1 00:00:30,019 --> 00:00:31,739 Life for mine, that's the Gospel. 2 00:00:31,739 --> 00:00:32,339 Amen. 3 00:00:33,299 --> 00:00:34,499 Well, it's good to see you today. 4 00:00:34,499 --> 00:00:38,739 Take your Bible and turn to the book of Ezekiel. 5 00:00:39,779 --> 00:00:41,179 You find the middle of your Bible. 6 00:00:41,179 --> 00:00:42,059 That'll be psalms. 7 00:00:42,059 --> 00:00:44,939 And just keep going to your right a little bit and you'll come 8 00:00:44,939 --> 00:00:47,219 to the book of Ezekiel. 9 00:00:51,299 --> 00:00:52,819 Hope you brought your Bible today. 10 00:00:53,699 --> 00:00:57,009 You know, the Bible has so many wonderful things, but one thing 11 00:00:57,009 --> 00:01:00,329 that I think about often with the Bible is it's a compass. 12 00:01:01,449 --> 00:01:04,569 So many people today, our whole nation, our world, has lost 13 00:01:04,569 --> 00:01:07,289 its way because they've taken away the compass. 14 00:01:07,609 --> 00:01:09,449 Nobody knows which way to go. 15 00:01:10,329 --> 00:01:12,569 And so the word of God is truth. 16 00:01:13,049 --> 00:01:13,689 Amen. 17 00:01:15,129 --> 00:01:16,249 And the compass. 18 00:01:16,249 --> 00:01:21,089 We don't need a new Bible or a new scripture or a new way of doing 19 00:01:21,089 --> 00:01:21,449 things. 20 00:01:21,529 --> 00:01:23,369 We just need to stick with the compass. 21 00:01:24,059 --> 00:01:27,019 Let me ask you a question before getting the message today. 22 00:01:27,739 --> 00:01:31,099 How many of you have ever had major surgery? 23 00:01:33,339 --> 00:01:39,699 Now, if you're like me, all my surgeries are major and everybody 24 00:01:39,699 --> 00:01:40,939 else's are minor. 25 00:01:41,499 --> 00:01:44,139 I've heard people say, oh, he's having minor surgery. 26 00:01:44,459 --> 00:01:49,819 No, if you ask him, he'll say, it's not minor and surgery. 27 00:01:50,679 --> 00:01:55,479 I never met anybody that applauded and got excited about surgery. 28 00:01:56,999 --> 00:02:03,559 But yet, in a real understanding, the Bible is like 29 00:02:03,559 --> 00:02:04,359 a scalpel. 30 00:02:04,359 --> 00:02:10,359 It's like a sword, and it cuts, and nobody likes to be cut. 31 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:16,199 But I was taught in seminary that any sermon that leaves us satisfied 32 00:02:16,199 --> 00:02:18,439 with ourselves is a failure. 33 00:02:19,599 --> 00:02:20,079 Okay? 34 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:22,079 And I think that's true. 35 00:02:22,879 --> 00:02:27,519 We waste our time if we just come and go back home the same way 36 00:02:27,759 --> 00:02:29,599 as we came in. 37 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:34,838 And so the preaching the Word of God will do the work of God, but 38 00:02:34,838 --> 00:02:36,439 you have to receive the Word of God. 39 00:02:36,439 --> 00:02:40,999 The Bible says, receive the Word of God with meekness and allow 40 00:02:40,999 --> 00:02:46,279 the Word of God to touch your heart and to apply it to your life. 41 00:02:47,239 --> 00:02:51,039 Because sometimes God can use one word or one phrase or something 42 00:02:51,039 --> 00:02:55,159 that'll just pierce into your heart and somebody else. 43 00:02:55,159 --> 00:02:58,599 It may be a different word or a different verse. 44 00:02:59,079 --> 00:03:05,199 And so today, I want you to notice some very serious things, 45 00:03:05,199 --> 00:03:06,919 but some very wonderful things. 46 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:11,959 And in light of the revival, we're praying and looking for revival. 47 00:03:12,819 --> 00:03:15,299 God moves, and then it's our move. 48 00:03:15,459 --> 00:03:17,459 And then if we move, he moves again. 49 00:03:17,459 --> 00:03:20,019 And then when he moves again, it's our move again. 50 00:03:20,419 --> 00:03:21,299 And it's moving. 51 00:03:21,299 --> 00:03:23,859 You see, it's when God moves, it's our response. 52 00:03:23,859 --> 00:03:25,459 God already wants revival. 53 00:03:26,339 --> 00:03:29,379 We don't even have to pray that God would want to revive. 54 00:03:29,379 --> 00:03:29,939 He wants it. 55 00:03:29,939 --> 00:03:31,459 Wilt thou not be revived? 56 00:03:31,539 --> 00:03:32,179 Okay? 57 00:03:32,499 --> 00:03:35,859 The question is, will we Receive the word of God. 58 00:03:36,499 --> 00:03:41,789 And so next week, it's not just meetings, a few meetings again, 59 00:03:41,869 --> 00:03:42,629 like we have. 60 00:03:42,629 --> 00:03:44,909 So many of us have been to those meetings. 61 00:03:45,469 --> 00:03:46,909 It's a meeting with God. 62 00:03:50,269 --> 00:03:53,069 Not meeting with Brother McCracken, meeting with God. 63 00:03:53,869 --> 00:03:55,029 I've never met him. 64 00:03:55,029 --> 00:03:56,069 We've talked on the phone. 65 00:03:56,069 --> 00:03:57,829 In fact, we talked just a couple of days ago. 66 00:03:57,829 --> 00:03:59,469 And I enjoyed talking with him. 67 00:03:59,789 --> 00:04:02,829 And I said, we're really looking forward to it, and the church 68 00:04:02,829 --> 00:04:04,669 needs revival and I need revival. 69 00:04:05,809 --> 00:04:08,129 And so he's excited about coming. 70 00:04:09,089 --> 00:04:11,049 And one of the great principles. 71 00:04:11,049 --> 00:04:12,289 I'm a man of principles. 72 00:04:12,289 --> 00:04:14,809 I like to take the Bible as principles. 73 00:04:14,809 --> 00:04:20,449 Because a principle is a truth that never changes. 74 00:04:21,969 --> 00:04:22,929 Never changes. 75 00:04:23,329 --> 00:04:24,369 It's timeless. 76 00:04:25,169 --> 00:04:27,409 The principles of God are timeless. 77 00:04:28,129 --> 00:04:30,129 It doesn't change with the generations. 78 00:04:32,109 --> 00:04:34,749 And a lot of people believe that it does change. 79 00:04:34,909 --> 00:04:38,589 And today they call right wrong and wrong right. 80 00:04:39,789 --> 00:04:42,909 And every man does that which is right in his own eyes. 81 00:04:43,549 --> 00:04:46,509 Because they no longer want the Bible or need the Bible. 82 00:04:46,509 --> 00:04:49,189 And you're in a very small minority. 83 00:04:49,189 --> 00:04:51,069 If you take the Bible literally. 84 00:04:51,709 --> 00:04:53,909 And let me remind you, you're going to be mocked. 85 00:04:53,909 --> 00:04:54,749 If you haven't already. 86 00:04:54,909 --> 00:05:01,759 You will be mocked, made fun of, and put down and called all kinds 87 00:05:01,759 --> 00:05:07,639 of names because you are so uneducated and sometimes they would 88 00:05:07,639 --> 00:05:10,679 say so stupid that you believe the Bible. 89 00:05:11,399 --> 00:05:15,159 And yet the Bible stands like a rock, undaunted. 90 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:18,879 And everybody says they know what's wrong with the Bible, but 91 00:05:18,879 --> 00:05:21,399 no one can seem to tell us what's wrong with the Bible. 92 00:05:22,369 --> 00:05:23,889 And the Bible proves itself. 93 00:05:23,969 --> 00:05:25,649 It doesn't have to be proven. 94 00:05:26,049 --> 00:05:27,249 It proves itself. 95 00:05:27,969 --> 00:05:30,369 The word of God always comes true. 96 00:05:30,689 --> 00:05:33,249 But I like the principles of the Bible. 97 00:05:33,569 --> 00:05:36,569 A truth that is timeless, it's boundless. 98 00:05:36,569 --> 00:05:38,529 It doesn't just work in America. 99 00:05:38,529 --> 00:05:43,609 It works in Honduras, or it works in Mexico, or it works in China, 100 00:05:43,609 --> 00:05:44,929 or it works in Russia. 101 00:05:45,329 --> 00:05:46,809 Truth, okay. 102 00:05:46,809 --> 00:05:49,369 There's not one truth for one people or one nation. 103 00:05:49,369 --> 00:05:50,929 A different truth for this one. 104 00:05:50,929 --> 00:05:53,799 There's not a different truth for little kids and a mother. 105 00:05:53,949 --> 00:05:55,429 More important, truth for adults. 106 00:05:55,429 --> 00:06:00,869 There's one truth, and we know Jesus said, I am the truth, the way, 107 00:06:00,869 --> 00:06:02,109 the truth and the life. 108 00:06:02,829 --> 00:06:07,149 Well, they rejected Christ in his earthly ministry when he came 109 00:06:07,309 --> 00:06:08,189 to live. 110 00:06:08,749 --> 00:06:11,869 And the Bible makes it very clear. 111 00:06:11,869 --> 00:06:15,109 He came unto his own and his own received him not, speaking of 112 00:06:15,109 --> 00:06:15,789 the Jews. 113 00:06:16,669 --> 00:06:19,549 And so when you reject Christ, you reject truth. 114 00:06:20,489 --> 00:06:23,049 And when you reject truth, you're on your own. 115 00:06:23,049 --> 00:06:26,169 It's all how you see things instead of how God sees them. 116 00:06:26,889 --> 00:06:27,689 The truth. 117 00:06:28,329 --> 00:06:29,529 The Bible is truth. 118 00:06:29,529 --> 00:06:31,609 And the battle today is over truth. 119 00:06:32,569 --> 00:06:34,889 Who and what to believe. 120 00:06:35,848 --> 00:06:38,849 Brother Kelly did an excellent job this morning, and I sat in his 121 00:06:38,849 --> 00:06:41,289 Sunday school class and talked about truth. 122 00:06:41,769 --> 00:06:43,049 And it was wonderful. 123 00:06:43,689 --> 00:06:47,689 Some have the truth, some have half truths. 124 00:06:48,329 --> 00:06:51,529 And you've probably heard that before, that sometimes a half truth 125 00:06:51,529 --> 00:06:56,329 can be more dangerous than a whole truth or a whole lie. 126 00:06:56,329 --> 00:06:57,049 Excuse me. 127 00:06:57,529 --> 00:07:01,089 Because a lot of people say, well, it's half true and half a lie. 128 00:07:01,089 --> 00:07:04,449 But I don't know which one to believe if it's just an outright 129 00:07:04,449 --> 00:07:04,889 lie. 130 00:07:04,889 --> 00:07:05,889 Most of us can. 131 00:07:05,889 --> 00:07:10,249 If we know enough about the Bible, we know that's not true. 132 00:07:11,459 --> 00:07:14,019 And then some have no truth. 133 00:07:14,259 --> 00:07:18,179 And that's why we have missions and missionaries to get 134 00:07:18,179 --> 00:07:20,739 the truth around the world. 135 00:07:22,099 --> 00:07:23,139 And you can tell. 136 00:07:23,699 --> 00:07:27,459 Excuse me, where the truth is. 137 00:07:27,459 --> 00:07:29,379 You can tell by people who believe. 138 00:07:29,379 --> 00:07:30,619 The truth is how they live. 139 00:07:30,619 --> 00:07:34,339 Truth affects how we live, if we believe it. 140 00:07:34,659 --> 00:07:40,469 Okay, I'm sorry to say that a lot of people say with their mouth 141 00:07:40,469 --> 00:07:44,229 they believe the Bible, but they don't all live the Bible. 142 00:07:44,709 --> 00:07:48,389 We live parts of the Bible that we're comfortable with, but 143 00:07:48,389 --> 00:07:48,909 there's others. 144 00:07:48,909 --> 00:07:50,069 We kind of read around. 145 00:07:50,389 --> 00:07:53,189 We kind of pick and choose and we say, well, I don't understand 146 00:07:53,349 --> 00:07:53,709 that. 147 00:07:53,709 --> 00:07:56,949 Well, most of the time is we understand it perfectly. 148 00:07:57,909 --> 00:07:58,389 Okay? 149 00:07:58,389 --> 00:07:59,109 That's the problem. 150 00:07:59,989 --> 00:08:00,949 It's so clear. 151 00:08:01,989 --> 00:08:09,459 But revival comes when people face the truth about themselves and 152 00:08:09,539 --> 00:08:12,579 about their relationship with God. 153 00:08:13,459 --> 00:08:14,819 Fellowship with God. 154 00:08:14,819 --> 00:08:19,779 The Bible says, how can two walk together except they agree? 155 00:08:20,899 --> 00:08:21,299 Right? 156 00:08:21,939 --> 00:08:28,099 How can we walk with God if God and ourselves don't agree on 157 00:08:28,099 --> 00:08:28,739 some things? 158 00:08:30,739 --> 00:08:32,419 Are you in fellowship with God? 159 00:08:33,349 --> 00:08:36,269 You see, your relationship, if you've been saved, you've been born 160 00:08:36,269 --> 00:08:39,469 into the family of God, your relationship will never change. 161 00:08:39,469 --> 00:08:41,269 You'll always be a child of God. 162 00:08:41,909 --> 00:08:43,109 But that's not the question. 163 00:08:43,269 --> 00:08:46,629 The question is, are you in fellowship with God? 164 00:08:47,189 --> 00:08:49,149 Are you enjoying God's fellowship? 165 00:08:49,149 --> 00:08:50,629 Are you enjoying his presence? 166 00:08:50,789 --> 00:08:52,469 And is he enjoying you? 167 00:08:52,869 --> 00:08:57,389 The Bible says we're created for his pleasure and God wants to 168 00:08:57,389 --> 00:08:58,479 take pleasure in. 169 00:08:59,509 --> 00:09:02,549 Now, here's what we wanna start getting into the message. 170 00:09:03,029 --> 00:09:06,229 In Psalm, the Bible says, thou desirest truth. 171 00:09:06,229 --> 00:09:08,709 You see, we have to be honest with God. 172 00:09:08,709 --> 00:09:09,749 We have to be true. 173 00:09:09,749 --> 00:09:10,789 We can't pretend. 174 00:09:11,269 --> 00:09:12,469 We can't play church. 175 00:09:12,469 --> 00:09:13,669 We can't play a game. 176 00:09:14,149 --> 00:09:16,469 We have to say, lord, I'm willing. 177 00:09:16,469 --> 00:09:17,269 You're right. 178 00:09:17,589 --> 00:09:19,029 I wanna face the truth. 179 00:09:19,029 --> 00:09:20,789 But here's what the Bible says. 180 00:09:21,109 --> 00:09:25,359 Thou desirest truth in the inward parts. 181 00:09:26,799 --> 00:09:31,759 That's speaking of the heart, the deepest corners of the heart. 182 00:09:32,639 --> 00:09:36,639 That's why the psalmist also said, cleanse Thou me from secret 183 00:09:37,199 --> 00:09:37,679 faults. 184 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:39,399 You see a lot of us, most all of us. 185 00:09:39,399 --> 00:09:44,079 I think I could be safe to say everybody here has some secrets. 186 00:09:46,319 --> 00:09:47,999 Am I right or am I right? 187 00:09:49,279 --> 00:09:50,799 Yeah, we have secrets. 188 00:09:51,799 --> 00:09:52,599 God knows. 189 00:09:53,159 --> 00:09:57,039 But there's a lot about us that people don't know, and maybe 190 00:09:57,039 --> 00:10:01,279 they don't need to know, but we need to come clean with God if 191 00:10:01,279 --> 00:10:04,199 we're going to see a revival, which means a change in our life, 192 00:10:04,199 --> 00:10:08,639 to get out of the rut, to get out of that mode of pretense and 193 00:10:08,639 --> 00:10:12,159 to enjoy Christianity and say, instead of saying, I hope one day 194 00:10:12,159 --> 00:10:15,759 we get to heaven where I can be happy, I think you could have 195 00:10:15,759 --> 00:10:17,399 joy here, and Jesus said that. 196 00:10:18,409 --> 00:10:23,929 But you can't have that joy if there's secret faults in your heart 197 00:10:24,809 --> 00:10:28,729 and in mind, secret feelings you have towards someone, secret 198 00:10:28,729 --> 00:10:34,089 anger you have towards someone, a secret you have that you 199 00:10:34,089 --> 00:10:36,569 avoid certain people, you don't like them. 200 00:10:38,649 --> 00:10:39,289 Mm. 201 00:10:41,049 --> 00:10:43,369 We can't find true forgiveness. 202 00:10:44,689 --> 00:10:47,089 We avoid certain people. 203 00:10:50,369 --> 00:10:52,729 This is like open heart surgery. 204 00:10:52,729 --> 00:10:53,569 I mean, come on. 205 00:10:54,129 --> 00:10:55,249 You say, well, I don't want to. 206 00:10:55,249 --> 00:10:55,729 Come on. 207 00:10:55,729 --> 00:10:56,369 Okay. 208 00:10:57,009 --> 00:10:58,929 You have that freedom to choose. 209 00:10:59,889 --> 00:11:04,249 You can continue living the way you are, or you can say, lord, 210 00:11:04,249 --> 00:11:09,089 it's time that I admit the truth, the whole truth, and nothing 211 00:11:09,169 --> 00:11:10,369 but the truth. 212 00:11:11,039 --> 00:11:13,719 The whole truth, the whole heart means it's undivided. 213 00:11:13,719 --> 00:11:15,319 There are no secret rooms. 214 00:11:15,319 --> 00:11:16,639 There's no locked doors. 215 00:11:16,959 --> 00:11:18,319 There's no pretense. 216 00:11:20,799 --> 00:11:23,359 Now, I want to speak to you this morning on this subject. 217 00:11:24,239 --> 00:11:26,958 A little hole in the wall. 218 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:30,119 A little hole in the wall. 219 00:11:30,119 --> 00:11:35,599 And we're gonna look at that in just a minute in Ezekiel, chapter 220 00:11:35,599 --> 00:11:38,959 number eight, because you have an illustration there that'll really 221 00:11:40,149 --> 00:11:43,589 amaze you because it is so right on. 222 00:11:44,629 --> 00:11:47,069 When you think of a hole in the wall, I don't know what you would 223 00:11:47,069 --> 00:11:47,669 picture. 224 00:11:47,989 --> 00:11:49,429 Clayton came up with this. 225 00:11:49,429 --> 00:11:52,029 I said, man, Clayton, that's absolutely perfect. 226 00:11:52,029 --> 00:11:53,749 That's exactly what I wanted. 227 00:11:54,309 --> 00:11:55,829 And he came up with that. 228 00:11:57,029 --> 00:11:58,469 A little hole in the wall. 229 00:11:59,349 --> 00:12:02,909 Have you ever found a place that you like to eat and you want 230 00:12:02,909 --> 00:12:04,309 somebody to go there and try it, too? 231 00:12:04,309 --> 00:12:07,349 And you say, it's just a little hole in the wall? 232 00:12:08,709 --> 00:12:10,549 You're not gonna find it on the interstate. 233 00:12:11,189 --> 00:12:13,909 You're not gonna find it unless you look for it on purpose. 234 00:12:14,709 --> 00:12:16,549 It's just a little hole in the wall. 235 00:12:16,789 --> 00:12:17,509 Am I right? 236 00:12:17,909 --> 00:12:19,309 Yeah, we know what that means. 237 00:12:19,309 --> 00:12:21,749 A little hole in the wall. 238 00:12:21,909 --> 00:12:24,309 In other words, it's not easily noticed. 239 00:12:26,149 --> 00:12:27,829 It's off the beaten path. 240 00:12:28,549 --> 00:12:31,029 It's seemingly insignificant. 241 00:12:31,669 --> 00:12:36,119 To find it, you have to be looking for it purpose. 242 00:12:36,919 --> 00:12:41,159 Now that's why the psalmist said, search me, O God, and know 243 00:12:41,159 --> 00:12:45,479 my heart and see if there be any wicked way in me. 244 00:12:45,479 --> 00:12:48,119 Because a lot of times we're blind to our own faults. 245 00:12:50,519 --> 00:12:54,919 Sometimes other people see us a little bit better than we see ourselves. 246 00:12:56,599 --> 00:13:00,889 We like to think of ourselves highly, and maybe not perfect, but 247 00:13:00,889 --> 00:13:05,089 we like to think of ourselves as, you know, we're not doing too 248 00:13:05,089 --> 00:13:05,409 bad. 249 00:13:07,249 --> 00:13:11,289 You remember when Achan, remember in the book of Joshua, they 250 00:13:11,289 --> 00:13:14,969 were fighting a battle and Joshua said, we don't need a lot 251 00:13:14,969 --> 00:13:16,008 of people for this battle. 252 00:13:16,008 --> 00:13:17,089 This is an easy one. 253 00:13:17,649 --> 00:13:21,049 And he just took a few soldiers and went up there. 254 00:13:21,049 --> 00:13:22,049 You remember that story? 255 00:13:22,609 --> 00:13:24,609 And the Bible says they were wiped out. 256 00:13:24,609 --> 00:13:25,889 I mean, it was unbelievable. 257 00:13:25,889 --> 00:13:28,649 And Joshua just rent his clothes and fell on his knees to 258 00:13:28,649 --> 00:13:30,369 God and said, I can't believe it. 259 00:13:30,709 --> 00:13:31,589 They were in shock. 260 00:13:33,029 --> 00:13:35,349 And God said, well, I'll tell you what happened. 261 00:13:35,989 --> 00:13:37,469 He said, there's a man. 262 00:13:37,469 --> 00:13:40,469 He didn't give his name right at first, but he said, there's someone 263 00:13:41,509 --> 00:13:43,469 who have broken the law. 264 00:13:43,469 --> 00:13:44,309 And they have. 265 00:13:44,309 --> 00:13:47,349 I told them not to take any spoil, not to take anything. 266 00:13:47,429 --> 00:13:51,429 And he said, one of them did that and hid it. 267 00:13:51,429 --> 00:13:52,549 Now, here's what I want you to get. 268 00:13:53,189 --> 00:13:59,829 It says, God said this to Joshua, said someone has hid it among 269 00:13:59,989 --> 00:14:03,109 their stuff. 270 00:14:04,629 --> 00:14:08,229 Strange word for finding the Bible. 271 00:14:09,429 --> 00:14:11,429 I used to ask my son, what are you doing, son? 272 00:14:11,429 --> 00:14:12,389 He goes, just stuff. 273 00:14:13,509 --> 00:14:14,829 He didn't want to tell me what he was doing. 274 00:14:14,829 --> 00:14:15,829 He just says, stuff. 275 00:14:16,709 --> 00:14:17,989 What do you got in your pocket? 276 00:14:18,309 --> 00:14:18,749 Nothing. 277 00:14:18,749 --> 00:14:19,549 What do you mean, nothing? 278 00:14:19,549 --> 00:14:20,949 I see your hand, it's bulging out. 279 00:14:20,949 --> 00:14:21,229 What is? 280 00:14:21,229 --> 00:14:22,229 Oh, just some stuff. 281 00:14:24,399 --> 00:14:28,559 And that's where we have to go if we're gonna see revival. 282 00:14:29,999 --> 00:14:31,759 Let me tighten the screw a little more. 283 00:14:32,639 --> 00:14:36,399 Would you be willing for God to go through your stuff? 284 00:14:37,839 --> 00:14:39,119 We all have stuff. 285 00:14:42,239 --> 00:14:47,759 My wife, bless her heart, it's hard for her to throw things away 286 00:14:47,839 --> 00:14:48,119 now. 287 00:14:48,119 --> 00:14:49,199 She's not a hoarder. 288 00:14:49,199 --> 00:14:51,759 Every once in a while she says, I'm glad I got rid of this 289 00:14:51,759 --> 00:14:52,239 junk. 290 00:14:53,019 --> 00:14:56,659 But most of the time, if we have a little project to clean out 291 00:14:56,659 --> 00:14:59,059 this or that or the other, and she'll sit there and look at it and 292 00:14:59,059 --> 00:15:00,419 go, oh, I just. 293 00:15:00,419 --> 00:15:01,659 I can't get rid of this. 294 00:15:02,219 --> 00:15:03,579 This has meaning to me. 295 00:15:03,579 --> 00:15:05,179 This has memories to me. 296 00:15:06,139 --> 00:15:07,259 I said, well, give it to me. 297 00:15:07,259 --> 00:15:07,979 I'll throw it away. 298 00:15:11,179 --> 00:15:12,459 And you talk to her very long. 299 00:15:12,459 --> 00:15:13,579 You know what she'll tell you? 300 00:15:13,899 --> 00:15:17,979 She'll tell you it's all right for him to have his stuff, but my 301 00:15:17,979 --> 00:15:18,859 stuff is Different. 302 00:15:20,049 --> 00:15:23,969 Well, I want you to think about that word going through your 303 00:15:24,929 --> 00:15:25,369 stuff. 304 00:15:25,369 --> 00:15:26,129 It's hidden. 305 00:15:26,849 --> 00:15:28,449 It's in a little hole in the wall. 306 00:15:29,329 --> 00:15:30,449 Nobody sees it. 307 00:15:30,449 --> 00:15:32,689 At least we think nobody sees it. 308 00:15:33,809 --> 00:15:36,009 And Joshua had to go through Achan's stuff. 309 00:15:36,009 --> 00:15:41,089 And the Bible says in chapter seven of Joshua that he found. 310 00:15:41,169 --> 00:15:42,289 They got it all. 311 00:15:42,289 --> 00:15:45,009 They went one by one, all the way down till they came to Achan. 312 00:15:45,009 --> 00:15:49,349 And Achan said, yeah, I hid it in a hole inside my tent. 313 00:15:49,349 --> 00:15:53,989 I dug a hole inside the tent and I put a wedge of gold and some 314 00:15:53,989 --> 00:15:56,389 silver and a Babylonian garment. 315 00:15:56,389 --> 00:15:59,189 He was really like this garment. 316 00:16:00,069 --> 00:16:04,029 And he defied God, he disobeyed God and he said, yeah, 317 00:16:04,029 --> 00:16:04,589 I hid it. 318 00:16:04,589 --> 00:16:09,429 I saw it and I coveted and I took it and I hid it. 319 00:16:10,629 --> 00:16:13,819 And because of that, people's lives were lost. 320 00:16:15,259 --> 00:16:20,779 The army didn't win a victory because of hidden sin. 321 00:16:22,699 --> 00:16:24,099 The Bible actually tells us. 322 00:16:24,099 --> 00:16:27,739 And I think God put it there to sometimes try to get our attention. 323 00:16:29,499 --> 00:16:32,219 Achan was stoned to death. 324 00:16:33,499 --> 00:16:37,259 So was his wife and so was his children. 325 00:16:38,869 --> 00:16:40,949 You say, well, that don't sound fair. 326 00:16:41,509 --> 00:16:42,549 Well, God's just. 327 00:16:42,549 --> 00:16:44,389 He always does the right thing. 328 00:16:44,949 --> 00:16:47,629 And there's a lot of times in the Bible where God puts things in 329 00:16:47,629 --> 00:16:48,149 the Bible. 330 00:16:48,309 --> 00:16:51,149 If man had written the Bible, they wouldn't have put it in there. 331 00:16:51,149 --> 00:16:54,189 But God put it in there, all of it, the good, the bad and the 332 00:16:54,189 --> 00:16:54,629 ugly. 333 00:16:55,029 --> 00:16:57,109 And he put things in there to warn us. 334 00:16:58,149 --> 00:17:02,389 Don't take my word lightly. 335 00:17:03,919 --> 00:17:05,919 I'm not a God of just generalities. 336 00:17:06,959 --> 00:17:08,559 I'm a God of details. 337 00:17:09,279 --> 00:17:10,999 Now let me set your mind at ease. 338 00:17:10,999 --> 00:17:11,919 Nobody's perfect. 339 00:17:12,239 --> 00:17:13,319 There's none righteous. 340 00:17:13,319 --> 00:17:14,119 No, not one. 341 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:16,399 All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. 342 00:17:16,559 --> 00:17:21,759 And that's why Jesus paid with his life, his blood to wash away 343 00:17:21,999 --> 00:17:23,359 all of our sin. 344 00:17:24,319 --> 00:17:26,439 And we're not going to have to pay for our sin. 345 00:17:26,439 --> 00:17:27,519 It's all been paid for. 346 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:29,679 Even the sins you haven't committed yet. 347 00:17:31,739 --> 00:17:32,299 That's right. 348 00:17:33,499 --> 00:17:35,259 Your sins, you say. 349 00:17:35,259 --> 00:17:36,379 Well, what do you mean? 350 00:17:37,099 --> 00:17:39,979 Before you was even born, Christ died for your sins. 351 00:17:40,699 --> 00:17:43,739 He knew you was going to be born and he knew all about your sins. 352 00:17:47,819 --> 00:17:49,739 Can God go through your stuff? 353 00:17:51,579 --> 00:17:53,339 That's where revival starts. 354 00:17:55,019 --> 00:18:01,009 And I've been convinced after all these years, I'm convinced. 355 00:18:02,209 --> 00:18:03,969 We don't want to go that far. 356 00:18:04,929 --> 00:18:07,089 We want to go far, but not all the way. 357 00:18:08,289 --> 00:18:13,409 We don't want to face what's been covered up and forgotten. 358 00:18:14,128 --> 00:18:17,529 And I'm not saying we have to dig up all of our bad things we've 359 00:18:17,529 --> 00:18:18,209 done in our life. 360 00:18:18,209 --> 00:18:21,769 I'm just talking about when the Holy Spirit touches you and it's 361 00:18:21,769 --> 00:18:24,129 tender and it's a little painful. 362 00:18:26,279 --> 00:18:27,239 That's a good thing. 363 00:18:28,439 --> 00:18:31,999 That means God loves you and he cares about you and he knows there 364 00:18:31,999 --> 00:18:34,039 are things that you have hidden. 365 00:18:34,039 --> 00:18:35,079 That's robbing you. 366 00:18:35,079 --> 00:18:38,679 It's keeping you from enjoying the fullness of your Christian life. 367 00:18:40,999 --> 00:18:44,639 So many churches are hindered because people come to sing oh, how 368 00:18:44,639 --> 00:18:47,959 I love Jesus with sin, hidden sin in their. 369 00:18:51,889 --> 00:18:54,009 This isn't gonna go over very good. 370 00:18:54,009 --> 00:18:56,889 But I'm just telling, listen, we gotta be truthful because the 371 00:18:56,889 --> 00:18:59,649 truth shall set you free. 372 00:19:00,849 --> 00:19:02,929 You can't get any more positive than that. 373 00:19:02,929 --> 00:19:04,889 People say, well, I don't wanna come to get negative. 374 00:19:04,889 --> 00:19:06,849 No, the truth will set you free. 375 00:19:07,489 --> 00:19:12,209 Otherwise you're gonna be tangled up and you're gonna go a 376 00:19:12,209 --> 00:19:12,849 little ways. 377 00:19:13,169 --> 00:19:14,609 You're gonna enjoy a few things. 378 00:19:14,849 --> 00:19:21,189 But you're not going to have the victorious life that God so desperately 379 00:19:21,189 --> 00:19:22,109 wants you to have. 380 00:19:23,229 --> 00:19:25,229 You say, why don't he just make me do it? 381 00:19:25,229 --> 00:19:26,709 Because God gave you a choice. 382 00:19:26,709 --> 00:19:27,309 That's why. 383 00:19:28,669 --> 00:19:32,869 You're not artificial intelligence, okay? 384 00:19:32,869 --> 00:19:34,349 You're not pre programmed. 385 00:19:35,469 --> 00:19:40,309 God could make you hit a button in us and make us all say, 386 00:19:40,309 --> 00:19:42,749 I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you. 387 00:19:43,129 --> 00:19:44,009 That's ridiculous. 388 00:19:44,249 --> 00:19:45,209 It's facetious. 389 00:19:45,209 --> 00:19:46,249 It's silly. 390 00:19:47,209 --> 00:19:49,129 God says, I'm going to give man a choice. 391 00:19:50,089 --> 00:19:55,489 And I want him to choose to love me and to follow me and to be 392 00:19:55,489 --> 00:19:56,409 honest with me. 393 00:19:57,209 --> 00:19:59,208 Because that's where revival starts. 394 00:19:59,369 --> 00:20:05,369 But most people would rather live without revival and just keep 395 00:20:05,369 --> 00:20:06,249 going like they are. 396 00:20:06,249 --> 00:20:07,209 It's not too bad. 397 00:20:07,289 --> 00:20:09,399 It's not great, but could be worse. 398 00:20:09,879 --> 00:20:11,799 We convince ourselves of that. 399 00:20:11,799 --> 00:20:12,679 Listen to me. 400 00:20:13,479 --> 00:20:16,959 We convince ourselves nobody's perfect. 401 00:20:16,959 --> 00:20:19,959 So, okay, I got a few hangups and I got a few sins. 402 00:20:19,959 --> 00:20:21,239 So does everybody else. 403 00:20:21,319 --> 00:20:22,279 Let's just go. 404 00:20:23,159 --> 00:20:25,239 Let's just have a good time at the revival. 405 00:20:25,639 --> 00:20:27,399 Let's enjoy Brother McCracken. 406 00:20:27,399 --> 00:20:30,919 Let's maybe talk about a few things that we could improve on. 407 00:20:31,639 --> 00:20:32,999 But we're not going there. 408 00:20:35,569 --> 00:20:36,529 We're not going there. 409 00:20:36,929 --> 00:20:38,289 Now, you wouldn't say that. 410 00:20:39,249 --> 00:20:41,569 In fact, right now you're probably not even thinking that. 411 00:20:41,569 --> 00:20:43,249 Oh, no, I want to know the truth. 412 00:20:45,249 --> 00:20:52,769 But the fact of the matter is we don't want to unlock all the doors. 413 00:20:57,969 --> 00:21:00,969 Did you know, I believe God wants us to have a little heaven 414 00:21:00,969 --> 00:21:01,569 on earth. 415 00:21:02,489 --> 00:21:03,769 We're going to go to a little heaven. 416 00:21:03,769 --> 00:21:06,569 There's going to always be sin here until God gets through with 417 00:21:06,569 --> 00:21:06,889 everything. 418 00:21:07,849 --> 00:21:11,169 But I think God wanted Us to have a little bit of a taste of heaven 419 00:21:11,169 --> 00:21:11,609 on earth. 420 00:21:11,609 --> 00:21:12,409 Do you have that? 421 00:21:14,169 --> 00:21:15,369 Do you have it in your home? 422 00:21:17,369 --> 00:21:20,329 Do your kids feel like, hey, this is almost like heaven? 423 00:21:21,849 --> 00:21:22,969 I'm just asking. 424 00:21:25,849 --> 00:21:26,809 Wasted years. 425 00:21:28,919 --> 00:21:33,399 Revival means change now in the book of Ezekiel. 426 00:21:33,479 --> 00:21:37,399 And fasten your seatbelt because it couldn't be any more vivid 427 00:21:38,279 --> 00:21:44,319 and more clear than in Ezekiel, chapter eight. 428 00:21:44,319 --> 00:21:48,559 Now, you may be here, Let me say this, you may be here. 429 00:21:48,559 --> 00:21:50,039 And you don't need revival. 430 00:21:50,999 --> 00:21:52,279 You need regeneration. 431 00:21:54,049 --> 00:21:55,169 You need to be saved. 432 00:21:56,129 --> 00:22:00,369 It's about tear you up because you're trying to live like a Christian, 433 00:22:01,329 --> 00:22:04,849 but you're not a Christian, and nobody knows that but you. 434 00:22:04,849 --> 00:22:06,889 And you keep trying to dismiss it. 435 00:22:06,889 --> 00:22:08,049 You don't want to talk about it. 436 00:22:08,049 --> 00:22:10,609 And there's no way I'm going to go through all that again. 437 00:22:10,609 --> 00:22:13,889 And so isn't that a shocking truth? 438 00:22:13,889 --> 00:22:18,049 And you talk about a sad thing. 439 00:22:18,049 --> 00:22:22,279 To think that people would go to church, open a Bible, fill out 440 00:22:22,279 --> 00:22:28,039 an offering card, and enjoy a Sunday school class and then die 441 00:22:28,039 --> 00:22:28,879 and go to hell. 442 00:22:30,239 --> 00:22:32,079 Because they never were really saved. 443 00:22:32,719 --> 00:22:35,639 They went along with the crowd, they followed the crowd, they 444 00:22:35,639 --> 00:22:39,159 got on the bus and they're pretty much. 445 00:22:39,159 --> 00:22:45,919 It's okay that they're not really positively sure how they got 446 00:22:45,919 --> 00:22:46,319 saved. 447 00:22:48,329 --> 00:22:51,849 And I've told you this before, you may not remember the place or 448 00:22:51,849 --> 00:22:56,209 the time or the people that were there, but you can't be saved 449 00:22:56,209 --> 00:22:58,089 and not remember how you got saved. 450 00:22:59,609 --> 00:23:02,889 I talked to a man just last week, said, oh, I've always been 451 00:23:02,889 --> 00:23:03,368 saved. 452 00:23:03,449 --> 00:23:04,249 I said, really? 453 00:23:04,329 --> 00:23:05,689 Yeah, I was born saved. 454 00:23:08,409 --> 00:23:13,129 I said, well, you ever read John chapter 3, where Jesus said, 455 00:23:13,129 --> 00:23:14,249 you must be born again? 456 00:23:17,159 --> 00:23:20,079 I'm just throwing that out there because so many people are 457 00:23:20,079 --> 00:23:22,879 so miserable because they're in the land of in between. 458 00:23:22,879 --> 00:23:27,199 They got one foot in the world and one foot in the church, and they 459 00:23:27,199 --> 00:23:30,638 want to be a good Christian, but they're not really sold out and 460 00:23:30,638 --> 00:23:32,279 they're not really totally committed. 461 00:23:35,559 --> 00:23:37,159 Salvation is a heart matter. 462 00:23:39,639 --> 00:23:40,599 It's a heart matter. 463 00:23:40,599 --> 00:23:51,309 And what you live in your heart, Do you have some stuff that 464 00:23:51,309 --> 00:23:52,629 God wants you to throw away? 465 00:23:54,469 --> 00:23:57,349 Maybe some bitterness or unforgiveness or anger? 466 00:23:58,229 --> 00:24:03,029 Maybe an addiction of some kind, something you put before God? 467 00:24:03,109 --> 00:24:07,469 Maybe in your thought life there's a stubbornness about something 468 00:24:07,469 --> 00:24:15,389 you can't let go of a friend who hurt you, someone who lied to 469 00:24:15,389 --> 00:24:20,109 you, someone who disappointed you, and you can't let go of it. 470 00:24:20,669 --> 00:24:23,709 And so you stuff it with your other stuff. 471 00:24:25,229 --> 00:24:29,469 And nobody knows but God. 472 00:24:33,229 --> 00:24:34,589 Are you living two lives? 473 00:24:37,099 --> 00:24:40,419 Are you starting to Realize that you don't have the power you 474 00:24:40,419 --> 00:24:41,659 thought Christians should have. 475 00:24:42,299 --> 00:24:43,379 You don't have peace. 476 00:24:43,379 --> 00:24:44,539 You're living in fear. 477 00:24:45,899 --> 00:24:47,259 You don't really have any joy. 478 00:24:47,259 --> 00:24:49,579 You can laugh a little bit, but you don't have joy. 479 00:24:51,178 --> 00:24:51,819 You've lost. 480 00:24:51,819 --> 00:24:53,339 You don't have a burden for souls. 481 00:24:53,339 --> 00:24:57,499 Oh, yeah, you want to send missionaries and you want to invite 482 00:24:57,499 --> 00:25:00,339 people and you want everybody to go to heaven, but you don't have 483 00:25:00,339 --> 00:25:01,019 a burden. 484 00:25:04,189 --> 00:25:06,189 You've taken that burden and stuffed it. 485 00:25:06,989 --> 00:25:08,589 You know, I heard this a long time ago. 486 00:25:09,149 --> 00:25:11,069 There's five lives that we're all. 487 00:25:11,069 --> 00:25:14,269 If we be honest, sometimes there are five different lives we 488 00:25:14,269 --> 00:25:14,589 live. 489 00:25:16,589 --> 00:25:21,029 There's the life, of course, that you know about you. 490 00:25:21,029 --> 00:25:24,709 Nobody else knows everything about your life, but not even your 491 00:25:24,709 --> 00:25:25,789 wife or your husband. 492 00:25:26,109 --> 00:25:29,589 There's your life you the live you that you live with. 493 00:25:30,149 --> 00:25:33,909 But then there's the life your family knows you by. 494 00:25:34,709 --> 00:25:37,389 A lot of people are different in their home and family than they 495 00:25:37,389 --> 00:25:41,669 are when they're by themselves alone, out on a business trip or 496 00:25:41,669 --> 00:25:41,989 something. 497 00:25:45,749 --> 00:25:49,189 You want to find out about mom and dad, you talk to the kids. 498 00:25:50,469 --> 00:25:51,589 They're pretty honest. 499 00:25:53,669 --> 00:25:57,639 And then there's the life that your church knows you by. 500 00:26:00,439 --> 00:26:01,839 Sometimes that's a different life. 501 00:26:01,839 --> 00:26:04,679 We live a little different at church. 502 00:26:05,559 --> 00:26:08,639 In fact, when we get out of the car and walk toward the door, 503 00:26:08,639 --> 00:26:11,079 we're already trying to get into the church mode. 504 00:26:13,959 --> 00:26:16,519 And then there's the life your friends know you by. 505 00:26:17,559 --> 00:26:20,839 But the most important is the life that God knows you by. 506 00:26:25,589 --> 00:26:27,349 In Ezekiel, chapter number eight. 507 00:26:28,149 --> 00:26:29,989 You didn't think I'd ever get there, did you? 508 00:26:30,869 --> 00:26:31,749 Verse number one. 509 00:26:31,749 --> 00:26:35,669 It came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the 510 00:26:35,669 --> 00:26:40,149 fifth day of the month as I sat in mine house. 511 00:26:40,229 --> 00:26:41,709 So Ezekiel is at home. 512 00:26:41,709 --> 00:26:42,949 He's sitting in his house. 513 00:26:43,749 --> 00:26:47,109 And the elders of Judah sat before me. 514 00:26:47,109 --> 00:26:51,409 I don't know if this was a fellowship meeting. 515 00:26:51,409 --> 00:26:55,809 I don't know what kind of what was going on, but things are getting 516 00:26:55,809 --> 00:26:56,449 ready to happen. 517 00:26:59,329 --> 00:27:02,289 And it says, when he was sitting there, look at verse one. 518 00:27:02,289 --> 00:27:06,449 That the hand of the Lord fell there upon me. 519 00:27:07,969 --> 00:27:14,289 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire. 520 00:27:16,659 --> 00:27:22,099 From the appearance of his loins, even downward fire, and from 521 00:27:22,099 --> 00:27:25,979 his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the 522 00:27:25,979 --> 00:27:26,979 color of amber. 523 00:27:28,499 --> 00:27:29,379 Now watch this. 524 00:27:29,459 --> 00:27:36,659 He put forth the form of an hand and took me by a lock of mine 525 00:27:36,659 --> 00:27:36,979 head. 526 00:27:38,019 --> 00:27:39,059 Isn't that something? 527 00:27:39,859 --> 00:27:41,259 God has a sense of humor. 528 00:27:41,259 --> 00:27:47,459 He picked him up by the hair of his head, snatched him up, and 529 00:27:47,459 --> 00:27:52,579 the Spirit lifted Me up between the earth and the heaven 530 00:27:54,419 --> 00:28:00,899 and brought me in the visions of God, to Jerusalem, to the door 531 00:28:01,859 --> 00:28:06,099 of the inner gate that looketh toward the north. 532 00:28:07,539 --> 00:28:08,899 Where was the seat? 533 00:28:10,709 --> 00:28:17,589 The seat of the image of jealousy which provoketh to jealousy. 534 00:28:17,589 --> 00:28:19,469 Now, what in the world does all that mean? 535 00:28:19,469 --> 00:28:23,109 Well, the seat is the control center. 536 00:28:24,389 --> 00:28:29,389 You've heard of the county seat, the place where the courthouse 537 00:28:29,389 --> 00:28:31,269 is and all the things going around. 538 00:28:31,509 --> 00:28:35,189 And the Bible says in our heart that the heart is the control 539 00:28:35,269 --> 00:28:36,309 center of our life. 540 00:28:37,789 --> 00:28:38,509 It's where we. 541 00:28:39,389 --> 00:28:41,669 It's really intellect, emotion and will. 542 00:28:41,669 --> 00:28:43,029 That's what your heart is made of. 543 00:28:43,029 --> 00:28:43,709 Three things. 544 00:28:43,949 --> 00:28:48,109 Intellect, knowledge, emotion, feeling and will. 545 00:28:49,469 --> 00:28:53,549 Is the choice you have to make choices in your heart. 546 00:28:54,269 --> 00:28:55,389 Does that make sense? 547 00:28:57,469 --> 00:28:58,029 The will? 548 00:28:58,429 --> 00:29:01,309 A lot of people have the intellect of the gospel. 549 00:29:01,309 --> 00:29:02,589 They understand the gospel. 550 00:29:03,409 --> 00:29:05,969 And a lot of people feel and have felt. 551 00:29:05,969 --> 00:29:10,329 And you felt, when you got under the conviction, you felt that 552 00:29:10,329 --> 00:29:11,569 you needed to be saved. 553 00:29:12,769 --> 00:29:18,289 But a lot of people don't want to surrender their will, intellect. 554 00:29:18,289 --> 00:29:18,808 Fine. 555 00:29:18,808 --> 00:29:19,489 Yeah, I agree. 556 00:29:19,489 --> 00:29:20,449 Check, check, check. 557 00:29:20,449 --> 00:29:23,129 Jesus died, rose again, buried, coming back. 558 00:29:23,129 --> 00:29:24,129 Check, check, check. 559 00:29:25,089 --> 00:29:28,049 And they've had those times they felt the presence of God. 560 00:29:28,049 --> 00:29:29,249 Oh yeah, I was there. 561 00:29:29,249 --> 00:29:30,039 It really happened. 562 00:29:30,189 --> 00:29:34,469 But the will that's in the heart, that's where you choose in 563 00:29:34,469 --> 00:29:34,829 the will. 564 00:29:34,829 --> 00:29:37,789 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. 565 00:29:38,909 --> 00:29:41,869 And the Bible tells us that God is a jealous God. 566 00:29:41,869 --> 00:29:47,269 He doesn't want to share his love for you and your love for him 567 00:29:47,269 --> 00:29:48,349 with anybody else. 568 00:29:48,429 --> 00:29:50,989 And I don't think there's a married couple here today that say 569 00:29:50,989 --> 00:29:55,069 that wouldn't bother me if my husband loves somebody besides me 570 00:29:55,069 --> 00:29:58,119 or to share or whatever, or wife to a husband. 571 00:29:58,119 --> 00:29:59,959 I mean, that's kind of ridiculous. 572 00:29:59,959 --> 00:30:05,599 But God says, well, I love you too much to stand in line with the 573 00:30:05,599 --> 00:30:07,799 world and wait for you to have some time for me. 574 00:30:09,159 --> 00:30:12,799 God says, I bought you because I wanted to buy you and I love you 575 00:30:12,799 --> 00:30:14,679 and I paid for it with a dear price. 576 00:30:15,959 --> 00:30:18,439 In your mind, you belong to me. 577 00:30:19,799 --> 00:30:20,679 Jealousy. 578 00:30:22,529 --> 00:30:23,249 Think about that. 579 00:30:23,249 --> 00:30:28,769 The touch of God now and behold, verse 4. 580 00:30:30,689 --> 00:30:36,089 The glory of the God of Israel was there at the door according to 581 00:30:36,089 --> 00:30:38,289 the visions that I saw in the plain. 582 00:30:39,649 --> 00:30:44,889 Then said he unto me, son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way 583 00:30:44,889 --> 00:30:45,729 toward the north. 584 00:30:46,209 --> 00:30:49,049 So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north. 585 00:30:49,049 --> 00:30:52,329 And behold, northward at the gate of the altar. 586 00:30:52,729 --> 00:30:56,089 This image of jealousy in the entry. 587 00:30:57,289 --> 00:30:58,089 An image. 588 00:30:59,689 --> 00:31:01,289 It was a portrayal. 589 00:31:01,289 --> 00:31:03,129 I'll show you in a moment of the imagination. 590 00:31:03,529 --> 00:31:04,488 The hidden things. 591 00:31:05,609 --> 00:31:07,129 They were living a double life. 592 00:31:07,849 --> 00:31:11,009 And Here, as they got closer and closer, they're beginning to 593 00:31:11,009 --> 00:31:11,609 see this. 594 00:31:11,609 --> 00:31:13,449 And God is very jealous. 595 00:31:14,959 --> 00:31:21,679 And he said furthermore unto me, son of man, seest thou what they 596 00:31:21,679 --> 00:31:25,999 do, even the great abominations that the house of Israel 597 00:31:25,999 --> 00:31:26,879 committeth here? 598 00:31:27,199 --> 00:31:30,079 That I should go far off from my sanctuary. 599 00:31:30,319 --> 00:31:31,199 Stop right there. 600 00:31:31,519 --> 00:31:36,759 There is nothing more devastating and more fearful than 601 00:31:36,759 --> 00:31:38,479 for God to say, I'm out of here. 602 00:31:39,279 --> 00:31:43,659 Whether it be in your marriage or in your home or in your church 603 00:31:44,699 --> 00:31:47,979 or in your country, where God says, I'm done. 604 00:31:51,179 --> 00:31:52,699 Has God ever done that before? 605 00:31:52,699 --> 00:31:53,979 Oh, yes, he has. 606 00:31:56,859 --> 00:32:00,859 That I should go far over my sanctuary but turn thee yet again, 607 00:32:01,019 --> 00:32:03,419 Ezekiel, you haven't seen anything yet. 608 00:32:04,219 --> 00:32:06,379 And thou shalt see greater abominations. 609 00:32:06,379 --> 00:32:07,339 You go, oh, man. 610 00:32:07,339 --> 00:32:08,299 Abominations. 611 00:32:08,299 --> 00:32:09,419 Come on, give me a break. 612 00:32:09,929 --> 00:32:10,969 I make mistakes. 613 00:32:10,969 --> 00:32:13,849 Yeah, that's part of our problem, ladies and gentlemen. 614 00:32:14,009 --> 00:32:15,689 We minimize our sin. 615 00:32:17,289 --> 00:32:18,369 We hate somebody. 616 00:32:18,369 --> 00:32:20,569 And Jesus said, you're a murderer. 617 00:32:21,369 --> 00:32:24,289 We lust after someone that's not our husband or wife. 618 00:32:24,289 --> 00:32:26,409 And Jesus said, you've committed adultery. 619 00:32:29,769 --> 00:32:30,449 Didn't get one. 620 00:32:30,449 --> 00:32:31,449 Amen on that one. 621 00:32:31,689 --> 00:32:33,049 But that's what Jesus said. 622 00:32:33,049 --> 00:32:34,009 I didn't say that. 623 00:32:34,249 --> 00:32:35,609 I'm just quoting Jesus. 624 00:32:37,609 --> 00:32:39,609 Thou shalt see greater abominations. 625 00:32:39,769 --> 00:32:40,729 Now watch this. 626 00:32:40,809 --> 00:32:46,009 He brought me to the door of the court, and when I looked, behold, 627 00:32:46,249 --> 00:32:49,929 here it is, a hole in the wall. 628 00:32:52,409 --> 00:32:59,209 Then said he unto me, son of man, dig now in the wall. 629 00:33:00,889 --> 00:33:05,239 And when I had digged in the wall, behold, a door. 630 00:33:05,479 --> 00:33:06,599 So here's a wall. 631 00:33:06,919 --> 00:33:07,999 He starts digging. 632 00:33:07,999 --> 00:33:10,759 And then inside the wall that you couldn't see from the outside, 633 00:33:11,479 --> 00:33:12,839 now he sees a door. 634 00:33:13,799 --> 00:33:15,399 And he said unto me, go in. 635 00:33:15,399 --> 00:33:20,439 Go in the door, and behold the wicked abominations that they do 636 00:33:20,439 --> 00:33:20,759 here. 637 00:33:20,759 --> 00:33:24,519 So I went in and I saw. 638 00:33:26,039 --> 00:33:30,919 I went in and saw, and behold every form of creeping things and 639 00:33:30,919 --> 00:33:34,399 abominable beasts and all the idols of the house of Israel portrayed 640 00:33:34,399 --> 00:33:35,149 upon the wa. 641 00:33:35,459 --> 00:33:35,899 Roundabout. 642 00:33:35,899 --> 00:33:38,499 You go, well, at least that's not me. 643 00:33:39,219 --> 00:33:44,099 No, but you could have some other things written on the inside 644 00:33:44,099 --> 00:33:46,019 of the wall that nobody sees. 645 00:33:46,659 --> 00:33:50,819 A little list, some secret things. 646 00:33:54,099 --> 00:33:57,979 See, ladies and gentlemen, all the Bible may not be written to us, 647 00:33:57,979 --> 00:33:59,459 but it's all written for us. 648 00:34:00,829 --> 00:34:03,949 And when we read these things in the Old Testament, which are pictures 649 00:34:03,949 --> 00:34:07,549 for the principles in the New Testament, where it says that God 650 00:34:07,549 --> 00:34:10,789 looketh on the inward, man looketh on the outward, but God looketh 651 00:34:10,789 --> 00:34:13,749 on the inward, and he desires truth in the inward parts. 652 00:34:13,749 --> 00:34:18,029 And there will never be revival until we turn ourself inside 653 00:34:18,029 --> 00:34:22,909 out, until we dig in the wall and see the door and open the door, 654 00:34:23,469 --> 00:34:28,429 but we draw back, we go, please, I don't want to go there. 655 00:34:28,669 --> 00:34:30,269 I'll admit I'm not perfect. 656 00:34:30,589 --> 00:34:31,949 I've got some problems. 657 00:34:32,409 --> 00:34:32,889 Let's go. 658 00:34:33,449 --> 00:34:37,689 And that's exactly why we don't see some of the old revivals 659 00:34:37,689 --> 00:34:41,209 that they used to have years ago, because we're so distracted 660 00:34:41,209 --> 00:34:43,889 now and we've gotten so comfortable with our sin and our 661 00:34:43,889 --> 00:34:47,449 attitudes and all the things that we do and we explain it away 662 00:34:47,449 --> 00:34:50,729 and we say, well, it's not as bad as so and so and this and that. 663 00:34:50,729 --> 00:34:52,649 We go on and on and never even stop. 664 00:34:53,689 --> 00:34:57,289 It's amazing how we can justify. 665 00:35:02,619 --> 00:35:03,339 Portrayed. 666 00:35:04,859 --> 00:35:10,379 And there stood before them, verse 11, 70 men of the ancients 667 00:35:10,539 --> 00:35:12,779 of the house of Israel, the old men. 668 00:35:13,339 --> 00:35:19,379 And in the midst of them stood Jazaniah, the son of Shaphan, with 669 00:35:19,379 --> 00:35:21,379 every man his censer in his hand. 670 00:35:21,379 --> 00:35:23,499 And a thick cloud of incense went up. 671 00:35:23,939 --> 00:35:27,299 So there's this room and they're worshiping another God. 672 00:35:28,019 --> 00:35:31,939 And God said from the very beginning the ten commandments, Thou 673 00:35:31,939 --> 00:35:33,699 shall have no other God before me. 674 00:35:33,939 --> 00:35:37,059 And they outwardly would always say, thou art God, thou art 675 00:35:37,059 --> 00:35:38,419 God, you're God beside thee. 676 00:35:38,419 --> 00:35:39,219 There's none other. 677 00:35:39,299 --> 00:35:42,459 But hidden in their heart, there was some things that they were 678 00:35:42,459 --> 00:35:43,699 worshiping different gods. 679 00:35:44,659 --> 00:35:48,419 Now, I don't think I have to tell you today that we have gods 680 00:35:48,419 --> 00:35:52,229 today that are not statutes or pictures, but they're things that 681 00:35:53,189 --> 00:35:57,389 have a great influence in our life and that take us away from God. 682 00:35:57,389 --> 00:36:00,069 You see, it's not so much whether it's bad or good. 683 00:36:00,229 --> 00:36:05,589 Does it draw us closer to God or does it make us further away from 684 00:36:05,589 --> 00:36:05,989 God? 685 00:36:08,869 --> 00:36:12,469 Nothing wrong with sports, but for some people, that's a God. 686 00:36:13,509 --> 00:36:16,469 Nothing wrong with cars, but for some people, that's a God. 687 00:36:17,599 --> 00:36:18,639 Nothing wrong with money. 688 00:36:18,639 --> 00:36:19,839 Money's not evil. 689 00:36:19,999 --> 00:36:21,999 The love of money is the root of all evil. 690 00:36:22,319 --> 00:36:24,239 But God didn't say money's not bad. 691 00:36:25,119 --> 00:36:28,319 But most people would do anything for a little bit more money. 692 00:36:28,319 --> 00:36:29,359 And there's never enough. 693 00:36:32,479 --> 00:36:34,239 And we could go on and on and on. 694 00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:39,959 Then said he unto me, verse 12, Son of man, hast thou seen what 695 00:36:39,959 --> 00:36:42,959 the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark? 696 00:36:43,679 --> 00:36:48,039 Every man in the chambers of his imagery, that means the rooms 697 00:36:48,039 --> 00:36:51,239 of his imagination, this little hole in the wall. 698 00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:52,559 And you go in and there's a door. 699 00:36:52,559 --> 00:36:55,279 And you open the door and you crawl through, and then you stand 700 00:36:55,279 --> 00:36:58,319 up and you start looking around all these images. 701 00:37:01,679 --> 00:37:06,599 For they say, the Lord seeth us not the Lord hath forsaken the 702 00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:06,959 earth. 703 00:37:07,839 --> 00:37:10,639 He said unto me, turn thee yet again. 704 00:37:12,429 --> 00:37:13,349 Is there any end here? 705 00:37:13,349 --> 00:37:16,909 Thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. 706 00:37:16,909 --> 00:37:19,549 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house, 707 00:37:19,549 --> 00:37:20,749 which was toward the north. 708 00:37:20,829 --> 00:37:24,429 And behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 709 00:37:24,669 --> 00:37:25,789 That's another God. 710 00:37:26,829 --> 00:37:27,468 The women. 711 00:37:28,189 --> 00:37:31,389 Then said he unto me, hast thou seen this, O Son of man? 712 00:37:31,629 --> 00:37:32,669 Turn thee yet again. 713 00:37:32,669 --> 00:37:35,069 Thou shalt see greater abominations than these. 714 00:37:35,229 --> 00:37:37,709 And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house. 715 00:37:37,709 --> 00:37:41,309 And behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch 716 00:37:41,309 --> 00:37:46,229 and the altar, were about five and 20 men with their backs toward 717 00:37:46,229 --> 00:37:47,389 the temple of the Lord. 718 00:37:47,389 --> 00:37:51,069 They had turned around from God's house, and their faces are 719 00:37:51,069 --> 00:37:54,909 toward the east, and they worshiped the sun. 720 00:37:56,029 --> 00:37:58,949 And again, ladies and gentlemen, please receive the word 721 00:37:58,949 --> 00:37:59,469 of God. 722 00:37:59,869 --> 00:38:01,949 Nobody in here worships the sun. 723 00:38:03,549 --> 00:38:04,749 So we go, whew. 724 00:38:06,089 --> 00:38:10,969 Yeah, but there could there be some other things that we put before 725 00:38:10,969 --> 00:38:11,449 God? 726 00:38:12,969 --> 00:38:14,409 The truth shall set you free. 727 00:38:14,409 --> 00:38:16,089 God's not wanting you to be miserable. 728 00:38:16,089 --> 00:38:18,249 God's not wanting to make you do anything. 729 00:38:18,649 --> 00:38:22,409 God wants to be number one in your life because you are number 730 00:38:22,409 --> 00:38:23,289 one to God. 731 00:38:26,169 --> 00:38:30,129 God doesn't do anything without realizing how it's going 732 00:38:30,129 --> 00:38:34,669 to affect you, because you're his pride and joy bought with his 733 00:38:34,669 --> 00:38:35,109 blood. 734 00:38:36,549 --> 00:38:38,389 You belong to God if you're saved. 735 00:38:42,709 --> 00:38:45,229 Then he said, hast thou seen this, O Son of man? 736 00:38:45,229 --> 00:38:46,149 Look at verse 17. 737 00:38:46,469 --> 00:38:50,749 Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the 738 00:38:50,749 --> 00:38:52,549 abominations which they commit here? 739 00:38:53,109 --> 00:38:57,789 They filled the land with violence and have returned to provoke 740 00:38:57,789 --> 00:38:58,629 me to anger. 741 00:39:00,169 --> 00:39:01,609 Now we're almost through. 742 00:39:01,609 --> 00:39:05,609 But, I mean, I don't think anybody here can misunderstand this. 743 00:39:06,329 --> 00:39:11,689 We can dismiss it, but we don't really have to. 744 00:39:12,009 --> 00:39:14,009 We don't want to really have to go there. 745 00:39:14,009 --> 00:39:19,129 We want to cover the hole back up and be a good Christian. 746 00:39:22,249 --> 00:39:23,529 The hole in the wall. 747 00:39:27,779 --> 00:39:28,179 Hmm. 748 00:39:31,539 --> 00:39:34,579 Therefore, verse 18 will I also deal in fury. 749 00:39:34,579 --> 00:39:38,579 Mine eyes shall not spare, neither will I have pity. 750 00:39:38,579 --> 00:39:41,339 And though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will 751 00:39:41,339 --> 00:39:43,139 I not hear them. 752 00:39:46,339 --> 00:39:48,459 We go on through that chapter. 753 00:39:48,459 --> 00:39:54,669 And God told Ezekiel to go through and put a mark to mark them. 754 00:39:55,709 --> 00:39:58,269 Interesting, because we know about the mark of the beast. 755 00:39:58,269 --> 00:40:01,109 And those that don't have the mark of the beast will not be able 756 00:40:01,109 --> 00:40:04,669 to buy or sell during the tribulation period. 757 00:40:04,749 --> 00:40:05,469 Seven years. 758 00:40:07,789 --> 00:40:09,789 But look in chapter nine before we go. 759 00:40:12,109 --> 00:40:17,319 In the Book of Ezekiel, chapter nine, Verse four. 760 00:40:17,319 --> 00:40:20,039 And the Lord said unto him, go through the midst of the city, through 761 00:40:20,039 --> 00:40:22,999 the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of 762 00:40:22,999 --> 00:40:30,439 the men that what, sigh and that cry for all the abominations. 763 00:40:30,439 --> 00:40:34,359 He said, I want you to mark those that are sighing and crying 764 00:40:34,359 --> 00:40:39,479 for revival, those that are sick in their stomach of what they've 765 00:40:39,479 --> 00:40:43,079 seen and what they realize, and they want revival more than anything 766 00:40:43,079 --> 00:40:43,519 else. 767 00:40:44,129 --> 00:40:45,169 Sighing and crying. 768 00:40:45,569 --> 00:40:48,249 Would that describe you sighing? 769 00:40:48,249 --> 00:40:52,169 When you think about revival, you go, will we ever have a real 770 00:40:52,169 --> 00:40:52,769 revival? 771 00:40:54,849 --> 00:40:59,169 Do you ever find yourself crying for revival? 772 00:41:00,129 --> 00:41:07,369 Crying for the church, crying for God to do the unexplainable here 773 00:41:07,369 --> 00:41:10,689 at Heritage, in spite of everything that's happened. 774 00:41:11,809 --> 00:41:17,169 Are you at that point yet of crying and sighing for revival? 775 00:41:17,809 --> 00:41:18,769 I'm just asking. 776 00:41:21,649 --> 00:41:22,929 He said, set a mark. 777 00:41:27,489 --> 00:41:30,129 He said he was going to slay those that didn't have the mark. 778 00:41:32,929 --> 00:41:33,409 Wow. 779 00:41:37,999 --> 00:41:40,919 The Bible says, a broken and contrite heart, O Lord, thou wilt 780 00:41:40,919 --> 00:41:46,719 not despise a broken and a contrite heart. 781 00:41:47,279 --> 00:41:49,839 Not concrete, contrite, broken. 782 00:41:51,679 --> 00:41:56,199 Now, we're going to close with this, but I want you to help me out, 783 00:41:56,199 --> 00:41:57,759 and I want you to listen carefully. 784 00:41:58,399 --> 00:42:02,279 Hopefully this will put it in perspective of something that happened 785 00:42:02,279 --> 00:42:07,769 thousands of years ago, but yet it's relevant today in 2026. 786 00:42:10,729 --> 00:42:15,689 I want you to close your eyes right now, just like you're praying. 787 00:42:15,689 --> 00:42:17,369 Just bow your head down and close your eyes. 788 00:42:21,529 --> 00:42:25,289 Now, I want you to imagine an elevator. 789 00:42:26,889 --> 00:42:28,409 We've all been in elevators. 790 00:42:31,219 --> 00:42:32,099 They're very quiet. 791 00:42:33,779 --> 00:42:38,699 They have buttons that you push up and down enter your mind. 792 00:42:38,699 --> 00:42:40,419 Now you're getting into an elevator. 793 00:42:40,739 --> 00:42:45,219 The door closes, and you feel the little bump, the little jerk 794 00:42:45,219 --> 00:42:51,299 as the elevator begins to descend, not ascend. 795 00:42:51,299 --> 00:42:52,179 It's going down. 796 00:42:55,709 --> 00:42:56,309 You can feel it. 797 00:42:56,309 --> 00:42:58,109 It's going down, down. 798 00:42:58,829 --> 00:42:59,709 Now think about it. 799 00:42:59,709 --> 00:43:00,669 Use your imagination. 800 00:43:03,869 --> 00:43:10,669 It stops kind of abruptly and the door begins to open. 801 00:43:13,549 --> 00:43:18,389 And you're beginning to realize you have just descended in 802 00:43:18,389 --> 00:43:22,279 an elevator down inside your heart. 803 00:43:24,439 --> 00:43:27,559 I know it's kind of strange, but just use your imagination. 804 00:43:30,839 --> 00:43:37,559 The door opens and you're inside your heart, and it seems maybe 805 00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:40,119 a little bit of a blast of cold air. 806 00:43:42,119 --> 00:43:45,479 You thought your heart was warm, on fire for God, like it used 807 00:43:45,479 --> 00:43:49,609 to be, but all of a sudden, it seems cold. 808 00:43:51,529 --> 00:43:54,409 It's one of the first signs things are wrong when your heart 809 00:43:54,409 --> 00:43:55,209 gets cold. 810 00:43:58,649 --> 00:44:02,168 And then you lift up your head and you look and all you can see 811 00:44:02,168 --> 00:44:10,609 is boxes and junk and stuff that you've accumulated over the 812 00:44:10,609 --> 00:44:12,679 years and cobwebs. 813 00:44:16,999 --> 00:44:17,599 You just. 814 00:44:17,599 --> 00:44:22,479 You can't believe how much stuff is in your heart. 815 00:44:22,479 --> 00:44:24,439 You don't even remember how it all got there. 816 00:44:26,999 --> 00:44:28,198 Well, you put it there. 817 00:44:30,199 --> 00:44:31,799 Everything that's down in your heart. 818 00:44:32,119 --> 00:44:33,239 God didn't put it there. 819 00:44:34,279 --> 00:44:35,399 The devil didn't put it there. 820 00:44:35,399 --> 00:44:36,279 You put it there. 821 00:44:36,839 --> 00:44:39,799 And you're planning to deal with it later, but later turns into 822 00:44:39,799 --> 00:44:40,199 years. 823 00:44:42,949 --> 00:44:43,989 You still go to church. 824 00:44:45,429 --> 00:44:48,389 You still say your blessing before you eat dinner. 825 00:44:50,229 --> 00:44:52,389 You manage to read some scripture now and then. 826 00:44:55,589 --> 00:44:57,349 But there's so much stuff in here. 827 00:44:58,469 --> 00:44:59,269 Are you with me? 828 00:44:59,269 --> 00:45:01,029 You're still there in your imagination. 829 00:45:04,149 --> 00:45:06,069 Now, let me ask you a startling question. 830 00:45:09,079 --> 00:45:09,799 Where is Christ? 831 00:45:12,519 --> 00:45:13,759 He said, he shall be in us. 832 00:45:13,759 --> 00:45:15,719 He'll never leave us nor forsake us. 833 00:45:16,839 --> 00:45:17,639 Where is He? 834 00:45:20,759 --> 00:45:23,159 He's there because you can hear his voice. 835 00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:28,199 Although it's very faint, you can tell that it's way in the back 836 00:45:28,199 --> 00:45:28,999 of that heart. 837 00:45:28,999 --> 00:45:31,839 It's back there behind a bunch of stuff. 838 00:45:31,839 --> 00:45:32,519 And you can. 839 00:45:33,179 --> 00:45:34,139 You can hear his voice. 840 00:45:34,139 --> 00:45:35,899 It's not loud, but you can hear it. 841 00:45:37,339 --> 00:45:41,099 And you start making your way toward that voice. 842 00:45:41,739 --> 00:45:45,419 And you're having to move this and move that and move this and move 843 00:45:45,419 --> 00:45:50,859 that, and trying to make a little path back there like they 844 00:45:50,859 --> 00:45:52,379 did in this hole in the wall. 845 00:45:55,419 --> 00:45:58,699 And you're seeing things you hadn't even thought about in a while, 846 00:46:00,079 --> 00:46:01,239 things you've gotten used to. 847 00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:03,599 That really is not good. 848 00:46:05,359 --> 00:46:11,479 And you come to Christ, and he looks at you and says, what took 849 00:46:11,479 --> 00:46:12,159 you so long? 850 00:46:13,519 --> 00:46:14,399 I've been waiting. 851 00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:19,839 And you can't even answer him. 852 00:46:20,159 --> 00:46:25,439 You begin to break down and weep because it took you a while 853 00:46:25,439 --> 00:46:25,959 to get there. 854 00:46:25,959 --> 00:46:29,659 And you realize he's been covered up. 855 00:46:29,659 --> 00:46:30,459 He won't leave. 856 00:46:30,459 --> 00:46:31,739 He'll never leave you. 857 00:46:32,619 --> 00:46:35,259 It'll feel like he's left you, but he won't ever leave you. 858 00:46:37,739 --> 00:46:40,139 And now the Lord says, what do you want to do? 859 00:46:43,819 --> 00:46:44,859 What do you want to do? 860 00:46:46,939 --> 00:46:50,219 Do you want revival? 861 00:46:50,219 --> 00:46:54,389 You want me to help you clean up this mess and get rid of a bunch 862 00:46:54,389 --> 00:46:59,509 of stuff and put me back on the throne of your heart instead 863 00:46:59,509 --> 00:47:02,389 of you and start over again. 864 00:47:02,949 --> 00:47:06,469 That's another wonderful thing about revival, is you can start over. 865 00:47:08,788 --> 00:47:10,549 You can start over fresh and clean. 866 00:47:10,549 --> 00:47:12,229 New, clean, white sheet of paper. 867 00:47:13,189 --> 00:47:16,229 But you've got to make that decision, ladies and gentlemen. 868 00:47:17,829 --> 00:47:19,469 God is not gonna do it for you. 869 00:47:19,469 --> 00:47:20,469 You have to decide. 870 00:47:22,629 --> 00:47:25,829 Now, I know not everyone heard me this morning, but maybe some did. 871 00:47:27,189 --> 00:47:30,389 And I want you to stand with your heads bowed and eyes closed. 872 00:47:30,789 --> 00:47:32,469 If you would stand quietly. 873 00:47:33,269 --> 00:47:35,149 We're gonna have a verse of invitation. 874 00:47:35,149 --> 00:47:37,829 And you say, well, I Can't. 875 00:47:37,829 --> 00:47:40,229 There's no way I can go up there now. 876 00:47:40,709 --> 00:47:41,989 After that sermon. 877 00:47:42,789 --> 00:47:45,909 Everybody will know I got problems. 878 00:47:46,549 --> 00:47:49,679 Well, you do have a problem, if that's your problem. 879 00:47:51,439 --> 00:47:56,039 And I'm asking you to consider drawing nigh to God. 880 00:47:56,039 --> 00:47:57,279 And he'll draw nigh to you. 881 00:47:58,959 --> 00:48:04,359 I'm asking you to come and pray and say, lord, search me and 882 00:48:04,359 --> 00:48:07,279 try me and know me and see if there be any wicked way in me. 883 00:48:07,599 --> 00:48:08,519 Send revival. 884 00:48:08,519 --> 00:48:09,879 My family needs revival. 885 00:48:09,879 --> 00:48:11,279 My children need revival. 886 00:48:11,519 --> 00:48:12,999 My church needs revival. 887 00:48:12,999 --> 00:48:13,839 I need revival. 888 00:48:13,839 --> 00:48:16,099 On my job, I need revival. 889 00:48:16,099 --> 00:48:17,419 When I'm sleeping at night. 890 00:48:19,819 --> 00:48:23,139 Call unto me and I'll answer thee, God said, and show thee great 891 00:48:23,139 --> 00:48:25,179 and mighty things which thou knowest not. 892 00:48:27,739 --> 00:48:32,379 The verse of invitation that we're going to sing Search me, O 893 00:48:32,379 --> 00:48:33,899 God, and know my heart today. 894 00:48:37,499 --> 00:48:39,179 Would you be willing to step out? 895 00:48:42,789 --> 00:48:44,509 We may have revival next week. 896 00:48:44,509 --> 00:48:45,189 We may not. 897 00:48:45,349 --> 00:48:46,949 The Lord may come this week. 898 00:48:50,229 --> 00:48:50,789 You may. 899 00:48:50,789 --> 00:48:52,069 I may not be here next week. 900 00:48:52,069 --> 00:48:53,589 You may not be here next week. 901 00:48:54,629 --> 00:48:55,749 We only have today. 902 00:48:56,709 --> 00:48:59,749 The revival could start this morning instead of next week. 903 00:48:59,989 --> 00:49:01,109 Wouldn't that be something? 904 00:49:01,989 --> 00:49:04,149 Have revival right now, this morning. 905 00:49:07,279 --> 00:49:08,719 Are you willing to open the door? 906 00:49:09,039 --> 00:49:10,159 Are you hesitant? 907 00:49:11,039 --> 00:49:13,759 Are you more worried about people than you are God? 908 00:49:15,119 --> 00:49:16,719 You say, well, I don't know what to say. 909 00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:19,759 Then just come anew and say, lord, I don't know what to say. 910 00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,759 God understands when we try to pray and we don't know what to pray. 911 00:49:31,039 --> 00:49:33,359 Draw nigh to God or he'll draw nigh to Thee. 912 00:49:35,019 --> 00:49:37,459 There's no sin he can't forget Forgive. 913 00:49:37,459 --> 00:49:39,579 There's no need he can't supply. 914 00:49:40,619 --> 00:49:44,379 There's no storm that he cannot calm. 915 00:49:46,139 --> 00:49:48,059 No problem that he cannot solve. 916 00:49:54,939 --> 00:49:55,979 It's in your hands. 917 00:49:55,979 --> 00:49:56,779 It's your move. 918 00:50:09,599 --> 00:50:11,439 Maybe you need Christ as your savior. 919 00:50:11,439 --> 00:50:13,439 You know all about him, but you don't know him. 920 00:50:23,919 --> 00:50:26,719 While the piano's playing softly, that'll be all the singing. 921 00:50:29,169 --> 00:50:30,209 You may look this way. 922 00:50:30,289 --> 00:50:32,289 Are you a little nervous about revival? 923 00:50:33,089 --> 00:50:38,409 You think it might upset things, upset your schedule, upset 924 00:50:38,409 --> 00:50:39,249 your priorities? 925 00:50:40,449 --> 00:50:43,369 You got life kind of like where you want it and you're comfortable 926 00:50:43,369 --> 00:50:43,809 with it. 927 00:50:44,769 --> 00:50:48,009 I think sometimes we are a little nervous about saying, okay, 928 00:50:48,009 --> 00:50:51,249 God, anything, anywhere, anytime you say it, I'm ready. 929 00:50:51,809 --> 00:50:53,569 I think that scares some of us. 930 00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:56,759 But God says, if you just knew. 931 00:50:56,759 --> 00:51:03,479 If you only knew what I could do in your life and change your life 932 00:51:03,479 --> 00:51:06,359 and the rest of your life could be the best of your life so 933 00:51:06,359 --> 00:51:06,679 far. 934 00:51:07,799 --> 00:51:13,079 The next few weeks, months, years, could be the greatest, gladdest, 935 00:51:13,559 --> 00:51:16,519 happiest of your whole life thus far. 936 00:51:18,279 --> 00:51:22,699 It just depends on how much you let God in to your life. 937 00:51:23,979 --> 00:51:27,739 I think I've told you this before, but my father was a champion 938 00:51:28,059 --> 00:51:31,859 checker player at the naval air station. 939 00:51:31,859 --> 00:51:35,539 And every day, I mean, he played every day of his life, as 940 00:51:35,539 --> 00:51:36,299 far as I know. 941 00:51:36,299 --> 00:51:37,299 I mean, as a. 942 00:51:37,299 --> 00:51:38,619 As a navy man. 943 00:51:41,259 --> 00:51:44,419 And so he'd want to play me, play checkers with me. 944 00:51:44,419 --> 00:51:47,339 And I. I didn't really want to play him. 945 00:51:49,469 --> 00:51:50,669 And then he'd set me up. 946 00:51:50,669 --> 00:51:51,869 You ever been set up? 947 00:51:53,149 --> 00:51:54,909 He set me up and I got big eyes. 948 00:51:54,909 --> 00:51:55,949 I thought, I'm going to win. 949 00:51:56,669 --> 00:51:57,349 And I moved. 950 00:51:57,349 --> 00:52:00,189 And then he went boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 951 00:52:03,469 --> 00:52:04,109 He won. 952 00:52:05,549 --> 00:52:06,429 So he did it again. 953 00:52:06,429 --> 00:52:07,389 You know what I said? 954 00:52:08,669 --> 00:52:13,069 We started the second game and he moved. 955 00:52:13,779 --> 00:52:15,179 And then he said, now it's your move. 956 00:52:15,179 --> 00:52:16,419 And I said, I'm not moving. 957 00:52:18,339 --> 00:52:19,499 And he did what you did. 958 00:52:19,499 --> 00:52:20,259 He kind of laughed. 959 00:52:20,979 --> 00:52:22,579 You can't play the game if you don't move. 960 00:52:22,579 --> 00:52:25,539 Well, if I move, you'll win, so I'm not moving, so you can't win. 961 00:52:26,819 --> 00:52:28,579 And that's exactly what I did. 962 00:52:28,579 --> 00:52:29,299 I didn't move. 963 00:52:31,139 --> 00:52:32,339 I forfeited the game. 964 00:52:32,339 --> 00:52:33,379 I just didn't move. 965 00:52:35,059 --> 00:52:37,219 And sometimes we treat God like that. 966 00:52:37,219 --> 00:52:38,659 You say, well, I'm not going to move. 967 00:52:40,189 --> 00:52:41,469 And God's already been moving. 968 00:52:41,469 --> 00:52:42,549 He's moving in your life. 969 00:52:42,549 --> 00:52:45,229 Things happening in your life are not coincidence or accident. 970 00:52:45,629 --> 00:52:48,109 God's trying to get your attention and God. 971 00:52:48,109 --> 00:52:49,069 But here's the good part. 972 00:52:49,069 --> 00:52:49,949 And I'll shut up. 973 00:52:50,189 --> 00:52:51,069 I promise. 974 00:52:53,309 --> 00:52:54,669 God wants you to win. 975 00:52:56,429 --> 00:52:58,069 He wants to crown you. 976 00:52:58,069 --> 00:52:59,029 You remember checkers? 977 00:52:59,029 --> 00:53:01,309 You get crowns and you can move anywhere you want. 978 00:53:02,029 --> 00:53:03,629 That's what God wants for you. 979 00:53:04,109 --> 00:53:05,269 He don't want to beat you. 980 00:53:05,269 --> 00:53:06,189 He wants you to win. 981 00:53:07,669 --> 00:53:11,589 He takes pleasure in the prosperity of his servants. 982 00:53:11,829 --> 00:53:12,909 You glad you came today? 983 00:53:12,909 --> 00:53:13,669 Say amen. 984 00:53:15,269 --> 00:53:19,549 Well, I hope you're not saying I'm glad that's over with, but we 985 00:53:19,549 --> 00:53:19,869 need it. 986 00:53:19,869 --> 00:53:20,629 I needed it. 987 00:53:21,749 --> 00:53:24,429 And that's why I have Shelly and I. 988 00:53:24,429 --> 00:53:27,669 About once a week we have a little projects of cleaning out something. 989 00:53:28,629 --> 00:53:30,309 And that's the way I am in my heart. 990 00:53:31,269 --> 00:53:32,469 I want to keep it clean. 991 00:53:32,469 --> 00:53:34,759 I don't want it to be build up for a month or a year. 992 00:53:35,559 --> 00:53:38,159 Nothing between my soul and my savior. 993 00:53:38,159 --> 00:53:38,679 Amen.