 Hannah, it is such a blessing to have you on the broadcast. Thanks for joining us. Thank you, David, so much for having me on here. I am super stoked. So, guys, I just want to get right into this message today. See, we see it over and over again in the Bible that people who are pure and obedient unto the Lord, he uses those people most effectively for his kingdom and for his glory. So, guys, comment down in the chat right now. Lord, purify me. Put a fire emoji. Lord, purify me. We want to be pure before the Lord. Amen, amen. So, guys, I am 23 years old. I'm from Southern Ohio, and I have a burning heart and passion to see this generation be pure and holy before the Lord. And a lot of times I share this in messages, but Gen Z, which is currently ages eight to 24 years old, they're statistically the most suicidal, depressed and anxious generation out of any generation in American history. They're also the most predominantly atheist generation out of any generation in American history. So, what does that tell you? That tells you that the dead and the dry and the lukewarm churches, the impure churches, are not winning our generation to Christ. I want to read to you. I want to read you this verse in 1 Thessalonians chapter four, verse seven. It says, for God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. Guys, can I just preach the gospel to you for a second? Listen to this. The Lord is not lax concerning sin. God hates sin and sin will destroy your life. His law reveals to us. His commandments reveals to us that all have sin and fallen short of the glory of God. And the Bible also says that his law, his commandments are our tutor that shows us that we need a savior. My question for you right now is, have you ever lusted? I'm gonna sound like Ray Comfort for a second. Have you ever lusted after anyone? Because the Bible says if you have lusted after someone, you have already committed adultery with them in your heart. That's right. Have you ever, have you ever told a lie? Cause what does that make you? It makes you a liar. Have you ever stole anything? Even if it's an illegal download of music off the internet, what does that make you? It makes you a thief. And you could say, Hannah, like, I haven't committed any of those things, but the Bible says in James chapter two, verse 10, for whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. See, we deserve death. We deserve death for the sin that we have committed and we can't make ourselves right with God. But because of God's wonderful mercy and grace, he loved us so much that he sent his son, Jesus, to take our place, to die the death that we deserve on the cross. He was the ultimate, perfect, blameless, sinless sacrifice for our sins so that we may be forgiven and have eternal life. See, when Jesus came to this earth, he didn't come only preaching, oh, just believe and then one day, far off, you can go to heaven. We see that a lot in the modern church being preached. Just believe and then one day you're gonna go to heaven. See, what that creates is that creates who sit in church Sunday after Sunday and they have no power in their life. They have no purity in their life because they're just being preached right in the heaven. They're being told, okay, believe and then one day, far off, you're gonna go to heaven and that's their Christianity. That is the sum of their Christianity. See, Jesus did not preach this self-help gospel or this self-centered gospel that like, we hear a lot of modern day preachers preaching. For example, you hear, believe and then you just get a free ticket to heaven. No, Jesus came preaching, repent, believe, be baptized, repent, otherwise you will perish. Repent for the remission and forgiveness of sins. Repent and have faith so that you can be made and right standing with God. And repentance is not just merely running to an altar with tears and crying and being sorry for the same sin that you just keep committing over and over and over again and then when the emotions die down after their church service is over, you run right back to that sin again. See, emotion is not bad. Crying is not bad, y'all. A lot of times you see that follow repentance. People are sorry, they're broken, but if you're just merely emotional over your sin and then you keep going right back to it over and over again, that is like a spouse. Like you're married, right? And you keep cheating on your spouse and then you keep going back to your spouse and saying, you know, I'm so sorry for that sin. I'm so sorry for cheating on you. And then you keep going back and committing that same sin over and over and over again. You keep cheating on your spouse. See, that's what we're doing to God. We keep going to God and we say we're sorry God. I'm sorry for the sin that I keep committing and then we go and do it over and over and over again. Why are we treating God like that? Repentance is not merely feeling sorry or sorrowful over your sin. It's not just an emotion, it's an action. And see, following Jesus is not just in your brain. It's a change of life. It is a change of heart. It gives you a new heart and a new spirit. See, repentance is something that every single believer must do. It's not optional. It's not nine out of 10 believers. It's not eight out of 10 believers. 10 out of 10 believers must repent. It's required for every follower of Christ. And in Luke chapter 13, it says, unless you repent, you will likewise perish. All must repent and believe in the gospel. Otherwise they will perish. In Acts chapter 17, verse 30, it says God commands all people everywhere to repent. Sinners will not inherit the kingdom. And this doesn't mean just one day, far off when we die, this means right now. See, we won't inherit his kingdom and heaven on earth right now if we're still dead in our sins and in our trespasses. Let me read the scripture first to you in Matthew chapter three, verses one through three. So this is John the Baptist here. And it says, in those days, John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah saying the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. So John the Baptist was saying, repent, change your ways for the kingdom of heaven is at hand, meaning the kingdom of heaven is right around the corner. The kingdom of heaven is right around the corner. Jesus is almost here. Listen, so Jesus, if you go to the next chapter, so Jesus is baptized, right? And then in Matthew chapter four, verse 17, it says, from that time, Jesus began to preach and to say, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. And if you read also in Mark chapter one, verses 14 through 15, it says, now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God and saying the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe in the gospel. See guys, this kingdom was prophesied in the Old Testament. In Daniel chapter two, verse 44, it says, in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end and it shall stand forever. This kingdom was prophesied in the Old Testament and then we see here, Jesus is saying, so John the Baptist said, the kingdom of heaven is at hand, meaning it's right around the corner and when Jesus said, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand, he was saying, repent, the kingdom is here. The kingdom is at hand, it is here right now. See guys, repentance in the Greek is a term, it's a word that is, it says, metanoia, metanoia, which means a change of heart and a change of mind. So Jesus is saying, repent, get a new way of thinking, change your heart, change your mind for the kingdom is at hand, the kingdom is here right now. And believing is putting your full trust in God as your Lord. So you must repent, change your way of thinking, get a new way of thinking and turn your heart towards the Lord. So you were walking in one direction, you were walking towards the world, towards impurity, towards sin, you were living in your own way, you were living to please yourself and now you repent, your heart is turned towards the Lord and you are living every day like Lord, how can I please you? So it was like, I am dead, I was dead to my sins and now I was dead in my sins and now I am dead to my sins. I was alive to self, but now I am dead to self and I'm alive in Christ. This is so important to understand cause many people just believe with their head and then they still live every day to please themselves and they're still living bound to sin. Jesus did not die on the cross so I could continue on bound to sin but so that we could be free from sin. See the main point of the gospel is to glorify Jesus, but he also died on that cross so that we could be free from sin. And in 1 Corinthians chapter four, chapter four verse 20 it says, for the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power. I think you need to hear that again. For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power. So Jesus, when he brought the kingdom to this earth he brought deliverance, he brought healing, he brought miracles, obviously he brought salvation, he brought all of these amazing signs, wonders, miracles, he came to set the captives free. He was setting the captives free by the power of the Holy Spirit. And see guys, I always grew up in the church like, why am I not seeing the power of God moving? Like I read in my Bible, like I read in the book of Acts. I see all these amazing miracle signs, wonders, healing, deliverance breaking out. Why am I not seeing that in the church today? Guys, I've grown up in the church all of my life. Why am I not seeing this? Lord, why am I not seeing this? See, if you yourself hold out your arms, right? And you start to load up your arms with weight. Like you start to put weights all over your arms in bags filled with weights. For example, let's say cursing, secular in pure music and secular concerts, unclean TV and movies, pornography, lust, gossip, greed, impurity before marriage, you know, messing around with your boyfriend and girlfriend before marriage, come on somebody. Addiction to social media, idolization. So you're filling your arms with all these weights, all these idols, right? And your hands are full. And you can't even open your hands because your hands are full of these bags filled with weights. And then all of a sudden you try to go and evangelize to somebody to cast out demons to heal the sick. How are you gonna even pick them up when your hands are so full with all this weight and all this impurity with sin? But when you allow the Lord to start removing those weights, to start removing that baggage and that bondage to sin, to start to purify you, your hands are gonna be so much more free so that you can go out and you can evangelize, you can make disciples, you can spread the gospel, you can heal the sick, you can raise the dead, you can cast out demons all through the power of the Holy Spirit. See guys, it's like, if you're eating unhealthy foods all the time and we see scientifically, it's proven, if you're eating unhealthy foods all the time, it's gonna weigh you down, it's gonna make you feel tired and groggy. Your body is not gonna be functioning to the best of its ability, right? But that's just like sin. When you're weighing yourself down with all this impurity and all this sin, you're not going to be able to be used the most effectively in the kingdom of God. It holds you back. It's like bondage. It chains all this sin and impurity. The Lord wants to set you free. He wants your obedience and if you do not repent of these things, you will be held back. See, we read all these giants of the past, right? I think it's really important, y'all, that we study church history because those people didn't just talk about revival, right? They lived revival and when we see all these giants of the past who the Lord started revivals through their life in America, great awakenings, they were marked by purity and prayer and they saw the power of God break out through their lives. You know, we like to talk about Catherine Coleman and all these great men and women of God but these people were marked by prayer, by fasting, by purity before the Lord. See, there is a reason why Jesus calls us to be holy as he is holy. In 1 Thessalonians, it says in chapter four, verse seven, for God did not call us to be impure but to live a holy life. See, we don't want God's message from him to man to have a hindered flow because we are clogging up this vessel with sin and with impurity. Hannah, if I may just for a moment what you are talking about is really stirring people in the spirit and I just wanna say this at this juncture of the message that you're ministering, thank you for preaching it with such boldness. There is such a need for preaching like this in this generation and I believe that God is raising revivalists in this hour. You had mentioned the various different giants of the faith from the past that people often look to for inspiration in the spirit. People like Catherine Coleman, A. A. Allen, Oral Roberts, Amy Simple McPherson, you can go on naming the generals of the faith who inspired and affected the body of Christ at large for generations to come and it really is missing these days, this kind of preaching and I know right now you're talking about the fact that the Lord calls us to be holy and this was something that you were speaking about but real briefly, can you just talk just for a moment about why it is that in this generation so few people are preaching what you're preaching? Yeah, yeah and so that's something I'm honestly super passionate about is integrity with ministers, with preachers, with pastors and I long to see more preachers and pastors preach holiness and purity with boldness and just preaching against sin and I think it's because we are so comfortable in our sin that we're not preaching against it. Like we see so many people not preach against sin and impurity but really it's, I think it's two or one, we're comfortable in our sin and we're not gonna preach against something that we're comfortable in and two, I think another reason is that we are scared, people are scared, they're fearful, they have the fear of man and we really need the fear of God back in the church again. I think when the fear of God gets back in the church again we're gonna care way more with what the Lord's thoughts are and what his truth is rather than what man thinks of us. We can't be worried to lose numbers following congregation members money. See, if you are truly being obedient to the Lord and preaching what he wants you to preach he's gonna put grace on that but there's not gonna be grace on your life when you are not being obedient to the Lord. I think that's a beautiful thought and as far as what God is doing in this generation through people like you, I'm so encouraged to see co-laborers in Christ who are speaking this message and as you're speaking of now the fact that the Lord Jesus calls us to be holy the fact that we're called to spread the kingdom of God around the world. Yeah, amen, amen. Yeah, and I wanna see God's kingdom break up through my life and I'm sure people watching here today you wanna see God's kingdom break out through your life and I'm about to read another scripture here and I've seen many ministers use this scripture verse and the way that they use it is that one day far off you will not inherit the kingdom of God if you're caught in all this sin but I wanna highlight this here. So let me read this in Galatians chapter five verses 16 through 25. And many of us have heard this scripture verse already. This is longer, so bear with me here. I say then, walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lust against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary to one another so that you do not do the things that you wish but if you are led by the spirit you are not under the law. For the works of the flesh are evident which are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries and the like. So it's saying and things like this of which I tell you beforehand just as I also told you in time past. Listen to this here. That those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. I'm gonna pause there for a moment. Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. That doesn't mean just one day far off when you go to heaven. I'm just gonna be a pew sitter. I'm gonna sit here, you know, as long as I'm not any of those things like I'm gonna inherit the kingdom of God one day. No, those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God right now. Let me finish reading and then I'll finish this point. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such, there is no loss. You can't have too much of those things. And those who are Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit. So those who are Christ have crucified the flesh. We are dead to self. In Romans 12 chapter or verse one, it talks about that we are called to be living sacrifices, pure and holy unto the Lord, which is our spiritual worship. Okay, so reading this verse here to go back to the question, why am I not seeing the power of God break out in my church? Why am I not seeing the power of God break out in my life? Why are we not seeing power, miracles, signs, wonders, healing and deliverances break out like we see in the book of Acts? Listen to this, because we lack hunger, we lack true hunger for God because we're so caught up with self and what we want that we don't hunger after the Lord and after righteousness, we lack purity and we lack a knowledge of scriptures. We don't know the scriptures and we don't live them out. See the Bible says, how can a young man keep his way pure? It says by taking heed according to your word. Another translation says by guarding it according to your word. So you can keep your way pure by keeping God's commandments. Jesus said, if you love me, you will keep my commandments. And how are you gonna keep God's commandments if you don't even know his word, if you don't study the scriptures, if you don't heed the word of God, if you don't come under the word of God and submit yourself to the Lord, to his word and to the Holy Spirit. So if you want the power of God and the kingdom of God to break out in your church and in your life, you must be what? Somebody comment in the comment section. You must be pure. You must be pure. If you want the power of God to break out through your life, you must be pure. Second Timothy chapter two, verses 21 through 22 says this. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use. Set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work. So flee, flee, like that's more than running, you're fleeing, you're like sprinting. Flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. Guys, we have gotten like, like David's talking about here, we have gotten so far away from hard preaching against sin. And that's why I encourage you guys earlier to study church history. Because if you study church history, you will see thousands of years ago, they preach so hard against sin. It was very simple. It was like, don't do this, do this. Even when you read like throughout the Bible and Paul's letters to churches, he was telling them like, hey guys, you're doing really great here, but these are areas where you need to do better. You need to repent of these things. These are things that need to be changed. These are things that need to be purified. We read all throughout the Bible of God calling people to repentance, to holiness, to purity. And I think many people can see like, or they could see obedience to God as this huge weight, but there is so much freedom and being obedient unto the Lord. I've seen it in my own life, guys. I started watching the show in high school after I, shortly after I was saved in early high school, I started watching the show. And all of these people, I went to a Christian school, all these people around me were watching the show, they were promoting the show, it was on Netflix, and they were making it seem like it wasn't a bad show. So I started to watch the show and I have never personally struggled by the grace of God with depression, suicidal thoughts or anything like that in my own life. But as soon as I started watching the show, I started struggling with suicidal thoughts and depression and things like this. And the Lord convicted me of watching this show, which was an unclean show. And as soon as I repented and turned it off, stopped watching it, those thoughts immediately went away. I didn't struggle anymore with thoughts of depression or suicidal thoughts or anything like that. And I think that's really important that we get that. See, Ian Bounce, I love Ian Bounce, great man of prayer. You know, one of the old giants of the past, he said, the character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows and the pipe must not only be golden, but open and flawless that the oil may have a full unhindered, unwaisted flow. See, the Holy spirit doesn't just anoint methods and cool words and cool techniques. He anoints pure men and women of God that are of prayer who fast and pray, who have the fear of the Lord. The key to genuine revival. And I honestly, I know I have a sign behind me that says revival, but I think revival is a term that we hear so often that it gets watered down. Revival is not just a church service. It's not just a hyped up event. Revival is when the moral climate of communities are changing, when people are repenting, when hearts are turning back to the Lord. See, the key to genuine revival is repentance and purity and with purity comes power. Somebody comment that in the chat right now with purity comes power. In Acts chapter 19, when revival was happening, true revival, they were burning their witchcraft items before the Lord. They were literally burning their witchcraft items before the Lord because repentance equals action. So when it comes to repentance, we talked about this earlier, it's not just an emotion. There is action that follows. You change your life. You don't go back. You don't repent of something and then go back to your everyday life and live the same way. For example, if you have addiction to social media, you're not gonna go back and not change anything up. I know I've heard people plug their phones in outside of their rooms, right? Or people that had pornography addictions in the past, they don't go back and just trust their flesh with having their phone in the room constantly. They get accountability partners. There is action that needs to be done, right? So obviously it's the Holy Spirit who purifies us and ultimately we need to be obedient to Him, but get accountability if you have to submit yourself to Godly leaders in your life. Let action follow your repentance, right? So revivals in history were marked by repentance. And I think it's time for us people who lean more charismatic, Pentecostal and people who believe in the gifts of the spirit and functioning them today to examine ourselves by saying where is the purity? Where is the purity? You know, we wanna see God move, we want revival, we wanna see signs and miracles and wonders, but the fact is that we must be pure in order for the kingdom of God to break out through our lives. And I'm really passionate about integrity with ministers too and ministry leaders because it even talks about in 1 Timothy chapter three, verse five, if a man can't even take care of his own household, how is he gonna take care of the house of God? We need purity and integrity behind the scenes. And I refuse to live one way behind the scenes and then to live another way online. And I feel like that's for somebody. If you're living in pure behind the scenes, you need to repent, you need to submit yourself to Godly leaders and get accountability in your life who could check up on you and will hold you accountable. See, have you ever, this is a question I have for you guys. Have you ever seen an electric fireplace in a survival kit? I have never seen an electric fireplace in a survival kit. And if anybody has, please let me know because that would be really weird. But no, you see things like fire starters, right? See, false fire is all hype. It's all hype, it's all height and it's no true sustainment from the Lord. I believe that we have a lot of electric fireplaces in the churches today, but not many pure bonfires that are sustained by the Lord. See, electric fireplaces, they get all hyped up in church because the worship sounded good and you encountered the Lord. But as soon as you got home, you didn't sustain that fire. As soon as you unplug from that power source of being in church, you just went back and lived your life pleasing unto yourself throughout the rest of the week. But the thing is with real fire is that it must be kept alive. No real fire just continually burns when you stop putting wood or gasoline on it. You gotta run this race with endurance. You must continue to allow the Lord to purify you and to set you apart. That guy sanctification does not stop at salvation. And first Thessalonians. And Hannah, before we continue on to first Thessalonians, I think it's important to interject here that concerning this false fire, this is precisely why Jesus referred to the Pharisees as hypocrites. This word hypocrite actually is a term used for actor. Someone who was putting on a performance, a show, a facade, so that while carrying out their ministries, while carrying out their public good deeds, while carrying out anything that was done on a stage, so to speak, they were one way. And then behind closed doors in the privacy of their own homes and deep within the different aspects of their hearts, there was wickedness, there was darkness. I believe that the enemy right now is trying to destroy tomorrow's public voices with today's private sins. And this is why I'm so passionate about bringing to you the community online, speakers and preachers who are anointed of God who are not going to hold back the truth. We need the message of holiness again in the church. We need the truth concerning the fear of God, the purity of the saints and sanctification back in the church again, the greater the purity within your life, the greater the power upon your life. The power of the Holy Ghost is flowing in direct proportion to how pure you live behind the scenes. Now Hannah, you had mentioned something, and this is referencing back, I know you got a verse in 1st Thessalonians you want to get to, but this is referencing back to your testimony. I think it's interesting that you had talked about a TV show that other believers, you said you went to a Christian school, other Christians were watching this thing. Other believers were passing it around saying, this is fine. And this is where we have to begin to draw some lines because it's one thing to be saved, it's another thing to walk in the anointing. Salvation is free. The anointing is going to cost you everything. The anointing is going to ask that you die a thousand deaths a day, that you lay down your life, your will, your desires, your dreams, your hopes daily. And in exchange, pick up in its place the one and only sovereign will of God, walking in total obedience to his word. As Jesus did, to the very point that he was able to say, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father, mirroring the movements of the Father in heaven, Jesus was a reflection of that glorious image of God within the earth. And this is what we're pleading with the body of Christ to do, to come back to this place of holiness, come back to this place of repentance, come back to this place of the fear of the Lord, recognizing that we cannot mistake God's grace and patience for God's permission. And that there will be certain consequences either on this side of eternity or on the other side of eternity. There will be consequences to the actions that we choose in everyday life. Hannah, you even mentioned about preachers. My goodness, we have nothing but, I shouldn't say nothing, but on a very large and concerning percentage, we have quite a few performers who really are in it for the money or the fame. And I think that it's time that the body of Christ begins to see purity enter again. And you're talking about a wonderful truth found in the book of Thessalonians. Amen, amen. That's really good. And yeah, like you mentioned, with those religious leaders in the Bible, they were like whitewashed tombs. Or like, if you take like a cup, let's say you take a cup, you're washing dishes, right? And you only wash the outside of the cup, or let's actually, let me say a bowl. You only wash the outside of the bowl and inside is just filled with like food and leftover stuff that you didn't clean out of it. And then you put it back in the cupboard and you consider that clean. It's not truly clean, because it's still dirty on the inside, right? And I think that's what, we see a lot of people in the church doing. And just because maybe you're not committing a sin, like I mentioned earlier impurity before marriage, like doing things with your boyfriend and girlfriend before marriage. But what the Lord is doing is he actually is looking at the heart. And so you can be pure looking on the outside and not doing specific physical things. But the question is, is your heart truly pure? Like, are you pure on the inside or are you just washing yourself on the outside? Because God is looking at the heart. God can see your heart. He knows your intentions. He knows if your intentions are pure. And I think many people unfortunately have impure intentions and impure motives. And like he's saying, like we have so many performers in the church who are just going after your money and numbers in their congregation. But really, you know, you can have the whole entire world love you. You can have a huge following, but you cannot have the approval of God at the same time. So what's really important is that we are pure in heart. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God, the Bible says. And in 1 Thessalonians chapter five, verse 23, it says, Guys, we have become so addicted to hype that we're going after the wrong fire. Fire that is hyped up, it's not gonna purify you. Our God is a consuming fire. And when you run to his fire, he's gonna burn out anything that isn't pleasing to his sight. And so you have two options here. When you run to the fire of God, you're either gonna let it purify you and burn out anything within you that is not of him. Or you're gonna hate the conviction it brings and you're gonna shrink back into a comfortable Christian lifestyle. You're not gonna see the power of God break out through your life. And all of these things that we're talking about, when you spend time with the one who is holy, you will become holy. Jesus is so entirely pure and holy. We see that in Revelation where day and night they sing and they say, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come. He is so entirely pure and holy and we are called to be holy as he is holy. If you have a friend and you're hanging out with him, you're, if they're your best bud, you're they're your best friend, you're hanging out with them all the time, you're gonna become like that person. Just like with Jesus, if you're hanging out with him, the one who is holy and pure, who is unlike any other, you're gonna become more and more like Christ. See, we need to live lifestyles of repentance and of sanctification, constantly allowing the Lord to continually set us apart from this world. This is gonna step on some toes here, but the fire of God does not just make you scream, yell, shout, jump around. Those things can follow. If you're truly passionate about the Lord and you wanna worship the Lord and just be exuberant about it, okay, that's fine as long as it's pure and genuine, but the fire of God doesn't just make you scream, yell, jump and run around. God's fire purifies you. It sets you apart. It is for consecration. It God's fire purifies you so you can please God so that you can glorify God and that you can more effectively win others to him and bring others into the kingdom. You don't win the world by looking like the world. You win the world by looking like Jesus who is pure and holy. See, the church wants to win the world, but you can't even differentiate anymore who's in the church and who's in the world. Jesus said to come out from among them and be separate, be the city that's set on a hill that cannot be hidden. And my encouragement too for you guys today is not just to compare yourself to the church when it comes to how on fire you are for God. Because if you constantly compare yourself to the church, to other believers, that is the wrong motive for being pure. I challenge you, compare yourself to the Bible, to biblical Christianity, to Jesus. We can't be comparing our Christianity to the Americanized church and saying, oh, I'm on fire because I look way more on fire than they look. No, we need to compare our Christianity, our standard of holiness to the scriptures, to the Bible, because this Bible is true Christianity. This Bible shows us genuine real revival. This Bible shows us the right standards of righteousness, purity and holiness, not the American church, not other believers. Jesus, what does he say is pure and holy? You may look on fire to the Americanized church, but do you look on fire to Jesus? Jesus is looking for burning ones who run to the fire of God, who allow his fire to purify them of anything worldly, and then they go out and they win their generation to Jesus. And it's gonna be harder for the Lord to work through a vessel that is clothing themselves with impurity and dishonor and disobedience and lust of the flesh and unrighteous and unrighteousness. Where is the generation that will rise up, that will clothe themselves with humility before the Lord, with honor, with obedience to God, with purity and righteousness? People who will say, here I am, Lord, consume me with your fire, use me for your glory. Comment that in the chat right now. Here I am, Lord, use me for your glory. Where is that generation? And it's so important. And for those of you who are listening, this right here can be pivotal for some believers because Hannah, there are people watching us right now who as you're talking, there's this great conviction. You talked about that discomfort and there's really one of two things that people can do. Either they can humbly respond to the conviction of the Holy Spirit, who's drawing them, who is calling them to greater depths, or they can be like Pharaoh who hardened his heart and became a demonstration of God's justice and wrath. And they're faced with this decision because I think even this might manifest itself, you talked about people possibly getting angry with you or some of the things you're saying. Well, from what I've seen, Hannah, I think what that is is they're confusing their personal conviction that they're sensing from the Holy Spirit and they're trying to place the blame somewhere for the discomfort. I can't tell you how many times I've heard a message and say, well, I don't know if that's exactly right or I would try to spiritualize my dislike of the truth only to find that the Holy Spirit would rebuke me by saying, you're not offended, that's not righteous indignation, you're not uncomfortable, that's my conviction and I'm talking to you. And so this calling out is something that very few people will know. I mean, of course, we all who are born again experience the saving grace and the power of God, of course. But this becoming one with the Lord, this being set apart, this sanctification which ultimately causes us to reflect the beauty and the image of Jesus himself and to be that carrier of the glory in the earth. That is the culmination of purity. That is the reward of purity, that is the purpose of purity to be holy as he is holy, to walk with him and to be in sync with him and to walk and step with the light and not in the darkness. You know, when you get born again and you receive Jesus as Lord, you lose a lot of your unsaved friends. It's very true. The moment you begin to step into what Hannah is talking about, you're gonna lose a lot of your lukewarm friends too. Hannah, has that been your experience to where as you become this burning one that you're talking about, as you begin to step into this place of being set apart, have you noticed this disconnect with people who were lukewarm and what did they accuse you of at that point? Yeah, so they accused, I mean, you hear all kinds of things, right? A lot of times I hear that if you choose to raise the standard of holiness and righteousness in your life that you're legalistic. I hear legalism all the time. I hear that word on social media, commenting and just with friends and stuff. Like when you go after purity before the Lord and you just wanna please the Lord. Guys, I have lost so many friends over my life, but it has been worth it because my life is for Jesus. It's not for other people. And we still love people. We're not gonna be rude towards people. I don't want you guys to go out there and be like, oh, I'm living holy. It's okay that I'm losing. It's not that you're being rude towards people. You just like, for example, you're in the car with somebody and they turn on a song that's impure. I've had this happen to me before and I'm like, hey, can we turn this off? Can we turn the song? Or I don't really wanna hear this. And you just kindly say that. It's not like you're being rude or anything. You just kindly say that because you don't wanna clog your ears hearing all that impurity and foul language. You can lose friends over that. I've lost friends over things like that. But what's really important that we remember is that eternity is forever and this life is temporary. This life is so short. And we get caught up in this short amount of time on the earth when we're born and when we die and then we don't realize that after we die, like eternity is literally forever. And I think our human brains have a hard time grasping that concept because, you know, what, and I like how the Bible says this, what is seen is temporary and what is not seen is eternal. We get so caught up because we can see all these things happening around us. We get caught up on this realm, on this life when it is so short, life is but a vapor. It is here today and gone tomorrow that we are so concerned with, am I gonna lose friends, congregation members? What are people gonna think about me because I chose to raise the standard of holiness? You know, if you are currently godly dating or courting or whatever you wanna call it and you choose not to do things with your boyfriend or girlfriend before marriage that your friends are doing, even if they're Christians, even if they're Christians and you get what I call persecution for choosing to live a standard of holiness and righteousness that other people aren't choosing to live, like you will get reprimanded a lot of times. People will think you're weird. I've had people have conversations with me, like I'll just be honest with you guys and I talk about this on my channel but I've chose to save kissing for marriage, for example. And I have literally have people have sit down conversations with me and like, Hannah, like, no, you need to kiss your boyfriend before marriage because you need to find, like all these things and I'm like, no, I've chosen to please the Lord and this is what the Lord has called me to and I'm gonna live a standard of holiness and righteousness and purity unto the Lord and I'm not living my life unto other people. And it is a form of persecution. Some might listen to you and say, oh, that's not persecution. And I always found it interesting that people would say, well, you can't complain because somebody else has it worse. It's the equivalent of saying you can't be thankful because somebody else has it better. In the same sense, they say that's not persecution because someone else is experiencing persecution on a much greater level. But what people fail to recognize is that persecution actually is a spectrum and insults and rejection are a form of persecution. Now you did say that people will accuse you of legalism. Look, the difference between it is we're not saying you have to live holy to be saved. We're saying that if you're truly saved, holiness will demonstrate itself in your life as a fruit of your salvation. I like to say that legalistic is how the compromising describe those who are truthful about holiness, people who have compromised in their lives, people who don't necessarily want things uncovered, people who don't want to acknowledge wrongdoing and they're doing everything they can and they lie to themselves. Maybe they're not saying it directly so, but they're doing everything that they possibly can to cling to the last remnant of their sin because it's what they crave deep in their heart. And I think that's the case with many people who lash out at people who preach revival messages like these. And I think too that the culture itself is becoming much more intolerant of the light. Jesus made a very, how shall I say, conclusive statement when he talked in John chapter three regarding the verdict that is in regards to the entire world. Jesus said that when people reject the light it's because they love darkness and we like to blame holiness preachers. We like to blame people like Hannah who say, well, you know it's Hannah who's turning people off to the gospel because it's too tough. No, no, no, no, no. People are turned off to the gospel not because someone is preaching holiness. They're turned off to the gospel because deep down they love their sin and they'd rather embrace darkness. So Hannah, can I just say, I wanna say this publicly, thank you for being a bold voice in your generation. Thank you for not compromising the word. Thank you for standing for righteousness and truth. And this, I told you before we went live, you know, my team and I have been watching you probably over the past year and a half. We don't just bring people on to encounter TV on a whim. You notice we have very few guests on encounter TV. Now we plan on having more but this is after several years of having watched several ministries. But I just wanna say this, we need not only to support Hannah and what God is doing through her, but we need to continue to keep her in prayer because she's gonna be a target for the enemy because of the fact that she's on the front lines of preaching such truth. You just don't hear this kind of preaching. It seems to me that the further we go down in generations that the more each generation has minimized the preaching of the cross, repentance, truth, sin, righteousness, right and wrong, objective moral standards and so forth. And so I want everyone who supports encounter TV and who watches this broadcast regularly and who enjoys the content to please, will you please pray for this ministry, back this ministry, get involved with this ministry. Now Hannah, I wanna pray, but before we pray, I want you to give us kind of some conclusive thoughts here. Take as long as you need and then we're gonna pray. Awesome, sounds good. Well, first of all, thank you so much. All glory to the Lord. I'm so thankful for what the Lord's done in my life. It is not any of my doing, it is the Lord. And I'm so excited to continue to try to get this generation back to purity and holiness and righteousness. And I'm so thankful that you're preaching the same message. And so, I just wanna encourage all of you guys today in second Chronicles chapter 16 verse nine, it says for the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to him. And the other scripture verse is Psalm chapter 14 verse five and it says for God is with the generation of the righteousness. He is calling his church back to repentance and to purity again. He is calling us back to holiness. I am so passionate to see the church get back to holiness and purity. If you can't tell, and just you guys watching today, the Lord is calling you back to holiness and purity. And you could say, I'm already living pure, I'm already living holy, well, all of us, we can never be too holy before the Lord. We can never be too pure. Even myself, I wanna continually go through sanctification with the Lord. I wanna continually be purified by him so that I can be used most effectively so that I can most effectively glorify him. You know, in John chapter 15, it talks about abiding in Christ. When you abide in Christ, you will bear much fruit and that ultimately glorifies the Lord. And we wanna live our lives for the glory of God, not for our glory, but for his glory. And so the more that you live pure and holy, the more that you abide in Christ daily and bear much fruit, the more that you can glorify him and the more that he can work through you most effectively to reach your generation. So I'm encouraging you to get back to repentance, get back to purity, repent and believe and allow his fire to purify you. Say, here I am Lord, use me for your glory. And for those of you who are watching, there's just a slight delay. So Hannah's on a different, just by a few seconds, Hannah, will you please pray for those who are listening? There's two types of people watching right now. There's one believer who is listening to what you're saying and they so want that there's a heavy conviction on them and they want what you're talking about. And then there are believers who are living in that holiness, who want to go deeper in the Lord and become more committed. Either way, everyone, I believe, wants to raise the standard in their life. So will you please pray first and then I'll pray after you. Let's pray for the ones watching right now that the Holy Spirit's power would touch them in this moment. Amen. Lord, I just thank you so much for everyone who is watching this live stream right now. God, I thank you that they're not here on accident. I believe they're here for a purpose and I thank you Lord that you are calling them back to holiness and purity again. Lord, I pray that you would purify them that whatever conviction that they're feeling right now, Lord, whatever you're convicting them of, I pray they would truly repent. They would truly get a new way of thinking. They would truly change their heart before you and allow you to purify them more that they would be pure vessels before you so that you can use them most effectively for your glory or that their lives may most effectively and as much as possible glorify you and bring glory to your name. Lord, be with them, encourage them, convict them, lead them and guide them, Father. I pray all of them would never be led by the lust of their flesh, Lord, but they would always be led by the Holy Spirit. They would always walk in the Spirit so they will not fulfill the lust of the flesh and that all of them would be eternity-minded. They would keep their eyes fixed on you. They would seek first your kingdom and your righteousness. They would keep their eyes fixed on eternity and they would not live their lives for right now, Lord, but they would live their lives for you and be eternity-minded. Bless them, Lord, in Jesus' name, amen. So, precious Holy Spirit, I thank you for your presence and power that marks our lives and I'm asking you, Holy Spirit, to let your glory be sensed like a weight on your people even now. I thank you for the beauty and the majesty, the wonder and the splendor of who you are. And, Father, I'm asking that by your Holy Spirit, you would begin now to empower your people. Let them, Lord, begin to sense that strengthening grace even now. Father, I thank you that not only are you breaking bondages and cycles of sin, but, Father, that you're breaking addiction. I give you the praise, Lord. I thank you, Lord, that your people are being delivered, that your people are being healed, that your people are being transformed. You watching right now, receive that that power is flowing right now. That's the presence of Almighty God. This is the real deal I'm telling you. It's His anointing. It's the same Holy Spirit who rested upon the Christ. It's the same Holy Spirit who moved through the apostles. He's here. He's in you. And so, Father, I thank you that your people are experiencing breakthrough now. Raise that standard in our lives, I pray, that we might glorify Jesus. We love you, Lord. We love you with all our hearts, with all our minds, with every bit of strength. We love you. Help us to walk His living sacrifices by the Holy Ghost. In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. Say it because you believe it. Say amen now. Don't turn this stream off yet. We are not done. I want to talk to you about something, but before I do, I want to encourage you. If you haven't done so already, make sure you're subscribed to Encounter TV. Click that notification bell when you do subscribe so that you can receive updates when we release new content. Encounter TV is Jesus-centered, spirit-filled, and Bible-based. If you love the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, you'll love Encounter TV, so make sure to subscribe right now, and I want to encourage you to. All of our viewers from Encounter TV, every single one of you who sees this, I am encouraging you to go check out Hannah's YouTube page. You can go and check out Hannah's YouTube page by going right now to youtube.com slash Hannah Williamson channel. You can also simply go into the YouTube search and type in Hannah Williamson and maybe a keyword like revival, and she will definitely pop up if you use the keyword revival along with her name. She has a beautiful message of holiness, of revival. She has a great passion for discipleship. She loves to impart into other believers and to help them grow in their faith, to grow in the spirit, and ultimately to draw closer to Jesus than ever before. So Hannah, thank you so much for joining me. Will you stick around for the Q and A? Yeah, for sure. Okay, so Hannah will join us. For those of you who are watching live, Hannah will be back with us in just a moment. But first, I want to share something with you, and then she'll come right back in for those of you watching live. First King, 17, go there now. I want to show you something that is so applicable to today's happenings. First Kings chapter 17, I'm gonna read verses seven through 16. And stick with me now. I know sometimes the habit is to log off after the prayer, but I wanna challenge you to stay with this because you need to hear this message. This is for you, it's gonna help you. First Kings chapter 17 verses seven through 16, several verses, but it's important that we read them all to get the full context. I wanna encourage you because right now, let me just be real, there's a spirit of fear out there. Not just affecting the church, but affecting the world. And the sad thing is that that spirit of fear should not be affecting the church in the same way that it's affecting the world. We shouldn't worry like the world worries. Jesus said in Matthew 6, that worry about material things and our lives here upon this earth, that worry is equated with the life and the mindset of the unbeliever. We who know the Lord walk by faith, not by fear, watch this, first Kings 17, seven through 16, this is what the Bible says now and this is gonna encourage you here. But after a while, the brook dried up and there was no rainfall anywhere in the land. Then the Lord said to Elijah, go and live in the village of Zarephath near the city of Sedon. I have instructed a widow there to feed you. So that was verse seven, eight and nine. Notice there that the prophet is going to visit a widow at the time of a great drought. And as it happens, when there is drought, there is famine. When there is famine, there is lack. When there is lack, there is starvation, poverty and death. Well, think of all the conditions in the world that everyone's talking about right now. There is so much fear and propaganda being pumped through TV screens. And especially on social media, you ever noticed that when you log on a social media now, it's almost like the algorithm serves you fear here. Take a look at this article. Here's what experts are saying. Here's what people are bracing for. And really there's not much you can do with that information. For the most part, yes, there are some things that you can do financially, but there's really not much else other than to prepare in the natural sense, at least from the unbeliever's perspective. Now I don't know what's going to happen. I tend to think that the media likes to exaggerate. So yes, I do believe things can get bad, but never quite as bad as the media likes to say it will be. And I'm not an economist, so I can't say. But there is some talk. Let's just be real. Faith doesn't deny reality. Let's just be real. There is talk of a recession. There is talk of major economic hardship. There is talk of food shortage and all of those things that come with economic hardship. And I think it can be compared to the times in which this widow found herself living. The drought, which produced a famine, which produced lack, which produced starvation and poverty and chaos. And it was right in the middle of this season of lack that the prophet comes to visit her. God sends the messenger. So he went to Zeraphath as he arrived at the gates of the village. He saw a widow gathering sticks and he asked her, would you please bring me a little water in a cup? As she was going to get it, he called to her, bring me a bite of bread too. This is a bit presumptuous for the prophet to do, especially during those times. But he asked this widow, bring me a cup and also while you're at it, bring me some bread. Verse 12, but she said, I swear by the Lord your God that I don't have a single piece of bread in the house. And I have only a handful of flour left in the jar and a little cooking oil in the bottom of the jug. I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this last meal. And then my son and I will die. How is that for weekend plans? My son and I are gonna eat this and then die. That was a very bleak situation. What a dark time. What they must have been sensing during that moment. That heaviness, that weight, that concern, that fear, ultimate hopelessness. We're gonna eat this meal and then die. Well, this might be similar to a situation you find yourself in. It might not be as drastic as we're gonna eat this meal and die, but maybe you're planning in your head. Well, okay, we're just gonna have to go without this. Okay, I'm probably gonna lose my job. Okay, well, we're probably gonna lose the house. I'm probably gonna lose the car. And you may be playing all of these worst case scenarios in your mind. And that's what fear does. It causes you to play the worst case scenario in your mind and then clean to that as if it's an inescapable reality when it's not. And so we see this widow who finds herself with these terrible plans to just eat the last that she has and then die, but Elijah said to her, don't be afraid, go ahead and do just what you've said, but make a little bread for me first, then use what's left to prepare a meal for yourself and your son. Here's a revelation for you. This woman used what little she had and she gave out of the little that she had to the prophet. Now I used to preach this particular text one way and then the Lord began to correct my thinking. You see, I don't believe that it was because she gave to the prophet that God gave her a miracle. In fact, if you go back, the Bible tells us that the prophet tells her the moment he meets her, not to be afraid. The moment he makes this request, don't be afraid, go ahead and do just what you've said. And then he goes on to say this, for this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says, there will always be flour and olive oil left in your containers until the time when the Lord sends rain and the crops grow again. So she did as Elijah said and she and Elijah and her family continued to eat for many days. There was also, there was always I should say, enough flour and olive oil left in the containers just as the Lord had promised through Elijah. Now watch this. Here we see that a woman gave to the prophet, why? Because there was a promise that she was clinging to. I used to preach it like this. I used to say, well it was because she gave to the prophet that God gave her the miracle. No, no, that's not what happened. What happened was that the woman gave to the prophet because she believed God would do the miracle. You see, I believe God's gonna provide for you whether you give to this ministry or not. I know that's not in my best interest to say but let's just be real. I think it's a little bit manipulative to tell people that they don't give to your ministry that they're gonna go without. That's not what's gonna happen to you. You know what I believe is gonna happen to you? Whether you give to this ministry or not, I believe that God's gonna provide for you. Whether you give to this ministry or not, I know you're saying, David, that's a little odd, shouldn't you be saying the opposite? I can only say what is true of scripture. And the scripture declares, I've never seen the righteous forsaken nor their children begging for bread. The Bible teaches us that God will supply your needs. The Bible teaches us that you will always have when you're walking by faith. You will always have what you need and enough left over to help others. You see, provision will always be there. That's the promise God gives to all the children. He's gonna provide for you. But watch this now. It's when I believe in God's provision that I become generous. And it's when I become generous that I move from provision to biblical prosperity. I know that word prosperity has become a dirty word in the Christian world because it's been abused, but I'm not talking about name it, claim it, and certain amounts of gifts that you have to give, like gimmicks like $77 seeds to be debt-free in seven days. No, we don't do that here. But what I am saying is that God's gonna provide for you no matter what. You're gonna be fine. Listen to me. You're gonna be fine. God will take care of you. But I don't wanna just be fine. I wanna go into abundance. I wanna move into God's prosperity, biblical prosperity. How do you do that? Well, that's generosity. So you can give or not give, you're gonna be fine. God's gonna take care of you. But you see, it's precisely our belief in the fact that God's going to take care of us that releases us to give. It's when I actually believe that God will take care of me that I'm free to give. You see, right now there's a battle going on inside of you. As you're debating about whether or not to give, as you're debating about whether or not to give that amount God told you to give, as you're debating about whether or not to partner monthly with the ministry, there's a battle. You're thinking about what's in your account. You're thinking about the bills you have to pay. You're thinking about all the expenses that are gonna come your way over this next season. And you're saying, I don't know, should I do it? What if I do it and then I lack? What if I do it and then not enough comes in? That's not faith. You have to be aggressive. You have to move with boldness. You have to say, no, God will take care of me and he will. And so we move from provision to prosperity through generosity, but he will provide either way. And it's the belief in that provision that releases us to give. Now I wanna thank some people. You can go right now, davidhernandezministries.com. It's right there on the screen slash donate. So I'm gonna thank some people. Thank you, Samuel. Thank you, Esther. I'm seeing them. If you give live, I can see it coming in right here. Thank you to the precious Patrick family, always faithful givers. Ernesto, thank you, God bless you. And Matthew, and Ojan, ohan. Also, thank you to Yolanda. Thank you to Ruben. Thank you to Alayda. Thank you to our dear friend, Ashani. Thank you, Lorena. Thank you, Naomi and Jacqueline and Stephanie and Sophie and Carla. And thank you also to Mildred. And thank you to the various different people giving from all around the world. They're still coming in and I'm seeing the names pop up on my phone here. davidhernandezministries.com slash donate to give a one-time gift or to become a monthly ministry supporter. Thank you, Chris. I appreciate your giving. And I also want to thank Fernando. And I wanna thank Iris. God bless you for being a partner. Charles and Samuel, thank you for being a partner. Bless, thank you for becoming a partner. Shamika, thank you for becoming a partner. Malika, thank you for becoming a partner. Hey, your name's rhymed. Thank you to Jasmine for becoming a partner. Just such generosity from people all around the world. So don't say somebody else, don't say some other time. It's you right now. Go, davidhernandezministries.com slash donate. Thank you to AppSell. And again, I'm asking many of you to partner with us monthly, which is a significant thing that you can do on a consistent basis, no matter the amount. Don't say, oh, it's such a small amount. I don't think it could matter. No, no, no, no, no, no. All of us together collectively. That's what makes the impact. Now, if you enjoyed this message and it really blessed you, make sure you check out The Anointing of the Holy Spirit. That's the title of the message. Just do that search, The Anointing of the Holy Spirit. And then my name, davidhernandez, in that message, I talk about the anointing of the Holy Ghost, how purity causes you to walk in power, and many other aspects of the anointing.