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Dr. Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative and author of over 100 books, booklets and Bible studies.
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0:00 Our nation is in trouble. We're in this crisis because of sin. It's become national in scope. God told Ezekiel0:12 in chapter 37, Come here, boy. I want you to go down that valley and I want you to look at those dry bones. The0:24 hand of the Lord was upon me, verse 1 says, and brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley of bones. He caused me to0:36 pass around them to check it out and behold, there were many on the surface of the valley and low, they weren't just dry. He says, they were very dry. Now the question0:47 is, what are dry bones? Verse 11 tells you, he said to me, son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel.1:00 Behold, they say our bones are dried up and our hope has perished. And we are completely cut off. He1:12 says, dry bones was the whole nation of Israel in a hopeless situation. That's dry bones. They were very dry, he tells us, because they had been1:24 there in that place a long time. Dry bones is being in a situation where you don't see a way out. It is being in a scenario of1:36 major collapse and you wanna know how in the world is this gonna get fixed. Yeah. Dry bones is where your situation and in the case1:48 of Israel, their national situation was in major collapse and calamity. It was where stagnation had occurred.1:59 Dash dreams and hopes, barrenness, desolation, and there was no hope. You2:11 know you and we are in this low place called a valley. A valley is a low place. We're in this low place called2:23 a dry place, a place of dry bones when you have to look up to see bottom, when there are no ready apparent answers2:35 to your dilemma, and where you live life in crisis mode. That was the valley of dry bones. These people weren't physically dead, they2:47 weren't Israel was still a physical nation, but he calls them a valley of dry bones because they were in a helpless, hopeless situation.2:59 Historically, they were now living in Babylon, they had been taken captive by the Babylonians and he makes the statement at the end of verse 11, and we are3:11 completely cut off. In other words, they had been completely cut off from fellowship with God3:22 because of their rebellion against God. Look at chapter 36 verse 25, then I will sprinkle you clean with water and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all of your filthiness and all of your idols. Remember,3:34 I said that there's a correlation in the Bible between rebellion, evil, and sin, and idolatry. He says, your evil, your filthiness connected to your idolatry. That you have either replaced3:46 me with other gods or bring other gods alongside of me, therefore, diminishing me. He says, you need to be, verse 29, delivered from your uncleanness.3:59 So what happened was at the bottom was sin and that sin worked itself out in society because now they are captive in a place called Babylon. How bad4:11 was the situation? Verse 3. He said to me, son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, oh lord god, you know. He said, this this4:23 thing was so bad. This situation was so graphically grotesque that god asked me, son of man, prophet, can these bones live again?4:35 And the prophet said, I don't know. You know. Because I don't see a human answer to this. I can't answer. Can these bones live again? Because4:47 there is no solution I can come up with to fix. You ever been in a situation without an answer? That's called the valley of dry bones. It's a situation with no4:59 solution, and we are cut off. What people do not understand is that your situation in5:11 life, your zitzenleben, your circumstances are tied to your spiritual foundation. And so we are scrambling to find an answer5:23 because we never connected our spiritual situation to our social dilemma. But this is not uncommon, the failure of people to connect their5:35 spiritual dilemma, their rebellion, their sin, their evil, their wickedness to their personal circumstances. They just think I'm having a bad day, month,5:47 week, or year, or life. He says, son of man, let me show you this valley. This hopeless situation that this whole nation is facing5:58 right now, they have been cut off. They have been disconnected with me and from me. And now chaos rules6:12 these bones. You know what's bad when you're in a valley of dry bone and it says it's the whole nation? It's not only it's everybody in the valley messed up, but nobody in the valley can help anybody else out because6:24 they're as messed up as everybody else is. It says the whole valley was full of dry bones. It's hard to give hope if you don't have any. It's hard to give help if you are helpless.6:38 That's the problem. Nobody can help anybody else because it says the whole nation was dried up. Interesting. This nation, Israel, that was dried up, that was hopeless, that was in this6:51 messed up situation because of spiritual rebellion still had religion. See, they still had religion. They didn't they didn't give up their religion, but their religion wasn't working. They were7:03 dried up. They were in a hopeless situation. Ain't it amazing in America? We got more Christian bookstores than you could ever go to, more Christian books than you could7:15 ever read, more Christian television that you could ever look at, more Christian radio than you can ever listen to. You got church services on Sunday. You got church services on Wednesday. You got special events.7:27 And we still dried up. We still messed up. We still seem so hopeless. That was a valley.7:41 You remember before seat belts how close a lady would sit to a guy in the car before the seat belt lost? Remember that? She'd be sitting so far under him, you think only 1 person was in the car because because she'd be7:52 up under him. You always knew when you saw a lady sitting up on the guy, either they were recently married or still not married. Because the longer they were married, the8:04 closer she got to her side of the car. Distance had set in because intimacy had been lost.8:16 And so relationally, they were cut off. Even though there was this legal tie, there was not the relational closeness and it manifested itself in8:29 separation. Israel still had the form of religion, but the relationship was gone and they were cut off. The intimacy was gone and they were separated8:40 and so there was national collapse because of spiritual distance. I've told you before, Pluto is frigid and8:52 cold because it's so far away from the sun. Mercury is blazing red hot because it's so close to the sun. Proximity determines temperature.9:06 Because Pluto is way out there, it's cold. Because Mercury is way in there, it's on fire. We live on earth where it's hot and cold.9:19 Seasonal religion. Just depends on what season I'm in right now. Depends on how my stuff is turning.9:31 He says, son of man, look at the situation in Israel and tell me what you see. Dry bones. How bad is it? God, only you can fix this. If this is ever going to get9:43 fixed. 9 11, everybody went to church. President went to church. Congress went to church. Christians went to church. Sinners went to church. Devil went to9:55 church. Everybody went to church in 9 11 because because 9 11 was just horrific. And and the question was, how we gonna deal with this? Maybe nobody has made the connection that what we10:07 are seeing societally, in terrorism, in weather, in economics is dry bones. That is the spiritual10:19 situation has created the natural or nature circumstances and economic circumstances. Maybe the problem is theological and spiritual and not social10:31 economic or simply weather related. Why does he call the prophet? He calls the prophet so that the spiritual could be10:42 understood as the basis of all the other stuff they were going through. He's in a valley of dry bones, a disconnected, hopeless10:54 situation that seems to have no answer. Only God knows how we got in and how we gonna get out of this mess. In the middle of11:05 this chaos, God has reminded the prophet Ezekiel about a promise he made. God had made a promise to his people and11:17 that promise is stated in chapter 36 verse 24. I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands, and bring you into your own land.11:29 Talking about Israel in the old testament. He had made a promise. In spite of the fact that I'm gonna spank you for disobedience, there will come a day when I'm a bring you back home.11:44 1 of the greatest events in modern history was May 19 48. That's 1 of the greatest events in modern history. 1 of the greatest events in your lifetime, in my lifetime was May11:56 19 48. Because in May of 19 48, Israel became a nation. That's happened in May 19 48. Israel became a nation. Now, that has never12:07 happened before in the history of mankind where a nation stopped being a nation, came back to be a nation while retaining its language.12:19 That hadn't happened before. But God told them, I am going to bring you back, although I'm gonna scatter you Jews all over the world, there will come a day when I will bring you12:31 back in preparation for a revival of the nation Israel. And I will keep my word. I will keep my word.12:43 It's gonna take a minute, but I'm a keep my word. He says, I promise that there will be a resurrection. I promise, if you will, there will12:55 be a revival. Can these bones live again? Only if I make them. Let me put it another way. I'm a keep them where they are until they get tired of13:06 being there and realize that I'm the only 1 who can get them out because I'm the 1 who got them in. Okay. Let let me put it13:18 another way. If God is your problem, it doesn't matter whether you're a republican or democrat. If God is your problem, it doesn't matter whether you have a democratic13:30 congress or republican congress. If God is your problem, it doesn't matter what social principles you put in place. If God is your problem, when you think you got it13:42 fixed by your own strategy, he gonna jack it up another way. Because if God is your problem, then he wants you to understand that only God13:54 is your solution, which is why he says at the end of verse 6, and you will know that I am God. That's why he says at the end of verse 14, then you will know that I, the14:05 lord, have spoken and done it. He says that I'm gonna change it, but I'm gonna change it. So dry bones coming up with a program to be undry14:20 Ain't gonna work. Dry bones trying to come up with something that's gonna change your situation, that's not gonna work. So old man of god, old prophet,14:32 I'm sending you there. We got bad news. It's a valley of dry bones. All of them dry. Dry people and dry families going to dry churches living in a dry world.14:45 People are hopeless. The families are hopeless. The churches are hopeless, they're having church dry. Dry bones worshiping.14:57 Living in a dry world. But I want you to come, old prophet, and I want you to go to that dry situation, that hopeless scenario15:10 to those hopeless people. And I want you to do 2 things. I want you to do 2 things. So15:21 if you are in your own private valley of dryness, hopelessness, Living you're living in a sea of emptiness. You're living with15:33 graffiti written on your soul. You're living with no light at the end of the tunnel or when there is a light, it's the light of an oncoming train.15:45 Where your own efforts to get out of the valley, the low place, doesn't take you anywhere. I'm a tell you what Paul said. You don't have to turn that. Second Corinthians chapter 1. Paul now15:57 Paul's a great man. Paul's a leading Christian. But Paul said, I despaired to the point of death. He says, I I was in utter despair. I was despairing to the point of death. That's a dry16:09 place. I I was despairing to the point of death. Well, Paul, God loves you. Why did God let you get so low? Paul says, I despair to the point of death that I might discover it was only16:21 God who could raise the dead. God let me get so low until I grew to recognize God does let you get low so that you could discover only he can raise dead people.16:35 In other words, he wanted me to grow in my understanding of his sufficiency. And in order for me to grow in understanding of his sufficiency, he had to bring me to my total insufficiency. He made me go low so that16:47 he could demonstrate he raises dead people. And so, Ezekiel, here's what I want you to do. Follow this now. Verse 4.16:59 He said to me, prophesy over these bones and say to them, oh dry bones, hear the word of the lord. Dem bones, dem bones,17:11 dem dry bones. Hear the word of the lord. I want you to prophesy. I want you to speak my word into this17:22 situation. So I want you to talk to dry bones, to hopeless situations. And I want you to let them hear the word of the Lord. Now, Ezekiel, I don't want you to tell them what17:34 you think. I don't want you to give them human ideas and opinions. I don't want you to give them the populous viewpoint of the day, nor do I want17:46 you to cater to their emotional well-being. I don't want you to give them psychological analysis. I don't want you to give them humanistic points of17:58 view. I don't want you to give them the latest Gallup poll so that they know what most other folk think. I don't want you to give them, what will make them feel18:10 good. I want you to give dry bones the word of the lord. Why do you want me to give dry bones the word of the Lord? Because until they become very18:21 dry, they're not willing to listen. See see, as long as they not very dry, as long as they think they can do this on their own, as long as they think they got enough education to pull it off on their18:33 own, as long as there's enough money in their bank accounts and their credit cards are working for them, and they haven't paid attention to 18 percent interest, as long as they can pull it off themselves, they ain't dry18:44 enough. So I didn't even call you to this valley till they were very dry. Because I wanted them to be so low in their own view that they recognize we are in a18:56 hopeless situation and we are cut off. We can't fix this. And it was our spiritual, rebellion that caused this greed. It was only19:08 recognizing the spiritual rebellion and being put in this low valley that we recognize we couldn't fix it. Now, prophet, you can talk because the bones are dry.19:21 So you are to speak the word of the Lord. Over and over again in the old testament, the prophets would be speaking the word of the Lord because the bible says that there19:33 was a famine for the word of God. Now there wasn't a famine for church. Going to the temple. There wasn't a famine for religion or singing songs. There was a19:45 famine for spiritual truth. Everybody wants a stimulus package. Everybody wants something that's go stimulate. Make me feel good today. Let me tell you the problem with with a19:56 stimulus package. Something that simply makes you feel a little better. Is that you can feel a little better because things look a little better without having dealing with what caused the problem. See see,20:08 that's the problem with a stimulus package that doesn't deal with the root cause. You see, the problem with our feelings, while they are real and therefore, you should never deny them, they are very unreliable.20:20 Feelings are very real so you don't skip them. You feel the way you feel and that's the way you feel. But what you can't do is bank on them because they're very unreliable and like the seasons, they change so quickly.20:33 I mean, many of you will leave here today feeling okay, but if the wrong person says the wrong thing at the wrong time on your way to your car, and it's probably the person riding with you.20:45 If if if they if they say the wrong thing at the wrong time in the wrong way, all your religion and the good feelings you had while you were in service will20:57 dissipate because they are unreliable. If a person cuts you off wrong, leaving the church parking, leaving the church I said the church the church parking lot. If a person says the wrong21:08 thing to you, leaving a church parking lot or cuts you off, you might use language straight from hell. And the person that comes in, well, didn't you just come from church?21:21 He says, I prophesy, speak to them the word of the Lord. They need a divine word, not just a stimulation. They they need a divine word to their dry21:33 situation. But it's still a hopeful word because he says, because I will cause breath to enter into them that you may come to life, I will put sinews muscles on you, make21:44 flesh grow back on you, cover your skin and put breath in you that you may become alive and you will know that I am the lord. God lets things die so that you can discover he alone21:56 is god. He let Lazarus die even with 2 people he loved, Martha and Mary. He said that you might believe. That you might come into an experience with me that you have never had before.22:08 And if I gotta keep you in a dry place, no matter how much lotion you put on that dry skin, if I gotta keep you in a dryer, you're gonna lotion it up. Everybody got lotion. Everybody got lotion. You know what I mean by22:20 everybody. Everybody got lotion in order to deal with the dry skin, but but it'll get dry again until you realize he says,22:32 I am the lord. I am the lord. So you you coming up with your packages and your stimulus packages, all I'm a do is let something else break until you discover22:44 I, and that means nobody else in the Lord. So you speak to these dry bones and you tell them this is22:56 how you got here. You got here from your rebellion, but now you're in a hopeless state and you know it. That's where I want you. So now I can bring the word to you because now you've been made ready to receive it.23:08 Your dryness has prepared you to receive it because you can't fix it. So you let them know what my plan, what my program is, what my23:20 prophetic word is, what the word of the lord is to this specific broken situation. You prophesy my thoughts, not your thoughts.23:32 Verse 7. So I prophesied as I was commanded. I spoke what I was told to speak. And as I prophesied,23:44 there was a noise. So I'm prophesying and I heard a noise. There was a rumbling and behold, a rattling. Click, click, click, click, click, click. And23:56 the bones came together bone to bone. Toe bone got connected to the foot bone. Foot bone got connected to the ankle bone. Ankle bone got connected to the leg bone. Leg24:08 bone got connected to the thigh bone. Thigh bone got connected up, and stuff started to come together. Stuff that was disconnected, confused, disassociated, unrelated to24:20 1 another, stuff that was all disassembled like puzzles in a puzzle box got connected. He said, when the word of God was spoken24:33 and responded to, connectivity occurred where there was disassociation and disconnection for a long time because they had been very dry. So they've been24:44 hanging out in confusion, frustration, argumentation, disassociation for an extended period of time. But when the word of the lord was given to people24:56 who were now ready to receive it, because it gotten very dry and they couldn't fix it themselves, he says stuff started to shake, rattle, and roll.25:08 And they became connected. So guess what you now have due to the proclamation and response, because they responded, the bones were moving, and response to the25:20 word of the lord. You had order and organization. Because things that were disconnected are now connected. So you've got order and you've got organization because things are now25:32 hooked together correctly. Order and organization. So what you don't have is the chaos because you got bones now that were disassociated, connecting in the right place, in the25:44 right spot with 1 another. You have order and you have organization, but we still have a problem because verse 8 says, but there was no breath in them. Oh, and watch25:56 this now. You can have order and organization and still have no life. Now you need order and you need organization,26:09 but what good is a body with all the bones connected if it's still in the coffin? Now if it's gonna go anywhere, it does have to have bones that are connected,26:21 but having bones that are connected doesn't mean you're alive. Frankenstein had bones that were connected, but it lacked life. You can list all the26:32 programs you want. You can have all the plans that you wanna make. You can have an organizational structure that is impeccable. You can have every leader in the right spot, every person in the26:44 right pew, but that doesn't mean you're alive. That just means you're organized well. But that was important because he says, proclaim the word of the Lord because the word of the Lord26:56 speaks order into a situation. So you prophesy the word and get all the bones to agree, we're gonna connect based on that word. We're gonna organize ourselves, arrange27:07 ourselves according to that word. We're going to make a decision to connect this bone with that bone. Now that gets you organized right, but it doesn't change27:19 your problem. It just prepares you for your problem to be changed. Because without the right things hooked in the right see, 1 of the problems we have is everybody's out of order.27:32 You got men out of order. You got women out of order. You got you got leaders out of order. You got members out of order. We got we got everybody out of order, and they wonder why I'm still in this valley.27:44 You're out of order. The word of God is to put you in order. Connect this bone with that bone so that the bones are in the right place, which positions you for life, but27:56 it doesn't give you life. You can read the bible all day and it'd be a dead book to you. And you know it's a dead book, you're still in the valley and you're still28:07 dry. Oh, but watch this now. Then he said to me it's deep. It's deep. It's deep. Somebody say this deep. You don't even know what it is yet, but it's deep.28:19 Then he said to me, prophesy to the breath. Prophesy son of man and say to the breath, thus saith the lord,28:31 come from the 4 winds, oh breath, and breathe on these slain that they may come to life. Alright. Watch this now. He says,28:44 prop side to the bones and then prop side to the breath. Speak the word to the hopeless situation, the people,28:56 and then talk to the wind. The Hebrew word breath can be translated in 1 of a number of ways. Translated breath, it can be translated wind,29:08 or it can be translated spirit. It's the same word. In fact, notice what he says in verse 14. I will put my spirit within you and you will come to life.29:20 Well, compare that with verse 9. He said, prophesy to the breath so that they will come to life. So the breath is the same as the spirit. Remember when the Bible says on29:32 Pentecost, the spirit came like a mighty rushing wind? So when the bible speaks of the wind spiritually, it's talking about the movement of the spirit of29:44 God. Because the scripture says, it is the spirit that gives life. Watch this now. It is the word of God that gives order. This is what God says you29:56 ought to do. This is the position you're supposed to be in. Order yourself by the steps of the word. So you make the decision, I'm going to arrange my life, arrange30:08 my affairs, arrange my relationship, arrange my finances. I'm gonna arrange myself according to the order of the word. So that gives you order and organization.30:20 But you know you can make a decision to do that and be frustrated while doing it. You can make a decision to do it and be irritated that you even have to do it. You can make a decision to do it and30:32 not like doing it. That's because you've made the order decision without having the life to go with it. You need the life to go with it. The spirit30:44 gives life. He tells the prophet after watch this. Watch this. Talking about order. Watch the order. You prophesy the word, but you watch this now. Watch I don't want you to miss30:56 this. You prophesy the word, but don't say anything to the spirit until the bones respond to the word. The spirit does not31:07 come until the bones respond to the word. A lot of people wanna get the spirit when the bones haven't responded to the word. And if the bones haven't31:19 responded to the word, there will be no wind blowing of the spirit. So the reason we're not getting the spirit is that the bones have refused the word, So the spirit's gonna hold back31:31 and not move because the bible calls it the spirit of truth. So the spirit wants to see the bones move and when the bones move, the prophet can then call the spirit and the spirit will begin to31:43 blow and bring life to them bones. So that now those bones become limber and begin to move. Those bones can say, oh, well, you know, this thing is working.31:55 All this stuff I didn't like, but I did it anyway. The spirit of God is now infusing it. See, you either don't have the bones connected because there's no response to the word or32:07 you haven't called the spirit in who gives life to the bones once they are connected. You must have spirit and truth, the bible says. A lot of churches have truth and32:18 they're dead with doctrine. They know all the bible facts, but they don't have any life. Other people talk about holy ghost, holy ghost, holy ghost, but the bones are still32:30 disconnected. So you can talk holy ghost all day, but it's not connected to the word of the lord. So these bones are still not functioning. They're arthritic bones. They're hurting, but they're bones because they have no32:42 life. But he says, if you get the bones right based on the word, then you can call on the spirit to blow through and make you alive and hopeful and fruitful and productive.32:55 I had a problem. I had a problem. I had a problem in my house. My heater went out a couple years ago. My heater went out and it was cold of winter and it was freezing. I called the the guy over and the the repairman33:05 over. I said, look. My heater is broke. My heater is broken. It's not working. It's freezing in here. We get over here and and fix it because it's broken. It's broken. It's broken. He came over and he looked at my33:14 heater. He went in my garage and looked at my heater. He said, your heater's not broken. All your parts are connected. Everything is33:26 connected to where it's supposed to be connected to. He says, but you do have a problem. He says, in your heater in fact, in everybody's heater, there is a little piece called an igniter.33:39 He says the job of the igniter is to send the message to the heater. It's okay to warm up. If the igniter doesn't send the message,33:51 it's not that your parts are broken, it's that they're not getting the word. They're not getting the message that they're supposed to function based34:03 on the fact of their organization because the igniter is not sending it. Once you respond to the word, that takes care of all the parts. It means that the parts are in place and the parts are34:15 working. But until the holy spirit quickens or ignites or brings life, the body that's now connected doesn't get the message. So you can come here every week and if34:27 the spirit does not speak, you'll hear the word, but you won't get the message and you won't get on fire for Jesus Christ and you won't feel alive because the igniter is not working.34:40 Look. Many of us have been on the side of the road needing a needing a jump start. Needing a jump start. That means your battery has lost life. Your battery34:52 has lost life, and so you need somebody to pull out some cables and give you a hot shot, give you a jump start. And it's not that you're not trying. Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, or35:04 but it's not turning over. You're trying. You're sitting in there. You're pumping on the gas. You click click click click click click click click. You've done all you know to do. You even do stuff you don't know to do.35:15 You pick up the hood and look like you know what you're looking for because because that's that's all you know to do. You give the impression that you know what you're looking for, but all you get is click click, click,35:23 click, click, click, click. Finally, when you come to the end of yourself, when you recognize I can't solve this death, I can't resurrect this car, that you call somebody35:35 to face their car to your car. They go pull out some cables and they connect their negative to your negative and their positive to your positive while they have the life of their engine on.35:47 With the life of their engine on and therefore, the power of their battery at work, there is a transference that occurs. And they transfer the life of their living battery to the death of your dead35:58 battery. Your dead battery piggybacks on the life of their living battery until your dead battery comes alive. Now, you already got all the stuff under your hood. You already got the motor. You've got36:10 the transmission. You've got all the ingredients. You even have the battery in the right place. It's just not alive until it piggybacks on the life of another. You can have all the stuff right. We can36:22 have the best programs. We can have everybody in the best position, but unless we piggyback on the life of the spirit, you have dead programs run by dead people, led by dead leaders.36:35 People everybody oh, they're in the right place, but they're not alive. But you can't prophesy to the wind until you've prophesied to the36:46 bones. He couldn't talk to the spirit. And so you could be praying all day long. God change me. God change me. God change me. God is saying, but your bones are still out of place. Your bones are still36:58 disconnected. Your bones are not in harmony. You align your bones, order your steps according to my word, then you can call on the spirit because the spirit only responds37:10 to truth. What happened in closing? What happened? Verse 10. So I prophesied as he commanded and the breath came into them and they came to life and stood on37:22 their feet and exceedingly great army. Wait a minute there. Wait a minute. Verse 10 says,37:35 they stood on their feet and there was an army. Verse 1, there's no feet to stand on and their bones dry in the37:47 valley. How you go from a dry bones to an army? Standing on their feet. Something supernatural37:59 has happened between verse 2 and verse 9. How long had the bones been dry? A very long time. You mean to tell me between 2 and 9, God can solve stuff that's been there for38:10 years. Between verse 2 and 9, simply through the prophetic word and call him the holy spirit, God can solve stuff that's been there for decades. These folks have been out of God's will for a long time because God can38:22 turn stuff around if he can order the bones and then call the spirit so that there's a supernatural transformation. We going out spending money on stuff that's just delaying the bones being as dry as they need to38:34 be for the word to be heard so the spirit can come and give life because God wants you to know that he alone is God. But he rose up an exceedingly great army.38:48 That's soldiers. God has trouble getting soldiers. It's hard to be a soldier if you in the valley. It's hard to be a soul. How you going to save somebody else if you can't even save you?39:00 God is trying to raise up an army. That's why I'm excited about all the volunteers going into the school. We got an army of men and women who are going into they're going to march into this school where these kids have39:08 no hope and no direction. And they're going to be an army. God wants to raise you up, not just so you can be saved and go to heaven and live a nice life. He wants to raise you up so you can join the army of the Lord so39:19 that your dry bones can join with other dry bones, and we can become an army to make a difference in the world invading the kingdom of darkness with the kingdom of light. You've been called into an army. God39:31 wants to transform you. He wants to change you. He wants to take me and you out of this valley. Give us his spirit so we can become alive, so we can begin to march and demonstrate to hell what heaven looks39:43 like when it's invaded by the kingdom of God. That is what God is after. Revival is when you become alive. We areShow more
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