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Jack Graham - Lord, Do It Again

June 7, 2026 | 27:29

Jack Graham - Lord, Do It Again
Dr. Jack Graham's mission is to glorify God by introducing Jesus Christ as Lord to all people.
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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Lord, Do It Again | June 7, 2026
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  • There is no person that god cannot save!
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  • There is no promise that god will not keep!
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  • There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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  • You know, every life is a miracle when that life is
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  • Transformed by the power of god. so taking the theme that
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  • You just heard in that beautiful worship song of the
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  • Faithfulness of god, and we're praying that the one god who
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  • Has been faithful forever will be faithful in the days ahead,
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  • And we know that he will. so we're praying, lord, do it
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  • Again. and that's the title of this message. lord, do it again.
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  • In fact, the psalmist said in psalm 85, verses six, verse
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  • Seven, don't do it. you know, i think we buried that six or
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  • Seven thing, hopefully. but psalm 85:6-7 "will you not
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  • Revive us again? great question. it's a prayer, “will
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  • You not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in
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  • You?” and we pray this for israel as the psalmist prayed
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  • This. and we know, “show us your steadfast love, o lord,
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  • And grant us your salvation. or your deliverance."
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  • We are this year celebrating the 250th birthday of the
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  • United states of america. not long in history compared to the
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  • Great history of israel, but 250 years. and this nation was
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  • Born and reborn in revival fire. and the founders, as well
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  • As the preachers, in the early days of america, both
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  • Pre-american revolution and post-american revolution, were
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  • Used as catalysts of god to bring about what we know as
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  • America, and specifically in those early years, great
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  • Spiritual awakening in this country.
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  • There was a first spiritual awakening, and it took place in
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  • America under the leadership of two men primarily, along with
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  • Many pastors and leaders in the government. but there were two
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  • Men. one was george whitefield. i believe we've got a picture
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  • Of him. he was the great evangelist of the 18th century.
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  • He would speak to 10,000 to 30,000 people without
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  • Microphones. and as he would preach, traveling on horseback
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  • For over 5,000 miles throughout the american colonies, he
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  • Preached, i'm told, in all the american colonies. and as he
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  • Drew these multitudes, he preached the new birth. and
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  • What was happening in america in those early days, the
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  • Colonies were being unified, and they were unified in their
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  • Faith. they were unified spiritually, and god renewed
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  • Them. people who had come here from england, many who had been
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  • In churches that did not proclaim the bible and teach
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  • Jesus christ as the way of salvation, and needed revival.
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  • And so he preached revival, and he also preached social reform,
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  • And therefore there was spiritual foundation going on
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  • In our country.
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  • Along with george whitefield was a man by the name of
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  • Jonathan edwards. he also was a powerful influence of the first
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  • Great awakening in america, revival. he preached primarily
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  • In new england. you may have heard of a famed sermon that he
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  • Delivered called, sinners in the hands of an angry god. and
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  • He preached the fear of god, and the judgment of god. and
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  • When he would preach this message, the spirit of god
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  • Would so fall upon people that some were passing out, and many
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  • Fell under conviction, and came to salvation. and that began
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  • The revival fires that began to burn across america in the
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  • Hearts of the people of this country.
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  • And then came, after the revolution, a second great
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  • Awakening. it took place from 1795 to 1840, basically. and
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  • This second great awakening was desperately needed in america
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  • At this time, because after the revolution, the churches were
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  • Basically empty at this point. morality was collapsing. there
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  • Was a great deal of drunkenness. there was and
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  • Violence, and immorality, and lawlessness. the frontier was
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  • Now wide open, and people were moving. and the frontier was
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  • Wild. the wilderness of america was wild. so god raised up once
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  • Again a movement, a revival movement, a spiritual awakening
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  • In the churches, in the hearts of the people.
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  • But the man who led this primarily was a man by the name
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  • Of charles finney. and finney was a revivalist who preached
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  • To the dead churches and the distracted christians. one
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  • Historian wrote that after the revolution, christianity was
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  • All but dead in much of america. all but dead. but then
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  • Came revival. and what is revival? revive. to make alive
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  • Again. and so with the preaching of god's word, the
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  • Revival produced frontier conversions as circuit riding
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  • Preachers would plant churches all over america as america was
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  • Growing.
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  • As a result of the second great awakening came the movement
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  • Towards the abolition of slavery, a movement of care for
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  • The poor, women's education. bible and missionary societies
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  • Were birthed at this time in america. and the sunday school
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  • Movement came into being at this time in america. it began
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  • For children, but of course it expanded to adults in bible
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  • Study. and the second great awakening, according to most
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  • Scholars, saved america. because god providentially had
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  • A plan for this nation.
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  • So what happened in the first and second great revolution? we
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  • Had a taste of, it's not called a third great awakening, but i
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  • Do believe it was a national revival that took place when
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  • Some of us were growing up as teenagers in the late 1960s and
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  • Early 1970s. and this was the jesus movement. the jesus
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  • Revolution. and it began on the west coast with the hippies
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  • Actually. some of you remember the hippies? some of you were
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  • Hippies. [laughter] and god began to work in the midst of a
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  • Sexual revolution that was taking place in america. a
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  • Cultural revolution that the impact of that we're still
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  • Feeling today. but we're also still feeling the impact of
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  • What happened among young christians primarily and across
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  • America in the churches. i would say that it was a great
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  • National revival that took place and we got to taste it.
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  • We got to taste it. we got to see god.
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  • The result, i think the lasting fruit of the jesus movement was
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  • So many young people were called to preach the gospel and
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  • To be missionaries and the church was revived. it was a
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  • Powerful movement where churches came alive in the
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  • Jesus movement. there was conviction of sin as there
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  • Always is in revival and repentance and public
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  • Confession and changed lives and restored and renewed
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  • Churches and renewed holiness. because real revival changes
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  • The way we live.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • We're living at a time when many people are asking very
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  • Hard questions. questions about faith, about truth, about jesus
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  • Himself. questions like, is he lord or is he a legend?
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  • That's why i want to introduce to you a trusted friend and a
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  • Collaborator in the gospel of the lord jesus christ, dr.
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  • Jeremiah johnston. god is using jeremiah in a powerful way to
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  • Uncover the historical evidence for the life, death, and
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  • Resurrection of jesus. and in his latest book, the jesus
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  • Discoveries, you'll discover how archeology, ancient text,
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  • And real history all point to the truth of who jesus is.
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  • [jeremiah johnston] dr. graham has been such an encouragement
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  • In my life and ministry, and it's truly an honor to share my
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  • Newest book with you. my prayer is that the jesus discoveries
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  • Will strengthen your and give you confidence that what you
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  • Believe about jesus is rooted in real historical truth.
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  • [jack graham] amen. and i want you to have this resource.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Revival is a word we throw about. we talk about it. we
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  • Sing about it. when os and i first began preaching, we did a
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  • Revival together. and the theme of that revival was revive us
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  • Again. revive us again. fill each heart with your love. let
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  • Each soul be rekindled with fire from above. hallelujah.
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  • Thine the glory. hallelujah. amen. so we have sung about
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  • Revival and we've seen glimpses of revival. but what is it? and
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  • Importantly, how do we experience revival? because
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  • Many of us have been praying and are praying that before the
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  • Return of jesus, that there would be another great
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  • Awakening in america. that god would move miraculously in the
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  • Hearts of his people.
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  • What is revival? revival is the sovereign act of god restoring
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  • And reanimating his people. it's what god does. it is not
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  • What we do. it is when god intervenes and works among us
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  • In response to our willingness for him to work. revival is god
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  • Awakening sleepy believers. it is the rekindling of spiritual
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  • Fire and passion to wholehearted devotion and
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  • Faithfulness and obedience to god.
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  • In fact, it was charles finney who gave one of my favorite
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  • Definitions of revival. it's a simple one, but it's a good
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  • One. what is revival? it is a new beginning of obedience to
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  • God. this is revival. revival brings us alive because god is
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  • Breathing life back into the hearts of his people, into a
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  • Cold and lifeless and often compromised church. god moves
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  • Again. oh lord, do it again.
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  • And so we're seeing some signs of revival. we're seeing in
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  • Particular among young people. did you know most of the great
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  • Revival movements, including those we see in the bible, even
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  • That of the apostles of jesus, was a young person's movement.
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  • It so often begins with young people. we're seeing that
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  • Again. just this past couple of weeks ago, 45,000 young
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  • Professionals and college students and teenagers gathered
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  • At globe life park where the rangers play ball. god help the
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  • Rangers this year. [laughter] revive the rangers, oh lord.
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  • 45,000 not to watch a baseball game or even a super bowl, but
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  • To worship and to seek the god of heaven.
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  • We've got some numbers and there's some data that tells us
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  • That we're seeing some signs. for example, bible sales in the
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  • Last three years are up 42% since 2022. bible sales are up
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  • And not only people are getting bibles, but they're reading the
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  • Bible and engaging in the bible at a great rate. here's
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  • Something else. christian music streams, songs, many of them
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  • Crossing over into secular sides of music, but christian
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  • Music streams are up 50% since 2019. spiritual apps, downloads
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  • Of spiritual apps have increased 80% since 2019.
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  • That's not just because technology is growing, that's
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  • Because god is doing something in the hearts of people.
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  • This is why we're astounded when 100 million plus have
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  • Downloaded the bible in a year app. simply hear god's word
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  • Read and applied. god is on the move. god is on the move, young
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  • Men in particular. we're seeing gen x, the early 20-somethings
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  • And teenagers get back to church and especially young
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  • Christian men who are leading the way. we're seeing some good
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  • Signs, but that's the good news and there's more good news.
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  • But on the other side of that, the spiritual condition of
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  • America and of our churches is still sick. we have a massive
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  • Mental health crisis going alongside of the spiritual
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  • Movement in america and many of this is suicides and suicide
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  • Ideation is up with young people as well as adults. we
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  • Have a mental health crisis and we have a spiritual crisis.
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  • Churches are compromised as they have turned away from
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  • Truth and a biblical worldview. christians so often are
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  • Nominal, lukewarm, and lethargic. some choose to be
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  • Liberal or quote progressive. and so there is an ongoing
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  • Spiritual decline happening in our country right now.
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  • In 2000, the church declined. seventy-four percent of
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  • Professing christians said that faith was central to their
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  • Lives. today that number is 54 percent. steep decline of
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  • Christians. now we know some of these are not christians, but
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  • Those who profess christian faith. so what that means is if
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  • 54 percent say that their christian faith, these are
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  • Christians, these are not unbelievers. if 54 percent say
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  • That it's no longer, that it's central to their lives, that
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  • Means 46, nearly half of professing christians now
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  • Qualify as non-practicing christians. that's a crisis.
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  • That's a crisis of faith.
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  • I don't want to overwhelm you with numbers, but one more.
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  • Only 24 percent of christians actively pursue their faith.
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  • Twenty-four percent. twenty-four percent. this is a
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  • Significant change in our country in the last 15 years.
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  • So while in some sense the church is experiencing revival,
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  • Many others are not in revival. they are in retreat. so that's
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  • Why we ask, we pray like the psalmist, lord will you not
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  • Revive your people that we would rejoice in you.
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  • 2 chronicles chapter 7 records god's response after solomon
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  • Dedicated the temple. when solomon dedicated the temple,
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  • Fire fell from heaven and the glory of god filled the place.
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  • And in the house the people worshipped god. they fell on
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  • Their faces and worshipped. and as a response to solomon's
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  • Prayer, the you can read it in 2 chronicles chapter 6, chapter
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  • 7. you can read the prayer all about the dedication of the
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  • Glorious temple. god responded and gave these words in 2
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  • Corinthians 7:14, "if my people, who are called by my
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  • Name, will humble themselves and pray and turn from their
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  • Wicked ways, i will hear from heaven,” seek my face and turn
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  • From their wicked ways. “then i will hear from heaven,” and
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  • What will god do? “forgive their sin and heal their land."
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  • Now this is a promise scripturally and specifically
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  • Given to israel. but i believe it includes you and me as
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  • Christians who are called by the name of the messiah,
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  • Yeshua. we also can and should claim this promise if my
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  • People, this is the condition for revival. if my people, this
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  • Is where it starts. revival begins with you and me. it
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  • Doesn't say not if the politicians do. it doesn't say
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  • Not if the pagans do, not if the pornographers do, if the
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  • Perverts do, not if the culture does it, not if the media does
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  • It. god calls us out. god says this is on you, my people.
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  • This is why i like to think of revival on a personal level as
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  • Just kind of drawing a circle around me and my world and get
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  • On my knees in that circle and say, lord, send a great revival
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  • And let it begin in me. maybe you need to draw a circle and
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  • Get in it and stay in it until personal spiritual awakening
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  • Happens in your life.
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  • And he said if you will humble yourself and pray. revival
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  • Begins where pride ends. did you know that? did you know
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  • Because the scripture says “god resists the proud but gives
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  • Grace to the humble.” you cannot experience spiritual
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  • Breakthroughs when self is in control. when i, the capital i,
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  • Pride is running your life. pride says i'm in control.
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  • Pride says i got this. how's that working out for us?
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  • Humility denies self and surrenders to the lordship of
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  • Christ and humility says this is when revival comes because
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  • It starts with us. humility says, god, i can't do this. we
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  • Can't do this.
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  • Own your own pride. pride is a difficult sin to confess. and
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  • Most of us think i'm talking about somebody else right now.
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  • Lord, the sins of others i can see but praise the lord there's
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  • None in me. but when we humble ourselves and own our own sin
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  • And place ourselves under the authority of the lordship of
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  • Christ and take hands off our lives then we get ourselves in
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  • The position that god can send revival in us and through us.
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  • Micah 6:8, "he has shown you, o man... to love mercy, and to do
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  • Justice" and to do what? "to walk humbly with your god?"
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  • So it begins with the people of god and this verse also reminds
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  • Us that it continues with a word from god.
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  • Revival begins with god's word
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  • Just as it was in the preaching of the great men of previous
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  • Generations and throughout the generations. revival comes when
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  • There is the preaching and the teaching of god's word.
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  • We see that in the old testament when nehemiah led the
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  • Children of israel in rebuilding those walls. what's
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  • The first thing they did? the walls were built and they got
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  • Together in a place called watergate, believe it or not.
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  • [laughter] and there they opened the word of god and read
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  • The scriptures. it was a revival of the bible. ezra,
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  • Same thing. anytime there is revival it is as a result of
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  • People picking up this book, believing and acting on it,
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  • Rediscovering god's word.
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  • It is when the bible is neglected or rejected, it is
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  • When god's word is denied or diminished in the church, that
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  • Spiritual decline and ultimately death happens. but
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  • When god's word is restored, revival begins. and what's true
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  • For the church is true for you and me. if you need personal
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  • Revival in your own life, if you need god to awaken you
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  • Spiritually, start here. start on your knees with an open
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  • Bible and ask god to speak to you. we flourish when we read,
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  • Believe, obey god's truth. revival cannot happen as long
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  • As we are compromised with truth, personally and
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  • Corporately.
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  • Because when we get into our bibles and the spirit of god
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  • Moves in our lives, then revival gives his people a
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  • Renewed hunger for the scripture. do you remember when
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  • You first came to christ? and if you were taught well,
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  • Certainly a disciple at the outset, you just had this
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  • Insatiable hunger for god and the things of god and the word
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  • Of god. maybe you went out and bought a bible for the first
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  • Time and began to memorize verses and meditate upon
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  • Scripture. there is that when you come to faith, but over
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  • Time, sometimes we slip and we backslide. and we've lost our
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  • Love for god's word. but when we are revived, there's a
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  • Renewed reverence for scriptures and a return to
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  • Biblical truth, a biblical worldview.
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  • And in times of spiritual awakening, god's word is read,
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  • Believed, lived, proclaimed and obeyed, personally and even
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  • Nationally. this is what we do as preachers of the word of
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  • God. revival happens when we
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  • Stand in the pulpit and faithfully preach the inerrant,
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  • Revival apart from a revival of the bible. and what i'm
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  • Praying, what i'm praying in these last days, that all of
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  • These young people that are coming to faith, just like it
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  • Happened at the end of the jesus movement. many of us who
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  • Came through that ended up being preachers, called to
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  • Preach and serve the churches. i'm praying because this is
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  • Always a signal that revival is on the way, that god would
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  • Raise up a brand new generation of young men with the bible in
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  • Their hands like a sword, like a rapier, preaching god's word.
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  • That he would raise up young women to serve god faithfully
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  • In his church. and that he would raise us all up as his
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  • People to proclaim the word of god to our people and to our
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  • Nation.
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  • So again, i'm going to finish this message the next time, but
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  • I put a question to you. if revival is a renewed spiritual
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  • Awakening, rekindling in your life, do you need a personal
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  • Revival today? because we can all pray, lord if you would
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  • Send a revival to the world. but if not the world, send
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  • Revival to our country. and if not to our country, lord send a
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  • Revival to texas. and if not to texas, send it to north texas.
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  • And if not north texas, let it come to plano and prosper lord.
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  • [laughter] and let it come to my house
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  • And lord let it come to my life.
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  • ♪♪♪
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