1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,360 Announcement I know many of you are aware some of you are not, 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:08,520 that Drew and Megan and Gotti's little boy Asher, who was born 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:11,280 just over 3 weeks ago, passed away on Friday. 4 00:00:12,040 --> 00:00:15,240 And so we're going to have a celebration of life tomorrow 5 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:20,000 morning at 10:30 here in the sanctuary and be praying for the 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,240 family. They Drew and Megan are a 7 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:28,000 remarkable couple, but you can imagine the how hard this is. 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,960 So just continue to pray for them and let's be the body of 9 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:34,280 Christ. Come along them alongside them 10 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,600 over these next number of weeks and months. 11 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,400 Keep them in your prayers. And we're we're going to gather 12 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,760 here tomorrow morning. If you can make it at 10:30 and 13 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:48,760 celebrate little Asher's life. He was he fought hard, precious 14 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:52,280 little fella and finally succumbed on Friday. 15 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,360 So be praying for the family. I wanted to make you aware of 16 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:59,000 that as our church family, some of you you may not know who Drew 17 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,880 is. Drew is our children's pastor 18 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:05,120 and Drew and Megan, that's it was their little boy. 19 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:13,400 So this morning we have Dave and Julaine Christensen with us Now, 20 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:18,880 the first I've been the past year, 23 years, the 1st special 21 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,960 speaker we had all those years ago was Julian. 22 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:25,280 And she came in and lit it up. It was glorious. 23 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:27,560 It was wonderful. There were things that were 24 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:32,120 deposited through her life early on, some keywords that she gave 25 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,720 us that really shifted things. And so we've, we've been dear 26 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,000 friends for many, many years. You know, I want, I want to say 27 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,960 something about Dave. You know, there's, there is, 28 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,240 there's something on him that I felt one time when I was 29 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:49,840 praying. He probably won't remember this. 30 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,440 I can't imagine he would, but I, I do remember it something I was 31 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:56,800 I was praying for him and I felt that only on a few other men. 32 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,240 I don't know how to put it into words other than it's a person 33 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,560 who's very secure in themselves and can just bless their wife to 34 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,840 run hard after Jesus. And I remember saying to him, I 35 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,960 said, I said, man, I just love how you just bless your wife to 36 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,880 shine and just go after it and get up in the pulpit and, and, 37 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:16,760 and he said, well, why wouldn't I? 38 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,160 He just thought I said, but that's what I'm talking about. 39 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,560 Not many men have that that attitude. 40 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,480 There's some there's a grace on him. 41 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:26,280 They were a match made in heaven. 42 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:31,520 And I just love this couple. Julaine has been really a mother 43 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,480 to this house. Early on, I had heard of her. 44 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:39,080 She was, she was doing meetings in Nebraska, extended meetings, 45 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,880 revival pouring out over there. And I had heard of her. 46 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:45,560 So we, we had her come and, and God just really worked 47 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:48,920 powerfully through her. People all just touched all 48 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:51,840 around the altars. She's got this really mothering 49 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,360 thing where people start going through inner healing and be 50 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:58,160 touched by the Lord. And then she, she has current 51 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,600 fire ministries. She started the hub in, in 52 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:03,440 Omaha. We used to go over there. 53 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:07,960 They had a tremendous outpouring for quite a number of months. 54 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,640 I mean, hundreds and hundreds of people were healed. 55 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:15,400 So she has a long history in the move of God. 56 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,360 And so I am just thrilled to have her here. 57 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:22,360 Now, I know some of you ladies heard her yesterday, but you 58 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,920 guys are in for a treat. So I want you to give her a good 59 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:27,280 heartland. Welcome, Julaine. 60 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,380 Come on up here. Love 61 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,960 you. Thank you so much, Pastor Dave 62 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:49,880 and Kathy, you hold a very special place in my heart. 63 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,880 And he's right. We have a long, long history 64 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,960 together and love the Word. We love revival. 65 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:02,400 We love the Holy Spirit. And I'm just so grateful. 66 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,080 And I'm really, really mean this with all my heart. 67 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:09,080 I'm humbled to stand here. I know that there have so many, 68 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,840 been so many great men and women of God who have stood in this 69 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:14,960 pulpit, and I don't take it lightly. 70 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:19,279 All right, So thank you. Thank you. 71 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:24,120 I consider Dave my teacher. If I want to know something, I'm 72 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:27,520 going to call Dave and I'm going to get my notebook out and he 73 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:29,960 can go. And I just sit and I love it. 74 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:34,520 And I also want to honor Kathy tonight, today, tonight. 75 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:38,960 We were out together last night and I just want to say it was 76 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:41,040 just such a joy. I told her this morning, I don't 77 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,760 want to embarrass you, Kathy, but it was really the first time 78 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:47,720 that I really got to hear her story. 79 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:53,600 And I sat there and I listened to her story and I saw such 80 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,120 love. This woman carries the love of 81 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:02,000 God like no one I have known. I mean, it just, it was exuded 82 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,600 out of her last night and her love for children. 83 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:10,120 And she I told her this morning, you just blessed me so much. 84 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,160 My husband and I talked about it on the way home. 85 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,760 So would you honor her this morning too? 86 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,280 Sorry Kathy, I just couldn't resist. 87 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:38,120 I want to start out. I have a little, little joke 88 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:46,840 here and well, OK, A mother went to wake her son for church one 89 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:50,640 Sunday morning. When she knocked on his door, he 90 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,880 said I'm not going. She said, well why not? 91 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,200 Asked the mother, I'll give you 2 good reasons. 92 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:03,600 He said one, they don't like me and two I don't like them. 93 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,520 His mother replied well I'll give you 2 good reasons. 94 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,360 Have you have your parents ever said that to you? 95 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,960 I'll give you 2 good reasons on why you will go to church. 96 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:19,920 One, you're 47 years old and #2 you're the pastor. 97 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,600 Well, I want to take just a minute and I want to share my 98 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,400 family with you. I have not done that. 99 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,360 And this was on my heart about a week ago. 100 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:34,520 And I forgot to get pictures up, but I want to show you this. 101 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:39,000 This is part of our family. We have 11 grand. 102 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:44,080 We have three children, 11 grandchildren, and get ready, 5 103 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,960 as of last week. Great grandchildren. 104 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:48,720 Is that awesome? Yeah. 105 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:53,560 And this is to get the family together is really getting 106 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,800 difficult. The last Christmas picture we 107 00:06:55,800 --> 00:07:00,200 took, this is 2 years ago. We have a grandson, he's 2, and 108 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,920 he was jumping off all of the furniture. 109 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,520 We couldn't get him down so we could get a picture. 110 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:07,480 So we have one picture and he's in the air. 111 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:12,000 Oh, it's so fun. All right, that's let's see. 112 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:17,160 That's my our senior. He's 6 about 6-3 going on 6/4 up 113 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,200 there. And that's Jennifer's. 114 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,040 And then Bree, who's in junior high. 115 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,600 And then the four dressed all alike are Chads. 116 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,680 And this is my granddaughter and her husband. 117 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:31,120 And there's Henry. Henry was the one who was 118 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,120 jumping all over. OK, one more, another picture 119 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,280 real quick. And this is our family from 120 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,960 Michigan, and this is our daughter down there, her Italian 121 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:43,960 husband. I don't think I've ever had 122 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,000 American food in their home anymore. 123 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,000 No, hey, no pot roast and potatoes there. 124 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:51,600 It's spaghetti and who knows what. 125 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:56,400 And there, let's see, that's the grandson there on the left. 126 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:01,040 And then that's Zach and Jack. Zach Jacob can't remember them. 127 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,480 And they are a family now. They just Tori's in the middle 128 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,840 there with the dog. And she just had a baby a week 129 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,200 ago and she has two. This one's pregnant. 130 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:14,160 So we have 3 in that family. And so let's see one more. 131 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,240 And yeah, that's that. That's Chad. 132 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,320 He used to play drums for me. He's been here. 133 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,320 So that's their family. So we've got Chad, we've got 134 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:26,280 Jennifer and we've got Nicole. All right, now you got to see 135 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:27,240 him. Are you OK? 136 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,320 All right, well, let's just stop for a minute. 137 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:38,799 And, and I want to say about the worship this morning, having 138 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:43,760 been a worship leader and still are, believe it or not, I tell 139 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,640 you what, kids, wherever you are, there's such a purity in 140 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,920 your worship. I mean, I looked up at those 141 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,760 kids and I thought that's, that's pure. 142 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:57,560 And you know how many worship teams out there are pure 143 00:08:57,560 --> 00:09:00,880 performance. They sing good words, but the 144 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,920 heart, this purity doesn't come forth. 145 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,960 You can jump and do all kinds of things and that's that's fine. 146 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:11,120 But that's there's a purity in the way they worship. 147 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:15,360 There's a purity in the way they dance or there's a purity in the 148 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,440 way they sing the song of the Lord. 149 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:22,520 And during the worship, I told pastor afterwards, I just sense, 150 00:09:22,560 --> 00:09:26,080 I could just sense the Holy Spirit just coming down just 151 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,920 like this. I thought they're ready for the 152 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,400 next revival here, they're ready for the next something, whatever 153 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,600 it is. But it was powerful and your 154 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:40,440 worship team is in place. Keep the purity of your worship. 155 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,720 I remember one time doing worship at some event. 156 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,040 It was a big youth thing. And I remember coming up there 157 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:52,360 and I started to lead worship and I felt this like a door just 158 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,920 closing. This is me. 159 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,520 I turned around and I said, all right, who in here has 160 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,640 unforgiveness or whatever is going on in your heart, take 161 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:04,160 care of it. I can't worship, you know, 162 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:06,480 because I could feel it behind me. 163 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:11,080 So I want to say just keep that purity, kids. 164 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:13,240 Just keep going after the pureness. 165 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:17,400 Your worship leader was laying here all afternoon yesterday 166 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,400 preparing for you and to be in the presence of God. 167 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:22,560 Give them a hand. They deserve that. 168 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:31,680 All right, Are you ready to go? OK, wait, wait. 169 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:33,600 I was coming over here for something else, too. 170 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:40,160 Let's close our eyes and let's just continue to invite, invite 171 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:47,200 him in to the Word this morning. Without him, everything falls to 172 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:54,080 the ground and it's just flesh. Holy Spirit, thank you for that 173 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,520 wonderful word on the Holy Spirit this morning. 174 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:01,000 We continue to invite you. You are so here. 175 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:08,560 We take time right now to say, Jesus, only your words this 176 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:11,560 morning. Holy Spirit, I ask that the 177 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:15,560 words that come out of my mouth, Lord, that they will fly in the 178 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,200 air and they're going to land in your heart and only speak what 179 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:23,520 God wants you to hear. And even if I didn't even say 180 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:27,560 it, we just ask that you go deep into every heart. 181 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,280 We ask Lord God that if there are areas in the heart that need 182 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:36,320 to be worked on or changed and go in and rearrange the 183 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:39,480 furniture, paint the walls, Lord of our hearts, whatever you want 184 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:44,840 to do. But Lord Jesus, we are here to 185 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:50,320 continually, even through the word right now, honor the Lord 186 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:54,560 Jesus Christ. We love you and we praise you 187 00:11:54,560 --> 00:12:01,640 now in Jesus name, Amen. I found this recently and I 188 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:06,760 wanted to share it and I want to inspire you to continue to love 189 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:10,520 the Word of God. To read the Word of God more 190 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:14,960 than ever now, we have to know the Word. 191 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:19,360 You get on YouTube and AI is all over the place. 192 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,920 You don't know what's true and what isn't true anymore. 193 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:25,320 I just almost had to turn it off lately because I thought, is 194 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,840 that, is that really that guy? Is he really saying that? 195 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:33,160 And so if you don't know the word of God, you're going to be 196 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,800 deceived in this hour. It's very, very important. 197 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,920 I don't know how to stress this more than to get into his word. 198 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:45,480 So listen to this. The scriptures are God's breath 199 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:49,560 on a page. Holy men of God spoke as they 200 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:52,640 were moved by the Holy Spirit. I think that's the first 201 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:57,800 scripture I learned in 7th grade in confirmation class and I have 202 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,280 never forgotten it. I was 12 years old. 203 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:06,120 The scriptures are the exhale of God on the pages given to equip 204 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:11,400 us for every good work for life so that we can do the good works 205 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:15,760 of who Jesus Scripture. It's not a book. 206 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:25,840 It's 66 books not written by one person, 40 authors and more over 207 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:32,080 a span of 1500 years, written on three different continents in 208 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:37,080 three different languages, Africa, Asia, Europe, in Hebrew, 209 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:42,200 Greek and Aramaic, and written by King Solomon, a fisherman, 210 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:46,720 Peter Herdsman named Moses, a Jewish scholar and teacher, and 211 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:51,600 prophet Paul, Isaiah, Psalms of David, Dr. Luke, a tax collector 212 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,720 named Matthew. Cross reference for these 213 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:59,360 scriptures is absolutely astounding. 214 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:04,240 The Old Testament prophet says something and it is cross 215 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:13,280 referenced from Genesis to Revelation 63,779. 216 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:19,960 Cross references in the Word, plus 40 authors over 1515 217 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:24,280 hundred years in three continents, 3 languages and 218 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:30,520 63,000 connections. A bunch of guys never got in a 219 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:35,880 room and decided that they were going to develop a religion and 220 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,760 concoct a story. Amen. 221 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:40,680 Amen. All right. 222 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:46,480 Scripture gives us eyewitness accounts and Eyewitness News. 223 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:50,200 That's the Bible. They recorded what they saw. 224 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:55,160 Second Peter 16. We were eyewitnesses and holy 225 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:59,320 men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. 226 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:03,560 God's word is alive. The scriptures will open up and 227 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:09,120 introduce us always to whom? Jesus, it is not only the 228 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:14,600 infallible word of God, but it is a literary masterpiece. 229 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:17,360 Amen. Come on, Amen. 230 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,560 That's the word of God. We love it. 231 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,120 We love it more than ever, right? 232 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:27,360 So that's a good segue into the Gospel of John this morning. 233 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,080 And I'm just going to start there because I want you to 234 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:34,920 understand what God has done for us in the Gospel of John, 235 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,640 beginning in chapter 1, verse 18. 236 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:41,560 And I apologize for the words, but I am amplified. 237 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:44,520 I have everything else around me when I'm studying, but I love 238 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,240 the amplified. I'm a woman of words. 239 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:48,800 Would you agree? How many of you know that? 240 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:51,000 Don't say it. OK, All right. 241 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:55,040 No man has ever seen God at any time. 242 00:15:56,320 --> 00:16:03,120 The only unique Son and the only begotten God who's in the bosom 243 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:07,600 of the Father. He has declared Him. 244 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,800 He's revealed him, brought him out where we he can be seen. 245 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:15,720 He's interpreted him and He has made him known. 246 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:25,520 God pulled back the covers. He unveiled Him so that you and 247 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:31,920 I could see where Jesus began in the bosom in the heart of the 248 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:35,640 Father. Jesus came out of the heart of 249 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:39,080 the Father. And between all of the words in 250 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:45,000 the gospel at the end, after Jesus has been resurrected, we 251 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,920 find that he's just spoken to Peter and he's encouraging Peter 252 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,840 afterwards. And then Peter looks over and 253 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,840 who does he see? He sees John, John the beloved, 254 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:02,400 and John is where leaning on the bosom of Jesus. 255 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:07,000 So the Gospel is open with Jesus in the bosom of the Father, and 256 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:12,400 the Gospel ends with John in the bosom of Jesus. 257 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:17,119 What is he saying? This is the place we need to 258 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:22,560 live. If Jesus lived there and the 259 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:27,520 great apostle John lived there, this is where we need to live. 260 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:33,160 And this moves me this morning into the word that I want to 261 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:37,600 share with you because I want you to understand that every 262 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:42,040 word that that is quoted in here, every word that is written 263 00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:46,200 in this Scripture, in this word is true. 264 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:50,120 Holy men of God spoke. So it's filled with accounts. 265 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:52,840 Why did God give us all these accounts? 266 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:58,360 So that you and I could see what happened, you could see Jesus 267 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:01,880 walking along the road. And what happened as Jesus 268 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:05,960 walked along the road, he was walking and he was in with the 269 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:11,400 people, touching the people. He was moved by the people and 270 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:17,280 he's showing us the way. And as the scriptures open up, 271 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:24,000 we get a first hand view of what it's like to be with Jesus and 272 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:28,160 how he lived. And so this morning I want to 273 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,960 talk to you first about waking up. 274 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:37,640 How many of you have ever been in church and you looked over at 275 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:39,400 somebody and they were sound asleep? 276 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:47,560 What does it usually look like? It's not a pretty sight, is it? 277 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:51,640 It's horrible. You know, drool down your mouth. 278 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:57,480 You're like, wow, like this. Have you ever tried to time 279 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,400 yourself when you fell asleep? You've got your clock right 280 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:03,560 there and you're ready. I'm going to time myself. 281 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,000 I'm going to know. I can do this. 282 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:06,440 I'll know when I'm going to fall asleep. 283 00:19:07,120 --> 00:19:09,560 Guess what doesn't work, does it? 284 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:12,720 You cannot. You do not know when you fall 285 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:17,400 asleep. And that's why Scripture over 286 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:22,080 and over Jesus says don't fall asleep, stay awake. 287 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:27,800 But I believe what's happened over the last 2025, thirty, 50 288 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,800 years, I don't know. We fell asleep even between 289 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,080 revivals. We've fallen asleep and the 290 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:38,920 church has been asleep again while the world has run crazy. 291 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:42,000 They, they are running all over stealing. 292 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:44,320 They, they, they're burning cars. 293 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:48,280 They're, they're saying things on Facebook and on who knows 294 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:52,480 what things that I in all my years and I am older. 295 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,680 I've got 5 great grandchildren. I have never heard. 296 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:00,600 I am shocked. And while I'm shocked, I 297 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:06,280 realize, oh Lord, the dark is getting darker. 298 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,840 But we must get lighter. We must. 299 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,720 We cannot fall asleep in this hour. 300 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:18,960 And I go back and I remember what happened in the last couple 301 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:21,360 weeks. I'll probably bring this up here 302 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:22,760 and there. I don't know Who knows where 303 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:24,120 God's going to take us this morning. 304 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:26,240 I never know. But we have a good starting 305 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:32,400 point. Right when our precious, 306 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:41,520 precious Charlie lost his life, I realized more than ever how 307 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:46,440 dark our world has become. But I'll tell you what it did in 308 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,600 me. It lit such a fire in me. 309 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,960 I mean, I don't think I've been the same since I saw that video 310 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:55,760 of him being killed and assassin. 311 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,520 He is a martyr. Call it what you want, but he is 312 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:03,680 a martyr. And it has hit all of us. 313 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,560 And I'm going to go into that a little bit more, but what 314 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:11,120 happens in a world that is asleep and in a river? 315 00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:14,680 If you can remember when the rivers were overflowing, Iowa's 316 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:20,360 full Council Bluffs, that whole area here, what happens is the 317 00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:23,120 river overflows. And when it overflows, 318 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:27,160 everything from the bottom of the river starts to come up. 319 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,120 And then when it subsides, you look all around at the grass 320 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:34,640 and, and everything and you see all this junk and you go, was 321 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:37,680 that in the river? Was that in the bottom of the 322 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:42,480 river? But here's the thing, everything 323 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:46,560 hidden in that river that was secret came to the surface 324 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,640 today. Everything that's been hidden 325 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:57,080 that we haven't seen is coming to the surface because the 326 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:02,040 Spirit of God is moving now. He is moving in our nation. 327 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:07,560 He's exposing and He's about to clean up the rotten filth in our 328 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:11,480 nation. Come on, I'm talking about 329 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:15,400 rotten filth that's been underneath that we have never 330 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:19,440 known was there. That shocks you and you step 331 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:23,120 back and you say, could this possibly be happening? 332 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:28,560 But we have only to look. It's laying on the ground for 333 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,840 everybody to see. And I say, God, keep exposing 334 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,800 the dirt. Bring it up all the junk, just 335 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,240 keep exposing. But Lord, I'm going to say this, 336 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:43,120 start with my heart, because if it doesn't start with me, I 337 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:47,640 cannot point there. Lord, whatever it takes, I ask 338 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:52,600 you to clean my heart up. Help me every day to walk in 339 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,320 righteousness, to walk in holiness, to be a seeker of your 340 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:00,240 heart. And as a result of what we're 341 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,040 seeing now, there's an increasing love that's going to 342 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:08,600 happen because this next awakening is going to be marked 343 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:14,280 by love, so much love. And I think that Charlie Kirk 344 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,600 walked in that love towards the end of his ministry before he 345 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,240 died. There was such love for man and 346 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:24,880 such love for God's word and such love for Jesus that I think 347 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,320 it's an example for us of the kind of awakening we're going to 348 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:33,320 be walking in. It's not going to be swords. 349 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,840 It's not burning cars. It's not standing up and 350 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:41,680 screaming at people. It's going to be so marked with 351 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,480 such a beautiful love that people can't resist. 352 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:54,760 I remember a time it shocked me, but I've been praying. 353 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,280 God, I want to look like you. I want to act like you. 354 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:00,760 I'm going to talk like you. I really, I want to smell like 355 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,400 you. I want an odor of your presence 356 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,160 to come out through me. And this is the honest truth. 357 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,640 I've been praying that so hard. And I was walking out of Lowe's 358 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:16,360 one day and the parking lot was practically empty. 359 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,720 There was a woman way over here. And I'm way over here in the 360 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,400 parking lot. And as I'm walking to my car, I 361 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:27,080 hear this woman yell, You are so beautiful. 362 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,880 Who are you? What's on you? 363 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:37,040 Something like that. And I turned around and I'm 364 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:41,880 like, is that me? I was the only one there. 365 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,240 And she started quickly walking toward me. 366 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:49,280 I quickly walked to her. We began to talk and of course 367 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:53,480 I'm so passionate. I had her hand and we began to 368 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,520 talk and share Jesus. And I put my arms around her and 369 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,080 we embrace. She went that way, I went that 370 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:06,200 way. Don't think that God will not 371 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,600 use you like that. You're going to exude so much 372 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:15,160 love. So I want to introduce you this 373 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:19,480 morning and and before I even do that, I want to say this because 374 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,640 I forgot upfront to say it, but Kate, thank you so much for what 375 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:27,440 you did at the women's event and all your beautiful women. 376 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,840 I, I give her a hand. It was so amazing. 377 00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:38,720 And here's the funny part. I have to have a root canal 378 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,280 tomorrow. She needs a root canal. 379 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,960 And we're doing the whole weekend and we both need a root 380 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,200 canal. I don't understand that, Pastor. 381 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,240 You're going to pray into that. OK, All right. 382 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:53,960 I'm doing fine, though. So we're going to read from Mark 383 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:59,520 chapter 10, verses 46 to 52, and I think you're going to get it 384 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:03,200 up this morning. But I want to introduce this man 385 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,200 as somebody, you know, so don't shut me out. 386 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,400 Don't close your ears just because you know this account, 387 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,760 OK? But there's something so amazing 388 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,320 in this for us to know in this hour as we're waking up. 389 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:21,640 You know, I want to go back and say this to a few years ago, the 390 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,000 Lord gave me this picture and it was as clear as it can be. 391 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,080 I mean, so many years ago. I've never forgotten it, 392 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,040 actually. And the Lord showed me a bride 393 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,960 laying in bed and she had her covers up over her and she's all 394 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,680 snuggled like this. And I saw the Lord come up and 395 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:42,080 Jesus would shake her, she'd wake up, she'd turn over and 396 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,840 she'd go again for a good night's sleep. 397 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,200 Then he would shake her again. I believe every time she rolled 398 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,480 over for another good like sleep, we had a little revival. 399 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,240 Something was going on. God was moving, and then she'd 400 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,000 go to sleep again. Then he would shake her. 401 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,960 She'd turn over and look at him and then she'd roll over for 402 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:08,520 another good night's sleep. And the Lord said to me, that's 403 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:14,360 the church. I shake her, I awaken her, I 404 00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:16,920 give her a little taste of revival of me there be. 405 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,960 I do all these things for her. And then she goes thank you. 406 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,960 And then she rolls over and goes to sleep. 407 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:29,080 But this time, this time he's shaking and he's saying you're 408 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:30,960 not going to go to sleep this time. 409 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:35,400 You are not going to go to sleep this time. 410 00:27:49,450 --> 00:27:51,170 This is how you don't go to sleep. 411 00:27:52,330 --> 00:27:54,690 OK. Do you have enough? 412 00:27:55,570 --> 00:27:57,610 OK, there we go. All right. 413 00:27:58,410 --> 00:28:01,970 And they came to Jericho, the disciples. 414 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,680 And as Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, 415 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:11,440 were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus, which means son 416 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,560 of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside begging. 417 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:18,800 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to 418 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,920 shout, Jesus, son of God, have mercy on me. 419 00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:27,080 And many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted, 420 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:31,440 all the more, Son of David, have mercy on me. 421 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,200 Jesus stopped and said, call him. 422 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:40,000 So they called to the blind man, Cheer up, get on your feet, He's 423 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,840 calling you. Throwing his cloak aside, he 424 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,280 jumped to his feet. He came to Jesus. 425 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,760 And he said, Jesus said to him, what do you want me to do? 426 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:55,520 And the blind man said, Rabbi, I want to see you go. 427 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,360 He said, your faith has healed you. 428 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:03,040 And immediately he read, received his sight and followed 429 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:08,800 Jesus along the road. Bartimaeus, he heard about a 430 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,880 man, a man who was healing the sick. 431 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,760 That means Jesus was walking through the countryside. 432 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,960 He was touching people. And there were so many miracles 433 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:26,120 that this man who's sitting on a curb blind, he had nothing to 434 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:30,800 give anybody. He saw nothing, but he heard, he 435 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,400 heard that Jesus was around and in town. 436 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,440 But what we have to remember is that so many people said, what 437 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,360 are you doing? Why are you talking? 438 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,320 Why are you calling out to him? You're nothing. 439 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,920 You're nothing but a blind person. 440 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:51,320 And so he he sits back down. But the desperation in him could 441 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:57,840 not keep him quiet. He yells again, Jesus, Jesus, 442 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,480 son of David, a rabbi. I want to see. 443 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:07,080 He heard of this man. And Bartimaeus, I call. 444 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,200 I call him Bart in my notes. Sorry. 445 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,480 Bartimaeus was desperate to change his world. 446 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:19,880 He was so desperate he could not default to fear, because if he 447 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:24,440 had, he'd have lost his miracle. Faith will always keep you. 448 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,120 Fear will always keep you from your miracle. 449 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:29,680 Have you ever been really desperate? 450 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,160 Anybody in here been really desperate? 451 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:40,440 One time I was so desperate. I needed Jesus so badly. 452 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,280 I'd gone to church, but there was such a hunger inside of me, 453 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,560 I was just desperate. My husband left for a year. 454 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,520 He got orders to go overseas to be a commander at this small 455 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:57,400 little island, and I was home with a 2 1/2 year old and a 456 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,480 brand new baby and I decided to finish school. 457 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,640 So in about a year and a few months I went back to school, 458 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,000 backpack on me, carrying babies. But I did it. 459 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,680 But by the time my husband came back, he got orders to 460 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,880 Washington, DC. We went to Washington, DC, and 461 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,240 the hunger inside of me began to stir. 462 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,800 And it was stirring and stirring, and I didn't know what 463 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,920 to do with it. Do you realize that right now 464 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,680 that there are kids out there and people who have committed 465 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:35,040 suicide who don't want to live anymore, have no hope and 466 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:39,240 something stirring inside and they don't know how to get 467 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,920 there? They don't know how they didn't. 468 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,120 I didn't know what I was hungry for. 469 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,160 I didn't know that I was desperate for God so much. 470 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,560 But I thought, well, I'll take out my Bible. 471 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,560 I take my Bible and I'd look at my Bible and I think I don't 472 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,680 know what to do with it. The last time I looked at it was 473 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,480 that confirmation class when I got confirmed, I had no idea. 474 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,840 And then I would take the Bible. I'd hear my husband come in and 475 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,400 I'd put it under my bed because I didn't want him to see that I 476 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,680 had my Bible out. Don't tell me why I did that. 477 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,880 I have no idea. But I would hide it. 478 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,640 And then I thought, well, maybe I'll teach Sunday school class. 479 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,680 Maybe that's it. We weren't even going to a 480 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,200 church at that point. And the desperation kept 481 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,240 growing. And this is what I, I've 482 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,840 discovered now is that during that season, when I was 483 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,520 desperate, it was the end of the Jesus movement. 484 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,440 And the Lord showed me recently that at the end there were still 485 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,840 little drops of rain going around the country and around 486 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:40,520 the world, little drops. And my desperation, it was like 487 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,880 I was sitting on that curb like blind Bartimaeus. 488 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,600 I couldn't see, I couldn't hear, I couldn't feel. 489 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:51,160 I was desperate for something. And that drop of rain came and 490 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:55,000 it fell on me. And God sent a woman to me. 491 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,280 And this woman, she took care of my children. 492 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,160 Her husband was a bodyguard for somebody in the presidency. 493 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:03,600 I can't even remember that far back. 494 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,360 And she said to me one day, she said, I can't watch your kids 495 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,440 today, She said, or this weekend, I'm going to Oklahoma 496 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,800 City. She said, my parents have gone 497 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,320 crazy. They're in this Jesus movement, 498 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,680 whatever it is. But I got to go home and I've 499 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,040 got to set them straight. Well, her name is Keith. 500 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,360 Her husband's name is Gene. So don't get confused. 501 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,400 Keith came back. He came back. 502 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,680 She came back from Oklahoma City. 503 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,080 She'd given her heart to the Lord. 504 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,200 She was baptized in the Holy Spirit. 505 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:39,800 She was speaking in other tongues. 506 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:44,640 She couldn't wait to get to me. So here's this desperate girl 507 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,840 sitting there needing something. She didn't know what. 508 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:51,080 And here comes the raindrop through a woman. 509 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,920 Listen to that. A raindrop through a woman, 510 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,800 through a man. It came through a person. 511 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:02,240 I'm in this little apartment. Nobody else knew me, but here 512 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,480 she is. She got so touched she could not 513 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:09,239 wait to get home, to get to me. She had no idea how desperate I 514 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:14,239 was. And she began to share Christ 515 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,159 with me. And then she shared about this 516 00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:19,480 baptism of the Holy Spirit in tongues. 517 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,440 And I want you to know that I'm very literal. 518 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:28,239 I take everything literally. So a few weeks later, I go to my 519 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,199 bathroom. How many of you women know that 520 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:35,159 that's your office at home? You lock the door, the kids are 521 00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:37,239 on the outside. You make sure they're doing OK, 522 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,000 coloring, whatever. But that's your office. 523 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:43,320 I went into my office and I asked Jesus to come into my 524 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,120 heart. When Jesus came in, here's this 525 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,679 Lutheran girl. I didn't know anything, but I 526 00:34:49,679 --> 00:34:54,400 felt my body, my old body. I felt something come out of me 527 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,240 and it went up and I said I am born again. 528 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:00,720 I didn't even know what born again was. 529 00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:02,960 And it came out of my mouth. I'm born again. 530 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:08,360 And then I said, cod, give me this tongues thing that Keith 531 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:12,880 was talking about. I want I want to speak in 532 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,880 tongues too. I don't know what it is, God, 533 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,840 but I'll take every this been my personality forever. 534 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:23,640 I'll take everything you have and literal person that I am, I 535 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:32,400 opened up my mouth and I went because it was tongues, right? 536 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,640 So that means my tongue must do something right? 537 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:37,360 I didn't know what it was going to do. 538 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,800 I didn't know I needed a voice. I thought it was just. 539 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:49,720 And my tongue began to wag and it wagged and it wagged and it 540 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:52,640 wagged. And I ran out of that bathroom 541 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:54,520 office and I said, I've got tongues. 542 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,280 I've got tongues. I was so excited. 543 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,240 Oh my gosh. I mean, and then that night, you 544 00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:03,160 know, you just, you're so full. I would wake up and my tongue 545 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:07,200 would flap, flap, flap. And I went flapping for a long 546 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:11,440 time, but I was so radically changed through that flap that I 547 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,080 LED my Lord, my Lord, He is my Lord. 548 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:18,120 I LED my husband to the Lord and the baptism as well. 549 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,120 But my tongue was getting so tired. 550 00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:23,320 I mean, it hurt and I'm tongue tied. 551 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,720 So you have to understand I've got a little something there 552 00:36:26,720 --> 00:36:29,280 that holds my tongue down. So it's really hard. 553 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:34,120 So Keith, I, I said, Keith, I have my tongues. 554 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,480 And she said, good, when you're vacuuming at home, she said, 555 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,840 always vacuum. And she said she was very 556 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,800 precise and, and, and pray in your prayer language. 557 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:46,600 So I'm going like this and praying in my prayer language. 558 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,920 And she said, then when you go to work and I was working on 559 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,960 Capitol Hill, how could somebody work on Capitol Hill and be this 560 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:54,280 naive? I don't know. 561 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,480 I'm working on Capitol Hill. I'm a legislative aide. 562 00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,480 My husband's at the Pentagon. We drive while I was driving 563 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,400 alone. Then I'm driving down Hwy. 95 564 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,360 all the way to Capitol Hill. And she said when you're in the 565 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:10,000 car, pray in tongues. So everything Keith says, it's 566 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,240 been true. So I have to do that too. 567 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,360 So I'm in the car and I'm driving. 568 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,240 I look, no car. Stick out. 569 00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:17,960 Tongue flap, flap, flap, flap, flap. 570 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,640 Car comes, pull in tongue. OK, drive a little bit. 571 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,880 Look, no car stick out tongue flap, flap, flap, flap. 572 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,680 Every time I tell this, I can't believe how childlike. 573 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:39,880 I'm almost embarrassed. And so I get to my office. 574 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:46,480 I go in the bathroom, close the door, stick out. 575 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,800 Tongue flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, 576 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,960 flap. Go in and do my work. 577 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,040 Go to the bathroom, flap, flap, flap, flap. 578 00:37:55,120 --> 00:38:04,840 I did this for a few weeks. I honestly believe I have to ask 579 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,600 the Father when I get to heaven what he thought. 580 00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:14,520 But my thought is this. My thought is that he looked at 581 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:19,880 Jesus right next to him and he goes, Son, we have a problem. 582 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,000 I thought, I'm laughing at myself. 583 00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:31,840 We we have a problem. We have to help her. 584 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:39,360 So he must have put on Keys heart to invite me to true 585 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,120 Episcopal Church. They had a charismatic meeting 586 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,000 and never been to another church before. 587 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:50,560 I was really scared, but I I took the leap and I was sitting 588 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,480 in their Chapel and I was sitting, I remember where I was 589 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,760 sitting way in the back. And would you believe somebody 590 00:38:57,760 --> 00:38:59,640 walked out and they had a guitar? 591 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:06,360 You don't think that's funny? In my age, a guitar was not 592 00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,600 heard of in church. And I'm like, Oh my gosh, I am 593 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:14,200 going to hell. And so I'm sitting there and 594 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,520 getting myself together listening to music, and all of a 595 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:22,320 sudden the gift of tongues was in operation. 596 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,800 Don't tell me that they don't do work that isn't of God. 597 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:34,000 Because I'm sitting there and somebody gave a tongue and there 598 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,520 was an interpretation. I cannot tell you what the 599 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:40,600 interpretation was, but there was an interpretation for me. 600 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:47,800 I heard the tongues and I sat up in my seat and he went, that's 601 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,280 tongues. I mean, it was like a great 602 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:54,160 awakening. I I woke up and I got in the 603 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:55,480 car. I couldn't wait to get in the 604 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,440 car. And it came like rivers of 605 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,480 living water out of me. And forever. 606 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,880 I knew then something had happened in my life that was 607 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:09,120 absolutely incredible. And from that day forward, we 608 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,680 were on a marine base by then in Quantico, Virginia. 609 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,040 I don't know how many people do we? 610 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,800 I had in the house, I was inviting everybody. 611 00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:21,880 I just knew listen. I just knew at that point that 612 00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,720 if it's said it in the Word of God, it's true. 613 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:30,200 So if it's true, then I'm going to lay hands on the sick and I'm 614 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:33,160 going to see them healed. I've been saved a couple days. 615 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,360 People were getting healed. I was praying for people to give 616 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,280 their hearts to Jesus in the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 617 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,680 Because if God said it here, it is true. 618 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,680 It is the truth. Someday I'm going to ask God, 619 00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,600 who did I pray for? I have no idea. 620 00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:54,640 I cannot remember. So like blind Bartimaeus, 621 00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,640 desperate sitting there. I was desperate. 622 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,920 You're desperate out here this morning. 623 00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,520 There are some of you just like you gave that beautiful altar 624 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,360 call during worship. Thank you. 625 00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,840 You're here, You know, you need something. 626 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,320 You've given your heart to Jesus. 627 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,200 But there's a stirring inside of you again. 628 00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:20,240 And I have felt that. I told Pastor Dave, I am feeling 629 00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:22,240 and sensing. I don't like that word feel, but 630 00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:26,280 I'm just sensing this desperation inside of me again. 631 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:30,920 It's like I I'm older. It's like, God, either take me, 632 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,320 I'm done. I've done a great job. 633 00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,080 I guess hopefully with my kids that's the most important thing 634 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,120 and maybe it's time to go home. I was just feeling this like 635 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:43,000 blah. And I thought, God, if I'm not 636 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,920 going home, something has to happen. 637 00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:54,000 Something has to happen. I'm desperate again and I want 638 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,360 more of you and I don't want to live like this. 639 00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,680 I can't live. I've never been able to live 640 00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:02,120 like this. It's so awful as a Christian to 641 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,040 be like this. It's like you're either in or 642 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,680 you're out and you can't be here. 643 00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:11,200 It's just horrible to be here. You don't know what you want. 644 00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:23,200 Desperation is an open door for the release of God's presence. 645 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,080 As you're sitting here this morning, I want you to 646 00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:30,320 understand that Jesus is passing by this morning. 647 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:40,600 He's passing by right there. He's on you right now. 648 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:44,400 He's passing by. What do you need? 649 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,080 Just lift your hands and let him do what he wants to do. 650 00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,360 If you're hungry, you're desperate this morning. 651 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,680 If you need a healing in your body, lift up your hands. 652 00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:56,640 Thank God. I need you to touch my body. 653 00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,080 I don't want to live like this. I'm I'm hurting. 654 00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:05,200 If your heart is asleep, if you groan cold, say God, touch my 655 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:08,080 body, touch my heart, awaken my heart. 656 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:13,480 He's passing by right now. Holy Spirit is just jumping from 657 00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,600 person to person. He's going to the one who's 658 00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:17,840 desperate. It's like a drop of rain that 659 00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,080 dropped on me and my little apartment. 660 00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,240 There are drops, raindrops of rain all over here. 661 00:43:23,240 --> 00:43:25,200 If you're desperate, he'll touch you. 662 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,840 Jesus walked down the street. Just receive it. 663 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:41,440 Come on, just receive it. Come on, your heart's been 664 00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,400 really aching. Come on. 665 00:43:52,310 --> 00:43:53,790 Here he comes. He's coming again. 666 00:43:53,790 --> 00:43:55,910 Another wave. Get your hands up and just begin 667 00:43:55,910 --> 00:44:02,080 to receive. Come on. 668 00:44:09,170 --> 00:44:49,750 You're either hot or cold, kids. He's moving. 669 00:44:49,750 --> 00:44:53,230 Come on. Just receive him. 670 00:44:53,270 --> 00:45:39,960 Just receive it. When Jesus passes by, there's 671 00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:44,120 like a river of his glory that leaks God's love everywhere. 672 00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:48,080 His love is leaking this morning. 673 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:54,720 Come on, it's a burning, fiery love. 674 00:45:54,800 --> 00:46:00,120 A love that no one can refuse. Unless your heart is cold, don't 675 00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:15,480 let your heart be cold anymore. The world needs us. 676 00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,440 God needs us to be His mouthpiece. 677 00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:26,240 Don't let this martyr's life go in vain. 678 00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:40,360 Come, Holy Spirit. Come, Holy Spirit. 679 00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:48,960 He did not wash you. Come, Holy Spirit. 680 00:46:50,480 --> 00:47:06,990 Come, Holy Spirit. The world's side that's not 681 00:47:06,990 --> 00:47:10,150 going to want to move. Come on. 682 00:47:10,950 --> 00:47:11,790 Come on. Let him. 683 00:47:11,790 --> 00:47:13,350 Come. Come on. 684 00:47:14,550 --> 00:47:17,150 He's here. That's it. 685 00:47:17,510 --> 00:47:19,470 Just reach out. Touch him. 686 00:47:19,670 --> 00:47:21,910 My words are nothing. It's him. 687 00:47:22,110 --> 00:47:28,270 We got to reach out to Jesus. That's it. 688 00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:37,720 I want you to look at all these precious kids and all the young 689 00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:44,240 adults. We can't be apathetic anymore. 690 00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:48,120 We can't just do life. We can't just do church. 691 00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:55,080 It's for them, it's for our children, it's for our 692 00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:57,760 grandchildren, it's for this generation. 693 00:47:57,760 --> 00:49:22,640 We have to. Begin to pray, pray for these 694 00:49:22,640 --> 00:50:05,990 these young people, these young. Yeah, Come on, kids, pray it 695 00:50:05,990 --> 00:50:06,870 out. Come on. 696 00:50:07,470 --> 00:50:58,480 Pray it out kids, Come on. The. 697 00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:56,960 None. The. 698 00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:37,480 The. Come on, let your heart go. 699 00:52:37,920 --> 00:53:10,200 Don't miss this moment. Bart runs to Jesus. 700 00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:12,160 He doesn't care what anyone thinks. 701 00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,320 He was desperate. He didn't care what anyone 702 00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:25,920 thought. His heart, his heart, his heart 703 00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:30,000 wanted what Jesus had. And Jesus passed by. 704 00:54:12,570 --> 00:54:48,290 The. The. 705 00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:56,160 Shira. Masira. 706 00:54:56,160 --> 00:55:13,720 Magora, Shira. One man and Jericho changed that 707 00:55:13,720 --> 00:55:17,280 city and it was renamed fragrance because Jesus passed 708 00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:22,720 by and healed one. One man died this last couple 709 00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:25,480 weeks. One man in the whole world will 710 00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:29,280 never be the same again. There's a global move with the 711 00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:35,080 Holy Spirit going on now. It's now, it's now. 712 00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:44,000 Open up your heart. Let the glory come in. 713 00:55:44,000 --> 00:56:00,120 Open up your heart. Oh, Jesus, listen, some of you, 714 00:56:00,240 --> 00:56:02,160 man, there's a desperation in your heart. 715 00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:05,040 You need to throw. Throw it to the wind. 716 00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:06,840 It doesn't matter what anybody else thinks. 717 00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:09,040 You need to respond to the Lord this morning. 718 00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:11,880 Whatever God's doing in your heart, response. 719 00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:14,920 Some of you need to come to the altar, Some of you just need to 720 00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:17,360 kneel by your chair, whatever the Lord's leading you to do. 721 00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:21,640 But when the Lord comes near, you need to respond. 722 00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:31,800 Thank you, Lord. Thank you Lord Jesus. 723 00:56:51,730 --> 00:56:54,050 Some of you know that you're lukewarm. 724 00:56:54,130 --> 00:56:57,050 You know that your fires burned down. 725 00:56:57,050 --> 00:57:01,050 It's the the worries of this world, just the concerns. 726 00:57:01,050 --> 00:57:05,410 The busyness has choked out the word and you need to respond 727 00:57:05,410 --> 00:57:09,880 this morning to the Lord God's wanting to reignite your heart. 728 00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,160 You just need to acknowledge it before him. 729 00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:19,440 Thank you, Lord. Thank you Lord, oh Jesus. 730 00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:23,040 We are hungry for you, Lord, oh Lord. 731 00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:35,600 Visit us, God, Hallelujah, Lord. Hallelujah, Lord, oh Jesus. 732 00:58:02,790 --> 00:58:06,910 Those of you who are at the altar, stay, come on, cry out 733 00:58:06,910 --> 00:58:10,990 for him, cry out for him, Give your heart whole holy to him. 734 00:58:11,910 --> 00:58:17,510 But this morning, if you are college age, high school, let's 735 00:58:17,510 --> 00:58:26,800 say about 15, up to about 30 years, 31, he was 31, 15 to 31. 736 00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:31,400 I want you to stand right now because we want the fire of God 737 00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:33,880 to move on you. And as it moves on you, it's 738 00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:37,960 going to move on us. I need you to be full of fire 739 00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:42,000 because when you're full of fire, your whole city is full of 740 00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:45,120 fire. When you're on fire, your whole 741 00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:50,480 nation is on fire. Come on, come on, Begin to cry 742 00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:53,840 out over these. Cry out that God will use the 743 00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,280 children. God will use those, the high 744 00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:59,960 schoolers, the young adults, that they'll be full of fire. 745 00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:03,560 They won't be afraid, they won't be ashamed of the gospel of 746 00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:07,240 Christ, that they will be so desperate for you, Lord. 747 00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:10,680 They'll be a part of changing. They're going to be a part of 748 00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:14,520 changing the nation. Come on, everybody, pray over 749 00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:16,480 them. Come on, pray over them right 750 00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:18,720 now. Begin to pray in the spirit over 751 00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:20,640 these kids. Thank you. 752 00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:25,440 Jesus. Oh, shot. 753 00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:27,920 Actually, if you're that age, get up here right now. 754 00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:29,480 If you're that age, come up to the. 755 00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:32,840 Come up to the altar now. Come on quickly. 756 00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:40,560 Come to the halter. We want to Commission you. 757 00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:46,080 We want Charlie Kirk's all over. He's one man. 758 00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:48,920 You are many. You are many. 759 00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:54,680 You're not alone. 2 million people marching in London this 760 00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:58,440 past week. We know that our country needs 761 00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:01,200 these kids, needs the fire they have. 762 01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:09,520 So keep praying. Keep praying, Laura. 763 01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:28,480 All right, that's it. Get your hands up. 764 01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:32,080 Cry out to Jesus. Cry out to Jesus right now. 765 01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:34,720 Come on. If you're not on fire, ask the 766 01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:38,640 Lord to put a fire in you. Ask the Lord to put a fire in 767 01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:40,080 you right now. Come on. 768 01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:42,600 Fire of God. Fire of God right now. 769 01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:45,400 Fire, fire. Fire of God on these kids. 770 01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:47,520 Fire right now. Fire of God. 771 01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:50,640 Fire, fire, Fire of God. Right now. 772 01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:53,520 Fire, fire, fire, fire. Come on. 773 01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:56,440 Fire. If you've gone cold, ask God for 774 01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:57,480 the fire. Right now. 775 01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:03,280 The fire, the fire, fire, fire, fire, fire. 776 01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:07,720 My husband. Fire, fire, fire, fire, fire. 777 01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:11,640 Come on. Fire, fire. 778 01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:12,360 Right now. Fire. 779 01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:15,440 Fire of God. Fire of God. 780 01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:23,080 Fire, fire. Come on, buddy. 781 01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:27,320 Fire. Come on. 782 01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:31,560 God's got a plan for you, buddy. Oh, you're going to go with 783 01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:34,080 boldness and courage. You're going to help change a 784 01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:36,200 nation. Fire, fire. 785 01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:37,560 Fire of God. Come on. 786 01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:38,760 Keep asking. There we go. 787 01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:39,720 Come on. Fire. 788 01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:40,720 Fire. Right now. 789 01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:42,280 That's it. Right? 790 01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:51,960 Right now. Come on. 791 01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:55,360 Fire. Fire, fire, fire. 792 01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:56,560 Come on, girl. Come on. 793 01:01:56,800 --> 01:02:00,680 Fire, fire, fire, Fire. Right now. 794 01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:01,600 Fire. Fire of God. 795 01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:02,280 Fire of God. Fire. 796 01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:04,440 Fire of God. Fire, Fire, Fire. 797 01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:07,960 Right. Let it go. 798 01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:15,920 Let it go. Fire, fire. 799 01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:28,840 Fire. Fire, Fire of God. 800 01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:30,000 Fire. Oh, there it is. 801 01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:33,640 Fire, fire of God. Fire, fire right now. 802 01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:34,840 Fire, fire.