Are We Ready for Revival?

The Holy Spirit with you humans. Dr. Tony Evans is part of the spiritual job is to make the intangible God tangible, but how much you can do that is up to us.

It is your relationship to the Holy Spirit.

How much of God to experience. This is the alternative with Dr. Tony had other speaker, pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas and president of the urban alternative when a rocket shoots up into the sky.

You know there's something powerful going on inside of it today.

Dr. Evans explains that the same is true when the believer is lit up by the fire of revival. Let's join them as he explains in the Scripture Matthew three were introduced to John the baptizer John the Baptist well familiar with John the relative of Jesus Christ because he is been given to us as one who is the fulfillment of a prediction between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament, there were 400 years where God was not talking. Then came the prediction of Messiah that God was going to enter history himself. Emmanuelle God with us that God was going to bring heaven down to earth and that would be a visitation so John is introduced to us. From Matthew's perspective year John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea say make ready the way of the Lord make his strength make ready the way of the Lord make his paths straight.

I bought it when he talked about it he says raise up the Valley and Boba Hills amount. In other words, create a way this plane to land some of the mid-level wilderness in a barren situation. John is coming to say God wants to land his glory. He wants to lay down his glory, and so many people began getting the message. According to verse five.

Then Jerusalem was going out to him in all Judea and all the district around Jordan and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confess their sins. He says Hammond is ready to make a visitation referring to Jesus in history, but you only don't say it if you repent the kingdom of God is right next to you is right beside you, but you won't say it, unless you repent. The revival will come unless you repent, but that I would group.

He says in verse seven we saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, you brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come. Therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance and do not suppose that you can save yourself. We have Abraham fall father for I say to you that from these stones. God is able to raise up children to Abraham. The act is already laid at the root of the tree is one season Sadducees will be the religious people. They were making their way out John to John see this and said they made their way out to be.

When Johnson, and he says you bunch of links brood of vipers groups like the Bible is a poisonous snake in the wilderness and Israel is is you brood of poisonous snakes, not to be baptized except the first group, he baptizes them, but he condemns the second group will come not to be baptized because the second group what was on the first group was no baptized and confess their sins rebaptize not what they know. Just give me the religious part.

What I don't want my fans know what I'm doing and not doing just give me the ceremony baptized me. Don't mess with me when I come give me the service give me the ceremony giving a baptism.

Don't ask me to do anything with my life. You get into clouds, but if I don't deal with you life. You won't get a landing from this plane you will not see visit, answering the problem the day of people want services and ceremony information but no transformation. They want you to make a sale good, but they don't want you to correct for rebellion confronted with the wrong want you to make him feel that Wanda God is not showing up there, you bunch of snakes. You want the ceremony in the service and the religion but you're not doing your Sandra not acknowledging that you have rebelled against the living and true God, keeping God away.

Since judgment is already at the door. The act is already at the tree. In other words, time is running out in our nation. I think I can definitively say time is running out and the reason I can say it is because of the increase in intensity of remedial judgment in the increase in intensity of remedial judgment. In other words, more stuff is happening where stuff is happening at a faster rate 9/11 to hurricanes to financial collapse. The medical world.

The actions that the tree didn't really hit the root better deal with this thing of the next time will be pretty, but that bad news is for a good reason. The kingdom of his hand.

His motivation for the negative is the positive that I want to show up and show how you but on my terms, not on yours really comes with this final piece is in verse 11. As for me, is the prophet talking baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I do stuff I can do and I am not fit to remove his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit inside can only give you water but the one comment to me baptize you with some else and is not water it. The Holy Spirit and fire. The only relationship that you have with Jesus Christ today is through the Holy Spirit only relationship Jesus Christ's death when he is seated on the right side of the father who is in heaven. If you want to locate Jesus, the God man is sated on the right answer of the father alleges that Jesus well the only way you have Johan's because he put the Holy Spirit in your heart, which is called the spirit of Christ. You have Jesus in your 6 foot man whose lip living in your but you have the reality of the second person of the Trinity because he not the same time call the Holy Spirit so the Holy Spirit is on the front page now is not God the father is not even God the son. Although the spirit glorifies the son. The person doing the work on earth is God the Holy Spirit.

So therefore if there is no relationship with God the Holy Spirit. There is no relationship experientially with God the son, and if there is no relationship experientially with God the son of Northridge relationship with God the father is your relationship to the Holy Spirit that determines how much of God you experience today. So let me ask you a question in the book of acts.

The book of acts, which is the book of the Holy Spirit is always worth giving birth to the church.

You tell me the church grow and flourish and turn the world upside down would no sound system, no seminars, no Christian bookstore was no Christian ready all stations. No Christian television station 3000 people to get the same one at one time the Roman government not know what to do with this part of the new church because the Bible says when the Holy Spirit came he came what tons of stuff that's not our problem is we don't have a relationship with the Holy Spirit. So we'll see happen is says when the sun comes baptize you with the Holy Spirit and the way you know if the Holy Spirit is it set things on. It comes with it only likes you.

Better yet, will light you up as a person pecans with fire. It was to introduce them baptism.

It was to introduce them to a whole another well the Bible describes the Holy Spirit it says in Romans 14 are brief says that your Christian experience, the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking. He says the kingdom of God's joy of the Holy Ghost is the visiting comes from the work of the Holy Spirit in your life in your situation in your circumstance and in our world. You know what we have missed the Holy Spirit in the name of Bible doctrine and this really is really easy to solve fall in love with the book about him that you miss him.

The Holy Spirit's job is to make God experiential not merely informational verses is not a relationship with the Holy Spirit.

Watch this necessarily is being emotional something for the spirit of the job, they shouted they went wrong with the motions but I was also seen with emotional okay so that's good. That's right your file for you but if you only will you feel it some different you'll see people standing still, number give you all for your job but your job because you on the focal no change want different emotionalism when you Holy Spirit you get emotional something change in visual been lit up. Dr. Evans will come back in a moment with a look at three things that happen. Fire of revival starts burning inside of us. And if you want to learn how to fan the flames of faith into a revival that can sweep through your life, your family, your church, and even our country and get a hold of Tony's complete current teaching series revive us again. This two-volume collection contains 14 full-length messages including some that we won't have time to share in the year yours with our thanks when you make a donation to help us keep Tony's teaching on the station along with them will include a special limited time extra is brand-new book, God himself. In it he explains that most of us don't stop often enough to consider who God really is and why we worship him. So this book is a journey through his attributes, revealing aspects of the Lord's nature and character will probably surprise you in a marriage. Intimacy grows as spouses get to know each other. The same is true in our relationship with God should await make your donation online@tonyevans.org and let us send you this double resource package is our investment in your growth. Again, that's 20 Evans start or or reach out to our resource Center at 1-800-800-3222 for some in person help that's one 800 803 2220 repeat our contact information later on after part two of today's lesson and this thing about serving an infinite God is that no matter how much you know there's always more to learn so brand-new to Scripture or an experienced ministry professional.

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The more you learn, the more you want to give it a try Tony Evans training world discovered time anywhere rethink about 50 cents since the Holy Ghost comes he likes things up file personal penetrates file never stays on the surface five notches up the fight gets up down with it gets down in the stuff it burns through stuff.

You can be on file and be superficial and by knowingly service people, service people, and they appear to you.

You never you can go meet with you to build Holy Spirit and God to get down and heal stuff in your business is all like to stay up.

You know it's all way up.

You know when to stop via. It burns through. That's why you get convicted because it burns to the soul. That's why you get salads and students so secondly fire guides, Israel was led to the wilderness by the five at night since the firemen shoulder which way to go if I was a guide. The Bible says those who been redeemed by God are led by the Holy Spirit.

Romans eight. Very few Christians know to be led by the Holy Spirit for God to speak into this situation they hear and in the human spirit and be able to say with authority. This is the way God wants me to go. Who can say like they said in acts chapter 13 the Holy Spirit said to the church that apart from me. Paul and Barnabas for the work that I have called them to do and they knew that God had sent it yet. When God speaks in his word.

That is the Holy Spirit speaks about the Holy Spirit now taking God's truth and using it to your specific situation when they think you understand so you just talk and everybody talk to me. Joshua Josh when he was going to fight Jericho and the captain of the Army showed up. Josh was a Lusardi will sit on the side. The Bible says and said on capitalism and the Bible says Joshua fell to his knees and bow you got low mountain got low yield got low.

He went down, then the captain said take off your shoes for the place in which you are now is holy ground never made it already. Bow the Essay you still to Use you still to tall take off your shoes.

You go low. He went low. Then Joshua asked the captain what do you want to do different question. The first question we ask he said was going about his first question is what you will watch what's your plan for the situation, with my plan and I did know what my plan was so maybe you got a whole plant thing about balance on listening now when question means. Joshua chapter 6 begins at the beginning of chapter 6 bow thrown away his question asked God you want to handle this situation.

It that we don't know how to handle it.

Says Joshua you get Utah to walk around once a day for six days on the seventh day walk around wall seven times the rounds on screen. All went out about a child will come, now that is not a military idea that is not a normal human would come up with that is not a normal battle plan what God had a princely window. Not a God had away of the problems that have not seen it, you have not heard any that have been entered into the understanding of banks how God works out fictional situations thing around you going to show some of them said bring joy to your mysteries will bring PCO pain. I don't know. I don't know I let you know you will be that by the spirit of God and violate lasting about five double to know is that fire ignites fire lights up of the stuff fire to light itself up it lights up anything you gets close to unless it's the nonflammable light file will like you. Well you have to be on fire. Just get close to get lit up you know I always take all get emotional. We get excited when I want every man fire might stop to get snacks to stop and it causes them to get out the reason why we are not having an impact is we can write anything when I let the Bible talks about Lynch not work with me. Don't put this fire that God is placed in every troop of the Holy Spirit is the light up your soul and spirit, which is then integrated with your human spirit is situated inside your soul. Your soul is yourself like your personality, the Holy Spirit, when it gets linked up with you human spirit which sits inside you.

So is to ignite the salt and set the solar flame, but the preparation that will be the landing circuit not a religion.

Religion can help you and give you a momentary jolt. Religion can't transform you. You come here to experience a meet the living and true God should come here to meet and express the living and true God, and that should be our mindset as we live our lives to make the living and true God, so that the habit which is at hand can land not to spin up in space.

Wait until his road constricts God for many of us have been waiting for years for straight road. The Landor Wonderland land is why I gave them a road. Maybe over the landing strip for his glory be made manifest all his havoc were experiencing in the country and on. Know the symptoms of God creating stuff to let you know this plane is ready to land now are you going to humble yourself, you will keep the mountains of your independence, your self-sufficiency, your rebellion and I'll just keep the plane appear God enable us to not be satisfied with business as usual question today is are you ready for revival because the kingdom of heaven is right in Dr. Tony Gavin with thoughts about getting ready for a fresh start with God to land in your life. As always, copies of today's teaching are available on both CD and digital download@tonyevans.org. The title is are we ready for revival in the full-length version includes material. We couldn't fit into our broadcast time. That's true of all 14 messages in Tony's current series revive us again.

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