had, if they were Liz ever needed that it's right now. 221 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:08,100 And so we were talking about that that morning 23 almost 222 00:13:08,100 --> 00:13:11,700 three years ago now and as we were talking about that it was 223 00:13:11,700 --> 00:13:15,800 like just this ache erupted and we went into intercession, I 224 00:13:15,808 --> 00:13:17,700 didn't even get to finish my message. 225 00:13:17,700 --> 00:13:20,900 Many of you were here and we just begin to cry out. 226 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:26,200 I couldn't stop weeping and and I remember around that time I 227 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,900 heard Lou Engel talking, he was saying that he was in a meeting 228 00:13:28,900 --> 00:13:34,200 in California and he was talking about the, the, blight of Of 229 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:38,900 sexual confusion that has hit this generation and there's such 230 00:13:38,900 --> 00:13:43,700 Brokenness not unlike what happened in the late. 70s, late 231 00:13:43,700 --> 00:13:46,500 60s, early 70s. You know, Lonnie frisbee in that 232 00:13:46,500 --> 00:13:49,500 movie, you know, how he met his wife, she was out. 233 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:53,000 She was out sunbathing in the nude and he was out street 234 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,600 witnessing. He just walked up to her, she's 235 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:56,200 laying there. And how you doing? 236 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,300 He preaches the gospel to her, led her to the Lord, while she 237 00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:02,500 was naked, baptized her, and then they got married. 238 00:14:02,900 --> 00:14:04,400 I mean, this was a crazy. Time. 239 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:09,400 Okay. We look at what's going on now. 240 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,100 We're like, oh my goodness. What is happening to our nation? 241 00:14:12,300 --> 00:14:17,500 I'm telling you, this has happened before and God answered 242 00:14:17,500 --> 00:14:20,200 with a move called the Jesus people movement. 243 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,800 So during that a couple years ago where we were talking about 244 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,800 all this, I remember Lou Engel talking about he was out in 245 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,800 California talking and he was talking about healing for 246 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:36,200 homosexuality in this young man, stood up and said, sir, if you 247 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:41,000 don't have the power of God to deliver me from my sexual urges, 248 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:46,100 you have no right to call me out of homosexuality and Lou was hit 249 00:14:46,100 --> 00:14:48,200 because lose a man of tremendous compassion. 250 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:52,000 Now, melt most of us are well, that young man needed an 251 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,900 attitude adjustment. That's probably true. 252 00:14:54,500 --> 00:14:58,100 But the fact is, there is truth that you and I are the ones that 253 00:14:58,100 --> 00:15:00,300 are called to carry the power of God. 254 00:15:01,900 --> 00:15:06,500 And until we carry enough power. We need to get in the closet of 255 00:15:06,500 --> 00:15:10,600 our prayer closet and begin to cry out to God to get the power 256 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:14,300 to deliver people. Don't call people into the 257 00:15:14,300 --> 00:15:17,200 repentance that you don't have the power to help him out with. 258 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,600 And so as we were talking about that, it was like a coal came 259 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:24,700 from heaven and hit us Bloom and we just launched into these 260 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:27,800 prayer meetings and the reason I bring that up this morning is 261 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:32,100 God has not changed his mind. I told you going to be all over 262 00:15:32,100 --> 00:15:35,500 this morning just bear with me just prior to that. 263 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:37,800 I'd called a good friend of mine, Jeff Collins many of you 264 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:44,100 know, Jeff Jeff is a tremendous man of God, he's got the 265 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:48,700 craziest stories. And I called him, I said Jeff 266 00:15:48,700 --> 00:15:52,400 what's the Lord telling you and he began to weep and he said 267 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:56,200 Dave, he said I was on my way to a prayer meeting I had in a I 268 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:00,400 had a prophetic astonishment. I'm thinking. 269 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,200 What is that? I'm getting my, you know, 270 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:03,800 dictionary out. What's a prophetic? 271 00:16:04,300 --> 00:16:06,600 I said, what do you mean? He said I was on my way to 272 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:09,700 prayer at their church and Palestine Texas. 273 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,700 And he said the Lord told me the state of the church right now is 274 00:16:14,700 --> 00:16:18,300 the two prostitutes before. King Solomon arguing over the 275 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:22,300 remaining child, when one had died and wanting one was left. 276 00:16:22,300 --> 00:16:25,800 And the two prostitutes were arguing over the the child. 277 00:16:27,500 --> 00:16:29,400 And when he said it, it hit me and I began to weep. 278 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,200 I said, Jeff, what do you think it means? 279 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,900 He says I don't know he was still praying into he said but I 280 00:16:34,908 --> 00:16:38,100 know this there's no moral High Ground, we've all been 281 00:16:38,100 --> 00:16:41,800 unfaithful, we've all been prostitutes and we stand before 282 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,200 the king and as I began to pray into that, I really felt like 283 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:51,100 the Lord stressed. One thing to me, That the 284 00:16:51,100 --> 00:16:53,200 emerging generation. There were two children. 285 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,600 There were two prostitutes, both had children, they were living 286 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,400 together. And during the night, one of 287 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,500 them had rolled over on her child and smothered the child to 288 00:17:02,500 --> 00:17:04,700 death. It had died, the other child was 289 00:17:04,700 --> 00:17:06,800 alive. So the one whose child had died 290 00:17:07,099 --> 00:17:11,300 quietly, lifted her dead child into the arms of the other 291 00:17:11,300 --> 00:17:14,800 sleeping mother and took her living child and snuggle it and 292 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:19,000 went back to sleep. Of course, the the the real 293 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,800 mother woke up saw the dead child and began to wail. 294 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,800 She was so stricken with grief and then she looked at it, she 295 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,800 realized this is not my child because a mother knows. 296 00:17:29,100 --> 00:17:31,700 She went over to the other lady and demanded her child back and 297 00:17:31,700 --> 00:17:33,800 she said this is my child. They got a big argument. 298 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:36,700 So next thing you know they're before King Solomon it's that 299 00:17:36,700 --> 00:17:39,400 famous story. Where Solomon says okay they're 300 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:42,800 both crying out and Solomon says okay let's bring over a sword. 301 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:46,100 We're going to cut the baby in half and you both get one half 302 00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:48,300 of the baby. And of course, the real mother 303 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:49,900 said, no. No, let it live. 304 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,600 I don't care who raises it. And the other lady said, yeah. 305 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,300 Kill it because she didn't have the mother's heart for the child 306 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,400 and King. Solomon wisely said this is the 307 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:04,600 real Mother. And the picture is that half of 308 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:08,600 the emerging generation has already died under the weight of 309 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:14,300 the sleeping Unfaithful bride. And what's remaining is there 310 00:18:14,300 --> 00:18:17,600 was this argument over it, but when it got Before the Throne, 311 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:22,100 the care of that child was awarded to the one who want, 312 00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:25,100 it's life preserved. She didn't she didn't even care. 313 00:18:25,100 --> 00:18:27,700 If she got to raise it, someone else can raise it. 314 00:18:27,700 --> 00:18:30,900 But it's got to live. And I'm telling you God's 315 00:18:30,900 --> 00:18:33,900 looking for churches. He's looking for people that 316 00:18:33,900 --> 00:18:37,600 that's their heart cry. That we say, God, we can't 317 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:41,900 tolerate this state of this generation, you've got to let it 318 00:18:41,900 --> 00:18:44,200 live. They have to encounter Jesus. 319 00:18:45,900 --> 00:18:48,300 And I believe God wants to release a fresh. 320 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:52,600 Jesus Revolution, I really do the markers of these two 321 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:58,500 generations are so similar, and it was like there is it was ripe 322 00:18:58,500 --> 00:19:00,700 for a move of God. Well, most were wringing their 323 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:03,700 hands saying, it's hopeless and actuality. 324 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,600 It's ripe for a move of God in reality Chuck Smith. 325 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:09,900 The pastor in that movie, he said to his wife, one day said, 326 00:19:09,900 --> 00:19:11,900 these kids are too far gone, even for God. 327 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:15,300 And she began to weep and she said, Chuck don't say that. 328 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:19,800 That you're saying they're too far gone for God, don't say 329 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,000 that. It was she that carried the 330 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,500 burden and they began to invite these young people into their 331 00:19:25,700 --> 00:19:31,200 home and God created a wildfire that burned across this nation, 332 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,800 tens of thousands of bombed-out. Hippies came to the Lord. 333 00:19:36,500 --> 00:19:41,300 It was an amazing move of God. And I believe God wants to do it 334 00:19:41,300 --> 00:19:44,300 again, but he's looking for those who will cry out for their 335 00:19:44,300 --> 00:19:47,300 life and that's what launched the prayer meeting. 336 00:19:47,300 --> 00:19:51,400 And I think we need to remember that that God initiated 337 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:55,500 something in this house and our heart cries godsend in a harvest 338 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,100 Lord. Visit this generation regardless 339 00:19:58,100 --> 00:20:00,800 of who gets to raise it. Lord if you send it here we'll 340 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,000 do what we can to make room for it. 341 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,200 But Lord, if you've got to send it somewhere else, all we care 342 00:20:06,300 --> 00:20:10,200 is that this emerging generation That they encounter. 343 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,200 God let's get into the word here. 344 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,600 Ephesians chapter 4. Want us to look at this. 345 00:20:16,100 --> 00:20:20,800 Look at verse 17. Now this size say and testify in 346 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:26,100 the Lord that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do and the 347 00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:31,400 futility of their minds. So Paul discuss describes this 348 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:36,100 way of thinking as feudal thinking it's there's futility 349 00:20:36,100 --> 00:20:39,200 and that thinking that type of thinking and then he goes on. 350 00:20:39,300 --> 00:20:42,000 He said, they are darkened in their understanding and 351 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,100 alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is 352 00:20:45,100 --> 00:20:48,500 in them due to the hardness of their heart, they have become 353 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:52,400 callous. So Paul is describing this 354 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:57,200 phenomena and he in Ephesians 4, he's applying it to an 355 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,100 individual. Now, this is a heavy passage and 356 00:21:01,100 --> 00:21:02,600 we need to feel the weight of it. 357 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,600 For two reasons, we need to understand what has happened to 358 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,600 others. And we also need to understand. 359 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,200 This is a warning from the Apostle Paul. 360 00:21:10,300 --> 00:21:14,500 He wouldn't warn us about that futile way of thinking, if it 361 00:21:14,500 --> 00:21:17,100 wasn't a possibility for us to slip into it. 362 00:21:18,300 --> 00:21:23,100 And really, what he's doing is, he's giving us the downward 363 00:21:23,100 --> 00:21:26,900 spiral of a backslider. And in fact, if you've ever 364 00:21:26,900 --> 00:21:29,800 walked away from the Lord, if you've ever walked with Jesus 365 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:34,200 and then walked away from him, you'll recognize the steps. 366 00:21:34,300 --> 00:21:37,800 And what he does is he reverse Engineers this thing. 367 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,600 He talks about the end, Result and then he begins to work 368 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:45,300 himself towards the root cause. So look at how he says this look 369 00:21:45,300 --> 00:21:49,400 in verse 18. So he says, this is the futile 370 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:53,000 thinking that he's talking about Verse 18, their darkened in 371 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,800 their understanding and alienated from the life of God, 372 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:00,300 the NIV says, separated from the life of God. 373 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,400 One translation says, cut off from the life of God. 374 00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:10,100 So that is the end result there there darkened in their 375 00:22:10,100 --> 00:22:14,000 understanding and alienated from the life of God because of in 376 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,000 other words, the cause of which is the ignorance that is in 377 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,200 them. So there's this ignorance that 378 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,900 sets in that the next stage of which is the darkening of the 379 00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:27,000 understanding and they're cut off from the life of God but 380 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,900 then look at what it says that is in them due to. 381 00:22:29,900 --> 00:22:33,800 So the real Root cause of this thing, the do tooth, the 382 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:37,400 hardness of their heart, they became Callas. 383 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:44,300 What Paul is describing is a dangerous process that you could 384 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:48,200 call the hardening of the heart. The hardening of the heart is 385 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,200 never an event. It's an event that gives 386 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:56,100 Kickstart to a process that if you don't recognize, it will 387 00:22:56,100 --> 00:23:01,500 endanger your spiritual life. And so the hardness of the 388 00:23:01,500 --> 00:23:04,400 heart, it's an interesting word. He says, the due to the hardness 389 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,000 of their heart, they have become callous. 390 00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:10,300 You think about what a calluses? I remember, I, when I was 391 00:23:10,300 --> 00:23:15,700 younger, I worked in. I worked in this tomato farm and 392 00:23:15,700 --> 00:23:19,800 we had 50,000 tomato plants and there were four of us guys. 393 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,400 And we would hold Tomatoes, fifty thousand plants every day. 394 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:27,300 We would hope I weight about 135 pounds, but I could arm wrestle 395 00:23:27,300 --> 00:23:29,300 because I had all day long, I would do this. 396 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,900 This every year at the beginning, I would get these 397 00:23:31,900 --> 00:23:36,800 huge blisters at the time I was homeless and so I remember this 398 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,400 one family. Let me live with them for a 399 00:23:38,408 --> 00:23:41,300 while, not very long. Then they kicked me out too, but 400 00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:44,400 I was in. I remember my first day, I had 401 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,600 these huge blisters and I peel the skin off and it's all pink 402 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,700 underneath in there was dirt in there and I thought oh I need to 403 00:23:50,700 --> 00:23:53,400 get and I looked up on their there are sink there in the 404 00:23:54,100 --> 00:23:56,200 bathroom and there was a bottle of alcohol. 405 00:23:56,300 --> 00:23:59,000 I thought oh that'll work, that'll clean it out. 406 00:24:01,900 --> 00:24:05,100 I poured it on that open wound. Now when you're at someone's 407 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:08,300 house you don't want to scream bloody murder because it'll 408 00:24:08,300 --> 00:24:13,500 freak them out. So I went it was the Silent 409 00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:17,700 Scream in the mirror it hurt but at right man, all said I had an 410 00:24:17,700 --> 00:24:20,900 instant callous. So being the smart guy that I 411 00:24:20,900 --> 00:24:27,200 was, I did the other hand. I really did a callus. 412 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:33,800 Is that because of familiarity, you lose sensitivity, that's 413 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:37,900 what a callus is. You become so familiar with 414 00:24:37,900 --> 00:24:41,700 handling something that you no longer have the sensitivity. 415 00:24:41,700 --> 00:24:45,100 You once did. So my hands would get like 416 00:24:45,100 --> 00:24:47,800 leather I could I could handle things and it didn't bother me. 417 00:24:48,500 --> 00:24:50,100 Some people do that with their feet. 418 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:51,600 You people? Freak me out. 419 00:24:51,700 --> 00:24:54,300 Okay. I'm like a Tenderfoot I need 420 00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:57,700 shoes on but there are people that tribes of people that never 421 00:24:57,700 --> 00:25:01,200 wear shoes, do run run across rocks, not even feel it because 422 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,500 their skin can get calloused. Truly a good picture of what 423 00:25:05,500 --> 00:25:08,600 Paul is talking about. The Greek word that he translate 424 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:16,100 Hardness of Heart Is porosus sounds like cirrhosis the 425 00:25:16,100 --> 00:25:19,600 hardening of the liver, but it's porosus ancient literature. 426 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,000 There was a story that used that term, and it was of a 427 00:25:23,100 --> 00:25:25,500 tremendously overweight, man, that was dying. 428 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,400 He kept going into this comatose state. 429 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,900 So they would take long needles and puncture him trying to wake 430 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:33,100 him up. And finally, they couldn't, they 431 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:34,900 couldn't strike. Like a nerve and they called the 432 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:40,400 phenomena porosus. It was like, he could no longer 433 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,200 be awake and he couldn't be, he couldn't feel he lost 434 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,300 sensitivity. It's the hardening of the heart. 435 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:54,800 I want to say it's Proverbs 28 verse 14 and if I'm right I'm 436 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,800 impressed with myself because I haven't looked at Versailles 437 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,900 palanca. But I say it's Proverbs 28 verse 438 00:25:58,900 --> 00:26:04,500 14, it just popped in my head. It juxtaposes the hardening of 439 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:06,400 the heart, over against the fear of the Lord. 440 00:26:06,500 --> 00:26:08,600 It shows that they are Polar Opposites. 441 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:14,900 You either fear the lord, or you harden, your heart, the fear of 442 00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:18,900 the Lord is the hatred of evil, because you realize it is not. 443 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:23,500 Never worth it, sin will never deliver what it promises. 444 00:26:24,300 --> 00:26:27,300 It'll always cost you much more than the price tag. 445 00:26:27,300 --> 00:26:31,500 Says, and you realize the fear of the Lord will cause you to 446 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:35,600 not pursue evil, the hardening of the heart, on the other hand, 447 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,400 is ignoring the conviction of the spirit when God's dealing 448 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,500 with us. We ignore that. 449 00:26:41,500 --> 00:26:44,100 But you see what? The next step is, the ignorance 450 00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:46,600 that is in them due to the hardening of their heart. 451 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:51,000 So, when we ignore a given, Ruth, this thing called 452 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:56,600 ignorance sets in, we said again, when we ignore what God's 453 00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:01,000 dealing with us about in the moment, then what sets in is 454 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,900 ignorance, those are two different things. 455 00:27:03,100 --> 00:27:06,100 Ignoring means, I don't want to know, I don't want to deal with 456 00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:09,000 this. I and it's like, we have this 457 00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:13,200 mistaken mythology that we buy into that, we can 458 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,200 compartmentalize our relationship with God, God all 459 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,800 obey you in every other area, except this one. 460 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,100 But what I'm telling you based on the authority of God's word 461 00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:27,400 this morning is, you cannot compartmentalize that when you 462 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:31,200 ignore a given truth ignorance begins to set in. 463 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,300 What does that mean? Ignorance means that you begin 464 00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:40,400 to lose what you once knew. You ignore something and now you 465 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,400 become ignorant of what you once knew. 466 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:45,400 I was raised in church. I was a little. 467 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,500 Holy Ghost Boy. My dad was a Pentecostal 468 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:49,700 preacher. I was baptized in the spirit at 469 00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:52,700 12 years old had, I'd had encounters with the Lord. 470 00:27:52,700 --> 00:27:55,700 I'd seen the moving of the spirit, but I made some 471 00:27:55,700 --> 00:27:59,000 conscious decisions that I was going to walk away from God. 472 00:27:59,900 --> 00:28:03,800 And the scary thing was that when I was away from the Lord, I 473 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:09,800 could still explain to you sound theology, but it couldn't 474 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,300 penetrate my heart. In fact, I remember there. 475 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,700 Were times, I'd get drunk and I would preach to people and 476 00:28:15,700 --> 00:28:18,100 they'd laugh you're going to end up being a preacher and they 477 00:28:18,100 --> 00:28:21,600 would laugh at me and but one, one of my, I had a distant 478 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,100 cousin. He confronted me one day. 479 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:24,800 He said, Dave, you don't even believe that stuff. 480 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,600 I said it's true. I've seen the stuff he said, if 481 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,400 you believed it you'd live it and it cut me. 482 00:28:33,300 --> 00:28:35,600 But even then it seemed like I couldn't grasp. 483 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,200 It was like, it would turn into a mist and to a shadow in my 484 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:40,600 hands. It was like smoke. 485 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,200 I couldn't grasp it. Ignorance began to set in. 486 00:28:44,500 --> 00:28:47,900 I could describe it in a lecture Ali but I couldn't step into it 487 00:28:47,908 --> 00:28:52,900 experientially. And then what happens, they are 488 00:28:52,900 --> 00:28:55,500 darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of 489 00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:59,500 God because of that ignorance. So, the way it works is this you 490 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:01,500 ignore what God's dealing with you on. 491 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,300 You think I'm going to compartmentalize? 492 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:06,000 I'm going to be open to God in these things that I want to be 493 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,700 open to him on but the things I don't want to that's that's for 494 00:29:09,700 --> 00:29:11,900 me to take care of. I don't want to deal with what 495 00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:15,800 God's dealing with me on. When we ignore the given truth 496 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,400 in front of us we set in motion a process. 497 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,000 Where ignorance begins to Set in and then we become what? 498 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:28,400 The Bible calls darkened in our understanding, what that means 499 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:34,000 is you lose the faculty to receive more truth, the organ 500 00:29:34,700 --> 00:29:36,900 that by which you're supposed to receive truth. 501 00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:39,600 It's your understanding, you can't receive any more. 502 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,600 It's like your diminished, you can't understand. 503 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,100 It's like there's a dullness, you can't make sense of what 504 00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:49,100 God's trying to tell you. It's a demonic thing. 505 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,900 And Then you're alienated from the life of God. 506 00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:56,600 Now that's what happens in the life of a Believer and let's 507 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:00,500 just pause there, that's what happens in a human life but also 508 00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:02,600 this can happen in the life of a Believer. 509 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,900 That's why Paul says You must no longer live in the futility of 510 00:30:06,900 --> 00:30:11,100 the thinking of the Gentiles of unbelievers, you've got to pay 511 00:30:11,100 --> 00:30:14,400 attention to what God is doing because you can set in motion 512 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:18,300 this process. Everyone of us have known people 513 00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:23,300 that once walked with God that don't anymore and it's because 514 00:30:23,300 --> 00:30:27,700 of this very process. And so if you're there you need 515 00:30:27,700 --> 00:30:30,300 to just cry out to God. When I got saved. 516 00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:34,100 I there was like a window of time and there were there were a 517 00:30:34,100 --> 00:30:36,900 bunch of praying little old. Ladies, at First Church of the 518 00:30:36,900 --> 00:30:40,500 Open Bible in a tumble Iowa and they were praying for me. 519 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,600 And all of a sudden I entered this season, where my mind 520 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,300 became enlightened, all of a sudden, the things of God began 521 00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:49,600 to make sense. I could connect the dots. 522 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,900 I began to have the fear of the Lord, come upon me. 523 00:30:52,300 --> 00:30:55,100 I remember I told this story recently, but I would remember 524 00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:56,900 being hungry. I was homeless and so I went 525 00:30:56,900 --> 00:31:00,100 into a gas station, I was going to steal some food and being the 526 00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:01,000 health. Not that I am. 527 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,500 I was going to steal some twinkies. 528 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:08,300 And so I reached for him and I remember this very, I'm very 529 00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:10,400 aware of all sin as I was reaching. 530 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:14,400 I thought, oh man, I'm going to have to pay a Twinkies, worth a 531 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:18,400 hide for this. God is going to discipline me 532 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,200 for this. He's going to take a Twinkies 533 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,400 worth out of my hide, if I steal this, I knew I could get away 534 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,000 with it in the store. I didn't have to answer to human 535 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,200 beings because I could get away, but I knew God was watching. 536 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:36,000 That was a strange thing for me to think that wasn't how I 537 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,100 usually thought I was a thief and a liar, but all of a sudden 538 00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:40,700 I became aware of God. Why? 539 00:31:40,900 --> 00:31:44,900 Because some people were praying and there was light coming into 540 00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:46,900 the darkness. All of a sudden I was aware, I 541 00:31:46,908 --> 00:31:51,900 begin to see certain things. But even then, when I got saved, 542 00:31:51,900 --> 00:31:55,400 I remember telling the Lord, I said, God, I don't love you and 543 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,400 I don't want to serve you but I know you got what I need and I'm 544 00:31:58,408 --> 00:32:00,900 asking you Lord, I will go through the motions. 545 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,400 If you'll give me the desire to do this thing, I will go through 546 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,400 the motions. It was just a cry of desperate. 547 00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:10,500 It wasn't humility, it wasn't this. 548 00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:14,700 This thing of, I still to this day, I can't believe that God 549 00:32:14,700 --> 00:32:19,200 took me back the arrogance of that prayer, but all I did is 550 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,600 cracked the door. He came rushing in and he didn't 551 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,800 give it to me. I didn't have this overwhelming 552 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,900 desire right away. I remember going to a consulate 553 00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:30,500 Team Challenge and I said, listen, I can't go back. 554 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,200 I was so demonized. And so broken, I had an 555 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,100 out-of-body experiences with demons and stuff. 556 00:32:38,500 --> 00:32:42,400 I knew I was going to hell. And God graciously brought me 557 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,300 back in but I was numb to the things of God. 558 00:32:45,300 --> 00:32:48,100 And I remember going to a counter and saying, I don't I 559 00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:51,500 don't ever feel him. I don't I don't Have any sense 560 00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:55,700 of his presence and he told me, he said, listen, you need to 561 00:32:55,700 --> 00:32:59,100 pray. Psalm 51, restore unto me, the 562 00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:03,600 joy of my salvation, that I began to ask God, Lauren. 563 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,600 I'm going to serve you. I'm going to go through the 564 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,600 motions until you give it, but I'm asking. 565 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,800 You God, restore to me. Lord, would you do it in me? 566 00:33:11,300 --> 00:33:16,900 And God, graciously did. you don't even have to have a want 567 00:33:16,900 --> 00:33:21,800 to this morning as long as you have a want to want to You may 568 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,500 not have a wanna, but you got to have a wanna wanna and if you 569 00:33:24,500 --> 00:33:26,900 gotta wanna wanna I'm telling you, there is hope for you. 570 00:33:26,900 --> 00:33:29,600 The door is cracked, and God, will come rushing in. 571 00:33:30,900 --> 00:33:34,200 And if you're here this morning and you've hardened your heart, 572 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,000 and you've begun to walk away from, you may be living in 573 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,000 secret sin and everybody around you think. 574 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,100 So man, there, they're a tremendous man or woman of God. 575 00:33:42,100 --> 00:33:45,000 They they're living a moral life and you know better, I'm telling 576 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,800 you there's hope for you this morning, but you need to cry out 577 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:52,600 to him. you need to let God come rushing in and rescue you from 578 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:56,300 yourself because this is a very serious phenomena, Paul lays out 579 00:33:56,300 --> 00:34:03,400 here, Now, what he lays out here in Ephesians 4, we see also in 580 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:08,500 Romans 1, but it's on the macro scale, turn to Romans 1 Romans 581 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:11,100 1. It shows us Verse 18. 582 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:17,800 The corporate manifestation, or the cultural manifestation of 583 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,800 what we just saw on an individual scale and what's 584 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,100 fascinating to me, as you see some of the same words, the 585 00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:29,100 futility of their thinking, the darkening of their Art it says, 586 00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:32,699 Ephesians forces, the darkening of their mind, Romans 1 talks 587 00:34:32,699 --> 00:34:37,300 about the darkening of their heart and then both of them, we 588 00:34:37,300 --> 00:34:40,500 didn't see it in Ephesians we didn't get because if you follow 589 00:34:40,500 --> 00:34:44,199 that passage it says they're given over to sensuality and 590 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:48,199 every kind of impurity with a continual Lust For more, it 591 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:53,400 implies that there's always a sexual Brokenness that will flow 592 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:57,700 out of that. That man is created to be a 593 00:34:57,700 --> 00:35:01,900 worshipper and if you remove God from the throne man we'll find 594 00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:05,300 something else to worship and it's not a coincidence that 595 00:35:05,300 --> 00:35:10,000 every cult has some kind of aberration connected to man's 596 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,600 sexuality. Because there's something about 597 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,900 that. That is so strong that if man 598 00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:21,600 doesn't have God on the throne, he descends into this idolatry 599 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:26,700 of Twisted sexuality. And so this is what we see here. 600 00:35:26,700 --> 00:35:30,400 Look at Verse 18 for the wrath of God is being revealed from 601 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:34,700 Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who 602 00:35:34,700 --> 00:35:37,400 by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 603 00:35:37,700 --> 00:35:41,100 If you know the truth and you suppress the truth, God takes it 604 00:35:41,100 --> 00:35:45,600 very He seriously. If you try to keep other people 605 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,200 from the truth, God takes that very seriously. 606 00:35:49,100 --> 00:35:53,000 I remember when I was running from God and I had friends that 607 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,500 would come under conviction and I would try to talk him out of 608 00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:58,800 it. It makes me tremble to this day. 609 00:36:01,900 --> 00:36:06,400 For what can be known about God is plain to them because God had 610 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,700 shown it to them for his invisible attributes. 611 00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:14,600 Namely, his eternal power, and his divine nature have been 612 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:19,700 clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world in things 613 00:36:19,700 --> 00:36:22,000 that have been made. So this is why you'll hear 614 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,200 people. Say when people say I don't 615 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,300 believe in God, I'm an atheist. God says to them. 616 00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:29,700 I don't believe in atheists. I'm God. 617 00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:36,200 Because it is evident in creation to become an atheist. 618 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,600 You literally have to be darkened in your understanding 619 00:36:40,100 --> 00:36:43,800 and you have to do mental gymnastics to get away from the 620 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:49,100 evidence, because it's evident If there's a creation, there's a 621 00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:52,300 creator. To believe this was just a 622 00:36:52,300 --> 00:36:56,700 biological accident requires much more faith than 623 00:36:56,700 --> 00:37:03,300 surrendering to Jesus does and so he says that God has made it 624 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:06,400 clear to man, it's what Theologian call Natural 625 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,500 Revelation. There is special Revelation in 626 00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:13,700 scripture, but there's also natural Revelation in nature. 627 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:18,400 So that men are without excuse, God can call us to account. 628 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,600 So, that's why people say, well, what about the man who's never 629 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:21,900 heard. Heard the gospel. 630 00:37:21,900 --> 00:37:24,800 How can God, how can God send someone to hell. 631 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:29,000 If they've never heard the gospel, men are without excuse 632 00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:33,000 and when men cry out to the god of Heaven, even if they don't 633 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,100 know what to call him, there is story after story. 634 00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:39,100 After Story, all down through history of God, revealing 635 00:37:39,100 --> 00:37:45,200 himself to those people. Verse 21 for although they knew 636 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,200 God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him. 637 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,800 Their thinking became futile, there it is. 638 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,900 There's that word again is he? Because Paul is dealing with the 639 00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:59,800 same Dynamic here in Romans 1, but just on a grander scale, a 640 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:05,300 cultural application of this individual backsliding, he goes 641 00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:09,100 on, they became futile in their thinking and their foolish 642 00:38:09,100 --> 00:38:12,600 Hearts were darkened, go ahead and turn that. 643 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,500 Guy's their foolish Hearts were, darkened claiming to be wise, 644 00:38:16,500 --> 00:38:18,000 they became fools. You see. 645 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,100 There's this thing of the darkening of the understanding 646 00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:24,200 where you can't grasp. It's like you don't have the 647 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:28,600 capacity to understand. There is darkness that comes in 648 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,900 and you can't connect the dots. You have no light. 649 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,800 It's like you're groping about in the darkness trying to 650 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,000 understand goes. On it says and they exchanged 651 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,800 the glory of the immortal, God for images, resembling mortal 652 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,800 men and birds and animals and creeping things, therefore God 653 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,800 gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity to the 654 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,100 dishonoring of their bodies. The first phase is sexual 655 00:38:51,100 --> 00:38:54,400 immorality among themselves because they exchanged the truth 656 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,100 about God, for a lie and worshipped and served the 657 00:38:57,100 --> 00:38:58,200 creature rather than the Creator. 658 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,400 Who blessed, is blessed forever. Amen. 659 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,900 For this reason. Now, here's the second stage for 660 00:39:03,900 --> 00:39:06,400 this reason, God gave them up to dishonorable. 661 00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:10,100 Students for their women, exchanged natural relations, to 662 00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:14,100 those that are contrary to Nature and the men likewise gave 663 00:39:14,100 --> 00:39:17,000 up natural relations for women and were consumed with passion 664 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,900 for one, another men committing Shameless acts with men and 665 00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:23,400 receiving in them. The due penalty of their error. 666 00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:26,300 So, this is the second stage of this. 667 00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:31,200 This decline one generation Embraces sexual immorality. 668 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:35,000 The Next Generation Embraces, homosexuality, and gender 669 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,800 confusion begins to come in. There are sociological reasons 670 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:40,800 for that. There are psychological 671 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:45,200 relations for that and there are spiritual / theological reasons 672 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,900 for that. In the breakdown of the home. 673 00:39:48,900 --> 00:39:53,000 When the home begins to break down little boys and little 674 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,700 girls need their mom and dad engaged in their lives. 675 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:03,000 Especially the father. It's the father who defines the 676 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,800 gender of their children. A little boy Sparks. 677 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:10,100 His little masculinity off his dad's and when he doesn't have a 678 00:40:10,100 --> 00:40:12,800 dad, there are certain personalities. 679 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:18,100 That 10 more to identify with the mother, some personalities. 680 00:40:18,100 --> 00:40:20,900 What they'll do is they're looking, they look to establish 681 00:40:20,900 --> 00:40:24,100 their masculinity through sexual Conquest with numerous women, 682 00:40:24,300 --> 00:40:28,700 when they come of age, other men are looking for that validation 683 00:40:28,700 --> 00:40:32,000 through sexuality and they're looking for the mail affirmation 684 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,100 that they missed as a child and it becomes sexualized. 685 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,200 So their psychological reasons are sociological reasons in the 686 00:40:39,207 --> 00:40:42,600 breakdown of the family but the theological reason is right 687 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,800 here. They're turned over. 688 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,700 For continual us for more men, committing Shameless acts and 689 00:40:49,700 --> 00:40:52,100 receiving in themselves. The due penalty of their error. 690 00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:55,800 Let's go on, guys. And, and since they did not see 691 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,200 fit to acknowledge, God, God gave them up to a debased mind 692 00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:00,600 to do, what ought not to be done. 693 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,200 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil 694 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,500 covetousness, malice full of Envy murder Strife, 695 00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:09,600 maliciousness, they are gossips slanderers haters. 696 00:41:11,300 --> 00:41:14,500 Of God insolent. Hottie, boastful, invest and 697 00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:17,600 inventors of evil disobedient. They invent new ways to commit 698 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:21,200 evil disobedient to parents. Isn't that interesting? 699 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,900 He throws out in that long list. Young people. 700 00:41:27,100 --> 00:41:32,800 Obeying your parents is serious. Amen Nathaniel. 701 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,400 Yeah, he's my youngest seriously, that's some heavy 702 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,800 stuff, man. And he puts it on the same plane 703 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:44,800 with all this other stuff. They did not only do so they not 704 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,100 only practice these things knowing that they deserve to 705 00:41:47,100 --> 00:41:50,100 die, they not only do them. But approve of those who 706 00:41:50,100 --> 00:41:54,400 practice them, there is a cultural celebration of this 707 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,600 stuff that begins to set in. We're good becomes evil, evil 708 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:02,400 becomes good where they celebrate evil And what we see 709 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:06,400 is these the same markers on a cultural scale that we saw in 710 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:10,500 Ephesians chapter 4. Now let's turn to Ephesians 711 00:42:10,500 --> 00:42:14,300 chapter 6, Ephesians chapter 6, finally. 712 00:42:14,300 --> 00:42:16,200 So no, this is Pauline, theology. 713 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:17,700 Okay. Paul is weaving. 714 00:42:17,700 --> 00:42:20,900 A theology here that you and I need to understand because this 715 00:42:20,900 --> 00:42:22,600 is what's going on on our nation. 716 00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,700 And God wants to penetrate this and lift this off. 717 00:42:25,900 --> 00:42:28,800 So, finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his 718 00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,100 might put on the full armor of God, that You may be able to 719 00:42:32,100 --> 00:42:34,500 stand against the schemes of the devil. 720 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:38,700 The devil has a schematic. He has a pattern by which he 721 00:42:38,700 --> 00:42:39,700 operates. Okay. 722 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,200 So verse 12, we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but 723 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,100 against rulers against the authorities against Cosmic 724 00:42:46,100 --> 00:42:51,400 Powers over this present, Darkness, there's that word 725 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:55,600 again, over this against the spiritual forces of evil in 726 00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:59,300 Heavenly places. And so there are forces of 727 00:42:59,300 --> 00:43:05,800 Darkness that Tempt to impose Darkness on both the individual 728 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,900 mind. But also on the culture at large 729 00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:13,100 that word Darkness can be transits, it has the idea it's 730 00:43:13,100 --> 00:43:15,400 and other places that's used as Shadow. 731 00:43:15,500 --> 00:43:18,500 It's like you're in the shadows. The light can't get through. 732 00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,500 Also, the idea like a almost like this. 733 00:43:22,300 --> 00:43:25,500 It's like, if you ever been walking along on a cloudy day, I 734 00:43:25,500 --> 00:43:28,700 mean, it's a dismal day. It's like it's kind of cold out 735 00:43:28,700 --> 00:43:32,700 that the sun just can't painted the it's A brown gray sky. 736 00:43:32,700 --> 00:43:37,200 And and all of a sudden there's a cloud break and the Sun Burst 737 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,700 through and your face feels warm. 738 00:43:40,100 --> 00:43:44,400 And it's like it's a good day, Everything Changes because all 739 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,400 of a sudden the Sunburst happened and it changes the 740 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:52,200 dynamic of everything because it, penetrated, the overcast, 741 00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:57,700 Skies that overcast is a picture of what that darkness is like 742 00:43:57,700 --> 00:44:01,600 both in our minds. But also Thoroughly. 743 00:44:03,300 --> 00:44:08,500 There is a shared ideology that we have as a culture, the enemy 744 00:44:08,500 --> 00:44:12,400 tries to weave and the more people buy into it, the more he 745 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:17,200 can reinforce that and it creates a Darkness over a nation 746 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,800 over a people over those with that shared belief system. 747 00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:26,400 But there are times where God breaks in and it's like there's 748 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:33,400 a sunburst and the light of God breaks in and I say all that to 749 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:38,700 say that's what I saw as those hippies were cresting, the cliff 750 00:44:39,100 --> 00:44:43,800 looking at the baptism, it was a time when all of a sudden these 751 00:44:44,100 --> 00:44:51,400 tormented demonized young people All of a sudden something lifted 752 00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:55,500 off the nation, it wasn't just an individual mind. 753 00:44:56,700 --> 00:45:02,800 There was a dynamic in the air, it was atmospheric, those powers 754 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:07,000 of Darkness had been displaced and all of a sudden, the Sun 755 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:11,600 Burst through and people were aware God. 756 00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:15,500 Dwells among men I can meet the Creator. 757 00:45:15,500 --> 00:45:18,200 God I can have a relationship with them. 758 00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:24,800 There's Is hope for my life. What it is is the displacement 759 00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:31,400 of Darkness. And when we gather here, morning 760 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:35,400 after morning and cry out to God, when we are praying, when 761 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,500 we worship around here, we're not worshiping just because we 762 00:45:38,500 --> 00:45:43,600 like it, although I like it, I worship Jesus, because he's 763 00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:47,500 worthy. It doesn't matter if I feel it 764 00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,500 doesn't matter if I like the music, I can go into a church 765 00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:52,300 let believe me. I was raised in a church where 766 00:45:52,300 --> 00:45:56,300 our pianist if you can only worship when you like it, they 767 00:45:56,300 --> 00:45:58,200 ain't going to be any going on, okay? 768 00:45:59,100 --> 00:46:02,000 She was like, she would play beat that thing and then she'd 769 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,800 stop and say, I don't know why we come to church here. 770 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,800 When we're down in Texas, we can feel them was like, Wow, got to 771 00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:13,000 take the wind out of the room. I was baptized in the spirit 772 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,200 during a worship service. In that church. 773 00:46:15,700 --> 00:46:17,900 I remember my dad, get up. Say you may be seated and I 774 00:46:17,908 --> 00:46:21,600 thought seated, I'm gonna Rapture, I'm going to put a hole 775 00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,100 in the ceiling. I mean, God was, oh, I didn't 776 00:46:24,100 --> 00:46:26,300 know that. I was baptized in the spirit at 777 00:46:26,308 --> 00:46:28,600 that moment. I just knew that I was so 778 00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:32,400 excited by what I felt that I couldn't speak in English 779 00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:33,900 anymore, and I kept stopping myself. 780 00:46:33,900 --> 00:46:35,800 I thought I'm stuttering. I'm so excited. 781 00:46:35,900 --> 00:46:39,600 Come go to Baba. Jesus, I believe you may be 782 00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:44,600 seated. We worship because he's worthy. 783 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:49,400 But your enjoyment of worship is part of your worship. 784 00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:54,500 The fact that we enjoy being in his presence, is part of what we 785 00:46:54,500 --> 00:46:57,100 offer him because we're saying, Lord, you're awesome. 786 00:46:59,100 --> 00:47:02,000 The best time of my week is when I'm with you Lord. 787 00:47:03,500 --> 00:47:06,000 When I know I'm always with them, I'm talking about his 788 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:10,100 manifest presence. Hey, I know he's always with me 789 00:47:10,100 --> 00:47:12,900 went before my coffee. It feels like it more 790 00:47:12,900 --> 00:47:15,200 afterwards, but he's just as much with me before my coffee. 791 00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:19,700 I know that, but I love to feel his presence. 792 00:47:20,500 --> 00:47:23,800 I love being with the Saints where he comes in the room and 793 00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:29,300 we know Jesus just stepped in The name above all names has 794 00:47:29,300 --> 00:47:36,600 just entered the room, huh? We worship for that but there's 795 00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,300 an added Dimension. There is a thing called 796 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:46,400 intercessory worship. and we are worshipping King, Jesus for the 797 00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,600 sake of this community, because I'm telling you, there are 798 00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:54,000 people out there that are in just as much darkness and pain 799 00:47:54,200 --> 00:48:00,100 and lost like I was in like you once were they don't even know 800 00:48:00,100 --> 00:48:03,300 that there's a God in heaven. There are people in this 801 00:48:03,300 --> 00:48:06,800 community right now that are contemplating taking their own 802 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,400 life, they feel like I'm at the end. 803 00:48:11,100 --> 00:48:14,600 And you and I can push back darkness by pressing the crown 804 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,900 rights of King Jesus in the spiritual Realm. 805 00:48:17,900 --> 00:48:22,600 By lifting, his name up high, declaring his worth and it does 806 00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:25,400 make a difference and there's a Tipping Point. 807 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:29,800 There are those Seasons called Revival, Awakening. 808 00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:34,200 Where darkness is displaced for a season and all of a sudden 809 00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:38,300 people who didn't understand all of a sudden they're aware, 810 00:48:38,700 --> 00:48:42,200 there's a possibility here. I God is real, I heard someone 811 00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:45,600 talking about him and I felt something I think I was 812 00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:47,700 listening to a guy interviewed the other day. 813 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,300 He was Lonnie frisbee had gone down to the beach. 814 00:48:51,300 --> 00:48:55,200 Just he said, he said back in those days he said it was crazy. 815 00:48:55,500 --> 00:48:57,800 He said all these hippies would do, the craziest things we were 816 00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,800 just that was normal. People were abnormal normally 817 00:49:02,100 --> 00:49:04,600 and he said, so this long-haired little frail. 818 00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:08,500 Hippie got up, put two tomato crates and started down there, 819 00:49:08,500 --> 00:49:10,700 preaching. And he was talking about Jesus, 820 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,500 And then he just started calling people into the water and people 821 00:49:13,500 --> 00:49:15,300 just start a ball and running into the water. 822 00:49:15,300 --> 00:49:17,600 It wasn't planned. They would just run into the 823 00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,900 water and he was baptizing people and he said, I'm watching 824 00:49:19,900 --> 00:49:21,300 him. He said, all of a sudden my 825 00:49:21,300 --> 00:49:23,800 heart starts to beat and that little hippie in the water 826 00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:25,900 points to me. Yeah, you calls. 827 00:49:25,900 --> 00:49:29,800 Money said God's all over you. He wants to save you, he's 828 00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,800 inviting you into his kingdom. He said it was almost 829 00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,500 involuntary. I jumped up on Ball and I run 830 00:49:35,500 --> 00:49:39,200 into the water and get baptized. He didn't even have time to 831 00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:45,300 process all the information yet. But there are seasons. 832 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,900 Just like those little old ladies produce for me as an 833 00:49:49,900 --> 00:49:53,000 individual. And when I got saved, there were 834 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,600 several of us my age, I wasn't associated with these other 835 00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:56,900 people. I knew who they were. 836 00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:01,000 I got saved alone, but there was this little group of people 837 00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,000 about my age. Several of us ended up in the 838 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,700 ministry and a little town of 27,000 people. 839 00:50:09,500 --> 00:50:12,200 It was, it was like something opened over that City for this 840 00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:14,900 summer and a bunch of us got swept into the kingdom. 841 00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:20,800 We're asking God to do that for a nation and a generation. 842 00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:27,000 I'm telling you this generation and the Twisted ideology that's 843 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,400 being shoved down their throat and they're being taken 844 00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:34,100 advantage of. It's not too big for Jesus. 845 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,400 The Lord wants to step in and rescue. 846 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:41,000 And so I just wanted to share that this morning because you 847 00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:44,800 and I need to understand what we're praying for We're not just 848 00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:46,500 praying for a good church service. 849 00:50:47,300 --> 00:50:50,400 We're asking, God God visit this nation. 850 00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:54,300 It is time for another Jesus. People movement, call it what 851 00:50:54,300 --> 00:50:56,300 you want. I just want to see God awaken 852 00:50:56,300 --> 00:50:59,400 this nation and I believe he wants to send it. 853 00:50:59,500 --> 00:51:01,300 Thanks for listening to our podcast. 854 00:51:01,300 --> 00:51:03,800 If you'd like to help more people hear this message, you 855 00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,400 can get the word out by subscribing and sharing it on 856 00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,800 social media. If you'd like to support the 857 00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:10,800 Ministries apartment church, you can do. 858 00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,100 So at Heartland Church, online.com give Yeah. 859 00:51:14,107 --> 00:51:14,100 Yeah.