Experiencing Family Revival

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This is the alternative with Dr. Tony having another speaker, pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas and president of the urban alternative revival starts when God does something special in sinus, but it doesn't stop there is contagious and today Dr. Evans explains how we can help it spread to the people who mean the most to us, our families, let's join him as he takes us to Genesis chapter 24. One of the most dysfunctional families in all of the Bible is the family of Jacob. Almost from the time of his birth, his family was in chaos.

He can live with his mother to rip the blessing from his brother and to deceive his aging father that would lead him to a life of deception and that of a confusion. This man would enter into a simple rivalry with his brother Esau that would threaten his very life and he would grow up in a family of unforgiveness where Esau would seek to kill you. It was a family in chaos.

He would see worked out in his own situation in his own family. The continued flow of the family in which he grew up his daughter was raped Dina. Her brothers was so incensed at the rate that they connive the plan that turned them into mass murderers and so they slew a whole city full of men by getting them to agree to circumcision and in their moment of weakness they would kill. This was a family in crisis. You know the ongoing saga of them selling their own brother Joseph into slavery because of jealousy.

This was different functionality at the degree.

Perhaps you know of families like this. Perhaps you grew up in a family like this where when you look back its chaos and confusion that has followed you bountifully. Ms. revival.

So today I want to talk today about family revival where God returns to your home and bring order out of chaos and turns confusion around in the something that is meaningful and productive. In chapter 35, right after the rape and mass slaughter that had become a part of Jacob's family. Jacob is now terrorized.

Look at the end of verse 34. Because all these men had been killed. Verse 30 then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, you brought trouble on me by making me odious among the inhabitants of the land among the Canaanites and parasites in my men being few in number, they will gather together against me and attacked me and I will be destroyed and my family and my household, but they said, should he treat our sister as our they raped our sister. We go to live, Jacob says.

But now you've jeopardized all family where few now these folks are going to be entered and bailed going to kill us. In other words, Jacob is in a crisis. He's in a bad situation now because now that this mass murder of the card he knows that these folks will rise up and due to his family was his family did to the minute that city and is a mess. In chapter 35 verse one we start out with two words.

Then God remember whenever you see the word then you got asked the question we in the midst of family disintegration at the highest level then God said to Jacob arise, go up to Bethel there make it all today at the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau, you read that and it doesn't seem like much but this whole story revolves around that statement arise and go to Bethel Bethel is where Jacob met God the first Jacob knows he is supposed to go back to Bethel but he doesn't he gets detoured along the way he winds up in a place called Shechem to buy some property there and now makes his home there and that's when all hell breaks loose. In other words he doesn't do what he said he was going to do. He did was from what God's plan was and what God's direction was chaos breaks out in his life until he faces a crisis again like he did earlier with his brother.

Only this time is with his children and now the chaos in his own home which was like the chaos in his father's home produces God coming to him a second time telling him, aren't you supposed to be back in Bethel. God says look mad or think about it know you can straighten out. Maybe I can get your undivided attention. From my plan and my will is chaos in your house. Go and live and baffled – a home because that's my whole the house of God make it all to their God worship Megan and Yalta had to do a sacrifice substitute for sin get this spiritual stuff right in your life, make it all the better.

God appeared to you when you flip from your brother Esau over 20 years ago. So what does this say this or you can have a jacked up family for over 20 years you Chaos in your home for year after year after year after year. When you have detoured from God, so that was a spiritual detour. But there's good news here. The good news here is that God spoke to Jacob. God was still talking to Jacob, even after 20 years is a bad family situation is messed up kids is messed up wives so messed up father and husband. But God still spoke to him you know when it gets bad as we, God no longer talks to you or you no longer willing to hear. If he does talk, God spoke to him. Jacob had not fulfilled what he was supposed to do and it showed up not only of his life and his own children, parents, if you want to save your children, you better go to Bethel if you want to save your family.

You better go to Bethel. It is the place where you meet God says that's what God spoke to you was that Bethel you know what God is trying to get you somewhere else because he allows too much chaos where you it allows where you are not the work you situated right now. This is not worked in the more I try to make it work, the messier it gets. Verse two so Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, put away the foreign gods which are among you purify your cells change your garments going to Bethel he ready to go now this, relocate, relocate, relocate. We in the wrong spot here.

Notice what he says. He says you gotta do three things.

One way foreign gods watches he's the father he's the husband he says, put away for God so they know it is the house that was in the house. He knows that the house is with no for over 20 years.

Anything you look to and treated like it is God in your life.

That means you got to God.

And when ever you invite you invite a demon because titles are demonized elements to become an idol in your television can become an Idol if it causes you to replace God in your life if you can always watch your TV show but not get around to spending time with God's television became an idle Rachel had brought the idols with her.

In chapter 31 it talks about Rachel bringing the idols of her father with her, and that means that contamination entered the home verse 34 says that Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel saddle and she sat on them and so she probably will deliver the thing about it is at some point Jacob discovered it and didn't do anything about. We know you know they're back and tell them we gotta get rid of idols. Because if we did the title. We wouldn't have this mess we got this mass because we stray from God and been brought foreign gods with us. We gotta get rid of the idols. He said the second thing is purify yourselves. Remove the sin out of your midst.

Change your close change your garments to change the garment was symbolism all the reorienting the life. When a policeman puts on his blue uniform. The change of the close represent something when you see that blue you know that the change of the close means that he is more than just an ordinary man. He is a she gave a police officer with authority when they change the call with the judge puts his robe on you knowing is not just an ordinary man is a person with authority. In other words, the change of clothes represent another position.

So the change of clothes meant to put on a new way of life, a new way of orientation to change your closing.

We go to think differently about when not going to keep doing the way were doing when I go to work the same close over and over and over and over again.

You have said the people in your family future. Why don't you change your clothes you wear the same stuff you functioning the same way. Dr. Evans will talk about the wardrobe change that took place in Jacob's life and spell out what it will take for us to do the same when he continues her message from his current series revive us again. There's no question that our country needs revival want to let it start with you to help you get started.

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It's like having a seminary on your smart phone. Jacob Manzo badly. It was a bad leader because he did not control the ritual level in the home he did leave his family and God's way. He did make sure that there were no idols. And so the kids grandma Mark everything grandma Mark because he was no longer in control. Listen man.

If you are going to be the man God has called you to be there. We are going to be the man God has called us to be and we gotta man up to our responsibility as we look at idols a try to sneak MO. Even if your pretty wife brought leadership is not just the title leadership means overseeing the atmosphere, where I live. All the same the atmosphere, where I live. He says you have damaged the house so God says you need to go to Bethel is your spiritual departure, Mr. that is put the family in this situation, and yet it was contributed to by his wife by Rachel who was so in love with her idols, that instead of being a helpmate.

She became hurt me and so he says I will arise not authorized go to Bethel and I love this Jacob says okay I let you all know believes right because you can serve the other gods, of all the other nations, but in Joshua 2415.

As for me and my house, absent the spiritual agenda.

So what the question is particularly man is are you setting the spiritual agenda for your home or you just don't believe that the spiritual agenda. You may be a good provider and that's great many more of those but you should be setting the spiritual atmosphere for household. As for me and my house we shall serve the Lord here arises and goes to Bethel to make it all got to verse one we don't have a family worship, family worship, by way mimicking the new family family worship and altar will be doing it. I'm supposing the path to hear you spoke about the piece is really going back to God.

The house of God. Bethel if he answered me in the day of my distress was 20 is a go, and he came through the mess. Now I need to go back home to Bethel as they journeyed verse five that was a great camera upon the cities which were around them and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

Wait a minute. Remember in chapter 34 verse 35 that these folks are going to jack him up because of what is done, all the men of the city, but because he man rose up and went home and says the Lord. Verse five came upon the city and they did not because it was now going right God and in him in a bad situation you may have been making mistakes with 20 years.

But if you'll get up today, I'm going to get up one day and says he got up and started back home. Spiritually Bethel when he was on the way.

It was pointed right when he started right and the family started moving right with him and says the Lord God intervened into his crisis situation and let the circumstances he was in the mess them up out the killer but the terror of the law. It could be for you. Financial or job terrible. It could be whatever it is that's making you afraid right now. But God is so great and so powerful if you will move you and your family back to Bethel. God says that the crisis doesn't have to control you. So Jacob comes back to Bethel Bethel verse seven he built an altar there a place of worship sacrifice and call the place. Watch this now Hebrew Al Bethel verse seven God verse nine appeared to Jacob again when he came to our and asked him you looking for placid UK find it.

Maybe it's because you got back to Bethel where they placid when he got relocated back to where he was supposed to have been all the time.

He blessed him blessed was this God said to him your name is Jacob.

You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name. He called him Israel.

God said, I am God Almighty when God changes your name is because he's fixing your character.

When God changed the name of me just call you something different to change your name means something is messed up in your nature.

All right, your character, your trickster, your connive or your evil your mean your disgraceful so you just only religion you need a character change, but the only place I can change your character is at my location is at my location is Bethel. Many of us here, husbands, wives, children, teenagers, we will just need more information. We come to church weekly get information we need a change in our nature Bethel. I will change your character is not enough to believe in God believing in God is nice, but he says if you believe in. If you follow me you're going to see you haven't touched her that somebody had a day And segment history today maybe targeted attached time personality. The fictional rebellion you brought into your marriage.

The misery of your mother. You brought into your marriage. The failure of your father and your children the rebellion you shall do your parents transfer you got to go back to baffle Bethel if when you take Jesus Christ seriously and will him by faith that is your new Bethel Bethel is where God speaks brand-new speaks of French doctor 2011 talking about how revival can spread from you to your entire family. Of course you can spread what you don't have. If you've never started a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. It begins by realizing that none of us is perfect enough to qualify for heaven on our own.

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