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Welcome to From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons.

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Each week we bring you a different message

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from some of history's greatest speakers in the

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Christian faith and parable sermons for modern preachers

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This week we have Jim Cimbala with his

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message, Heart Talk on Revival.

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When I was growing up and maybe you

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heard this expression too, churches would have a

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one week revival.

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What that actually meant was a series of

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meetings.

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Why would they call it revival?

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Because historically churches have stopped things from time

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to time to have protracted meetings they were

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called to focus on something called revival.

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We need revival.

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And an interesting way of studying church history,

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especially the history of let's say from 1700

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on is an interesting way to study church

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history is to study the impact and the

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occurrences of revivals, not protracted meetings.

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By having services you don't have revival.

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Revival is when the Holy Spirit comes in

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a new fresh way and manifests himself.

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Remember he's a he, he's not an it.

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He is co-equal with the Father and

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the Son.

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And what a revival is is a visitation

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of the Holy Spirit in some new way.

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We know he's present with us where two

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or three are gathered.

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Jesus said I'll be there through the Holy

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Spirit's presence who is also called the Spirit

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of Christ.

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But when the Spirit comes and manifests himself

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and shows himself in some spiritual way, although

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it's invisible almost always, but it can be

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felt and sensed and it affects people deeply,

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that's called traditionally a revival.

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Now in the Old Testament, in Habakkuk and

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in other places, the psalmist would cry out

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and the prophet would cry out, Oh God,

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come and revive your people.

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Revive your people.

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Now a revival is not evangelism.

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Revival assumes that someone was alive but they're

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dying and you come and the Spirit revives

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them.

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So a lot of people think revival is

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evangelism.

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It's not.

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It always results in evangelism, but in itself

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it is not evangelism.

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If my friend gets sick and he's in

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the hospital, someone goes and says, you know,

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they're trying to revive him.

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That means he's real sick, they're trying to

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revive his health, revive his breathing, his pulse

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or whatever.

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Revival is different than evangelism because evangelism is

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you were dead in your trespasses and sins

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and now Christ has made you alive.

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So this revival assumes that Christians can get

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lukewarm, can get carnal, that churches can get

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lukewarm and can get carnal.

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Usually in the Old Testament, Israel was God's

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chosen people, so it would speak of national

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Nowhere in the New Testament does it speak

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of any nation being revived.

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It speaks of God's people being revived and

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God's people don't make up America.

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God's people is not America.

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America is not God's chosen nation.

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God's chosen people are all those who have

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put their faith in Jesus Christ.

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But in different countries and in different churches,

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things can die out.

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Brooklyn is called the borough of churches, but

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it has mostly empty church buildings because although

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the Word was preached in many of them,

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sometimes they went into false teaching or left

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the Bible, but in many places where the

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Bible was adhered to, converts were ceased to

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be made, love ceased to exist between the

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believers, all spiritual energy and excitement and fervency

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died out and the church became dead, the

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glory departed.

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The only answer to that is a revival,

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not through teaching, although teaching is needed, but

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you need a visitation of the Holy Spirit.

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That's one of the most interesting studies that

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you can make, is the history of revivals.

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For example, before we became a nation and

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we were 13 colonies, speaking of America, swearing,

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cursing, stealing, immorality became so prevalent in the

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colonies, drunkenness, people not going to work, there

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was a total dissolution of the fabric of

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the society that was going on.

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This is prior to 1776 and the Revolutionary

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War and all that.

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People in New England especially and other places

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began to cry out to God that God

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would send a revival to their churches because

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the churches were making no converts, nobody was

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coming to church, meetings were dead and dry,

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and they started to cry out, Lord, revive

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your people, speaking of the church, because they

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saw they were having, they were not salt,

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or if they were salt, they had lost

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their savor, their light was hid under a

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And the Bible, Jesus said, if salt loses

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its savor, it's nothing, good for nothing, but

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to be put on a dunghill.

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They began to cry out, some interesting things

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happened in meetings, where things were interrupted, the

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spirit began to move in a deep way,

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and the next thing you know, churches began

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to pray, the gospel now started to be

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preached with new power, the ministers who had

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been just putting people to sleep, now they

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were commanding their attention, converts started to be

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made, and any historian will tell you that

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the Great Awakening changed the history of America.

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What was the Great Awakening?

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It was a revival of God's Spirit among

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His people, which then affected society.

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People who don't believe in Jesus Christ can't

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be revived, they need to be born again.

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Jesus said to people who are not Christians,

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you must be born again.

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There was a second Great Awakening, there was

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a revival in Wales in the early 1900s,

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that transformed that part of the world.

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But not only are there historic national, there

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was revivals in China, there was revivals in

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other parts of the world, in Africa, there's

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an interesting study about revival, but revival not

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only happens on a big scale, revival can

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happen on a church scale, revival can happen

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in a local church, where suddenly they get

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tired of the same old, same old, and

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they begin to cry out to God and

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say, God, unless you come, it'll just be

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music, it'll just be preaching, music doesn't change

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anyone, preaching in itself doesn't change anyone, send

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the fire, oh Lord, open up the heavens

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and come down, and add your blessing to

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the work, for unless the Lord build a

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house, they that what?

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Labor, labor in vain.

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This is the reason why so much money

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is being poured in now to world evangelism,

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and there's so puny results, when you think

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of the amount of money, and amount of

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workers in certain parts of the world, and

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other places, not always the case, some mission

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fields are just hard and need a breakthrough,

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but someone has to break through, to bring

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down some blessing of God, and that blessing

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of God can last for many generations, it

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can continue on, it builds its own momentum,

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where there's an outpouring of the spirit, and

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sometimes the people who prayed it down have

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died, but the blessing goes on for the

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people who are still alive, I'm thinking of

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a situation right now, and I know in

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Lima, Peru, among the Alianza churches, which are

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the missionary alliance churches, and if you took

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all the other denominations in Lima, and in

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Peru, and you stack them all up, all

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the Baptists, all the Assemblies of God, all

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the people there, and it would come this

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high, in terms of evangelism, people one to

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the Lord, and many churches just struggling, not

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a spirit of freedom and liberty in the

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services, and I had made, let's say, 10

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visits there, and then I went one day,

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I was in a hotel staying there, and

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a man asked to see me, and he

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was the highest official of the missionary alliance

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churches there, in Peru, and he said, I've

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always wanted to meet you, I've wanted to

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meet you for a while, because your book,

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Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire, has been put in

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Spanish, and it's been ordered, all pastors, all

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workers in missionary alliance, in all of South

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America, have to read this book, so now

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I'm meeting the person, your book has blessed

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me, would you come and speak at our

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mother church, or at some of other churches,

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would you speak at a conference?

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I said, let me pray about it, and

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then I felt this is something God wants

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me to do, so my translator and I,

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my dear friend Pastor Impaglia, we walked in

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the first time to the Allianza church, the

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alliance church, and we just walked into the

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mother church, and they were just starting to

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sing, and it was like you were in

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heaven, huge buildings packed, I heard about other

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big churches in the city, and this is

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where most churches have 30 people, 50 people,

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40 people, these are 1,000, 2,000,

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1,000, 1,500, so I was watching

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it and discerning, like, wow, there's like a

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flow of just God's spirit, his grace, his

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blessing, so I started to ask around, and

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I found out that the alliance churches are

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not that strong in Chile, which is to

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the south, I found that they're not that

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strong in Ecuador, to the north, they're not

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that strong in Argentina, to the east, so

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I started to ask and say, so what's

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the deal here, how did the gospel come,

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what's going on here in these alliance churches,

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and they said, oh, some missionaries came like

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40 years ago, 50 years ago, and there

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was hardly any fruit, and they got desperate,

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and they said, God, please open the heavens

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and come down, God, please visit the Christians,

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the handfuls that we have, Lord, do something

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that will glorify your name, do something so

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the gospel can be spread with power, somehow

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they touched God, and now the people living

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and getting converted are still enjoying, they all

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said that, and they were talking about American

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missionaries, and these were Peruvian pastors who are

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now doing all the leadership, but they just

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were happy to tell me, somebody broke through,

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and we're enjoying the blessing of God, now

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we don't want to grieve it, we want

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the Holy Spirit to grow in strength among

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us, and so on and so forth, so

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that's revival in a fellowship of churches, in

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local churches, you can have personal revival, you

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can have a visitation of God in your

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life, you can be backsliding, getting drifting away

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from the Lord, getting insensitive to sin, your

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love is waxing cold toward other people, it's

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just all mechanical, the only thing that will

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bring you back is not teaching, you need

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an invasion of the Spirit of God in

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your life, who then quickens everything that was

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once there, and the love is back, and

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the hunger for God's word is back, and

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you know, wow, God, how many are with

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me so far, put your hands together, that's

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what revival is, that's why prayer has always

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preceded revival, that's why we're going to pray

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tonight, that's why this prayer meeting is so

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important, because whatever God is going to do,

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it's almost always preceded by prayer, you can

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say, well he's going to do what he

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wants to do, but no, it's not exactly

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that, ask and you shall receive, seek and

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you'll find, knock and it shall be opened

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unto you, what happens in revival, like how

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do you know how revival works, how do

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you know when the Holy Spirit is really

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moving, instead of just having church, or doing

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mission work, when I came to the Brooklyn

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Tabernacle, and there was this handful of people,

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Carol and I walked right by, and peeked

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into the Muslim Center, that used to be

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the first building we met in on Atlantic,

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between 3rd and 4th Avenues, and I was

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aware that I had known pastors, who for

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40 years had said, God did great things

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in the past, he did this in the

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great awakening, he did this at the day

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of Pentecost, he did this, and then other

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people would say, and God one day before

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Christ comes, he's going to send a great

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revival, the only unfortunate thing about that was,

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I knew of people who had said that

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for 40 years, and never saw any fruit

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come from their ministry, few converts, no prayer

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meetings, no love among the people, no hunger

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for God's word, young and naive and making

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a lot of mistakes, but sincere for the

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most part, I got desperate, I said God

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if you don't do something, and I did

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pray this prayer, I'm not repeating it for

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melodramatic reasons, I did pray, I got so

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desperate because nothing was happening, my sermons were

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pathetic, there were a lot of adversaries, spiritual

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blockage, it was so hard, and I did

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pray, God if you're not going to break

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through, and have Carol and I see something

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happen, if you're not going to bear fruit

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through our lives, if you're just going to

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send me to hold a fort here, and

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be faithful, I want to be faithful, but

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I see something more than being faithful, I

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see fruit in the Bible, I see certain

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men from Cyprus and Cyrene went, and the

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hand of the Lord was with them, and

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multitudes turned to the Lord, why did that

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happen?

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Because the hand of the Lord was with

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them, so let the hand of the Lord

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be with me, please God whatever you have

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to change in me, but if you don't

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then take my life, I have one child,

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she's a little girl, I know you'll take

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care of Carol and her, but I cannot

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take the idea, of me just living and

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having church, and gathering 20-30 people, 40

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people pay the bills, and just run around

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the building and shout glory, I can't do

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that God, there's something better that you have,

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we began to passionately cry out, especially in

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the first prayer meeting, on a Tuesday night,

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where we started to emphasize it as a

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prayer meeting, there were maybe 10, 11, 12

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of us, in the front of the church

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holding hands, in the front of that little

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auditorium, and we would just pray, and say

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God please come and do something, to glorify

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your name, how will your name be glorified,

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if nobody gets converted, how will your name

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be glorified, if the people don't love each

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other, how will your name be glorified, if

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there's no visitation of your Holy Spirit, in

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first Corinthians 14, Paul is teaching about, indiscriminate

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tongue speaking, in a church, that people who,

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were gifted to speak in tongues, and then

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usually in a meeting, it's to be interpreted,

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by somebody into the language of the people,

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so that the church can be blessed, because

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the rule in a service like this, is

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nothing can be done, unless it blesses all

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the people, nobody can have a seizure, or

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a fit, and draw attention to themselves, and

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stop the meeting, and then none of us

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understand what's happening, and there's no blessing for

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us, no matter what you've seen or heard,

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that is totally unbiblical, everything must be done

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Paul says, under the inspiration of the Holy

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Spirit he writes, everything must be done to

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edification, so in the Corinthian church, they had

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a lot of gifts, and some of the

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people who were speaking in tongues, he doesn't

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say it's false, but they were getting carried

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away, and they forgot that always, God has

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you in control, anytime you see someone who's

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totally out of control, they are not in

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the spirit, for the spirit of the prophets,

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is subject to the prophets, God never makes

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you totally out of control, you're being used

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by him in some way, but you're under

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control, people were speaking in tongues, and the

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stranger and the unlearned person, the person may

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be wanting to know more, but not knowing

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much, or the unbeliever would come in, and

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Paul is telling them, now look, if you

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all speak in tongues, just indiscriminately, you're yelling

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out in different languages, that no one understands,

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he says in 1 Corinthians 14, you can

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look at it, he says the people who

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come in are going to say, you're crazy,

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you're crazy, anybody who excuses that Bible, well

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that's the Holy Ghost, you got to read

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the Bible a little careful, chaos is never

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God's plan for a service, or a life,

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so God is not the author of confusion,

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things have to be done decently in order,

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but in God's order, in God's order, and

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sometimes that's strange, but it always ends up

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edifying the people, anytime someone's out of control,

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it's never of the Holy Spirit, anytime you

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see someone thrashing about, not there, but churches

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have planted that in people's mind, that if

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you go crazy, that means it's the Holy

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Spirit, it's not, the Bible teaches us that,

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it's not my opinion, it's not a white

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church thing, or a black church, or a

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Puerto Rican church, it's the Bible, the problem

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is, Paul says, what's better is to speak

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in the language of the people, to be

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anointed, and speak in the language of the

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people, because when you speak, with the Holy

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Spirit helping you, in English, let's say, then

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the church is really built up, so he

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says, here's the goal, and I want to

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generalize this, and say, this is what happens

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when the Holy Spirit moves, when the Holy

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Spirit is working, in a service, through a

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choir, through a minister, through a person, this

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is the sign, so if the whole church

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comes together, and everyone speaks in tongues, and

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some who do not understand, or some unbelievers

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come in, will they not say that you

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are out of your mind, but if an

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unbeliever, or someone who does not understand, comes

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in while everyone is prophesying, let's summarize that

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and put, the Spirit is really moving, he

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will be convinced by all, that he is

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a sinner, convicted, and he will be judged

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by all, and the secrets of his heart,

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will be laid bare, so he will fall

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down, and worship God, exclaiming, God is really

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among you, I'll read that again, let me

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summarize a little differently, if an unbeliever, or

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someone who is pursuing God, comes in, doesn't

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understand everything, while everyone is prophesying, in other

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words, anointed speech, the Spirit is really moving,

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and God is using words, and his word,

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and exhortation, or sermons, or whatever, he will

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be convicted by all, convinced, that he is

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a sinner, he'll be judged by all, he'll

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know that the people see through him, notice

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why that happens, because the secrets of his

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heart, will be laid bare, so what will

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happen, he will fall down, and worship God,

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exclaiming, God is really, among you, notice what

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happens, and what we really need, in our

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lives, in our churches, and in the body

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of Christ, in America, or the Philippines, or

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Taiwan, or Hong Kong, or China, we need

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to pray, that the Holy Spirit will come,

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in such power, that people's hearts, will be

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revealed, whenever revival happens, in your life, or

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in a church's life, God helps us, to

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live out of our heart, it's searched, he

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opens it, and you stop living, out of

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the veneer, the complexes, the phoniness, whenever the

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Holy Spirit comes, he makes you real, that's

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for all of us, you don't talk religious,

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you don't act one way, in front of

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one person, that is totally gone, when revival

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comes, when the Holy Spirit comes, you start

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living constantly, out of your heart, now that

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makes you vulnerable, you can be hurt, that's

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the way it is, you live, Paul says,

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when people come in, and the Spirit is

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moving, the secrets of their heart, are laid

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bare, so when revival comes, all the secret

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stuff, that's in our heart, God brings it

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to service, and he gets rid of it,

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he helps us to deal with it, one

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of the signs of no revival, is when

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people are living double lives, this is the

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great fear, now in America, that ministers have

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churches, even large ones, but the people, the

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congregants who come, are living double lives, they

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act one way in church, and then at

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home, they're a totally different person, trust me

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as a pastor, that is the biggest heartache

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in the world, I feel like a total

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failure, when I meet people, in our church,

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and I counsel, I hear things, and I

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realize, that there's a double life going on,

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lifting hands, swaying to the music, shouting glory,

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and then acting six days a week, like

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God doesn't exist, when revival comes, he searches

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your heart, and you get real, how many

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want to be real, lift your hand if

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you want to be real, the secrets of

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their heart, would be made known, notice, why

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is that important, because they will be convicted,

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of their sin, one thing, when revival comes,

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when the Holy Spirit is operating, in new

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powerful ways, he opens up your heart, and

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you stop living here, and you start living

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from here, you start always meaning what you

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say, and saying what you mean, otherwise, we

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all fall into some kind of phoniness, because

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we're all phonies, unless God is helping us,

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to be real, come on that's true, do

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I get an amen, only the Holy Spirit

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makes you real, when the heart is opened,

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we get convicted of sin, Paul says, now

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when the spirit is moving, the stranger, the

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unlearned, will be convicted of their sin, they'll

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be convinced they're a sinner, brothers and sisters,

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when we pray tonight, we got to pray,

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first of all, that God will convict us

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of sin, because whenever you're convicted of sin,

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you know God is working with you, when

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you don't feel bad, about anything you're saying,

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or doing, you're in a terrible place, when

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you justify everything you do, and everything you

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say, you're in a bad place, one of

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the things of walking with Jesus, is you

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become tender to sin, one of the signs

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of revival, is you're careful, every word that

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you say, when the spirit isn't moving, we're

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talking all kinds of things, insulting people, hurting

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people, doing all kinds of stuff, don't blame

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me, don't talk to me, don't correct me,

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but when the Holy Spirit is working, you

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become like a lamb, you know the Lord

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convicted me of something, the other day I

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was in a restaurant, and I was sitting

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at a counter by myself, Carol was working

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on music, and I sat down with my

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New York Times, at a counter, just going

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to have a dinner, all by myself, and

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suddenly some windows, about 30 feet away, I

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hear a baby crying, but the baby just

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wasn't crying, the baby was just, like one

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of those, so I just looked over, and

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I saw, I had my glasses, for distance

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on, and couldn't make out, I saw a

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woman, trying to quiet this one year old,

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and then there was another little boy, about

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four years old, he was eating his food,

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but this one child, but have you ever

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been somewhere, like especially on an airplane, where

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the child not only cries, they have like

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the gift of crying, they have a ministry

516
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:50,640
of crying, this child would not stop crying,

517
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,800
and two or three times, it so rattled

518
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,940
me, because the child had this kind of

519
00:23:57,940 --> 00:24:01,560
scream, that would just cut through, and it

520
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,740
threw me off, and I'm thinking, oh my

521
00:24:03,740 --> 00:24:07,440
goodness, I looked at the waiter, and the

522
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,300
waiter looked at me like, hey what can

523
00:24:09,300 --> 00:24:10,760
I tell you, I only work here, and

524
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:12,740
I only eat here, and I got to

525
00:24:12,740 --> 00:24:15,580
eat with this going on, so I'm trying

526
00:24:15,580 --> 00:24:17,060
to eat my food, but it was hard,

527
00:24:17,060 --> 00:24:20,020
it really bothered me, and God knows, I

528
00:24:20,020 --> 00:24:21,760
thought, should I walk over and just say,

529
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,840
ma'am, could you please take care of

530
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:28,240
that child, because, it wasn't going on for

531
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:34,150
five minutes, I'm talking 20 minutes, then she

532
00:24:34,150 --> 00:24:36,410
held the child, or something, the child stopped

533
00:24:36,410 --> 00:24:41,940
a little bit, I finished my meal, I

534
00:24:41,940 --> 00:24:44,360
went to pay my bill, and I walked

535
00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:45,900
a little closer, so I could see, it

536
00:24:45,900 --> 00:24:48,760
wasn't the mother, it wasn't the mother of

537
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:54,060
the children, it was the grandmother, and where

538
00:24:54,060 --> 00:24:56,540
I was, it could very well be, that

539
00:24:56,540 --> 00:24:59,800
there is no mother on the scene, but

540
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,620
some grandmother, with grey hair, was fighting to

541
00:25:02,620 --> 00:25:04,320
take care of a ten month old, and

542
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,920
a four year old, and I was being

543
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,760
bothered, while I ate my steak, steak no

544
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:16,060
less, and I had to stop and say,

545
00:25:16,060 --> 00:25:19,780
God, forgive me, because I was judging that

546
00:25:19,780 --> 00:25:23,300
situation, and I was so selfish, and into

547
00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:27,260
myself, don't look at me like I'm unsanctified,

548
00:25:27,940 --> 00:25:30,920
how many of you, have ever been convicted

549
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,860
by God, about an attitude, come on, lift

550
00:25:32,860 --> 00:25:36,360
up your hands, confession is good, one of

551
00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:38,660
the things about revival, is not only we

552
00:25:38,660 --> 00:25:40,460
get convicted of sin, and this is what

553
00:25:40,460 --> 00:25:42,680
you have to pray for, that in the

554
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:45,680
services, when people walk in, they get convicted

555
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,700
of sin, unless you're convicted of sin, you

556
00:25:48,700 --> 00:25:51,980
will never call on the Savior, only people

557
00:25:51,980 --> 00:25:54,880
who feel they're drowning, and are lost, reach

558
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,000
out for a Savior, if people feel they're

559
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,280
fine, they're not going to believe, on the

560
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:03,240
Lord Jesus Christ, so when revival comes, evangelism

561
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,620
is made possible, because there's an atmosphere, where

562
00:26:06,620 --> 00:26:10,960
people are convicted of their sins, and then

563
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:15,540
falling on their face, they will say, surely

564
00:26:15,540 --> 00:26:19,260
God is among you, notice what happens, when

565
00:26:19,260 --> 00:26:22,540
the spirit moves, you get into your heart,

566
00:26:22,620 --> 00:26:25,180
and out of your complexes, and your little

567
00:26:25,180 --> 00:26:27,860
charade, that we all play, you live out

568
00:26:27,860 --> 00:26:31,820
of your heart, number two, you become sensitive

569
00:26:31,820 --> 00:26:35,420
to sin, you don't make justification for it,

570
00:26:35,820 --> 00:26:39,160
you're convicted of it, Lord forgive me, read

571
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:40,880
the Psalms, and see if David ever got

572
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,380
convicted about his sins, see if Peter ever

573
00:26:44,380 --> 00:26:50,940
was convicted about his sin, number three, you're

574
00:26:50,940 --> 00:26:55,060
humbled, falling on their face, only the Holy

575
00:26:55,060 --> 00:27:00,020
Spirit can humble us, pride goeth before destruction,

576
00:27:00,220 --> 00:27:03,300
and a haughty spirit before a fall, but

577
00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:05,860
the humble God will lift up, but who's

578
00:27:05,860 --> 00:27:08,340
gonna humble me when I'm the one who's

579
00:27:08,340 --> 00:27:12,540
proud, how can the pride humble the proud

580
00:27:12,540 --> 00:27:15,860
person, but when the spirit comes, and he

581
00:27:15,860 --> 00:27:17,940
shows you who God is, and how awesome

582
00:27:17,940 --> 00:27:20,040
he is, when he shows you all the

583
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,820
sins that you've been forgiven, who could judge

584
00:27:22,820 --> 00:27:25,600
somebody else, when the Holy Spirit's working, he

585
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,340
shows you all that God has done for

586
00:27:27,340 --> 00:27:29,140
you, come on, up in the balcony, how

587
00:27:29,140 --> 00:27:31,160
many sins has God forgiven in your life,

588
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,980
how about downstairs, how about 10,000, maybe

589
00:27:33,980 --> 00:27:37,400
50,000, how about a million, come on,

590
00:27:37,460 --> 00:27:39,320
how many have had mercy shown you, lift

591
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,020
up both your hands, right, but unless the

592
00:27:42,020 --> 00:27:44,200
Holy Spirit shows us, unless there's a spirit

593
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,140
of revival, unless God is moving, we judge

594
00:27:47,140 --> 00:27:49,340
each other instead of saying, thank you Jesus,

595
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,680
instead of restoring somebody, we judge people, we

596
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:58,730
think that's spirituality, so that's why we need

597
00:27:58,730 --> 00:28:01,630
a visitation of the Holy Spirit, and notice

598
00:28:01,630 --> 00:28:03,810
the testimony of a great church, and it's

599
00:28:03,810 --> 00:28:06,650
the testimony of a good person, notice what

600
00:28:06,650 --> 00:28:09,990
the unlearned and the stranger said, the unbeliever

601
00:28:09,990 --> 00:28:12,710
and the seeker walked out of the church,

602
00:28:13,290 --> 00:28:15,470
Paul said, if the spirit is moving, if

603
00:28:15,470 --> 00:28:19,650
there's revival, they'll say, I don't understand everything,

604
00:28:20,130 --> 00:28:23,770
but God is in this place, I have

605
00:28:23,770 --> 00:28:25,710
prayed as God is my witness, I say

606
00:28:25,710 --> 00:28:27,930
this for his glory, not for any praise,

607
00:28:27,930 --> 00:28:30,490
I have prayed that a thousand times in

608
00:28:30,490 --> 00:28:34,090
my life, God, give Carol and I a

609
00:28:34,090 --> 00:28:36,590
church that we can lead, where when the

610
00:28:36,590 --> 00:28:39,250
people leave, they don't know my name, or

611
00:28:39,250 --> 00:28:41,250
the choir, or the name of the church,

612
00:28:41,570 --> 00:28:44,910
but let them leave from Pennsylvania, and when

613
00:28:44,910 --> 00:28:47,850
they leave, they'll go, God is in that

614
00:28:47,850 --> 00:28:48,370
place.

615
00:28:49,130 --> 00:28:50,070
How many want that?

616
00:28:50,130 --> 00:28:51,710
Come on, can we put our hands together,

617
00:28:51,870 --> 00:28:53,010
God is in that place.

618
00:28:54,330 --> 00:29:04,170
Come on, let's really clap, Not, weren't the

619
00:29:04,170 --> 00:29:06,990
announcements done cleverly, wasn't the music good, isn't

620
00:29:06,990 --> 00:29:09,250
the band good, come on Caleb, we've been

621
00:29:09,250 --> 00:29:11,870
churches like that, where they're trying to impress

622
00:29:11,870 --> 00:29:15,290
by talent, and the worship singers, and the

623
00:29:15,290 --> 00:29:18,290
clothes, and the pastor showing off, no, what

624
00:29:18,290 --> 00:29:20,290
we want to see here is, oh Holy

625
00:29:20,290 --> 00:29:23,050
Spirit come, so when the people leave, they

626
00:29:23,050 --> 00:29:28,570
go, oh goodness, mercy, God is in that

627
00:29:28,570 --> 00:29:30,370
place, oh God, you are awesome.

628
00:29:30,890 --> 00:29:32,410
Can we do it one more time, let's

629
00:29:32,410 --> 00:29:33,170
just say God.

630
00:29:38,570 --> 00:29:40,310
Every time I get an email where they

631
00:29:40,310 --> 00:29:43,330
say, I visited your church, God was there,

632
00:29:43,550 --> 00:29:45,450
I met God, I just go, thank you

633
00:29:45,450 --> 00:29:45,810
Jesus.

634
00:29:46,550 --> 00:29:48,070
I don't want them to say, your sermon

635
00:29:48,070 --> 00:29:49,650
was so clever, I want them to say,

636
00:29:49,750 --> 00:29:50,950
God was in that place.

637
00:29:51,310 --> 00:29:53,150
I don't want them to say, carols, chords,

638
00:29:53,230 --> 00:29:54,410
and the way she leads, I want to

639
00:29:54,410 --> 00:29:57,090
say, when the choir sang, I knew God

640
00:29:57,090 --> 00:29:58,390
was in that place.

641
00:29:59,150 --> 00:30:01,350
Let's just lift our hands, come on, praise

642
00:30:01,350 --> 00:30:01,790
God.

643
00:30:02,010 --> 00:30:03,330
Praise Him out loud, come on.

644
00:30:04,130 --> 00:30:06,570
Don't be embarrassed to praise Him out loud,

645
00:30:06,730 --> 00:30:07,870
we praise you God.

646
00:30:08,890 --> 00:30:11,090
God, we need a revival, we want you

647
00:30:11,090 --> 00:30:13,310
to come and visit us Lord, in our

648
00:30:13,310 --> 00:30:15,990
lives, in our church Lord, in all the

649
00:30:15,990 --> 00:30:19,190
churches around New York City, in Pennsylvania, where

650
00:30:19,190 --> 00:30:22,870
my friends are from Lord, in Colorado Lord,

651
00:30:22,930 --> 00:30:24,410
where my friends are from Lord.

652
00:30:24,950 --> 00:30:27,330
Oh God, in Haiti where the missionaries are

653
00:30:27,330 --> 00:30:30,970
from, God send a revival, Holy Spirit come

654
00:30:30,970 --> 00:30:32,450
and manifest yourself.

655
00:30:32,850 --> 00:30:36,330
Come and manifest yourself, show us how great

656
00:30:36,330 --> 00:30:37,630
you are Holy Spirit.

657
00:30:40,130 --> 00:30:44,690
Forgive us our sins, forgive us our trespasses

658
00:30:44,690 --> 00:30:47,390
as we forgive those who trespass against us.

659
00:30:48,550 --> 00:30:50,910
If you're here tonight and you say, Pastor,

660
00:30:52,010 --> 00:30:54,650
I feel God has given me a burden

661
00:30:54,650 --> 00:30:57,750
to pray for revival, whether it's in your

662
00:30:57,750 --> 00:31:00,970
life, in this church, in a church that

663
00:31:00,970 --> 00:31:01,790
you go to.

664
00:31:02,110 --> 00:31:04,350
Without revival, everything becomes dead.

665
00:31:05,090 --> 00:31:06,810
If you're here today and say, Pastor, I

666
00:31:06,810 --> 00:31:08,650
want to spend some time praying with you

667
00:31:08,650 --> 00:31:09,490
for revival.

668
00:31:10,050 --> 00:31:12,750
Personal revival, if you need personal revival, now's

669
00:31:12,750 --> 00:31:13,010
the time.

670
00:31:13,090 --> 00:31:14,250
Don't run now, don't go.

671
00:31:14,690 --> 00:31:17,130
God says when my people call, I will

672
00:31:17,130 --> 00:31:17,550
answer.

673
00:31:17,790 --> 00:31:20,190
When they humble themselves and say, we can't

674
00:31:20,190 --> 00:31:22,550
go on without a visitation of your Spirit.

675
00:31:23,610 --> 00:31:25,870
We want a visitation of your Spirit.

676
00:31:26,130 --> 00:31:28,090
Maybe you're here and you're involved in some

677
00:31:28,090 --> 00:31:30,350
ministry, but it's not producing fruit.

678
00:31:30,530 --> 00:31:31,790
Just don't accept that.

679
00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:33,570
Say, God, there's more you can do.

680
00:31:33,790 --> 00:31:35,390
But send the Holy Spirit.

681
00:31:37,350 --> 00:31:39,190
Everybody just wants to come up and pray

682
00:31:39,190 --> 00:31:45,070
for personal, family revival, marriage revival, local church

683
00:31:45,070 --> 00:31:45,630
revival.

684
00:31:46,210 --> 00:31:47,410
Come on, get out of your seat and

685
00:31:47,410 --> 00:31:47,930
come up here.

686
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,240
These are the missionaries from Haiti, right?

687
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:53,960
Yes.

688
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,360
Need a revival in Haiti.

689
00:31:58,540 --> 00:32:00,800
The church has to be revived in Haiti

690
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:02,480
or nothing's going to happen in Haiti.

691
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,700
I don't care if they pour 7 trillion

692
00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:06,160
dollars, nothing will happen.

693
00:32:08,390 --> 00:32:10,350
It's not by might nor by power, but

694
00:32:10,350 --> 00:32:12,230
it's by my Spirit, saith the Lord.

695
00:32:12,810 --> 00:32:15,310
It's not by might nor by power, but

696
00:32:15,310 --> 00:32:17,290
by my Spirit, saith the Lord.

697
00:32:17,710 --> 00:32:19,270
Did you hear what the Word says?

698
00:32:19,350 --> 00:32:22,190
It's not by might nor by power, but

699
00:32:22,190 --> 00:32:25,630
by my Spirit, saith the Lord.

700
00:32:27,130 --> 00:32:29,370
Show us how to pray, Holy Spirit.

701
00:32:30,450 --> 00:32:31,890
Show us how to pray.

702
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,540
God, send the Holy Spirit and revive our

703
00:32:38,540 --> 00:32:38,940
church.

704
00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:41,200
Revive my life.

705
00:32:41,380 --> 00:32:43,200
Revive my son.

706
00:32:43,820 --> 00:32:45,680
Revive my ministry.

707
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,620
Revive whatever it is.

708
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,180
God, Holy Spirit, come.

709
00:32:53,150 --> 00:32:54,350
Revive your work.

710
00:32:54,350 --> 00:32:56,390
Revive a spirit of prayer.

711
00:32:57,590 --> 00:32:59,850
Revive a hunger for righteousness.

712
00:33:01,690 --> 00:33:03,270
Use your servants, Lord.

713
00:33:04,310 --> 00:33:07,130
Let there be a revival in Colorado, Lord,

714
00:33:07,150 --> 00:33:08,910
that will just go throughout the state.

715
00:33:10,570 --> 00:33:13,030
Let the fire catch, Lord, and spread.

716
00:33:15,530 --> 00:33:17,550
Revive your work, Lord, in Colorado.

717
00:33:17,750 --> 00:33:19,050
Use my sisters, Lord.

718
00:33:19,430 --> 00:33:21,110
See the hunger they have, Lord.

719
00:33:21,790 --> 00:33:23,930
Help them to have faith, Lord, for more

720
00:33:23,930 --> 00:33:24,870
of the Holy Spirit.

721
00:33:25,010 --> 00:33:27,270
Help them to let go and believe you,

722
00:33:27,510 --> 00:33:27,630
Lord.

723
00:33:28,650 --> 00:33:30,690
Don't let them hold back and limit you,

724
00:33:30,870 --> 00:33:31,050
Lord.

725
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,780
Bless my brother and my sister, Lord.

726
00:33:37,500 --> 00:33:39,420
Revive their work in Haiti, Lord.

727
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,200
Revive the church in Haiti.

728
00:33:41,740 --> 00:33:43,540
Revive the Christians in Haiti.

729
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:45,880
Get rid of the false teaching and let

730
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,480
the Holy Spirit come, Lord.

731
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,100
Wherever there's something false, Lord, get it out.

732
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,320
Hold it back, Lord, so that the true

733
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:55,760
word can go forth, Lord.

734
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:57,720
Come, Holy Spirit.

735
00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:59,200
Let there be a visitation.

736
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,720
Let them be desperate for you, Lord.

737
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:04,920
Let her be desperate for you.

738
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,300
Let them be desperate, God, that you will

739
00:34:07,300 --> 00:34:08,860
come and manifest yourself.

740
00:34:09,739 --> 00:34:10,880
Conviction of sin.

741
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,060
Humility of spirit.

742
00:34:14,179 --> 00:34:15,900
People broken hearted, Lord.

743
00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:17,460
Tender hearts.

744
00:34:20,330 --> 00:34:22,429
We call on you, Holy Spirit.

745
00:34:22,610 --> 00:34:22,909
Come.

746
00:34:24,030 --> 00:34:24,630
Revive.

747
00:34:24,949 --> 00:34:25,870
Revive us.

748
00:34:26,469 --> 00:34:27,969
Revive us, Holy Spirit.

749
00:34:28,150 --> 00:34:28,469
Come.

750
00:34:28,850 --> 00:34:29,449
Fill us.

751
00:34:29,590 --> 00:34:30,389
Revive us.

752
00:34:30,830 --> 00:34:32,510
Wind of God, blow on us.

753
00:34:34,710 --> 00:34:35,870
God is awesome.

754
00:34:37,610 --> 00:34:38,370
Come on.

755
00:34:38,429 --> 00:34:40,110
Can we give them one more hand cup

756
00:34:40,110 --> 00:34:40,730
of praise?

757
00:34:43,449 --> 00:34:49,449
Lord, let prayer for revival and sensitivity to

758
00:34:49,449 --> 00:34:52,170
your Holy Spirit continue starting this moment on.

759
00:34:53,510 --> 00:34:55,449
Make us sensitive when we lay in bed

760
00:34:55,449 --> 00:34:55,870
at night.

761
00:34:56,770 --> 00:34:58,050
Take away sin.

762
00:34:58,750 --> 00:35:00,590
Make us sensitive to temptation.

763
00:35:01,610 --> 00:35:03,170
Help us to walk humbly.

764
00:35:03,590 --> 00:35:05,150
Help us to live out of our hearts,

765
00:35:05,570 --> 00:35:07,550
not out of our facades.

766
00:35:08,850 --> 00:35:11,630
Help us to speak sincerely, words of truth

767
00:35:11,630 --> 00:35:12,150
and love.

768
00:35:14,110 --> 00:35:15,910
Come, Holy Spirit, we need you.

769
00:35:17,030 --> 00:35:18,230
Thank you for this meeting.

770
00:35:18,430 --> 00:35:19,830
Thank you for helping us to pray.

771
00:35:20,310 --> 00:35:23,450
Get us home safely, no accidents, no anything

772
00:35:23,450 --> 00:35:26,410
except rejoicing in the Lord always.

773
00:35:26,770 --> 00:35:28,870
For this we pray in Jesus' name.

774
00:35:29,630 --> 00:35:32,110
And everyone said, Amen.

775
00:35:32,470 --> 00:35:34,230
You've been listening to the From the Pulpit

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00:35:34,230 --> 00:35:35,470
and Classic Sermon series.

777
00:35:35,950 --> 00:35:38,030
This week you heard Jim Cimbala with his

778
00:35:38,030 --> 00:35:39,770
message Heart Talk on Revival.

779
00:35:40,390 --> 00:35:41,910
Tune in next week to hear Zach Coonan

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talk about only when life will soon be

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past on From the Pulpit and Classic Sermons.