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Revival Generation (recap of FUGE Youth Camps 2024)
28 Plays11 months ago
Sunday Message recorded 23 June 2024
by Associate Pastor Josh Shell
First Baptist Church -- Columbus TX
1700 Milam St.
Columbus, TX, USA 78934
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Transcript
Event Overview and Contributions
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um So that is just a little glimpse. of There was way more photos I could have added, but I'll spare those for you guys. If you guys want to see them, feel free to find another leader. We have all of them on our Google Drive. so um And that music is kind of catchy. I saw some of y'all back there nodding your heads to the music. But anyway, but there was a lot that happened that week that was absolutely incredible, and there was an individual who's not here that you saw in the pictures a lot. He's my best friend from college. His name is Jordan Timms, and he's just an incredible guy that he he sacrificed a week to come and to help us, and students can give testimony about how awesome of an individual he is who loves the Lord, and he invested a lot of time into them. So I know he's not here, but I want to give a big shout out to him as
Carter's Camp Experience
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well. but
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I know I could sit here and talk about it all day, but there's actually one individual that I would like to bring up that I would love for him to share his testimony and his experience of how he experienced camp, and it's Mr. Carter Fin Dyson. So, Carter, if you want to come on up, big guy. Yeah, give it up for Carter.
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Camp was an amazing experience, and it was it was a way that we could grow closer to God. And the biggest part of it that really helped us do that was, and I know a lot of people weren't really fond of it um because we were kind of singled out, but it was that we got our phones taken away for the week. And that really helped us focus on the word and really helped us lock in and not have distractions of the world. um it It was all in all amazing experience. and We made a lot of friends and we learned a lot. um We learned what consecrated means which is what was in the song where it says consecrated Lord to thee. That means to be set apart from the world and to be made right with God.
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My favorite part about camp was whenever we would go up, and we would all go up to the altar when the the worship band was up there, and we would all go up there, and we would all have our hands up, and we'd be singing, and we were all light. There was nothing else um in that moment but worshiping God,
Reflecting on Camp's Impact
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and that was just an amazing experience for me. the That's awesome, man. Awesome. Thank you, Carter.
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Seriously, guys, there's this testimony after testimony from the students that we could give about the experience there at camp. One student in particular, I'm not going to name who he is because I didn't tell him I was going to say this, but he was questioned about if he was excited to come home. And he was like, no, not really. And he was like, we were like, why? He was like, because here we get to talk about our faith with openness, without any hesitation, without any issues, without any struggles, whereas at home you can't do that. And it kind of blew us back for a little minute, right? um and It was because when you were there, it was cool because in Pine Cove staff who were in the room, y'all get to experience this too, right? When y'all are out at Pine Cove, y'all are in like what we what we called back then when I was working there, the Pine Cove bubble, right? Where you experience camp and in such a way that is beautiful and unique, but it gives you the closest glimpse of heaven
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that you can experience here on earth, because you're in fellowship with believers of the same faith, of the same mind, of the same heart, and of the same worshiping, the true God, right? Whereas when you come home, when you get back into reality, you reality hits you in the face really quickly about the brokenness and the sinfulness of the world, right? But I want to encourage the students, and I'm going to encourage you Pineco staffers, and I'm going to encourage you as a church These experiences are meant for us to have, to sharpen us, to hone us, and to build us into a relationship to go grow closer to the Lord, right? However, it's not supposed to be contained there. The Great Commission calls us to go out into the world and make disciples of all nations. So what we experienced there at camp, Pine Cove staff, what y'all experienced there at camp, it doesn't stop there. Y'all need to take it home with you.
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Students, y'all need to take it out with you when you go out to the community. Church, we need to take the church out to the people. It doesn't stop in this building. For some people, your interaction with them out there in the real world is the closest thing to heaven that they'll ever see. Think about that.
Understanding Revival
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So this is what revival is about. I know for a lot of us when we think about revival, we think about the the revival that we have out there at the fairgrounds, right? So when we gather together and we sing, we worship and do all these things. And yes, that's that's a beautiful thing. We're called to do that. We're called to meet together as a church. But revival, what it's about is the individual transformation in the heart by the Spirit to lead you and propel you forward to grow in Christ's likeness and to be the hands and feet of Jesus. So if you're a believer in this room today,
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and you have not and you're not experiencing that right now, I pray that you will be praying for revival in your own life and that it will not stop. We as believers should be living a life of true revival every single day because the reality is is that we've been brought from death into life. That's the definition of revival. from death to life, and we need to pursue this life every day we have in Christ Jesus.
Revival Series Outline
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We need the gospel more today than we did yesterday.
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So may we pursue that. But it didn't start with just us going to camp, right? There was some prep work that was being done. um Before we actually got to camp, we actually did our own eight week series on revival generation, this this this theme of revival generation. And it was a beautiful series that we that propelled us forward and prepared us for what we were going to experience here at camp. And as you see up on the screen, these are the eight topics that we talked about during that eight week period. The first one was revival. and how it is more than just a feeling, right? And how it's said there in that last slide, it's more than just a feeling, it's a what? An awakening. It's an awakening, it's bringing you from death to life, right? So it's more than a feeling, or it's more than a feeling, it's an awakening. The second thing we talked about was worship and how as a result of revival, your worship needs to be more than just a song. As we're sitting here singing these songs, worship is more than just that. Worship is a lifestyle.
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It's how you choose to interact with God's word, how you choose to interact with God's people, how you choose to interact with those around you. That is a form of worship at your job, at your workplace, everywhere. It's a lifestyle. The third thing was repentance and how repentance as a result of revival is more than just apologizing to God. I'm guilty of this. When I lay in my bed at night and I think about my day, I'm like, Lord, I'm so sorry for my behavior. but yet at the heart, the root of it, am I truly repenting? Or am I just apologizing? Because repentance is a turning away from sin, desiring not to do it again, right? So many of us all fall in this category where we have a tendency of just apologizing to God rather than truly repenting and following in that lifestyle of repentance. Again, key word that you're gonna hear throughout this whole thing is lifestyle.
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How are you living your life? The third thing was faith and how it's more than just believing God exists, that He is our Creator. He is the one who gave us the life and breath that we have in our lungs. The fourth thing was obedience and how it's more than just a get out of hell free card. Do I need to repeat that? Just because you're here in church doesn't get you out of hell.
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Just because you follow the book, just because you read the book, the scriptures every day, doesn't mean that you're getting out of hell. There's only one way for you to get out of hell, and that is through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. That's the only way. It's only his blood, it's only his life that is that brings sanctification, that brings about righteousness to us. There's only one life that's worthy of the atonement, and that is Jesus.
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the The next thing was of holiness and how it's more than a halo. So it's more than just putting on an outward appearance of of holiness, but rather it's living a lifestyle of holiness from your heart first and then letting it overflow. Then there's passion, how it's more than just activism. It's more than just stepping out saying, yes, I'm a believer in Jesus. Yes, I believe that His way is the truth, the way, the life. It's more than just that. It's living a lifestyle of holiness and of of of passion, of truly being the hands and feet and the love of Jesus to those around you, right? Last thing is urgency. Urgency.
Key Questions on Revival
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When was the last time you shared the gospel with somebody?
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That's a hard question, isn't it?
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We sit here and we say that we're believers in Jesus, but yet the greatest commission or the great commission that he gave us is to go make disciples of all nations. But yet many of us in this room are terrified of even sharing the good news that's transformed our lives. He's brought us from this death to life. How silly is that? We need to have a sense of urgency. It's more than just being busy for Jesus.
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But then all this kind of culminated to what we talked about there at camp. There was four questions that we looked at. or So each day we looked at a question, there's four total. So when you look back at what we just talked about with that eight week series that we were there with our youth group, the four questions we talked about at camp are this. Day one, where does it begin? Where does revival begin? It begins in your heart. It begins right here in the personal heart. And if you're not ready for it, then what are you gonna do about it, right? Which leads ah to the the second question is, what does it take? What does it take to have revival? what That particular day, we looked at John the Baptist. They looked at John the Baptist in the Bible study. What does it take? Surrendering your life in submission to the gospel, right?
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So again, revival just isn't this one time thing that we experience one time a year when we all gather together, but rather it's a lifestyle. You surrender to, you submit to it. You follow after it, you give it your all. When you choose to believe and to accept Jesus into your life, it's not saying, hey Jesus, I want to believe in accepting you when it's convenient for me. but rather is saying, Jesus, I recognize that you are king of kings and Lord of lords. You're the one who came down. you You came down from your perfect heavenly dwelling to come into a broken, sinful world to live among men so that you can die the perfect death and be the perfect sacrifice for all of us so that way you could take our sins upon yourself and pay that ultimate price so that by me just believing and confessing, nothing else, just believing and confessing, then I could be saved. That's an absolutely incredible message.
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And it should bring us all hope, right? But it it's more than just that. We have to surrender to the will of God in that regard, right? So what does it take? The third question is, is what does it lead to? What does it lead to? And the fourth question is, what will you do with it? These are four fantastic questions that I pray that we will all ask ourselves every single day. Where does it begin? What does it take? What does it lead to? What will you do with it?
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But there's one that there's one question I really want us to hone in on today that I felt like the Lord was, that really impressed in my heart while I was there, and it's the third question is, what does it lead to? What does it lead to? And there's four, there's a passage I want us to look at. We're gonna look at it just briefly, I promise, because I know we're already short on time, but it's in Luke chapter
Lessons from Peter's Obedience
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five. So if you want to get your Bibles out and turn there, We'll be in Luke chapter five.
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And this question, what does it lead to? We're gonna be looking at four different individuals or four different accounts in this chapter alone that hopefully will drive us to the the answer to this question. What will it lead to? And the the first one that we're gonna look at there as you see on the screen is Peter. Then we're gonna look at the leper. Then we're going to look at Levi or Matthew, and then the Pharisees. But first, I'm just going to take a little pause here. I have a picture up here. So the the camp speaker of the week, his name is Gary Morgan. He was our our speaker last year. This is him. I was told that I look a lot like Gary.
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Um, so I thought I'd at least share that picture with you guys. Um, so anyway, so if I have a mustache, that's why then you didn't really see it anymore because my beard screwed back. But, uh, so that's Gary Morgan, incredible guy. He does a unique ministry up in Nashville, Tennessee. I would love to have a conversation with you guys if you want to hear more about it, but back to the text here. So what does it lead to? Okay. So let's look at Luke chapter five, verses one through 11. So picking up there in verse one, it says this, on one occasion while the crowd was pressing in on him, talking about Jesus, to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, or Gennesaret, however you want to announce it, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out from them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land, and he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
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And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. And Simon answered, master, we told all night and took nothing. But at your word, I'll let down the nets. And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish and their nets were breaking. They signaled to their partners in the other boat and came to to the other boat to come and help. And they came and filled both boats so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, depart from me. For I am a sinful man, O Lord. For he and all who are with him were astonished at the catch a fish that they had had taken or that they had taken. And also where James and John sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, do not be afraid. From now on, you'll be catching men. And when they had brought their boats to the land, they left everything and followed them.
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This is an account that many of us are very well aware of, right? Of of the of the calling of Simon or what we would later know him as is Peter. But did you guys catch something in this passage, right? So Peter was just minding his own business. Jesus came onto the scene. him and his partners, James and John, those who were with them, they were just, they had just got back from fishing. Remember, that was their job. That's what they did for a living. So they know what they were doing, right? That was their lifestyle. That was their livelihood. So they were, they were fishing all night. Didn't catch a single thing. They came back, started washing their nets. But yet Jesus, because the crowd was pressing in on a platform to teach on. So he stepped into his boat.
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And then while as he was teaching, he looks at Simon and says, hey man, I want you to go back out and cast that net. Can you imagine how Simon was feeling that moment? Did y'all, okay, so I read out the ESV translation, right? Did y'all notice that when he says, master, we told all are we told all night and took nothing? It's not a period there at the end. What is that? An exclamation mark. So when I read that, I'm like, I see Peter's like, dude, are you kidding me?
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We are literally cleaning our nets. You just get up here and start teaching. And then you want me to go cast my net out after I just did all this hard work. When I know the pattern, when I know the best time to go fishing, this is not the best time to go fishing. Like these are the things that I think of when I read scripture, right? But what does he say? He says, but at your word, I will let down the nets. So in this moment, he had one or two options, right? He could either listen or not listen. He could either obey or not obey. And what did he do? out of I don't know if he was out of reluctantness or whatever, but he was like, okay, I'm going to do it. And what was the result? He caught such a large amount of fish that he had to call another boat over, and both of the boats just began to sink.
00:17:28
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See, this is what happens when we follow in obedience to the Lord. Now, we all also know what happens to Peter later on in his life. What happens to Peter? He gets persecuted and he gets put to death. Why? Because of his faith. Just because we follow Christ, just because we surrender to his ah and in obedience to Him, doesn't mean that we're just gonna receive a bunch of blessing. There's a lot of false gospel out there right now that's teaching us that if you follow Jesus, you're gonna be blessed and that's it. That's not it. We're actually promised persecution and hardship because the gospel is offensive to those around us who are lost. But in the moment when you surrender your life to Jesus, what is it gonna lead to?
00:18:20
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an abundance of life, an abundance of joy. Because you guys, did you see his response there? But when Simon Peter saw, he fell down on his knees saying, Lord, depart from me for I am a sinful man, O Lord. What did Jesus say in response? And he said, yeah, you're right, dude. I don't need you. No. He said, do not be afraid. From now on, you'll be catching men.
00:18:49
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Can you imagine what Peter was saying in that moment? But again, the question that we're answering here is, what does it lead to? What does revival lead to? ah relief It leads to a life of catching men and women, right? It's following in obedience to the gospel of Jesus, the great commission, going and making disciples of all nations, advancing the kingdom of God, bringing heaven down to earth,
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And then listen there in verse 11, and when they have brought their boats to the land, what do they do? They left everything, everything, everything that they had that was around that business. Okay, sorry, Sammy, you're sitting right here. Sammy, you have a long business. Now, Sammy's gonna be like, oh man, now I need to surrender all my stuff. you know But he's got a long business, right? it's like It's like, for him, it's literally leaving his truck, his mower, all his lawn equipment, everything right there on the side of the street saying, all right, Lord, I'm out. I'm going to follow you. That's a lot. But Peter does it. So do James and John. So what does it lead to? All right, the next scene, we gotta move on.
Miracles and Faith
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The next one is verses 12 through 14. There's another man that Jesus encounters here that is absolutely incredible. Pick up verse 12, it says, while he was on, ah while he was in one of the cities, there was a man who came full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean. And dream and Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, I will. be clean. And immediately the leprosy left him and he charged him to tell no one but this, go and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing as Moses commanded for a proof to them. So here's this man, man of leprosy,
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is For those of us today, leprosy, it's it's treatable. But back then during the first century era, it was not. It was it was highly contagious. People, where they were if they had leprosy, they were cast out. and They had communities on the outer part of the of the of the villages or of the cities where they had to stay. And when if they were walking down the road and they had leprosy and they saw people, they had to shout, I'm unclean, unclean. So that way they would stay away from them. But yet, when Jesus comes on the scene, what does this guy do? He sees Jesus. Instead of saying, unclean, he says that I need him. Because I'm sure at this point, word about Jesus is spreading. The miracles are are spreading. Jesus' is fame is getting bigger. And so what does he do? He runs up to him, fell on his knees and begged him, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.
00:21:48
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And Jesus says, I will be clean. And the leprosy immediately, immediately left him. but Again, can you imagine how that guy was feeling? A guy who has been written with leprosy for who knows how long? And then for this to be immediately gone?
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you I mean, if you were in that situation, what would that lead you to? Did you guys notice how Jesus commanded him not to go out to to tell anybody what just happened?
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He says, he charged him to tell no one. Because if I were mid without me, if I were me, I'd be like, yo, Jesus just cleansed me from leprosy. I mean, I'd be going all over the place. But rather, Jesus says, hey, don't go tell anybody, this is what I want you to do. He says, but go show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing as Moses commanded it as proof to them. So we need to be proof and witnesses to the gospel of Jesus first. We need to praise God for what he does to us and in us. Because let's be honest, we are all broken, sinful men and women in this room. And we need to be healed. And we have an open invitation to run to Jesus, just like this leper did, fall down at his knees and to seek forgiveness and repentance.
00:23:12
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so that way we can be cleansed and we can stand up and we can declare the goodness of God in that moment. And then we can go out, not for our own will, not for our own purpose, but to go out to be a an image bearer of the gospel to those around us so that God may be glorified, not us. Does that make sense? So often we make Christianity about us rather than making Christianity about the one who it's all about, Jesus. The third story here is the call of Matthew. This is a ah really incredible account in Luke 5, 27 through 29.
00:23:57
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After this, he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, follow me. and leaving everything, he rose and followed him." So another account where where Jesus meets a guy, a guy that's not liked by those around him, okay? So the so Matthew or Levi, as he's referred to you here, he was a tax collector. He was a Jewish tax collector, which means that his fellow Jews despised him. because tax collectors were not hired by the Jewish community, but rather they were hired by the Roman community, by the Roman officials, by the emperor, right? So he was put in this position to to bring all the taxes in from his people.
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So when tax season comes around, they come to see Levi. Well, Levi, unfortunately, these tax collectors have a reputation of taking more off the top when it comes to the taxes than what they were supposed to, which puts a huge target on their back. And oftentimes, as you when we read in this account, Levi was sitting in his booth, right?
Community and Transformation
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Because of the of how much the people hated them, they would actually have a Roman guard standing by the booth so that way nothing could happen to the tax collector. So you guys see the picture here, right? So Jesus goes to seize Levi. He says, hey, dude, I want you to follow me. Levi, okay? So as a result of this, he was probably a very prosperous man. He had everything that he ever needed. He was rich. But he said me in the subscription says immediately after Jesus calls him, he literally leaves everything, rose and followed him.
00:25:40
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Right, but the next part of this account is absolutely incredible and it says this, and Levi made him a great feast in his house and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at the table with him. So it did not stop with just Levi. He got up and left to follow Jesus and he said, hey, I'm going, you guys come with me.
00:26:05
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And he brought all his tax collector buddies with him and had a meal with Jesus. Absolutely incredible. But this, what I love about this passage, and this is something that Gary brought to life for us when we were there, is this, is that Matthew just didn't go by himself. He brought others with him to hear the word, good news of Jesus, and to to encounter Jesus, not just to listen, but to encounter Jesus. And he says this to us as believers in Jesus, y'all ready? He says, as isolated followers of Christ, or sorry, if if we are an isolated follower of Christ, then we are defeated followers of Christ.
00:26:44
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Don't you repeat that? If we are an isolated follower of Christ, we are a defeated follower of Christ. God gives us the church and a community and a fellowship of believers for a reason. We do not need to neglect it.
00:27:03
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We need to be thankful for this opportunity right here, right now to come together as the body of Christ to worship together. And not just about us, and that we need to bring those in our lives that are lost who need Jesus to come together with us. Because let me tell you something, this place right here, we are not perfect, we are not fixed. This is a hospital. We are all still sick. Me being the most. Well, I don't know about that. but
00:27:35
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We all need healing. So may we not neglect this call. So again, what does it lead to? And I pray it does not lead to this last group of men. Picking up there in verse 30, after Levi bring or ah calls all the people to his house and has this feast with Jesus, it says this, and the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples saying, why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? And Jesus answered them, those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. i've I have come not to call the righteous, but to bring centers sinners to repentance.
00:28:23
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So in other words, may we not have hard hearts like these Pharisees. I pray that as a result of revival, that it will not lead to a hard heartedness. to a sense of pride, to boastfulness, to making the gospel about us rather than about people. Because the reality is, is that Jesus did not come down just for you. He came down for all people. and He didn't come down just to party. He came down to bring sinners to repentance.
00:28:52
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He didn't come down just to have a Sunday morning service. He came down so that way we as the church can leave Sunday morning service, go and bring people back to him, right?
Living a Life of True Revival
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So I pray that as we continue this ah this lifestyle of following Christ, one, I hope and pray that you are following Christ. If you're professing to be a believer in this room today, I pray that you are truly surrendered and following Jesus every step of the way. That's where it starts. And if that's not where you're at, I pray right now that you'll be praying for that opportunity, that you'll allow the Spirit to come into your life to bring you to that place of surrender and revival.
00:29:35
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but then allow that to lead you to this right here, to where you can truly be the hands and feet of Jesus, that you can respond and be obedient to the calling which he's called on your life as a follower of Jesus. And then what's beautiful about this is if you look around this room right now, we all are unique. We all are wonderfully made in Christ. Praise God for that. I think I've said this before. Praise God there's not a whole lot of Josh Shells running around right now. This world will be doomed. but
00:30:07
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hey That's good. That's good. But we are all uniquely and wonderfully made, and God has given us purpose but and and and meaning and in every one of our lives. he may be Some of you guys, may he be calling he may be calling you to minister in the workplace that is that I will never be able to encounter. Some of you guys are doing what he's going to call to, working PBS this week. And you're gonna you're going to transform so many lives of these students. But I pray that no matter what that calling is, is that we will not stifle the spirit, that we will not hinder the spirit, but rather allow the spirit to move freely in us and through us so where we can truly be the hands and feet that he needs us to be. No matter how old you are, no matter how young you are, if you're in this room and you're a believer in Jesus, God is still using you today. So don't think that just because you're over retirement age that you can just sit back and relax and have a tea party, sorry. But that's not the case.
00:31:08
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God calls all of us and he desires to use all of us to the very last breath for his kingdom. So again, what is revival? As you saw in the power on the PowerPoint slide, rival is the revival is the spiritual awakening of God's people to their true nature and purpose.
00:31:28
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Revival occurs when the Holy Spirit empowers and inspires people to get serious about knowing Jesus and obeying the scriptures.
00:31:37
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Revival is more than just a feeling, it's an awakening.
00:31:43
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So my question is, is what will it lead you to? What is the Lord calling you to right now in this season of life? For some of you in this room, you've never surrendered your life to Jesus, and that might be what he's calling you to right now. For many of us in this room, we've already surrendered our life in christ to Christ, but yet we haven't been walking faithfully. What is He leading you to right now? maybe Maybe He's calling you to join this church. You haven't done that yet. Maybe He's calling you to be a part of a ministry in this church, whether it's the kids ministry, the student ministry, whether it's WMU, whatever whatever ministry it is.
00:32:26
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Maybe he's asking you and calling you to go and to speak to that one person in your life who you think is too far gone. No one is too far gone to be brought back into the redeeming love of Christ. Let me repeat that. No one is too far gone.
00:32:49
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Jesus is ready and willing to meet anybody right where they're at to bring them back into right relationship with him. and to restore them.
00:33:01
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So as we wrap up and as we conclude, worship team, if y'all wanna come back up, y'all can go to come back up. I pray that as we go into this time of invitation that you'll be pondering on this question of what does it lead to? First off, have you experienced a revival? If you haven't, I pray that you will Allow it to begin in your life. But then the second question that we'd like to take at campus is what does it take? It takes a true surrender, right? Then what does it lead to? And then what will you do with it? So if you aren't in a place today where you know that what the Lord is calling you to and you need somebody to talk to, you can come talk to me, you can talk to Victor, you can talk to anybody else in this room that you know for sure is a believer in Jesus.
00:33:52
Speaker
but I pray that you will do that. But for everybody else in this room, I pray that during this time of invitation that we'll pause and we'll truly be praying through what the Lord is leading us to right now in this season, because he's got a calling in all of our lives. I'm thinking of about the Pineco staff out there right now.
Encouragement and Conclusion
00:34:07
Speaker
Y'all have a calling in your life right now to be out there administering to these students who get one opportunity to come out to camp each summer. They have a phrase out there. It's, you know, what is it, week five now? Week six? Week five. But it's week one and only for these campers. week one and only. This is week one and only for those VBS kids. So if you work at VBS, think about that. Be praying over the opportunities. so But if you need somebody to come, if you need somebody to talk to, you I'll be down in the front. If not, we can sing this song together, but let me pray over us as we go into this invitation.
00:34:44
Speaker
Lord God, we just thank you so much for today. And Lord, I just thank you for the experience and the opportunity that we had to go to Union and University to go to Centrifuge. I pray that these students will be transformed all the days of their lives. And Lord, I pray that just through the testimony and the witness of what you did there, that ah it will impact our community here, our church here, and that we will be a church that's truly living a revival lifestyle. It will be the hands and feet in which you've called us to be. The Lord continue to lead us, guide us, transform us. May we surrender our will to yours. In Jesus' name, amen.
00:35:24
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