Repetition is the best teacher, and after my long into,\u00a0 I will be\u00a0summarizing perhaps my 3 main points that I\u00a0believe\u00a0unlock the key to revival in America.\u00a0 If America is to wake up, the church needs to wake up.\u00a0 If the lost are ever going to see their lost and hopeless condition, the church needs to see their compromised\u00a0and heartless condition.<\/p>\n
Two people die every\u00a0second but Christians in America prove by their actions their words mean nothing.\u00a0 We say we love God which would mean we would\u00a0love what he loves and hate what he hates.\u00a0 Jesus came to save and seek that which is lost.\u00a0\u00a0Do we honestly care with an urgency that people are dropping into hell like lemmings off a cliff?\u00a0 Are you really saved?\u00a0 Did you give out a tract today?\u00a0 Did you witness and stand unashamed?\u00a0 Did you deny yourself this week?\u00a0 For example, could you skip lunch this week\u00a0and use the money to\u00a0buy a hot dog for a homeless man instead?<\/p>\n
Did you think about the thousands of babies murdered today in doctor’s offices, and the way America shakes it’s fist at God and how the Bible says\u00a0there will be a great falling away during the last days?\u00a0 Did you pray for America and it’s leaders to turn to God?\u00a0 Did you do anything to salvage any of\u00a0those who slipped off into eternity today, or those in your family who could burn forever at any moment?\u00a0 Did you spend more on missions this week or on take-out?\u00a0\u00a0 Did you read your Bible more than you read text messages?\u00a0 Did you spend more time talking in prayer or talking on your cell phone?<\/p>\n
If we are honest we all need our spiritual flames rekindled.<\/p>\n
That is the purpose of the ETVFC.\u00a0 To equip you to\u00a0do what was normal for Christians up until 100 years ago and make us fruitful firemen in our local church.\u00a0 After we first wake up and see our lukewarm condition.<\/p>\n
I will be the first to admit I don’t have it all figured out.\u00a0\u00a0I am consumed with wanting to see the world saved and overwhelmed where to begin!\u00a0 Today was one of my more expensive ministries, the Wal Mart ministry.\u00a0 I believe God called me to go to Wal Mart to give out tracts but\u00a0every time I enter there is this hidden $100 admission.\u00a0 It adds up.\u00a0 Thankfully I can use the $100 to buy things I need anyway, like diapers and\u00a0English muffins (which goes good with it’s European cousin, French toast).\u00a0 \u00a0Not only is Wal Mart costly, it is convicting.\u00a0 I have a 4 year old named Elijah, and his name is a perfect fit.\u00a0 If I give him a tract he races out and runs toward the first person he sees and holds out his hand until they take a tract.\u00a0 He once ran up to a Muslim decked out in her full black sand trooper outfit!\u00a0 I found out I am not as bold as I thought I was.\u00a0 I wanted to hide.<\/p>\n
I am a one-tract pony.\u00a0 I give out tracts when shopping but usually only give them out to guys my age who seem to be not high salaried self righteous jerks.\u00a0\u00a0 Old grandmas especially cause my knees to tremble.\u00a0 Entering a toll booth, I will have a tract ready but when it is an old lady there who looks like she could eat me and my car alive, I slowly put the tract away and give her my toll money.\u00a0 Where is Elijah when I need him?\u00a0 He is my secret weapon when it comes to old people, rich people, snobby Catholics, my extended family, and the entire Muslim population.<\/p>\n
Today after finishing my shopping I was torn, first my wallet was hurting a bit.\u00a0 But I was excited because we gave out a huge stack of tracts.\u00a0 I gave out at least 2 and the remaining 30 or so Elijah did.\u00a0 I think my other son Josiah gave one out as well.\u00a0 Then I think the devils must have noticed because as we entered the bread aisle my older son Josiah started running laps around the bread aisle and finding my cart where I was getting the frozen mini-pizzas.\u00a0 Then Elijah followed him.\u00a0 I had Zech in my cart and wasn’t able to just take off.\u00a0 Usually I will say, “ok boys, I am leaving now without you” or “ok boys, I am now putting back the toy you picked out” and they come back.\u00a0 They so far haven’t caught on that I lied as I have yet to leave them on any trip, and I had already put the toys back they grabbed along the way.\u00a0 That didn’t work.\u00a0 Well, it soon was rather terrifying as next Joe hid from Elijah and Elijah was at the opposite end of the aisle and couldn’t find us.<\/p>\n
Instead of running down the aisles where I could catch him, he ran across the aisles and headed toward the check out.\u00a0 I took off with the other two and looked like a nut, but I soon found Elijah, and I brought all three to my wife waiting on the other side with Obie, our youngest.\u00a0 She put all 4 in the cart and took them out.\u00a0 I went from beaming evangelist to humiliated father in no time.\u00a0 Pride cometh before destruction.\u00a0 Man, I hate the pruning process.\u00a0\u00a0 And oh my, even though I can’t hear it, I know the devils are whispering and conspiring any chance they get.\u00a0 I told my wife that, and her response was, “They don’t run around for me.”\u00a0 Yes, dear.\u00a0\u00a0 But they don’t give tracts with you out either so the devils leave you alone, was what I was thinking.\u00a0 I didn’t say it though.\u00a0 That is why I blog.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I wanted to try and summarize things.<\/p>\n
Ok, if I had to put the prescription for reviving America on paper here it is.<\/p>\n
Correct the dose.<\/p>\n
Change the drug.<\/p>\n
Convince the disease.<\/p>\n
They are addressed in earlier posts, but basically:<\/p>\n
1. Correct the dose.\u00a0\u00a0 We dispense Jesus 80 mg\u00a0once weekly today and before people took Jesus 1,500,000 mg every 8 hours\u00a0and we wonder why our results are so anemic. \u00a0Meaning trade the 5 minute Romans Road and other microwaved evangelism tactics for the\u00a0hours of sowing, watering, and preaching the law and judgment of God that produced the fruitful revivals of years ago.\u00a0\u00a0 The right dose at the right duration.\u00a0 Not a 5 minute plan to go to heaven.\u00a0 A 5 month or 5 years of intense plowing and fertilizing and planting and pruning and weeding program that requires patience and sweat and work and people!\u00a0 Break up the follow ground first with some solid uprooting of the gods of America, plant second with the word of God, water next with fasting and prayer, and then get a\u00a0month of more intercessory prayer and another month of revival meetings and then we might see\u00a0true\u00a0revival in\u00a0the land when we have an invitation.\u00a0 \u00a0One planted, one watered, but God gave the increase.\u00a0 Instead of a soulwinner doing it all and getting the entire pat on the back from start to finish.\u00a0 We might have truth in the Romans Road, but the dose is too weak to cure the sinful condition!<\/p>\n
2. Change the drug.\u00a0 The Jesus of the Bible is not the long haired Jesus of Catholicism.\u00a0 The book of Isaiah 53 says there is no beauty that we should desire him.\u00a0 Jesus was not the blue eyed blond haired romance novel cover boy that is portrayed by most of modern Christianity.\u00a0 I heard a preacher state that this is what the AntiChrist is going to look like and the idol image we have is going to fool the world.\u00a0 We need the right Jesus and the right dose administered the right way, via faith and repentance.\u00a0 A wrong Jesus cannot save just as the wrong drug won’t help.\u00a0 And there needs to be a removal of the sugar coating on it.\u00a0 When you use the world to draw the world, you look like the world.<\/p>\n
3. Convince of the disease. Preach the law of God and the holiness of God and the wisdom of his requirements to the extent the world cries out WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?<\/p>\n
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Repetition is the best teacher, and after my long into,\u00a0 I will be\u00a0summarizing perhaps my 3 main points that I\u00a0believe\u00a0unlock the key to revival in America.\u00a0 If America is to wake up, the church needs to wake up.\u00a0 If the … Continue reading