WEBVTT 00:00:00.462 --> 00:00:06.309 This is Revive All with Oasis City Church Columbus, featuring pastors Bill Themelaras and Adam Stewart 00:00:08.407 --> 00:00:11.856 good morning Good morning So good to see you. 00:00:12.707 --> 00:00:30.341 Look at your neighbor and say,"You look like a firework today." Or you smell like a firework My neighborhood last night, I was like,"What in the world?" I mean, my goodness. 00:00:30.830 --> 00:00:31.710 But it was good. 00:00:31.940 --> 00:00:33.231 Uh, God bless you. 00:00:33.231 --> 00:00:33.790 So glad. 00:00:33.790 --> 00:00:36.560 Happy America 250. 00:00:36.860 --> 00:00:41.100 Uh, that's a pretty impressive thing for our nation to be 250 years old. 00:00:41.460 --> 00:00:48.170 And, um, uh, but first before I say that, um, Pastor Lynn's preaching at North Spring today, so that's really good. 00:00:48.170 --> 00:00:49.140 You'll see her after service. 00:00:49.140 --> 00:00:49.951 She'll be in the lobby. 00:00:50.250 --> 00:01:13.263 Uh, Pastors Adam and Tara are on vacation today, um, so you're stuck with me Now, and I'll be preaching here this week and next week, but just came off the heels of Presence Conference in Pittsburgh, which was just an amazing time, and we had so many, uh, now words, uh, for our ministry, so many now words for what God's doing in the body of Christ. 00:01:13.503 --> 00:01:22.683 One of them, uh, was from a, a, a friend of mine, Bishop Téo Hayashi, who pastors a, a great movement, uh, out of São Paulo, Brazil. 00:01:22.683 --> 00:01:35.362 They have several churches, but they also have almost 400 campus ministries worldwide all over, um, South America, Central America, but over in Europe, uh, the United States, and some in Asia. 00:01:35.722 --> 00:01:39.953 And it's a movement that's hitting college campuses around the world, and, and it's, it's so great. 00:01:39.953 --> 00:02:04.283 But one of the things that Téo said and reminded the church at the conference, um, he spoke on Friday and Sunday morning at Covenant, and he just reminded us of how important it is for the American Church to get it right because like it or not, the rest of the world looks to us, uh, as a model, looks to us about what God is doing, what he is saying in the earth. 00:02:04.513 --> 00:02:41.793 And of course, there's been many amazing moves of God all across the world, um, but, but there's something particular, and he just said, a- and we've heard it before, you know, Papa Joe Ewan from Scotland will, will be here every year, and he'll often say, you know,"If America sneezes, Great Britain gets a cold." You know, a- a- and if you watch, um, the world watches Hollywood, the world watches what happens in New York City, the world watches, you know, what our fashion trends are, what our music trends are, and, and we need the Church of Jesus Christ to have revival so that even in our nation, so we can affect other nations of the earth. 00:02:42.013 --> 00:02:43.223 I mean, that's just straight up. 00:02:43.223 --> 00:02:44.173 So our, our... 00:02:44.212 --> 00:02:45.682 the church needs to get it right. 00:02:45.862 --> 00:02:52.633 And you know, celebrating, uh, this nation, you know, is, is important to recognize you're here for a reason. 00:02:52.633 --> 00:02:53.832 Like it or not, you're here. 00:02:54.122 --> 00:02:57.002 And you know, this nation has a rich history. 00:02:57.002 --> 00:02:59.582 It, it has a difficult history as well. 00:02:59.582 --> 00:03:13.513 I mean, it's filled, started with revolution, filled with faith, agony, bloodshed, greatness, sin, rebellion, moves of God, missionaries deployed from here all across the globe. 00:03:13.703 --> 00:03:23.032 A lot has happened, uh, through the United States these last 250 years, and I wanna talk about some of that today and how we can pray for our nation. 00:03:23.272 --> 00:03:25.353 But what we need is revival. 00:03:25.353 --> 00:03:29.383 Say we need revival But we just don't need revival. 00:03:29.383 --> 00:03:32.562 We need revival that leads to transformation. 00:03:33.742 --> 00:03:39.473 We need revival that leads to transformation that then leads to reformation. 00:03:39.902 --> 00:03:40.163 Say reformation. 00:03:40.163 --> 00:03:40.893 Reformation. 00:03:41.462 --> 00:03:58.703 That's where what happens within the church begins to transform us, transforms our cities, our neighborhoods, and actually brings reformation, godly reformation, to our cities, our states, our government, our federal government, the state government, the school system. 00:03:58.923 --> 00:04:07.782 Uh, uh, that's what true reformation is, holy, just, honorable laws, uh, that, that bless citizens, that care for the poor and needy. 00:04:07.782 --> 00:04:15.983 That's what the church has been doing all along, and I wanna talk to us about moves of God today so that we can be believing God for more. 00:04:16.202 --> 00:04:16.923 Say more. 00:04:18.302 --> 00:04:18.333 More. 00:04:18.562 --> 00:04:30.519 Look with me to the prophet Habakkuk in chapter three, verses one and two This prayer was sung by the prophet Habakkuk. 00:04:30.918 --> 00:04:31.879 He's a singing prophet. 00:04:31.889 --> 00:04:32.668 You didn't know that. 00:04:32.809 --> 00:04:37.218 You know, there are still singing prophets today, but, but there was one back then, Habakkuk. 00:04:37.218 --> 00:04:39.678 He says,"I have heard all about you, Lord. 00:04:39.678 --> 00:04:43.639 I am filled with awe by your amazing works. 00:04:44.178 --> 00:04:51.788 In this time of our deep need, help us again, as you did in years gone by. 00:04:52.259 --> 00:04:58.899 And in your anger, remember your mercy." Man, this is what America needs. 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:08.829 Lord, at this time in our deep need, at this time in our nation's deep need, help us again, as you've done in years gone by. 00:05:09.588 --> 00:05:32.437 In the church of Jesus, in our deep need, our deep need for reformation, our deep need for, to, to extend your kingdom, Lord, help us again, as you have done in years gone by In this version it says this way, in the NIV it says,"A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet." Now, and you see this word, oshigiyonov. 00:05:32.838 --> 00:05:34.598 That's, that's actually a musical term. 00:05:34.658 --> 00:05:40.898 It either refers to the melody of how he was singing this or the musical instrumentation, but that's what it means. 00:05:41.317 --> 00:05:44.418 But it says this:"Lord, I have heard of your fame. 00:05:44.997 --> 00:05:48.478 I stand in awe of your deeds." Oh, isn't that great? 00:05:48.577 --> 00:05:55.557 Some translations say,"I stand in the fear of your name," because we, th- that word awe is fear, having the fear of God. 00:05:56.057 --> 00:05:58.497 And look what he says,"Repeat them in our day. 00:05:59.237 --> 00:06:01.038 In our time make them known. 00:06:01.377 --> 00:06:05.858 In wrath remember mercy." Let's pray. 00:06:05.978 --> 00:06:06.978 Lord, this is our prayer. 00:06:07.298 --> 00:06:08.598 Repeat them in our day. 00:06:09.119 --> 00:06:10.718 In our time make them known. 00:06:10.798 --> 00:06:18.918 Right here, right now, through, through Oasis City Church, Lord, we're praying for, for this, this congregation, this organization. 00:06:19.298 --> 00:06:22.038 Lord, we're praying for all the churches across America. 00:06:22.317 --> 00:06:25.637 Lord, in this time repeat what you've done before in our day. 00:06:26.098 --> 00:06:30.218 Make known your goodness, make known your righteousness, make known your justice. 00:06:30.478 --> 00:06:33.418 And Lord, and even in wrath, Lord, remember mercy. 00:06:33.858 --> 00:06:39.778 Let your mercy be swept across our land and across our churches. 00:06:40.257 --> 00:06:41.278 In Jesus' name. 00:06:42.218 --> 00:06:42.617 Amen. 00:06:43.718 --> 00:06:43.997 Amen. 00:06:44.017 --> 00:06:48.038 Well, I hope you've had, uh, you know, a great weekend, family time. 00:06:48.517 --> 00:06:49.778 Hot dogs, hamburgers, steaks. 00:06:49.798 --> 00:06:50.677 Who has steaks? 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:52.877 Yeah, I'm a steak guy. 00:06:52.918 --> 00:06:54.257 Like, I don't mess... 00:06:54.298 --> 00:06:59.598 You know, we do the hot dogs and the hamburgers and all that, but it's like boneless ribeye, bone-in ribeye. 00:07:00.038 --> 00:07:01.298 Fresh Thyme had a great sale. 00:07:01.557 --> 00:07:02.218 It was nice. 00:07:02.557 --> 00:07:04.377 Prime too, it was prime. 00:07:04.418 --> 00:07:07.658 Not just choice, it was prime ribeye. 00:07:07.697 --> 00:07:09.077 Anyway, start preaching. 00:07:09.139 --> 00:07:26.547 I can have lunch later I wanna talk about some moves of God in our nation, and then how we can learn from that, and again, apply the true idea of revival that leads to transformation, that leads to reformation. 00:07:26.547 --> 00:07:27.716 I'll do some of this quickly. 00:07:28.226 --> 00:07:34.317 Uh, first of all, in the 1730s all the way through the'40s, there was something that you may have learned in history class. 00:07:34.317 --> 00:07:39.057 It was called the First Great Awakening that began to take place in our nation. 00:07:39.057 --> 00:07:43.437 It was the first major revival to sweep across the American colonies. 00:07:43.666 --> 00:07:49.997 So we were just colonial times, and these are colonial times, and so it affect- affected that re- region. 00:07:50.206 --> 00:07:56.716 Um, it was led by figures like Jonathan Edwards, there were others, but also an English evangement- evangelist, George Whitefield. 00:07:57.317 --> 00:08:20.228 They preached at massive outdoor crowds up and down the colonies they would travel And, and this movement of God emphasized personal, uh, conversion, giving your life to Jesus, surrendering to Jesus, and it was a, it was the idea that you can have a direct relationship with the Lord, not just a, a religious ritual by coming to church services. 00:08:20.408 --> 00:08:27.459 And so the First Great Awakening, about a little over 10 years of this move of God, of great preaching in, in the colonies. 00:08:27.468 --> 00:08:45.129 But then, uh, shortly after that, uh, but it took about 50 years, we had r- um, in roughly the n- n- 19 or 1790s into the 1840s, we had the Second Great Awakening, and this became more broader, more geographically dispersed, uh, than the first wave. 00:08:45.359 --> 00:08:47.668 And we started seeing camp meetings. 00:08:47.889 --> 00:08:51.528 Uh, we, we had the Cane Ridge Revival in Kentucky in 1801. 00:08:52.438 --> 00:09:04.828 Thousands of people started gathering, and, and here, in the Second Great Awakening, we started seeing physical manifestations of people having experiences with God, experiences with the Holy Spirit. 00:09:04.989 --> 00:09:09.818 There was shaking, and there was quaking, and there were these emotional expressions. 00:09:09.818 --> 00:09:17.219 We had the great preacher Charles Finney, uh, a- and he, he had new measures, is what he called them, and they shaped modern revivalism. 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:22.158 And, and what Finney's preaching did was, was it wasn't just great preaching. 00:09:22.239 --> 00:09:24.839 People learned so much from what he said that they... 00:09:24.989 --> 00:09:27.078 Social reform began to happen. 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:38.099 They started saying,"Oh, man, we're learning from the Bible about what God cares about the poor and the needy." And so social reform began to take place in this Second Great Awakening. 00:09:38.249 --> 00:09:42.328 We had the rise of the Methodist Church and John Wesley and the fire of God. 00:09:42.328 --> 00:09:45.408 We had, we had a movement called the Circuit Riders. 00:09:45.408 --> 00:09:52.568 These were men and women evangelists who would jump on horseback and ride from town to town, preaching the gospel and having meetings. 00:09:52.568 --> 00:10:01.708 And Francis Asbury was one of the, the great, uh, Circuit Riders of the day, and learning from Wesley's move of the fire of the Holy Spirit. 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:04.958 And then we saw more reformation begin happening. 00:10:05.109 --> 00:10:13.528 Suddenly, uh, uh, you know, um, uh, racism or slavery started looking, uh, uh, like, like the Church started taking a stand against it. 00:10:13.528 --> 00:10:17.538 The abolition movement began to start from the Second Great Awakening. 00:10:17.619 --> 00:10:19.958 The temperance movement began to start. 00:10:19.989 --> 00:10:23.359 Women's rights began to be preached even though they weren't law yet. 00:10:23.499 --> 00:10:41.863 There was something of reformation that took place from not just great preachers, but people hearing the word and saying,"It's not just enough for me to die and go to heaven." Then in the early 1850s all the way up to the 1900s, we had something called the Third Great Awakening. 00:10:41.863 --> 00:10:41.993 The... 00:10:42.173 --> 00:10:46.812 understand how they would, they would describe this, and this was the media describing these things. 00:10:46.812 --> 00:10:49.232 The first great, the second great, now we have the third one. 00:10:49.232 --> 00:10:49.763 You had D.L. 00:10:49.773 --> 00:10:50.202 Moody. 00:10:50.472 --> 00:10:53.562 Uh, we had urban revivalism that started taking place. 00:10:53.643 --> 00:11:14.102 Now instead of just the countrysides and the cornfields, now we had cities being built in this land, and we needed, we realized that we needed ur- the urban, um, cities needed to have revival just as much as all the farmers did and, and all the, you know, the, the cornfield, uh, uh, circuit riding just blowing through the town. 00:11:14.102 --> 00:11:15.802 Now these cities started developing. 00:11:16.003 --> 00:11:27.528 We needed, um, strategic evangelistic strategies for the cities across the nation We saw the businessman's revival in 1857 and'58. 00:11:27.548 --> 00:11:29.739 Finally, businessmen were saying,"You know what? 00:11:29.839 --> 00:11:31.719 We're just not separated from the church. 00:11:31.719 --> 00:11:47.389 We can be part of the church." And a great prayer movement swept across our nation where business, uh, people were saying,"We need the church to pray for us, and we wanna pray for the church, and we wanna pray for our businesses." We had the Holiness movement that be- began to start. 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:49.538 Sanctification is beginning to be preached. 00:11:49.729 --> 00:11:52.759 There's paving the way for what we would call Pentecostalism. 00:11:53.208 --> 00:11:55.208 We had the Social Gospel movement. 00:11:55.438 --> 00:11:57.219 Um, and, and this is where... 00:11:57.318 --> 00:12:02.828 This was really cool because it began to address poverty and injustice in our land. 00:12:03.259 --> 00:12:13.889 The church was standing a- up against poverty, creating systems, creating ways to, to minister to the poor, help them, um, you know, get them employed, help them be no longer poor. 00:12:13.999 --> 00:12:17.328 How does social reform started taking place in our land? 00:12:17.328 --> 00:12:29.219 Because of a move of God And something interesting took place right in the early 1900s, in 1904, because a revival broke out, not in America. 00:12:30.259 --> 00:12:34.278 And God's been moving all across the land for thousands of years of human history. 00:12:35.578 --> 00:12:38.668 But, but in Wales, something took place. 00:12:38.668 --> 00:12:55.866 In this small little nation, part of the, the United Kingdom as we know it The Welsh Revival took place, and this young coal miner named Evan Roberts, who was born again and loved the church and loved preaching, and it's this great story. 00:12:55.907 --> 00:12:58.486 And you can go, um, you can go research it on your own. 00:12:58.547 --> 00:12:59.527 We've talked about it a lot. 00:12:59.586 --> 00:13:05.547 Pastor Lynn has been, um, to Wales before and, and has been in the very church where the revival broke out and started. 00:13:05.917 --> 00:13:07.567 Um, but intercessors were praying. 00:13:07.647 --> 00:13:09.307 They needed a preacher. 00:13:09.366 --> 00:13:10.006 These intercessors... 00:13:10.067 --> 00:13:15.506 See, moves of God, all moves of God, if you study them throughout the earth, they all start with intercessors. 00:13:15.527 --> 00:13:16.746 They don't start with great preachers. 00:13:17.047 --> 00:13:18.486 The great preachers figure it out. 00:13:19.817 --> 00:13:22.927 They're like,"Somebody been praying." And, and the intercessors are like,"We've been praying for you. 00:13:22.986 --> 00:13:23.787 Now go preach. 00:13:23.966 --> 00:13:30.506 Go do your job." And so Evan was one of those guys, young man, and the- God started moving in Wales. 00:13:30.527 --> 00:13:32.986 He started moving, and it wasn't just about one church. 00:13:33.346 --> 00:13:39.787 The churches were packed, and then he would just leave one church service, go across the street to the other church. 00:13:40.067 --> 00:13:41.047 That church was packed. 00:13:41.067 --> 00:13:42.307 He'd preach the same message. 00:13:42.567 --> 00:13:44.846 Then he would go down, and the other church was packed. 00:13:44.947 --> 00:13:49.647 There wasn't enough churches in, in Wales, and he would just travel around. 00:13:49.905 --> 00:13:58.817 Happened for two years, and this revival started doing something because now we had what they, what the writers, the media called it emotional worship. 00:14:00.567 --> 00:14:02.927 Now people started singing in the Spirit. 00:14:03.706 --> 00:14:04.407 Hello, somebody. 00:14:04.447 --> 00:14:06.447 Now people started playing music. 00:14:06.517 --> 00:14:11.027 There were, there was musicianship that started in the church with this revival. 00:14:11.366 --> 00:14:14.307 And, and there were public confessions of faith. 00:14:14.606 --> 00:14:15.126 There, there... 00:14:15.167 --> 00:14:21.006 People on the streets, men and women on the streets were confessing their sin to one another and getting saved. 00:14:21.226 --> 00:14:23.826 It wasn't even about Evan anymore and his message. 00:14:25.687 --> 00:14:28.407 There was dramatic life transformation. 00:14:28.746 --> 00:14:32.567 Communities within the nation were said to be cha- changed. 00:14:32.606 --> 00:14:33.246 You can read this. 00:14:33.287 --> 00:14:34.267 It's been studied. 00:14:34.606 --> 00:14:42.126 Reductions in crime and particularly in drunkenness, bars literally shutting down. 00:14:42.486 --> 00:14:53.535 News of revival spread, spread so quickly, and here was the funny thing about this, th- there was family re- reformation and transformation in the Welsh Revival in Wales at that time in just a matter of a couple of years. 00:14:54.047 --> 00:15:08.586 And what was happening was the dads who were miners and, and field workers who were getting drunk after work and spending their paycheck a- on the bars, and they, their houses were being foreclosed on, a- and their kids were impoverished, and there wasn't enough food. 00:15:08.606 --> 00:15:12.547 What happened was they got saved, they got radically saved. 00:15:12.586 --> 00:15:16.385 They gave up spending all their money at the bar. 00:15:16.427 --> 00:15:17.886 Some of the bars are closing. 00:15:17.927 --> 00:15:20.267 They started now spending money on their family. 00:15:20.537 --> 00:15:22.206 Their children started eating better. 00:15:22.537 --> 00:15:46.924 Their, their marriages were restored, and all of a sudden, families were completely transformed in a matter of a couple years And, and this, this revival would be the first that we would call, like, a media revival, where for the first time, at least we know in church history, this word got to America that this was taking place. 00:15:47.095 --> 00:15:52.595 And it got all throughout Great Britain that there was a move of God and a preacher and, and, and all of these churches being filled. 00:15:52.595 --> 00:16:00.475 And it was not even about a, what church you went to because the, the whole country is now being affected by this move of God. 00:16:01.134 --> 00:16:16.445 And there was a man named Frank Bartleman in Los Angeles, and he was a preacher, but he found out about what was taking place in Wales, and he, he contacted Evan Roberts, and they're said to have multiple conversations and meetings where he was saying,"What if God would do what He's doing in Wales? 00:16:16.445 --> 00:16:18.125 What if He would do it in Los Angeles? 00:16:18.154 --> 00:16:32.955 What if He would do it in California?" Uh, he was so interested, um, in, in, in this movement, and one of the things about, um, uh, uh, Frank was that he, he was, he was interested in documenting what would take place. 00:16:34.475 --> 00:16:39.014 And so there was now a connection with what was taking place in that year. 00:16:39.014 --> 00:16:56.226 The very next year, we- something called the Azusa Street Revival takes place in Los Angeles from the Azusa Street Mission Now this revival started what we would known as modern-day Pentecostalism in our country. 00:16:57.586 --> 00:17:03.025 But, but, but boy did the Azusa Street Revival not make any sense in the natural. 00:17:03.946 --> 00:17:07.247 Because it started by a man named William Seymour. 00:17:08.246 --> 00:17:15.165 A bla- and, and this is not your history lesson, but you have to, you have to grasp some of it, and I don't have time to talk about 12 years of his, his history. 00:17:15.207 --> 00:17:19.705 But William Seymour was, was a Black man who was blind in one eye. 00:17:20.246 --> 00:17:35.146 He actually got smallpox in Cincinnati, and he was blind in one eye and, and he was so hungry to learn about the Holy Spirit that he attended, uh, uh, uh, a Par- a man named Parham, his, his, uh, class on the Holy Spirit. 00:17:35.405 --> 00:17:46.526 But see, this was in the early 1900s, and segregation was very strong, so William as the only Black man who couldn't be in the ch- the Bible class with all the white guys. 00:17:46.705 --> 00:18:02.205 And so instead of being offended that he wasn't allowed to sit in the room and learn about the Holy Spirit, he chose to be unoffended, and he sat outside at his desk, sometimes with the door cracked open and sometimes with the window cracked open, learning about the Holy Spirit. 00:18:03.066 --> 00:18:11.786 Now, the, the terrible part and the ironic part is, Parham, who's teaching, we later find out is a white supremacist. 00:18:12.287 --> 00:18:16.266 Or at least leans that way, had some ties with the KKK. 00:18:16.526 --> 00:18:18.846 You learn all, you don't learn about it then, but you learn. 00:18:19.105 --> 00:18:47.583 So here's a man teaching on the Holy Spirit, not knowing that there's a Black man that, that he doesn't, won't allow in his class, that's about to be the catalyst for the greatest revival at that time in our nation And Bartleman, the writer, remember, who was trying to figure out the Welsh revival, Bartleman writes this statement that became headline news about the Azusa Street Revival. 00:18:47.712 --> 00:18:56.032 Because now we've got, um, William Seymour pastoring a revival that's filled with white people and Black people and Asians. 00:18:56.613 --> 00:19:07.232 'Cause there was a lot of Chinese and Japanese and, and, uh, Southeast Asians that lived in LA at that time, and they, and they were, you know, moving and, and doing all sorts of, you know, construction and labor and such. 00:19:07.343 --> 00:19:17.752 So we had this Black man who's not even allowed to be in the room, who's pastoring not just the move of God, but a, a, a multiracial move of God. 00:19:19.363 --> 00:19:38.957 And Bartleman wrote that at the Azusa Street Revival, that the color lines were washed away by the blood And so, so we see how God has swept across our nation in glorious fashion. 00:19:39.146 --> 00:19:46.487 And, and you know, at, in Azusa Street, you started getting some music and some dancing and s- some, you know, some of the stuff that was happening in Wales. 00:19:46.666 --> 00:19:55.817 Now we had spontaneous singing and praying in tongues and, and singing in tongues, and all of this is taking place, and now the world is starting to write about it. 00:19:55.817 --> 00:19:57.017 They're starting to read about it. 00:19:57.186 --> 00:20:13.721 And it wasn't just, uh, it wasn't just church periodicals talking about this, but Azusa was getting worldwide attention And then after that, we have the mid-20th century revivals. 00:20:13.721 --> 00:20:15.750 We have Youth for Christ that started. 00:20:15.750 --> 00:20:21.961 We have Billy Graham and his era that started, and crusades from the 1940s through the 2000s. 00:20:22.530 --> 00:20:25.671 We had American evangelicalism being birthed. 00:20:25.931 --> 00:20:30.760 We had revival and mass media, uh, trying to figure things out. 00:20:30.830 --> 00:20:38.800 We had the Latter Rain movement, and I've studied this one a lot because, um, some of my, like, faith heroes are in there, and, uh, don't have time to talk all about it. 00:20:38.800 --> 00:20:52.181 But, but in the'40s and'50s, we saw great healing, uh, healing evangelists that started operating their tent meetings around the United States, tens of thousands of people, churches being planted. 00:20:52.320 --> 00:20:53.270 People like John G. 00:20:53.270 --> 00:20:56.461 Lake, and Oral Roberts, and Aimee Semple McPherson, and A. 00:20:56.461 --> 00:20:56.471 A. 00:20:56.471 --> 00:20:56.840 Allen. 00:20:56.840 --> 00:21:01.451 And then b- uh, going into Kath- leading into Kathryn Kuhlman's healing ministry, and T. 00:21:01.451 --> 00:21:01.580 L. 00:21:01.601 --> 00:21:02.201 Osborn. 00:21:02.270 --> 00:21:12.679 Uh, you, you had this great move of God where men and women were leading, were leading churches and leading movements You had the faith movement, Dr. 00:21:12.679 --> 00:21:15.868 Kenneth Hagin, and, and, and Copeland and such. 00:21:15.919 --> 00:21:18.378 He, some of those guys are still around at this point. 00:21:18.378 --> 00:21:25.898 But you had, now faith is being, uh, uh, faith is being infused, um, in not just just a grace message, and you see this taking place. 00:21:25.898 --> 00:21:30.888 And now you see that, that faith is rising up, and you see more healings and such. 00:21:30.888 --> 00:21:35.048 And then you move in the'60s and'70s, and you've got the Jesus people. 00:21:36.568 --> 00:21:37.828 The Jesus movement. 00:21:37.848 --> 00:21:39.878 How many of you were part of the Jesus movement? 00:21:39.878 --> 00:21:41.499 Anybody got saved in the Jesus movement? 00:21:41.808 --> 00:21:42.318 Yeah. 00:21:42.459 --> 00:21:47.118 First service had more of those, by the way, but- North Spring is filled with them. 00:21:47.118 --> 00:21:48.749 You know, no, I'm just, just kidding. 00:21:48.749 --> 00:21:53.459 But, but lotta Jesus people getting saved in the'60s and'70s. 00:21:53.459 --> 00:21:57.808 I was born in'75, so I didn't, you know, I got saved later in the, in the late'80s. 00:21:57.838 --> 00:21:59.739 But, but you had this happening. 00:21:59.739 --> 00:22:00.479 What's happening now? 00:22:00.509 --> 00:22:08.489 Now you've got what is modern day, like now we call it contemporary Christian music, CCM, that whole thing, everything you listen to on the radio. 00:22:08.689 --> 00:22:10.749 Now you've got music taking place. 00:22:10.749 --> 00:22:11.648 Where is it coming from? 00:22:11.778 --> 00:22:16.939 Well, you had all these hippies who believed in free love and, you know, all the music from the'60s. 00:22:16.939 --> 00:22:24.648 And now there's a great move starting in California of people getting saved and baptized, and now they're like,"Well, we need to not have free sex anymore. 00:22:24.648 --> 00:22:28.348 Now we need to love Jesus, we need to love people, and we need to be baptized. 00:22:28.459 --> 00:22:46.924 And oh, we love music, so let's start singing songs for Jesus that we could all sing together." And now we sing so- even songs that we were singing earlier today are, are songs that have been birthed out of a style that said,"Let's get everybody to sing the song So you got this taking place. 00:22:47.105 --> 00:22:49.275 Then you've got the charismatic renewal. 00:22:49.785 --> 00:23:00.065 Of, a- a- and interesting enough, one of the, the m- starts of the charismatic renewal in the'80s, uh,'70s and'80s, was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on a Catholic college called Duquesne University. 00:23:00.515 --> 00:23:06.275 Bishop Joseph Gralington, our bishop, he was one of the leaders and founders of that movement. 00:23:06.785 --> 00:23:16.125 And now you have the Holy Spirit and charismata, who is, who is now not confined to just denominational lines. 00:23:16.315 --> 00:23:26.724 Now the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit, the fivefold ministry, is now functioning in Protestant churches and in Catholic churches and in Orthodox churches. 00:23:28.474 --> 00:23:39.684 And so this charismatic m- movement that's tied to Pentecostalism, but now is saying,"Hey, we love the, the song and the dance and, and we love praise and worship," you know, those whole terms started to be used. 00:23:39.875 --> 00:23:46.365 And now people are prophesying, and people are giving words of knowledge and words of wisdom, and that wasn't really happening before. 00:23:46.464 --> 00:23:56.414 And all of a sudden, it, now it's happening in, on, on Cath- in Catholic churches, to the point where some, uh, the Catholic Church created a denomination called Charismatic Catholics. 00:23:57.085 --> 00:23:58.134 And they're thriving. 00:23:58.144 --> 00:24:01.704 They happen to be headquartered in Pittsburgh still to this day. 00:24:02.974 --> 00:24:04.644 So this move of God, charismatic... 00:24:04.795 --> 00:24:09.234 And then in the mid-'90s we have the Toronto Blessing, the Father's Blessing. 00:24:09.484 --> 00:24:17.174 And, and that was a b- revival that I was particularly a part of and, um, it had my life changed through and so many impact in my life there. 00:24:17.174 --> 00:24:20.394 And you had Brownsville taking place right around that time as well. 00:24:20.394 --> 00:24:28.134 We've had these moves of God, and what we're saying is what the Prophet Habakkuk said,"Lord, we remember what you did before. 00:24:28.384 --> 00:24:44.875 Do it again." Because the world is watching The world is watching, and we, and, and the nations of the earth need to receive what heaven is doing. 00:24:46.224 --> 00:24:50.325 Because when God transforms people, he transforms cities. 00:24:50.325 --> 00:25:03.785 Just a couple years ago was what we called the Asbury Revival on Asbury University in, in 2023, and this weeks-long outpouring of the Holy Spirit from students, not great preachers, not people with microphones. 00:25:03.805 --> 00:25:13.694 From students on a college campus, singing songs with guitars and, and djembes and, and pianos, and just worshiping the Lord around the clock. 00:25:13.694 --> 00:25:20.674 And people from all over the United States and other nations flew in just to sit in the room or just to be outside on the lawn. 00:25:21.625 --> 00:25:26.855 God wants to do it again, Church, and I want Oasis City to be a part of it. 00:25:27.305 --> 00:25:27.335 Yes. 00:25:27.964 --> 00:25:56.596 Whatever he's doing in the earth because God loves the nations One of the, one of the, uh, famous lines that came out of the Welsh Revival in America, uh, especially through intercessors, uh, were four words: Lord, do it here And that was the prayer that ignited the move of God, um, in California. 00:25:57.446 --> 00:25:58.836 Ignite, Lord, do it here. 00:25:58.987 --> 00:26:00.037 Would you just say that? 00:26:02.057 --> 00:26:02.136 Lord, do it here. 00:26:02.136 --> 00:26:02.757 Say it one more time. 00:26:02.757 --> 00:26:03.057 Lord, do it here. 00:26:03.057 --> 00:26:04.396 Lord, do it here. 00:26:04.916 --> 00:26:34.477 In my life, in my family, and in my church, and I wanna talk to us about the importance today, because 2 Chronicles 7, you know the passage, but it's so important in verse 14,"If my people," my people, not the world,"If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, turn from their wicked ways," It's an if then statement. 00:26:34.497 --> 00:26:38.047 If they do this,"I will hear from heaven. 00:26:38.656 --> 00:27:02.634 I will forgive their sins and I will restore their land." See, God is so much More deeply interested in other things besides your personal salvation Your personal salvation is not the end all. 00:27:03.334 --> 00:27:05.854 I get saved, forgiven of my sins, I die, I go to heaven. 00:27:06.074 --> 00:27:07.035 Yeah, that's awesome. 00:27:07.535 --> 00:27:09.394 That's not the end, that's the beginning. 00:27:11.314 --> 00:27:20.314 Because God says,"I'll forgive their sin, and I'll heal their land." God has always been interested in the land. 00:27:20.913 --> 00:27:24.334 He told Joshua,"Moses is dead. 00:27:24.814 --> 00:27:26.535 I need, the people need a new leader. 00:27:26.795 --> 00:27:27.473 That's you. 00:27:28.233 --> 00:27:39.473 I'm not asking if you want it." He says,"Now, go, and wherever your land- your feet touch, that land I give to you." God's always about the land. 00:27:40.413 --> 00:27:44.773 So it's not enough for you, Oasis City, to get saved and go to heaven. 00:27:45.453 --> 00:27:48.493 You need to extend the Kingdom of God in the land. 00:27:49.413 --> 00:27:51.973 The land is where you live, the land is your business. 00:27:52.535 --> 00:27:53.453 That's your field. 00:27:53.535 --> 00:27:56.074 The Book of Deuteronomy talks about the Lord's blessing on your field. 00:27:56.114 --> 00:27:56.953 That's your business. 00:27:57.193 --> 00:28:03.555 If you're a businessperson, God wants your land, your business, to be fruitful, to be blessed, but to be an extension of his kingdom. 00:28:03.753 --> 00:28:10.295 He wants to heal it God loves the land. 00:28:10.295 --> 00:28:16.134 See, God loves nations Nations are his idea. 00:28:17.275 --> 00:28:20.984 I could prove it to you over a dozen ways, even more than that in the scripture. 00:28:21.484 --> 00:28:23.515 God created nations. 00:28:24.365 --> 00:28:26.265 He creates boundaries. 00:28:27.954 --> 00:28:31.954 He created multiple languages, allowed it to happen. 00:28:32.214 --> 00:28:43.194 He, He Jesus is, the scripture says, Jesus is the desired of the nations, not the desired of just one people group. 00:28:44.444 --> 00:28:45.444 Look around the room. 00:28:45.444 --> 00:28:50.714 There are people that are different skin colors than you, different eyes, different shapes, different facial structures. 00:28:50.785 --> 00:28:54.125 The nations are represented be- God loves the nations. 00:28:54.125 --> 00:28:56.795 He just doesn't pick one over, uh, others. 00:28:56.795 --> 00:29:02.785 Of course, He loves Israel, but then we're grafted in the vine, and the Gentiles got in on the party, praise the Lord. 00:29:02.785 --> 00:29:15.563 That's why you're here right now But y- you know, and I'll probably get flack for this, but, like, God's not into, like, one world governments and one world currencies and all that stuff, and I'm not trying to get political. 00:29:15.563 --> 00:29:19.742 I'm just telling you that, that there are nations that need to be saved. 00:29:19.752 --> 00:29:21.323 That's what the scripture says. 00:29:22.502 --> 00:29:26.343 You know, oh, Bill, you're online right now. 00:29:26.383 --> 00:29:27.383 You guys are watching me. 00:29:27.623 --> 00:29:33.143 But, like, borders are something God talks about. 00:29:33.742 --> 00:29:39.732 He talks about walls, building walls, tearing walls down, t- languages. 00:29:40.032 --> 00:29:49.454 You think I'm talking about immigration Some of you, some of you think I'm talking about a wall between us and Mexico. 00:29:49.865 --> 00:29:50.795 I'm not talking about that. 00:29:51.144 --> 00:29:54.184 But I'm not saying that God's never put a wall up between the nation. 00:29:54.724 --> 00:29:59.805 He had Nehemiah build a wall for a long time, restore a wall that was torn down from the temple, and that regulated a lot. 00:29:59.934 --> 00:30:08.336 He had Jericho's walls come down Even Jesus' day, Jerusalem had walls. 00:30:08.997 --> 00:30:11.096 You had to go through the camel through the eye of a needle. 00:30:11.096 --> 00:30:11.356 Why? 00:30:11.356 --> 00:30:21.825 Because there was a gate that you had to strip the camel down and get under, get through, because there was protection that was needed to be there God loves nations. 00:30:22.365 --> 00:30:24.305 He wants nations to be saved. 00:30:24.444 --> 00:30:30.714 He wants to look and say,"That nation, that nation, this nation, this nation is filled with righteousness." You'll see why at the end. 00:30:31.545 --> 00:30:58.032 Some of you aren't convinced But true revival begins in our heart, it restores our home, it transforms our community, and it impacts the nations Revival begins with personal transformation Revival begins with personal transformation. 00:30:58.032 --> 00:30:58.673 Romans 12. 00:30:59.752 --> 00:31:16.593 You know one of my favorite passages, I preach it all the time and quote it, but in this version it says,"Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. 00:31:17.522 --> 00:31:28.093 Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect." Change the way you think, that's the root definition of the word repentance. 00:31:29.722 --> 00:31:33.272 In order to repent, we change the way we think. 00:31:33.952 --> 00:31:50.189 And God says,"Don't copy the world's custom, don't copy the world's culture, but let God transform you into something new." Say it's personal transformation See, God personally does this. 00:31:50.189 --> 00:31:54.298 And so revival is not just about attending a powerful service. 00:31:54.449 --> 00:31:57.308 Revival is about personal transformation. 00:31:57.519 --> 00:31:59.169 It's gotta start somewhere. 00:31:59.638 --> 00:32:10.247 In order for God to move through you, he has to first change you He doesn't send revival so we can feel something. 00:32:10.616 --> 00:32:13.626 He sends revival so we can become something. 00:32:14.807 --> 00:32:16.666 And trust me, I love the feelings. 00:32:16.936 --> 00:32:21.656 I love the, the feeling when I pray for people, uh, and the fire of God is on them. 00:32:21.656 --> 00:32:28.126 I love the feeling of when my hands feel like they have anointing oil on them already, and I didn't put it on. 00:32:28.277 --> 00:32:32.047 You know, and it happens from time to time, and, and I, I love the feelings. 00:32:32.047 --> 00:32:33.457 I love the stirring. 00:32:33.626 --> 00:32:35.257 I love the running around. 00:32:35.257 --> 00:32:36.257 I love the shouting. 00:32:36.257 --> 00:32:55.393 I, I love all of that, but if we're not becoming something from that, then that's just an experience Because the first place of revival is not just the church altar. 00:32:56.333 --> 00:33:08.095 It's your living room And it transforms you, and then we have to recognize that family transformation is needed. 00:33:09.664 --> 00:33:12.914 Personal transformation must reach the family. 00:33:12.914 --> 00:33:13.855 Say,"The family." The family. 00:33:14.785 --> 00:33:21.335 In Joshua verse 24 says,"So fear the Lord and serve Him wholeheartedly. 00:33:21.335 --> 00:33:23.595 Put away forever the idols of your ancestors. 00:33:23.805 --> 00:33:26.845 They worship, they live beyond the Euphrates, the river in Egypt. 00:33:27.134 --> 00:33:29.204 Serve the Lord alone." Say that. 00:33:29.484 --> 00:33:31.005 "Serve the Lord alone. 00:33:31.585 --> 00:33:36.355 But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose today who you will serve. 00:33:37.125 --> 00:33:39.944 Will you prefer gods of your ancestors served before the Euphrates? 00:33:40.095 --> 00:33:43.744 Will you be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live? 00:33:44.444 --> 00:33:54.394 But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord." See, personal transformation, it starts with you, but then it must go to your family. 00:33:55.914 --> 00:33:57.305 And this is Joshua, and I love it. 00:33:57.394 --> 00:34:00.075 He doesn't say, like,"Hey, think about this for a minute. 00:34:00.214 --> 00:34:05.115 Email me back in a couple weeks after you've made your decision." He says,"Today. 00:34:06.224 --> 00:34:10.025 Serve today those gods or the Lord. 00:34:11.614 --> 00:34:14.025 If you choose those gods, choose it today. 00:34:14.045 --> 00:34:27.844 Make your choice." He says this,"But as for me and my family, we're on the Lord's side." So your personal transformation, your born-again experience must reach your family. 00:34:28.864 --> 00:34:30.385 Everybody's got a family. 00:34:30.494 --> 00:34:31.764 You came from somebody. 00:34:32.925 --> 00:34:34.675 You may not who- th- know who they are. 00:34:34.675 --> 00:34:45.592 You may not like them And, and, and you have someone in your workplace or someone in your church or someone in, you know, around you, even if you're a single person, you're like,"Man, I don't got no siblings. 00:34:45.592 --> 00:34:57.483 I don't know who my parents are." You've got, you've got people around you that need to be impacted by the transformation in your personal life because after all, we're all the family of God. 00:34:57.793 --> 00:35:00.213 We're all brothers and sisters in Christ. 00:35:00.512 --> 00:35:02.733 We're all adopted as sons and daughters. 00:35:02.733 --> 00:35:20.396 You got family if you know Jesus Family transformation impacts the city So once it goes from you, then it goes to your family, now it goes to your neighbors. 00:35:21.226 --> 00:35:22.927 It makes an impact on your community. 00:35:23.597 --> 00:35:25.947 It makes an impact on the city that you live in. 00:35:25.947 --> 00:35:29.777 Jesus spoke about it in Matthew chapter 5 in this famous passage. 00:35:30.206 --> 00:35:33.447 He says,"You are the light of the world, like a city." Like a what? 00:35:34.047 --> 00:35:37.146 "You're a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. 00:35:37.376 --> 00:35:40.666 No one let, lights up a lamp and then puts it under a basket. 00:35:40.666 --> 00:35:46.626 Instead, the lamp is placed on a stand where it gives light to everyone in the house." Watch, the house. 00:35:47.217 --> 00:35:59.527 "In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see so that everyone will praise your Heavenly Father." It's, it impacts a city. 00:36:00.697 --> 00:36:04.836 He's talking not to individuals, He's talking to all of His followers, all of His disciples. 00:36:04.987 --> 00:36:09.117 He's saying you, plural, this is second person plural, you are the light of the world. 00:36:10.237 --> 00:36:15.297 The Church is the light of the world, a city on a hill. 00:36:15.737 --> 00:36:22.896 And here's what I love, He says,"Let your good deeds shine." Now after all, you're light, you should shine. 00:36:23.737 --> 00:36:25.476 Let your good deeds shine. 00:36:26.137 --> 00:36:31.436 I'm glad He didn't just put a period there because that could lead to a lot of ego. 00:36:32.927 --> 00:36:36.717 'Cause now I can compare your good deeds to my good deeds. 00:36:37.606 --> 00:36:38.936 I do more good deeds. 00:36:38.936 --> 00:36:41.777 You know, Jesus told it to shine, so everybody should see my good deeds, right? 00:36:41.777 --> 00:36:42.806 Yeah, He says shine. 00:36:42.916 --> 00:36:45.166 He doesn't say hide the good deeds. 00:36:45.717 --> 00:36:48.407 But watch, why does He say shine? 00:36:49.617 --> 00:36:54.527 So that praise can be given to our Heavenly Father. 00:36:55.976 --> 00:37:00.206 So when somebody thanks you for your good deed, that's okay,'cause you're shining. 00:37:00.467 --> 00:37:17.719 But now your response is,"Oh yes, I do that because of God." Give glory to God, because if it wasn't for God, these good deeds wouldn't be getting done And now your good deeds and my good deeds aren't in competition. 00:37:17.869 --> 00:37:20.268 They're serving the same goal and the same purpose. 00:37:20.278 --> 00:37:25.568 So whether you touch five people and you touch 25 people, it's all giving glory to God. 00:37:26.028 --> 00:37:30.119 It's not about com- com- comparing one another anymore. 00:37:30.918 --> 00:37:33.478 And this is what I loved about the Welsh revival. 00:37:33.889 --> 00:37:40.579 The communities began to change, businesses changed, work ethics changed, public life changed. 00:37:40.998 --> 00:37:43.199 It wasn't just about a church service anymore. 00:37:43.318 --> 00:37:46.048 It was about a broken nation being healed. 00:37:47.659 --> 00:38:17.114 And this shows that a city on a hill, the people of God, can truly impact an entire region Because city transformation can shift a nation City transformation can shift a nation Look at this passage in Proverbs 14. 00:38:19.045 --> 00:38:41.650 "Godliness makes a nation great, but sin is a disgrace to any people." True See, this is why God loves the nations, and this is why he wants his people in every nation, because godliness makes a nation great. 00:38:42.411 --> 00:38:43.121 It's godliness. 00:38:44.871 --> 00:38:47.911 And sin is a disgrace to any nation. 00:38:48.831 --> 00:39:00.190 So when, when the Father's looking for nations, and he's looking for revival and great awakenings to sweep the land, and, and blessings and renewal and revival, he wants to look and say,"Look, there's godliness in that nation. 00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:02.451 That nation is great in my kingdom. 00:39:02.771 --> 00:39:13.971 Look, there's so much sin in that nation, it's a disgrace to anyone who lives there." But see, and that's the dichotomy between us, because America has so many great things, but it has sin as well in the land. 00:39:13.971 --> 00:39:19.340 And, and according to Genesis, the land still cries out for innocent blood that's shed. 00:39:20.380 --> 00:39:22.840 And so that's why the church has to stand in the gap. 00:39:23.380 --> 00:39:24.510 That's why we pray. 00:39:24.541 --> 00:39:25.751 That's why we ask forgiveness. 00:39:25.751 --> 00:39:31.061 That's why we redeem the land, because God's,"I will heal their land. 00:39:31.300 --> 00:40:06.300 I will restore their land." God wants to use you, Church, for part of his greater purpose of the nations I'm preaching louder than you're shouting He loves the nations Jesus is the desire to the nations. 00:40:06.510 --> 00:40:07.690 God, you know what God did? 00:40:07.721 --> 00:40:08.820 He posed a question. 00:40:09.340 --> 00:40:28.842 He said,"Can a nation be saved in a day?" And he never answered'Cause I think he's waiting for his people to prove him right And theologians could look at the finished work of the cross and say,"Yes, a nation was saved in the day on what Jesus did." But guess what? 00:40:28.842 --> 00:40:38.429 There are nations right now that aren't saved But a nation is saved in a day, not just from a sovereign move of God, because He didn't create robots. 00:40:39.869 --> 00:40:40.559 He could have. 00:40:42.418 --> 00:40:50.789