Why We Need Revival

Dr. Tony Evans is revival is more than just making people go to church is making people come to life because the house of God actually made.

This is the alternative Tony have another speaker, pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas and president of the urban alternative. A lot of people attend revivals looking for more energy or enthusiasm today. Dr. Evans begins a series that will teach us about what we really need to literally be brought back to life. Let's learn more. Vacation went overseas to do a Mediterranean cruise and looking forward to it. I love cruising. It's very relaxing and you get to see numbers of different places, but a few days after we boarded the ship, there was a problem the upper left side of my mouth began to hurt at first it was just a low level irritating pain. So every now and then I grab my face and so I just shake it off and ignore it.

Each day it got worse. I took some aspirin took Samantha Belli took something to try to make it better because I'm so far away. After four or five days of this increased pain now turning my vacation joy into a vacation job. I was now in excruciating pain so much and so that I could not get out of bed so I know on that occasion which is supposedly relaxing and joyful, Abby.

I am in excruciating pain.

So when I just couldn't take it anymore. I went down and the ships have medical centers in them to the doctor and said I can't take this. This is killing me. I can't move. I can even was going to cruise again. He gave me some Colleen to address the pain it didn't work.

The pain was getting worse and worse. Finally got to a telephone.

I called back to Dallas Texas to my dentist and I caught my dentist said I don't know what's wrong but whatever it is killing me. He asked me for the details of what I was going through. I explained that NASA I just cannot if I need to fly back home. I do that but I just can't take it. He said you've been treating the wrong problem you been addressing the wrong problem you been addressing the problem of pain when really you're paying is symptomatic of a much deeper problem. He says from what you describe to me you have an infected tooth.

There is infection or an abscess in your mouth and all Advil and aspirin and coding in the world won't solve the problem that is bad if you're taking those painkillers MA on fixing the problem.

That means the true problem is overriding your attempts to make it better. He says we have to address this infection if we're going to make things better because we don't address the infection.

You will forever be popping pills that Bess can ask your real problem. In fact it's actually better that they didn't work because if they had worked. You would think you were okay when you really are okay and that infection could breathe further into your body. So he prescribed some antibiotics I was dealing with something to fix my pain. I was hurting and I was in pain but he prescribed some antibiotics to get to my route problem because if I could fix the root I would address the fruit that I was having to deal with and that was the pain in my life all my attempts failed because I was addressing the wrong thing Matt was addressing the real thing. I wasn't paying but the real thing wasn't the right thing is real. I felt it but it would not rectify the problem.

Today we are going to embark on a journey, a journey taken from Psalm chapter 85 and the phrase found in verse number six, revive us again wherever series title comes from revive us again. How do we know we need a revival revival presupposes something, it presupposes spiritual decline. I spent my time or my vacation reviewing the revivals of the Bible. We will be going through them.

I actually looked at the different revivals that Took Pl. in Scripture and virtually everyone was introduced with the crisis.

People were hurt and immediately get fixed but in order to get it fixed. I had to first identify what was really wrong. Revival was needed because God's people had social grade from him producing spiritual decline, abandoning the will and the word of God. They needed something that would get to the root of what was really wrong rather than simply popping pills to make him feel better when you see the world infiltrating the church and the church not infiltrating the world we revival revival is not more religion.

Religion has its place but revival has to do with God changing something inside the new revival was because God had been ticked off indignation, anger, sin, fury, God had been off by his people because his people had rejected him discover something we go through these revivals that almost all of them.

The word idolatry or some form of it comes up. God had been traded in the way it became that God had been traded in that the true God had been traded in for a shape saccharin substitute was the sin of the people there said was dampproofing they had changed the God Somerset was really the fruit of a shift of God's producing indignation, if you will or anger by God that had to be assuaged. He says revive us again in order to be with Bob again.

That means he had already been revived at some of the time, revive us says revive us again why. Then first reverse of the Lord you show the show to the past. Your favor to your land, you restore the captivity of Jacob again all iniquity covered our sins withdrew your fury and turn from your burning. He tells us what he's talking about when he says the captivity of Jacob, Israel was in rebellion against God and because of their rebellion. They were sent into captivity you read about in the book of Daniel.

It's the Babylonian captivity where for 70 years.

They were now captive in a miserable place called Babylon because there sin. But when the people cried out to God for revival and address the sin of the fruit of the idolatry.

God entered in and restored them back to the place that they left from Andre crowd said it best.

Take me back.

Take me back to the place when I first received you and some of us may decide, revive us again because we remember when we were in love with the Lord. We remember a time with pleasing it was our passion.

We remember a time with time with him wasn't due to the waste of time. We remember a time when we sensed his glory.

But now, years later, we we found our faith to be boring and inconvenience getting in the way and charge okay but it's really no big deal.

Why because there has been a drifting to the wrong side to the dark side.

We left for vacation. We went over to the east. We left with was Doc and arrived with Doc on the docks.

We came back just a couple of days ago we left what was life was like we were on the right side of the sunset. We stayed in the light is why we stayed alike were coming home to Willie when we left we will even going away from the sun on our way back when common home coming to the sun is all about what side you will he says that this issue of God's anger is indignation and his fury must be addressed. He said it was in the past when you restart us from captivity in Maine. Now what you did for me revive us again what revival to cut it when you drifted. You need to be revived again when the people address there said that method in the captivity, God restored him back to his light side.

His right side.

He makes it plain when he says of the universe. Seven. Show us your lovingkindness a lot, and grant us your salvation word salvation means to be delivered or rescued rescue us what we having to deal with. I want to visit about here needing to be rescued rescue from an empty life rescued from a and addiction rescued from a situation you need to be delivered now let me make a parenthetical statement every problem that we have every difficulty is not necessarily because I don't want to suggest that the media trials in our lives and in life so far not suggesting that but I am suggesting the reason why we are in this perpetual mode of defeat is the absence of life.

Yes, travel difficulties, but Thomas talking about where we are living in defeat in spite of going to church in spite of dedications in spite of all that spiritual defeat is known God's rapid just I'm upset today. God's wrath is his build in response to that which is not in keeping with his character. It's built in the natural overflow of that which disagrees with who he is because the wrath of God is revealed is made manifest against anything that is not in keeping with God's character, his wrath is his displeasure.

Dr. Evans will tell us more about how that displeasure is displayed when he continues her message just a moment first. So what you're hearing today is the beginning of a powerful series called, revive us again this two volume 14 message collection will show you how to rekindle your relationship with the Lord and add some fire to your face.

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All of us grew up in homes with we could see parents were happy just by the look on their that displeasure was evidence says give us your salvation. That is, rescue us, deliver us want God to change our circumstances without addressing the reason why he's upset God get rid of my pain. Get rid of my not having a job not having finances get rid of my bad health.

Get rid of my singles get rid of my situation. Get rid of it, but we have not addressed us, but we want the salvation, the deliverance we want in the chains on circumstances without a return to him. The final verses from verses eight through 11. He prays I will hear what God, the Lord will say is after the revive us again because when he speaks, he will speak peace to his people to his godly ones who do not turn back the father don't go back to the old way is deliverance. Salvation is closer than you think.

Those who fear him. That is, take him seriously and then in one of the most picturesque statements in all the Bible verse 10 lovingkindness and truth have met together righteousness and peace have kissed each lovingkindness and truth and had a meeting met together righteousness and peace have kissed each that that's powerful God's lovingkindness is the mercy he shows to his people. Mercy is not getting what you ought to get God can't compromise his truth in order to show us mercy and when troth made some see God is shown up. He says and righteousness and pays to feature righteousness is the God's standards of God.

That's righteousness, that which God calls right to peace in the Bible means wholeness, wellness, it means it means God bringing things together that will get on God's righteousness. Righteousness puckers its lips and kisses peace so lovingkindness and mercy me righteousness and peace to us what is that mean that means two things that were upon are now coming together, there is a reconnect. What can I expect when God revives me.

He says righteousness will look down from heaven. Verse 11. Truth is gonna spring up from Earth and the Lord will give what is good is divine favor.

One route I want to be blessed but they don't want to get rid of the fear he wrath and indignation. I want to be blessed but I don't want to change my direction.

I want God to show his power, but I don't want to move from MySpace. No indeed God will give what is God and man.

In this case you can put our lives will produce its problems.

My life will go in the direction it's supposed to. Righteousness will go before him, and will make his footsteps into a way. When God's people return to God and God and reaction response returns to God's people. You have a clash of titans and revival occurs in things change, not because you have the cost of the change they change because now God is in the mix, and happiness shine down in life and life has come out of darkness.

God's favor this experience. Once again Dr. Tony Evans talking about what happens when we recognize our need for revival to come back with the final story to wrap up his thoughts for today, but first you want you to be sure that you receive God's ultimate favor his free gift of salvation. If you're at all uncertain about your eternal destiny visit Tony Evans.org and click on the link that says Jesus driven says a short video message for you and some free resources to help you be sure about your eternal future. Don't put it off.

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He said this is what I want you to do.

I see him, but I did talk to them.

I told him I need a revival in the mouth.

She spoke the word be told what to do and I felt better.

He told me in the word we was talking to you come straight to my office and we can fix this thing once and for all show was down makes as long as you follow way is a temporary situation, but when you come back when you draw me, and when you meet meet face-to-face and I look at this thing because we have now connected in proximity we go this thing got really far.

The time I know that if I don't connect face-to-face.

I will be right back where I started asking for another revival, but I think from the word to the person say to what he does when I see him face-to-face is as great a transformation. So every word but I hope you don't settle for that is the major face-to-face. You can deal with me now with the revive me again the alternative with Dr. Tony is made possible by the generous fusion of listeners