Are We Ready for Revival?

The Holy Spirit humans. So 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 on her 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 the Scripture Matthew three were introduced to John the baptizer John the Baptist well familiar with John the relative of Jesus Christ because he has 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 400 silently as the entered test the mental. The time between the conclusion of the old and the beginning of the new number 400 years where nothing was being said there was no new information from God, heaven was quiet.

All they had was the Old Testament because heaven was not getting any new information for 400 years stuff was silent. 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 heaven would come down into history, eternity would come down and took time and God himself would appear on the scene to get God's people ready for this visitation. A man named John was called a relative of Jesus Christ six months older than he was to fulfill a prophecy in Malachi chapter 3 God says I'm going to send my messenger to get you ready for Bob visitation in Malachi chapter 4 the last three verses he says.

And Elijah shall return when Elijah returns, he's going to restore all things and call people back to God. In Luke chapter 1 verses 16 and 17 it says and John the Baptist would come in this. And so John the Baptist is a fulfillment of prophecy in the Old Testament before the visitation hit.

God was going to send somebody to set it up. You know about the concert saw four crusades you sent different people befriend people to set up for the coming of whoever the celebrity happens to be one of the preacher happens to be the political campaigns that people go-ahead to get it set up so that when when the person shows up everything is been made ready for the show up bottle set up God says at the visitation angle set stuff up and there will be a prophet of the Old Testament and he will be made manifest in the New Testament and John the Baptist have the spirit of Elijah on him which was the spirit to get things ready for visitation with the caller for revival, 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 straight make ready the way of the Lord make his paths straight. Isaiah 40.

We talked about it he says raise up the valleys and hills and, in other words, create a way to explain to landlord a play can land anywhere play be the flat surface so that it can run on that runway to landlord. The plan can be a startling come down here you runway you ate something on in order to leave space and land on where you live. John is saying God's final, startling the situation startling the pain. The problem the circumstance but give him some land on you can land anywhere. He's got on a straight path. You can have mountains and hills and valleys expect the flu landed, the landing has to be worthy of the plaintiff that the bigger the plane the longer the runway because you got a lamb on a straight path you will see planes land good or bad going like this gotta be a straight path so the plane can land what is Paul saying to what is he saying he saying Jesus Christ is about to make his debut, the son of God is getting ready you been looking for.

The Old Testament is ready to get ours is now runway the landlord saw 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 heaven is ready to make a visitation referring to Jesus in history, but you only go 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 the group he says in verse seven we saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said, 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. He says the Pharisees and Sadducees. No, the religious people. They were making their way out to John to John sees this and said they made their way out to be bad when John sees them, 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 to be baptized except the first group and he baptizes them, but he condemns the second group comes out to be baptized because the second group what goes on. The first group was no baptized and confess their sins, they rebaptize not what they like hello, just give me the religious part of what I don't. Beginning with what I'm doing and not doing just give me the ceremony baptized me. Don't mess with me when I come the church.

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 do what you like, you won't get a Landon from this plane you will not see visit, answering the problem the day of people want service as an ceremony. They want information, but no transformation. They want you to make a sale good, but they don't want you to correct them for rebellion confront that would long want you to make him feel that Wanda God is not showing up. He came says you're a bunch of us likes the ceremony in the service and the religion but you're not doing you say you said you're 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 a worse time is running out in our nation. I think I can definitively say time is running out in the real 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 axes that the tree get ready 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 out for you till you throw you but on my terms not 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 now water it. The Holy Spirit and the relationship that you have with Jesus Christ today is through the Holy Spirit. The only relationship Jesus Christ. The second member of the Trinity is seated on the right side of the father who is in heaven. If you want to locate Jesus but God man is sated on the right side of the father. 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 left behind 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 bridge 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 the book of acts, which is the book of the Holy Spirit is always worth giving birth to the church. 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 one at one time the Roman government not know what to do with this. This part of the new church because the Bible says when the Holy Spirit came he came with tons of people ripstop up. Let's not our problem is we don't have a relationship with the Holy Spirit. So we'll see happen is when the sun comes baptize you with all the spirit and the way you know if the Holy Spirit isn't set comes with it. I don't like shallot.

Better yet, they will light you up as a person because with fire.

It was to introduce them. Baptism 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 says the kingdom of God's joy in the Holy Ghost says 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 enters really do that is really easy to sell. 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 so-called verses is not a relationship with the Holy Spirit. Watch this necessarily is being emotional something full of the spirit they got happy day job.

They shouted they way that nothing wrong with emotions but with five it was associated with it. You go get emotional. Okay so let's get that's right. If your file.

You don't feel it. But if you go you not only will you feel it will do some different you'll see people standing still, not burden you if you are you writing your job but your job because you don't change want different emotionalism when you Holy Spirit, you may get emotional, but is some change in visual. Dr. Evans will come back in a moment with a look at three things that happen.

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You never you can go you can build Holy Spirit and God to get down and you'll stuff in real business, he fits all like to stay up. You know you is all way up. You know when stuff is on fire. 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 would lead 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 noted to be led by the Holy Spirit for God to speak into this situation they hear it in the human spirit and be able to say with authority. This is the way God wants me to go. You can say like they said in acts chapter 13 the Holy Spirit said to the church that apart from you, Paul and Barnabas for the work that I called them to do and they knew that God had said 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, illuminating your understanding so you not just talking everybody talking to me. Joshua Joshua when he was going to fight Jericho and the captain of the Army showed up just with single-sided, you will sit on the side. The Bible says and on capitalism and the Bible says Joshua fell to his knees and bow you got low mountain got low yield little he went down, then the captain said take off your shoes for the place in which you want now is holy ground never made it already. Bow the Essay you still do not already about To use you still too 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 you going about his first question we wanted what was your plan for the situation, trying to come up with my plan and I did know what my plan was so maybe you got a whole plant thing about balance on this shelf life. Now when you asked that question. Chapter 5 begins. Joshua chapter 6 begins at the beginning of chapter 6 bow thrown away his question asked God to handle this situation.

It that we don't know how to handle it says that the captain told Joshua you get Utah to walk around while 1697 day walk around wall several times go to Rams on screen shot all shout down shots me that is not a military idea that is not a normal human would come up with that battle plan, but he didn't know what God had a princely window. Not a God had a way of the problems that have not seen you have not heard any that have been entered into the understanding of man, how God works stuff out fictional situations thing around you going to bring joy to your misery will bring PCO pay the price that I don't know. I don't know that you don't know you won't be that by the spirit of God and violate lasting about five double to know is that fire's fire lights up all the stuff fire to light itself up it lights up anything you gets close to unless it's a nonflammable like 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 not on file with the warm everyman file might stop.

It gets next. And it causes stuff to get let out the reason why we are not having an impact.

While we can. The Bible talks about the Holy Spirit work which means don't put this file that God is placed in every troop leave 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 your human spirit which sits inside your soul 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 religion can't transform you.

You come here to experience a meet the living and true God, I should come here as a 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 this open space wait until this road constricts God for many of us have been waiting for years for Straight Rd., Landor Wonderland Lane is why I gave them a load of the landing strip for his glory to be made manifest all this 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 the 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 Evans 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@20ofus.org. The title is are we ready for revival in the full-length version includes material.

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