 Bible here at Asbury is now in its sixth night as hundreds of people have come from near and far to just enjoy the presence of God. Even though it's almost midnight, this auditorium is still packed with people that are still coming in. In the last two evenings, we've estimated well over 3,000 people that are here and at these different locations to worship the Lord. Were you prepared for this? No, there's no playbook for this. We're still trying to create some space for what's happening here. And so that's a delicate balance and we're trying to manage that as thoughtfully and faithfully as we can and just steward what's happening on. We want to look at what the definition of revival is. One, our definition, how we look at revival, how we ascribe it, what we think it is. And then obviously we've got to look at what the Bible says. The Bible obviously has to be our guide. You're going to find out some interesting things about revival. And the reason why we're talking about this obviously is because of what's happening at Asbury University. And let me just say this, God can work how he wants to work. And when God moves, you're going to find that there are going to be some bad people around a good move. And then you're also going to find there are some good people around a bad move. The Bible tells us to not to just trust any old thing, but it says test the spirits. He said, not all spirits are of God. So test the spirits and see if they are of or from God. So we have to do that. By the way, let me just say this, because when we talk about a revival, and we're trying to figure out the definition of how we see or what we think a revival is. If you let certain people tell you that there's a revival that breaks out really every week, every day or something like that. And all these different churches all across the country. There are some people who are just chomping at the bit to call something revival to be a part of a revival. And oftentimes they will say that it's something special, a special move of the spirit. Let me just say this up front, revival or you know, let me reverse that. There is no such thing as a special move of the spirit. Sure, I said there is no such thing as a special move of the spirit. What do you mean by that, Corey? Well, when the spirit moves, the spirit moves. The power of the spirit does not fluctuate. It's not higher or lower the spirits job. His job is to do what he wants to do in us. He is going to cause and effectuate things in us. And so whether it's one person, whether it's two people, 20, 40, 50, whether it's for an hour, whether it's for two hours, whether it's for a day, a week, what have you, it is this Holy Spirit. Something special or different. And what is a bit disheartening, we'll talk about this, but there are people that are literally getting in cars and driving there as though there's something special that they need to go and to kind of catch. In other words, kind of catch the wave, catch the movement. And we need to be careful. Sometimes we, first of all, these emotional, and I'm not saying this is an emotional outbreak or not, but emotional outbreaks, that's nothing new. And revivals are nothing new. Now, I'm not saying this is a legitimate revival or it's not. Don't know. I do know this, that regardless of what it is God can work in, even if it's counterfeit, can God work in this? Sure. It happens every week where people come to Christ, place their faith in Christ, even in churches that don't teach good doctrine. It happens all the time. Why do I say that? Because the power, again, is not in the messenger, it's in the message. The power is in the gospel, not the preacher. And so, if you have placed your faith in Christ, even if you're at a Catholic church, if you're at the worst Charismatic church on the planet, if you're in a Jehovah's Witness kingdom hall, if you're at a Mormon's church, but you come to realize that you are sinful, you're fallen, and you want to place your faith in Christ, the Bible says by doing that, by believing, you shall be saved and the Holy Spirit will come in you. Now, what happens, though, is those kinds of people tend to leave those kinds of places. Why? Because when the Spirit is in you, He does not like to be around something that is not authentic. He does not, the real McCoy does not like to counterfeit. Are you with me? And so, as we grow, we, that's why a lot of folks end up moving from different churches. Now, some folks do leave churches because they have philosophical differences or personality clashes, things like that, or just little small things. I don't like her. I don't like him. We also have the little childish aspects of when people leave different churches. But if you are maturing and your church is not a mature church, well, then you're going to be uncomfortable. Now, I would love to know how many of you all think, matter of fact, I can just go over here and actually look at the poll. Let me click on it real quick. Let me just see what the poll says. How about that? If I could push this thing and make it, there it is. Most of you guys say it is too soon to tell. 15% says looks like a true move of God. 4% says that there are no revivals anymore. 25% says probably emotions or fate. 57% too soon to tell. I'll tell you where I stand in just a little bit. This person is saying, I'm trying to also look at you guys' chats as well as we go. But I want to stay close to this, to my notes and to the scriptures that we want to cover, because I want to make sure that we leave here with a biblical understanding of what revival actually is. And guess what? Who would have thought it? The Bible actually tells us the pertinent answers to the questions that we have, right? So, there have been other revivals in the past. There have been those that have happened in England, those that have happened in America, those all over the world. The question is, if it's a revival that we think is... Matter of fact, let me ask you guys a question. What do you all think is a good definition of revival? What do you all think to you guys in the chat? What is a revival? What's the definition of a revival? Thank you, Arox Steady Movement. Steady, I smashed the like button. What about you all do the same thing? I don't ask all the time, but you know what? Why not? Since we're talking about revival, let's give the like button a revival. How about that? Anyway, tell me, what do you guys think a revival is? Not that revival or another revival, but an authentic revival? What would be your definition of a revival? I'd love to see what your definition of it is. I don't know, I'm not truly sure. Mitch says, to revive something, it must be dead. Okay? Let's see what else. To become alive again? Reviving like button, amen. Tiffany says, I don't really know what it is. 1689, who has changed, rearranged his name. Mass Conviction. It should look like X2. Shut in the service. Spiritual Awakening. Okay. You're going to find out something really, really, really interesting about this term revival. Now, sometimes revival, especially to some people, look nothing more than a glorified pep rally. We're trying to get you encouraged and try to move and so forth. And so sometimes emotion takes over. And I've been, listen, I start off in a charismatic church. Thank you, vertical view. I appreciate that. It says people publicly confessing sins that's either flesh, Satan or God and only God would move someone to confess their sins. Amen. I agree with that. I've been in places where we've had revival or what we call revival or where revival breaks out. We're supposed to leave at this time. And then next thing we know is a lot later. Matter of fact, we told there is no end time in the Pentecostal Charismatic Church. So, especially if it's the last service, if it's the last service, we may stay till whenever. Because a lot of times, especially back in the day, you'd go to church forever, all day long. All day long. It did wonderful workings on my nerve when it was Sunday during football season and I'm going to a charismatic church. Just hard. It's just hard. I got to get my game in and you guys, listen, I've given you six hours a day. Can I at least, back in the day anyway. But is this a glorified pep brother we're talking about? Or maybe it's something kind of more serious. It's like a refocusing, kind of getting us on the right track. So what is revival? Well, it would come as a shock to many people that revival is pretty much an Old Testament concept. It's an Old Testament concept. Matter of fact, the word revive or a derivative of revive is only found once in the New Testament. Now, someone can say the concept is there. I'm going to look at some things that kind of might conjure up the concept. But as far as the Old Testament is concerned, it's an Old Testament concept because it's used in regards to dealing with Israel. Israel is the one who is being told to have this revival. As a matter of fact, let's go ahead and go to the screen. Let's go to Psalm 85. Let's start in verse, let's start in four and then go to six. Restore us, O God, of our salvation. So you can kind of already see really where he's going here. But restore us, O God, of our salvation and cause your indignation towards us to cease. Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger to all generations? Will you not yourself? Here it is. Revive us again that your people may rejoice. Now, the Hebrew word for revive comes from the word keen, which means to live, to be alive. And so really make us alive. And it has a sense of make us alive again. We used to be like this with you. Of course, truth be told, they really never were. This is where sometimes the English words can kind of be a bit confusing because it has the beginning of it. Re, revival. Now revive something and some of you are kind of on to adjust the regular definition. The word means to make something alive again or to give breath to or to make alert again. It has the connotation of doing it again, again. And that was the issue with Israel. I have kind of made you guys alive in a sense that you are my chosen people, but you've gone off the range. And I've punished you and I'm trying to bring you back. And so here the Psalms are saying, would you revive us again? How long will you be angry with us? Will you revive us? Bring us back to salvation. That was their point then. When we get to the New Testament, here's the one time, the only time that the word revive or a derivative of the word revive is found in the New Testament. It's found in Philippians 410. But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last you have revived your concern for me. And the word for revive in the Greek, excuse me. And the Greek is on a follow. Now it's made up of two words. It's made up of the word to follow, which is to grow or to sprout up and Anna. Anna means again or can be used to convey again or up, upon, on. Are you with me? And so it's really not even saying to revive again to bring it back again, but just to have it. The concept of revival is really, as I said, not so much found in the New Testament. Why is that? Well, because of what happened in Acts. What was promised to us, that is the Holy Spirit being poured out on mankind. Now, I'll go ahead and go with the definition or the term, I should say, revival. I'll go ahead and use the term revival just because we're used to it. It's not a bad word. It really isn't because if what we're saying is kind of refocusing and so forth, if that's what you mean, fine, we'll go with that. So if we're saying to kind of refocus us to give us a renewed sense of direction, energizing us, awaken us and so forth. Okay, fine. We'll, we'll go with that definition. Is that is that okay with you guys to go with that definition? Now, there is a, you're right, Jeff, Pentecost had a purpose. If you heard it was yesterday, day before yesterday or maybe three days ago, where someone said that Pentecost wasn't for one day. It was forever. Well, no, it's not. Pentecost was a day. Pentecost, as a matter of fact, is a Hebrew day. I mean, it's a Jewish day. It means 50. And so, but when you're in a particular faith group that is always, always looking for some sort of sign, some sort of move of the spirit. That's when we get into these little problems. That's when it can become problematic. Not that I'm saying what's happening at Asbury is problematic. It can be, it can be good. Maybe, maybe not. But what's happening there is, is created this fervor. Now it could be good. It could be refocusing people back towards Christ. Could be. There's certainly a lot of fanfare that's going along with this, right? It's been a week since the regular Wednesday chapel at Asbury University in Kentucky. Well, it turned into something far more. It turned into the manifest presence of God. God has been moving among the students and faculty and people are traveling to the university to join in this move of God. Now he says it's the manifest presence of God. I can't, I can't agree with that because that would assume that, and I hope that's not the case there, that the presence of God has not been there. David lets us know that where can he go that his spirit wouldn't be, that his presence wouldn't be. If he made his bed in hell, there he would be. So there's nowhere that you can go that you be out of the presence of God. And oh, by the way, because we are believers, wherever I go, the spirit of the Lord is there. Wherever you go, if you're a believer, the spirit of the Lord is there. And so it's not like, this is the problem that I have because it's almost like we're making it out to be something else. And yeah, Michael, I will, thank you for the super chat, by the way. I will get, I will touch on this as well, about this person having this supposed demon being cast out. Because, like anything else, even, I'm not saying this is good, this is bad, this is godly, ungodly, whatever it is, you can always bet that some of these people are going to show up. And they're going to kind of co-op it, kind of hijack it, kind of make it to their own thing. And so that's happened. But again, let's continue. I'll come back to that in just a second. Fire that started here at Asbury is reportedly spreading, as students from nearly two dozen other college campuses have come here to take part in the services. Well, apparently it's infectious. Lee University is already seeing a similar move. I know many universities sending delegations there in hopes that they can catch it and bring it back. Let me answer this question. Chris says, is it safe to say that revival has a negative connotation because of a hypercharismatic? They can make it negative. They can. It doesn't have to be. It doesn't have to be. I want to deal with kind of the concept. But before I get there, if you are traveling, if you're on your way there to go to Asbury, my question to you is why? What do you think is the there that's not where you are or can't be found where you are? I'm going to show you how you can determine if something really is a move of God. Now, I usually don't use a term revival. I'm using for the sake of this discussion here, and so we'll go ahead and use the revival here. But I don't use it because there's really no need to it. Why? Because if you are a believer, your heart has been made new. Now, you're going to find this term in the Bible oftentimes. That's not revival, but it's a different term. It is the Greek words. We have two words, Ina, again, and Kano, which is to new. And we'll use this word as phrase renewing, but it's really not renewing. This is where the English words kind of get in the way because renewing means to make new again. Well, we're not being made new again. We're being made new for the first time. And then the understanding is we are new. It's not a real word. I'm making this word up, trying to get you to understand what the word means. We are being new and new-ing. We are constantly being new. So if I say we are constantly being renewed, that didn't even make good English sense. Because to be renewed means I'm having this done again. And that's not the point that we're trying to get out of the scripture. So let's go to Romans, I'm sorry, 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 16. He says, therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. And there's that word, there's this Greek word over here, the word, which is to be made new again. But again, the honor means to be on or upon or over or up. And so I'm being up new, being upon new. I'm being new this way, so to speak. It's hard. This is where it's hard to kind of put in English terms because of this word, re, in front of it. If I read anything, I'm doing something over again and this is not what's happening here. We are just being brought up, we're being grown. We're in this state of being made new. It's a constant thing that the spirit of the Lord is doing in us. He began this and he's going to finish this. Why do I say it like that? Because the Bible says it like that. Remember Paul says in Philippians, he, God, who began a good work in us, he is going to complete it. And so therefore it's not, he's going to start and stop, start and stop, start and stop, start and stop, start and stop, start and stop. That would be renewing. That would be revival. That would be when we think of someone who's been kind of laid out unconscious, we want to revive them. That's not us. Now that was Israel, but that's not us. Now what happens is when you look for something, when you desire to see something, the problem is if you look for something, you're going to find something. There are these people who have, we see it in the Catholic church. We see it, matter of fact, even in church, it aren't Catholic church, but specifically the Catholic church. For example, these people who have father, they've seen Mary and look how they respond. These people believe that they have seen Mary. They believe that they've seen a glimpse of Mary, but what are they seeing? I want you to notice, this is funny. If you look to, I'm not sure what side of the screen, but I think it's the bottom left-hand screen. There's a preacher there and there's a mirror right beside him. And what's happening is the light is hitting the mirror in such a way that it's then reflecting onto the wall some colors and some images and it gives them to somebody who's looking the appearance that Mary is there. They break out into songs, songs that many of us love, how great they are. And what happens a lot of times is the emotions kick in and the emotions kick in and then what do we, anyone who's emotional, even folks who are not very emotional, what do we like? We like a good song. Songs kind of make the mood. I don't care whatever mood you in, you might like a song to go with. If you're working out, you want some music. If you're there with your wife or your husband, wife or husband, not your girlfriend or boyfriend, you want some music. If you are doing some cleaning up, maybe you're like me, I'm going to put on some old grown folks' music from the 70s. Music makes the mood, right? And so even in church, if I want to feel, because that's what we're going for, right, oftentimes we are going for a feeling. We're going for something to kind of make us put us in a mood. And what can happen is we want to keep it going and keep it going and keep it going and keep it going. I feel bad for the people at Hasbury because who is going to be the evil person? That person is going to be regarded as evil. Who says, all right, guys, that's enough. That's it. No, sorry. Time to cut it off. Who is going to be that person that's going to say that's that? Because there's this desire to keep it going. Because what if this really is a true move of God? We've got to keep it going. But I don't think that this is. I think it's time that you kids start going back to class and everyone else goes home. That person, they're going to run them out of town, probably. But that's the problem there. The issue is though, do we see anything like this in the Bible? Think about it. The greatest outpouring in the history of mankind. The greatest outpouring in the history of mankind. Didn't happen like this. Didn't happen like this. What happened? They received the spirit. They were baptized into the spirit. And then what do they do? Went back to their lives. Now it wasn't just business as usual. They went back to their lives also spreading the gospel. They became a family. All of them unified by the spirit. That identifying marker of each one of them being the Holy Spirit. And they spread the gospel. They shared love for each other. There was two things that you can always use to test to see if this is an authentic move of God. If this is an actual revival, so to speak. Or let's just put that term to the side for a second. If this is an actual newing. Up newing. Or as we would say renewing. If this is legitimate. If this is really the Holy Spirit. Two things are going to happen. One, you're going to be caused to love God. And then two, you're going to be caused to love his word. There is no if ands and buts about that. There is no debate about that. You're not going to have a legitimate move of the spirit or a revival as some would call it. You're not going to have that and then no longer have a love for him. Which also means a love for his people. And then after that also a love for his word. Now, someone's going to say, wait a minute, Corey, doesn't the Bible say that God is doing a new thing? Because people are always especially in certain avenues in Christian churches. That God is doing a new thing. New thing. Well, is God doing a new thing? And I don't want to give the appearance because someone's like, Corey, you just don't like the Holy Spirit. You don't like the Holy Spirit. You don't like the move of the spirit. Yes, I do. Again, I'll give my testimony and compare my move of the spirit in my life. And you tell me yours. I'm not trying to I'm not trying to have a Holy Spirit fight. But if you think I don't believe in a move of the spirit, you got another thing coming. Again, I'm here. The very fact that I'm right here before you guys is a testimony to the move of the spirit in my life. So at the same point in time, though, what person who says they love the spirit doesn't love his word? That person is a liar. That person is confused. That person needs to be quiet. That person needs to sit and just listen. If you say you love the Lord, but don't love his word, you don't love the Lord. They go hand in hand. His spirit is who gave us the word. The Holy Spirit is the author of this Bible. How do I know? Because Paul says all scriptures are Thea Newstiles, which is God breathe. Thea, God, Newstiles, which comes from the word Numa three from the breath of God, the Holy Spirit, pennies, obviously with with man's help and even man's personality. But it's exactly what the Lord wanted each of the writers to say. So now that being stated, you cannot love God and not love his word. And if I say that I've got an issue with some of these things doesn't look like you. So you can't call everything the Holy Spirit didn't get away with it. You can't do that, especially when we have a Bible written by the Holy Spirit that tells us how the Holy Spirit works in people. Now, when they say that, yeah, but God is doing the Bible says he's doing a new thing. Well, let's let's deal with that passage first before we continue in Isaiah 43 19. He says, behold, I will do something new. Now it will spring forth. Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness rivers in the desert question. Who is Isaiah speaking to? Well, I still have the chart up. Let's go ahead and put up the timeline so we can go ahead and look in case you guys forgot from yesterday. Isaiah is a prophet. Look on your screen to the southern kingdom. This is before the exile before the restoration before or prior to this. They are living under the old covenant. He is going to do a new thing. What does he do? He's going to bring about something new in Israel, Israel and in Judah, the entire nation. That's what he's speaking of guys. He's not speaking of doing something spiritually speaking like we would see it. A brand new, a fresh new move of the Holy Spirit, fresh wind, fresh fire, fresh oil. No, that's not what that passage is saying. If anyone, if you read that passage and you get that from that passage, I'm going to ask you to start letting somebody read the Bible for you. I'm joking. But that's not what the Bible says. That's not what that passage is speaking of at all. He's not doing something new. He didn't have to do anything new because that would mean that what he did in the past wasn't sufficient. Wasn't good enough. No. The next time we see something new is when we have a glorified body. Or when we see him, that'll be something new. But from now on until then, it will be us trying to spread his word. Give the good news. That's what it's going to be from now on. Our job is to be light and salt in this dark world. There are going to be people that are going to say that God is doing something magnificent. Well, he's always been doing something magnificent. He's been doing something wonderful. He's always been doing that. Now we're just getting on board with it. That's all. And that's not hard. That's not hard for us to under. It shouldn't be hard for us to understand. All the Lord wants us to do is one place our faith in him. And then grow in the grace and knowledge of him. And while we're doing so, help someone else to hear the gospel. Share the gospel. How that's going to work out. Don't know. You might do it through song. You might do it on the street corner with a bull horn. You might go to people random folks. Hey, can I just pass you a track out or speak to them? Do it on your job. But in some way shape or fashion, the move of the spirit is going to cause you to magnify him. That's what's going to happen. That is what's going to happen now. I want to go through this context, this idea of being renewed again. I want to look at Ephesians 4-23 because I want you all to see what this actually means. In Ephesians 4, let's start in verse 20. 4-20. But you did not learn Christ in this way. If indeed you have heard of him and have been taught in him just as truth is in Jesus. That in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lust of deceit. And that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind and put on the new self, which is in the likeness of God. I'm sorry. The likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth. And so this word that I said again that word re kind of gets in the way because you're not being made new again. You're just this process of being new again. So I know it's a funny way of saying it. Also, let's look at Romans 12-2. Therefore, I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. So he's not saying I'm going to renew your mind. No. This is the process that has begun of you having your mind changed. And again, the word is nude up. It's weird. I know it's weird. It's weird. Anna up upon again and new kindness, which is nude up. Bad English. But hopefully you guys get the picture. Then also another passage where I think this helps to drive home the point that he's trying to make. Titus 3-5. He saved us not on the basis of deeds, which we have done in righteousness, but according to his mercy by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit. This is what we call this guy's that is this. Yeah. This is what we would call this exegetical Chi, where you've got these two verbs that are separated by the Chi. They're saying the same thing. It's this regeneration and renewing. It's part and parcel of the same thing. There is no renewing without regeneration. There is no regeneration without the renewing. It goes together. And this is us being made new and growing in that. That's all our heart has been changed, regenerated, born from above. And but matter of fact, no, it's not there. I want to see if it was the same word that's used in John 3. It's not. It's not. But anyway. But after our heart is regenerated, born from above, then the process is of us growing in him. Are you with me? Now, Joel says I need verses. They're going to just look at the moderators. They'll give it to you in a second, Joel. They randomly put them up and so you'll see them in just a little bit. Now, let me say this. This concept I said before is really an Old Testament concept, not so much a New Testament concept. Let me give you one of the stories that's kind of the basis. You may have heard this story before, but this is the story of Josiah. Now, in 2 Chronicles 34, I'm going to cover a few portions of not the whole thing, but a few portions of it. This is when the priest, Halkiah, he discovers this lost book of the law verse 30. I mean, 34 verse 14. When they were bringing out the money which had been brought into the house of the Lord, Halkiah, the priest, found the book of the law of the Lord given by Moses. Halkiah responded and said to Shaffin, Describe I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord, and Halkiah gave it to Shaffin. Now, long story short, the book makes its way to the king. I want to go to, I think it's 29, so I don't want to read all of this. I'll let you all, matter of fact, you all ought to read this, but guess what had happened? Kind of like what's happened today. They had gotten away from the book. They had gotten away from the word of the Lord. That's not a good thing. If you, the further you get away from the word of the Lord, what happens? The further you get away from what the Lord wants you to do, the further you get away from what the Lord expects of you. And so in this case, they have gotten away from the word of the Lord. And now look, look at this part right here, starting in verse 20, 90 says, Then the king sent and gathered all this after he's read it. The king and sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. The king went up to the house of the Lord and all the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the Levites, and all the people from the greatest to the least. And he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant, which was found in the house of the Lord. Amen. Let's let the people hear the word of God because you hadn't been hearing it. High time you hear it. Verse 31. Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord to walk after the Lord. By the way, we're going to cover these covenants and what a covenant is, but he makes a covenant with the Lord. Look what he says. He makes a covenant with the Lord to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul to perform the words of the covenant written in this book. Moreover, he made all who were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand with him. So the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. Just I removed all the abominations from all the lands, belonged to the sons of Israel, and made all who were present in Israel to serve the Lord their God. Throughout his lifetime, they did not turn from following the Lord God of their fathers. Why is this? Well, because now they've got the word. Remember I said there's two things that you can use to test whether something is legitimate. If this is what we would say in the South, show enough true revival at Asbury. Don't know. Time will tell. I do suspect that everyone at Asbury is not saved. I do suspect that. I do suspect there are some Christians there. And I believe that some expect, because these are young people and it's certainly much better to have these young folks there doing this than on the streets doing God knows what. So obviously this is much better. There are going to be some folks who are going to be pointed more towards God in the right way. There will be some that will be pointed towards the wrong version of God, a God that has to show up and do things, which is why we see some of these folks showing up there wanting to say this is a move of God and look at a demon being cast out and so forth. Again, if a demon was cast out, it wasn't cast out of a Christian because we know for a fact that Christians aren't demon possessed and not oppressed or possessed. So if that actually was a, again, emotions kick in. Emotions kick in. This is why people, some of you all can testify, you've been in these services where now looking back when that guy touched you on your head and you went back, you knew for a fact that was a Lord, come to realize it wouldn't. You fell in your back and did all the different things and then you went back to sinning. You went back to living. So emotions can kick in. How do I know? Go to any sporting event. Go to any sporting event. Every weekend there is some sporting event and fans lose their everlasting mind and act in ways that they would, if you took a picture or took a video of these people in the stands, got rid of the background and all you saw was this person acting a certain way. That person would not even own to that. That's not me. Yeah, but look, it's your face. That's not me. But look, there are your kids right there beside you. That's not me. It is because we act, emotions take over. That's just how we are. We are human and we are sheep. We follow because if other folks are doing the same thing, we'll jump in line. So if we think in our mind, I'm not saying it's not or it is. I'm not saying that the spirit of the Lord isn't there. I imagine that there's some folks there that really want to open up and there's some people there that are really wanting to yield their life and their service to God, then clearly the spirit of the Lord will be there. clearly. Now, is he requiring them to be there 24-7? For what is it, a week now, a week and a half? Is he requiring that? Well, again, the greatest spiritual outpouring ever in the Bible, we don't see it going that way. What did you say? He says, but Corey, to walk with the Lord says you must pick up the cross daily, which is to renew your conscience regarding to sin. Again, the term renew, I've given you the definition of the term renew. Okay, it's made up of two words, Anna and new. Anna can mean again, but our minds, our minds are not being, it's not as though our minds used to be that way. Our minds, our hearts, our spirits used to be godly, you know? So the term renew, isn't renew, or they used to be godly, they stopped being godly, they're being made godly again, they're stopped. No, it's a process of being made new. That's all. That's all. So the point is though, if a person has actually experienced what they want to call revival or renewing or whatever it is, a move with the spirit, if that's actually happened, if it's actually occurred, again, two things are gonna happen. A love for God, which means a love for their fellow man, and then also a love for his word. Revival does not take place, and there be a disregard for his word. The Holy Spirit is not move upon people, impress upon people, and then there is a disregard of his word. Remember, as they read the books and opened the books, they discovered that we've been doing things the wrong way, and we're all gonna do it the right way now. Why? Because the spirit of Lord is here. You do realize, I don't know, let me just say this. I don't know if some of you guys know this or not. I don't know if you know this or not. But the Lord is awful serious about his name, about his word, about his reputation. The Lord is serious. He doesn't play like we play. He's a little different. He is a little bit different than us. Matter of fact, he's a lot different. His ways are not our ways. He is so far and way above us. It's not. So if he took the time, and he did, to give us his word and to tell us to focus on his word and to have his apostles to remind us to study and to read and to tell us that his word is breathed out by him, then I think these words are important. I think they're very important. Alicia, thank you for the super chat. Since my daughter Zoe wants to say hello, this is one of her favorite. Amen. Because of her love for the Greek. Don't go on. I feel like, you know what I feel like doing? Let me just read some Greek for her. Romans 12 1. Parakala un humes adelfue. I'm sorry. I had to give her some Greek. How about that? Which means, which means therefore, then therefore I urge you brother. So there's my Greek reading for the day. By the way, when I started reading Greek, the funny thing was, I didn't have any intention on actually pronouncing the word because when I did, when I did so, I'm in a prison cell. And so there's no way for me to hear the actual words. There was just no way. I did not have the benefit of a professor there until until an actual Greeks. When I'm in a Greek scholar, a Greek scholar showed up. But he said, the most important thing is not how you pronounce it is that you read and understand it. And so because for the most part, there are some that I've taken upon the task to try to communicate in Coenai Greek with no one speaks naturally Coenai Greek anymore. It's a it's a bygone religion. I mean, language, although classical Greek, I mean, modern Greek is similar. But there are some differences in Coenai Greek versus modern Greek. Anyway, that being stated, though, the point of these of this is that we learn his word. CG says, Could you explain the definite article in Greek, please? Well, I sure can. The definite art. What'd you say? The definite article is the word. It helps out a lot. As a matter of fact, if you guys are learning Greek, one of the one of the keys that was given to me by this scholar, he said, as you're learning, learn the definite article, memorize them. You've got 24 ways of saying the definite article, which is the word. We have a definite article in English. 24 ways of saying the why so many words. Well, because you have the masculine, you have the feminine, and you have the neuter. And with all of those, you also have the singular and the plural. So you have the masculine singular and the masculine plural. And in each one of those, you have four cases, you have the nominative, you have the genitive, you have the accusative, native and accusative, which is basically the one describing what the subject is, one describing what is what's the possession of something, the direct object, indirect object, and you get the plural version of that. And so that's four in this category, four in the plural category, and then times the other two. So that's 24 ways. The reason why that's important is because it helps you to identify who and what's being talked about. It gives certain clarity, which is why sometimes you'll see that in English, we don't even carry out the definite article, but we know it's a definite article. For example, when he says, can that faith save him in James? Well, he's speaking of a specific faith. Very with me. Or Jesus says, when I come back, will I find faith, the faith, then say in English, the faith, but he's talking about the faith, which faith? Well, that's a particular faith that Jesus is referring to, which is faith in him. Very with me. So there's a lot of times where the definite article in Greek opens things up like, Oh, okay, I get it. Or you know who he's talking to. So anyway, chow yum cat. Thank you again for the reading Greek to Zoe. Thank you. Thank you for super chat. So I want to make this a monthly clear as far as this, this revival, do I know or do I think this is actually a revival? I don't know. There is a question that comes up. There is a question that comes up. And that is this, why? Why is he? Now, by the way, this is the second time this has happened at this church or at this, this college, the second time. Now, I'm not saying it's, it's right or wrong. He said tie that to the Granville sharp rule. I am not tying it to the Granville sharp rule today. Although I did, I did do Granville sharp rule a few, few weeks ago, covering one, the Trinity and also covering internal security. Hold on to the topic. But why is it this is a true move of the spirit? Why? Or or or maybe it is a true move of the spirit. But it's the same true move of the spirit that we're having. My dogs are going crazy. The dogs heard someone push the doorbell and now now there's a revival at the front door with the doggies. They are barking and out. But is the revival revival that's happening in Asbury any more authentic than the move of the spirit that's happening right now that happens when you are reading your word, when you are praying, is the is what's happening there any greater than what happened at your church yesterday today or Sunday or what have you. Somebody gave their life to Christ today. A lot of somebody's did was that was what happened at Asbury even greater than that. No. Again, there is no special move of the spirit happening. It's just a move of the spirit. It's all special. It's that he does what he he seeks what he wants to and he accomplishes what he seeks. And so when he moves in us, it's no greater or no less greater than what's happening in Asbury if indeed that's what's happening. Now, I suspect that there are some people there that are there just looking for something emotional. Also, but for the children that are there, the young folk, the college folk there, I suspect that they're they just want to because you know what? Why would you not want to get close to the Lord? Amen. I want to move because I can promise you this and I did become a Christian in college. I did. Listen, being a Christian in college messes up your date in life. I can promise you that being a Christian being a Christian messes up so many opportunities to sin. Do you know how much sinning I left on the table because of the Lord? Now, there were some times though where I suppressed or as the Bible says quench the Holy Spirit but being a Christian messes up your sin life. It at least it should and so I'm thankful that there we're focusing on these young folks wanting to get close to the Lord. Now, I just hope and pray and there is some some some bad theology that that's also associated there with them. I think this this this campus is kind of more egalitarian and so forth and I think there's some other things. I'm not too sure but I won't go into that but I do hope that there's somebody there that can capture the excitement of these people. You can't Dutch. You can't. You can't now and I don't know if I think I've heard that they that they have done some scripture reading and some preaching. I'm not sure. I'm not sure because I'm not like one of these folks going to sit and watch this live stream one. I'm not watching that. I'm not watching that because again there's nothing more special there that's happening then at my church or your church or anywhere else in the world. That's an actual authentic moving spirit. You want to see a real moving spirit. You want to see a you guys want to see a real revival. This is what this this is the part of our caution you folks that want to go get on a plane or drive to go see this so-called real revival. You want to see a real revival? Get on a plane. Don't hit a Kentucky. No. No. Don't hit a Kentucky. Head across seas. Head over to Asia. Pick an Asian country. Head over there where the Christians are persecuted but they're staying Christians anyway. That's a move of the spirit. Head somewhere in the Middle East where you can be killed for being a Christian and they're Christians anyway. Head to the north part of Nigeria. Yeah. Head go where Boko Haram is and they don't want you to be a Christian and they're still define that and begin and still in their lives of Christians. That's a powerful move of the spirit. We don't seem to want to get on planes and go there. We don't know because our revival tends to be air conditioned with lights. Comfortable seating. People that will bring you water. They will refresh you there. People that will make sure you're comfortable. There's bathroom with running water. Nobody out there with guns coming at you. There's no guards out there to make sure no one comes to kill you. Yeah. Our revival just isn't the same as that. I'm not bad mouth and our love for the Lord here either. I'm thankful that I was born here in America. Wow. I really am. I'm so glad that I that I can be a Christian here in America. But I'm also thankful that the Lord has shown his power in Christians and other parts of the world where it's not safe to be Christian. That's a move of the spirit. That's what we ought to desire because guess what when the Lord tells us that this persecution is coming and we've read about it and read about it and read about it. See we we we get upset when people mock us because we say that Jesus is coming back soon. Well how soon is soon. These are the these are the end time. These are the last days the last days of the last two thousand years. That's not that's not very soon to me and we we get upset with them because they mock us but let's let's remember though persecution is coming to the church to your church. I don't know how soon. I don't know when it is going to become harder and harder and harder to be a Christian and to live godly before these people. They are going to want you to they're going to want you to advocate your role your responsibilities as a believer. They're going to want to do so. They're going to want you to be kind of maybe Christian-ish but not totally Christian. You are you with me. Now and Peter says less someone says that we're not called to be Christian. First Peter 416. Matter of fact let's put on the screen. I think that would be a good passage to look at real quick. Let's go to first Peter 4 Peter 416 because in regards to what we're talking about I think this is apropos. He says but if anyone suffers as a Christian meaning we're they're going to be some folks are going to suffer as a Christian. Thank God it hadn't been me. Listen I'm praying for those folks over there. I'm praying for all those people over there. Lord I hope you give them strength Lord God while I'm saying so in my comfortable chair. That's coming here to America but if anyone suffers as a Christian and the word that's used there for Christian is literally the Greek word for Christian. Christianos if anyone suffers as a Christian he is not to be ashamed but is to glorify God in this name. It's going to happen. When? Don't know. How soon to what degree? Do not know. And I kind of imagine this start from the East Coast and the West Coast on in. I don't know why I think that California and New York is going to usher in. I don't know. Maybe DC. I don't know. I'm I'm kidding. If you guys live in New York in California God bless you. You guys have your work cut out for you. Not me. Not I'd go visit but not I'm not living there. What's your question Latia? She's taking anyone to answer a question for. What's your question? I'll try to answer it if it's directed towards me. No they're not. No uh the penal costs of pastors are not ready to they're not they're not. Fight tooth and nail. You have a question for them. What's your question? What's your question? I'll try to answer your question. Someone got mad at me that day for a call a lady sweetheart. Listen I'm sorry. I'm not I'm I wasn't born in the 2000s so I just I'm in a low fashion. Right. Why do you think Christianity is dying? I just saw a Muslim who converted 175 people to Islam. We are comfortable in our churches. Well first of all it's not dying. What's happening is there was a time where Christianity was fashionable. Where it was mainstream. It was the lay of the land. It was what we did. We did it here in England. Here in England. I'm not in England. Here in America. We did it in England. All throughout the western hemisphere. All throughout western civilization. Because of and remember God will take even the ungodly. He'll use the ungodly and folks that are exploiting through ungodly means to still spread his word. The church he says that the gates of hell will not prevail. The gates of hell have never prevailed against the church. Have never. What has happened though there were many people who professed to be Christians who were not. It was more fashionable. We don't think that everyone in the in the 1900s in the 1800s 1700s 1600s that said they were Christian. I'm a God-fearing Christian. We don't think they all were. We know they all weren't. But you would call yourself one. Right. Well what's happening now is I don't have to be one. I can be what I want to. I can. I don't have to be a Muslim. I have to be a Buddhist. I can just be me. I can be what's the word now. I can be spiritual. I can be quasi-Christian. I can be Oprah Christian. I can be Beyonce Christian. I can be Steve Harvey Christian. I can be that kind of Christian. And so it's not dying. They're just less and less people that are holding to the faith. Remember Paul tells Timothy that there are going to be people that are going to leave from the faith. That they that they will depart from the faith. Not from having faith, but they will depart from the faith. But matter of fact, who asked about the definite article? Let me put that up here. Is it? I said 1st Timothy 4. Here it is. And we're going to use the Greek definite article. He says, but the Spirit explicitly says in the latter times that some will fall away from the faith. Paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons. Now, I want to point out what he spoke, what he's saying. They're not leaving from having faith. That's not the word that's used here. The word that's used here is the faith. The word taste, that's one of the Greek words for, by the way, look at the bottom left hand corner. It's the definite article. This is the feminine version of the from the faith. They will depart from the faith. Now I want to show you something else. Look what Paul says. Paul says in, that was 1st Timothy. Let's go to the 2nd. I don't know why I just deleted the whole thing. Let's go to 2nd Timothy 4. Look what Paul says about the faith and how he's performed, how he's behaved. He says, verse 6, he says, for I am already being poured out as a drink offering. And the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. Here it is. I have kept the faith. Look over to the right hand side. It is tain pistein. Tain pistein. Now this is the feminine accusative, the. I have kept the faith. Now I've kept believing. Paul's not saying that I've kept believing, but I've kept the faith. Meaning, because look what he says. He says, I have guarded. He says, so I have kept. And the word that's used there is from the Greek word, tereo. In this case, it is tetereca, which is I have kept. This is the perfect tense. So I've been doing this. I've been doing it. I've been doing what? I've been guarding. Been holding on to not my believing. Don't have to do that. I have to, I've held on to the faith. People today to answer your question Latia, people today have advocated that. We don't need that. There's more than one road to get to heaven. But Jesus says, Jesus says, I am the way, the truth in life. No one comes to me, but today. No, you don't have to do it that way. There's many ways. There's many paths. And even in that, we have different gospels or different, different versions of our Christianity, which aren't really true versions. How would you respond to a Muslim who says, Islam is the fastest growing religion? My response is so. So, by the way, even though we've got a large number of, first of all, it's still not larger than the professed Christians. I don't care about that. The Bible tells us that narrow is the way and few are they that find it. We have an exclusive club, but it's all inclusive. It's exclusive, meaning everybody ain't a part of this. Inclusive that if you just place your faith in it. And then ask them, would you rather be a Muslim by fist or Christian by faith? Because the overwhelming majority of Muslims who reside in Muslim controlled countries are claiming to be Muslims because they have to be. Why do you think one of the fastest growing apostasy groups or groups of apostasy or apostasizing groups in the world are Muslims when they get to Western cultures? Because I don't, you mean tell me I don't have to wear this dawgling head thing over me anymore? I don't have to dress this way? I don't have a bit? No one's going to kill me if I'm not a Muslim? No. So in a faster argument, it's a weak argument, it's a weak argument, but the issue is not numbers, it's in regards to what does your, what, I did this before. Someone said, someone said, how in the world could you possibly say that your faith is the only faith? You're the right one. I said, well let's look at from the standpoint of God who created us and gave us a way to be with him. He would say, how in the world could you dare look at me and what I've done and then say there's other ways aside from the one way that I've given you? And then logic tells us that if there is a God, this God wants to know him that he wants to know us. Would he wait, would he wait to the seventh century AD? Would he wait that long? Thousands and thousands of years to reveal himself in the form of an illiterate child rapist. I'm speaking of Muhammad. Is that, is that who he waited all these thousands of years for him? Or would he have revealed himself early on? Well, he did and we see that in the Bible. Now that I don't accept that because your words nor can my words change a person's heart. That person's heart has to be regenerated and changed from above. All I can do is, as Paul says, I can plant or I can water, be one of those two things, but I cannot give the increase. Only God can do so. And so it's not my duty. What I don't do is, I don't, I don't worry about whether someone's going to accept the truth. All I can do is give it. And if they accept it, then amen. And I don't get the credit for that because it's not my responsibility, which is why I don't fret. I, my first ministry was outreach ministry guys, going out and spreading the gospel. And I used to want to count the numbers. How many people gave their life to Christ? profess faith. You know, that's not on me. If I, all I want to do now is just give it. So if I give it, my goal now is to say it as often as I can. Because it's, it's a numbers game for me. I don't have to worry about who comes to Christ. That's God's job. The ball is in his court. All I did was do what he told me to do, express with my mouth, magnify and glorify him, let my light so shine, and then hopefully folks will also see my good works and glorify him. That's all I can do. That's all I hope to want to do, to live my life, the rest of my life doing that. Now if I do that, if I live my life, the rest of my life, sharing his gospel, learning and growing and teaching my family, teaching my friends and all those around me, that is a true move of the spirit and that's what revival is. Not us being revived because we're born again, but them being freshed, being vived. I'm trying to get away from the word ring because the ring can note that it was done before, but us this newing, newing up as the word says. I want to bring them to a relationship with Christ as best I can. I can do it. All I can do is, hey, got this sale today. What are you selling? I'm selling hope. I'm selling eternity. I'm selling a life with the Lord. How so? How much is it going to cost? Just your words, your faith, your heart. That's all it takes. That if you confess with your mouth, that Jesus is Lord. The Bible says that you shall witness a brand new revival. Amen. Now that could have been my mic drop moment guys. Chest champ, that could have been it right there, but I decided not to. Let me go ahead, look at a couple of these others questions beforehand. I do have to leave a little later today because, I mean a little earlier today because I'm going to be on the gospel truth with brother Marlon Wilson. So you guys check it out. I think it's at seven o'clock my time. I don't know if you guys are on the east coast, six o'clock, eight o'clock your time. Hold on, which way? Seven o'clock here in Texas, that means it's eight o'clock, yeah, eight o'clock in the east coast. I'll get it right. How important is believing the Godhead? I heard a YouTuber say, Jehovah Creator can save him. He doesn't need Jesus. Okay, that guy can't be saved. He cannot be saved. John 8 24 says, unless you believe that I am, say I am, I am he, then you shall not be saved. You can't be saved. And again, the passage that we quote the most, that unless you confess your mouth that Jesus is Lord, he is the Lord. It is definite, but it is unauthorized, but it still is a definite, a definiteness to, definiteness to, as I hate to say that word, definiteness to the word, because it goes on to say that he is the Lord of the lords, and unless you believe that he is the Lord, you cannot be saved. You must confess that Jesus is the Lord. What does that mean? The Bible says clearly that there is only one Lord, and that the Lord is God. So very important, extremely important. If you do not believe that Jesus is God, that he is the Lord, you cannot be saved. People can fight it and fight it and be upset with it. I, that's a man-made trinity, this and that. Okay, fine, fine. Don't take offense to what I'm about to tell you. If you don't believe that Jesus is God, go to hell. That's exactly where you're going to go. I don't want you to go to hell. I want you to stop trying to figure out how God can wrap himself in flesh and die for our sins. If it's too big for you for the moment, just accept the fact that it's the truth. How do I know? Even Muslims, even Jews, even the people that don't believe the trinity will agree with this, that God in Exodus showed up in the form of a flame. He wrapped himself in fire in Exodus. He calls himself in Exodus the Lord, the Angel of the Lord, God, and I am. God wrapped himself in fire while at the same time his full presence was in heaven. So here we have the eternal father in heaven also on earth having wrapped himself in flesh while his spirit is still all over the world. That's what we call the trinity. You can believe that he can wrap himself in fire while being in heaven and on the rest of the planet, all over the rest of the planet, but you can't believe that he can be in heaven all over the rest of the earth and wrap himself in flesh. He can do it with fire, but can't wrap himself in flesh. We've got a problem and the problem is you, not the word. So you got a problem with that? Fine. Fine. Listen, all I can do is all I can do. I can lead you to water, can't make you think. So, and it's just that easy. It's just, I understand it's a hard concept, it's a difficult concept, because we don't know anything like that. We don't know anything like God, but that makes sense. He's not like us. He's not like me and your mama. He's not like, he's not like your father. He's not like your kids. He's not like anything you can think of. You can't find an adequate analogy to describe him. You just can't. Someone gave me a dislike. Fine. Maybe your dislike was accidental. In your case, it's a dislike. I can see it when it comes down to the thing. I don't know why this software does that. Did Moses meet Jesus or God on Mount Sinai? Yes. Did Moses meet Jesus or God on Mount Sinai? Yes. He's the, he saw, he met the glory of God. Doesn't the Bible says that we beheld him the glory of the God, the glory as the only begotten of the father? The channel is the gospel truth. So just type in the gospel truth or Marlon Wilson. I think Marlon Wilson, I think I pulled up, or the gospel truth. So that's Robbie. Can you have a personal revival in your individual walk? Again, Christians, we don't have revivals. We've been vived. We've been made alive. So we're not being made alive again and again and again. But what we can have is a steady growth. The way the Bible, I would put it this way. The Bible says it this way. Be filled. Be filled. Ephesians 5, 18. Do not be drunk with wine, which is dissipation, but instead, rather, but be filled. Be filled with the Lord. And so in that way, be filled with the spirit. And so in that way, all that you could ever, whatever you think revival is, more so if you accomplish what Ephesians 5, 18 was. So guys, I want to thank you so much. I've got to get out of here. I've got to get to this next one. Get things set up so forth. I look forward to seeing you guys too. Mark, what's it say? I don't know what that was. I have no idea what the, you know, I'm getting ready to click off and I just see something. I'm like, what? Huh? It caught my eye. Don't know why it caught my eye. I don't know why. But even though guys, even a legitimate move of the spirit, they're going to be the fakers that are going to show up. You're going to have the good and the bad. How do we test things? We test them. We test them. You know what? I'll do that, Glenn. I'll do that. Thank you for the super chat also. I'll drop the link. I'll drop the link there. That's a good idea. That's a good idea. I'll drop the link there. As a matter of fact, I'll do what I'll do. I'll drop the link and I'll also put it in the community section so it'll show up, pop up on YouTube so you guys can see that as well. Because I do want you guys to go and support this channel. He's a very good channel. He has a lot of different debates. Folks who believe would sound doctrine. Some folks have some bad doctrine. Both who have good doctrine, but they come at different conclusions and so forth. So that's what happens a lot on Marlin's channel. Very good channel as well. So I will drop that link as well. So anyway, you guys, I love you so much. You are the best. You are the best family on YouTube. I got the best moderators and the best viewers. If you haven't subscribed, let me let me be YouTube-y for a second. I don't often do this, but would you say, could you please do a Q&A this weekend? Talk to you at Madison? For you, I will. For you. I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. Saturday, you say this weekend? Yeah. Saturday, let's do that 10, 30, or 11 for you. How about that? But I forgot what I was going to say. I forgot what I was going to say. I was going to say subscribe. I never say. I never say would you guys be subscribed. I think like 50% of people that watch aren't subscribers. Subscribe. Thank you, Vonda. I appreciate. I appreciate that. You are the best too. Thank you so much. Thank you guys. Mona, thank you so much for the super chat. I appreciate that. Rest of you guys. I love you and I will see you tomorrow.