Experiencing Church Revival

The Holy Spirit is to take another doctor 20 evidences when we lack in connection with the spirit we suffer as individuals and this congregation to the rest of the child is not filled this colorful Google.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony have another speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas and president of the urban alternative revival happens one changed heart at a time, but today Dr. Evans explains how it can transform entire congregations into the church is God wants them to be what's doing it today.

I want to say a word about church revival from acts chapter 2, when God revives his collective people. The church unfortunately many people do not understand the word church for many people. For most people probably the word church refers to the building located at a certain place or I go to worship God to be spiritually inspired and where I return next week to repeat it again.

That is the sum total of church. In fact, some people use the word church about places they never even go to.

It's just a word that the speak of an institution where churches taken from the Greek word pronounced Claes Leah, the Greek term Claes Leah means called out ones or an assembly, but in New Testament theology impact in New Testament usage.

What I Claes Leah called out group or church was not really a random group of people gathered together because of something they held in common, although that was a part of it, but word Claes seal was used in the classical Greek of an official gathering of legislators like you would call a Congress or Parliament would legislate on behalf of the group of people that they represented. So it was not simply an informal gathering. The Claes Leah was also a full gathering of legislators who would render judgment on behalf of the society of which they were apart, but they were unique because they were called out from the masses to be part of this special group that would speak on behalf of the broader group we have representatives in Congress who have been called out of the general population by election in this group of called out people these men and women who legislate on behalf of the American populace seek to render judgment to pass laws on behalf of the broader society so predicated on the legislation done by the called out group, the assembly in Washington DC.

The Congress based on what they do legislate affects how we respond as a people.

Because of this legislative group. So when you think of church we want you to think of more than simply a building where people gather for mutual stimulation, spiritual stimulation and mutual spiritual edification of mutual spiritual inspiration, but you are part of God's legislative body is the role of the church Jesus that I will build my Eckley CMI church. In Matthew 1618 and help will not be able to stand against it.

It is the job of God's corporate gathering. The Claes Leah to render legislation from heaven down to earth on behalf of our king. That's why you will hear us regular talk about the kingdom agenda and referred to the church that the job of the church is to render on the legislation from heaven. Ephesians chapter 3 verse 10 says that God waits to see how the church will vote to determine what he will do to see whether his legislative agent is going to render in history.

His perspectives from eternity because that's the only way you'll see his presence is power and his performance so that when you come in here the word of God is not just supposed to encourage and inspire you, teach you, and while it includes all those things is also supposed to control your vote. It supposed to control you rendering judgment based on a kingdom mindset and a divine orientation obviously the church needs a reliable the reason why the church needs a revival because we got answer the question simply because we have all these charges on all these quarters with all these preachers and always the deacons and all these artisans always require that all these members meeting in all these facilities and still have all this mess. The church God's congressional gathering is not being what its creator has designed it to be.

Therefore, it is become in the mix, lost its effectiveness and is not representing the interests of another order, so the church needs to be revived. There is no greater illustration of the church revival than the birth of the church in acts chapter 2X chapter 2 the church is born and it is reborn in the context of our red hot revival, he says when the day of Pentecost to come. They were all gathered together in one place and there came from heaven noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting and they appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves and they rested on each one of them and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit was giving them utterance the birth of the church, 120 people gathered in a central place and it been waiting on something they have been waiting on something.

The something that they been waiting on his soul to us in chapter 1 verse eight in chapter 1 verse eight he said, what you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth, so Jesus Christ had promised them that they would get a power to pull off their purpose and to fulfill God's program.

Now this comes after three years of Bible study. They been in three years of intense Bible study with the greatest Bible study teacher that has ever lived. Jesus Christ, you can get a better Bible study teacher in Jesus Christ teaching the Bible since he wrote that were hearing the living word teaches that they were watching the living word doing so, they did not have a lack of information they have lack of visualization they could both hear it and see if they saw things that men can only dream of a sublicensing lay walking the dead rising they saw miracle after miracle they saw thing after thing of God, demonstrating the reality of his words so they want lacking anything. But in spite of three solid years of biblical teaching.

Jesus says none of this is no more until the Holy Spirit comes upon you.

What's my point come in the church for information is not enough, to church to hear somebody preach won't cut it.

All of us knows what is the here message agree with the message and not be able use it when reality it out we forgot there was a message information is not enough. They had plenty of information, but he told them don't do anything until you receive the power you will receive the power. It is the job of the Spirit of God to make real the truth of God in the life of his people individually but since were talking about church were talking about collectively, they gathered together in one place altogether. It's the church gathering MPEG-1 officially become the church and they gather and suddenly one of the great things about God and his unpredictability. You don't have to know how I was going happen you have to know what happened with local problem hardest thing of go flip-flop turn twist will be tweaked. He can do it suddenly is good news for you single folks suddenly out of nowhere it says that came from heaven noise abatement violent rushing wind filled the whole house where they were sitting. He distributed to them tongues as of fire, not tongues of fire, but as of fire, and they rested on each one of them. And here is where the church becomes a flame. It rested on each one of them. It rested on each one of them out there hundred and 20 people gathered at the service altogether. There is this noise like a mighty rushing wind tongues as though they were like fire and they come and they rest on each individual and it says and they were all filled. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit. What is lacking is a congregation that's been filled with the Holy Spirit. The ministry was each one of them was filled with the Holy Spirit. What is missing is the filling of the Holy Spirit where the Holy Spirit is controlling the atmosphere in the individuals lives. Each one of them so that when they bring all that feeling to gather you God. A forest fire safe if one person is filled though you got a pilot light but when you got a whole forest full of hope fill you in a little ball you hold neighbor and when you have when mixed with fire, Bley, when we women cause the fire spread right when you got mighty rushing wind is blowing and you got focal been lit up by the Spirit of God is tough to put out one of the reasons why I like get put out so quick.

Usually by the time we get the parking lot because we were individual pallets and not a collective Bley you put one log in the fireplace and it won't stay long because it's a little long tried to stay lit and alone all day. Once they live flow, but now you stack laws. Next, the law of the laws on top blogs you like the group well now you got some American heat up the room in the fireplace because you're no longer an individual pallets. You're not a collective flame so that even if you want to die out. You're not allowed to die out mouth is rubbing up against you, and that is why you need the family of God and the body of Christ, so that when you feel like your old flames let you go out you might mess them up and make them go out. So the whole point is that the whole group is lit up by the collective fire of the Holy Spirit touching each one of them. So each one was affected.

On this Sunday morning when they gathered together, and the Holy Spirit entered in the job of the Holy Spirit is to take the people of God to a another round the job. The Holy Spirit is to keep you from staying on earth you don't need him to stay where you stay where you are where you are what you need him for is to lift you up to another round. His realm is called the kingdom. Dr. Evans will talk about how different things are in that kingdom when he continues her message just a moment for so I want to remind you that Tony's just completed a new book an in-depth study of the attributes and characteristics that make the Lord who we use the book is called God himself. The more you learn about God, the more there is to worship. This book will deepen your sense of all, as well as your understanding of God's nature's values and his heart and assurances are. Thank you gift when you make a contribution in support of Tony's ministry as a special bonus, it will come to you bundled with all 14 messages in our current teaching series called, revive us again if you ever felt like your faith is about to flicker out this collection of messages will teach you how to rekindle trust and devotion to God, not just in your own life, but in your family, your church, and even our country. This special resource package is only available through this Wednesday, so be sure to contact us today and make the arrangements to get it to do that visit Tony Avenue and start or or call 1-800-800-3222.

I'll have her contact information for you again after part two of today's message and this are you hungry for more history and more wisdom then you need to connect to the community. God's word with explicit teaching. Dr. Tony interactive online study experience allows you to explore theology, biblical history, and real-life application anytime, anywhere. Tony Evans training to get started today next 10 Evans training. It says that when the Holy Spirit wants is now they were doing things that were not natural to the they were doing think that was speaking in languages they had not learned that I was speaking Spanish, French, that was big and Italian man. I was thinking. Languages that were no other people they heard it in the old tongue is the point. The point is not that you need to speak in some I was nobody know you talk about what you you all even though it was talking about talking about doing something that is outside of your natural capacity. He said that was a supernatural ability to talk in languages they had not yet learned that some of the folks was saying how can this be that these Galileans are able to speak our language when they were raised in our community that grew up in our neighborhood where they learn to talk this language to talk so many of them so that all of us can hear God's word in our language. You know the Holy Spirit is set on fire. The church has revived the church because the church collective and its individual members are doing things is not natural to their personality natural to the history natural to that background natural to their orientation because the Holy Spirit has lift them up to a whole another level of functioning. So if you're still bound you not filled when you build a blue with helium is going because it's been filled with something to take it off of ground-level these folks are no longer operating on ground-level one of the great of the church today is that we are operating on ground-level will operate like anybody else operates operate like any civic group any social groups, any political party with the wait for solutions to come on Air Force One because with all on ground-level that there's nothing lifting us up to another perspective to another added to seek the Bible says that when you feel the Holy Spirit it bears fruit was not a fruitless tree to tree. Were you Casey not happen is when you feel the Holy Spirit you lifted up to a whole another level of operation so that you are operating outside of your normal capacity. Things that were out of control and in control things that we would lose it all.

We do not lose little ratable because you're being lifted up to the reason why the church is not filled the focal covalent… Fill paper walls and pew drums and guitar because he felt people that no such thing as holy, holy, speakers. He fills people. These people came yielding under the authority under the power of the direction of the Holy Spirit.

If you took me to the moon. I could with the time you give me a time I can't lift the paternal order. Why can I let the tunnel of them will become abnormal by gravity. Gravity that says what goes up must come down. The weight would hold me back could not lifted up because gravity combined with that weight would make it impossible for me to deal with that much weight on my situation but you take me to another round you lift me up to another location and stuff that I couldn't handle down here and handle their re-situated and relocated because we have remained bound. We can't lift up our issues. We can lift up our problems. We can lift about difficulties, we can't lift up our personalities. We can't lift up our orientation is just to have Jesus told his disciples in John chapter 14 John September 16 I'm going to give you another helper, give you somebody like me, the Holy Spirit and his job will be to enable you to do to enable you to do what you cannot do on your own.

He will come alongside you and he will enable you to pull off what you can't pull off on your own, and if I can get enough people in the church to pull it off if I get that kind of revival going you will see what the church can do in a society where the weather still bad. I look the way the other day. I do it sometimes I would lift the weight the other day and I was there and I was at the church gym and lift the weight and things got everything got heavy day they got heavy, but it was I was weighted down. I was waiting – it was not one trial I was really trying. I was planning on doing the best I can.

I was you know you know I'm trying to grunting and groaning and making noises and when you make noises really try new electrons I got enough I'm trying out and I'm doing the best I can. I'm doing the best I can but it was too heavy. It was too heavy after a while I couldn't handle it anymore. It was too weighty after him. While I couldn't deal with this anymore, but in the middle of my collapse in the middle of my not being able to handle the weightiness of my situation for the Floyd was over the summer she came alongside and slipped two fingers on the way and help me help me. He placed his hands underneath it. All of a sudden, I have power that I didn't have strength that I didn't possess because I had a helper who came alongside who could do for me when I was unable to do for myself… Giving you another somebody was come alongside Sissy. That's why whenever you get this perspective about the start member of the Trinity call the Holy Spirit. It changes your equation about quitting, giving up throwing in the town I came make it. It won't work to change all mindsets because it is no longer now, not dependent upon you or Jeff you help somebody else who comes along, but you gotta be full of skull being filled with the Holy Spirit.

It means yielding to God's point of view so they were in the context of collective worship when they experience this waiting on God to do something spectacular.

They were waiting in God's presence for the spirit of God to make himself manifest they knew when God spirit showed up some big get rampant.

Finally, Peter gets up. By the way he preached the sermon talk about who Jesus was and the greatness of Jesus and the glory of Jesus and the death of Jesus on the resurrection of Jesus. And then he says, and repent.

He says if you will follow the spirit. Jesus of a big deal. You see, in closing, the church will file verse 41 of chapter 2. So then those would receive his word were baptized in that day there were added 3000 souls. They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles teaching and fellowship into the breaking of bread and the prayers.

Everyone Feeling a sense of all, and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles and all those that believed were together, and although they had all things in common and they began selling their property and possessions of works shared with them, as anyone might have believed him day after day continuing with one mind in the temple breaking bread and house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people of the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved as a supernatural activity for says when the church got filled, God say, and God was showing up.

It says that was one and all shot at stuff that was happening and where that come from, how did you see that in the middle of a bad situation the middle of the persecution of Rome in the middle of a bad situation.

The Bible says in Hebrews 10 you not forsake the assembling of yourselves together, as is the manner of some what he says what I want you to do it.

I want you to provoke one another stimulate one another and 11 could be somebody else so that one night it's another night is set on fire all charge is set aflame, the people of God have been ignited for the purposes of God. Dr. Tony talking about how the fire of revival can spread through the entire congregation in the perfect way to build on today's teaching is to request the entire two volume 14 message series called, revive us again as I mentioned earlier, you can get all these full-length lessons on CD and digital download as well as a copy of Tony's powerful and insightful new book, God himself on these resources are yours as our thank you gift when you contribute toward the work of the urban alternative, you can make all the arrangements by calling our 24 hour resource Center at 1-800-800-3222 or visit us online at Tony Gavin's.org again that phone number 1-800-800-3222 or go online to Tony Avenue and start org well tomorrow.

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