Experiencing National Revival

Israel is like John the five Dr. Tony Evans reminds us. One man caused the city to fall to its knees in prayer as believers today can spark the same effect that Jesus is Lord. This is the alternative Tony-author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas and president of the urban alternative goddess turned around entire nations before and he can do it again.

Let's try Dr. Evans as he explains how that process can work here in our own country theme is been a revival where God returns to his people because his people have returned to him. When revival occurs, you experience God's manifest presence. We talk about God's manifest presence were talking about where God makes himself real to you. You can know about God. You cannot reference God. You can have information relative to God without ever experiencing so we talk about his manifest presence were talking about him making himself known to his people in a very real experiential way. So today I want to say a word about national revival.

When God reaches down and makes himself manifest to a nation is no place better to do that with min Jonah chapter 3 Jonah chapter 3 benefits if our personal lives, but this is the greatest revival recorded in the Bible of a nation starting with its capital city of Nineveh.

We all know the story of Jonah. Most of us know the story is only related to big fish but the story of Jonah goes much deeper than a big fish goes to a citywide and been a national influence of revival where God returns to a Gentile group of people, God has told Jonah, and Jonah chapter 1 to go to Nineveh, the great city and proclaim against it. And of course you know the story, Jonah ran from going to Nineveh and got on the boat going to Tarsus where Jonah starts out is 550 miles from Nineveh. He gets all about to take him 2000 miles to purchase. So like a lot of us, he would rather go 2000 miles out of God's will than 550 miles and it did not like what God was asking him to do now that was reason why he didn't like it. Two primary ones but is an evil place when I have time to go there now but I got to read the book of Nahum and Naomi with God's prophecy against Nineveh and you can simply reading the book of Nahum understand why Jonah would want to go to this world of people who like vampires like to suck your blood.

They were known for the shedding of blood. It was a violent society, and so does position is who will be there no you got to be kidding another really wouldn't want to go is that of a was Israel's archenemy of Syria Nineveh of the capital city of Assyria. They will invade Israel in a few years in retirement and have brought havoc with Israel so that the archenemies so I don't want to go to Jonah has to deliver this message. God is ticked off at you. Nineveh felt like "so Joe decides I'm not doing horrible and I'm going to Tarsus as far away as I can get from Nineveh and YouTube God God track down Jonah as we know what is on the boat. He gets thrown off the bow. A big fish swallows him now facing a whale of a problem these days in the in the fish for three days and then is, tuneup on shore he's vomited up on shore that brings us to chapter 2 verse 10 the Lord commanded the fish vomited Jonah up on dry land so we don't have a profit. We got a stinky prophet because he is been vomited up on dry land.

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time say is go to Nineveh, the great city and proclaim to it.

The proclamation which I am going to tell you the big fish so we get on dry land, and the question is what would you where you go, go look for another boat toward Nineveh says you about and tell them the message I'm going to tell you point God would not give you more information until he was obedient. The information he received a lot of us want God to do more when we have done anything with what is already said is what I want God to do something new when we have an address what is given us in something old God, the Bible says he that hath, more will be given does not have that which he has shall be taken away translation, God will give you more if you haven't done with what he's giving you what you were supposed to do. Charlie tells him to go to Nineveh, the great city and proclaim a proclamation. Another observation is that the word of the Lord came to him the second time points. Jonah had to adjust.

God was about to, the adjustment had to be on Jonah side first that it is critical as we approach Nineveh of the great city to understand that Jonah but had to preach to it because God's normal way of operating. For the benefit of other people is through his people.

Many of us are like Jonah, we don't mind being in Israel where it's safe will not being around other Christians where it's safe out there with the crazy folk live out there with the Ninevites Gentile unrighteous. We don't want. We want to go down in the ship where the safe places and don't want to associate with those who desperately need the message you got an enema and tell them the message Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord the middle of an exceedingly great city of three days walk and Jonah began to go one days walk and cried and said verse four yet 40 days and Nineveh will be overthrown. Remember, Nineveh would be the capital city of Assyria, the great nation yet 40 days and Nineveh will be overthrown yet 40 days and Nineveh will be overthrown in Hebrew. This is five words five words. Big statement yet 40 days and Nineveh will be overthrown. The bad news is you get regular whiteout. The bad news is judgment.

The bad news is, God get ready to shut you down. The bad news is it is all but profits didn't just deliver bad information, and thought it days now but will be destroyed in 40 days minimum will be overturned in 40 days Nineveh will be shut down. That's good news. There was a good news you got 40 days when you give a one line people. He only given one line you just think people bad news. If you keep all you go get it. The good news is Michael doing now to keep all means there is little bit more time so is the bad news, but the bad news included a gracious provision. Why tell me in 40 days you will destroy me.

What give me everything if you simply want destroy me. You don't even have to send the prophet just wipe me off the map it was in the midst of judgment that that was a grace offer that there was an offer and that offer said you have a 40 day window to turn this around.

When God takes the time to tell you about judgment.

It's a painful word Pete told you about means there is still a window of grace.

40 days and Nineveh will be destroyed. Then the people believed in God, and they called a fast and put on some cloths from the greatest to least of them in sackcloth was the garment of repentance.

It was a visible demonstration of a heart change. I cannot see your heart. You can see my heart but I want to see the sack. I want God to change his mind about judging me in my situation and so I am going to demonstrate openly and publicly by the fasting giving up of the food by the sackcloth my pastor of repentance, so they not only believe they took a pastor of repentance. Now remember, repentance means the restoration of harmony.

Repentance means to restore fellowship with God for me and God to be on the same page to be on the same wavelength. Repentance means that me and got all cool again say brings a legal declaration called justification where God brings you into fall relationship with himself.

Repentance brings about melodious relationship, you and God is now in the same room.

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The next always gets worse. The next time he has made this a national issue is put on the stage that the spiritual status of our nation is in trouble I mentioned is in trouble because it is in trouble with God so grandpa we better get right with God make this a legal issue a proclamation of the work government and these must be carpet was sackcloth verse eight and then call on God, earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way, and from the violence which is anything remember they are known for violence that croaks to please. He says I want you now to turn from your wicked ways. Why because we want to change his mind.

Verse nine. Who knows God may turn and withdraw his burning anger so that we will not perish the biblical principle here is a very important one and that is the principle of representation, let me talk to your moment about the theological principle of representation, here it is the principle of representation simply says that the one who is legitimately above.

You also represents you, therefore bad decisions you become the one above us represents us.

This is true of our nation.

When the Kings made decisions, it affected the nations is true of a family. The decision of the father.

This is the bows will affect all family you can make God rethink his position.

Remember, the series with little spiritual authority that our choices affect God's decisions. You can actually get God to reverse something that I can be good not to be back if you can reverse it. Either way, he says, if you will get back with me bad that I have planned to do against you, in turn, at the good and if you rebel against me.

The plan for your life and your world can reverse that to become bad and you'll decide which reversal I do so. This King said look I want to reversal here because God according to the prophet is planning to do a number on us and that's why, as a nation of people. The prophetic word is needed in the white house to house to keep before the leadership and before the people you don't want God against you.

And of course our leaders typically won't see the spiritual side of it, unless there is a prophetic voice in front of it. Unless there is a word from God being the client to it and then you have including first question, when God saw their deeds, not heard.

Their words not heard the words the Bible the New Testament calls it fruit of repentance got me some.

I can see here is what God's will respond if you need God to flip a switch in your life, flip a switch in your situation. She must see. He must see the action that you took the statements that you made when he saw that there is no such thing as the biblical fruit will have you ever seen that when he saw that these they turn from their wicked way, then God really meant to change his thinking on the matter concerning the calamity which he had declared he would bring upon them, and he didn't do it.

You can change God's position in your situation now this looks like the end of the story.

It's not turn to Matthew chapter 12 for out conclusion Matthew chapter 12 verse 38, then some of the scribes and the Pharisees said to him to Jesus. Sure, we want to see a time from you, but he said to them, and is able and adulterous generation praise for some and yet no time will be given to you, but the sign of Jonah the prophet okay so now Jonah is showing up again but now is in the New Testament by Jesus for just Jonah verse 40 was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the Son of Man Jesus be three days and three nights in the heart of the okay now we back in Jonah will stand with this generation.

At the judgment and will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold something greater that Jonah is the sermon in one Baptist pastor feeling blind people rave missing from the dead, you know, get demons out of want to sign it out. What is not enough.

We got to see the sun drop you. You gotta see more to do us to do more when you really look back and see all the other stuff he's come through. You are the only double signs he already made it absolutely clear. He's got what they said they will pay no more signs while accept one of the one side is as Jonah was in the belly of the sea monster three days saw the Son of Man is not be in three days is vomiting three days the sea monster vomited up Jonah. And Jonah came back to earth in the water. He came back he was thrown up on dry land.

Son of Man will be swallowed up to three days and three height be swallowed up under the day, the sun, the moon is Son of Man is and will be an empty gray, but that being said, you talk about the minimum when Jonah came out of the belly of the whale some city in his nation that was that people spiritually took place when Jonah holds up from the belly of the sea monster the way you know that my son of man is that the gray is empty and not just because the Bible since so when you see a breakout in history a man flocking to Jesus Christ name on every billboard around the world as a people and buildings all over the world sing songs about which the right to write books about which he inscribed about a generation of men and women and define the way you know that that is that there are folks willing to fly because they bid like that of the night and bought a dog with God the way that you know that God is real. If somebody out there like Jonah, if I go to work and testify that testified that the gospel date rape that thinks that Jesus is Lord Crites is coming back again. That way to heaven to the parade that implicated glory Jonah is that the Minutemen of the great that Jesus Christ is Lord might breakout nationwide.

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