Aug. 20, 2024

Revival Pt 4

Revival Pt 4

I continue my look at an article In the Sword of the Lord newspaper about Revival

I continue my look at an article In the Sword of the Lord newspaper about Revival

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good morning everyone.

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It is Tuesday, August the twentieth, twenty twenty four. It

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is currently ten forty am Central Time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here in Abilene, Texas. Well, before we know it,

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summer twenty twenty four will be a thing of the past.

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We will have lived through another summer. It will be over.

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We will be moving on into September, then October, and

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then yeah, we'll be in a sense we're we're on

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the we're on the downside of the year. I mean,

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before we know I mean we're kind of on the

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We've we've kind of started the year. We've climbed, we've climbed,

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we've reached the top, and now we're going where. It's

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just it's a it's a wild ride to the end

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of twenty twenty four. It's hard to believe. And well

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over the summer, there's been a lot of like series

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and things that we have started. If you really think

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about this entire year of twenty twenty four, we were

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going to really be more electionary based in twenty twenty four,

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and we kind of got way sidetracked and that kind

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of fell apart. We didn't really I didn't really stick

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with that. I was having fun with it, and then

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we just other things kind of just kind of moved

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it out of the way, right, We kind of just

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we kind of got sidetracked from that. We've been working

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on Eschatology. I think we've done pretty good with that.

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We still need to finish that series. Then we were

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going to do some work and proverbs, and then everything

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really got derailed and everything kind of took a turn

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when we spent a good portion of the summer of

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twenty twenty four and saw eighty three. I think that

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was really the biggest thing that we have done this year,

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is the three study. I think. I mean, I believe

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it was significant. I believe it was important. I had

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a lot to do with hermeneutics. I had a lot

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to do with how pastors take passages of scripture and

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do crazy things with it. I think that was I

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think that was an interesting state. But we kind of

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finished that up. I think we finished it up. I

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don't feel I'm not completely happy with the way we

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finished it, but I think we did okay, And there's

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been a lot of little other things that we have

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worked on right here or there. And one of the

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things that we started I don't even remember when the

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first message was was I took the sort of the

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Lord newspaper. Remember how I loved the sort of the

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Lord newspaper. And remember the June seventh, twenty twenty four

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issue of the Sort of the Lord. The June seventh,

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twenty twenty four issue, there was an article entitled the

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Holy Spirit and Revival, The Holy Spirit and Revival, and

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I was like, you know what, we're going to work

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through this article and we're just going to use it.

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Was the article really as an opportunity to talk a

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lot about revival and I could offer my own perspective,

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my own understanding of it, and really challenge the way

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a lot of churches and pastors and ministries speak about

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revival because sometimes I know this is going to be

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a shock to you. I get extremely frustrated with how

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revival is spoken of. I get really frustrated with people's

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theology on revival because I believe it's broken, and I

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believe it's confused. I believe it's missed understood. I get

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really bothered by it. So we have spent a number

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of hours now looking at this article on revival and

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discussing the subject, well as with many of the other things.

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We haven't finished it, we haven't brought it to a conclusion.

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So we're going to at least take another step to

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trying to bring this to some type of conclusion. We

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also have the Ephesians four series that we're working on.

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Remember the Ephesians four thing is really I mean, that's

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taken a life of its own. It's really I mean,

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we still have so much to do on that. And

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of course I think really what's dominated twenty twenty four

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has been the Sermon's two point zero app sermon Challenge.

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It really has dominated the year. So it's been a

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crazy year and isn't hard to believe now that we're

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kind of looking back at twenty twenty four, like we're

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so close to the end now now we're looking back, Hey,

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here's all the things that we've done in twenty twenty four.

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It really is hard to believe. It's been a crazy, crazy,

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crazy year. I told everyone it was going to be

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a crazy year. I don't know if I yeah, I

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don't know if I could have foreseen. I know I

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didn't foresee everything that was coming down the line, but

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here we are. And so what we need to do

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today is we need to at least get one step

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closer to finishing up this discussion on Revival. Then we

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need to finish our discussion on Ephesians chapter four. Maybe

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we'll do another sermon review in that series. We need

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to do some more work on the sermon's two point

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oh app sermon challenge. We've now started, if you haven't

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been paying attention, our study and all of the their

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furs in the Book of Romans. So we've we've got

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We've got off to a decent start on that looking

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at the four Greek words. I think it was okay,

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wasn't perfect, wasn't great, But we did that. So now

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we can start on Sunday looking at the their force.

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On Sunday, we'll also try to start getting closer to

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finishing our series on Eschatology. And so once I'm trying

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to wrap everything, well, we got a new series on

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the there four, but I'm going to try to finish

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up all of these others. I've got an idea that

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i want to do. I'm hesitant to commit to it,

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but we will see. Uh so we have a lot

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going on, a lot going on, and uh, well, yeah,

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I don't know. So some may say, well, what's what's

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twenty twenty five, Well, we are a long ways from there.

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I don't know. I don't know what twenty twenty five

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looks like to be hones honest, I didn't know if

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the podcast would even survive twenty twenty four, so I

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don't know if it'll even be present in twenty twenty five.

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We have a lot to look at. There's a lot

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going on, So we'll talk about that and moving forward.

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But let's let's get back to the subject of revival,

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all right now. The Sort of Lord Newspaper, June seventh,

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twenty twenty four, the article the Holy Spirit and Revival

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by doctor Lee Roberson. Now, this article we've walked through,

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and I'm going to pick right back up in the middle.

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I'm not going to review everything, but I am going

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to review this that immediately, we knew this article was

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problematic from a hermeneutical standpoint because the key verse the

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text for this printed sermon on revival was Ephesians Are

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Ephesians Acts, Chapter four, Verse thirty one ax Sheper four

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verse thirty one Octs. Chapter four, verse thirty one, where

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we read these words, and when he had prayed, the

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place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they

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were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke

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the word of God with boldness. Now that's the text

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for this sermon, this printed sermon on revival, where well,

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immediately I know there's a problem, right, And I know,

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and I first I know there's a problem because the

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text is only verse thirty one. They leave out verse

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thirty two. But any decent Bible student, well, immediately go,

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wait a minute, wait a minute, you're gonna use acts

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four thirty one to talk about revival for us today

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in twenty twenty four or whatever year this sermon was preached,

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because immediately we know there's a problem, right, So let

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me look at four thirty one again. And when they

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

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Now do we believe that was a literal shaking of

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the physical place, the physical building. Well, so are you

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saying that that this is somehow giving us an idea

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of what revival should be today? Hey, you know you

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have revival when your physical building actually begins to shake.

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Is that what we should look for? Already? Immediately I'm like,

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wait a minute, I think this may be just describing

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a historical situation. This is not prescribing anything. This is

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just describing what happened. It's not telling us what to

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look for or anything about revival for us. So first,

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the place is shaken, and we could argue exactly what

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that means. Okay, And they were all filled with the

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Holy Spirit, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

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Now look look at verse thirty two. Though, Now the

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multitude of those who believed were of one heart and

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of one soul. Neither did anyone say that any of

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the things he possessed was his own, but they had

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all things in common. Now, wait a minute, Wait a minute,

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wait a minute. If we're going to say this is

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revival and we're going to apply this to twenty twenty four,

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then not only should the physical building shake, If that's

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what that term means. There, we could spend a little

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time working on it, but everyone will just say, hey,

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I don't own anything, and we'll have everything in common.

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We're going to give up all of our possessions and

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we're going to since give the money, give the possessions

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to the church, and then the church will distribute to

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those who as they have need. If you're going to

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see this as revival, then you don't just grab part

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of it. You grab everything that happened and say this

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is what revival looks like. Nobody wants to give up

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all of their possessions. Nobody wants to sell all that

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they have and give the money to the church. Nobody's

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going to do that. If you were to suggest suggest that,

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everyone would think you are absolutely out of your mind.

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Can you believe? I mean what, well not, can you believe?

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What would you do? I mean you would not be

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able to believe it. But what would you do if

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I turn on this microphone and say we need to

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pray for revival, we need to seek revival, and if

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revival happens in your life, you're going to give up

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your possessions. You're going to sell all that you have,

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and you're going to send it to this broadcast and

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then I will distribute as there is need. You would

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not be able to believe it. You would be like,

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that's insane, that's crazy. Well, everybody loves to run to

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the Book of Acts and grab certain verses and say this.

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We need to get back to the church of the

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Book of Acts. We need to get back to that church.

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We need to get Do you really want to get

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so sell everything? Oh you don't want that part, isn't

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it funny? Oh? Wait? They met every single day? Do

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you want to have church every single Oh you don't

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want to have church. So you only want part of

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the Book of Acts, you don't want all of it.

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Can we stop with the nonsense that we want an

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Act revival in twenty twenty four because you only want

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part of it. You don't want all of it. You

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know that, and I know that, all right, So we

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already knew that the article was a problem, all right,

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But we went ahead. We went through the introduction and

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then remember it told us to turn to page sixteen,

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page sixteen, and then they gave some things. They connected

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revival to the Holy Spirit. They said things like, first, first,

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know about him. Jesus gave the promise of the Holy Spirit,

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he said, and they quote John fourteen. They quote John

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fourteen sixteen and John fourteen twenty six. Secondly, be conscious

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of him. We talked about grieving the Holy Spirit in

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Ephesians four we talked about Ephesians five eighteen. Then we

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looked at this section and this sermon on the Holy

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Spirit and Christian Living. We looked at all of that,

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and then that brings us to part in this printed

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sermon on Revival, and it is entitled the Holy Spirit

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and Prayer. The Holy Spirit and Prayer. This is on

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page seventeen of this printed sermon and the June seventh,

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twenty twenty four edition of the Sword of the Lord.

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And this is all we're going to look at today.

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All right. Now, I could really try to just drive

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through this and say the goal here is just to

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finish this so we can be done and we can

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then finish the Ephesians thing and then we can move

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on to something new. But you know that's not fair

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to the subject. So we're just gonna spend time on

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this one section, all right, Are you ready? They quote

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this section begins this is called the Holy Spirit and Prayer,

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The Holy Spirit and Prayer, and they quote Acts two

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forty two. They quote Acts two forty two. Now I'm

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taking my actual Bible and not reading the quote from

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the paper, because I'm gonna look at all the things

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around it. All right, So here we go, So let's

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start in verse forty, right. They just quote verse forty

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two again. A lot of times when people do sermons

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on revival and the early the Act's Church, I think

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they're very selective in the verses they use. So we're

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gonna go back to Acts two forty and with many

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other words. He testified and exhorted them, saying be saved

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from this perverse generation. Those who gladly received his word

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were baptized that day, and there were about three thousand

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souls were added to them. I look at verse forty two,

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and they continued steadfastly in the apostles, doctrine and fellowship

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and the breaking of bread and in prayers. Then fear

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came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were

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done through the apostles. Now please note once again if

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you're going they're gonna connect this to revival in twenty

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twenty four, and he's going to focus on the word.

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They continued steadfasting the apostles, doctrine, fellowship, breaking of bread,

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and in prayers. But wait, wait, let's continue reading. Fear

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came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were

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done through the apostles. Do you believe those wonders and

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signs are for today? Do you believe the apostolic signs

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and wonders are for today? I think you're out of

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your mind if you believe that. And charismatics who believe that,

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Look how many times they have to make fake claims

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and make fraudulent claims, and over and over and over

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it's demonstrated that what they're claiming does not happen is

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not true there and they are proven to be frauds.

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So immediately, I know, wait a minute, once again, this

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is being descriptive, it's not being prescriptive. But what yeh,

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I'll look again, what is connected to it? What is

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connected to it? All? Right? Now, all who believed were

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together and had all things in common, and sold their

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possessions and goods and divided them among all as anyone

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had need. Now, this article has quoted two verses about

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revival and how we need revival, and both cases they

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quote a verse when the very next verse demonstrates that

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a part of this revival was everyone selling all of

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their possessions and basically giving it to the church. Now,

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if you're going to run to acts and say we

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need revival we need, well, then everyone's gonna sell all

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of their possessions. If people aren't willing to do that,

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then stop quoting the Book of Acts about some revival

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in twenty twenty four. It's mindless, it's foolish. It's not

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even being honest with the text. And you're just using

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the Book of Acts as a buffet where you get

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to pick what you want. It's a unique situation, it's

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a historical situation. There's signs and wonders happening. That was

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the Apostolic signs and wonders. The apostles are no longer

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with us. The Apostolic office was for a period of time.

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It was there to help start the early Church. So

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they quote that. Then they state this, when we recognize

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the indwelling guest, meaning the Holy Spirit, we will desire

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to pray. So now this is going to turn into

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a discussion about prayer. And I think the argument is

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here is that revival, if we truly are being revived,

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then prayer is going to be a major part of that.

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I think that's the point they're trying to make here.

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But we'll start with this. If we will recognize the

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indwelling guests, we will desire to pray. So it seems

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that what they're arguing, if we recognize that we are

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in dwelt by the Holy Spirit, then we will desire

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to pray. Does does understanding that we are dwelt by

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the Holy Spirit? Does that increase prayer? That's an interesting claim.

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They don't. They make no justif. They make no justification

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for the claim, They make no proof. They just go

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on and say this and Acts too. Peter and John

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went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer,

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and Acts four we read that when they prayed, the

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place was shaken where they were assembled together, and they

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were all filled with the Holy Spirit. Now again they're

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going back to the Acts four passage. Again they leave

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out the fact they do mention the place was shaken.

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They don't know, They don't explain what is actually happening there.

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And once again they leave out that everyone sells basically

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all of their possessions. They they over and over, they

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they they purposely ignore those verses. When Saul of Tarsus

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was saved, the next thing we find about him is,

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behold he prayeth Acts nine to eleven and Acts ten.

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Peter was on the housetop praying. When Peter was kept

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in prison, the saints of God met together in prayer

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for his release. It was at the place of prayer

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where Lydia was saved. It was also when Paul and

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Solas prayed that deliverance came to them. The gail was

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shaken and their bonds were loosed. Well, now they've got

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two cases where prayer happens and the place was shaken.

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So if we're having a good prayer meeting, the building

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will actually shake. See this is always the problem with

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just running into the Book of Acts. You're grabbing historical

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situations that I don't think our prescriptive or give us

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any idea of exactly what we should or shouldn't do.

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I think it simply is just telling us what happened.

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Freand now now they only have one more paragraph in

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this section. They don't really do much. They don't explain

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any of this, they don't offer any explanation. But the

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next paragraph is what I'm going to utilize for that.

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This may be a short broadcast, but I'm gonna focus

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on this next paragraph and I'm going to allow it

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to take us maybe away from the discussion. Well maybe

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maybe I'm gonna make this more about revival than they're

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gonna make it about revival. I don't know. Let's see.

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Just listen to this next paragraph. You're ready, I want

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you to pay. You can forget everything else we've talked about.

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This is what I want you to focus on. Okay.

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I did want to point out again how the article

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is talking about revival and just very much be very

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very selective in what part versus they quote, and how

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they're skipping the next verse that in every case, well,

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wait a minute, everyone sells everything, nobody wants to discuss.

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Is that the true sign of revival where everyone just

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gives up all of their possessions? All right, we could

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have that conversation. You think that they would be having

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that conversation since it's a sermon about revival and they're

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quoting verses that in every case is connected to that

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very phenomenon. But okay, here we go. Listen carefully, friend,

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you need to pray these two prayers unto God. If

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you have something to write with, I would challenge you

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to write these down. There are two prayers that we

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need to pray to God. Two prayers. Prayer Number one,

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Lord show me myself. Lord show me myself. Lord show

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me myself. That's number one and number two. Lord show

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me thyself. Lord show me myself, Lord show me thyself. Now.

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I may be utterly frustrated with this entire article and revival.

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I may be completely bothered by how they're very much

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cherry picking certain verses and ignoring the follow up verses.

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They're ignoring the phenomenon of every when selling everything, and

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how that may be connected to revival. I'm very frustrated

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by the entire way. But this right here, this right here,

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is worth the entire subscription costs to the sort of

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the Lord newspaper. This right here is utterly profound. This

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is powerful, and I think this may be really the

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really essence of revival. We are experiencing revival, and I

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think the key to revival is when us as Christians revival.

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And remember we talked about this in the last episode.

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Revival is about Christians. Revival is not about the non Christian.

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Revival is not about people getting saved. It's about Christians

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getting right. It's not about Christians. It's not about non

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Christians getting saved. It's about Christians getting right and entering

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into a passionate desire for God, but revival. The key

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to revival, the essence of revival, is when you and I,

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as Christians, we are broken and we cry out to God, Lord,

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show me myself. Don't show me other people, don't show

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me the world show me me. Let me see me

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as I truly am. Let me see how depraved I am.

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Let me see how fraudulent I am. Let me see

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how much of a hypocrite I am. Let me see

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how self righteous I am, how prideful I am, how

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arrogant I am. Lord, Let me see all that I

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am and its truest color, no filter. Let me see

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myself as I really am. If all Christians were lying

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on would, in a sense drop to their face and say, Lord,

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show me me, we would get up broken, humbled, embarrassed, humiliated,

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filled with shame, and we would know our only hope

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is not in what we do, not what we should

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do can do. Our hope is not in trying to

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do better. Our hope is not stopping starting reforming ourselves.

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Our only hope is the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ.

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You will face, you will experience revival, and your church

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will experience revival. When everyone in the church is saying, Lord,

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show me my self. I don't care what other people

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are doing. I don't care to blame other people, accuse

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other people, condemn other people. I'm not here to point

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fingers other than I'm going to point the finger at

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me because Lord, I want you to show me me.

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And in the second as Lord show me thyself, Lord

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show me you. Now, I believe personally from a philological perspective,

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these prayers should be reversed. We should first say, Lord

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show me you, show me thyself, let me see you,

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because you know what I'm getting ready to say, it's

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only when we see God as he truly is that

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we can see ourselves as we truly are. But I

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think so they have two prayers, Lord show me myself

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and show me thyself. I think the prayer should be Lord,

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show me thyself. We need to be consumed with seeing

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God as he is. Not the God we want, not

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the God we create, not the graven image of God

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that we form, not the plato form of God that

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we manipulate, and that God agrees with us here and

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agrees with us. No, we want to see God as

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He truly is. Whether we guess what We may not

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like it, we may be bothered by it. It may

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convict us, It may make us angry, it may make

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us mad, it may make us sad. But we want

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to be confronted with the reality of God. Lord show

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me thyself, and I think it's only then, Lord show

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me thyself, and then we then should pray. And Lord

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show me myself, and show me myself in light of yourself.

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I cannot see myself until I see myself in the

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light of who God truly is. When I see myself

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in the light of who God is, then I see

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myself as I truly am. If I see myself in

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the light of anything else, if I see myself in

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the light of other people, I think I'm pretty good.

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used to be compared to what I am today, I

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may think I'm doing pretty good. It's when I see

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myself in the light of God then I realize what

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I really am. We need to be people of prayer.

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Lord show me thyself so that I may see myself.

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We need to be a people absolutely obsessed, absolutely possessed

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with a passionate pursuit of seeing God as he is.

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if we spend all of our time pursuing and desiring

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to see God as he is, we would become more

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and more broken, and we would be a humble church.

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We would be a church full of grace, a church

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full of mercy, because whenever we talk about other people's sin,

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we would know, yeah, but I'm a greater sinner. Instead

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of spending sermons going them, they them the world, the

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liberals them that we would be like us, us us us.

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Now again, the article says two prayers. Lord show me

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my sol Lord show me thyself Again. I'm going to

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reverse that. Lord show me thyself, Lord show me myself. Christians,

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we need it, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal our

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needs and impress upon us the worthwhileness of simple trust

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in Him and complete dedication of all of all to

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His will. Now, that's all they say in this section.

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The section, really they don't offer any explanation. It's really

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a weird section that don't really even explain why they

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say these are the two prayers we need. But ladies

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and gentlemen, this is the essence of revival revivals. When

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at church wakes up one day and they're like, Lord,

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all we care to see is God. We want to

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see God as he truly is, whether we like it

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or not. And as the more we seek to see God,

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the more we see ourselves. So many times people want

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to study God so that we can point our fingers

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at everyone else. Come, well, look at them and look

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at them. They're wrong, and they're wrong, and they're wrong,

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and they're wrong, and they're wrong and they're When you're

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doing that, you're not truly seeing God, because if you

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truly saw God, your reaction would be like, oh Lord,

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well again, you know, you know the passage I'm going

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to read right, Isaiah six. In the year that King

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Yuziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne

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high and lifted up, and the train of his robe

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filled the temple above it, above it stood a seraphim.

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Each one had six wings, With two he covered his face,

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two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

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is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full

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of his glory. And the post of the door was shaken. Oh,

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there's the shaking part that we've talked about in acts right,

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and the door was shaken by the voice of him

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who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

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So I said, woe is me, for I am undone,

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because I'm a man of unclean lips, and I dwell

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in the midst of people of unclean lips. From my

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eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Host. When

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we see God, we finally see ourselves. If we see God,

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and all it turns into is like a philological project,

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so that we then can say we have the right doctrine,

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and then we become arrogant. We condemn everyone else, and

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we correct everyone else, and we tell everyone else they're wrong.

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We've not truly seen God. God. That's only seeing God

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as an academic subject that you have mastered, so that

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now you can brag to everyone else how stupid they

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are and how smart we are. But if we truly

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see God as he is, the natural reaction should be

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I see myself as I truly am. All philological education,

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this is where seminaries fail. This is where Bible collegists fell,

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and this is where churches fell. If we are truly

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studying God, we're truly seeking to know God. The end

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result is everyone in the church should be like I

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see myself as I am. Woe is me. I am

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a man of unclean lips, unclean hands. I'm a man

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of unclean thoughts, unclean desires, unclean actions. I am a

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sinner and thought word. Indeed, we would be broken and humbled.

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Sometimes it's the churches that have the best theology. They

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pursue scripture, they desire scripture, they study, they exegete the scriptures,

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they go verse by verse, they have systematic theology. Sometimes

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the churches that have all the right theology, all the

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right preaching, all the right everything are the churches filled

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with people who are arrogant, who are condemning, who are

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self serving jerks. Something is wrong there. That's because we've

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turned God into an academic project to master so that

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we're smarter than everyone else. But God is not an

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academic project to be mastered. We are come to God

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so that we can see him. Lord, show me thyself,

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And when I see God, then I should see myself.

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That's the essence of revival. Revival is where we as

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Christians seek God to see God as he is, and

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as the result, we see ourselves as we are, and

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then we are broken. We are broken, humbled, and then

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we flee to Christ and his imputed righteousness. Revival is

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not oh, now I'm going to be better at this,

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I'm going to We think revival is always like now

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we're going to be better, We're not going to do this,

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We're not going to do this, and we just turn

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it into basically a moral moral ref We see revival

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as a moral Revival is not a moral reformation. Revival

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is a philological revelation where we see God accurately, and

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then we see ourselves accurately, and then we are broken,

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not so that we'll have moral reformation, but that we

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will flee to Christ and his imputed righteousness and cling

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to it and trust it and love it and be

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appreciative of it. That's revival. Revival is not moral reformation.

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Revival is philological revelation where I see God and then

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I am forced to see me and light of God,

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and that breaks me, that humbles me, that humiliates me,

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that embarrasses me, It leaves me broken and hopeless, and

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I know then I have to run to Christ because

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Christ is my righteousness, He is my holiness, He is

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my sanctification, and I trust in his imputed righteousness, and

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I find peace, I find gratitude, and I find a

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deeper love for what He has done for me, which

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all of that in is revival. Two prayers. Lord show

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me thyself, so that Lord I may see myself. Lord

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show me thyself, And Lord show me myself. Now the

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article flipped it around, show me myself and show me thyself.

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I think it has I don't think that works. Now

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you could, are you? Lord, show me myself so that

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I will see. Then then show me thyself so I

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can find peace grace. I think. I guess you could

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flip it around, But I don't think you'll ever see

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yourself correctly until you see God correctly. I think that

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the key to perceiving self is to perceive God. If

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you truly want to know yourself, if you truly want

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to see yourself, if you truly want to understand yourself,

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you have to start with God. See to seek understanding

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of you, like to almost from a psychological standpoint, to

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understand you, to understand everything about you. You can't pursue

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the study of man or the study of self unless

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you first pursue the study of God. That's why theology

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is the is the king of subjects. It's it's the

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most important subject. Everything flows from a correct understanding of God.

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You can't understand anything else correctly until you understand God correctly.

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So Lord show me thyself, and then Lord show me myself.

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Now to me, that paragraph really has nothing to do

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with this article, but that paragraph may be the most profound,

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not even the paragraph. Just friend, you need to pray

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these two prayers again. I'm going to reverse the order.

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Lord show me thyself. Lord show me myself. I want

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you to write that down today somewhere. Lord show me thyself.

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Lord show me myself. I want you to ponder that.

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I want you to cling to that. I want you

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to meditate on that, because that's the essence of revival.

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If people you know talk about revival almost as a

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sense of evangelism or moral reformation, please correct them. Revival

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is a thiological revelation where we see God, we see self,

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and we run to God before his imputed righteousness. I'll

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stop there. Thanks for listening. We'll try to finish this

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series at some point. But again, sometimes it's better to

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just handle a little part than to just rush right

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past it, because that is so profound and so worth

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the entire subscription of this paper. All right, okay, I

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don't know if you could hear that in the background,

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that's my iPad. A certain female voice starts with an S.

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I can't say her name, started trying to I don't know,

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answer my question. Why she was trying to answer my question? Okay, yeah,

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that voice recognition software where they will, you know, answer

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things for you, is great, but I hate what it

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turns on in the middle of preaching. But okay, all right,

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m that's such good stuff. All right, hopefully you find

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it as beneficial as I do. Thanks for listening everyone,

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have a great day. God bless