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Real Life presents the Jack Gibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture.

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Hey everybody welcome back to the Jack Gibbs podcast here real life and we're

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going to be talking about what the talk is all about. Is there revival breaking

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out and as Barry is there revival breaking out in America? We're going to

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discuss what revival is and why it's necessary but where is its proper place

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in scripture and in our culture. So it's very important that it's time for

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you and I to live out our lives. It's time for you and I to live what we believe.

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It's time for real life.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Gibbs dot com slash

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podcast. Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more

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fulfilled life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star

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others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you.

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Here is Jack Gibbs.

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Well hey welcome back. Listen if you are blessed by this podcast we'd love to

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the word given us a review that'd be incredible. So as Berry Kentucky what's

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going on? This now I think by the time of our recording we are in the

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eighth or ninth day, ninth day of what is being called a revival that has broken

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out. I say broken out. I'll qualify that in a moment at Asbury College. It's a

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Christian college and there was a three times a week they have their student

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devotional in the chapel. And there was a very simple message given about

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23 25 minutes long and it was either a visiting pastor or a campus pastor

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simply gave a message maybe you've already watched it I watched it which is

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completely basic. You need to love one another you need to stop gossiping you

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need to think about how you treat others around you when you see people in

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need love them and it was it was the basic challenge to believers to live out

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their faith and the pastor the speaker got done walked away the worship

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group got up started to sing their closing song and they've been singing

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worship songs ever since and that's awesome and that's beautiful and I'm not

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knocking it I'm all for that. So immediately the press and others including

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the church family by and large of all denominations began to say revival has

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broken out this is revival it's revival but if we take a look at revival we need

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to understand some things regarding the biblical definition of revival I should

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probably preempt what I'm about to say by saying this the church seems to be

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so dissatisfied with its experience that it's groping and looking for any kind of

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experience right now to hook its wagon to or to say look God is here or God is

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there or whatever we want to be careful about that because of the experience

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doesn't necessarily mean that it is revival or an awakening or Christ centered I'm

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not saying that asbury is not Christ centered what I'm saying is there is a

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rule in the Bible to the definition of revival so it goes like this revival the

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word is to be revived and the word vive is to be alive if you have life spiritually

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speaking if you know Christ you've been born again you have vive you have life

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and to revive is to renew or bring back to life that which was previously dead in the

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spirit so we as believers we need to experience on a daily basis technically continuous revival

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you see jack what does that mean well every day you want to make sure that your private time

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with the Lord is intact that you're reading the Bible for yourself and that you're hearing

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from God for yourself I'm not talking about sermons on Wednesdays or Sundays I'm not talking

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about driving and listening to radio Bible teaching or anything like that I'm talking about

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personally spending time with God to maintain a perpetual state of revival is to maintain fellowship

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with God does that make sense if you have not had fellowship with God if you've wandered

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away or become cold maybe like in the book of Revelation Jesus says to the church at Ephesus

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you need to return back to your first love that's Jesus actually giving you the definition of

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revival is to going back to your first love and when that happens you are revived worship breaks

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confession breaks out of sin there is a prayer very often I want to be careful that I say this

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and that you hear this there's a group throughout history for example that will say things like

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let's have a revival next Sunday night okay and you might even say on the church marquee out in front

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of the street revival here next Sunday night that's cute but it's completely false you can't do that

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you can't manufacture revival it's the move of God it's sovereign move of God however revival

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does require you and I taking a look at ourselves on the inside and saying I need to repent and get

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back to my love of God I need to get away from these sins that have beset me and return to the

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Lord in fact listen the prodigal son parable that Jesus gave is a perfect example of revival that young

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man had life but he walked away from it and he got into the pitfalls and perils of the world

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and then he woke up and realized this stinks I need to get back to my father and I need to get back

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to live in a life that I'm supposed to live and revival is not mentioned but it's a story about revival

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repentance isn't mentioned but it's a story about repentance and so we need to remember this revival

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can only happen to the church not unbelievers it's impossible unbelievers do not experience

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only the saved experience revival when revival happens watch and check out history from Old Testament

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to New Testament to history when the church is revived it becomes so attractive against the back

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drop of a lost sinful world that the world says what's going on what's happening I got to go see

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what's happening and they see believers alive worshipping praying loving caring and when that happens

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revival technically ought not to stop so what's happening right now in asbury should always be

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happening everywhere as we walk close to God but hallelujah it's happening in asbury

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Kentucky and let's pray that it sweeps the nation among God's people right so the world says what's

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going on over there and we even know from the revivals that took place for example where

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the Methodist thought that they could engineer a revival they thought they could pull it off so

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John and Charles Wesley including one of my heroes George Whitfield they thought if we just do this

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then God will have to do this part that's not exactly true and then there's the other side that says

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you don't have to do anything at all it's a revival just falls down out of heaven hits you on the

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head and you have a revival that's not true either revival happens when we watch based on the Old

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Testament you're reading the scriptures and when you read the scriptures Israel was convicted of their

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sin and they began liking the days of Josiah liking the days of Nehemiah or in the days of Ezra

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or Jehosephat they see the word of God they realized even Daniel oh my gosh we have fallen so far

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from God's word we need to repent we need to seek his face call out for mercy and forgiveness

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and we need to get right with God and we need to do it now and when you seek God remember the word

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preamps revival you see the word what it says you're convicted you seek God that's your part in

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repentance you call out to him you cry out to him Jeremiah 33-3 you seek his face you see the

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sinfulness of who you are as a believer your need to get back to God to your first love and what

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happens is that is very contagious among other believers and we see this in the Old Testament and

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in the New the believers begin to gather and they begin to get serious about God and while you're

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being serious about God a world that is lost in drugs, sin, violence, stupidity,

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wokeness, insanity, death, mayhem, hopelessness they look around and they see wow we're not

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singing praises we're not happy we're not we're not full of grace what are those people have

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and they they will come and they'll knock on the doors of the church and they'll say what's going

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on in there now when you read the book of Acts that's exactly what you see happening you see people

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who came to life and or were revived and the world cried out and said what must we do to be saved

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this is amazing what's happening and Peter preached and said you all need to repent and you need

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to seek God and ask him to forgive you of your sins they came to Christ and they got saved what

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happened a true revival watch lasts it doesn't have to end now may will things in Asbury ebb and flow

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of course it's normal but will the reality of revival stay that's what we're waiting for

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but listen we don't have to watch and see what's going on at Asbury to see if we should do anything

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what we should do is see what's going on at Asbury and say hey is my life revived that's the question

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is your life revived I saw some Baptist I'm not bashing Baptist our church has got tons of

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Baptist in it tons of Lutherans and tons of I don't know what in it but this one Baptist pastor he

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got on the his his whatever he did he made a post and he poo pooed on everything it was very

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pathetic he's just scolding what's going on at Asbury because they're not using the Old King James

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version Bible what an income poop you don't do that that's not the right thing to do and then he

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said they're not singing the hymns that are approved what what hymns are approved then he said

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and he just tore it apart well I got news for you that kind of attitude will not experience

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revival that's not going to happen to that guy he's just a sin sniffer and a fault finder

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what you want to be doing is being open to the movement of the Holy Spirit trust in the spirit of

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God to do things according to his word okay God will never violate his word so a revival happens when

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the word of God is consulted and people turn back to holiness holiness that is holy living

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believers stop their sinful lives they start walking before God the church the believers

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become so attractive to a lost world that the lost world experiences awakening and they come

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in the experience salvation so the saved who are on fire got that way because they've been revived

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the lost world who's condemned to death sees the work of the spirit of God they're convicted of

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their sins and they come and they join the church because they repent and believe on the Lord

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Jesus Christ and they are saved so turning to the word preemns revival revival preemps in awakening

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an awakening preemps a nation of people turning back to God the awakening preemps God's mercy being

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extended and mercy preemps God's grace being poured out I hope that makes sense we need to calm down

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and stop criticizing what's going on at asbury but at the same time we need to calm down and not

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claim that it's a revival not yet let's pray that God moves in Chicago in fact listen

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wouldn't it be awesome if the believers that live in Chicago got serious about Jesus

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Chicago needs are revival among the church what about Seattle where are these big areas of crime

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and violence Chicago Seattle Los Angeles San Francisco New York I'm sure I'm Detroit

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imagine if the believers in those cities did

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cried out to God open up their bibles experienced the seeking of God based on the word

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is it possible that Portland could be rescued that the people of Seattle and the inner city of

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Los Angeles could be rescued by the fact that the church is awakened and become so beautiful

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and so holy and powerful that the unbelievers knock down the door of the church trying to find out

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what is it that you guys have we want that and we tell them this is the Lord Jesus Christ it's not

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some pastors tennis shoes it's not how cool and hip our lighting is it's not how amazing our

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worship is it's Jesus Christ forgives sinners and so listen it's still true for God's soul of

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the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever would believe in him would not perish

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but have everlasting life you believe that listen Christian you should tell yourself that every day

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you should experience personal revival every day I may wretched stinking sinner just like you

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who needs God saving grace every day and I live like that every day every day I'm looking for God

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the Holy Spirit to do something new in my life why because I'm a wretch I am the chief of sinners

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I'm a mess and that's why I want to stay close to him because I want to walk with him I want

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to revival every day I want to experience that reviving every day of the Holy Spirit

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in such a way that the world says what's going on with you who are you what is it that you believe

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can you tell me about that that's what people are attracted to not us taking out the 10 commandments

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and smacking people's heads with them that's not going to do it it's not you and I going out

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into the world and telling them you're all going to hell there didn't know that it's us going out

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they're saying you know what we were all condemned to hell but Jesus Christ came and died on the

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cross to pave the way to buy the ticket that you might experience eternal life I'm going to wrap

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it up this way it's been my experience that those who share the Lord with other people at the

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supermarket or at the super bowl those who share the Lord are those who are experiencing personal

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revival they could go to a dead church and still be experiencing personal revival in their

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private life that's cool right think about it don't point to your church as the problem your

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church could be absolutely woke nuts crazy but do you have a Bible can you call out to him yourself

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this and you can catch fire in your church and your church might catch fire people might be

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revived and then people that live across the street from the church down the street on the other

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side of the county they wind up hearing about it hey there's a church on fire for Jesus let's go

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check it out and people are going to show up they're going to find out what's going on isn't

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that what we've seen the book of Acts people gathered together to see what in the world is going on

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and they got saved why because there were people preaching the truth who were on fire and they

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didn't say well I'm on fire for God because I'm so holy no God declares you to be holy by virtue

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of his blood when I come to faith in Christ I'm trusting in the blood of Christ Jesus sacrificed

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for my sins so let's pray that revival sweeps across the nation among God's people and then the

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church becomes so awesome believers become so awesome on fire for Jesus that the lost can be saved

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that's how it's scheduled to happen in the bible that's how it works in scripture

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so is revival breaking out we're not going to know until we see the lost saved and until we see

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the believers walk in holiness hope that makes some sense God bless you guys listen up as always we

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