Revival Pt 3

0:02 Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone. It is Wednesday, July the third, twenty twenty four. It is currently four seventeen pm Central Time, and I am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Let me just ask a question. It's not related to anything that we're going to do or going to be talking about, so just humor me. Okay, does it feel like it's almost the fourth of July? Does it have that feeling that, oh, we have a big holiday weekend coming up? It does not feel like that at all. It feels like I think I have probably forgotten multiple times today that wait, tomorrow is the fourth of July twenty twenty four. Has almost got like there's a couple of times I've had to stop myself, even though I know that it's there.

1:02 It just does not feel like that. But it is almost the fourth of July. I don't know what you'll be doing, where you'll be going, If you'll be traveling. Hopefully it will be fun, Hopefully it will be entertaining, Hopefully you'll have great time. Hopefully it'll be safe and hopefully everything goes well for you. For me, well, I'll be right here now. I won't be able to do much broadcasting on the fourth because right behind me there's a window, and outside that window, well there's my yard, and then there's a street. And for some reason, when it gets close to the fourth of July, and on the fourth of July, everyone in the neighborhood comes right in front of my house. I don't know why.

1:42 They all just like, let's go right in front of that house, moonlight drive, let's go right there, Let's go right in front of his house. And then boom boom, boom boom they set off like a million dollars with the fireworks. Okay, maybe a million is a little bit of an exaggeration, but it's crazy. And then so that's right directly behind me. And then on the if I go, if I go to the back door of my house and look out that direction, there's a small town out there, and it's not too far away, but somewhere between where I live. In that little small town, there's just a lot of open area and I don't know who pays for it, but they basically it's like a full blown fireworks show, and so between all of that, broadcasting is almost impossible.

2:31 So I need to take advantage of I should have taken better advantage of the of the last couple of days, and I have it. But that's okay. We're gonna use the time we have in front of us. And also I'm broadcasting this at around four to twenty pm because remember your challenge, you're supposed to be listening to the random webcast on the Sermon's two point oh app or Beta dot Sermon audio dot com. Right, you're supposed to be checking those out. Well, I think right now we're kind of the in between time, right. All the Wednesday night webcasts will be beginning in probably the next thirty minutes, probably the next thirty minutes, and then from like five pm Central time as I like to call it correct time, to probably nine pm, it's just going to be webcast after webcasts. I am going to be very interested to see if the holiday like of a lot of churches cancel their services and how many of them are just going to be patriotism, patriotism, patriotism, patriotism, patriotism, patriotism, patriotism. Look, if you're participating in the challenge, I would love to get your report. What you see, what you don't see are the numbers down for people listening or whatever? If I look on the sermons two point oh app right now, I'm opening it up here right now. If I look, well, guess what, We're the only one broadcasting. So so I've got to hurry.

3:57 I've got to hurry because I can't take away. But let me remind you. Let me remind you. On the times where there's no one broadcasting, go to the sermon audio radio stream, right if there's not, If you're like I can listen now there's no webcast. His challenge is ridiculous. Just go to the sermonadio radio stream and listen to whatever they are playing, all right, because that's another feature that should be used, all right, So just use the sermon audio radio. And if you listen to the sermonaudio radio, and if you think you have some suggestions to make it better, please email sermon Audio. Right. I mean, there's probably I don't know what suggestions you may have for it. But if you have suggestions to make it better, back by all means send it to them, okay, because that's the only way things get improved is when people offer helpful suggestions rather than rather than just criticized, criticized, criticized, criticized, criticize. All right, so are you ready? Okay, here's what we're going to do. I don't want to do this, but we're gonna do this. Now. You remember, I think it was last week. I went to my mailbox and it was Christmas. Well I called it Christmas in June. I think I misspoke and called it Christmas in July, but it was Christmas and June because inside my mailbox there was not just one. There were two issues of the Sword of the Lord newspaper. And I was like, yes, I love when these things show up, right, I love when they show up because first, it just has a very antiquated feel, like I'm getting a newspaper

5:30 in a mailbox, right, it's not digital, so it's just kind of cool, like you know, it's kind of something from the past. All Right. I love when I get them. Right. So I looked at one and it was very like fourth of July heavy, and I'm like, oh no, it's kind of a lot of patriotism. All right, maybe we'll do something with that. There'll be plenty I'm gonna have plenty of content if I want to talk about the church and patriotism and politics. All right, So I'm like, let me look at the other one. And the other one had an article called Salvation by Grace not Works, and I'm like, ooh, that could be good. And then I saw the Holy Spirit and revival, and I thought, well, that could be an interesting topic, right, because everyone talks about revival, revival, revival, revival, America needs revival. Now does America need revival or does the church need revival?

6:21 Because my understanding of revival, revival wouldn't be for the country, Revival would be for the church. Revival is where Christians are revived. Christians are pulled out of their spiritual complacency and apathy and their sinfulness, and they have a spiritual in a sense awakening, and they are convicted and they are challenged, and they are then filled with a kind of a desire to really pursue the things of God and put away maybe things of the world. That something happens to the Christians. And so many times I keep hearing this country needs revival. No, they would need a resurrection, they need spiritual life, right, they don't need to be revived. They need to be resurrected, they need to be born again. Revival is for the believer. The believer, your church, my church, your life, my life, your home, my home, your friend's home. We all, any one of us who profess to be believers, were probably daily in need of some kind of revival. We need to be revived to our first love, revived to a passion for the things of God. We need to be revived. I mean, that's just the reality constantly in our lives. So I thought, oh, it will be interesting. And remember it opened with Acts chapter four, verse thirty one, And immediately I knew I was in trouble, right, Acts chapter four, verse thirty one, because we read these words, and when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spake the word

7:53 of God with boldness, or they spoke the word of God with boldness. I'm like, well, that makes me nervous. If you're going to quote Acts four thirty one and an article about revival, that seems to imply to me that you were saying that that verse is somehow applicable to us. Well, if you're gonna make Acts four to thirty one applicable to us. You're gotta be very careful, because just a few verses down we see this now the multitudes are in fact the very next verse down, verse thirty two. Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul. Neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own. But they had all things in common, and with great power. The apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great and great grace was upon them all. Nor was there anyone among them who locked. For all who were possessors of land or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold and laid them at the apostles feet. Now it's amazing we take Acts four thirty one and make it about revival. Today we forget verse thirty two. If you put the if you follow the if you really take some of these ideas and take them to a logical conclusion, it would be like this, Oh, you want the revival of Acts four thirty one. Well, if that revival breaks out in your church, everyone in your church is gonna sell all of their possessions and they're gonna come to the church and they're gonna give you all the money. Well, you know

9:24 that's not going to happen. So why do we try to pretend Acts four thirty one has anything to do with us. It's describing a situation that happened historically. You can make it prescriptive unless you're gonna tell everyone if you truly have experienced revival, you will sell everything and you'll bring it to the church. Everybody would look at you out of like you're out of your ever living mind. Now we could argue should we do that, We could have a big conversation about that. But the point is, I love how we Oh, I'm gonna preach on let me take this verse. I'm going to ignore the very next verse, and the next verse after that, and the next verse after that, and after that and after that. But they quote Acts four thirty one. Basically the gist of the first part of the article is basically saying, Hey, people know about God the Father, they know about God the Son, but they really don't know about the Holy Spirit. Right, So it's kind of like what we need is the Holy Spirit, right, And that kind of gets us through the first page of this article.

10:30 Then it tells me to turn to page sixteen. So I turned to page sixteen, and then the problems only got worse, because when we turn to page sixteen we read, first of all, it says, first, no, we need to know about the Holy Spirit. Jesus gave the promise of the Holy Spirit and said, and then they quote John fourteen sixteen, I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter, that he may abide with you forever. Our Savior tells us that the Holy Spirit abides with us. He comes in to dwell in our hearts. When we believe in Christ, he is present to teach us all things. And then this where everything just the train leaves the tracks. Wait a minute. If the Holy Spirit is present to teach us all things, then all Christians should be in complete agreement and all things. If the Spirit is teaching us all things, then the logical conclusion is we should then be in agreement with all things.

11:26 But we're not in agreement with all things. So are you gonna blame the Holy Spirit for that? Are you gonna say anyone who differs with my opinion is not listening to the Holy Spirit because I'm listening to the Holy Spirit. I'm listening to the Holy Spirit. I'm right, you're not listening to the Holy Spirit. Wrong. So then who gets to determine who's doing the listening. Okay, well that's ridiculous. Clearly the Holy Spirit is not teaching us, because if we were, there would be one church. Okay, But then it only gets worse. It only gets worse because they continue to they continue to they quote a little bit from John fourteen twenty so they quoted John fourteen sixteen. Then they quote John fourteen twenty six. Here we go, and so now he's going to teach us all things. He's going to bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever hence said unto you. So anything Jesus said, the Holy Spirit's going to bring to remembrance, Well, you just go to your church and just say, okay, Jesus said, And then you you give them the reference. You can even give them the reference.

12:24 I don't know why you would have to give them the reference. You should just be able to say Jesus said, And then the Holy Spirit will bring everything he said to remembrance, and they should be able to just quote every word that's a that's you know, credited to Jesus, and they shouldn't have a problem, but you know, they don't remember. They have hard enough time memorizing verses. So clearly Jesus is not bringing to mind everything he said, or nobody would have to study for Bible college seminary. No. No, but we we know people we have a hard time remembering anything, so that none of Already, this whole thing is just taking verses out of context. Then they said, secondly, we have to be conscious of him.

13:05 He entwells you, He is with you always, the Holy Spirit abides in your heart. Now this means that we must not grieve him by wrongdoing. Then it says we should not grieve the spirit. And then all the different things that can grieve the spirit, which is pretty much you know, a lot of things that should grieve the spirit, like bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor evil speaking, malice, not being kind one to another, not being tenderhearted, and not forgiving one another, even Christ as for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you. And what I find interesting is now they don't really go into any detail here. They're just throwing scriptures out but if you really say, hey, grieve not the what everyone does is they go to Ephesians four. That's Ephesians four, verse thirty to thirty two, and they say, hey, that says grieve not the spirit. Then this is surely hop preachers do it. Grieve not the spirit. And you know how you grieve the spirit. When it's a Friday night and it's ten PM and you turn on a movie, a rated R movie. You turn on a PG thirteen movie. Well, that's ungodly. You listen to Taylor Swift, you're grieving the Holy Spirit, and it's like, no, the text says what grieves the Holy Spirit would be bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor evil speaking, malice, not being kind to one another, and not forgiving one another.

14:28 That's the literal context in which it's found. But that gets for completely thrown out, and then what's grieving the spirit is just all of this random stuff. Typically, I hate to say it, it's older people saying, oh you kids and your rock and roll, you can't do this and you can't, and then that's grieving the It's amazing parents tend to use it to say you're grieving the Holy Spirit, because I don't like what you're doing, meaning you're grieved because you just don't like what they're doing. It's just ridiculous. Rarely does it get actually applied. All right, again, I don't know what any of this has to do with revival, But okay, I says, certain acts of life are unpleasant to him. Let the Holy Spirit work through you, be a clear channel for him. All Christians need the filling of the Holy Spirit. So then immediately once it says grieve the Holy Spirit, they quote Ephesians four thirty to thirty two, and then immediately the next paragraph is certain acts of life are unpleasant to him. They don't even connect it to the all of that list of things that's in Ephesians four thirty to thirty two you talk about just exegetically makes me want to just throw the paper across the room. But okay, all right, I says, be not drunk with wine wherein is excess, but be filled with the spirit Ephesians five eighteen. The fullness of the Spirit cannot be accomplished unless there is emptiness of self and a willingness for Him to take over and fill us. So you cannot be full of the spirit until you're empty of self? Well, are you ever truly empty of self? Ever? Well, then you're never going to be full of the spirit. I mean, can you ever be

16:00 empty of self? Truly? I mean, just from a purely philosophical standpoint, I mean, well, forget philosophy, how about philologically as long as you possess a sinful nature, and the sinful nature the essence of the sinful nature is the exaltation of the eye, is the exaltation of the self. Well then are you Then you're never gonna be filled with the spirit. Because can you imagine the audacity and the arrogance of someone to say I am filled with the spirit because I am empty of self. Man, if I hear someone talking like that, I'm just gonna kind of back away slowly and I'm gonna be all right, everyone, Okay, don't make any eye contact.

16:45 One two, run, and I'm gonna tell everyone to run, all right, because that's insane. If you think I'm filled with the spirit because I am empty of self. If I ever hear anyone that with that claim, I bet you with this three point two seconds, I can clearly demonstrate and prove that the self is still there. So that's a big claim. But all right, and again that would make you being the one accomplishing being filled with the spirit. You're doing it because you're emptying self. You say, no, God is the one who empties you of self. Well, then why doesn't God empty all Christians of self? And then all Christians will be filled with the Holy Spirit and then we can all be perfect? Oh wait, God doesn't do that. All right, all right, we're back to that never ending problem. All right, So they go through that, then they come to this part, the Holy Spirit and Christian living, the Holy Spirit Christian living. Now they haven't really spoken of revival. It sounds like what they're doing here, I mean, without they're not really articulating it in any meaningful way, but it feels to me what they're attempting to basically say is we need a revival of Christians who are filled with the spirit. But you cannot be filled with the spirit until you're empty of self. So I guess we need Christians learning how to empty themselves of self so that the Spirit will then move in. And once the Spirit moves in, then we'll no longer do anything that grieves the spirit. And I guess we'll be basically, I mean they haven't said it, but I mean they're pretty much putting forth the concept. I guess we're going to be perfect. But now we're going

18:15 to talk about the Holy Spirit in Christian living. The word the Bible exhorts us to live as Christian adults. We are not to be baby Christians, to bear the name of baby Christianists, to dishonor the Lord. The sorry lives of Christians are ever before us. The sorry lives of Christians are ever before us. I was listening there was a webcast on this morning. I didn't get a chance to really hear much of it. It was just happened to be on and I was trying to do other things, but I just noticed that he kept talking about other people them they them, they them them them them them they they them them them. They don't do this, they don't do that. So many people today don't do this, they do this, And it's it's always references to other people. And sometimes you just want to say, do preachers think that we us? I why is it always that we are so good at pointing what everyone else does and we can't ever see our own self. The sorry lives of Christians or ever before. Look, I say this all the time, humility. Humility is the almost impossible task of being more broken and more aware of your own sin than the sin of others. Humility is almost the impossible state of being more broken and more

19:48 aware of your own sin than anybody else's. You don't go they them, You're like me, I me, me, me, I'm the problem. Okay, the sorry lives of Christians are before us. Someone said it's an unhappy occupation to try to act like a Christian when you're not. Okay, that would be unhappy. I sometimes feel bad for kids raised in a Christian home because I think so many kids raised in a Christian home they're almost Look, they have to act like a Christian or it's gonna possibly lead to some kind of punishment. You will do this, you won't do this. You won't wear this, you won't wear this, you won't listen to this, you won't read this, you won't watch the movie, you won't go out with that person, you won't go here, you won't do that. They are they basically are told live like a Christian. Oh, you may not be one, but we don't really care because as far as me and my house. We're gonna serve the Lord. I mean, you may not be regenerate and you may not be saved, but you're gonna live like one.

20:52 Yeah, that's a miserable existence. That would that would that would be that would be total, That would be true. And the kids are are almost afraid to say, well, you know, maybe I don't believe this stuff. How dare you say that? You know? How about I don't know. They got to grow and well, if you believe in free will, they have to grow and make a free will determination if they believe or not believe in. If you don't believe in free will, then you gotta let God bring his elect to salvation at the appropriate time. Whenever he brings forth the effectual calling. You can try to make these kids live like a Christian, but it's of note. I don't know why we do that, but we try to do that, and it usually leads to some very miserable kids and youth group. All right, but I digress, All right, Well, it's not me digressing. I don't know where the article is going.

21:45 I thought it was about revival. So far, we haven't really got much discussion about revival. But let's see what the next paragraph say. Is This message concerns the Holy Spirit and revival. Revival pop cannot come to a lost soul. The man without Christ needs salvation, but revival can come to the Christian. Now, that may be the most important paragraph in the entire article. Let me read that again, because I hear it constantly. We heard it last year at the sort of the Lord conference. Right, that's going to be happening again this month, right, and remember I told everyone to watch it, and okay, and you know we made a well that's why I told everyone to buy the Sword of the Lord newspaper. Right, Okay, So they kept saying, I think almost every space this country needs revival.

22:37 This country needs revival. This country. Pray for revival in America. What are you praying for? Lost people cannot be revived. It's not Revival doesn't come to the country. You pray for revival in the church, you pray for revival in the life of believers. You pray for revival in you. If you are a believer, in fact, you should just worry about you being revived before you worried about anybody else being revived. And then once you are revived, then you look for other Christians and see if you can be an instrument and help them become revived. It's amongst us, it's not about others. So let me read this again. I love this. This maybe the most important paragraph of this entire series. Let me read it again.

23:22 This message. I don't know why this is not at the beginning of this article. I don't know. I don't know. Like the way this is structured is weird. You almost wait, this is the thesis statement, right, this is really the thesis statement. I don't know why the thesis statement is paragraph after paragraph after paragraph after paragraph after paragraph down in the art like, I don't this is the lead. Let me read it again. This message concerns the Holy Spirit and revival. Revival cannot come to a lost soul. The man without Christ needs salvation, but revival comes to the or can come to the Christian. You should write that down, you should put it on your refrigerator, and the next time people at church is like, let's pray for revival for because you're gonna hear a lot of that. I bet you even tonight if you listen to all the webcasts on Sermonadio, or you just start watching a lot of them. There's gonna be a lot this country pray for revival for America. No, No, that's a categorical error.

24:26 They don't need revival, they need salvation. If you pray for revival, you're praying for the Christians to be revived. You're praying for you to be revived. You're praying for your church to be revived. You're praying for your Christian friends to be revived. You're praying for your Christian husband to be revived. You pray for your Christian wife to be revived. You're praying for your Christian teenager to be revived, your Christian neighbor. Let me read it one more time. Revival cannot come to a lost soul. The man without Christ needs salvation. Revival can come to the Christian. I may send that quote out in a notice for for those who have the church one app I may send that out when this is over. That like, just let's end this entire discussion, right, This ends our mini series on revival. Ladies and gentlemen. The only thing I want you to get is this revival does not come to the lost soul. It comes to the Christian. The lost soul needs salvation. Revival is for the believer. The end. This concludes this series. Thank you very much that I should get one hundred dollars for that. Okay, I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking. But you just watch now, now, you it'll be interesting. You're my eyes and ears. All the churches, your church, every church, just listen.

25:52 If they talk about revival, because it's the fourth of July coming up, I bet you there's going to be a lot of discussion about I think that it will be category. The concept will be missupplied. America doesn't need revival. America needs salvation. Now. What is a good way to bring the Gospel to a lost and dying world. It's when the church is revived. So when Christians are revived, to pray and fast for the salvation, to try to live it out better than we're currently living it out. To try to witness to people, to try to tell people, to love people, to serve people, that we will live lives where I remember this article talked about those things that grieve the Holy Spirit. We're not filled with wrath and bitterness and unforgiveness, but we are forgiving and we're loving, and we were trying to live that kind of that's a testimony. So then they go to the next paragraph, what do we mean by the Holy Spirit? And we mean a great turning to Christ on the part of Christians. So just please know when they talk about the Holy Spirit revival, they're referring to a great turning to Christ on the part of Christians. Where Christians turn to Christ.

27:11 Now once it says we've already turned to Christ in salvation, but now we're turning to Christ really for a deeper fellowship, for a deeper walk, for a more passionate, more passionate spiritual Now, I don't like the words experience, relationship, but let me read the whole thing. We mean a great turning to Christ on the part of Christians. We mean the separation of the Christian from the world and the dedication of the Christian to the holy business of serving Christ. When Christians are revived, they turn more from things of this world, more and more to the things of God. They will fall more and more in love with that. And all of us know that it's so easy to depart from our first love. Look, sometimes, I know we always talk in the Book of Revelation, Christ standing at the door and knocking.

28:07 Okay, And we always try to apply that to sut To evangelism. God's knocking on the door of your heart. It doesn't say he's knocking on the door of the heart. He's knocking on the door. I think. I think he's knocking there on the door of the church. I think that's the passage right right. In fact, let me look it up where we can look directly at it, because I don't want to. I don't want to misquote it. But I want to make sure i'm one hundred percent accurate here, because I think there's so much misunderstanding here, so much misunderstanding here. So let me look up the passage, all right, let me look it up here we go, all right. I don't like the I don't want the picture, okay, all right. It is found in Revelation three twenty. That's what I thought. I know it was in Revelation. I just had to. I had to look it up to make sure. Revelation in chapter three. Let me just look at this really quick, all right, Revelation chapter three. I'm gonna put forth my own i'll call it my hypothesis here, but my own interpretation here, right, So if you'll note in Revelation, if you'll note starting in chapter two, all right, and Revelation chapter two, there's these message, these messages to the churches, right chapter two, verse one, to the Angel of the Church of Ephesus, right right. Then in verse eight and to the Angel of the Church in Smyrna. Right then if you go on chapter two, verse twelve, and

29:41 to the Angel of the Church in Pergamus. All right, So you're seeing these are two churches. There's just no way to get around this. These are two churches, all right. If you look verse eighteen and the Angel of the Church and Thiatara, So again that's two eighteen. That's two eighteen. Making sure I'm not skipping any Chapter three, verse one and the Angel of the Church and Sartiss right, then three seven to the Church of Philadelphia. All right. So then if we turn the page, or at least I turned the page in my Bible, then we look at verse fourteen, and the Angel of the Church of Leoty seans, right, So three fourteen, it's the Church of Leotasians. And then let it look at verse twenty.

30:26 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasen Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with me. This is a church of people who are no longer dining with Christ. They're no longer meeting with Christ. They've left their first love. They've departed, And Jesus is in a sense knocking at the door. Is there anyone in there who would like to dine with me? Is there anyone in there who would like to have Jesus standing at the door and knocking is not for salvation, it's in a sense for revival. You need to revive that first love, and we need to go to Christ. We need to leave what's keeping us away, and we need to go dine with him. The idea of dining with someone, especially in that culture, that was a sense of hospitality and fellowship and communion, that having a mill together was seen as something far more than just like putting food in your mouth. It had a greater cultural significance. Now we as Christians claim that eating together is of such importance when it comes to, you know, a potluck at church, But in this particular case, it has great significance.

31:41 It's about us being called Jesus standing at the door where we've grown cold. I mean, look, what was the problem with the Church of Leotysea. I know your works that you're neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then because you're a lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth, all right. And this is this is a church that has become luke warm. They have become luke warm, and they don't see their spiritual condition. So Jesus is in a sense they've become so lukewarm and so apathetic. They're outside of the church, or Jesus is outside of the church, not being saying does anyone want to come spend time with me? That's the sense of revival. That's what we need. We meet a great turning to Christ on the part of Christians. We mean the separation of Christian from the world and the dedication of the Christian to the holy business of serving Christ. A spirit filled life is a God honoring Christ, magnifying spirit filled life. From such a life, rivers of flowing water will flow from such a life. Sweet manifestation of Christian character will come. The early Christians were separated servants of God. They were saints who practiced purity in all manners of life. They adorn the Gospel by their contact. Now, I think that's giving probably way too much credit to the early Christians as being all perfect. They were just as messed up as we are every single day. In a sense, we have to answer that knock, am I going to go dine with Jesus. Am I going to

33:15 go spend time with him, And I'm going to continue to turn to him, hopefully being revived, hopefully growing, and my passion and my desire for him, and less preoccupied with everything else. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know about you. I need this every single day because I'm far from anything that they are describing. That's what we need now. I could go on to the next point, but I'm not. And I know a little bit of this. You may be some of you, ma fool. It's a little bit repetitive, But these are the points that really need I think we really stumbled upon the most important point here. Revival is not for the lost, It's for you and for me. Stop praying for our country needs revival.

34:04 No, your country needs Christians who are revived. And then we live out our Christian life to the best of our ability, being open and honest with our sin, acknowledging our failure, acknowledging our shortcomings, not covering ourself in a clothes of self righteousness, but being broken and humble and saying, you know what, I'm going to go dine with Christ. I'm going to go dine with Jesus, and I'm going to try to be revived so I'll be more passionate and have a greater desire for Him and a greater conviction over my sin. Revival is where Christians turn to Christ. I know we're so worried about everyone else turning to Christ. We're worried about everyone else needing to be revived. You need it, I need it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sun. Not just a scheduled quote unquote revival. We need revival every single day. And I think, in a sense of Revelation three twenty Jesus outside the door, that it's a it's a complacent, apathetic church. Is Jesus in a sense outside your church. Sometimes we're so dead cold, and apathetic, and we don't even realize it.

35:16 We don't even see our spiritual condition. We're so we're so busy pointing out everyone else's spiritual condition, saying, well, we need we need revival to get rid of wokeism. I heard today there was a webcast on Summer Student where oh, wocism, wochism, wocism them, they they, how about us if we were more worried about our own sin then everyone else's sin. I think revivals when we become broken over our own spiritual condition and we're not worried about everyone else's spiritual condition. The church needs a healthy dose of being revived so that we are broken over our own condition and that we go to we go to dine with rice, so that we can grow, so that we can be closer to God. Not that we can go yell at everyone else for their spiritual condition, but we can see our own. Now what do you think? Now? You can email me and share me, share with me your thoughts. News. I f at yahoo dot com. That's news. I f at yahoo dot com. Now I'm going to open up the sermon's two point Oh app oh, we're still the only ones broadcasting.

36:39 Okay, so we're so just keep those things I've given you about about revival, all right, I think I think I'm not going to repeat it and be repetitive. I've repeated it enough, all right, I will send out that quote. But hey, I just want you to think about these concepts, especially what's getting ready to happen. Now, remember your challenge. It's supposed to be listening to the random webcasts, the live webcast on the Sermon's two point oh app or at Beta dot sermonadio dot com. Please be doing that now today to which today and tomorrow you may be want to look just just see how much patriotism and politics have entered in and how many times there's a talk about our country needing revival, and ask yourself, is that it just a categorical philological error because the world doesn't need revival. The world needs salvation. Christians need revival, all right. So I want you to watch that and see I'm kind of surprised that it's almost five pm on a Wednesday and there's no other live webcast. I told you, I'm a little work concerned. I wonder how many I wonder how many churches will cancel their services tonight and just and then that's we could raise a question canceling church to celebrate the independence of this country. It's like, is that you sell We're going to cancel church for that? I don't know. You can you can determine is that putting that before that? I don't know. I don't know.

38:06 I don't know, but we will see. They may have other reasons to cancel. I mean, we're not having in personal services. But that's a whole you know, we cant into a long story of the reason why that's the particular case. Now, if you want to send us one hundred thousand dollars, well, then guess what. We'll go back to Sunday morning. We'll go back to Sunday school, Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night and live stream and we'll go back to I mean, come on, if you want to, if you want to, you can fix all of our problems with our Our issue is money. Okay, So we won't get into all of that all right, But yeah, I think I thought it was going to be bad, but I think we actually stumbled upon a really solid point here, and I'm really impressed with it. And yeah, I'm glad we I'm glad we had this discussion as much as I did not want to.

38:51 All Right, there we go. I'm kind of waiting to see if any other I can't. Oh, there they go. They just showed up, all right, so I'm ending at the perfect time. Don't count me as your random live webcast. I don't count all right. So right now, Bowling Springs Baptist Church in North Kakilaki is currently broadcasting. Is that bowling? Boiling? Boiling? Bowling, Bowling Springs and Calvary Baptist Church in New York. All right, the Calvary's already got three people watching and they just literally started, so they may have a big audience, so you may want to go watch them. All right, there you go, go go watch, listen, and then email me newsift dot com. You got plenty of things to contemplate, meditate on, plenty of spiritual food. God bless