The Hindrance of Revival

If you have a self you don't want Dr. Tony Evans is our real is determined by our relationship with the Lord God is saying no change with value goes up. This is the alternative Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker and pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas and president of the urban alternative.

Dr. Evans has been talking recently about the things that lead to revival today. He will turn his attention to the biggest thing standing in its way. Let's join him rents to revival that which is holding God back is the loss of value that God does not have the value he is worth among his people. Revival is simply the restoration of spiritual life. It is God renewing the life of his people.

The condition of revival is very simply stated in Malachi chapter 3 verse seven from the date of your father's you have turned aside my statutes and have not kept them returned to me and I will return to you.

Many people want revival without a return doctors returned to me and I will return to you get back on track with me and you will see that back on track with you. Revival is where God renews, restores his manifest presence, not simply as theological or theoretical presence. His manifest presence where he makes himself known in your experience, where God becomes real to you and to your world rather than merely a theological theoretical concept is the devaluing of God.

The lowering of how we relate to him. You can't actually Lord God, God will always be what God has always been what God's will for ever be.

He could not be devalued in the in his absence, but we can relate to him that way.

I'm sure you and I have people in our lives in our sphere of influence who do not give us the value we feel we were.

We will say people don't talk to me like that level what Albert relating to us does not reflect the reverential respect of value.

The book of Malachi is a very hard-hitting book is a series of complaints that God makes about his devaluing or being devalued by his people. This is the book of Malachi is written to the people of God is not written to pagans now leave the people of God.

The priest uses the language some hard language. It is important to know when you approach the book of Malachi that Malachi is set up in a religious context is in the context of a worship service this in the context of people coming to church. It's in the context of people carrying their Bibles within the context of people doing their religious thing, and God is not happy because even though people are still coming to church, singing about and talking about and praying about it preaching about in a context of your being devalued that you can see it in the text verse six. In the middle of it all priest who despise my name, verse 11. From the rising of the sun even to the setting, my name will be great among the nations. Every place incense is going to be offered to my name and a grain offering that is pure for my name. The end of verse 14 and my name is feared among the nation. God says how excellent is my main and all the earth. My name is the universe 14. He says to me, feared Isaiah 33 verses five and six has a very interesting to verses it talks about the competitive concept of revival of God making his presence felt the knowledge of him no and he says, and the fear of God is the key to this treasure. The fear of God is the key or the foundation of this treasure. It's the master key that unlocks all the rooms of your life how you value God's name to fear God is not simply to walk around with the yellow dreading it is to hold him in all and highest of esteem is to treat him like who he is to relate to him on the level that he exists.

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God is concerned about the devaluation of his name among his people that they're not giving him the worth worship the word that he is due even though recommended church doing the religious thing, they are not giving him the work that you do verse six as a son honors his father, a servant his master, father Dupree, my heavenly father.

Where is the Greek and Hebrew word on it means glory.

If the master where is my respect people with respect to the same word for fear of a lot of those all priest who despise my main desktop line which he says you folks not only of the value me you have despised me. You have treated me in a despicable fashion. If assignment is to give glory to his father if a sovereign is to give reverence and respect to his master your father and I know master, missing my glory and my reverence.

There are three ways you can treat God. The book of Leviticus is the Old Testament real thick Old Testament worship book. It may be hard for us to relate to the book because it was under the Mosaic law and all the ceremonial activities involve the will have to do now in the New Testament because of the accomplishments of the death of Christ, but it talks about relating to God in the number of ways.

What we had talked about relating to God as is not profane to relate to God. In April, same way to operate in such a way that I don't even care. There is a God. It's a profane, waiflike, cursing God out using profanity against God, and that's it. That's an obvious devaluation when somebody curses somebody out calling you outside of your name and may use profane profanity in doing that, a way of relating to God and to make profane way, but another way the book of Leviticus lets us know we can relate to God is in a common way to treat him as common. That is, to treat him like he's just another.to treat him like he's everybody else the way God is to be related to bias people the world would be unique, one-of-a-kind class by himself. Nobody like you. God gives a complaint that you treated me, regular, and you're not reverencing cool. I am and what I can do.

But even though you're not doing it. Verse nine but now, would you not entreat God's favor, you still will bless you, come out, that's an outcome of blessed give me my blessed why you had me joke you had me left over but you will bless you want to see my best for you. You want to see me break it for you. You want to see me deliver you. You want to see me fix you want to see me change you. What you bring me your lame lambs. What you bring me leftovers was important for your well-being.

My well-being just deal with people is yourself value you give yourself because if you have a poor value of yourself.

We call the poor self-image you will for ever be messed up because if you already don't think that what you would not about let you know you are correct that you're not all that you will really sink.

But if you have a self value other people don't determine who you are, God says, great king, no matter what you do not want great and the reason why the law is for you Michael J. Gray so so because I am great you got a rise out of all I don't change my value left over devaluation of God.

God says I can't revive you.

I can't bring you all that I want to bring you all I get is what you have left.

If I'm devalued why you're asking me for Favor for blessing with such an offering on your part will he receive you can accept your worship is probably singing praises for me and you whispered when you go to work is important for you to be there to get back at them when to come.

The warship God not be happy. I was left not significant when it comes to spending time with me is rushed when it comes to watching your favorite TV show want to miss the beginning of leftover methyl when Dr. Evans continues her message in just a moment to talk about moving got higher priority list and to help us do that. He's created a great resource is just released book, God himself is a probing look at the many characteristics that make the Lord who he is his nature's goodness is love and much more. We serve an infinite God.

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Verse 13 you say my son is it was Sunday again or Sunday. So come around France. How tired I am to you to go to church today. I'm too tired to go there on time to hi. What do we stay up for tiredness is not merely informed by your physical state of being. It's also info about how interested you are in what you are doing because we are what we want to be alert for Dr. Starley with gladness.

Some don't serve him at all that it will be served by give me some Favor. I am tired every Sunday at 1 o'clock when the second service ends. I am tired every Sunday there is not one Sunday I am not tired. I get up 5 o'clock on Sunday morning. Get ready for church come here to services prescribed. I am tired. At 1 o'clock but I can guarantee you will fail if there is a new cowboy day.

Not all the way to stay up spend that much time fellowship in which you not send this to a 10 year because we're remiss they will have my attention. You only get the beat. Because God is good.

You know you right now is because God is good and his life still flowing through your veins where you are, how tired you are.

You are verse 12 profaning my table messing with me you're not taking me seriously you try to drink the Queen of England the Queen of England has great position, but mobile about tuition body pull over whatever cabinets they do all the ceremonial stuff declares no no real clout just positioning and pageantry we get hyped up about buildings we get hyped up about you know how things look in the pageantry and it is nothing wrong with that, but that's not the essence that's not cool. Many of us gave our employers what we give to God would be fired to shame the devil we don't serve the Lord with gladness so it's leftovers.

It's leftovers. These Hosea chapter 3 as you write me with ties and offerings you want to be with you giving you throw some change in the plate and think I'm supposed to be happy with that.

No faith, no dependency, you just give me leftovers and you wonder why the Locust is eaten up all your stuff you're wondering why The one bill gets paid some mouse breaks down wondering why you can get ahead with your thief who blesses these he says should I receive that starting from your hand should accept your evaluation of me with just the junkie throwing me, but because people swim love who have a male in his flock and vows it, but sacrifices the blemished animal to the Lord a great team says a lot about my name is there among the nations of the great King. Some will God over here see the problem is we have it appraised him correctly when Michael Jordan got married got married in Las Vegas. The minister says to him, you pretty tall young thought about playing basketball.

See you know who he was talking to because you have no it was just another marriage, another wedding into people so he just did the ordinary thing. I think the problem is we don't know who God is. So we do the ordinary thing which is satisfied with the ordinary thing the common thing we dealing with a one-of-a-kind God knows he's a great key that need you to tell them but neither does he want you to devalue him in the name were you showing up this let me limit the limits of God. Because when I want to buy one for big some cars should be the swindler. The thief who devalues me and gives me leftover time, leftover talent leftover treasure is always left. But we want revival.

We want the supernatural to enter into the natural will in heaven to enter into history. Some time ago I repeated again. I told the story about mother who had an ugly scar half of her face looking disfigurement, and her daughter would never introduce a never invited to school. Never bring friends home because her mother was ugly because of this horrible scar. Finally, the mother confronted the daughter about not including her in anything. The daughter came right out and answered, I know I'm so I'm sorry but I just don't want my friends to see because of how you look. With tears coming down the mother's eyes.

She said well honey, have a seat because you really do need to know how I got this disfigurement when you were a baby. I was outside and I look back in the house: five I rushed him to get my baby girl and on my way out. One of the beams of the house collapsed and hit me across the side of the face while I was holding you in my hands through you to safety. While my face burned on the be just thought you might want to know the reason I lost Scott up is because I was busy saving the reason all Scott up as I was busy delivering if I hadn't been willing to be Scott up you wouldn't be delivered. You wouldn't be alive today. I know sometimes you don't feel like worshiping God. I know sometimes you don't feel like giving the God I know sometimes you don't feel like serving the God site is summative but don't forget every got all Scott decided now to sleep saving you (you when you get serving the Lord and we get worshiping God when you get for the Lord. Just remember when he went through to provide you so great a salvage with Henry revival about the evaluation of God. God is saying things the go change with my value to you goes up when I'm no longer treated as profane, or, but as you make as a one-of-a-kind God and how you relate to me how you worship me how you will obey me how you trust me when my value goes up to you and see things Dr. Tony Evans wrapping up his important teaching series called, revive us again as a reminder, there are some complete messages and quite a bit of additional material.

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