Lukewarmness

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I had a pastor friend that um uh was during the time when there were some revivals that were going on um in this country and some other places, uh especially in the area of higher education and the in the um uh uh you know the colleges uh and even in the seminaries and stuff, they were going on. In fact, some of the things that we're seeing today of what's taken place in the schools and stuff is is due to the fact of those revivals that took place. But I had a pastor friend that was doing uh a little video and that, and I remember that he um he wasn't necessarily agreeing with uh with with these revivals that was going on. And I remember he got on there and I remember what he said, he said, um he said, so we need to discuss what is even revival, what is revival, you know, and it's understanding that you know it's not a matter that we've got to trust God and and we walk in God. So if we don't understand it in the flesh, then it isn't true, or if our church isn't involved in it, or if our denomination isn't involved in it, or you know, if it's of a different faith, even, or if it's of a different people. I remember a uh uh a different preacher uh talking about a revival that took place um down in Texas some years back, and um I remember what he said. He said, You know, I can tell you that this is not of God. He said, How can I tell you that it's not this was his very words. He said, How can I tell you it's not of God? He says, look at look at the guy who's preaching it. He said he's got tattoos all over his body. I thought, my goodness, do you know what you're saying? You're saying is somebody who gets tattoos, God can never move, God can never use them, God can never move in their life. I I guess maybe you're even saying they can't be saved. And uh and so why? Why do they do that? They do that because their church or their denomination is not involved in it. So they've got to come up with some rationale, you know, they've got to come up with some excuse for why they are not um uh involved in this moving of God. Well, why isn't God moving here? Or why isn't God moving among you or whatever? Instead of just being happy and content that God is moving somewhere and people are getting saved, people are getting healed, people are getting filled with the spirit, and that's not that's that's not where they're at. We those lukewarm Christians, the Bible says that he stands at the door and knocks. He's knocking and he's waiting, and he's waiting for them to wake up and to come out of this lukewarmness, this worldliness that it that they've mixed with the gospel, and it's a gospel that's been watered down with the things of the world. It was time is short, and we need to be about our Father's business now. God bless you on your journey.