WEBVTT 00:00:00.300 --> 00:00:06.105 Let's lift our bowels, let's say this together say heavenly Father, I'm so glad I'm here tonight. 00:00:06.105 --> 00:00:10.528 I have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to me. 00:00:10.528 --> 00:00:21.753 I believe I receive revelation from the Word of God that will build my faith, develop my spirit, mature my soul. 00:00:21.753 --> 00:00:24.486 My soul needs to be saved. 00:00:24.486 --> 00:00:34.344 That means my mind needs to be renewed more and more and I'll be transformed in Jesus' name, amen, amen. 00:00:34.344 --> 00:00:39.350 Let's look at Isaiah tonight. 00:00:39.350 --> 00:00:45.503 He's a major prophet we met we read Micah this morning and he's a minor prophet. 00:00:45.503 --> 00:00:48.969 I don't see much difference in the two really, honestly. 00:00:48.969 --> 00:00:53.250 But that's what the Bible people that put it in there. 00:00:53.600 --> 00:01:17.730 Isaiah 54, verse one Seeing O'Baron, thou that did not bear, break forth unto singing and cry aloud, thou that did not travail with child. 00:01:17.730 --> 00:01:19.680 Why? 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:24.445 Because more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife. 00:01:24.445 --> 00:01:33.590 Saith the Lord In large the place of your tent and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy inhabitation. 00:01:33.590 --> 00:01:40.096 Spare not, lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes. 00:01:40.096 --> 00:01:41.221 Why? 00:01:41.221 --> 00:01:53.070 Because you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left, and your seed shall inherit the Gentiles and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. 00:01:53.070 --> 00:02:13.449 Fear not, for thou shalt not be ashamed, neither be thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame and shall not remember the reproach of thine widowhood anymore. 00:02:13.449 --> 00:02:15.204 Why? 00:02:15.204 --> 00:02:17.950 Because your maker is your husband. 00:02:17.950 --> 00:02:35.151 The Lord of hosts, the Lord of the armies of heaven is his name, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, the God of the whole earth, shall he be called. 00:02:35.151 --> 00:02:48.037 And so I've preached this message before and the message title was being increased minded. 00:02:48.037 --> 00:02:54.866 But in lieu of that, tonight I'm gonna preach it a little differently a minding your momentum. 00:02:54.866 --> 00:03:00.307 Minding your momentum. 00:03:00.307 --> 00:03:04.746 Now. 00:03:04.746 --> 00:03:10.049 I've been teaching on momentum the last four weeks and I did the capstone of it this morning. 00:03:10.049 --> 00:03:15.625 If you weren't here, make sure you get it on the podcast or on Facebook or whatever. 00:03:15.625 --> 00:03:16.688 It's still on Facebook. 00:03:16.688 --> 00:03:27.302 But God, early mornings of my birthday this past week, on Wednesday morning, he woke me up 30 minutes into my birthday day and he just. 00:03:27.302 --> 00:03:33.950 I had this dream and I don't remember what was in the dream, but I heard these words everything old is new again. 00:03:33.950 --> 00:03:34.903 And I just remembered. 00:03:34.903 --> 00:03:36.885 This morning I said, god, that was on my birthday. 00:03:36.885 --> 00:03:38.223 Was he talking to about me? 00:03:38.223 --> 00:03:40.705 Everything old is new again, I'm new. 00:03:40.705 --> 00:03:44.266 But he was talking about more than that. 00:03:44.266 --> 00:03:45.885 He's talking about me and you both. 00:03:45.885 --> 00:03:58.792 Everything old is new again, Everything receding is advancing again, and the kingdom of God mightily grows and prevails. 00:03:58.792 --> 00:04:01.566 And that's this for this year. 00:04:01.566 --> 00:04:02.943 I mean momentum. 00:04:02.943 --> 00:04:17.071 We have a tremendous amount of momentum, and so when we read this verse, I want to just kind of shed light on this momentum thing. 00:04:17.071 --> 00:04:18.002 It's just amazing. 00:04:18.062 --> 00:04:23.827 Here is a widow, this Baron, let's put it on, let's think about this woman. 00:04:23.827 --> 00:04:27.264 Now, he's not talking about a specific woman, he's talking about Israel. 00:04:27.264 --> 00:04:30.430 But you can break it down to an individual. 00:04:30.430 --> 00:04:32.588 I mean a woman in Israel that's barren. 00:04:32.588 --> 00:04:40.139 First of all is a look down upon their shunned. 00:04:40.139 --> 00:04:46.365 There's a reason they don't have any babies, and it's usually because God's cursed them. 00:04:46.365 --> 00:04:48.504 They've done something wrong. 00:04:48.504 --> 00:04:49.845 We just don't know what it is. 00:04:49.845 --> 00:04:54.028 You know, I mean people really proud to have a big family. 00:04:54.028 --> 00:04:56.367 That meant you were really blessed to have a bunch of kids. 00:04:56.367 --> 00:05:03.749 So when you're barren, you just feel like God dried you up for some purpose and it's not a good thing to do. 00:05:03.980 --> 00:05:07.244 And then, on top of that, not only is she barren, but she lost her husband. 00:05:07.244 --> 00:05:17.630 Her husband died, checked out on her, probably didn't leave her any injured, so now she's doubly, she's in a mess. 00:05:17.630 --> 00:05:20.189 I mean she has no way to make a living. 00:05:20.189 --> 00:05:22.728 I mean, you know women in Israel. 00:05:22.728 --> 00:05:30.800 They didn't have jobs, they didn't make money, they were the keepers of the house, they took care of the kids, and there aren't any kids Now. 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:31.564 There's no husband. 00:05:31.564 --> 00:05:34.702 So you know you talk about somebody that's. 00:05:34.702 --> 00:05:38.151 Her momentum is about as little as it could be. 00:05:38.151 --> 00:05:39.766 There is no momentum. 00:05:39.766 --> 00:05:43.553 You know she's. 00:05:43.553 --> 00:05:44.939 And what is the prophet saying? 00:05:44.939 --> 00:05:50.887 Oh, you need to start singing, you need to start making room for growth. 00:05:50.887 --> 00:05:56.127 You're gonna have more kids than these married wives, because your husband is the Lord. 00:05:56.127 --> 00:06:08.079 He didn't explain how that was gonna work, but I mean, you made some specific things there, and so what God is doing is he's. 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:11.699 And she doesn't look like she's moving anywhere. 00:06:11.699 --> 00:06:14.139 And yet God has got big plans. 00:06:14.139 --> 00:06:17.259 See, the God's got big plans for this year 2024. 00:06:17.259 --> 00:06:19.920 And you're included in those plans. 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:21.699 He's got big plans. 00:06:21.699 --> 00:06:24.000 We're gonna have to get caught up. 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:28.153 We're gonna have to mind our momentum personally. 00:06:28.153 --> 00:06:32.031 Are y'all with me now? 00:06:34.625 --> 00:06:35.988 This is written to two people. 00:06:35.988 --> 00:06:40.279 It's written to Israel, but it's written to the church. 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:41.459 That's why it's in here. 00:06:41.459 --> 00:06:44.079 It's in here for our admonition. 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:50.197 1 Corinthians 10 says it's in here for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the age have come. 00:06:50.197 --> 00:06:54.127 Well, that's you and me, boy. 00:06:54.127 --> 00:06:57.117 We're staring right at the end of the church age. 00:06:57.278 --> 00:07:11.418 Right now, and I've been saying this this morning 2024, is I'm saying it prophetically this is the most pivotal year we've ever lived in, and I know it's an important election and all that. 00:07:11.418 --> 00:07:13.317 I'm not even talking about the election. 00:07:13.317 --> 00:07:15.660 I mean the election's important, but I'm not even talking about that. 00:07:15.660 --> 00:07:21.319 I'm talking about God's schedule and he's got really big plans for the church. 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:50.406 He's got really big plans for you and you may not see it, you may not know it, you're not gonna have any evidence of it, but he wants you to believe this word here tonight that you know God has a history of making great from small, of making many from few, of making many from few, making strong from weak. 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:56.110 We read that in Joel this morning. 00:07:56.110 --> 00:07:57.665 Let the weak say I'm strong. 00:07:57.665 --> 00:08:02.805 Making free from bound. 00:08:02.805 --> 00:08:06.262 Tonight we got people that were bound up and they got free. 00:08:06.262 --> 00:08:08.824 Tonight he's got a record of doing that. 00:08:08.824 --> 00:08:11.973 He loves to set the captive free. 00:08:11.973 --> 00:08:19.875 He's saying to the barren woman hey, it's time to sing and shout and rejoice. 00:08:22.425 --> 00:08:24.110 Now, if you're barren, you don't do that. 00:08:24.110 --> 00:08:36.697 I mean you weep, I mean you know, the woman that was, you know, went into the temple and she was muttering and some of the people thought she was drunk in there. 00:08:36.697 --> 00:08:42.594 No, she's not drunk, she's just hurting, she's barren and she's making a deal with God. 00:08:42.594 --> 00:08:48.594 God, if you'll just give me Samuel's mother, god, if you'll give me a child, I'll give him back to you. 00:08:48.594 --> 00:08:57.628 Samuel's mother was barren and she had Samuel and she brought him to the priest, and Eli I see all the his sons wanted to take her out and punish her. 00:08:57.628 --> 00:09:00.953 Hey, she's drunk in the temple, she's drunk in there. 00:09:00.953 --> 00:09:02.049 We get rid of her. 00:09:02.049 --> 00:09:06.354 No, she's not drunk, she's muttering, she's pouring out her heart before the Lord. 00:09:06.354 --> 00:09:07.187 She's barren. 00:09:07.187 --> 00:09:10.850 She said God, if you'll just give me a child, I'll give him back to you. 00:09:10.850 --> 00:09:18.089 So she had that baby and she weened him and brought him back to Eli, and that Samuel, prophet Samuel. 00:09:18.089 --> 00:09:23.972 And then she had four or five more kids after that. 00:09:23.972 --> 00:09:28.552 Oh, really, god, you know, with God all things are possible. 00:09:32.404 --> 00:09:43.990 And so he's saying to the barren woman hey, you need to rejoice, you need to start shouting girl, come on, get with the program. 00:09:43.990 --> 00:09:45.866 I'm God, I'm not. 00:09:45.866 --> 00:09:54.514 You know, you're going to be more fruitful than those you think that have it made, you know, milder it over there. 00:09:54.514 --> 00:10:05.535 So you've got a house full of kids, seems like she's just barefoot and pregnant all the time, kind of you're having to really not be jealous of her. 00:10:05.535 --> 00:10:09.846 You know, here you are, you've had, and now your daddy gone, I mean he died, God. 00:10:09.846 --> 00:10:15.095 Now what, who wants to marry a barren woman who's a widow? 00:10:15.095 --> 00:10:21.409 She's not going to score much on, you know, on the dating services. 00:10:21.409 --> 00:10:28.091 You know, back then she would today probably, because there's a lot of men that don't want any kids. 00:10:32.273 --> 00:10:38.051 So basically he's saying you know you need to mind your momentum. 00:10:38.051 --> 00:10:40.013 You've got some momentum that you don't know about. 00:10:40.013 --> 00:10:41.070 You need to take advantage. 00:10:41.070 --> 00:10:48.832 Don't be like the Houston Texans, dufus and I see, everywhere I look, I look at momentum. 00:10:48.832 --> 00:10:51.754 See, I just football is the common. 00:10:51.754 --> 00:10:58.591 I played football and I knew about momentum when I was a player and you could tell when the other team is on the run. 00:10:58.591 --> 00:11:12.990 You know they're standing around like this and now you better run over them because they're like this, they got their heads down, they're shaking their head like this, and you know that they are at the disadvantage if you'll just seize the moment. 00:11:15.504 --> 00:11:22.692 So I said this this morning, but Houston won the toss and they're on the enemy territory. 00:11:22.692 --> 00:11:28.351 I mean, that's Baltimore man, they're loud and they I mean they're merciless. 00:11:28.351 --> 00:11:36.791 You can't even hear yourself, think in that stadium, and here it is five degrees or something ridiculous so cold you can't even stand it. 00:11:36.791 --> 00:11:39.971 I don't know how they breathe that cold air. 00:11:39.971 --> 00:11:41.549 You know the way they have to breathe it. 00:11:41.549 --> 00:11:43.230 You know they gotta be tough. 00:11:44.504 --> 00:11:49.994 So he won the toss and they chose to receive instead of defer to the second half. 00:11:49.994 --> 00:11:52.533 Usually what they do is they defer to the second half. 00:11:52.533 --> 00:11:53.388 They win the toss. 00:11:53.388 --> 00:12:06.750 They play defense first, because the idea is they're gonna score at the end of the first half, go in the locker room with momentum, come back out in the third quarter and receive that kickoff and score, and I've seen it happen many times. 00:12:06.750 --> 00:12:11.994 And when they go up two scores, well man, the game could be over, especially in the playoffs. 00:12:11.994 --> 00:12:14.350 Well, what did Houston do? 00:12:14.350 --> 00:12:19.191 Well, houston received the you know the kickoff and it was kicked out of bounds. 00:12:19.191 --> 00:12:20.690 So they got it on the 25. 00:12:20.690 --> 00:12:22.489 Now it's first and 10. 00:12:23.365 --> 00:12:28.215 And I fully expected that Slowick, who's the offensive coordinator, calls the plays. 00:12:28.215 --> 00:12:34.234 I fully expected that he would put the ball in the hands of their playmaker, which is CJ Stroud. 00:12:34.234 --> 00:12:36.692 He's been the only reason they're there. 00:12:36.692 --> 00:12:43.594 You may not be keeping up, but I've been keeping up and he's a rookie quarterback and he's amazing. 00:12:43.594 --> 00:12:49.214 He's the most amazing quarterback I've ever seen and I've been watching football a long time. 00:12:49.214 --> 00:12:51.530 He's the best rookie I've ever seen anywhere. 00:12:51.530 --> 00:12:55.993 Forget about my homes and all the rest of them. 00:12:55.993 --> 00:12:58.273 Anybody in Houston there's nobody in Houston's ever. 00:12:58.273 --> 00:13:01.653 Even even the regular quarterbacks don't really measure up. 00:13:01.653 --> 00:13:05.448 The best ones we've ever had never been as good as this kid is as a rookie. 00:13:05.448 --> 00:13:07.434 So what do you want to do? 00:13:07.434 --> 00:13:11.129 Why do you want to not put the ball in his hands for him to make a play? 00:13:11.129 --> 00:13:12.671 He's the reason you got there. 00:13:13.105 --> 00:13:14.270 What does Slowick do? 00:13:14.270 --> 00:13:22.033 He calls a running play up the middle against the number one defense in the NFL and got no yards. 00:13:22.033 --> 00:13:23.649 Now it's second and 10. 00:13:23.649 --> 00:13:26.273 I started screaming at the television. 00:13:26.273 --> 00:13:28.368 That's not the way. 00:13:28.368 --> 00:13:30.234 You're not minding your momentum. 00:13:30.234 --> 00:13:33.111 You got the, you won the toss. 00:13:33.111 --> 00:13:38.173 Now toss the ball and get about 15 yards and shut the crowd up. 00:13:38.173 --> 00:13:40.691 Now they're screaming. 00:13:44.365 --> 00:13:46.332 The next play fades back to pass. 00:13:46.332 --> 00:13:47.167 Nobody's open. 00:13:47.167 --> 00:13:49.914 He runs, which is kind of exciting. 00:13:49.914 --> 00:13:51.629 He's not a big kid. 00:13:51.629 --> 00:13:54.812 He weighs just barely 200 pounds. 00:13:54.812 --> 00:13:57.172 He's not a runner, he's really elusive. 00:13:57.172 --> 00:13:58.768 He's amazing. 00:13:58.768 --> 00:14:05.712 But as a runner you don't want him running up the middle and have a 250 pound linebacker hit him. 00:14:05.712 --> 00:14:07.590 You don't want to do that. 00:14:07.590 --> 00:14:09.030 He's your, he's your goal. 00:14:09.030 --> 00:14:10.370 He's your golden goose. 00:14:10.370 --> 00:14:17.385 You want to kill your golden goose, but he ran for six yards. 00:14:17.446 --> 00:14:23.688 Now it's third and four, and the next play was a pass play in complete three and out. 00:14:23.688 --> 00:14:25.081 There went the momentum. 00:14:25.081 --> 00:14:37.423 They wound up tying the first half 10 to 10, missed a field goal which they missed, a momentum shift. 00:14:37.423 --> 00:14:40.191 If they'd gone in the locker room up 13-10. 00:14:40.191 --> 00:14:42.506 It would have been a different ball game. 00:14:42.506 --> 00:14:45.086 But your picker's been really good all year. 00:14:45.086 --> 00:14:46.009 But that doesn't matter. 00:14:46.009 --> 00:14:47.625 It's what you do right now. 00:14:47.625 --> 00:14:51.148 See, it's what decisions you're making right now. 00:14:51.148 --> 00:14:57.504 I mean, really we've got momentum, let's act like we have the momentum, let's praise God like we have the momentum. 00:14:57.504 --> 00:15:04.788 So they lost and, let's face it, that was a better team, no question. 00:15:04.788 --> 00:15:06.904 But they had the momentum. 00:15:06.904 --> 00:15:12.970 The entire second half we had nothing, we couldn't do anything like we had been doing, which is disappointing. 00:15:12.970 --> 00:15:15.566 So he's saying mind your momentum. 00:15:16.820 --> 00:15:27.945 And so Isaiah's prophecies, first to the Jews, then to us, and really the church has been just like this barren woman before every revival that's been known to happen. 00:15:27.945 --> 00:15:31.447 The church is wheat, the church is ineffective. 00:15:31.447 --> 00:15:33.924 Nobody comes to church much. 00:15:33.924 --> 00:15:37.027 The people that are in church are religious. 00:15:37.027 --> 00:15:43.648 They're not alive with the spirit and that's why God has to bring a revival. 00:15:43.648 --> 00:15:48.410 The revival is for the church and awakening is for the world. 00:15:48.410 --> 00:15:52.070 When the church gets revived, it does its job. 00:15:52.070 --> 00:15:58.352 It goes out and brings people to Jesus because they have miracles, signs and wonders. 00:15:58.352 --> 00:16:01.407 That is the pattern of all revivals that we've had. 00:16:03.700 --> 00:16:26.010 The first great awakening that happened in the 1750s got this country ready for the American Revolution and it got the pastors spiritual enough to be able to hear from God and provide the kind of leadership it took for them to rebel against a king. 00:16:26.010 --> 00:16:29.168 And that started in the churches. 00:16:29.168 --> 00:16:31.466 If they hadn't had that, they wouldn't have done it. 00:16:31.466 --> 00:16:34.926 We'd still be flying the Union Jack. 00:16:34.926 --> 00:16:43.692 The second great awakening that happened was in the 1850s in New York City. 00:16:43.692 --> 00:16:55.402 Of all places, manhattan specifically had a prayer meeting that started with just a handful of people and it grew and grew and grew and grew until it was a major revival In New York. 00:16:55.402 --> 00:17:14.132 It spread all up into the northeast, down the Carolinas and all in the eastern seaboard and before the Civil War, and it basically set the table for the Union to finally end slavery. 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:19.246 You had a political problem. 00:17:19.246 --> 00:17:23.710 You had the southern colonies that inherited slavery from England. 00:17:23.710 --> 00:17:26.567 This is how their economy worked. 00:17:26.567 --> 00:17:28.688 It's how the economy of the whole world worked. 00:17:28.688 --> 00:17:40.351 It wasn't just because Georgia's racist, it's because Georgia grew cotton and the way that that only the way that that worked was you had slaves to pick it. 00:17:40.351 --> 00:17:42.884 I'm just saying that's not. 00:17:42.884 --> 00:17:48.710 It's not racism, it's just the economic system that they inherited from England. 00:17:48.710 --> 00:17:51.364 To change that, how do you change it? 00:17:51.364 --> 00:17:54.204 Who's going to go broke, changing it? 00:17:54.204 --> 00:17:58.988 See, there was no political solution for it. 00:17:58.988 --> 00:18:01.365 You have people that knew it was in. 00:18:01.365 --> 00:18:06.805 More, you had people knew that it was wrong, but they couldn't get off of that and it was worldwide. 00:18:06.805 --> 00:18:08.124 It wasn't just America. 00:18:08.124 --> 00:18:13.430 People are ignorant of history and they are ignorant for the reasons things. 00:18:13.819 --> 00:18:16.308 So when you had a revival, you know that's what it took. 00:18:16.308 --> 00:18:20.912 It took spirituality to say we are going to get rid of this evil thing. 00:18:20.912 --> 00:18:23.167 It's not right to own another human being. 00:18:23.167 --> 00:18:25.226 These people we're selling our. 00:18:25.226 --> 00:18:29.540 We made promises in our constitution that we're, that we are not. 00:18:29.540 --> 00:18:33.068 We said all men are created equal and we're not acting that out. 00:18:33.068 --> 00:18:37.127 Thank God for that revival that happened. 00:18:37.127 --> 00:18:48.826 That's the only reason that the North, the North came close to not winning it and I believe God helped them and a lot of good people on both sides. 00:18:48.826 --> 00:18:53.625 I mean, just because you were in the South, I mean you were racist, it just meant that this was your way of life. 00:18:53.625 --> 00:19:02.105 Now, racism, you know, because of the terrible things that happened in the war and all the bad blood that happened afterwards. 00:19:02.105 --> 00:19:07.351 And you know, I just believe that that caused a horrible racial divide in our country. 00:19:07.351 --> 00:19:15.586 And since we're still trying to get over it, well, it's very common in in in democratic republics when you have these kinds of sys. 00:19:16.929 --> 00:19:23.250 But anyway, getting back to the word, I mean the church is going to be, is going to have to be on the forefront. 00:19:23.250 --> 00:19:31.468 We need a revival in the church before we can have another awakening and this next awakening is going to be the last great awakening. 00:19:31.468 --> 00:19:35.585 So I believe this year is a pivotal year. 00:19:35.585 --> 00:19:42.209 So you know the church was barren before Pentecost. 00:19:42.209 --> 00:19:45.125 You know you had just a small, confined group of people. 00:19:45.125 --> 00:19:52.125 They were afraid of each other, they didn't want to be seen in public and they finally got the Holy Ghost. 00:19:52.125 --> 00:19:59.670 They came out of the upper room speaking in other tongues and now they got all this boldness and 3000 people got saved the very first day. 00:19:59.670 --> 00:20:07.500 And then you had Peter and John going to the temple in the hour of prayer and they got 5000 men saved. 00:20:07.500 --> 00:20:16.008 When the when the paralyzed man was healed, that everybody knew 5000 men went, at least 20,000 people, women and children. 00:20:16.008 --> 00:20:18.469 I mean there must have been 20,000 people get saved. 00:20:18.469 --> 00:20:22.391 So now you got 23,000 people in the church, just like that. 00:20:22.391 --> 00:20:29.292 I mean you know you talk about momentum and it happened real quick. 00:20:29.292 --> 00:20:35.711 Everything old is new again. 00:20:35.711 --> 00:20:38.744 Everything receding is advancing again. 00:20:38.744 --> 00:20:42.076 So it was receding and now it's advancing. 00:20:42.076 --> 00:20:50.765 The Kingdom of God is growing mildly and prevailing in the early church Didn't start out that way. 00:20:51.528 --> 00:20:53.859 I mean it didn't look like it was anything happening. 00:20:53.859 --> 00:20:54.765 Jesus had just been crucified. 00:20:54.765 --> 00:20:57.765 All of His disciples are down in the mouth. 00:20:57.765 --> 00:20:59.744 They're, all you know, sad. 00:20:59.744 --> 00:21:01.765 They're all hopeless. 00:21:01.765 --> 00:21:03.765 They're sitting around and not doing anything. 00:21:03.765 --> 00:21:04.532 I go fishing. 00:21:04.532 --> 00:21:06.913 Peter said I go and go. 00:21:06.913 --> 00:21:08.744 Oh, you know, I'm tired of sitting around here feeling sorry for me. 00:21:08.744 --> 00:21:10.330 Let's go fishing. 00:21:10.330 --> 00:21:16.478 And Jesus had to go out there and get them revved up and give them a big old, huge catch. 00:21:16.478 --> 00:21:20.765 Are y'all with me now Talking about watch your momentum? 00:21:21.185 --> 00:21:27.434 You've got to mind your momentum and so this, all of this, is the same before each revival. 00:21:27.434 --> 00:21:34.769 And so, yeah, you know, god told me 25 years ago, this coming March, the first it'll be. 00:21:34.769 --> 00:21:37.191 25 years ago he said wake up the church. 00:21:37.191 --> 00:21:39.758 The church is asleep. 00:21:39.758 --> 00:21:55.720 I told Oral Roberts in 2004, the church isn't ready for the second coming of Christ, and so I had a general of the faith that was seeing the same thing that I heard five years before. 00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:57.765 So I felt a little because I was the only one saying it. 00:21:57.765 --> 00:22:00.765 Nobody wanted to hear that they needed to wake up. 00:22:00.765 --> 00:22:04.765 I tried to talk to people about it Pastors they didn't hear it. 00:22:04.765 --> 00:22:06.765 My own church didn't want to hear it. 00:22:06.765 --> 00:22:08.150 I had people leave the church. 00:22:08.150 --> 00:22:10.194 They didn't want to hear that they were awake. 00:22:15.231 --> 00:22:19.398 But it's different today. 00:22:19.398 --> 00:22:31.757 We're seeing signs that pastors and churches and church members are awakened and they are getting excited about doing what they're supposed to be doing. 00:22:31.757 --> 00:22:32.788 Are y'all with me now? 00:22:32.788 --> 00:22:43.765 There's a great end time harvest coming and so we have to be watching our momentum. 00:22:43.765 --> 00:22:46.251 We've gotten and see. 00:22:46.251 --> 00:22:50.765 You know, if you're not, you could look at your life and say I don't see any evidence of it. 00:22:50.765 --> 00:22:52.432 What does faith do anyway? 00:22:52.432 --> 00:22:55.933 Faith causes things to be not as though they were. 00:22:57.186 --> 00:22:58.571 God said there's momentum. 00:22:58.571 --> 00:23:00.732 I think he knows more about it. 00:23:00.732 --> 00:23:07.336 See, he's talking to a widow that's barren and he's saying hey, get with the program. 00:23:07.336 --> 00:23:08.357 You've got momentum. 00:23:08.357 --> 00:23:10.868 Are y'all with me now? 00:23:10.868 --> 00:23:14.765 So it's time to quit talking about how bad things are. 00:23:14.765 --> 00:23:17.765 It's time to quit talking about how people are asleep. 00:23:17.765 --> 00:23:22.536 It's time to start talking about the church is waking up. 00:23:22.536 --> 00:23:23.597 Glory to God. 00:23:23.597 --> 00:23:25.309 We've got momentum. 00:23:27.465 --> 00:23:35.759 So in verse one and I'm talking about minding your momentum there's three things I want to give you tonight. 00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:39.454 You can help yourself with your part in it. 00:23:39.454 --> 00:23:41.849 Rejoice, number one. 00:23:41.849 --> 00:23:44.275 Rejoice in expectation of what's coming. 00:23:44.275 --> 00:23:48.161 God has big plans. 00:23:48.161 --> 00:23:48.724 You're part of it. 00:23:48.724 --> 00:23:50.630 That's why you live now. 00:23:50.630 --> 00:23:52.516 You live in the time of the end. 00:23:52.516 --> 00:23:54.852 Just that simple. 00:23:54.852 --> 00:23:59.744 If he didn't have big plans for you, then you'd have been living in a different time. 00:23:59.744 --> 00:24:09.769 But no, you're living right now, when the greatest revival the world has ever seen is about to take place, in the greatest awakening, the greatest influx of souls going to come into the church. 00:24:09.769 --> 00:24:12.093 You're living right now. 00:24:17.330 --> 00:24:18.744 See, no fear, no confusion. 00:24:18.744 --> 00:24:21.933 Prepare for big, forget the failures of the past. 00:24:21.933 --> 00:24:24.330 You're not going to be ashamed. 00:24:24.330 --> 00:24:27.765 Quit meditating on things that didn't work out. 00:24:27.765 --> 00:24:31.295 The woulda, coulda and shoulda of life we all have them. 00:24:31.295 --> 00:24:35.511 I've got more than most the woulda, coulda, and shoulda. 00:24:35.511 --> 00:24:38.765 If I thought about that every day, I wouldn't even come to church. 00:24:38.765 --> 00:24:43.513 I'd just sit at home, twiddle my thumbs, cry. 00:24:43.513 --> 00:24:48.130 I just don't think about it. 00:24:48.130 --> 00:24:49.005 You know. 00:24:49.005 --> 00:24:51.549 I mean you show me somebody who never tried anything. 00:24:51.549 --> 00:24:53.432 I'll show you somebody who never did anything. 00:24:53.432 --> 00:25:01.451 Forget the failures of the past, forget the previous disappointments. 00:25:01.765 --> 00:25:04.965 Greater works, jesus said the works that I, he said. 00:25:04.965 --> 00:25:05.326 You know. 00:25:05.326 --> 00:25:09.765 He said the greater works, the works that I do show you do also. 00:25:09.765 --> 00:25:13.113 And greater works than they show you do because I go to my Father. 00:25:13.113 --> 00:25:17.712 So in every revival the greater works are done. 00:25:17.712 --> 00:25:21.374 People get saved miraculously. 00:25:21.374 --> 00:25:28.491 I mean the worst people in the world come to Jesus, people you'd never believe. 00:25:28.491 --> 00:25:30.769 I mean just like the demonic. 00:25:30.769 --> 00:25:34.176 Who in the world would have ever thought the demonic would come to the Lord? 00:25:34.176 --> 00:25:39.416 No, but he was not on the short list of people that were going to get saved in Jesus' day. 00:25:39.416 --> 00:25:45.954 He's the demonic and yet he came to Jesus and Jesus got him delivered. 00:25:45.954 --> 00:25:51.690 We're going to see that I like 1 Peter 1.8,. 00:25:51.690 --> 00:25:54.436 Rejoice with joy, unspeakable and full of glory. 00:25:54.765 --> 00:25:55.848 We talked about this this morning. 00:25:55.848 --> 00:26:02.453 We've got to have this look on our face Everything old is new again. 00:26:02.453 --> 00:26:04.230 Let's be new creations. 00:26:04.230 --> 00:26:05.313 We've been new creatures. 00:26:05.313 --> 00:26:06.970 That's 2 Corinthians 5.17. 00:26:06.970 --> 00:26:11.012 If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. 00:26:11.012 --> 00:26:12.717 That means continually. 00:26:12.717 --> 00:26:20.761 It's not just you became new when you got saved, you got newer the next day, and newer the next day, and newer the next day. 00:26:20.761 --> 00:26:21.744 And you're new all the time. 00:26:21.744 --> 00:26:24.633 You're constantly being regenerated. 00:26:24.633 --> 00:26:28.626 So we need to act like it, we need to look like it. 00:26:28.626 --> 00:26:35.042 Nobody's attracted to old, they're attracted to new, aren't they All right? 00:26:35.042 --> 00:26:37.519 And so that's our job is to attract the harvest. 00:26:38.730 --> 00:26:43.719 And then he says in verse two lengthen your cords. 00:26:43.719 --> 00:26:49.971 Lengthen your cords so. 00:26:49.971 --> 00:26:54.762 And then in in also, it says strengthen your stakes. 00:26:54.762 --> 00:26:58.340 So there's two things that have to happen when you have a tent. 00:26:58.340 --> 00:27:00.699 He said enlarge the place of your tent. 00:27:00.699 --> 00:27:04.318 Let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitation. 00:27:04.318 --> 00:27:07.203 Spare, not lengthen your cords. 00:27:07.203 --> 00:27:08.089 Strengthen your stakes. 00:27:08.089 --> 00:27:09.276 So what is that talking about? 00:27:09.276 --> 00:27:11.297 So you get ready for more kids. 00:27:11.336 --> 00:27:12.300 You know, you're barren. 00:27:12.300 --> 00:27:18.441 You're thinking well, you know what do I need a nine passenger suburban for? 00:27:18.441 --> 00:27:20.577 I could get by with an electric scooter. 00:27:20.577 --> 00:27:31.156 Why am I making $1,500 a month payments on a nine passenger suburban when I don't have anybody to call around? 00:27:31.156 --> 00:27:38.156 Why do I need a four bedroom, three and a half bath house with a three car garage, and I don't have anybody here but me? 00:27:39.231 --> 00:27:40.250 I'm on a downsides. 00:27:40.250 --> 00:27:44.410 I think I'm going to start looking for me in the efficiency apartment with a Murphy bed. 00:27:44.410 --> 00:27:45.555 You know what a Murphy bed is. 00:27:45.555 --> 00:27:48.690 It's the kind that folds up in the wall and comes down. 00:27:48.690 --> 00:27:51.195 You can, you know. 00:27:51.195 --> 00:27:52.679 You just get the minimum. 00:27:52.679 --> 00:27:53.441 You know I don't. 00:27:53.441 --> 00:27:54.471 I don't need all the way. 00:27:54.471 --> 00:27:55.636 I'm barren. 00:27:55.636 --> 00:27:57.897 I don't have any prospects for getting married. 00:27:57.897 --> 00:27:59.256 I'm going to downsize. 00:27:59.256 --> 00:28:00.212 I'm no. 00:28:00.292 --> 00:28:01.999 He said you need more room. 00:28:01.999 --> 00:28:03.636 You're going to have so many kids. 00:28:03.636 --> 00:28:05.757 They're going to possess the cities. 00:28:05.757 --> 00:28:10.078 You're going to have to have more room. 00:28:10.078 --> 00:28:12.596 See, they weren't thinking right. 00:28:12.596 --> 00:28:16.898 I'm kind of glad we've got a thousand. 00:28:16.898 --> 00:28:19.737 We don't have a thousand seats in here, but we've got a thousand. 00:28:19.737 --> 00:28:21.461 Chairs are stacked up against the wall. 00:28:21.461 --> 00:28:25.781 We took a lot of them out because they didn't show up yet, but they're going to start showing up. 00:28:25.781 --> 00:28:27.256 I'm seeing twice as many people. 00:28:27.256 --> 00:28:29.594 I'm seeing twice as much money. 00:28:29.594 --> 00:28:30.496 Next year, come in. 00:28:30.496 --> 00:28:32.781 I see it. 00:28:32.781 --> 00:28:42.342 So he said lengthen your course. 00:28:42.410 --> 00:28:51.442 So you know, back in the days like let's just talk about brother or Roberts he had a 10,000 seat tent back in the early late forties, early fifties. 00:28:51.442 --> 00:28:53.876 Back then they weren't in the churches. 00:28:53.876 --> 00:28:59.761 The healing revival, the voice of healing revival, was so big the churches couldn't contain it. 00:28:59.761 --> 00:29:08.919 So they had to all get tents and he and Jack Co had 10,000 seaters and others had smaller ones and 5,000, 6,000. 00:29:08.919 --> 00:29:09.972 Man, that's not a huge. 00:29:09.972 --> 00:29:12.358 You ever see a 10,000 seat tent? 00:29:12.358 --> 00:29:13.240 I mean it's huge. 00:29:14.015 --> 00:29:15.930 And so let's just say you're going to make it bigger. 00:29:15.930 --> 00:29:24.825 Let's say you're going to go from 5,000 to 10,000 seats and you've got to go this way and that way. 00:29:24.825 --> 00:29:27.662 Well, you can't just make it bigger in area. 00:29:27.662 --> 00:29:34.773 You've got to go up, you've got to have a taller center pole, because if you don't, the roof is going to be too flat. 00:29:34.773 --> 00:29:49.288 And you've got fabric, you've got whatever canvas or whatever kind of fabric it is, and so if it's too flat and it rains, the weight of that water is going to bring your tent down and if you've got people in it, you're going to have a lot of people hurt. 00:29:50.430 --> 00:29:52.457 You could break the superstructure, all the cables and the wood. 00:29:52.457 --> 00:29:57.869 You know, the center poles were mostly wood back then. 00:29:57.869 --> 00:30:00.282 They didn't have technical. 00:30:00.282 --> 00:30:03.808 You know technology much, it's just old timey. 00:30:03.808 --> 00:30:05.750 And so what did they have to do? 00:30:05.750 --> 00:30:07.048 They had to start the tent. 00:30:07.048 --> 00:30:09.336 And so what did they have to do? 00:30:09.336 --> 00:30:13.701 They had to lengthen the cords and they had to raise the center pole. 00:30:13.701 --> 00:30:31.758 When they raised the center pole, in his case he had one center pole but he had other auxiliary poles, and to connect those you had a rope that had to go all the way down the cords, or the rope all the way down to the tent pegs. 00:30:31.758 --> 00:30:34.097 We'll talk about the tent pegs in a minute. 00:30:34.097 --> 00:30:40.097 But if you're going to get bigger you've got to have more rope, Lengthen your cords. 00:30:41.894 --> 00:30:43.390 What's he saying that to this woman for? 00:30:43.390 --> 00:30:56.430 In other words, basically he's saying you know, everything has to change, you're growing and changing, you're gaining momentum. 00:30:56.430 --> 00:30:58.329 Momentum is what? 00:30:58.329 --> 00:31:01.349