Skip to content Revival Starts Here | Pastor Adam Mesa Oct 26 · 50 min ...more
October 26, 2025 · 50 min · Patria Sermons
...more Show the full description Show less Support this leader Liking this video? Support this ministry.
Support this leader
Liking this video? Support this ministry.
Give
Support this leader Liking this video? Support this ministry.
492K followers
Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
492K followers
0:00 If you don't have a bible, you can open up to the YouVersion bible app or simply follow along this weekend because we're actually gonna launch a new series that's gonna lead us up to our vision Sunday, which is gonna0:11 happen the weekend before thanksgiving where we're gonna share some exciting things that our church across all of our campuses is gonna be doing. We'll also share some updates about a campus that we've been waiting on to0:22 launch Corona as well. So a lot of exciting things that if Patriot is your home church, make sure you put it in your calendar to come and hear about all the things that God is doing in the life of our church. We were0:34 actually gonna do a series starting in November, but our leadership team has really felt in a direction and our preaching team to say, hey, let's let's let's continue to kinda see what God is doing in this season. And0:45 so, this series we kinda changed last minute because we wanted to talk about something called the seeds of revival. The seeds of revival. We're gonna have a conversation over the next few weeks about what does it look0:56 like to prepare your heart for revival. If you were with us the past couple weeks and even before, God's just been moving in very particular ways. Whether it be through pastor John Bevere that1:08 was with us a couple weeks ago and across all of our locations, God moved. Last week here in Rancho and for Pomona, pastor Julian was here and had some moments of a prophetic word. But here's what we1:20 wanna do as a church. Not only do we wanna create space for God to move in revival, but we wanna make sure that we're prepared that when it happens, we have the maturity to recognize it, but also1:32 what do you do with it? Let's just say God moves tomorrow in your life. Let's say God moves tomorrow in your family. Let's say the Lord moves in our church or in our region or within our nation. How do we know1:44 it's something that God's doing, and how can we fan that flame? And so, we're gonna be talking about that over the next few weeks. And here's simply what I wanna do to define what revival is because you may be new to1:55 church and you're thinking to yourself, I don't know that church term. I can You can put together what revival might mean. You're like, oh, does it mean to revive something to bring it back to life? Well, in some ways,2:07 but not really in a biblical sense. In a spiritual sense, here's what revival means. It's an act or instance of reviving. The state of being revived such as a renewed attention or interest2:19 to something. And so, basically in the church, a revival is not that God is doing something particularly new that he's never done in the history of mankind. It's what he's doing in this moment2:31 is he's putting a magnifying glass in a moment and he's saying, hey, I'm having my church pay attention to something that I've done before. I'm having my people pay attention2:42 to something that I've done before. Whether it's been done in the book of Acts, whether it's been seen in the book of Revelation, whether it's been seen in the early church or even in the Old Testament. When you2:53 experience revival, it's God saying, hey, pay attention. I'm gonna renew an interest into the spirit of God and into the gospel of Jesus that's gonna call new people3:05 to me. And on top of that, he may be calling new people to himself, but you and I, you may consider yourself a Christian, but you find yourself God, you're like in a drought. You feel yourself3:16 spiritually dry. What can happen is in a revival, God can also create an awakening where it's almost like you've been sleeping for a little bit and God says, hey, wake up. Time to reprioritize some things.3:28 Time to readdress some things. And I believe that if we as a church, specifically our church, begin to focus on not just revival, but the maturity of what revival does.3:40 Because I would never want God to visit us for 1 weekend, and then we go, wow. Remember that time in 2001 on that 1 Friday where God visited us, and what happened from3:52 there? I don't know. I don't think anyone even goes to church anymore that was there on that day. No. I would I would expect that if God would visit us that as the Bible would say that we would go from glory to glory to4:03 glory, that we would grow in our relationship with God, not just have a visitation from God, but invite others to participate in what's happening, but also get to a place where you and I begin to see4:14 victory and overcome things, and your life becomes a living testimony of the mercy and the goodness of God. That's what revival can do, and that's what revival can bring. And so, we're gonna look at Colossians chapter 1.4:26 So if you have your bible, I'm gonna read a few verses from Colossians chapter 1, specifically in verse 15. I encourage you, if you like homework, just read all of Colossians 1 this weekend if you'd like to or this next4:38 week on your own time. But I'm just gonna read a few verses for us today as we reflect. And so, if you're ready, would you stand for the honor of reading God's word wherever you're at, whatever campus you're at? Here's4:50 what I wanna do. I want us to see this in Colossians chapter 1 verse 15. But before I do for a moment, I'm gonna ask all of you to maybe participate for with me for a moment. Okay? So5:02 wherever you're at, in Alameda, here in Rancho, or in Pomona, I'm gonna ask us to say this out loud together. We're gonna read this out loud together. Okay? But here's what I want us to do. When the apostle Paul wrote5:13 Colossians, specifically Colossians chapter 1 15 and on, what the apostle Paul was doing was he was creating what we would say is an introduction to the king.5:25 So, maybe you've seen it on movies before. Maybe you've seen it on TV. But have you ever seen, like, maybe the king of England, and they come in and they say, oh, the ruler of the 10 kingdoms, the blah blah blah, the5:36 blah blah blah, the duchess of so and so, the dukes of so and so, the blah blah blah blah blah. Back in the day when emperors would walk in the room, they would say, the emperor of over this nation and that nation, and5:46 there were these individuals called heralds that they would call attention to the majesty of the person that was about to enter the room. So, what the apostle Paul does5:58 is he says, you know what? Forget the emperor. Forget Caesar. I'm gonna do my own version of heralding the king of kings and the lord of lords. He says, I'm gonna have my own moment. He6:09 calls it the preeminence of Jesus. And he says, I'm gonna have my own herald because there is no other greater ruler on heaven on earth than king Jesus. And he says, if we6:21 can lift up the name of a celebrity or a ruler or a politician, and everyone can stand your attention, or everyone can stand there and hear their brilliance or their magnificence. Paul says, I can do that6:33 with Jesus. And so, that's what he does with this. Okay? So, if you'd like to follow along with me, you can, but you gotta say it. If you join me wherever you're at, what campus, you gotta say it as if a6:45 herald would say it. Okay? You you can't, like, you can't whisper this. You you gotta you gotta and the we we would say on the streets. Right? Say it with your chest. You gotta say it with your chest6:57 if you say it. Okay? Are you guys ready with me? Alright. 1, 2, 3. The son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.7:09 For in him all things were created. Things in heaven and on earth visible and invisible whether thrones or powers or rulers or7:21 authorities. All things have been created through him and for him. We're not done. He is before all things, and in7:32 him, all things are held together. Come on. Give God some praise today. Go ahead and be seated. He is the son, is the7:44 image of the invisible God. Amen. The firstborn of all creation. In him, all things were created. All things in heaven and earth visible and invisible, whether7:55 thrones, powers, rulers, authorities, all things have been created through him and what? For him. And then he says, he is before all things and in him all things are held8:07 together. Amen. That is a moment and the apostle Paul continues in verses that what he's doing is he's saying, if you have ever met a human or anyone that you felt was worthy of8:19 an introduction, he said, I know someone that's better. And you see, what happens when you and I experience first in our own life a revival of heart, what you and I will do is we will8:30 recognize when Jesus visits us and visits you. You and I will get to a place where we will recognize not only who's in the room, but who abides in your life.8:42 And so there that means when you and I truly have a visitation from God, we no longer go by being impressed by anything on this earth. Right. That you may enjoy things8:53 on this earth. You may celebrate things on this earth. But the reason why the apostle Paul calls this the preeminence of Jesus because what preeminence means is the final9:05 authority or the greatest authority of that thing. So he's saying, listen, Jesus is superior above all things. Here's some9:17 things within our own kind of world and within creation that are just preeminent. It's not preeminent above Jesus, but it would be preeminent preeminent within creation. The first thing9:29 is this for us is the son. The sun is kind of, in a lot of ways, a preeminent authority. Not above Jesus. But, I mean, you remove the sun today, what happens? You and I, we getting9:40 frostbitten in less than 1 millisecond. Says if the you know, scientists have said if the if we if we just went just a just a baby click further away from the sun, we would freeze9:52 to death. Or if the sun just went a little click closer to us, we would burn to death. I mean, that's that's that's pretty powerful. That's kind of a big authority in your10:04 life. Another thing is the ocean. The ocean's 70 percent of earth. You ever been on a ship before, on a cruise before, and you just looked out into the abyss and you thought to yourself, I'm actually afraid10:16 now. I've never really been scared of anything until I've looked at an ocean with no land in sight. And I thought, man, this thing's pretty powerful. And I'm a blip on its radar.10:28 It's a pretty big authority. Other things in our life, Mount Everest, largest mountain on earth. Many people, they try to summit. Many people, they don't live through it because low oxygen, the amount10:39 of work that it takes, it's the largest mountain on earth. It's kind of a big it's kind of a big deal. This 1 may throw you off that you may not know, but the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon10:51 rainforest is responsible for 20 percent of the earth's oxygen. If you got rid of Amazon rainforest right now, immediately 20 percent of our oxygen would be removed throughout the earth,11:04 which means you just climbing up. You you you get tired from 10 flights of stairs. You remove 20 percent of oxygen, 1 step on a stair is gonna get you huffing and puffing. That means these things are When when11:15 you approach it, you're supposed to approach it with care. You're supposed to approach it with respect. Yes. Because you know that this man, this ocean, this thing can take my life.11:27 This Mount Everest, man, if I try to if I just try to tomorrow think that I can summit Mount Everest, I don't I'm not doing its respect. If I thought to myself, oh, I created a rocket ship. I'm gonna11:39 try to fly to the sun. I think I'll be okay. I'm not treating it with its respect. But how many times do we get a visitation of Jesus through the spirit of God, and we don't treat him11:51 as the preeminence of all things? We don't treat him as the final authority. We treat the word of God as an opinion for our life. We treat the worship of God as an12:02 accessory of our life, as an option. We look at a time where we go to worship God as a, well, let me see what else I have going on. And if I don't have enough things going on, then maybe12:14 maybe I'll go spend time with God. And so oftentimes, we don't put the value on Jesus. Here's why I say that. Because if you and I wanna first experience a revival of our heart, first thing we gotta understand12:26 is Jesus is a big deal. What we read in Colossians chapter 1 is he's not just a big deal. He is the deal. And the chief end of man12:38 is not to do good works and good deeds and feed society and do things for society. The chief end of man for you and I, what you and I were created for, I I We can't And it's not a problem12:50 that we say that, but oftentimes, have you ever thought to yourself, oh, I was created to do this. Maybe first time you put a basketball in your hand and you found out you were really good at it, you're like, oh, I might12:59 have been created to do this. Or maybe the first time, say, you're a nurse, the first time you helped someone that was in critical condition, you thought, I was created to do this. Or maybe the first time you had your13:09 children, whether you're a mother or father, you thought to yourself, I was created to do this. But that is not the final thing what you were created for. Right. Right. That that's a calling that God has called you13:21 to. That's a gifting that God has given you. But the final thing, we call it the chief end of man. You remove all those things. You stop being a nurse tomorrow. You you you you're not a13:33 father tomorrow. You're not a mother tomorrow. You're not an athlete tomorrow. You're not a therapist tomorrow. What is your end? Your end is to worship God. That's the chief end of man. You can13:45 remove all things from me, but you cannot remove the worship that I can have with my creator. So therefore, the moment we understand what we were really13:57 created for, we can really start seeing God move in our life. Because God did not create you for an expression of creation. He created you and I that through in all things and by all14:09 things, we would give him worship. So, therefore, whatever your calling is, whatever your career is, whatever your position is, aunt, uncle, grandma, grandfather, father, mother, that is an expression14:21 of what God has called you to do to worship. You worship God through those things. But God created us to worship him, and he's created us to pursue those things. I14:33 just wanna share for a brief moments today some ways that we can move towards revival to see it. Because all we can do is ask God for it. We can't fabricate it. We can't manufacture it. But we can prepare our hearts for14:44 it that if God would show up, we'd be ready. That's right. And I'm gonna share a few movements you and I can take that we could leave here and say, okay. If I wanna see God not only just do a revival in my life, but14:54 maybe in our church, through our region, throughout the world, here's some movements I can take. And I'm gonna close with a couple things that revival is not because it's easy to get caught up with what it's not. And15:06 I'll share about a few of those things. Here's the first movement you and I can do. You and I can do this. Every revival begins with a reintroduction of Jesus. If you15:18 study revivals all throughout church history, the revivals begin with introducing reintroducing to a person, community, or people group who15:30 Jesus is. It's what we just saw in Colossians 1. It's this introduction of who is Jesus. Not just who is Jesus to you. Because you and I could answer. Well, Jesus to me, he's like my15:42 best friend. He's like the person I can talk to when I'm alone, or he's the person that walks with me. Whatever it is. Whatever you could say, oh, who Jesus is to you. But what happens is is when we can say, who's15:53 Jesus? Oh, he's the image of the invisible God. He's the firstborn of all creation. In him and through him, all things have been created, and nothing is created apart from him.16:05 And you and I are created to worship him. That's an introduction to who Jesus is. Not just who Jesus is to you. It's that he died on the cross. For who? For our16:17 sins. He rose 3 days later in complete victory and conquered death. That's who Jesus is. You see, there's been some revivals in history that the world and a16:29 people group were introduced reintroduced to Jesus. They maybe have heard of him. They maybe had once known him, but then they get a reintroduction. In 17 30 to 17 forties, a pastor by the name of Jonathan16:41 Edwards this is called the first great awakening. And what Jonathan Edwards did is he preached a famous sermon because what people were doing were taking advantage of the grace of God. And so he preached a sermon called16:52 sinners in the hand of an angry God. And what happens is, in the middle of his sermon, people were so convicted of their sin, they started running up to Jonathan Edwards on the pulpit, and they said, please, mister17:03 Edwards, we get it. We get it. We're ready to repent. We know who Jesus is. We know what he's done. Please stop the sermon so that we can respond. That's because he introduced17:16 Jesus to a people who had heard of him, but they didn't encounter him. They knew of him. They had a habit of attending church, but they didn't know who Jesus really was. Why? Because he was not preeminent17:28 in their life. He wasn't the final authority in their life. There was a revival called the Welsh revival in 19 o 4. Evan Roberts prayed simply this. He prayed this over and over and over. He said, bend17:40 me, Lord. He said, bend me, Lord. That's a way of saying, God, use me. Use me. Bend me. Make me feel uncomfortable. I'll do whatever you need me to do, God. And what happens17:52 in the Welsh lands when he was preaching, what happens was pubs began to empty, families were reconciled, crime rates dropped. People would walk into town and start weeping without knowing why because Jesus was being18:04 revealed. Amen. They would just imagine just people drive into our cities. Imagine people drive into Rancho, Pomona, Alamee, and they just start weeping because of the presence of God. Because18:16 God inhabits a region. Just imagine someone walks into your home, and they just start being healed. God just starts delivering because of the saturation of your home. Just imagine your workplace. You've said it before.18:28 My workplace is going to hell. Man, these people, they be they they they they're wilding out. They're doing this. They're doing that. Well, what would happen if you and I, through the way that we represented the18:38 character of Jesus Christ, began to infiltrate your workspace. So people walk into your office or your cubicle and they're like, I don't know why, but I just oh,18:50 I got can I talk to you offline? What would happen if you and I would experience and see that? For many of us who have more charismatic Pentecostal roots in 19 o 6, there was a pastor and a preacher,19:02 black man by the name of William Seymour. He started learning about the Pentecostal revival from Acts chapter 2 in Houston, but because he was black, churches didn't schools didn't allow him to sit. And so,19:13 he ended up coming over to Los Angeles, and he created a worship space. And he was known as a humbled 1 eyed preacher, and he kept saying, Jesus saves lives, Jesus sanctifies lives, and Jesus baptizes19:25 us with the holy spirit, and Jesus, please come again. He just kept repeating that. He would get to a place where it was 19 o 6, and so when he was ready to preach, he would stand on a milk19:37 carton as like his pulpit. But what would happen was It's not like modern buildings today or anything like that where there's back rooms where you can pray and have your As a pastor, you can have quiet time with God and19:48 prepare your heart. It it was just it was just an open building. So he before he would stand on the milk carton to preach, he would put the milk carton on his head so that he can have private time with Jesus.20:00 And it was said that he wouldn't take the milk carton off until he knew that God was ready to speak to the people. And it was through his obedience that as he would do that, that God would begin20:12 to visit. And it's really it's where we get Pentecostalism today. It's where we get denominations like Foursquare and Assemblies of God and all these millions upon millions of people. It started in just a a little church20:24 in Los Angeles. And a man who was maybe he was weird, but you're weird. I'm weird. But it started with a few people that were just saying, God, would you visit?20:36 But more than that, it was a focus on Jesus. Amen. Amen. It wasn't a focus on the creator. It wasn't focused on an idea of who God was. It was focused on the image of the invisible God and his name was20:48 Jesus. And this introduction brought people to salvation. Here's the second movement that we see is we see that what happens is when Jesus is reintroduced, what happens21:00 is repentance prepares the room. As Jesus visits, it's not separate from repentance. You may be new to church. You're like, what's repentance? It's turning the21:12 other direction from where you were headed. Alright. It it it it's whatever value we put on sin. It's whatever value we put on creation. It's whatever value we put on things that were contrary21:23 to the identity of God. Contrary to the character of God. And we repent of those things. I just want you to do your own personal exercise either in this21:35 moment or maybe when you go home, but really think to yourself, when was the last time you repented and confessed of sin? When was the last time?21:47 When was the last time either to someone else you repented of sin or to your to God you repented of sin that you said, God, I failed at this. God, my anger got the best21:59 of me. God, my sexuality got the best of me. God. God, my my love for money got the best of me. God. My my my love of food got the best of me. God. You go to a doctor's office and22:11 they say, hey, this is too high because you're not eating healthy. That's the time to repent to the Lord. Say, God, I'm taking advantage of of your mercy that you placed on me. You may think to yourself, no. I don't I22:22 don't like those things. Well, if you want a visitation of the Lord, if you want a revival self, it's not just identifying who Jesus is. It's letting his work on the cross do something to you and I.22:34 Encounter us. And if we say, I don't like that, then you can say that. But Jesus makes it clear for the for those of us that would say, I don't like that. I will never repent of22:45 things. Then Jesus will say he says, then when you see me in heaven, he'll say, I never knew you. Because if you don't repent of anything, then you don't need the cross. Because the cross was for22:57 your sins. And if we never tell God, hey. I am sinful, and you say, no. I'm Lord, I I was birthed into perfection. I am perfect. Everyone else is23:09 wrong. Everyone else is crazy. Everything that I do is fine. Then what happens is then when you encounter Jesus, it's not just about the the the sparkly things. It's recognizing what's the cross for?23:21 What did he need to resurrect for? And what a lot of people have done that have tried to remove the need for repentance of sin is they've tried to say say, oh, well, we didn't need the cross. That was the Jewish people23:33 and the Romans put him to death. Jesus could have accomplished everything he wanted to accomplish without the cross and without resurrection. To accomplish what? To know God? It's not just to know God. It's to worship23:45 God. How do I worship God? It's through a relationship with him. How do I get a relationship with him if I'm sinful and fallen? Then I need to confess that I have fallen short and receive23:56 repentance. Say, God, I need you. Jesus, I receive you. That's what happens. We will begin to see revival is when more of us start confessing and repenting.24:08 When more of us are stop trying to live in a falseness of perfection or a falseness of what's on the outside by saying, I have fallen short of the glory of God, and I desperately need a visitation of God. I desperately24:20 need the spirit's work in my life because I have sinned. So many people come to me, and they're like, I want God so desperately, but the moment I tell you what I've done, you'll say that I can't have God. And I'm like,24:31 there's nothing on the list. Nothing on the list that you could have said that you've done that if you're willing to repent of it, that Jesus can't die for. Amen. You're telling me that when Jesus died on the cross, he24:42 said, I'm gonna be able to cover everyone's sin except for that 1 guy, Luke, in 2025 that did that 1 thing. No. That's not what he did. His24:54 sin or his blood covers all sin. And his forgiveness is available for all of us. It's found in access through him when we we see revival, when we recognize that access is only through25:06 Jesus. Just a couple days ago, I went to pastor Aaron at Erica's house. They were putting a new lock on their door, and pastor Aaron hadn't arrived back at his house yet. And so, Erica was putting the25:18 lock on herself. And got there and I said, hey, let me do it. And so, I installed it. Was like 1 of those smart locks. And so, I installed the door and I came in the kitchen. I said, hey, Erica. It's all ready to go. You25:29 just need to type in the code and and to reset it with your own personal family code. And she says, well, can you just do it for me? And I said, would you do you want me to know the code?25:42 Because I'll roll up on a Tuesday night. I just pull the Doritos out, watch some TV. You live closer to me than the church. I may just be in the pool. You know what? You want to tell me the code?25:54 And she said, come on, Adam. You're family. Of course, you can know the code to our house. And then she gave me the number, and then I went and I went and said it. And so now, because I'm in their family, that's Erica's26:05 view, your family, I have access to their house. And all of us built inside of us is the desire to have access to God. But what you have to do is you gotta say, how do26:17 I join what is what does it mean to join God's family? Because not everybody has access. Everybody has the opportunity to have access, but not everybody has access. So you gotta ask yourself, well, what's the26:29 code? How do I get access to this? Well, it's it's only through Jesus. And so the moment you and I are willing to recognize I need forgiveness of my sins.26:40 God says, here's the access code. Jesus died on the cross for your sins, and he rose 3 days later. When you and I can do that, not just individually, but collectively, I'm telling you, you will experience a move of God26:52 like you've never seen before. It's not about walking in perfection. It's about regularly confessing how we've fallen short of the glory of God. And then what you do is you allow the goodness and mercy of God to cover27:03 your life. But if you never say it, how can you experience God's mercy? How can you experience God's goodness? When my sons come to me, I need them to tell me where they did wrong so that they can27:15 experience my mercy. Because if they don't tell me where they did wrong and either I just keep blessing them knowing that they're doing wrong, well, then they'll just keep covering all the things they do wrong and27:26 they'll just be expecting blessing. But also, what happens if they keep hiding and I keep knowing about it and I don't talk to them about it, that's not a loving father. But when I tell my sons, you could come to me with27:37 anything that you've fallen short on. And if you're asking, if you come to me with honesty, dad dad's gonna show you mercy, show you forgiveness. But if you hide it, if it develops in your character, if you take it out27:48 on someone else, well then now we're hey, judgment is going come. It's got to come. If I'm a good father, it's got to come. I can't see my son take a bat to another kid on the playground and be like, yeah,28:00 well, I didn't like the way that kid looked either, son. You want to get some ice cream? That reveals my character and my son's character. But when I say son, absolutely not. Man, give me that bat.28:12 You you may you're going you're going in a cave for about 2 weeks, and we're gonna have some conversations. But guess what? You're gonna come out of it, and I'm gonna love you through it. Right. Right. So what happens is28:21 there's discipline and mercy. God brings that into our life. That's his love. But here's a third movement that happens is we see that Jesus is the center of all things. So28:33 what happens is if we're introduced to g who Jesus is, either for a reintroduction or first time introduction, and then what happens is God begins to manifest himself to you. Then what happens is we begin to repent and28:44 we say, God, we've fallen short. We need you. Please visit us. I believe in you, Jesus. Then what will happen is we will start to have to reprioritize some things. What will happen is we will28:56 recognize that Jesus has a greater authority in our life of anything. Jesus has a greater authority of your spouse. Jesus has a greater authority of your children.29:08 Jesus has a greater authority of your politics. Jesus has a greater authority of your workplace. Jesus has a greater authority over your friends. He has a greater authority. Yes. Does it mean you can't have those things?29:19 No. But it means that you first lived under submission of his authority. It's first I check with the king on what does he think before I make a29:31 move. And so, I put Jesus in his right place of my life and I put the authority. Here's the fourth thing I'll give you. And then in a few moments, we're gonna talk about what here's some few things that it's29:43 not. The last thing is is when we recognize that our priorities are shifted where Jesus is above all things, the next thing is this is you and I become the introduction of Jesus.29:55 You and I become the herald. And what we read, it means that when we walk into spaces, we are the introduction. That when people encounter us, they should say, hey, there's30:07 something different about you. No. No. No. No. It's it's it's it's No. It's not the cross around your neck. Because if we don't understand how to meet Jesus, then all we will do is make Jesus30:19 an accessory to our life. And it's like taking a nice handbag and putting a key chain cross on it and just saying, Jesus is Jesus is an accessory.30:31 I remember in the in the 2 thousands, there was a great debate because everyone started getting these toys and started getting these t shirts and it would say, Jesus is my homeboy. And then and then there was this, like,30:41 movement that was like, wait, wait, don't just reduce him to your homeboy. He's also your king. He's also your authority. He's also your savior. He's just not the homie. The homies you can30:53 disagree with. The the homies you can quarrel with and not talk to for a year or 2 or 4. But your savior, he's so much more than that. He's not an accessory on the handbag. He's not just a necklace. He's31:05 not a tattoo you get on your arm. He's reduced to those things. He's not something that you do just to receive a blessing. I'm Christian. How am I a Christian? Well, look. Look at the cross that I got31:17 tattooed. Or or look at the t shirt that I'm wearing. That's what makes me a Christian. No. No. What makes me a believer is because when I walk into a room, I introduce everyone to who my savior is by the way that I31:28 walk, by the way that I talk, by the things that I don't participate in, by the things I don't engage in, by the things I don't walk in. Immediately, someone says, hey, can I come tell you about this person? You say,31:40 hey, not me. If you tell me, I'm gonna snitch on you. I don't do gossip. Hey, can I tell you hey, have you seen how good this girl looked in the office? No. No. No. Only person I see is my wife. That's the only person I31:50 see. You married too. Right? Okay. Just wanted to make sure. People will either stop coming to you really fast, but in time with your faithfulness and as the spirit of God would use you,32:02 people will go from a place where they're staying away from you, where they'll walk up to you and say, hey, you got a couple minutes? Because you're the only person who's walked in God's integrity. Yes. You're the only32:12 person that has allowed God to have a revival of your heart. And what can happen is if we walk in that, you can revive a space. You can revive a workplace. You can revive a home. You can because what we're doing is we're32:23 saying, hey. I'm being revived by God. Amen. Because Jesus is my priority. Here's some things with the last few moments that I have of what revival is not32:34 though. And I'm gonna read them right here for a second. I'll come up here on the screen and the team. Here's what revival is not. Revival is not a moment. It's a movement. It revival doesn't happen. You32:46 you you don't just go to 1 service and walk away and go, hey, we're in revival. No. You go in revival through a consistency. And what is a consistency? A consistency of transformation. That's what it32:58 is. You don't judge the moment. You judge the times after the moment. So, if we look at revival is, it's an introduction of Jesus. It's repentance. It's putting Jesus as my number33:10 1. It's walking into a place where I introduce Jesus when I walk in a room. That's how you can begin to judge, is this a moment or is this a movement? Because God can do something in a moment. He can heal people. He can33:21 deliver people. But when something becomes a movement, all of your priorities shift. Your whole heart shifts. Your eyes shift. Your ears shift. Things that you used to listen33:33 to, it becomes feels like nails on a chalkboard. Ways that you used to talk. There was a moment in I mentioned the great Welsh revival. 1 of the things that was incredible that happened was is most of the coal miners,33:45 they would cuss their donkeys out. The donkeys that would carry all the coal out of the caves. Well, when they met Jesus Christ, they had a conviction to no longer cuss. But what happened was is none of the donkeys33:56 listened to him anymore because they didn't know how to move without f bombs in them. And so, happens is through the movement, they had to make a decision. Do we continue to communicate with the donkeys34:08 we used to, or do we just gotta sit sit through an uncomfortable phase where we gotta retrain these donkeys in our new language? And a lot of times what will happen is is you won't see the34:20 plain landing of your faith in people's lives or in the prayers you're asking, and and your mind will start to say, things just seemed easier the way that you used to live. Things just used to come faster in the way that34:31 you used to walk and talk. And and what if you're not careful, what we will prove that God's visitation was just a moment if it doesn't become a movement in our hearts. If it doesn't progress, and if it doesn't34:43 regularly convict us. Here's the second thing. Revival is not about crowds. Did you see how who cares? Right. God can do things in a crowd,34:55 but also the spirit of God in acts 2 fell in a room of hundred and 20 people. Yeah. At the end of the day, that is not a lot of people. Jesus used to preach to crowds of thousands, and when he would walk away,35:07 only 12 would follow. So revival is not just we don't measure it by, did you hear you'll hear it all the time. God's moving because 60000 people went to worship. Yes. 60000 Christians35:19 went to worship. Let me know when 60000 strippers, prostitutes, drug dealers, all these because that's what we'll be getting. And, I'm not devaluing what can happen at a35:31 worship moment, what can happen But, what we'll find ourselves easily reducing what we came together as a family reunion as a moment of revival. We all got issues. We all can always run to the35:43 altar and ask God. Half the time, I don't know what I'm doing as a husband. So I'll go to God and be like, God, help me. But that doesn't mean I'm in revival. That just means I'm just in active regular repentance and35:54 need of my my savior. And so, yeah, in crowds, God can move, but it is not the fruit of a movement. Yeah. And you will find yourself what easily can happen is you can go from a moment of a36:06 packed service where God's moving, and you'll go and you'll see your your your 1 spouse or your roommate or whatever, you'll think, oh, there there there goes the fun. No. You you can still have the fun.36:18 You can have the fun with 1 person, 2 people, 3 people, 4 people. It's not predicated on a crowd. It's predicated on your heart. What heart do you have when you worship God? What encounter are you there36:30 to glorify God? And so it's based off our conviction. That's what happens. And what will happen is God can create a revival in a space when everybody is unified in conviction. It's when we all come to a place where36:42 we're like, oh, we really need the Lord. And then, you will see an atmosphere and a manifestation of God's presence, but it's not just it's not saying, oh, that that that that was the fruit of it. The fruit of it is what36:52 you do when you leave. The fruit of it is how you how you walk when you leave. Not how it felt in a moment. And here's the next thing, the next couple things, and team pastor Julio, you can start running some keys so37:04 that'll make me feel like I need to land the plane faster, and I'll sound more spiritual as well. Revival is not manufactured, it's manifested. You can't manufacture revival.37:16 Keys is just set in an atmosphere. Like, I'm not I'm not like, oh, let's play the keys because when that happens, people will start crying. That's manufactured. Alright. Adding keys is just atmosphere of worship. That's37:27 all that is. It's not trying to manufacture anything. Just preparing our hearts for something. But if you're not cautious, what will happen is is you won't chase the conviction of repentance in Jesus, of37:39 casting your sin aside, trusting in your savior. What will happen is is if you ever experience a move of God in your life, when you want it again, you will try to manufacture the same environment of37:51 what happened that time. And so, you'll hear I hear people all the time, I went to this conference and God moved because this 1 guy stood on 1 leg, and he was standing on and he was doing this, and he was twirling like38:02 this, and this 1 person told a testimony. And if we do that, we will experience what they experienced. You telling me you're trying to manufacture a move of God? You wanna manu38:14 Just imagine, the Pentecostal movement started in 19 o 6. I told you before, William Seymour used to wear the milk carton on his head in order before he went out to preach. And just38:26 imagine, 1 day, I just said, well, that's what we're missing on Sundays. We're not wearing milk cartons on our head because Pentecost happened. The Pentecostal movement in 19 o 6, signs and wonders of38:38 the spirit of God, happened because William Seymour put a milk carton on his head. No. William Seymour, in his heart, said, God, visit us. God, visit us. JesusShow more
Comments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
Comments
Keep it kind. Comments are public.