Is It Too Late For America? Dr. Brown Says No!

There is no doubt but that America isn't very sick and serious condition. Question is, is the condition terminal was a great physician have to say stock for the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience have the president of fire school of Ministry get into the line of fire valves by calling 866-34-TRUTH.

That's 866-34-TRUTH your Jim is Dr. Michael Brown to friends and welcome to this Monday, broadcast on the line of fire. I wish you God's overflowing blessing, strength, joy, encouragement, courage and faith so that together we can see God glorified together we can make a difference in this world. I've got some serious encouragement to bring you in the midst of the serious challenges that we face some of you facing overwhelming personal challenges of his just weighed down by the state of the church, the state of the nation.

In America, either way. Jesus is Lord. There is victory and hope and there are always answers in him. I want to interact with a few articles that have been written in recent days that will give you other perspectives and then my response to them. I believe you find the relevant but a few things first before we get into that. The Olympics are over in America did super well with a much bigger gap than we've had in recent years. If I look up at this from memory over some other countries and Great Britain did extremely well compared to to China coming in right behind China and in third place for metals, but a few things struck me one is that there still is a deep American pride as as much as were grieved by many things happening in our nation there still that American pride and and the recognition that this a lot special about America. There are bigger countries than America. China is roughly 4 times the population of America India very close to that as well other countries fairly close to the American population and yet in certain ways. America continues to excel that something II appreciate and then as much as there is so much of a lack of discipline in our culture in many ways you have these athletes who must be disciplined to get to where they are at to get to the level where they are to win, sometimes by 100th of a second or by fraction of an inch in appreciate your dedication and sacrifice reminds us again of a lot of good that's in our country and when the American men's basketball team won their third straight gold medal limited on the six straight gold medal. Carmelo Anthony, who had won all of these three gold medals was retiring from the Olympic team and and he was very emotional.

After the game. I got to see right right at the end of it and he was asked what this meant to him and so on, and I didn't know where he was going to go one point he said in with everything that's happening in this country because he has been outspoken in recent months about some of the concerns about racial division in the nation, and he said you know is with all that's happened in the country. We have to unify that an American beat can be great again. If we come together and unify out I was. I was glad to hear him say that I was glad to to be reminded of the fact that as much as we have great conflict in America, there is much that unites us, especially among believers, especially as we are humbling ourselves before God, which leads me to this other quick topic I love it when an athlete who from what I know was a godly athlete is thanks to the Lord and honors the Lord, and you can tell it's sincere and you can tell it's real. At least it appears to be a I always thought it interesting though when someone is giving glory to God is a very violent sport so there praising the Lord that they were able to it'll kick someone's teeth in or it it it owes seven to the hospital. A concussion may they may not be thanking God for that specifically refer the victory so over over the weekend. One young mammoth at a victory mixed martial arts in first. He wants to thank the Lord for the opportunity and the strength and so on. And then he starts taunting the champ of his division set I'll break your jaw I thought that's not the most Christlike statement that I heard that such such is sports today in lot of people talk about thanking the Lord but don't even know him all right. We come back I'm going to interact with a Harvard law professor you'll you will be taken aback what he has to say. The line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution of your Jim is Dr. Michael Brown makes it much for joining us today on the line of fire. By the way, I'm not taking calls today but be looking forward to your calls tomorrow through the rest of the week and I want to address what is happening in America today, spiritually and culturally and morally, and we talk about the culture wars. This is a phrase that conservative Christians have used among others rugs not talking about a violent physical war anymore than the war on poverty is an attack on poor people with guns that were were talking about an ideological war would talk about a moral war were to recommend a societal conflict.

And while we are not primarily here to change laws and to change culture. It is the direct result of our call to be disciples.

Another words the great commission was not going to all the world and bring about moral reform.

The great commission was not going to all the world and combat injustice. The great commission was gone.

Make disciples of the nation's teaching them to observe everything I've commanded you. Well, how do you do that without impacting the culture without impacting the law without impacting injustice without impacting the many problems that we have in our society so obviously this is a necessary byproduct of us being the salt of the earth and the life of the world and wouldn't you expect in a country where the gospel spread dramatically and there were where there were large numbers of converts these people became genuine disciples.

When you expect to see cultural change if there is tremendous inequality between men and women in real oppression of women in that society.

As the gospel spread when you expect to see change if if there was terrible abuse of children and all kinds of injustices perpetrated against them. Wouldn't you expect to see change the way they were treated with the gospel spread if there was massive sexual promiscuity and and faithfulness in marriage was almost unknown.

When you expect to see change with the gospel spread if if the elderly were just, shipped off to die and there is no compassion and care for them in the gospel spread to the community, wouldn't you expect to see change, that regard, of course, this is just a natural byproduct of us being disciples while back in May, a Harvard law professor named Mark Trish that are posted at a column.

It's it was May 6 of 2016 was an online column. Somehow I missed it and only responded to it over the weekend. You can read my article on this by going to asked her to Brown a SK DR Brown.org and you'll see it as latest article and in the article he says this is it. He's talking about how the liberals should treat those whose ideologies they've triumphed over if they feel they've won the culture wars.

How should they treat us and here's what he says. The second of several points he makes the culture wars are over.

They lost we won.

We being the liberals that they being the conservatives remember they speak of people like you and me. They were the ones who characterize constitutional disputes as culture wars and the references that they had opportunities to reach a cease-fire, but rejected them in favor of a scorched-earth policy. The earth that was scorch the was their own though conservatives demonstrated an interest in trading off recognition of LGBT rights for quote religious liberty protections only now that they've lost the battle over LGBT rights have they made those protection central seen them, I suppose, is a new front in the culture wars. But again, they've already lost the war for liberals. The question now is how to deal with the losers in the culture wars that's mostly a question of tactics professor Trish that writes my own judgment is that taking a hard line you lost. Live with it is better than trying to accommodate the losers who will remember defendant and are defending the positions that liberals regarded as having no normative political try to be lysed to that nice to the losers didn't work well after the Civil War, nor after browning in the Supreme Court decision of Brown having to do with segregation and taking a hard line seem to work reasonably well in Germany and Japan after 1945 continues, I should note that LGBT activists in particular seem to have settled on the hard-line approach was the liberal academics defender accommodating approaches when specific battles in the culture wars are being for thought it might've been made sense to try to be accommodating after local victory because other related fights were going on and a hard-line might've stiffened the opposition in those fights, but the war is over and we won.

While I find this to be shocking. I find this to be shortsighted. I find this to be ugly. I find this to be arrogant now. I did write an open letter to Prof. Tesh that but let me point out first.

That gay activists have never just wanted an equal playing field or something like I'm making a general statement to speak of gay activist there many, but the calls for equality. The calls for for justice.

The calls for liberty. The that their calls for justice when you when you bottom line them. Those calls cannot coexist with total freedom of religion, speech and conscience because our beliefs and our views are considered to be a threat to gay activists. Alright, so ultimately, as I've written for over a decade now. Said for over a decade now, those who came out of the closet want to put us in the cause.

So if there was an accommodating line that was put forth by gay activists.

Hey look, let's just coexist right you know you have your views we have ours.

You accept that that that we can marry but we won't.

We won't make it mandatory for you to perform ceremonies or we will try to force you to recognize our our marriage is just you know as long as we can marry were happy, and if you don't recognize them in your church that spot all listen, if any, were saying that it was insincere, but beat because ultimately, as long as we don't have to accept these quote marriages, then they will feel unsatisfied, they will say a problem remains that that your bigotry is being sanctioned and protected by the law.

So ultimately this is not a matter of both sides can be completely out completely free with complete liberty is not a work like that signer work like that. So you might say will professor Trish that there is being pragmatic. Put the Christians in the closet while going try going try first issue is Reese's the culture wars are over assessed to says to as a roach and perhaps earlier view of history, shortsighted. Perhaps you've underestimated some of the self-destructive elements in LG BT activism, which I documented it in my in my book, outlasting the gay revolution showing how the bullying will backfire. How truthful will expose the lies and and how the war on gender and the redefining of marriage. These things are ultimately self-destructive, perhaps will be a healthy pushback against some of these purported advances that I asked the professor.

Perhaps you've underestimated the vibrancy of the conservative Christian faith.

It's been documented frequently but but it's on the rise worldwide, it can easily be revived here in America and let's see Washington Post. This is 2015 noted that over the past hundred years, Christians grew from less than 10% of Africa's population to its nearly 500 million today, one out of every four Christians in the world presently is an African and the pew research Center estimates estimates that will grow up to 40% by 2030. The article also stated Asia is also experiencing growth is world Christianity. Sentries moved out of the South but also East in the last century Christianity grew at twice the rate of population in that continent. Asia's Christian population of 350 million is progressed projected to grow to 460,000,000 x 2025. What's the point. The idea that while the culture wars are overall resistor with the felling of the church in America and you need input on the back.

They can put on the bank that the gospel is spreading like holy fire around the world, especially in Africa, especially in Asia, especially in Latin America. Who's to say it won't rebound dramatically here in America and if that happens, the tide will turn if that happens, there will be cultural upheaval. If that happens there be light shining in all kinds of dark places. They'll be a restoration of morality.

They'll be a recovering of the meaning of gender that will be great victories and in pro-life areas, and other things like that but who's to say it can happen.

Where is it written that one happy Ciano. Mike is re-missing the point. You see, you see that these other countries where the gospel is never been prevalent and spread before but but which I might America, which is had so much Christian presence.

Over the years, it's gone backwards here at the moment. Some of its going backwards but but other parts of going forth, and let's just say that God can't bring an even greater awakening in the days to come right I want to address this further as we talk about how sick is American can the tide turned my thing as the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH paradigm is Dr. Michael Brown welcome welcome to the line of fire Michael Brown you're not taking your calls today got a lot of content that I want to cover, but before I get back to my open letter to a Harvard law professor use of the culture wars are over and then who implicitly likened conservative believers to the Nazis and slave traders and others. Let me to share this testimony with you. This came from our fire missionaries in Kurdistan and from from one of the brothers over there. Another exciting thing that is happening among these disciples referring to students in the leadership school is that they are writing new songs from their encounters with Jesus translated so's room is you good, but new songs that are being birthed in Arabic, Kurdish and Farsi, or a more authentic expression of the new church in the Middle East that consists of Moslems turning to Jesus is not wonderful in the middle east in northern Iraq, Moslems turning to Jesus they speak Arabic. They speak Kurdish they speak Farsi which is the language of Iran. They are coming to Jesus.

They are encountering him of this brother. One of our spiritual sons are grad from our ministry school server. There was family, and a whole team from fire.

He explains that as they meet these Muslim so many of them have had dreams and visions of Jesus and he said the description they give. It sounds like the picture of Jesus from the book of Revelation in the first chapter how how glorious is that being encouraged with what the Lord is doing. I'd let me let me get back to professor Trish that remember he's calling for a hard line against the so-called losers of the culture wars, namely us conservative followers of Jesus. Again, the culture wars are far from over, but he calls for a hard line against us, rather than accommodating and he says try to be nice to the loses didn't work well after the Civil War, nor after Brown referring to Supreme Court decision segregation taking a hard line seem to work reasonably well in Germany and Japan after 1945.

Hence, after World War II well III first pointed out in terms of the culture was being far from over. That that the gospel, faith is spreading dramatically around the world and that here in America. There were times when people wrote us off and said it's all over James ignore the great revival scholar said in the early 1800s Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall wrote to Bishop Madison of Virginia quote.

The church is too far gone ever to be redeemed early 1800s. I guess he got that wrong. In fact, his observations were swept away by the second great awakening about this Rev. Samuel Blair became chaplain of the Congress of Pennsylvania.

He stated or was it the 1720s or so out religion lay as it were dying and ready to expire its last breath of life in this part of the visible church and then came the great awakening the first great awakening and boom. So much for his description there of course he was praying for revival and praying for change. So I say to professor Trish that perhaps your words will be swept away by another great awakening. Are you 100% sure that this will not happen. If not, how can you you hardly pronounce the culture wars over but then he makes this comparison that I just read where implicitly he compares us to attend Nazis or slave traders so it is this how liberals like him view Christians is he saying that those of us who believe that marriage should be limited to to one man and one woman that that makes us the equivalent of genocidal Nazi butchers are mercilessly traders if we if we argue that biology, anatomy, thousands of years of human history suggest that member designed for women in government. Does this at likened us to the Japanese murderers who raped Nanking China who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I asked him your eyes are all we know better than the segregationist for believing that children deserve a mom and dad said if that's how you say things he thinks I can only pity since your views betray the opposite of a truly liberal progressive spirit and instead engage in the demonizing of a significant people group. Everything of which you accuse your ideological conservative Christian foes Eric Erickson conservative journalists of this one thing is for sure a faith that survived its followers being used as torches to light the streets of Rome will survive a modern age hell-bent on ruthlessly stamping out and and I close my article again.

You can read by going to ask Dr. Brown.org is looking for latest articles I close with a quote from GK Chesterton who had that amazing way with words. He said at least five times the faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs in each of these cases, it was the dog that died.

Listen of this, I'm sure heaven and earth will pass away, but the words of Jesus will not pass away. Of this I am sure Jesus is building his church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

Of this I am sure all authority in heaven and earth belongs to him. Of this I am sure that God's ways will ultimately triumph in the earth, though I can't guarantee the future of America. I can guarantee what's happening in the next generation.

I know anyone can but I can guarantee that our God will continue to show himself strong as God. I can guarantee that if we cry out to him that he will be near to the brokenhearted, I can guarantee that if we humble ourselves and repent and draw near to him, he will draw near to us. I can guarantee that there is no shortage in God's power.

There is no shortage in God's wisdom. There is no shortage in what God can do to bring about radical and dramatic cultural change so we pray with desperation.

We pray with earnestness.

We recognize the difficulty of the day and age in which we live. We don't minimize the problems that we face, but we put our trust in the living God. So with desperation and yet with hope. We cry out to God and we stand there for what's right and hey, what's your alternative to Givhan to give up to throw in the towel to quit believing to quit praying to keep to quit evangelizing to quit discipling to quit doing what's right, no, no, of course not. We will by God's grace and power stand and we will by God's grace and power outlast every earthly kingdom until only the kingdom of God remains all right.

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I was at the grocery store on Sunday so the grocery store yesterday and as I was always so walking through the store young man came up to me wanted to know if I was Dr. Michael Brown I said yes and he said I just want to thank you and those words are always very sweet to hear you mean a lot to me, especially when so many have said that to me, meaning that were doing something important and I said to him, how do we intersect. He said I listen to radio broadcast and we chatted for a moment I said you know it's it's a rough day, but it's a wonderful time to be on the front lines and so appreciated that. And of course it happens on a regular basis in different places, but what what I appreciate is that were doing something to be of help to you that what were doing is making a difference, and it's my sacred privilege to be on the air and to have this time with each of you.

Hey Alex, if you listening? It was great to meet you at the grocery store. In fact does not consecutive grocery store meetings but coming out of whole food. This was a Harris Teeter on Sunday early in the week coming out of whole food dry done some shopping at young man followed me across the parking lot and we had a nice chat.

He had gone some of my books and been blessed by the materials again.

I feel it is such a privilege to serve you and help you be here to equip you and I want to encourage you on the broadcast today talk about some perspectives that other leaders have on what's happening in America what they are saying what they are counseling.

It's basically gloom and doom for the church should throw in the towel to two believers but I have a very very different response than that at before I get into to that more focus on an article that came out a couple days ago on salon.com people regularly send me articles YouTube links they'll will tell me about websites whose whole purpose is to to attack me what I believe things have been part of the ministry over the years and I were I genuinely feel bad for the people doing it. I don't mean they're insincere.

I don't mean they're not saved.

I don't mean that we won't have wonderful fellowship together. In the world to come. I look forward to it.

I truly do. I feel bad for them because they're wasting your time. I welcome all I welcome constructive criticism.

I I even welcome negative criticism if I can learn something from it.

In other words, someone may be nasty and mean spirited.

Have a wrong attitude and they may attack me and in an accrued and cruel way. But some of what they say has validity. I'm thankful hey let let me grow from that wonderful but when I see people attacking wonderful things that God has done in attacking fine Christian leaders because they have a difference with this point or that point, and it's a minor point, and only their misunderstanding it misrepresented. I pity them. I feel bad for themselves. One of the greatest seasons and in in England in the UK, England and Scotland in the last third of the 19th century. So say. From 1865 to 1900 was was meetings that DL Moody and his and his us all your Iris Sankey held and these these were considered to be some of the greatest most far-reaching spiritual events, even of the century for for England and Scotland and yet pamphlets were posted on buildings in 1874 by leading ministers in Sunderland, England, toilet item I can finish this before the break, I will come back and tell you what the critics were saying about Moody and Sankey before the meeting and afterwards not just days, weeks, months, but many many many years afterward. These meetings were recognized as glorious in heaven sent. Despite the imperfections of the best number five. It's the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown rightly pick up where I left off right for the break Michael Brown your voice of moral sanity and spiritual clarity in the midst of a society in chaos in the church. All too often compromised but your voice of victory and hope and encouragement in the midst of it.

So before I interact with an article by Matthew Sheffield on salon.com. I want to take you back to 1874 1875 England and Scotland. DL Moody and Iris Sankey who would play the musical instrument and lead the singing for the Moody meetings they they are over there in England and Scotland ministering.

You remember Moody was not highly educated, and yet God use Moody powerfully like Cambridge and in the leaked places like this and it was said of Moody that he could say the word Daniel in one syllable down this kind assessment slurred and Jerusalem into syllables well. Here he is being used by God and now he's coming over with Sankey and they're going to minister in Sunderland, England, some of the leading ministers put these pamphlets on public buildings. They posted them all right. They warned against the meetings of Moody and Sankey quote kindly reflections on the present religious movement part one questionable procedure part two probable evil results. All except the way we do it all. It's not the way we say it all. It's not the way we sing it and God moved mightily how small minded, we can be all listen. I'm incredibly narrow in terms of I believe what's in the word. I'm incredibly dogmatic and in the eyes of others are narrowminded and dogmatic as I hold to the authority of Scripture's and and I hold to the truth of the gospel and I believe that Jesus is the only way and there's no salvation outside of him to the rest of the world religious role that's dogmatic and small minded yeah but it's amazing how how we can get small minded and dogmatic beyond what God is said where he said it lets hold to tenaciously but words her own opinion or tradition. Come on is so so this is one of the objections that was raised to Sankey's music ministry.

Solo singing is not worship. It's a parade of human conceit. It's distracting, irreverent and in in the church in Scotland where Horatius Bomar was was pastor and many other churches, musical instruments were not allowed so Sankey's got this melodia and actually gets damaged at one point on the trip. I think that the car the horse and buggy was traveling with turned over and got got damaged. I forget the details. There looks like divine judgment.

So this is one of the deacons in Horatius Bomar's church in Scotland. This is what he said of of Sankey's melodia is a devilish pump machine that wheezes out blasphemy so so how did Moody respond to the criticism he said to Sankey. We know are doing right. These men are two centuries behind Boston.

Pity them and keep on singing Sankey. I believe that is God's word to many of us today.

All by all means stay faithful to the Scriptures and stay pure in heart. The ends does not justify the means, are all kinds of crazy things that are done in the name of the Lord that have no relation to Scripture but listen, if good scriptural fruit is being brought forth.

If people are turning from sin to holiness. If people are coming under the authority of the word of God and coming to love the word of God if the Jesus of the Scriptures, the virgin born son of God, the divine son who took on human form and died for our sins and rose from the dead and ascended to heaven who is Lord of all, who is returning at the end of the age that Jesus of he's being exalted in the hearts and minds of people who were once lost sinners in the world are backslidden or compromise Christians and of these people who now turn from sin to holiness who have submitted to the authority of the word of God, who love the word of God, who become part of the body of Christ in terms of their activities and actions of lifestyle, who exalt in their lives. The Jesus of the Scriptures and if he's the one being exalted in the preaching and teaching and singing and if out of all of this, the believers and having a burden from the loss. This is the work of the Holy Spirit, it cannot be the work of human emotion that cannot be the work of of the devil. The devil won't do this and can't in the flesh can't do it.

This is the work of the spirit to allow woman you don't like it loud, that's okay.

I was too quiet. You know like a quiet that's okay I'm preaching it's not expository it's two expositors to Dell. He shouts too much that fine, you're entitled to your opinion about what you like or don't like but don't base with the spirits doing based on what you like and don't like. Are you listening to me listen. I've studied this extensively. I've read about the awakenings in the past and and tell her tell me the name of the prominent critic of the first great awakening. What was his name. You don't quite remember. It the greatest critic of the day that opposed Jonathan Edwards, Jonathan original his name great philosopher, theologian, primary leader of the great awakening you don't know the name of Charles Chauncey. That's interesting. Wow he was chief critic of that day or how about Peter Price Peter Price you heard of him Wales early 20th century when the Welsh revival broke under Evan Roberts unknown 26-year-old coalminer Evan Roberts price it's a blasphemy it's it it's it it's a travesty.

It's not the real thing at all.

That's really sad is even more wrote about it wrote against it base you want to see a good healthy church look at mine. You remember his name. He never heard of them until I mentioned him in the same with the critics of John Wesley and the same with the critics of George Whitfield. That's a fact friends as time goes on, they are forgotten. Here's a great illustration pastor Wayne Benson mentioned many years ago and I've shared ever since. Can you name for me any of the 10 spies who said we can't take the promise land. Can you name any one of the 10 spies who said we can take the promise land. I can't even on the serious student of the Old Testament of never memorize those names I have to really think it's chided. Remember anyone off the top my head now.

But remember the names of Joshua and Caleb don't we despise us and we can take the land all I don't mean that whoever is positive is right.

I Apsley poured the contemporary peptalk American gospel which is just motivational speaking to make you feel better doesn't lead you to an encounter with God. It doesn't lead you to repentance of sin doesn't lead to a change life and does need the lost to true conversion, time adjustment positive under not believing God and recognizing what is the hand of God, as opposed to rejecting what God does because we don't like the packaging come on friends. We need to do better and let me tell why this is so relevant. I had the privilege of serving as a leader in the Brown's revival from 1996 to 2000 begin a 9511 months into it I became part of the leadership team there and served in it day and night for years, the fruit of that revival continues to go around the world. People who were dramatically saved in that revival dramatically turned around believers who was set free from from habitual sin. Believers who were who were compromised in lukewarm those are completely away from the Lord and backslidden others who were lost sinners who had never known the Lord.

They were dramatically touched in the revival and they are doing amazing work for the Lord all around the world.

Earlier in in the first half hour of the broadcast. I shared a testimony from our fire team in in Kurdistan in northern Iraq. The amazing fruit piercing with Muslims dramatically coming to Jesus in their being disciple in prayer in the word, and holiness, and outreach. There they are, they are being disciples in ways that would put many Americans to shame key leaders on the team were dramatically touched in Pensacola or through the revival that took place there and yet critics rejected it completely said it's not God. Somebody shall be set on like a quoted make reference to it. I truly pity the guy that wrote he may be very sincere, but he couldn't be more misguided and mistaken. And the comparisons he makes the conclusions he draws to see the whole thing is not from God. I was there. You know me, I was there I was there for four years I was there more than 800 public preaching services. I was there in in hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, probably several thousand teaching meetings and services.

II have been around the world to see what God is doing through our grads from our ministry school who were dramatically touch their I know the messages that were preached.

I know the tears that were shed behind the scenes for the loss. I know the burden that was carried I know the purity of heart that just want to see goblet in Santa Barbara, beautiful and shake well. There are enough things in the Bible where people are overcome by God rebuilding shake work. The whole nation shakes at Mount Sinai were people fall on their faces were people overcome. Where is it in the Bible it sounds like a fallen shake if they get touched by God. Jonathan Edwards actually said the Bible is address those things and you can't say something is not a true move of God because these unusual things happen. That's what he said as her John Edward said but but we was always a material does all we want to see as our lives being changed for the glory of God and of people being grounded in the word being disciples love Jesus has only cared about the credits of their fallen shake and we said, but their lives being changed of the glory of God in their lives being changed.

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Your again is Dr. Michael Brown why I absolutely did not plan to spend an entire segment talking about criticism, destructive criticism, petty criticism, straining out and that swallowing a camel in the words of Jesus but II hope and trust is relevant and and the reason that I believe it's going to be very relevant relevant in the coming days as if in fact, awakening comes to America. If in fact revival comes to our churches. There are pockets of abuse of God. We hear about in different parts of America. If it spreads all over the country, there will be things we don't agree with gobble prior to spirit powerfully in a Calvinist church and a non-cavernous was a house that in gobble prior to spirit a non-Calvinist church in the Calvinist essay house that in gobble pour out his Spirit in a in a pretrip rapture church in the nonfree trimmers was a house that gobble prior to spirit in a post-trip church in the pretrip associate house that an autonomic goes always long as it's within the body.

It brought about some cult that got him in places we don't expect and through whom people we don't expect 01 I want to move through. Maybe I've got the best church in the city will me because you're not hungry because you're not thirsty because you're not desperate.

Mitt may be because you think you got altogether and you don't recognize the great needs in your community oppressively great needs in your church. Thank God for healthy churches.

Thank God for churches growing through new converts. Thank God through two churches that are growing through people really coming to know the Lord become disciples. I think that's wonderful. I think that's awesome.

I think that's glorious and it is happening in different parts of America.

Praise God, but many other places were content for no good reason were content when we should be on our faces, crying out, were content when, what, when we should be spiritually longing for for supernatural breakthrough soul.

When God starts moving. No, we don't major on the minors we major on the majors but there will be things that happened that a different you know, people began to cry out when Whitfield would preach and and he be preaching. Suddenly, someone would scream out collapsed to the floor and then he be preaching the same would happen to someone else so he tried to shut it down, and a godly woman part of the elite of the society I think was Lady Huntington. She said to him that they're doing a lot more good than your preaching comforts that the effect that this is having on the others as they see these people being smitten by God, and coming under conviction and crying out and getting overcome that.

Amazingly enough, that's impacted the listeners even more than wood thrills preaching. At least that's what she said to make a point. Now look if something is disruptive. You shut it down. If there's some demonic outbreak you you you deal with it, or if the person doesn't respond then you remove that person from the meeting, you know I'll disruptions to take place and you don't major on the minors, but let God be God. What would happen if that the apostles and note the hundred 20 in the upper room tried to shut down the outpouring of Pentecost would happen if they did that.

What would happen if this a widow who said that Greer is speaking new languages. Where is that was that at and he said there be tongues of fire sitting on a seducer to be a sound like the blowing of a rushing mighty wind, who said that we were shut this thing down could be dangerous. You show me description verse that sanctions. This know they they were waiting for God. They were hungry for God. They were looking to God and Jesus said if you asked for bread. Your father will give you stone. That's what he said ready said who of you which of you fathers if your son asked for bread, will give him a stone or if he asked for fish, will give him a snake. He said of you being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly father give good sayings this chill. That's Matthew seven. Give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him. That's Luke the 11th chapter. If you are saying. Father fill me afresh with your spirit father touch my life so I can go in touch or die world father change me so I can go and change the station. Father give me everything I need to glorify Jesus and to send your message out to the entire world if if if that's your prayer Lord, make me like your son. Touch me afresh. Fill me with your life and your truth and your spirit in your reality so I can glorify your name. You're not getting receiving demon as you do that that is a world of difference from saying I'm going to try on chinchilla power overcomes me.

I'm going to empty my brain of all conscious thought until the spiritual force takes hold me now if you're open yourself up to deception you could open yourself up to a demon when you do that, but when you say heavenly father Abba, my God, my king, my Savior, I'm asking you to fill me afresh with your spirit.

I'm asking you to touch me and change me and bless me so I can touch and change and bless this world through the gospel. You are not going to get a stone. You are not going to to get a demon wall you open yourself up you never know if you open yourself up to God you received from him it's it's not like demons have the ability to intercept your prayers on the way up as your praying to the heavenly father. They have the ability to intercept your prayers and now they're going to answer by your say Lord filled me afresh with your spirit, and instead you're gonna receive 11 demons. Now it doesn't work like that. Why do we have more faith in the power of Satan in the power of God.

Why do we have more confidence of the devil's deceiving power than God's keeping power. It makes no sense and that. Listen, I did not intend at all to get into any of this today but hey, I started preaching in 1973 and one thing I learned to do was go with the spirit, and you might just say what is the flow of consciousness. It's not the spirit assist your radio hosts a flow of consciousness fine, but I pray that gobbled would lead my flows of consciousness as well and I hope that this is relevant and important for you so you say again we major on the majors seen Jesus exalted see lives changed seeing disciples made seeing hurting needy people touched the church being the church. Jesus being exalted in our midst. That's we major at and the other things that are minor. We don't make major you know it's interesting there are some young people they got saved, they were shaking for days, literally during the Brown's revival. They would go to school and they'd sit there in their school shaking. They were so overcome by God and and they would be sent to the nurses office and and the nurse did know what it happened. All the kids could tell it was Brownsville that was the Brown's assembly got that's what they'd been touched, but the school began to notice that these kids have been with the troublemakers and the class became exemplary and some who had real ADHD and and did poorly in class became the that the best students in the class and in and they ended up these teachers and schools with great relationships with the youth pastor because they saw the wonderful things that God was doing at imino and interestingly these kids are now adults married with kids and they don't shake anymore, but they live holy lives they live holy lives and that's what matters they love the Lord and if they shook again, so be it.

But they don't because that was that's what happened. They first got saved, overcome, and now the limits of our friends.

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