Revival Pt 3

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Looking at our world from a theological
perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast

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making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone. It is Wednesday, July the third,

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twenty twenty four. It is currently
four seventeen pm Central Time, and

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I am coming to you live from
the Theology Central studio located right here in

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Abilene, Texas. Let me just
ask a question. It's not related to

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anything that we're going to do or
going to be talking about, so just

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humor me. Okay, does it
feel like it's almost the fourth of July?

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Does it have that feeling that,
oh, we have a big holiday

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weekend coming up? It does not
feel like that at all. It feels

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like I think I have probably forgotten
multiple times today that wait, tomorrow is

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the fourth of July twenty twenty four. Has almost got like there's a couple

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of times I've had to stop myself, even though I know that it's there.

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It just does not feel like that. But it is almost the fourth

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of July. I don't know what
you'll be doing, where you'll be going,

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If you'll be traveling. Hopefully it
will be fun, Hopefully it will

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be entertaining, Hopefully you'll have great
time. Hopefully it'll be safe and hopefully

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everything goes well for you. For
me, well, I'll be right here

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now. I won't be able to
do much broadcasting on the fourth because right

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behind me there's a window, and
outside that window, well there's my yard,

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and then there's a street. And
for some reason, when it gets

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close to the fourth of July,
and on the fourth of July, everyone

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in the neighborhood comes right in front
of my house. I don't know why.

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They all just like, let's go
right in front of that house,

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moonlight drive, let's go right there, Let's go right in front of his

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house. And then boom boom,
boom boom they set off like a million

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dollars with the fireworks. Okay,
maybe a million is a little bit of

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an exaggeration, but it's crazy.
And then so that's right directly behind me.

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And then on the if I go, if I go to the back

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door of my house and look out
that direction, there's a small town out

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there, and it's not too far
away, but somewhere between where I live.

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In that little small town, there's
just a lot of open area and

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I don't know who pays for it, but they basically it's like a full

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blown fireworks show, and so between
all of that, broadcasting is almost impossible.

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So I need to take advantage of
I should have taken better advantage of

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the of the last couple of days, and I have it. But that's

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okay. We're gonna use the time
we have in front of us. And

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also I'm broadcasting this at around four
to twenty pm because remember your challenge,

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you're supposed to be listening to the
random webcast on the Sermon's two point oh

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app or Beta dot Sermon audio dot
com. Right, you're supposed to be

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checking those out. Well, I
think right now we're kind of the in

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between time, right. All the
Wednesday night webcasts will be beginning in probably

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the next thirty minutes, probably the
next thirty minutes, and then from like

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five pm Central time as I like
to call it correct time, to probably

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nine pm, it's just going to
be webcast after webcasts. I am going

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to be very interested to see if
the holiday like of a lot of churches

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cancel their services and how many of
them are just going to be patriotism,

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patriotism, patriotism, patriotism, patriotism, patriotism, patriotism. Look, if

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you're participating in the challenge, I
would love to get your report. What

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you see, what you don't see
are the numbers down for people listening or

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whatever? If I look on the
sermons two point oh app right now,

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I'm opening it up here right now. If I look, well, guess

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what, We're the only one broadcasting. So so I've got to hurry.

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I've got to hurry because I can't
take away. But let me remind you.

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Let me remind you. On the
times where there's no one broadcasting,

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go to the sermon audio radio stream, right if there's not, If you're

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like I can listen now there's no
webcast. His challenge is ridiculous. Just

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go to the sermonadio radio stream and
listen to whatever they are playing, all

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right, because that's another feature that
should be used, all right, So

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just use the sermon audio radio.
And if you listen to the sermonaudio radio,

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and if you think you have some
suggestions to make it better, please

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email sermon Audio. Right. I
mean, there's probably I don't know what

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suggestions you may have for it.
But if you have suggestions to make it

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better, back by all means send
it to them, okay, because that's

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the only way things get improved is
when people offer helpful suggestions rather than rather

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than just criticized, criticized, criticized, criticized, criticize. All right,

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so are you ready? Okay,
here's what we're going to do. I

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don't want to do this, but
we're gonna do this. Now. You

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remember, I think it was last
week. I went to my mailbox and

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it was Christmas. Well I called
it Christmas in June. I think I

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misspoke and called it Christmas in July, but it was Christmas and June because

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inside my mailbox there was not just
one. There were two issues of the

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Sword of the Lord newspaper. And
I was like, yes, I love

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when these things show up, right, I love when they show up because

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first, it just has a very
antiquated feel, like I'm getting a newspaper

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in a mailbox, right, it's
not digital, so it's just kind of

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cool, like you know, it's
kind of something from the past. All

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Right. I love when I get
them. Right. So I looked at

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one and it was very like fourth
of July heavy, and I'm like,

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oh no, it's kind of a
lot of patriotism. All right, maybe

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we'll do something with that. There'll
be plenty I'm gonna have plenty of content

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if I want to talk about the
church and patriotism and politics. All right,

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So I'm like, let me look
at the other one. And the

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other one had an article called Salvation
by Grace not Works, and I'm like,

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ooh, that could be good.
And then I saw the Holy Spirit

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and revival, and I thought,
well, that could be an interesting topic,

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right, because everyone talks about revival, revival, revival, revival,

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America needs revival. Now does America
need revival or does the church need revival?

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Because my understanding of revival, revival
wouldn't be for the country, Revival

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would be for the church. Revival
is where Christians are revived. Christians are

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pulled out of their spiritual complacency and
apathy and their sinfulness, and they have

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a spiritual in a sense awakening,
and they are convicted and they are challenged,

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and they are then filled with a
kind of a desire to really pursue

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the things of God and put away
maybe things of the world. That something

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happens to the Christians. And so
many times I keep hearing this country needs

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revival. No, they would need
a resurrection, they need spiritual life,

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right, they don't need to be
revived. They need to be resurrected,

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they need to be born again.
Revival is for the believer. The believer,

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your church, my church, your
life, my life, your home,

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my home, your friend's home.
We all, any one of us

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who profess to be believers, were
probably daily in need of some kind of

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revival. We need to be revived
to our first love, revived to a

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passion for the things of God.
We need to be revived. I mean,

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that's just the reality constantly in our
lives. So I thought, oh,

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it will be interesting. And remember
it opened with Acts chapter four,

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verse thirty one, And immediately I
knew I was in trouble, right,

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Acts chapter four, verse thirty one, because we read these words, and

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when they had prayed, the place
where they were assembled together was shaken,

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and they were all filled with the
Holy Spirit, and they spake the word

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of God with boldness, or they
spoke the word of God with boldness.

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I'm like, well, that makes
me nervous. If you're going to quote

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Acts four thirty one and an article
about revival, that seems to imply to

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me that you were saying that that
verse is somehow applicable to us. Well,

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if you're gonna make Acts four to
thirty one applicable to us. You're

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gotta be very careful, because just
a few verses down we see this now

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the multitudes are in fact the very
next verse down, verse thirty two.

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Now the multitude of those who believed
were of one heart and one soul.

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Neither did anyone say that any of
the things he possessed was his own.

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But they had all things in common, and with great power. The apostles

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gave witness to the resurrection of the
Lord Jesus, and great and great grace

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was upon them all. Nor was
there anyone among them who locked. For

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all who were possessors of land or
houses sold them, and brought the proceeds

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of the things that were sold and
laid them at the apostles feet. Now

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it's amazing we take Acts four thirty
one and make it about revival. Today

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we forget verse thirty two. If
you put the if you follow the if

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you really take some of these ideas
and take them to a logical conclusion,

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it would be like this, Oh, you want the revival of Acts four

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thirty one. Well, if that
revival breaks out in your church, everyone

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in your church is gonna sell all
of their possessions and they're gonna come to

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the church and they're gonna give you
all the money. Well, you know

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that's not going to happen. So
why do we try to pretend Acts four

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thirty one has anything to do with
us. It's describing a situation that happened

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historically. You can make it prescriptive
unless you're gonna tell everyone if you truly

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have experienced revival, you will sell
everything and you'll bring it to the church.

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Everybody would look at you out of
like you're out of your ever living

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mind. Now we could argue should
we do that, We could have a

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big conversation about that. But the
point is, I love how we Oh,

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I'm gonna preach on let me take
this verse. I'm going to ignore

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the very next verse, and the
next verse after that, and the next

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verse after that, and after that
and after that. But they quote Acts

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four thirty one. Basically the gist
of the first part of the article is

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basically saying, Hey, people know
about God the Father, they know about

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God the Son, but they really
don't know about the Holy Spirit. Right,

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So it's kind of like what we
need is the Holy Spirit, right,

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And that kind of gets us through
the first page of this article.

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Then it tells me to turn to
page sixteen. So I turned to page

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sixteen, and then the problems only
got worse, because when we turn to

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page sixteen we read, first of
all, it says, first, no,

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we need to know about the Holy
Spirit. Jesus gave the promise of

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the Holy Spirit and said, and
then they quote John fourteen sixteen, I

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will pray the Father, and he
shall give you another comforter, that he

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may abide with you forever. Our
Savior tells us that the Holy Spirit abides

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with us. He comes in to
dwell in our hearts. When we believe

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in Christ, he is present to
teach us all things. And then this

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where everything just the train leaves the
tracks. Wait a minute. If the

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Holy Spirit is present to teach us
all things, then all Christians should be

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in complete agreement and all things.
If the Spirit is teaching us all things,

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then the logical conclusion is we should
then be in agreement with all things.

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But we're not in agreement with all
things. So are you gonna blame

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the Holy Spirit for that? Are
you gonna say anyone who differs with my

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opinion is not listening to the Holy
Spirit because I'm listening to the Holy Spirit.

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I'm listening to the Holy Spirit.
I'm right, you're not listening to

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the Holy Spirit. Wrong. So
then who gets to determine who's doing the

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listening. Okay, well that's ridiculous. Clearly the Holy Spirit is not teaching

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us, because if we were,
there would be one church. Okay,

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But then it only gets worse.
It only gets worse because they continue to

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they continue to they quote a little
bit from John fourteen twenty so they quoted

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John fourteen sixteen. Then they quote
John fourteen twenty six. Here we go,

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and so now he's going to teach
us all things. He's going to

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bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever hence said unto you. So anything

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Jesus said, the Holy Spirit's going
to bring to remembrance, Well, you

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just go to your church and just
say, okay, Jesus said, And

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then you you give them the reference. You can even give them the reference.

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I don't know why you would have
to give them the reference. You

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should just be able to say Jesus
said, And then the Holy Spirit will

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bring everything he said to remembrance,
and they should be able to just quote

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every word that's a that's you know, credited to Jesus, and they shouldn't

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have a problem, but you know, they don't remember. They have hard

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enough time memorizing verses. So clearly
Jesus is not bringing to mind everything he

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said, or nobody would have to
study for Bible college seminary. No.

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No, but we we know people
we have a hard time remembering anything,

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so that none of Already, this
whole thing is just taking verses out of

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context. Then they said, secondly, we have to be conscious of him.

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He entwells you, He is with
you always, the Holy Spirit abides

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in your heart. Now this means
that we must not grieve him by wrongdoing.

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Then it says we should not grieve
the spirit. And then all the

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different things that can grieve the spirit, which is pretty much you know,

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a lot of things that should grieve
the spirit, like bitterness, wrath,

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anger, clamor evil speaking, malice, not being kind one to another,

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not being tenderhearted, and not forgiving
one another, even Christ as for Christ's

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sake, hath forgiven you. And
what I find interesting is now they don't

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really go into any detail here.
They're just throwing scriptures out but if you

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really say, hey, grieve not
the what everyone does is they go to

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Ephesians four. That's Ephesians four,
verse thirty to thirty two, and they

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say, hey, that says grieve
not the spirit. Then this is surely

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hop preachers do it. Grieve not
the spirit. And you know how you

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grieve the spirit. When it's a
Friday night and it's ten PM and you

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turn on a movie, a rated
R movie. You turn on a PG

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thirteen movie. Well, that's ungodly. You listen to Taylor Swift, you're

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grieving the Holy Spirit, and it's
like, no, the text says what

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grieves the Holy Spirit would be bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor evil speaking,

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malice, not being kind to one
another, and not forgiving one another.

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That's the literal context in which it's
found. But that gets for completely

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thrown out, and then what's grieving
the spirit is just all of this random

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stuff. Typically, I hate to
say it, it's older people saying,

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oh you kids and your rock and
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can't, and then that's grieving the
It's amazing parents tend to use it to

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say you're grieving the Holy Spirit,
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meaning you're grieved because you just don't
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Rarely does it get actually applied.
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know what any of this has to
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says, certain acts of life are
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work through you, be a clear
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filling of the Holy Spirit. So
then immediately once it says grieve the Holy

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Spirit, they quote Ephesians four thirty
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next paragraph is certain acts of life
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connect it to the all of that
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to thirty two you talk about just
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paper across the room. But okay, all right, I says, be

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not drunk with wine wherein is excess, but be filled with the spirit Ephesians

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five eighteen. The fullness of the
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of self and a willingness for Him
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you cannot be full of the spirit
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are you ever truly empty of self? Ever? Well, then you're never

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going to be full of the spirit. I mean, can you ever be

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empty of self? Truly? I
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you possess a sinful nature, and
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nature is the exaltation of the eye, is the exaltation of the self.

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Well then are you Then you're never
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can you imagine the audacity and the
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with the spirit because I am empty
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someone talking like that, I'm just
gonna kind of back away slowly and I'm

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gonna be all right, everyone,
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One two, run, and I'm
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because that's insane. If you think
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am empty of self. If I
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I bet you with this three point
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prove that the self is still there. So that's a big claim. But

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all right, and again that would
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with the spirit. You're doing it
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no, God is the one who
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why doesn't God empty all Christians of
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filled with the Holy Spirit and then
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God doesn't do that. All right, all right, we're back to

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that never ending problem. All right, So they go through that, then

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they come to this part, the
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Spirit Christian living. Now they haven't
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what they're doing here, I mean, without they're not really articulating it in

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any meaningful way, but it feels
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is we need a revival of Christians
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you cannot be filled with the spirit
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guess we need Christians learning how to
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will then move in. And once
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longer do anything that grieves the spirit. And I guess we'll be basically,

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I mean they haven't said it,
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the concept. I guess we're going
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to talk about the Holy Spirit in
Christian living. The word the Bible exhorts

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us to live as Christian adults.
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to bear the name of baby Christianists, to dishonor the Lord. The sorry

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lives of Christians are ever before us. The sorry lives of Christians are ever

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before us. I was listening there
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didn't get a chance to really hear
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to be on and I was trying
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noticed that he kept talking about other
people them they them, they them them

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them them them they they them them
them. They don't do this, they

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don't do that. So many people
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And it's it's always references to other
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to say, do preachers think that
we us? I why is it always

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that we are so good at pointing
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see our own self. The sorry
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I say this all the time,
humility. Humility is the almost impossible

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task of being more broken and more
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of others. Humility is almost the
impossible state of being more broken and more

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aware of your own sin than anybody
else's. You don't go they them,

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You're like me, I me,
me, me, I'm the problem.

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Okay, the sorry lives of Christians
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unhappy occupation to try to act like
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that would be unhappy. I sometimes
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home because I think so many kids
raised in a Christian home they're almost Look,

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they have to act like a Christian
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kind of punishment. You will do
this, you won't do this. You

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won't wear this, you won't wear
this, you won't listen to this,

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you won't read this, you won't
watch the movie, you won't go out

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with that person, you won't go
here, you won't do that. They

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are they basically are told live like
a Christian. Oh, you may not

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be one, but we don't really
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house. We're gonna serve the Lord. I mean, you may not be

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regenerate and you may not be saved, but you're gonna live like one.

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Yeah, that's a miserable existence.
That would that would that would be that

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would be total, That would be
true. And the kids are are almost

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afraid to say, well, you
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How dare you say that? You
know? How about I don't know.

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They got to grow and well,
if you believe in free will,

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they have to grow and make a
free will determination if they believe or not

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believe in. If you don't believe
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God bring his elect to salvation at
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the effectual calling. You can try
to make these kids live like a Christian,

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but it's of note. I don't
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we try to do that, and
it usually leads to some very miserable kids

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and youth group. All right,
but I digress, All right, Well,

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it's not me digressing. I don't
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I thought it was about revival.
So far, we haven't really got much

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discussion about revival. But let's see
what the next paragraph say. Is This

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message concerns the Holy Spirit and revival. Revival pop cannot come to a lost

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soul. The man without Christ needs
salvation, but revival can come to the

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Christian. Now, that may be
the most important paragraph in the entire article.

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Let me read that again, because
I hear it constantly. We heard

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it last year at the sort of
the Lord conference. Right, that's going

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to be happening again this month,
right, and remember I told everyone to

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watch it, and okay, and
you know we made a well that's why

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I told everyone to buy the Sword
of the Lord newspaper. Right, Okay,

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So they kept saying, I think
almost every space this country needs revival.

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This country needs revival. This country. Pray for revival in America.

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What are you praying for? Lost
people cannot be revived. It's not Revival

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doesn't come to the country. You
pray for revival in the church, you

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pray for revival in the life of
believers. You pray for revival in you.

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If you are a believer, in
fact, you should just worry about

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you being revived before you worried about
anybody else being revived. And then once

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you are revived, then you look
for other Christians and see if you can

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be an instrument and help them become
revived. It's amongst us, it's not

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about others. So let me read
this again. I love this. This

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maybe the most important paragraph of this
entire series. Let me read it again.

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This message. I don't know why
this is not at the beginning of

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this article. I don't know.
I don't know. Like the way this

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is structured is weird. You almost
wait, this is the thesis statement,

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right, this is really the thesis
statement. I don't know why the thesis

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statement is paragraph after paragraph after paragraph
after paragraph after paragraph down in the art

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like, I don't this is the
lead. Let me read it again.

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This message concerns the Holy Spirit and
revival. Revival cannot come to a lost

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soul. The man without Christ needs
salvation, but revival comes to the or

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can come to the Christian. You
should write that down, you should put

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it on your refrigerator, and the
next time people at church is like,

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let's pray for revival for because you're
gonna hear a lot of that. I

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bet you even tonight if you listen
to all the webcasts on Sermonadio, or

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you just start watching a lot of
them. There's gonna be a lot this

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country pray for revival for America.
No, No, that's a categorical error.

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They don't need revival, they need
salvation. If you pray for revival,

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you're praying for the Christians to be
revived. You're praying for you to

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be revived. You're praying for your
church to be revived. You're praying for

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your Christian friends to be revived.
You're praying for your Christian husband to be

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revived. You pray for your Christian
wife to be revived. You're praying for

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your Christian teenager to be revived,
your Christian neighbor. Let me read it

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one more time. Revival cannot come
to a lost soul. The man without

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Christ needs salvation. Revival can come
to the Christian. I may send that

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quote out in a notice for for
those who have the church one app I

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may send that out when this is
over. That like, just let's end

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this entire discussion, right, This
ends our mini series on revival. Ladies

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and gentlemen. The only thing I
want you to get is this revival does

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not come to the lost soul.
It comes to the Christian. The lost

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soul needs salvation. Revival is for
the believer. The end. This concludes

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this series. Thank you very much
that I should get one hundred dollars for

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that. Okay, I'm joking.
I'm joking. I'm joking. But you

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just watch now, now, you
it'll be interesting. You're my eyes and

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ears. All the churches, your
church, every church, just listen.

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If they talk about revival, because
it's the fourth of July coming up,

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I bet you there's going to be
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it will be category. The concept
will be missupplied. America doesn't need revival.

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America needs salvation. Now. What
is a good way to bring the

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Gospel to a lost and dying world. It's when the church is revived.

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So when Christians are revived, to
pray and fast for the salvation, to

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try to live it out better than
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to witness to people, to try
to tell people, to love people,

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to serve people, that we will
live lives where I remember this article talked

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about those things that grieve the Holy
Spirit. We're not filled with wrath and

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bitterness and unforgiveness, but we are
forgiving and we're loving, and we were

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trying to live that kind of that's
a testimony. So then they go to

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the next paragraph, what do we
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mean a great turning to Christ on
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know when they talk about the Holy
Spirit revival, they're referring to a great

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turning to Christ on the part of
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Now once it says we've already turned
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turning to Christ really for a deeper
fellowship, for a deeper walk, for

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a more passionate, more passionate spiritual
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relationship, but let me read the
whole thing. We mean a great

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turning to Christ on the part of
Christians. We mean the separation of the

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Christian from the world and the dedication
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serving Christ. When Christians are revived, they turn more from things of this

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world, more and more to the
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and more in love with that.
And all of us know that it's so

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easy to depart from our first love. Look, sometimes, I know we

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always talk in the Book of Revelation, Christ standing at the door and knocking.

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Okay, And we always try to
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God's knocking on the door of your
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the door of the heart. He's
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I think he's knocking there on the
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the passage right right. In fact, let me look it up where we

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can look directly at it, because
I don't want to. I don't want

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to misquote it. But I want
to make sure i'm one hundred percent accurate

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here, because I think there's so
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So let me look up the passage, all right, let me look

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it up here we go, all
right. I don't like the I don't

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want the picture, okay, all
right. It is found in Revelation three

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twenty. That's what I thought.
I know it was in Revelation. I

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just had to. I had to
look it up to make sure. Revelation

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in chapter three. Let me just
look at this really quick, all right,

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Revelation chapter three. I'm gonna put
forth my own i'll call it my

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hypothesis here, but my own interpretation
here, right, So if you'll note

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in Revelation, if you'll note starting
in chapter two, all right, and

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Revelation chapter two, there's these message, these messages to the churches, right

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chapter two, verse one, to
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right right. Then in verse eight
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Smyrna. Right then if you go
on chapter two, verse twelve, and

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to the Angel of the Church in
Pergamus. All right, So you're seeing

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these are two churches. There's just
no way to get around this. These

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are two churches, all right.
If you look verse eighteen and the Angel

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of the Church and Thiatara, So
again that's two eighteen. That's two eighteen.

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Making sure I'm not skipping any Chapter
three, verse one and the Angel

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of the Church and Sartiss right,
then three seven to the Church of Philadelphia.

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All right. So then if we
turn the page, or at least

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I turned the page in my Bible, then we look at verse fourteen,

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and the Angel of the Church of
Leoty seans, right, So three fourteen,

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it's the Church of Leotasians. And
then let it look at verse twenty.

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As many as I love, I
rebuke and chasen Therefore be zealous and

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repent. Behold, I stand at
the door and knock. If anyone hears

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my voice and opens the door,
I will come in to him and dine

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with him, and he with me. This is a church of people who

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are no longer dining with Christ.
They're no longer meeting with Christ. They've

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left their first love. They've departed, And Jesus is in a sense knocking

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at the door. Is there anyone
in there who would like to dine with

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me? Is there anyone in there
who would like to have Jesus standing at

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the door and knocking is not for
salvation, it's in a sense for revival.

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You need to revive that first love, and we need to go to

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Christ. We need to leave what's
keeping us away, and we need to

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go dine with him. The idea
of dining with someone, especially in that

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culture, that was a sense of
hospitality and fellowship and communion, that having

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a mill together was seen as something
far more than just like putting food in

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your mouth. It had a greater
cultural significance. Now we as Christians claim

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that eating together is of such importance
when it comes to, you know,

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a potluck at church, But in
this particular case, it has great significance.

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It's about us being called Jesus standing
at the door where we've grown cold.

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I mean, look, what was
the problem with the Church of Leotysea.

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I know your works that you're neither
cold nor hot. I could wish

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you were cold or hot. So
then because you're a lukewarm, neither cold

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nor hot, I will vomit you
out of my mouth, all right.

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And this is this is a church
that has become luke warm. They have

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become luke warm, and they don't
see their spiritual condition. So Jesus is

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in a sense they've become so lukewarm
and so apathetic. They're outside of the

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church, or Jesus is outside of
the church, not being saying does anyone

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want to come spend time with me? That's the sense of revival. That's

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what we need. We meet a
great turning to Christ on the part of

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Christians. We mean the separation of
Christian from the world and the dedication of

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the Christian to the holy business of
serving Christ. A spirit filled life is

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a God honoring Christ, magnifying spirit
filled life. From such a life,

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rivers of flowing water will flow from
such a life. Sweet manifestation of Christian

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character will come. The early Christians
were separated servants of God. They were

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saints who practiced purity in all manners
of life. They adorn the Gospel by

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their contact. Now, I think
that's giving probably way too much credit to

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the early Christians as being all perfect. They were just as messed up as

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we are every single day. In
a sense, we have to answer that

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knock, am I going to go
dine with Jesus. Am I going to

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go spend time with him, And
I'm going to continue to turn to him,

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hopefully being revived, hopefully growing,
and my passion and my desire for

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him, and less preoccupied with everything
else. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't

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know about you. I need this
every single day because I'm far from anything

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that they are describing. That's what
we need now. I could go on

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to the next point, but I'm
not. And I know a little bit

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of this. You may be some
of you, ma fool. It's a

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little bit repetitive, But these are
the points that really need I think we

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really stumbled upon the most important point
here. Revival is not for the lost,

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It's for you and for me.
Stop praying for our country needs revival.

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No, your country needs Christians who
are revived. And then we live

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out our Christian life to the best
of our ability, being open and honest

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with our sin, acknowledging our failure, acknowledging our shortcomings, not covering ourself

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in a clothes of self righteousness,
but being broken and humble and saying,

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you know what, I'm going to
go dine with Christ. I'm going to

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go dine with Jesus, and I'm
going to try to be revived so I'll

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be more passionate and have a greater
desire for Him and a greater conviction over

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my sin. Revival is where Christians
turn to Christ. I know we're so

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worried about everyone else turning to Christ. We're worried about everyone else needing to

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be revived. You need it,
I need it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

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Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sun. Not just a scheduled quote unquote

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revival. We need revival every single
day. And I think, in a

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sense of Revelation three twenty Jesus outside
the door, that it's a it's a

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complacent, apathetic church. Is Jesus
in a sense outside your church. Sometimes

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we're so dead cold, and apathetic, and we don't even realize it.

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We don't even see our spiritual condition. We're so we're so busy pointing out

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everyone else's spiritual condition, saying,
well, we need we need revival to

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get rid of wokeism. I heard
today there was a webcast on Summer Student

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where oh, wocism, wochism,
wocism them, they they, how about

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us if we were more worried about
our own sin then everyone else's sin.

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I think revivals when we become broken
over our own spiritual condition and we're not

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worried about everyone else's spiritual condition.
The church needs a healthy dose of being

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revived so that we are broken over
our own condition and that we go to

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we go to dine with rice,
so that we can grow, so that

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we can be closer to God.
Not that we can go yell at everyone

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else for their spiritual condition, but
we can see our own. Now what

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do you think? Now? You
can email me and share me, share

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with me your thoughts. News.
I f at yahoo dot com. That's

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news. I f at yahoo dot
com. Now I'm going to open up

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the sermon's two point Oh app oh, we're still the only ones broadcasting.

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Okay, so we're so just keep
those things I've given you about about revival,

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all right, I think I think
I'm not going to repeat it and

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be repetitive. I've repeated it enough, all right, I will send out

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that quote. But hey, I
just want you to think about these concepts,

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especially what's getting ready to happen.
Now, remember your challenge. It's

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supposed to be listening to the random
webcasts, the live webcast on the Sermon's

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two point oh app or at Beta
dot sermonadio dot com. Please be doing

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that now today to which today and
tomorrow you may be want to look just

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just see how much patriotism and politics
have entered in and how many times there's

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a talk about our country needing revival, and ask yourself, is that it

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just a categorical philological error because the
world doesn't need revival. The world needs

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salvation. Christians need revival, all
right. So I want you to watch

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that and see I'm kind of surprised
that it's almost five pm on a Wednesday

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and there's no other live webcast.
I told you, I'm a little work

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concerned. I wonder how many I
wonder how many churches will cancel their services

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tonight and just and then that's we
could raise a question canceling church to celebrate

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the independence of this country. It's
like, is that you sell We're going

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to cancel church for that? I
don't know. You can you can determine

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is that putting that before that?
I don't know. I don't know.

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I don't know, but we will
see. They may have other reasons to

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cancel. I mean, we're not
having in personal services. But that's a

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whole you know, we cant into
a long story of the reason why that's

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the particular case. Now, if
you want to send us one hundred thousand

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dollars, well, then guess what. We'll go back to Sunday morning.

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We'll go back to Sunday school,
Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night

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and live stream and we'll go back
to I mean, come on, if

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you want to, if you want
to, you can fix all of our

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problems with our Our issue is money. Okay, So we won't get into

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all of that all right, But
yeah, I think I thought it was

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going to be bad, but I
think we actually stumbled upon a really solid

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point here, and I'm really impressed
with it. And yeah, I'm glad

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we I'm glad we had this discussion
as much as I did not want to.

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All Right, there we go.
I'm kind of waiting to see if

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any other I can't. Oh,
there they go. They just showed up,

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all right, so I'm ending at
the perfect time. Don't count me

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as your random live webcast. I
don't count all right. So right now,

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Bowling Springs Baptist Church in North Kakilaki
is currently broadcasting. Is that bowling?

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Boiling? Boiling? Bowling, Bowling
Springs and Calvary Baptist Church in New

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York. All right, the Calvary's
already got three people watching and they just

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literally started, so they may have
a big audience, so you may want

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to go watch them. All right, there you go, go go watch,

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listen, and then email me newsift
dot com. You got plenty of

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things to contemplate, meditate on,
plenty of spiritual food. God bless