1 00:00:29,859 --> 00:00:32,739 I ain't concluding next Wednesday, but it may go into three. 2 00:00:33,059 --> 00:00:36,659 And since we're about to enter into the week of revival meetings 3 00:00:36,659 --> 00:00:42,819 with Brother Sam Davidson, I decided to preach on revival in Psalm 4 00:00:42,819 --> 00:00:44,939 32. That's what we're going to be tonight. Go ahead and turn to 5 00:00:44,939 --> 00:00:53,739 Psalm 32. This might not be your typical sermon on revival, but 6 00:00:53,739 --> 00:01:02,419 it's got everything in it that tells us how to have revival. Say 7 00:01:02,419 --> 00:01:06,579 amen when you get there. Alright. We're going to pretty much 8 00:01:06,579 --> 00:01:13,179 stay in this chapter for the duration of the message. So in this 9 00:01:13,179 --> 00:01:19,219 psalm we see that King David identified something that he used 10 00:01:19,219 --> 00:01:24,729 to have. And then he shows us how he lost it. And then he proceeds 11 00:01:24,729 --> 00:01:29,969 to show us how he got it back. So I want to preach just for a minute 12 00:01:29,969 --> 00:01:33,849 or two on this particular subject. The beginning of revival. 13 00:01:33,929 --> 00:01:36,769 The beginning of revival. Let's pray just for a moment, Father. 14 00:01:36,769 --> 00:01:39,849 Again we just say thank you for the privilege of serving you. 15 00:01:39,849 --> 00:01:42,649 We thank you for the privilege of being behind this pulpit and pray 16 00:01:42,649 --> 00:01:45,929 that you would, Lord, just fill me with your spirit. Help me 17 00:01:45,929 --> 00:01:48,969 to say only those things that are necessary and the things that 18 00:01:48,969 --> 00:01:52,279 would edify the saints and glorify you. And I pray that each 19 00:01:52,279 --> 00:01:56,279 person in a pew would also be filled with your spirit, would be 20 00:01:56,279 --> 00:02:00,159 attuned and attentive to your word tonight that we can receive 21 00:02:00,159 --> 00:02:04,799 all that you have for us in Jesus name. We pray it. Amen. If 22 00:02:04,799 --> 00:02:09,519 I think that I'm not in need of revival, then revival will never 23 00:02:09,519 --> 00:02:13,679 be mine. Folks, if you're a Christian here tonight and you've 24 00:02:13,679 --> 00:02:20,229 read biographies on revival, stories on revival, I don't know 25 00:02:20,229 --> 00:02:24,469 how you don't want revival, how you couldn't want revival. It'll 26 00:02:24,469 --> 00:02:27,949 touch your heart in a great way. It'll make you hunger and thirst 27 00:02:27,949 --> 00:02:32,709 for revival. If you've never read a book on revivals, you ought 28 00:02:32,709 --> 00:02:36,469 to ask Pastor. Ask me about some of the good books that'll stir 29 00:02:36,469 --> 00:02:40,629 you and I promise you it'll really help you to want to seek revival. 30 00:02:40,629 --> 00:02:43,349 But if I think that I'm in need, if I think that I'm not in 31 00:02:43,349 --> 00:02:48,469 need of revival, revival will never come to me. I'm not too proud 32 00:02:48,469 --> 00:02:53,229 to admit that I'm not all I could be or all I need to be for 33 00:02:53,229 --> 00:02:59,109 Jesus Christ. I know I'm not. And as I read this psalm, God spoke 34 00:02:59,109 --> 00:03:05,949 to me and said, reckon you lost some things along the way? And 35 00:03:07,149 --> 00:03:12,599 I said, yes, I reckon I have. Then he said, well, come on, I'll 36 00:03:12,599 --> 00:03:16,679 show you how and where you lost them. But more importantly, 37 00:03:16,679 --> 00:03:20,239 I'll show you how to get it back. And so, as I dig into this 38 00:03:20,239 --> 00:03:25,159 psalm, I want you to notice that David shows us first of all 39 00:03:25,159 --> 00:03:31,559 what he had in verse 1 and 2. He said in Psalm 32, verse 1 and 40 00:03:31,559 --> 00:03:36,289 2, Blessed is He whose transgression is forgiven, whose 41 00:03:36,289 --> 00:03:41,009 sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not 42 00:03:41,009 --> 00:03:45,449 iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. You know what 43 00:03:45,449 --> 00:03:50,449 David had at one time, he's revealing that to us right here. 44 00:03:50,609 --> 00:03:56,169 He had the joy of forgiveness. He had it, the joy of forgiveness. 45 00:03:56,169 --> 00:04:00,089 Now, that word in there, blessed, it's one of those religious 46 00:04:00,089 --> 00:04:04,399 words it's hard to translate really into practical terms because 47 00:04:04,399 --> 00:04:07,839 it's not just one word. You've got several words you got to roll 48 00:04:07,839 --> 00:04:16,479 in there. I mean, like when I say, I'm blessed, I guess the word 49 00:04:16,479 --> 00:04:19,359 blessed, like, hey, how you doing? Blessed. That's different 50 00:04:19,439 --> 00:04:24,519 than saying, I'm a blessed. Is this individual blessed? Not just 51 00:04:24,519 --> 00:04:30,159 blessed. Blessed is so one of those. It's hard to translate into 52 00:04:30,159 --> 00:04:35,849 just practical terms. I. I think happiness, joy, contentment, 53 00:04:36,329 --> 00:04:41,849 gratefulness, all of those rolled into one would probably be 54 00:04:41,849 --> 00:04:48,529 a good definition of the word blessed. All of those. Blessed is 55 00:04:48,529 --> 00:04:53,729 the man happy, full of joy. He's content. He's grateful. Blessed 56 00:04:53,729 --> 00:04:58,899 is the man whose transgression is forgiven. The psalmist says that 57 00:04:58,899 --> 00:05:07,859 the blessed person is the one who understands forgiveness. And 58 00:05:07,859 --> 00:05:13,059 you can't really understand the reality of forgiveness if you 59 00:05:13,059 --> 00:05:18,419 don't understand the concept of sin. When I'm trying to tell somebody 60 00:05:18,419 --> 00:05:22,859 about Jesus Christ. In fact, some my friends here, they witnessed 61 00:05:22,859 --> 00:05:26,959 it the other night. I was talking to a young man and. And I 62 00:05:26,959 --> 00:05:30,159 told him all about the things that will befall us if we don't accept 63 00:05:30,159 --> 00:05:33,279 Christ as our Savior. And you know what's going to befall us if 64 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,479 we die? Hell. Hell and the lake of fire. Those are the things 65 00:05:36,479 --> 00:05:39,559 that await us. And so I said, as I always do, I said, now, everything 66 00:05:39,559 --> 00:05:43,479 I've told you up to this point is just bad news. It's just bad news. 67 00:05:44,039 --> 00:05:46,559 And so you have to follow that up with the good news. That's the 68 00:05:46,559 --> 00:05:49,879 Gospel of Jesus Christ. But the good news, many times, it isn't 69 00:05:49,879 --> 00:05:53,279 very good unless you compare it to bad news. What makes it good 70 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:57,319 news is the bad news. And so it's the same thing here. We can't 71 00:05:57,319 --> 00:06:00,799 really understand and we can't grasp the reality of forgiveness 72 00:06:00,799 --> 00:06:04,919 that is ours until we first understand the concept of sin. Now, 73 00:06:04,919 --> 00:06:09,039 notice that David uses three words to describe sin in this passage, 74 00:06:09,679 --> 00:06:13,239 he uses the word transgression, which is just rebellion 75 00:06:13,239 --> 00:06:17,039 against God. He uses the word sin, which means missing the mark. 76 00:06:17,199 --> 00:06:20,969 It means falling short of God's standard. He uses the word 77 00:06:20,969 --> 00:06:26,689 iniquity, which means treachery and deceit. You know, it's 78 00:06:26,689 --> 00:06:31,489 bad enough that Jesus died for my sin as a lost man, and I don't 79 00:06:31,489 --> 00:06:36,249 think on that often enough. And that's one of the avenues to 80 00:06:36,249 --> 00:06:41,449 revival, is thinking about what God did for us and how Jesus 81 00:06:41,449 --> 00:06:45,289 died for my sin. For me, revival starts with James Stone. 82 00:06:46,329 --> 00:06:48,769 It's got to start with me. It's got to start in your heart. 83 00:06:48,769 --> 00:06:51,209 We can't look at our neighbors and say, boy, they really need it. 84 00:06:52,009 --> 00:06:54,929 I can pick out three or four in here that you know, I'm glad I 85 00:06:54,929 --> 00:06:58,569 ain't like him. Boy, God, they sure need revival. Amen. We can all 86 00:06:58,569 --> 00:07:02,529 find someone like that. But the fact of the matter is, it's that 87 00:07:02,529 --> 00:07:05,769 guy in the mirror, that guy who I shaved tonight. That's the 88 00:07:05,769 --> 00:07:10,089 one who needed revival the most. And it's bad enough that Jesus 89 00:07:10,089 --> 00:07:13,769 died for my sin as a lost man, but think about this sin. When we 90 00:07:13,769 --> 00:07:18,969 sin after salvation, that's just pure rebellion, folks. It's 91 00:07:18,969 --> 00:07:22,209 one thing for Jesus to die for us when we realize he died for me 92 00:07:22,209 --> 00:07:26,609 while I was a sinner, but then after I became a Christian, I still 93 00:07:26,609 --> 00:07:33,009 sin. That's rebellion. That's pure rebellion. That's pride. That's 94 00:07:33,009 --> 00:07:35,209 saying, I don't care what you did for me, I'm going to do it my 95 00:07:35,209 --> 00:07:40,649 way. That's trampling the blood of Jesus Christ under our feet. 96 00:07:40,649 --> 00:07:46,159 When we. When we sin after we've been saved, when we understand 97 00:07:46,479 --> 00:07:51,079 what Jesus had to do in order to save us, the death that he died, 98 00:07:51,079 --> 00:07:55,279 the shame that he endured, the suffering and the agony that he endured, 99 00:07:55,279 --> 00:07:59,079 and yet we go into sin with our eyes wide open. That is taking 100 00:07:59,079 --> 00:08:02,079 the blood of Christ, putting it down on the ground and walking 101 00:08:02,079 --> 00:08:08,359 all over it. When we see people who are not saved, when we 102 00:08:08,359 --> 00:08:11,239 see them sin, what's. What do we always say? We always say, well, 103 00:08:11,239 --> 00:08:14,479 you know, they're just acting like a lost person. Lost person acting 104 00:08:14,479 --> 00:08:17,319 like a lost person. But what happens when you see saved people 105 00:08:17,319 --> 00:08:27,479 acting like lost people? David was happy. David was happy that his 106 00:08:27,479 --> 00:08:32,519 transgression was forgiven. He was happy that his. That his sins 107 00:08:32,519 --> 00:08:36,039 were lifted from him, carried away. That word forgiven means lifted. 108 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,919 And I don't put much stock in feelings when a person gets saved. 109 00:08:40,919 --> 00:08:44,239 I said that the other day. I said, I Had the privilege of leading 110 00:08:44,239 --> 00:08:46,519 a young man to Christ. And I told him straight up. I said, look, 111 00:08:46,519 --> 00:08:50,399 you're not going to feel electric up and down your spine. 112 00:08:50,399 --> 00:08:52,519 There's probably not goosebumps you're going to follow. 113 00:08:53,159 --> 00:08:58,679 But the fact of the matter is, when I got saved and the life that 114 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:00,959 I lived, I'm not going to get into all that. But when I did get 115 00:09:00,959 --> 00:09:04,878 saved, when I trusted Christ as my Savior and I just knew there 116 00:09:04,878 --> 00:09:11,438 was a burden of guilt lifted off of my soul, for lack of a better 117 00:09:11,438 --> 00:09:15,918 word, I felt lighter. I felt the sin just gone. I felt forgiven. 118 00:09:16,318 --> 00:09:19,078 I don't really know any way to explain it other than just say I 119 00:09:19,078 --> 00:09:22,278 felt like everything was lifted off of me. And that's what 120 00:09:22,278 --> 00:09:25,558 the word means when he says his transgression was forgiven. It 121 00:09:25,558 --> 00:09:30,769 was lifted, it was carried away. His sin was covered. He was 122 00:09:30,769 --> 00:09:34,249 happy that his sin was forgiven. His sin was covered. It 123 00:09:34,249 --> 00:09:37,969 was hidden. Hidden. Concealed. Concealed by what? Concealed. Not 124 00:09:37,969 --> 00:09:41,449 just concealed by the blood of the Lamb, but gone by the blood of 125 00:09:41,449 --> 00:09:47,649 the Lamb. The Lord doesn't impute iniquity. And that's an accounting 126 00:09:47,649 --> 00:09:51,529 term, as in reckoning to an account. It's not counted against 127 00:09:51,529 --> 00:09:55,089 us. Oh, my soul. I've said this so many times from the pulpit. 128 00:09:55,089 --> 00:09:57,949 Pulpits, every pulpit I've been in, I've said when I talk about 129 00:09:57,949 --> 00:10:04,549 sin, I can't help but to think about the fact that the worst thing 130 00:10:04,549 --> 00:10:08,269 that you've ever done in your life, the most absolute horrible 131 00:10:08,269 --> 00:10:11,189 thing, and I'm glad only you and God know about it, and I'm sure 132 00:10:11,189 --> 00:10:13,549 you are, too. And I'm glad that only God knows about some of 133 00:10:13,549 --> 00:10:16,909 the things that I've done in my life. God forgave me for that. 134 00:10:17,149 --> 00:10:21,189 And he'll never bring it up again. And it's a good thing that 135 00:10:21,189 --> 00:10:23,989 our spouses don't know some of the horrible things that we've done 136 00:10:23,989 --> 00:10:27,289 in our past, because they'll bring them up and we'll bring them 137 00:10:27,289 --> 00:10:32,329 up, but God never will. He never will. It's not counted against 138 00:10:32,329 --> 00:10:36,249 us ever. You know, it's kind of like being pulled over. This is 139 00:10:36,249 --> 00:10:40,369 a. This is a really light illustration. It doesn't really fully 140 00:10:41,729 --> 00:10:47,129 explain all that happened in our forgiveness, but. And you may 141 00:10:47,129 --> 00:10:50,489 have never been pulled over, so it may not even register with 142 00:10:50,489 --> 00:10:55,889 you. But I've been pulled over for going really fast, and I've actually 143 00:10:55,889 --> 00:10:59,649 had. And by the way, I'll qualify this in just a moment. I 144 00:10:59,649 --> 00:11:03,169 got pulled over on the freeway going really fast, and this police 145 00:11:03,169 --> 00:11:06,209 officer Walked up to the truck, and he walked to the other 146 00:11:06,209 --> 00:11:10,609 side of the vehicle where my wife was sitting, and he let us go 147 00:11:10,609 --> 00:11:12,689 without even a warning. I mean, he just gave me a warning. 148 00:11:12,689 --> 00:11:15,169 He said, this won't even count. I'm not even going to put 149 00:11:15,169 --> 00:11:20,169 it on your record. And by the way, it always goes on your record. 150 00:11:21,199 --> 00:11:24,679 You may not get a ticket, but it does go on your record. And as 151 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,679 a professional driver, you don't want to be pulled over and 152 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:30,279 have that against your record. It'll cost in your insurance and 153 00:11:30,279 --> 00:11:33,519 everything. Anyway, it's points. It's called points. Anyway, 154 00:11:33,919 --> 00:11:38,439 so that police officer, he looked down into where my wife was 155 00:11:38,439 --> 00:11:42,159 sitting. I had my daughters in the back, and the police officer 156 00:11:42,159 --> 00:11:47,009 looked down into her lap, and she had a songbook there. The fact 157 00:11:47,009 --> 00:11:49,769 is, my daughter and my daughters and my wife were practicing 158 00:11:49,769 --> 00:11:54,369 a song that they were to sing in Oregon, some city in Oregon at 159 00:11:54,369 --> 00:11:57,089 a church where my wife was going to be the guest speaker at 160 00:11:57,089 --> 00:12:01,129 a ladies conference. And the police officer said. He said, why 161 00:12:01,129 --> 00:12:04,569 are you going so fast? I got to get them to this city in Oregon 162 00:12:04,569 --> 00:12:07,329 at a certain time. And he looked down at that songbook and 163 00:12:07,329 --> 00:12:10,329 he said, I bet it has something to do with this right here, 164 00:12:10,329 --> 00:12:14,899 huh? I said, and she said, yes, sir, I'm scheduled to sing and 165 00:12:14,899 --> 00:12:19,339 speak. And he let us go for her sake. He didn't do it for me. 166 00:12:19,339 --> 00:12:26,579 See, again, speaking to her, I'm so forgettable. But what I'm 167 00:12:26,579 --> 00:12:29,579 trying to say, the point that I'm trying to make is when you get 168 00:12:29,579 --> 00:12:34,019 pulled over for speeding, but the officer's in a good mood, and 169 00:12:34,019 --> 00:12:38,189 you just know you got an ugly ticket coming. And he says, look, 170 00:12:38,189 --> 00:12:40,549 I'm just going to give you a warning this time. Be careful, sir. 171 00:12:40,549 --> 00:12:43,589 Slow down. How many of you have been there? How many? Has that 172 00:12:43,589 --> 00:12:48,429 ever happened to you? Did you. And ladies, how many of you did not 173 00:12:48,429 --> 00:12:52,749 just swipe the sweat off your brow and go, whoo? That was a close 174 00:12:52,749 --> 00:12:57,509 one. Well, you know, like I said, that is not a very good illustration 175 00:12:57,509 --> 00:13:02,469 about what Jesus did and what God continues to do. The worst of 176 00:13:02,469 --> 00:13:06,039 the worst that you ever did. He said, I'll not count it against 177 00:13:06,119 --> 00:13:13,479 you. I'll not count it against you. He forgave you. He forgave you. 178 00:13:13,639 --> 00:13:17,559 And there's joy in forgiveness when you understand what God did, 179 00:13:17,639 --> 00:13:20,079 When you understand that you're never going to have to answer 180 00:13:20,079 --> 00:13:22,039 for that sin again, when you're not going to have to stand 181 00:13:22,039 --> 00:13:24,959 before the great White Throne judgment and give account for the 182 00:13:24,959 --> 00:13:32,099 sin that you've committed. There's joy in that. What did David 183 00:13:32,099 --> 00:13:36,939 have? He had the joy of forgiveness. But I want you to notice. 184 00:13:37,019 --> 00:13:42,699 Next, he tells us how he lost it. How did he lose the joy of forgiveness? 185 00:13:43,419 --> 00:13:47,219 Look, I hope, before I jump into that, I hope that you. I hope 186 00:13:47,219 --> 00:13:50,099 that that resonates with you. I hope that some of you, when you 187 00:13:50,099 --> 00:13:54,659 got saved, it was very, very real that God forgave you of everything 188 00:13:54,659 --> 00:13:57,819 that you've ever done. I like to do this. I did it the other night. 189 00:13:58,229 --> 00:14:00,949 I don't. I don't. I think I've done it from this pulpit before. 190 00:14:01,989 --> 00:14:05,309 I don't know if I have a clean page. Here we go. When I got saved. 191 00:14:05,309 --> 00:14:07,749 The moment I got. I got saved. And I went to the church at night. 192 00:14:07,749 --> 00:14:10,349 I walked the aisle. And when I came out back into the auditorium, 193 00:14:10,349 --> 00:14:13,988 this is what the pastor did. He turned his Bible around to me 194 00:14:13,988 --> 00:14:19,109 just like this. And he said, james, he said, you are in the eyes 195 00:14:19,109 --> 00:14:25,839 of God like that right now, as though you never sinned. And you 196 00:14:25,919 --> 00:14:33,039 rotten wretch, some of you could stand here and write a list 197 00:14:33,279 --> 00:14:36,479 of how wicked you were. Do you understand that? That's how you look 198 00:14:36,479 --> 00:14:39,959 in the eyes of God. When your sins are forgiven, when you confess 199 00:14:39,959 --> 00:14:43,319 your. That's how you look. The joy of forgiveness, of knowing that 200 00:14:43,319 --> 00:14:50,319 you can stand before God with a clean heart and your slate is clean. 201 00:14:51,039 --> 00:14:53,879 I mean, there's joy in that. You can actually live a life and 202 00:14:53,879 --> 00:14:56,079 not have to look over your shoulder and worry. You can go to 203 00:14:56,079 --> 00:14:58,799 sleep at night. Clear conscience is the softest pillow. 204 00:15:01,199 --> 00:15:06,639 David, he had the joy of forgiveness, but he lost it. He lost 205 00:15:06,719 --> 00:15:09,799 the joy of forgiveness. Look what he says now. He's in verse three 206 00:15:09,799 --> 00:15:14,039 and four. Now, I want you to notice before we read it, he's going 207 00:15:14,039 --> 00:15:20,399 to tell us about the misery of unconfessed sin. Notice the shift 208 00:15:20,559 --> 00:15:24,399 to a personal pronoun. He's given us a personal illustration 209 00:15:24,399 --> 00:15:28,879 about the power of unconfessed sin. I'm going to say it again. He's 210 00:15:28,879 --> 00:15:35,439 giving us an illustration of the power, the stronghold, the clutch, 211 00:15:36,079 --> 00:15:41,639 the power of unconfessed sin. Now, he is speaking metaphorically, 212 00:15:41,639 --> 00:15:45,119 but I want you to look in three, three. And look at the first 213 00:15:45,119 --> 00:15:50,599 part of that. He said, when I kept silence, my bones waxed old 214 00:15:50,999 --> 00:15:56,439 through my roaring all the day long. How did he lose the joy of 215 00:15:56,439 --> 00:16:01,119 forgiveness? I mean, you're going along one day and you mess 216 00:16:01,119 --> 00:16:05,959 up. You do something stupid, you do something that offends God, 217 00:16:08,999 --> 00:16:15,419 and then you don't Confess it. You let that fester. How did he lose 218 00:16:15,419 --> 00:16:21,379 the joy of his forgiveness? Unconfessed sin, that's how he lost 219 00:16:21,379 --> 00:16:26,699 it. He said, when I kept silence, my bones waxed old through 220 00:16:26,699 --> 00:16:30,499 my roaring all the day long. He tried to subdue the sin by not 221 00:16:30,499 --> 00:16:34,699 confessing it. I dare say there's got to be a few of us in 222 00:16:34,699 --> 00:16:37,939 here, a crowd this size, and this is only part of our crowd. But 223 00:16:38,459 --> 00:16:41,059 even with this many in here, there's bound to be folks in here 224 00:16:41,059 --> 00:16:44,539 this evening who have sin that you're keeping down inside. And you 225 00:16:44,539 --> 00:16:47,179 haven't confessed that to God. And because of that, you don't have 226 00:16:47,179 --> 00:16:50,819 the joy of forgiveness that you could have and that you once 227 00:16:50,819 --> 00:16:57,859 had. He tried to subdue the sin by not confessing it. That's 228 00:16:57,859 --> 00:17:01,259 like, look, sweeping the dirt under the rug. Never removes it, 229 00:17:01,259 --> 00:17:07,629 does it? Because one day that rug is going to get moved. One day 230 00:17:07,629 --> 00:17:09,949 that rug is going to get lifted up and it's all going to be 231 00:17:09,949 --> 00:17:13,669 revealed. You can't sweep it under the rug and expect it to go 232 00:17:13,669 --> 00:17:19,109 away. The conviction that David was experiencing it was affecting 233 00:17:19,109 --> 00:17:23,189 him physically. In this passage, he said, when I kept silence, 234 00:17:23,189 --> 00:17:28,309 my bones, my bones wax old. And again, it's metaphorical, but 235 00:17:29,479 --> 00:17:32,839 many times the physical ailments that we humans have, just 236 00:17:32,839 --> 00:17:36,199 humans in general, many times they're a result of just sinful lifestyles, 237 00:17:36,279 --> 00:17:41,679 poor choices in life. Some people, they get old quicker than 238 00:17:41,679 --> 00:17:45,159 they're meant to get old because of poor choices in life. 239 00:17:48,519 --> 00:17:51,639 But it's worse for Christians because we typically walk into sin 240 00:17:51,639 --> 00:17:58,689 with our eyes wide open. We know what we're doing, and it's worse 241 00:17:58,689 --> 00:18:06,329 for us. Trying to subdue or ignore our sins is like trying to 242 00:18:06,329 --> 00:18:10,089 put out a grease fire on the stove with water. When we try to 243 00:18:10,089 --> 00:18:13,289 subdue our sins, when we try to ignore our sins, when we try to 244 00:18:13,289 --> 00:18:15,489 sweep it all under the rug. You know what happens in a grease 245 00:18:15,489 --> 00:18:18,769 fire when you throw water on it? The water, it's dense. It's more 246 00:18:18,769 --> 00:18:21,299 dense than the grease. And it goes to the bottom of the pan and. 247 00:18:21,369 --> 00:18:25,649 And immediately it evaporates. And then it causes the grease to 248 00:18:25,649 --> 00:18:30,329 sizzle and to jump and to pop, causing sometimes an explosion, causing 249 00:18:30,329 --> 00:18:34,649 a far worse situation than if you'd never thrown the water on it. 250 00:18:35,529 --> 00:18:40,049 Do you understand that trying to subdue sin by just covering it 251 00:18:40,049 --> 00:18:45,289 up or ignoring it or just not talking about it, that's going to 252 00:18:45,289 --> 00:18:53,009 make the situation far worse down the road? He said in the second 253 00:18:53,009 --> 00:18:56,809 part of that verse, through my roaring all the Day long through 254 00:18:56,809 --> 00:19:05,009 my roaring. Now he said it was my roaring. And so this was a personal 255 00:19:05,089 --> 00:19:09,129 thing for David. This was a personal thing for King David. There 256 00:19:09,129 --> 00:19:12,209 was such conviction in his heart about the sin. Now some of 257 00:19:12,209 --> 00:19:14,689 the commentators, we don't really know exactly which sin it 258 00:19:14,689 --> 00:19:17,529 was. Many commentators say it was the sin that he committed with 259 00:19:17,529 --> 00:19:23,039 Bathsheba when he sent Uriah to his death. And then he committed 260 00:19:23,039 --> 00:19:26,359 adultery with. Well, he committed adultery with Bathsheba 261 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:29,919 and he sent her husband to his death. Many say it was that, but 262 00:19:29,919 --> 00:19:31,999 we don't really know that. It could have been anything, could have 263 00:19:31,999 --> 00:19:35,399 been something else. But whatever it was, it was, it was. 264 00:19:35,959 --> 00:19:40,159 He was under great conviction. He was under great conviction about 265 00:19:40,159 --> 00:19:44,199 this particular sin. And nobody could hear inside of him. 266 00:19:44,199 --> 00:19:47,599 But within his own guilty heart and in his own guilty mind, 267 00:19:47,599 --> 00:19:52,719 the conviction was as loud as a lion. And I use the word lion just 268 00:19:52,719 --> 00:19:56,719 because of the word roaring. That's there, the conviction over 269 00:19:56,719 --> 00:20:00,799 his sin as a child of God. Look, if you're not saved, if you 270 00:20:00,799 --> 00:20:03,479 don't have Jesus Christ as your Savior, you can sin, you can 271 00:20:03,479 --> 00:20:05,999 live like the devil and it won't even bother you. But if you're 272 00:20:05,999 --> 00:20:09,559 a child of God this evening, you can't live like that and it not 273 00:20:09,559 --> 00:20:13,199 bother you. The Holy Spirit is going to be in there and he's going 274 00:20:13,199 --> 00:20:15,639 to be telling you, you know better than that. You know better 275 00:20:15,639 --> 00:20:18,079 than that. Don't do this. You ought to do that. We know what's 276 00:20:18,079 --> 00:20:20,919 right. Hey, that doesn't please God. What are you doing, James? 277 00:20:20,919 --> 00:20:24,799 Why are you doing that, son? Straighten up. And inside my guilty 278 00:20:24,799 --> 00:20:28,799 heart and guilty mind, there's a roaring inside of me called guilt. 279 00:20:28,799 --> 00:20:34,959 It's called conviction. He said in verse four, for day and night 280 00:20:34,959 --> 00:20:39,249 thy hand was heavy upon me. Day and night thy hand was heavy 281 00:20:39,249 --> 00:20:47,089 upon me. Christian, we can't live or continue in sin without a 282 00:20:47,089 --> 00:20:52,049 constant, ever present reminder from the Holy Spirit that 283 00:20:52,049 --> 00:20:57,489 we are offending a thrice holy God and grieving his spirit within. 284 00:20:59,729 --> 00:21:03,169 And if you can, if you know that you're saved. Look, it is possible, 285 00:21:04,199 --> 00:21:07,599 it is possible for a child of God to get so far away from God that 286 00:21:07,599 --> 00:21:13,399 when he sins, that conscience is hard. His conscience is seared. 287 00:21:14,839 --> 00:21:17,359 In fact, the Bible says you can get so far away from God you 288 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,638 forget that you were removed from, you were forgiven of your old 289 00:21:19,638 --> 00:21:24,279 sins, your past sins. You can even get to the point where you say, 290 00:21:24,279 --> 00:21:29,589 I'm not even saved. But that doesn't change the fact that, that 291 00:21:29,589 --> 00:21:32,549 you will stand before God. You will stand at the judgment seat, 292 00:21:32,549 --> 00:21:35,709 you will give an account for every idle word as a child of God. 293 00:21:37,389 --> 00:21:40,949 And I'll just say this. How grateful should we be for a God that 294 00:21:40,949 --> 00:21:45,829 won't leave us alone about sin? How grateful should we be about 295 00:21:45,829 --> 00:21:50,029 a God that won't give up on us? They'll just keep on nudging 296 00:21:50,029 --> 00:21:55,509 us. Keep on. Look, at home we call that nagging. Amen. But I wouldn't 297 00:21:55,509 --> 00:22:00,099 dare do that to God. I'm grateful for a God that continues 298 00:22:00,099 --> 00:22:03,099 to convict my heart when I do wrong. I don't want him to leave 299 00:22:03,099 --> 00:22:07,819 me alone. I'm so grateful for a God that won't leave me alone about 300 00:22:07,819 --> 00:22:11,739 sin. And listen to what the word of God says in Proverbs 13:24. 301 00:22:11,739 --> 00:22:16,819 He that spareth his rod hateth his son, but he that loveth him, 302 00:22:17,299 --> 00:22:25,989 chasteneth him betimes. Or that means often. And look, I just 303 00:22:25,989 --> 00:22:28,749 don't understand bleeding heart liberals and I'm sorry, I don't 304 00:22:28,749 --> 00:22:32,389 mean to be offensive. Maybe I did offend you. At this point, I 305 00:22:32,389 --> 00:22:37,069 don't mean to. But if you're a Christian, follow the Bible, follow 306 00:22:37,069 --> 00:22:41,189 the word of God. Sometimes you're young and just needs it. Just 307 00:22:41,189 --> 00:22:46,269 needs it. And that rod. And I'm not talking about a literal rod 308 00:22:47,229 --> 00:22:51,149 anyway. Children, discipline is in the Bible. It's in the Bible. 309 00:22:52,269 --> 00:22:57,949 Now granted, granted, you may have a child who all you have to 310 00:22:57,949 --> 00:23:01,429 do is look at them and their heart will break. And that's true, 311 00:23:01,429 --> 00:23:05,829 there are some kids you don't have to do much to. But then there 312 00:23:05,829 --> 00:23:14,029 are others where they need it betimes. And why do they. Why do 313 00:23:14,029 --> 00:23:16,949 we give it to them betimes? And I can tell you what I did to 314 00:23:16,949 --> 00:23:20,209 my kids now because they're grown. Amen. You can call CPS all 315 00:23:20,209 --> 00:23:25,449 you want to on me. They're grown. They're grown and gone. And 316 00:23:25,449 --> 00:23:30,089 some of them needed it more than others. And I didn't hesitate 317 00:23:30,089 --> 00:23:32,529 to give it to them. I didn't like giving it to them. But I loved 318 00:23:32,529 --> 00:23:36,809 them. That's why I gave it to them. And the fact of the matter 319 00:23:36,809 --> 00:23:40,489 is, the Bible says if you spare the rod when your child needs 320 00:23:40,489 --> 00:23:48,579 it, the Bible says you hate your child. Thank you, Pastor. That's 321 00:23:48,579 --> 00:23:53,859 what the Bible says. But I want you to notice, just listen to 322 00:23:53,859 --> 00:23:57,019 this. In Job, chapter 5, verse 7, the Bible says man is born unto 323 00:23:57,019 --> 00:23:59,859 trouble as the sparks fly upward. Just as sure as you put a 324 00:23:59,859 --> 00:24:02,299 log on that fire and all the sparks are going to go up, just as 325 00:24:02,299 --> 00:24:06,299 sure as those sparks Go up. We're going to have problems as soon 326 00:24:06,299 --> 00:24:10,099 as that baby is born. He's already having problems already. 327 00:24:10,179 --> 00:24:14,439 Just wait, Brother Jar. Just wait. Wait till Asher gets up there. 328 00:24:14,439 --> 00:24:17,479 Oh, man. Or is it too late? It's already started. It's already 329 00:24:17,479 --> 00:24:21,079 started. They're both. Yep, yep, yep. That boy. That boy like 330 00:24:21,079 --> 00:24:27,399 his daddy, not like his mama, right? I tell you. And then what 331 00:24:27,399 --> 00:24:30,639 else does it say? Job 14. One man that is born of a woman is a 332 00:24:30,639 --> 00:24:35,759 few days and full of trouble. We have problems, and it doesn't 333 00:24:35,759 --> 00:24:39,589 stop when you get saved. So I'm saved, but I still sin. You're 334 00:24:39,589 --> 00:24:44,029 saved, but you still sin. And we need God to act like a father, 335 00:24:44,349 --> 00:24:49,029 and he treats us like a son because we're constantly making problems 336 00:24:49,029 --> 00:24:51,949 for ourselves and maybe for others, but certainly for ourselves. 337 00:24:52,029 --> 00:24:55,348 And when for ourselves, as a child of God, we cause problems for 338 00:24:55,348 --> 00:25:01,109 the cause of Christ. And so I'm grateful for a God that won't 339 00:25:01,109 --> 00:25:03,709 leave us alone. By the way, we ought to be equally grateful for 340 00:25:03,789 --> 00:25:06,549 a pastor that won't leave us alone about sin and judgment and 341 00:25:06,549 --> 00:25:10,039 hell. We ought to thank God. Thank God that you're in a church 342 00:25:10,039 --> 00:25:14,239 where a preacher will stand up and unapologetically take a strong, 343 00:25:14,319 --> 00:25:18,559 confident, unyielding stand for doctrines of the Bible, the kjv, 344 00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:22,879 the church, and many other, many other doctrines that he stands 345 00:25:22,879 --> 00:25:25,759 up here and proclaims, thank God for a pastor who doesn't stand 346 00:25:25,759 --> 00:25:29,679 up here and say, ah, doctrine just divides. We're just going to 347 00:25:29,679 --> 00:25:35,639 join hands on the things that unite us. Doctrine does divide. It 348 00:25:35,639 --> 00:25:39,919 divides the sheep from the goats, and sometimes that's what 349 00:25:39,919 --> 00:25:44,359 we need. So thank God for a we're grateful for a God that won't 350 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:48,559 leave us alone. David said, day and night thy hand was heavy 351 00:25:48,559 --> 00:25:51,559 upon me day and night. I know, I've. I hope I don't wear you out 352 00:25:51,559 --> 00:25:53,999 with this illustration. When I was in the army and I was away from 353 00:25:53,999 --> 00:25:57,279 God for those three years, I was away from the Lord. I'm telling 354 00:25:57,279 --> 00:26:01,769 you, I mean it. I mean it with every breath in me. When I laid my 355 00:26:01,769 --> 00:26:05,049 head down in the bunk at night, I'm telling you, God wouldn't 356 00:26:05,049 --> 00:26:08,849 leave me alone every day. And I made dumb bargains with the Lord. 357 00:26:09,009 --> 00:26:12,329 I would lay down and, well, he didn't take him as bargains. I thought 358 00:26:12,329 --> 00:26:15,689 I was making a bargain. It was just dumb thinking. I'd lay my head 359 00:26:15,689 --> 00:26:17,969 down and I'd say, lord, you get me back to the States and I'll 360 00:26:17,969 --> 00:26:22,129 quit living like this. Stupid, stupid. But I'm sure grateful that 361 00:26:22,129 --> 00:26:27,289 he did let me live. Every night the Lord would prick my heart 362 00:26:27,289 --> 00:26:30,449 because I knew I was away from him. And I'm grateful that he never 363 00:26:30,449 --> 00:26:36,329 gave up on me. Look what he says in the last part of verse four. 364 00:26:36,329 --> 00:26:41,849 He says, my moisture is turned into the drought of summer Selah 365 00:26:42,009 --> 00:26:45,009 Again, it's metaphorically speaking when he says this. He's 366 00:26:45,009 --> 00:26:48,889 talking about the fact that the SAP of his soul just being dried 367 00:26:48,889 --> 00:26:55,009 up. He said, my unconfessed sin is just drying me up. I'm useless. 368 00:26:55,009 --> 00:27:00,099 I'm no good for anything. And it will render us useless as well 369 00:27:00,099 --> 00:27:03,939 for the cause of Christ. You know what? We're supposed to come 370 00:27:03,939 --> 00:27:08,259 here and get filled up. We're supposed to get filled up with the 371 00:27:08,259 --> 00:27:10,419 word of God. And then we're supposed to go out there and allow 372 00:27:10,499 --> 00:27:14,539 God to wring us out into a lost and dying world. Wring us out 373 00:27:14,539 --> 00:27:18,419 in the form of blessing and helping and loving and being Christ 374 00:27:18,579 --> 00:27:23,699 to a lost and dying world. But when we have unconfessed sin in our 375 00:27:23,699 --> 00:27:27,899 life, sometimes the conviction over that just causes us to be too 376 00:27:27,899 --> 00:27:35,139 dry to help anybody else. And we can become a castaway. You know 377 00:27:35,299 --> 00:27:38,939 that word, castaway? You know what I thought about? I think Brother 378 00:27:38,939 --> 00:27:41,219 Bob Smith is the one who actually said this, and I've never 379 00:27:41,219 --> 00:27:47,859 forgotten it. He said, lest I become a castaway, and you don't 380 00:27:47,859 --> 00:27:51,099 want to be a castaway. And Dr. Bob Smith said this. He said, you 381 00:27:51,099 --> 00:27:53,069 ever stepped talking to us men, there was a bunch of preachers 382 00:27:53,069 --> 00:27:56,229 in the room. He said, did you ever go into your drawer, into your 383 00:27:56,949 --> 00:28:01,949 sock drawer, and you're going to pull out a pair of socks and you 384 00:28:01,949 --> 00:28:04,549 always reach in and you pull out that one that don't have no match, 385 00:28:06,709 --> 00:28:09,349 and what do you do with it? You just throw it back in there. 386 00:28:10,709 --> 00:28:13,269 You don't even throw it away. You think, well, maybe one day it'll 387 00:28:13,269 --> 00:28:16,949 turn up. But you just keep pulling it out. And how long before 388 00:28:17,029 --> 00:28:21,739 finally you just throw it away? Finally? I know I do. I think, 389 00:28:21,739 --> 00:28:25,779 well, it'll come out in the next load. It never does. But you 390 00:28:25,779 --> 00:28:31,179 know what? That sock is useless. It's just cast away useless. 391 00:28:33,339 --> 00:28:36,059 And I don't want to be like that. I don't want to be useless 392 00:28:36,459 --> 00:28:42,059 for the cause of Christ. An unconfessed sin will render us useless 393 00:28:43,259 --> 00:28:51,319 for Jesus Christ. Okay, so now we understand the blessings of forgiveness, 394 00:28:51,319 --> 00:28:54,799 and we only understand the blessing of forgiveness, of sin because 395 00:28:55,679 --> 00:28:59,799 we contrast it against the misery of unconfessed sin. And we 396 00:28:59,799 --> 00:29:03,839 realize that it's something. Sometimes it's physically debilitating, 397 00:29:03,919 --> 00:29:10,119 but it's always spiritually debilitating. Unconfessed sin. Unconfessed 398 00:29:10,119 --> 00:29:14,239 sin. And this is something every Christian deals with. Unconfessed 399 00:29:14,239 --> 00:29:21,239 sin. What he had, he had the joy of forgiveness. How he lost it. 400 00:29:21,479 --> 00:29:26,359 Unconfessed sin. Now, how did he get it back? Look with Me in verse 401 00:29:26,359 --> 00:29:34,799 5, verse 5, we see confession and repentance. I acknowledge my 402 00:29:34,799 --> 00:29:38,909 sin unto thee and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess 403 00:29:38,909 --> 00:29:41,909 my transgressions unto the Lord, and thou forgavest the iniquity 404 00:29:41,909 --> 00:29:47,069 of my sin. Selah. Now, notice this. David uses the same three words 405 00:29:47,309 --> 00:29:50,629 in this verse that he used in verse one and two. He acknowledged 406 00:29:50,629 --> 00:29:55,149 his sin, he exposed his iniquity, and he confessed his transgression. 407 00:29:55,629 --> 00:29:58,869 When we acknowledge, expose and confess to God what he already 408 00:29:58,869 --> 00:30:05,029 knows and sees, then we get to experience all over again what the 409 00:30:05,029 --> 00:30:08,899 first two verses are talking about. Blessed is the man. Blessed 410 00:30:08,899 --> 00:30:12,379 is that man that's ours all over again. But it has to come with 411 00:30:12,379 --> 00:30:16,299 confession and repentance. And then look what he says in the second 412 00:30:16,299 --> 00:30:20,019 part of that verse. And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. 413 00:30:20,019 --> 00:30:23,499 When confession and repentance are there, there comes forgiveness 414 00:30:23,819 --> 00:30:26,219 all over again. That's what we were talking about in the beginning. 415 00:30:26,219 --> 00:30:29,579 That's what he lost. He had the joy of forgiveness and he lost 416 00:30:29,579 --> 00:30:32,819 it. Well, he comes down to verse five, and he found how to get 417 00:30:32,819 --> 00:30:36,899 it back through confession and repentance. What's the big deal about 418 00:30:36,899 --> 00:30:40,499 forgiveness? That's where the joy comes from. That's where the 419 00:30:40,499 --> 00:30:45,699 restored and sweet fellowship comes from. Blessedness. This one, 420 00:30:45,699 --> 00:30:49,819 David, King David, the man who was beat down by his own sin and 421 00:30:49,819 --> 00:30:53,459 subsequent conviction and guilt and sorrow, he says in verse 422 00:30:53,459 --> 00:30:56,779 11. Look at verse 11. After he repents and confesses his sin to 423 00:30:56,779 --> 00:31:00,459 God, he says, be glad in the Lord and rejoice, ye righteous, and 424 00:31:00,459 --> 00:31:04,919 shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart. You know, there 425 00:31:04,919 --> 00:31:10,239 was a day, honestly, and man, I hate to even confess this. And 426 00:31:10,399 --> 00:31:14,279 we have a tendency to kind of justify it by saying, well, you're 427 00:31:14,279 --> 00:31:19,359 older now, or whatever, but there was a day when I was so much 428 00:31:19,439 --> 00:31:24,799 more zealous for the Lord than I am now. And I know we have a tendency 429 00:31:24,799 --> 00:31:28,919 to say, well, you were young, you'll temper that. Don't worry. 430 00:31:28,919 --> 00:31:32,439 Old age will take care of that. I don't want it to be taken 431 00:31:32,439 --> 00:31:35,799 care of. I want to be zealous for God. I'D love to be as zealous 432 00:31:35,799 --> 00:31:40,679 as I was when I was 20. And 30 and 40. I would love that. And 50, 433 00:31:40,679 --> 00:31:43,959 as far as that goes. I would love to be as zealous as I used to 434 00:31:43,959 --> 00:31:52,879 be. I'm not. I'm not. I had it, I lost it, and I got it back 435 00:31:52,879 --> 00:31:59,159 a measure. But am I. Is there still room for more? Yeah. There's 436 00:31:59,159 --> 00:32:03,199 still room for revival in my life. There's still room for revival 437 00:32:03,199 --> 00:32:08,159 in my heart. And it comes with confessing my sin. It comes with 438 00:32:08,159 --> 00:32:11,199 repentance. Then I'll find that joy that I had once before. 439 00:32:15,439 --> 00:32:19,079 While it's true that I received forgiveness of all my sins 440 00:32:19,079 --> 00:32:23,079 when I trusted in Christ over 40 years ago. First John 1:9 was 441 00:32:23,079 --> 00:32:26,139 written for all of us imperfect Christians who still sin. 442 00:32:26,299 --> 00:32:30,699 If we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our 443 00:32:30,699 --> 00:32:34,539 sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. That's you. 444 00:32:35,419 --> 00:32:39,539 That's you. That's me. Surely to goodness, once you got saved, 445 00:32:39,539 --> 00:32:42,779 you didn't stop confessing your sins. Surely to goodness, you 446 00:32:42,779 --> 00:32:46,739 didn't think there was no more sin in your life. Not at all. I mean, 447 00:32:46,739 --> 00:32:50,339 when we got saved. Good night. That was just the beginning. Satan 448 00:32:50,339 --> 00:32:53,059 put a target on our back and he went after us. And we found ourselves 449 00:32:53,059 --> 00:32:55,539 doing things we didn't think we would do. Good night. How did 450 00:32:55,539 --> 00:32:58,499 I do that? I thought I was saved. That's what the Devil likes 451 00:32:58,499 --> 00:33:04,659 to bring up. And then I read that verse. If we confess our sins, 452 00:33:04,659 --> 00:33:07,259 he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse 453 00:33:07,259 --> 00:33:10,739 us from all unrighteousness. And guess what? I can wake up every 454 00:33:10,818 --> 00:33:16,179 single morning and I can thank God that I have confessed sins and 455 00:33:18,019 --> 00:33:20,899 I'm cleansed and I'm righteous and I'm forgiven and I can start 456 00:33:20,899 --> 00:33:25,399 the day with a clean slate every single day. And you can, too. 457 00:33:25,399 --> 00:33:28,279 But you know what? There's some of us. We have a book, all right? 458 00:33:28,919 --> 00:33:36,959 And it looks like that it's just full. It's full of stuff because 459 00:33:36,959 --> 00:33:40,559 we've let our sin account. Build up, build and build and build 460 00:33:40,559 --> 00:33:43,879 and build. And there's so many things in your life that need to 461 00:33:43,879 --> 00:33:48,919 be confessed and repented of. And that's the beginning of revival. 462 00:33:49,249 --> 00:33:52,009 That's the beginning of revival. That's the beginning of 463 00:33:52,009 --> 00:33:55,689 revival for me. Brother Sam's going to come. We're foolish to think 464 00:33:55,689 --> 00:33:58,289 that Brother Sam's going to bring revival in his hip pocket. 465 00:33:59,329 --> 00:34:04,809 He doesn't carry revival around in his wallet. Revival begins 466 00:34:04,809 --> 00:34:11,329 with us, it's remembering what you had, understanding where you 467 00:34:11,329 --> 00:34:15,369 lost it, how you lost it, and then following the recipe here to 468 00:34:15,369 --> 00:34:20,969 get it back. Confession and repentance, we can do that. Do you 469 00:34:20,969 --> 00:34:24,609 see now how that this psalm has the makings of revival all over 470 00:34:24,609 --> 00:34:29,249 it? And I didn't even read it all. How about you? Tonight, David 471 00:34:29,249 --> 00:34:36,169 identified what he used to have. He explained how he lost it 472 00:34:36,809 --> 00:34:42,099 and then he gave us a recipe on how to recover it. That sounds 473 00:34:42,099 --> 00:34:47,419 like revival to me. Let's all stand together tonight. We'll get 474 00:34:47,419 --> 00:34:57,738 ready for invitation. And brethren, I truly. I truly and wholly 475 00:34:57,738 --> 00:35:06,459 mean it when I say that the Lord preaches to me first. But if 476 00:35:06,459 --> 00:35:10,818 you're here tonight and God spoke to your heart, maybe you need 477 00:35:10,818 --> 00:35:14,978 to do some confessing and repenting yourself. We're going to 478 00:35:14,978 --> 00:35:17,538 have a week of revival meetings. But that doesn't mean revival 479 00:35:17,538 --> 00:35:19,858 is going to happen just because the preacher's here. Are 480 00:35:19,858 --> 00:35:25,658 you going to be revived? Do you see your need for revival? Why 481 00:35:25,658 --> 00:35:29,618 don't you come this evening? Pour your heart out to God. Not to 482 00:35:29,618 --> 00:35:34,569 man, but to God. Lord, revive me. Revive me. I used to have it 483 00:35:34,569 --> 00:35:38,169 and I lost it. And I want it back. Let's pray. Father, we love 484 00:35:38,169 --> 00:35:40,409 you. Tonight we thank you again for your word. And I pray that 485 00:35:40,409 --> 00:35:43,089 you'd help us to take these truths and apply it. I know it wasn't 486 00:35:43,089 --> 00:35:47,929 soft soap at all. It really wasn't even maybe not an easy pill 487 00:35:47,929 --> 00:35:50,529 to swallow. But it's something that we need. We need if we want 488 00:35:50,529 --> 00:35:54,289 revival. This is certainly the direction. So I pray that you'd help 489 00:35:54,289 --> 00:35:57,449 us to apply this to our lives. For our good and for your glory, 490 00:35:57,449 --> 00:36:01,089 we pray in Jesus name. Let's do this with head bowed and eyes 491 00:36:01,089 --> 00:36:02,159 closed just for a little while.