I wrote a questionnaire, what will the 21st
century hold?
Maybe there'll be a time, all over North
America, and with people, teams sent out from
here, all over the world, maybe there'll be
a time of people preaching radical messages, and
living radical lives, filled with radical power, making
a radical impact, blazing with fire, and setting
people, and cities, and nations on fire.
Maybe it'll be there.
It's a strange sight, when you see one
of these gorgeous cathedrals, and it just can
seat 150 or 200 people, and you think,
what in the world is it for?
What is church?
I can't believe for a split second, it's
the will of God, that we build these
multi-multi-million dollar buildings, and fill them
once or twice a week for a lovely
meeting.
We could get rid of this foul notion,
which is an unscriptural notion of going to
church, as opposed to understanding that it's a
matter of being the church.
Lord, what does it mean?
How do we live it out?
How do the walls come down?
I cannot relate to the American dream.
I cannot relate to the mentality of just
having a nice, happy life.
The primary reason for lack of opposition, and
the primary reason for lack of persecution, and
the primary reason for lack of resistance, is
because we are toothless and ineffective.
But when we get empowered, and filled with
fire, and shake things up, and drive back
powers of darkness, all hell will break loose
against us, and that's when Jesus said, rejoice!
Some of us will have the privilege of
shedding our blood for the gospel.
Some of us will have the privilege of
being raised up to high places in society,
and being influential.
But either way, we live and breathe for
one thing.
God, I've got to make an impact.
Before I close my eyes and say goodbye
to this world, I've got to change things.
I don't understand how else we can think
what else is the purpose of our life.
I don't care what the calling is, whatever
it is, our mentality must be the same.
There's nothing else that makes any sense.
Jesus came into the world to change the
world, period.
There was one purpose.
He was going to go to the cross
and die and rise from the dead, and
send His Spirit on those He had called
out and equipped, so we could go and
follow in His footsteps and make a difference.
We must take hold of it afresh.
We must consecrate ourselves afresh.
We must eat it, and live it, and
breathe it, and think it, and sleep it.
We are here to do the will of
God, period.
We are here to make a difference, period.
And everything else is secondary.
Whatever God gives us in this world, is
so that we can go and set the
world on fire.
Jesus the revolutionary, who came to overthrow the
status quo, and set up the kingdom of
God, and drive back the powers of darkness,
and said, leave everything and follow.
All over America, thousands and thousands of young
people gathering together.
Some may be praying for a few hours,
it'll last a few days.
Some may be praying for a night, it'll
last a week.
God just coming down.
People worshiping and seeking His face, and called
right then and there to leave everything, and
go out and train, and get on the
field.
We've been born for this hour.
We've been made for it.
On to Calvary.
On to death for the world.
Let us not refuse the smiters.
No halting.
No rest.
On, suffering, sorrowing, weeping, dying for God and
men, till the hosts of hell fly from
their last defense, and we march on over
a burning world, into everlasting glory.
Jesus the revolutionary, who came to overthrow the
status quo, and set up the kingdom of
God, and drive back the powers of darkness.
Everything in us that's of man, that's not
planted of heaven, root it out.
Some of us will have the privilege of
shedding our blood for the gospel.
There's nothing else that makes any sense.
God, I've got to make an impact, before
I close my eyes and say goodbye to
this world, I've got to change things.