Turn to Psalm 85.6. It's good to
have our visitors here tonight.
It's good to have you folks with us
and And you know, I hope you'll just
forgive us for being a little bit At
home, you know, but that's where we are,
right?
and I mean we're here every Sunday morning
Sunday night Thursday night and two or three
other times a week and so we just
feel we know everybody and and And We're
glad you're here Brother Dave from Florida said
to me this morning.
You tell folks what you said, would you
to me?
That is the friendliest church I've ever visited
Yeah, amen.
All right.
Have you got it Psalm 85 verse 6?
Psalm 85 6 I Read this entire Psalm
this evening, but I'll just call your attention
to verse 6 so we can save some
time David said will thought will thou not
revive us again that thy people may rejoice
in thee Now you ought to think about
those words Will thou not revive us again
that Thy people may rejoice in thee I
What I just I want to do is
speak from my heart this evening and You'll
forgive me if I talk a little bit
about what What I've learned can is this
okay?
We got an echo.
Can you fix me up brother Dave?
First of all when we talk about experiences
If there's anybody in the world that is
gun-shy of experiences, you're looking at a
preacher.
I I don't put a lot of value
on experiences But that certainly doesn't mean that
there aren't valid experiences that God's people ought
to have But let me say this right
up front that I would not give a
plug nickel for any experience That doesn't match
and that is not true to a proper
interpretation of the Word of God I Still
will try all experiences by the book understand
me I've got a lot to learn.
I'm looking forward to learning it.
I Don't feel I'm a novice.
I feel I'm a student.
There are things to learn.
I want to learn them Old Tom Malone
said to us 21 years ago.
He said now pastor.
He said Brooke boys He said you better
look at every new thing like a calf
looking at a new gate Those from the
farm know what that statement means, okay?
So when I talk about what has been
happening here at open-door Baptist Church I'm
not talking about emotionalism But I am talking
about emotions And there is a world of
difference Emotionalism is something that churches many times
have to work up so people feel close
to God Emotions is something that breaks forth
because a man or a woman is close
to God Don't discount emotions Emotions are right.
They are God made But Spurgeon said it
long ago though.
I never understood it until just recently but
Spurgeon said all emotions Must have as their
father the truth So all of our emotions
must be grounded in truth Emotions can't distinguish
Emotions can't decide is this true or this
true is this true?
emotions are just there and So what I
want us to think about then is what
I believe is happening around here and what
is happening in our lives is not some
external from horizontally, but it is an external
that came from heaven into our hearts and
Then it manifests itself in gratitude and brokenness
and joy and rejoicing But revival must come
from God You know as I talked with
brother Boyle he liked just like all of
us He said and tried for just a
few minutes.
What were the ingredients?
You know folks are looking for a B
C D to make it happen.
It won't work It can't work Will thou
not revive us that thy people may rejoice
in thee The first thing we need to
do is understand terms when we talk about
revival There are red flag words that we
learn anywhere McCarthyism right red flag Fundamentalism
red flag Do you ever notice how people
will connect Jim Jones with fundamentalism and the
ayatollah with fundamentalism you connect these people with
terms And then the term becomes a red
flag So what you do is you get
an Elmer Gantry or Elmer Fudd or somebody
and you connect these people with a term
and then the term becomes a Negative to
where we are reluctant to deal with it,
even though it's a good Bible term Revival
is a Bible term It's also a Bible
truth and It has it been experienced in
history down through the years if you've studied
church history You know that there were great
revivals down through church history So revival could
be and has been a reality But sad
to say because of our lack of education
and Eventually shifting horses in the middle of
the stream we have made revive We've made
meetings synonymous with revival to where when I
was in Jacksonville a few months ago With
a Baptist Church on every corner and a
Church of Christ in between You'd see banners
flying in front of most of these churches
revival June the 11th through the 23rd you
see revival what they really meant is they
had a high-powered speaker coming In fact
brother Boyle as I talked with him he
was telling me he's got me coming over
there in a few months and Preaching for
him on a Tuesday night, and it's their
10th anniversary that week And he's got some
obviously some high-powered preachers because I'm going
to be there And it's got to be
high parts, and he's got me wedged in
between these high-powered fellas Because he's very
kind, but we get the idea.
This is revival but revival is Nothing more
than new life I Looked up the definitions
of revival and in the dictionary one Revival
it is a return it's a recall or
recovery to life from death or apparent death
as The revival of a drownded person.
That's where we were There was a parent
death and God brought revival, it's a return
or recovery It is also The return or
recall to activity from a state of langer
as the revival of spirits The spirit was
revived It is also renewed or more active
attention to religion an awakening of men to
their spiritual concerns Revival is becoming God conscious
and Responding in obedience to the Holy Spirit
It will invoke contrition Confession cleansing restitution
and rejoicing Do you get it?
Revival is becoming God conscious and responding in
obedience to the Holy Spirit It will evoke
contrition confession cleansing restitution and rejoicing In Isaiah
57 15 the writer said for thus saith
the high and lofty one that inhabits the
eternity Whose name is holy I dwell in
the high and holy places with him That
is of a contrite and humble spirit to
revive the spirit of to what to revive
the spirit of the humble So Before revival
can ever take place humility must precede it
Humility must precede it and the only way
we can be humble is let God break
us Mrs. Krauss God love her.
I love her this morning.
We were getting ready to for the choir
and As always she came in late Oh
Not always But as she walked you don't
mind me telling this to you I knew
you wouldn't as she as she walked in
here bless her heart I think one of
our somebody said to her that's a pretty
dress Jim said to her that's a pretty
dress and She said I just kind of
felt proud and wonder if there's anything else.
He wanted to brag on She took one
more step and fell I don't laugh fell
flat on her face I mean face on
this cement floor broke her glasses may have
a broken nose and Hurt her wrist and
she said to me she said pastor, isn't
it?
Right pride goes before a fall Quite literally
Did you know God wants to revive us
If you had a little child and you
found him face down in the swimming pool
the urgency of the hour would be to
revive Wouldn't it Why God would like to
revive you and me?
Because when we are revived we glorify him
In Ezra 9 8 it says and now
for a little space and you got to
understand the time of the writing of the
book of Ezra The children of Israel have
been in captivity now for 70 years Their
oppressors have made life difficult for them and
Nehemiah now has led a few back into
the land You understand the story he's led
them back into the land and Ezra the
scribe has come in and he's trying to
put the worship Back together and rebuild the
temple and then in his prayer.
Here's what he says and now for a
little space for a little space Grace has
thou shown from the Lord our God to
leave us a remnant to escape and to
give us a nail in a sure place
That our God may lighten our eyes and
give us a little reviving In our bondage
a little reviving.
I'll tell you what a little reviving is
better than none A little revival is better
than no revival As brother Saterra said if
only one person gets revived it's better than
no person getting revived a little reviving Revival
needs to happen again and again Again and
again, some people will ask I've already heard
the skeptics.
How long do you think it'll last I?
Bet it won't last.
I mean we've been here before How long
will it last?
You know, I don't know the answer to
that question But I'll tell you this dear
brother and sister if it lasts one hour,
it would be better to have one hour
revival and no revival Wouldn't it?
I Mean isn't one hour better than none
Many of us who are asking the questions
about how long will it last or excusing
ourselves, but not getting in on it All
that is an excuse how dare us ask
God how long it will last it will
last as long as we will let God
Have his way in our lives Revival can
last as long as God For revival is
nothing more than Christ living through you and
me.
That's all revival is It's coming to a
place to where we die to ourselves and
let Jesus live through us that's what revival
is it's reviving It's not being supernatural.
It's not being sinless it's being in love
with Jesus Christ and It's coming to the
place to where you stop trying to live
the Christian life and you let the Son
of God live through you There's no bondage
like trying to live the Christian life You
can't live it God never intended for you
You can't save yourself and you can't live
it you didn't get the life by works
And you don't manifest it or keep it
by works you yield and let him live
through you Perfect freedom that's what the song
is about freedom Why there's no freedom if
I'm under the law I'm under grace So
I don't know of any revival that lasts
forever Read church history of the great revivals
they didn't last forever Read the revivals in
the Bible they didn't last forever Why in
our text he said in verse 6 wilt
thou not revive us what again Will thou
not revive us again David wanted to be
revived again That meant it had happened before
and it could happen again Understand so don't
throw in your lot with the skeptics This
principle is stated all through the Bible if
you read the book of Judges and those
of us that have been in the the
Bible Classes on Monday night.
We are Sunday Thursday night.
We've seen how that in the book of
Judges There is a constant repetition and the
children of Israel did evil again in the
sight of the Lord Did you ever read
that in the book of Judges and they
did evil again?
And they cried to the Lord and the
Lord delivered them and they served the Lord
how long 40 years and They did evil
and the Lord delivered them to their enemies
and they cried to the Lord and the
Lord delivered them and they served the Lord
20 years and They did evil and the
Lord delivered them to their enemies and they
cried to the Lord and the Lord delivered
them again How long 40 years?
I'd be happy if this revival would last
40 years But you skeptics need to understand
that nothing that man has anything to do
lasts That's why we have to get back
to God.
I Think that perhaps I Think that perhaps
it is an act of grace that Revival
does come to an end because it shows
us that we must come back and depend
on God I Don't know how much wisdom
is in that statement But I do know
this that things have to happen to throw
us back on God's dependence.
I Think where we lose revival perhaps is
in our pride You see the question is
not a the question is not of the
past or the future My past is gone
and my future is not here so I
don't need revival for tomorrow Do I know
I need revival for right now I Need
the every hour Right.
I don't need revival tomorrow Tomorrow is not
here and tomorrow may never come And so
what I remember praying with a dear brother
and bless his heart is he struggled and
and Labored to get get a hold of
God in prayer His burden was how he
could live the Christian life at work because
of the ungodly people he works with And
I said dear brother you can't live it
at work You can't live it at work
You can't live it anywhere Again, you've got
to let him live it Say see we
keep worrying about tomorrow and the devil if
he can keep you preoccupied about tomorrow with
fears and Depressed over failures of the past
Your present is going to be a mess
And I want you to know that's exactly
the way the devil works He keeps you
defeated over the past and fearful of tomorrow
and you can't live in freedom today Jesus
made it very clear.
He says take take no thought of tomorrow
forget it Did you know the blood of
Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin and
that word cleanseth is in the present tense
It's not something that he only did back
at the cross.
It's something that is happening every second Cleanses
us So it needs to be done again.
And again, I pray that it will last
I long for it to last We must
pray for one another we must help one
another When you go into the For you're
out here grab a brother by the arm
or a sister by the arm you ladies
and Say let's go to the prayer room
and have a word of prayer Let's pray
together Make much of prayer pray often Pray
driving down the freeway don't close your eyes
Some of you would make a bit of
difference But pray as you go down the
freeway Pray before you get out of your
car to go to your work Pray before
you eat your meals Pray daily Make much
of prayer Make much of prayer When you
get ready to answer the phone or answer
a question, let me tell you Almost without
fail when somebody comes into my office and
sets down and wants to talk they don't
know it But I'm having a word of
prayer And I am praying and I'm saying
dear God Give me wisdom to know how
to answer this person properly know what to
say When you're when you're at work and
somebody's asking you a question about well, why
don't you do this?
Why don't you do that?
Say you need to pray just shoot up
a prayer Can Lord give me wisdom on
what to say here if any man lack
wisdom let him ask of God Who gives
to all men liberally God wants you to
have wisdom why to glorify him You see
everything again God's wanting to glorify himself, so
if he can glorify himself by helping you
then why not help you And God's not
doing it just for my benefit and yours
he's doing it for his You better keep
that in keep that in perspective, all right
Something Else I learned during this revival meeting
is sin is not sin against man sin
is sin against God Well, I went to
that prayer room The night that brother Ralph
preached on self which was every night But
the one night that Where he started out
the text in Isaiah all we like sheep
have gone astray we've turned everyone to his
own way Let me tell you in 35
years of being saved and hearing preaching and
reading sermons and listening to tapes and going
to seminars and everything else under the world
I Have never in my life had a
message To impact my life like that little
message did that he just used the overhead
projector and preached here that night There were
no pulpit Dynamics in that sermon, but that
sermon was dynamic Because it was the Word
of God mixed with the Holy Spirit of
God and brother and sister.
That's a combination that you can't beat You
don't need gymnastics in the pulpit you just
need the Spirit of God or blessing what
you're doing and Leave the results to God
God uses every man the way he wants
to use them And I'm glad that night
he used God to speak to my heart.
I couldn't wait for the invitation.
I Wanted to be right with God And
you heard the story some of you the
young preacher went to the old man and
said I'd like to get right with God
and pray and He the old man said
let's take a walk in the woods And
so as they walked through the woods the
young man became impatient and said can we
pray now And the old man says no
not yet And they walked and they talked
and finally the young man said can we
pray now?
The old man said not yet and They
walked and they talked And the young man
became very impatient and says when are we
going to pray?
He said not yet Finally the young man
stopped and said mister.
I got to pray or I'll die and
the old man said now's the time And
I felt if I didn't pray I'd die
And I went to the prayer room and
found Romans chapter 7 and I tried to
devour that chapter And what a wonderful chapter
it is as it talks about our position
and our death in Christ and our freedom
and That song glorious freedom became a reality
in my heart.
Oh, I've been saved 35 years But a
lot of God's people are not free They're
not free you're not free God longs for
you to be free and so when David
had sinned When David had sinned and stolen
another man's wife and had her husband killed
He tried to hide it.
He tried to cover it up.
He wanted to be respectable Do you know
that you can't be respectable You're not respectable
anyway, we're all sinners But you know we're
trying to play the great cover-up But
in Psalm 51 listen to what David said
Have mercy upon me.
Oh God According to thy loving-kindness according
to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot
out my transgression Wash me thoroughly for mine
iniquity.
You know what he's talking about.
He's talking about adultery his iniquity was his
adultery with Bathsheba and He's saying God wash
me from it Notice something else he says
I acknowledge my transgression confession My sin is
ever before me conscience Conviction for I acknowledge
my transgression.
My sin is ever before me now watch
this against thee and thee only have I
sinned Two problems we make we either think
and most Christians believe that all of their
sins are against God But they don't have
to make restitution.
I don't have to get right And did
you know that God didn't keep David's sin
a secret in Fact it was written in
the Bible so that every human being could
read David's sin David not only made public
acknowledgment.
God printed it so the world could read
it Now you think about that for just
a moment It was printed so everybody could
read it He went public We justify our
sins in our heart by denying it we
say I'm I'm not bitter Or I don't
have pride That I'm alright But we can't
categorize these sins against God and those against
man because if I have something between me
and another Christian or between me and my
wife or Between me and my mother or
between a brother and sister.
I am NOT right with God David had
sinned this way, but he said it's sin
that way And so many times we try
to harbor resentment against family members or church
members And at the same time teach Sunday
school and read our Bibles and pray to
God And our problem is as we fail
to see that sin of any kind is
a sin against God You understand me Last
of all I found out during the revival
meeting that God is no respecter of persons.
I Found out that open-door Baptist Church
Was doctrinally correct and spiritually bankrupt I Found
out that the Non-baptist churches had more
grace than we do God is no respecter
of persons Now you say you're a Baptist
well, I got it on my stationery and
On our incorporation papers and on our church
sign But if you think that I think
God loves Baptist more than anybody else.
I don't If you think that I think
Baptist are closer to God than anybody else.
I don't I Think Baptist scripturally are closest
to the truth scripturally But spiritually they may
be the furthest from the truth, and they
are not the same by the way Don't
confuse what you know with what you are
And I found out that those folks in
Tacoma who were non-baptist had more grace
than this than this whole church I found
out that Linwood Baptist Church had far more
grace that pastor had far more grace than
this pastor and One of the things that
broke my heart in a combination of things
during this meeting not just one thing The
preaching I mentioned the singing the words to
the songs Don't ever underestimate the importance of
the words of songs The word has the
message and that's why it's so important that
we select Scriptural songs and that we select
songs that glorify God and songs that convey
great spiritual truths Most music today's a racket
That's all it is.
It is trying to Create some spiritual excitement
Because everything's dead on the inside and so
the music and the preaching and the testimonies
But you know what broke my heart and
showed me how wicked I was What the
the number of people that came from other
churches and would pray with us and would
help us and say brother blue We're praying
that God will bring revival to your church.
I Did you know that if you check
church history that most great revivals were not
Baptist Wesley was not a Baptist Whitfield was
not a Baptist You keep checking them out
Most Baptist don't have time for revival.
They're too busy fighting We're trying to fight
did John the Baptist start the church or
was it Isaiah we don't know One
dear lady, I don't see her here tonight,
but she stood no, I don't know she's
stood listen to this John your mother is
she here Okay, mrs.
Matey, you know her she's the blonde lady
gave the testimony several times She called a
pastor friend of hers in a nearby town
Baptist Baptist bread Baptist fed When they die,
they're Baptist dead And she called him and
said you wouldn't believe what's happening at open
-door Baptist Church these weeks.
I wish you would come He said mrs.
Matey I cannot come She said why not
she said because brother blue doesn't have any
deacons Now that is the that's the track
that we're running on that's our mentality Say
I Cannot come to open-door Baptist Church
because they don't have deacons You know, I
don't I don't I don't I don't get
it However, I Would have agreed with him
before the revival.
I Really could not go to where Bill
where Ralph and Lucita are preaching because they
don't have Baptist on their door.
I Couldn't do it Because we know that
only God can only bless within a Baptist
Church We God doesn't know that but we
know it And maybe we'll get around to
telling him You know what I learned during
this God is no respecter of persons and
God rebuked me.
I mean just just kicked me all over
the building here by watching These people drive
50 miles a night every night Leaving this
building at 11 and 12 driving back to
Tacoma Getting up and going to their work
wording working eight hours and then fighting that
evening Traffic every evening to be back up
here by 630 so they could be in
your church and my church To pray for
us to encourage us.
So the God the Father would bless us.
I found out that those people had far
more grace than we all have put together
and I take the blame since I'm the
leader and the pastor of this church I
take the responsibility and that's why I'm telling
you tonight that God showed me that God
is no respecter of persons Now least you
think I'm advocating that next Sunday night.
We have a joint meeting with the Pentecostal
Church across town I'm not advocating that I'm
advocating that we get to a spirit and
a place of humility to where we realize
That we have no corner on the truth
and that God blesses whom he will bless
You know, I'm tired of this sectarian
nonsense It's a bunch of junk It's a
bunch of junk You know, but we've got
God cornered in and painted in you know
I've run long enough with Baptist to know
that that crowds not spiritual Amen, amen.
Amen They're not spiritual they're just loud But
that just could be spiritual if we get
right with God You say now I'm worried
about you pastor, but don't worry about me
we're gonna keep our sign up we're gonna
keep our baptistry.
I Mean, you know when you got the
truth keep it and we know that we're
bad discuss John was But I learned during
this time of God that this time that
God is no respecter of persons and God
can love a Nazarene and a Nazarene could
love me and pray for me and I
would let him And
that fellow that got saved at the Billy
Graham meeting.
It's okay It's okay Billy used to be
a Baptist He did He even went to
Bob Jones University a little bit he did
You say do you approve of all he
does?
He doesn't need my approval.
Who am I?
You know as I think about all of
this and I don't want you to think
that I'm advocating an ecumenical program with liberals
I'm not even talking about that at all.
I'm just simply saying what God showed me
But as I think about what we're talking
about here, I'm reminded of John and the
disciples They were preaching one day and they
saw a guy out here.
He wasn't, you know, he hadn't been ordained
properly and he wasn't part of the of
You know He hadn't been to Springfield or
Hammond or anywhere and he was out there
preaching and the disciples said we saw him
preaching in your Name and we tried to
stop him says we forbid him and Jesus
says don't forbid him Did you hear what
Jesus said?
Even though he's not one of the twelve.
He's a renegade out here preaching leave him
alone.
He's preaching Tom Tucker, where are you Tom?
God bless him God worked a miracle in
that guy's heart We said at the restaurant
after we got out of church here at
12 o'clock We went to the IHOP
and we stayed there till 1 or 2
in the morning talking and pouring out our
hearts to each other And he got right
with God at home and came and stood
and gave a testimony about it But to
show you how backslidden we can get Tom
used to go on as he's a longshoreman
and at lunch hour He'd go up.
He'd go uptown Seattle and stand instead of
eating his lunch.
He'd take the whole hour and pass out
gospel tracts But he got backslidden But he
was still going to pass out tracts while
he was backslidden And he went up there
and he saw another guy standing on his
corner passing out gospel tracts You would think
that a fellow would rejoice and say I'll
go to the other corner what you miss
I'll catch but that's not the way backslidden
people operate You know what happened to him
He got mad at God and he says
now God you've taken everything away from me
And now you take my corner away from
me or I pass out tracts.
He said I just won't pass out anymore
And that's something So God probably sent a
Nazarene or a Pentecostal on that corner to
pass out tracks that I'll show you I
don't need you.
I Get somebody else to do it Am
I telling it right?
Yeah God's no respecter of persons You know,
it just burns bad to stuff that somebody
thinks of something before they think of it
You know if weak as Baptist can invent
revival so we can so we can copyright
it We were going to do it.
But until then we're not going to touch
it No matter who it comes through and
I think God brings it through other people
to humble us I'm glad it came to
this church.
I'm glad it came to my heart We
are more than conquers through him that loved
us, but you know, what's wrong with us?
We're more concerned about who brings revival than
we are that it comes We're more concerned
about which food truck the food is on
than what the food is We're more concerned
about the spokesman than we are the word
Listen to Paul Paul said some people preach
Christ out of sincerity Some People preach Christ
hoping to add affliction to my bonds they
do it out of contention Now hear what
Paul says?
Some people preach Christ for phony motives Some
people people preaching for right motives Paul said
I rejoice in both because Christ is preached
You get that we haven't come that far
yet We Think that if the guy doesn't
dot the I and cross the T where
we do then his message can't be right
But his message can be right Last of
all revival is a matter of death and
life.
I found in Romans chapter 7 and Romans
chapter 6 what shall we say then shall
we continue in sin that grace may abound?
God forbid how shall we that are dead
to sin live any longer therein?
No, you're not that so many of us
as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized
into his death Therefore we are buried with
him by baptism into death That like as
Christ was raised up from the dead by
the glory of the Father even so we
should walk in newness of life For if
we have been planted together in the likeness
of his death, we shall also be in
the likeness of his resurrection knowing this That
Ken blue is crucified with Jesus That the
body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth
we should no more serve sin For he
that is dead is freed from sin.
Are you dead?
How many of you dead tonight?
If you're saved you're dead If you are
saved you're dead if you are dead you're
free You're free I'm gonna illustrate it and
I'm through I'm thankful that I had a
few years in The backwoods of Arkansas so
I can illustrate and talk about some profound
truths that you folks can't understand But I
do remember that my granddad took a baby
a little calf one time this calf kept
running off and we'd have to go They'd
have to go look for it.
I'd tag along behind.
I'm just a little boy But I remember
my granddad took a rope and put it
around that little calf's neck and tied it
to the barn door and that calf would
start running and He'd get to the end
of that rope and his neck would stretch
and his feet would go up and his
belly would be sunward And down he'd go
flat of his back And he'd get up
and he'd shake his head and he'd walk
around and pretty soon he'd run again He'd
get to the end of that rope and
it jerk his neck and down he would
go and he did that repeatedly Until one
day all he did was hang around the
barn door So my granddad went over and
took the rope off of his neck and
that baby calf thought he was tied up
all the time And he just hung around
the door now listen The problem with many
of us is the devil has had us
tied up for so long as Christians That
we think that we're not free We believe
that we're still in bondage and if you
think you are and believe you are you
will be and In this text, I just
read here.
It says that that we died with Christ
Ken blue died with Christ and My old
man is crucified with him for He died
that the body of sin might be destroyed
that henceforth.
We should not serve sin.
I don't have to serve sin There's a
world of difference in committing an act of
sin and serving sin You do know the
difference, don't you?
All right Knowing that Christ being raised from
the dead dies no more death hath no
more dominion over him For in that he
died he died once But in that he
lives he lives unto God Then he says
likewise Just as Jesus died Once unto sin
and was buried and rose again likewise Reckon
you yourselves also to be dead indeed unto
sin But alive unto God through Jesus Christ
our Lord.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal
body You see before you surrender your life
to God you may be saved but sin
reigns It reigns in the form of bitterness.
It reigns in the form of pride But
once you come to the place to where
you realize that you've been set free and
you'll accept that Liberty Sin does not reign
that you should obey it in the lust
there neither yield your members as instruments of
righteousness on this unrighteousness But yield yourselves as
alive unto God as those alive from the
dead and your members as instruments of righteousness
and listen to this For sin shall not
have dominion over you For you are not
under the law, but you're under grace And
as I got to looking at those verses
they live they just seem to burn on
the page as I begin to see That
sin can't possibly have dominion over you because
you're not under the law you're under grace
and When you and I begin to understand
what it is to be under grace we
become free people Because grace is freedom.
I Protest by your rejoicing Paul said I
died daily.
No one has arrived But many of us
have found a better life It's a life
of joy.
It's the life of Christ It's a life
that of obedience and if it ends tomorrow
It will have been worth it But it
doesn't have to end tomorrow Okay All right,
and so David said will thou not revive
us again that our people may rejoice in
you You know what you've heard at this
microphone.
You've heard people rejoicing Last Sunday night I
got up here and had folks to start
coming and I didn't get to preach the
sermon It was almost 10 o'clock before
we got out of here not one word
of a sermon was preached as people came
and rejoiced and Shed tears of joy what
God is doing in their life Now God
has started a good thing in our lives
We need to pray daily together and for
one another you need to be in the
book and Keep short accounts Don't let the
Sun go down on your wrath.
I Told you the little story the other
day or I tried to sleep and couldn't
and I had to get up And go
get things, right?
Okay All right.
Let's stand together