1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Hello and welcome to Logan City Christian Church Podcast. 2 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,400 Today we have an impactful teaching by Dr. Reginald Klimanok. 3 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,280 Dr. Klimanok's preaching has touched the lives of many. 4 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:33,280 Inspiring and challenging audiences with his deep insights into the Bible and Christian 5 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:34,400 theology. 6 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:40,680 Join us as we delve deep into his powerful messages uncovering timeless truth and practical 7 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,720 wisdom that can transform our lives today. 8 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:49,400 Get ready to be inspired, encouraged and equipped as we journey through the rich tapestry of 9 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,960 Dr. Klimanok's preaching. 10 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:55,480 Welcome to the house of God this morning. 11 00:00:55,480 --> 00:01:02,640 Welcome visitors, we'll do a little later. 12 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:04,720 We had an unusual time Friday night. 13 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:11,280 We were moving through the things we normally do in a fasting and prayer time and prayer 14 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,160 meeting. 15 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:20,520 And God suddenly arrested us and took us to a stream of thought and touched our lives. 16 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:26,480 I brought that to you this morning, had something from God and I'm very sensitive to know whether 17 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:28,000 it's God and when it's not God. 18 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,000 And I said, what are you doing? 19 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,080 What are you saying to us, Lord? 20 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:37,600 And I believe I have something from God this morning. 21 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,920 And we want to always do it traditionally, you know, that and that and that. 22 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:44,080 If God wants to do it differently, I'm happy to do it. 23 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:46,200 Would you agree with me? 24 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:52,520 And my message this morning is what is God saying to us in these last days? 25 00:01:52,520 --> 00:02:03,880 I want you to turn to Joe chapter two, please, in your Bibles, the book of Joe chapter two. 26 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:08,360 Verse 27 said, and he shall know that I am in the midst of Israel. 27 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,080 I'm the Lord your God and I know it's in my people shall never be ashamed. 28 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:18,720 It shall come to pass, verse 28 of Joe two, afterwards that I will pour out my spirit 29 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:24,240 upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. 30 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,720 Your young old men shall dream dreams. 31 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:32,400 Your young men shall see visions and upon the servants and upon the handmaidens of those 32 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,440 days will I pour out my spirit. 33 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:40,840 And I will show wonders in the heavens on the earth, blood and fine pillars of smoke. 34 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,360 The earth shall be turned into darkness, the moon into blood before the great and terrible 35 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:45,360 death. 36 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:51,720 The Lord come to pass through so we shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved 37 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:53,000 for Mount Zion. 38 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:58,440 That's where he stopped in Acts, but Mount Zion and Jerusalem shall be deliverance. 39 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,600 As the Lord has said in the rendment whom the Lord shall call. 40 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:07,120 Father, speak to us this morning, we pray. 41 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:12,720 Is this true what you are saying to our hearts in Jesus name? 42 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:17,680 Tonight I have a very, very, I was going to actually preach the message of tonight this 43 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:22,840 morning, but a very powerful message that's something that should encompass your life every 44 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:27,040 day as you walk with God, the very key to your life and living. 45 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,680 I will share that with you tonight. 46 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,280 What is God saying in these last days? 47 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:38,840 We're living in troublesome times. 48 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:46,480 Since the beginning of the century, like the hurricanes that struck Florida, one after 49 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:54,400 the other, not just one, but it kept coming in again and again and again. 50 00:03:54,400 --> 00:04:00,040 Horrendous results, not so much spoken of around the world as much as the tsunamis, 51 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:06,840 but certainly very devastating to thousands, hundreds of thousands of people. 52 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:14,160 Also now we have gone through the last few weeks, the tsunami, over 200,000 people at 53 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:23,000 least killed, destroyed, just disappeared from the face of the earth. 54 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,680 Since the turn of the century, we've had terrorism. 55 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:30,760 The world in one sense is at war, different kind of war. 56 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:34,480 You hardly know who the enemy is. 57 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:44,480 Unusual times of destruction have swept across the nations of the world. 58 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:50,840 This weekend we have the elections of Iraq, not without unbelievable attacks upon the 59 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:56,920 polling stations, upon the American soldiers. 60 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,520 We live in troublesome days, changing times. 61 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:04,800 Over the years, in the sixties there were about 14 major calamities. 62 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:08,320 In the eighties we talk about 74 or more. 63 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:13,880 In the nineties it escalated, and now it's the most unbelievable times in the history 64 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,060 of the world. 65 00:05:16,060 --> 00:05:19,720 My word to you this morning is not the end, it's the beginning. 66 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:20,720 Amen. 67 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:25,280 And it's a message I believe I've got from God. 68 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:33,440 What is the prophetic view of these last days prior to Christ's return? 69 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:41,280 To understand what God is doing, you cannot view the scriptures always sequentially, but 70 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:43,720 you must view them progressively. 71 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:49,760 Now, Jeff, when it gets too cold for people you can turn it off and turn it on as you 72 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,320 were to make it comfortable. 73 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:58,880 But anyway, it's good to bring a coat or something sometimes, so it's very hard to please everybody 74 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,000 in a room like this. 75 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:07,120 But you see, the sequence of prophecies are always there in the Bible the way we want 76 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:08,720 to have it. 77 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:15,920 The Church is often featured in many scriptures, many forms, intermingled with Israel, because 78 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:19,840 we are in one sense the new Israel of God. 79 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:22,640 And so you have in the Bible the two. 80 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,960 For example, here he talks about the outpouring of God. 81 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,000 He mentions Israel. 82 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:36,240 Then Peter picks this up and he says on the day of Pentecost, you might remember, this 83 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,840 is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel. 84 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:45,800 And he actually mentions, oh, that's in Acts chapter 2, oh, that I have just shared with 85 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:50,680 you, and goes to the time that whoso shall call him name shall be saved. 86 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:54,440 Then he stops there and doesn't say Mount Zion and so on. 87 00:06:54,440 --> 00:07:01,040 Then he relates it to that special hour, that day, and that time. 88 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:05,280 He doesn't explain the former and the latter rain, because in Joel, remember, it says you're 89 00:07:05,280 --> 00:07:07,360 going to have the former and the latter rain. 90 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:08,780 Remember that? 91 00:07:08,780 --> 00:07:15,400 And he doesn't tell us the period of time before the former rain and the latter rain. 92 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,880 And what is really happening between the two. 93 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,880 And we just can't interpret that dispensationally. 94 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:26,280 We are covenant people. 95 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:32,840 And at that stage, the Church didn't even grasp how God would visit the Gentiles and 96 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:38,240 take out for himself a great people in that period, and then the great outpouring of the 97 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:42,040 Spirit upon the world in the last days. 98 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:48,280 When Jesus came and before he left this earth, like in Matthew 28, he told his disciples 99 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:54,160 in verse 19 to go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and 100 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,240 the Holy Ghost, teaching all nations. 101 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:57,240 How many nations? 102 00:07:57,240 --> 00:07:59,240 All nations. 103 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:05,520 In John chapter 3, it tells us when Jesus spoke, verse 16, that God so loved the world. 104 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:07,000 Who did he love? 105 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,000 The world. 106 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,720 But who said he believed in him? 107 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:10,720 They couldn't grasp this. 108 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,880 He said he didn't send his son to the world to condemn the world, but that the world through 109 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,120 him might be saved. 110 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:23,520 So he was speaking of a world view, not just a Jewish view. 111 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:29,560 He was touching the world, giving an understanding. 112 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:33,920 To understand how to interpret, there's a word we use in theology called hermeneutics, 113 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:35,400 the science of interpreting the scriptures. 114 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:41,600 It's not always easy to grasp how all this fits. 115 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:47,920 They came out of what I call Jewish living, and they couldn't understand even prophetically 116 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:49,280 at times, and it was easy. 117 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:56,160 For example, in Isaiah 7, when it says, a virgin shall give you a virgin, Isaiah chapter 118 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:01,520 7, verse 14, behold, for himself shall give you a son, behold, a virgin shall conceive 119 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,600 and bear a son, speaking of Jesus. 120 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:14,720 It also refers to an event in King Ahas' life, that time, put upon him the resin of Damascus 121 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:18,440 to join him, and so on, and God gave him a sign. 122 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:21,560 So it's not always easy to put prophecy together. 123 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:23,720 You must grasp that. 124 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:30,080 You'd like to have it all patent perfect, this is how it all fits. 125 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:32,200 But it doesn't always work like that. 126 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:37,520 I remember last week when I spoke about the Rhema, when God spoke to my mother from Jeremiah 127 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:44,240 51.50 with an angel, gave her that scripture, and extracted that from the word, you'd never 128 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:48,000 really put that into that context. 129 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,240 But God, it's called the Lord of double reference. 130 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,160 God at times does that, and often does that. 131 00:09:55,160 --> 00:10:00,200 So suddenly comes and the church is mentioned, and Israel is mentioned, and the church is 132 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,920 almost mixed with Israel because there's been no Israel. 133 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:09,240 And because of all this, at times we don't understand what's going on. 134 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:14,960 And the danger is today that people will give up on God, because it doesn't work the way 135 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:16,560 they expect him to work. 136 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:21,120 We pray for revival, and revival doesn't seem to have come. 137 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:22,880 And so we say, it's not working. 138 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:25,160 It is working, come on church. 139 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,280 God does answer prayer. 140 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:30,280 God will do what he will do in these last days. 141 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:34,320 There will be great works of God that we've never seen before. 142 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:40,960 And prayer is necessary, and faith is necessary, and to believe God is necessary. 143 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:45,160 And to understand, for example, I remember a missionary years ago, a Finnish missionary 144 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:50,160 went to China and preached for years and had a handful of Christians. 145 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:56,400 Then he went back very recently into the same area, and they said, give us some Bibles. 146 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:58,840 He said, how many Christians do you have? 147 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,400 They said, two million. 148 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:02,820 Somebody laid the foundation. 149 00:11:02,820 --> 00:11:04,120 Come on church. 150 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:05,960 And you never know the outcome. 151 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:06,960 Amen. 152 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:09,520 You never know what God is doing in this. 153 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:16,120 For example, in Acts chapter 10, this whole thing doesn't only relate to Israel, because 154 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:21,520 the traditional way to interpret this would be, this is, Act, Joel 2 is just for Israel, 155 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:23,320 because it says for Israel at first. 156 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:27,640 But then suddenly it's opened up to the whole world. 157 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:35,280 And suddenly they receive the Word of God, and things are revolutionized, and the whole 158 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,760 Gentile world explodes in God. 159 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:39,760 Hallelujah, church. 160 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:41,000 Can you say amen? 161 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:46,360 So what is God saying to us in these last days out of Joel? 162 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:52,000 Firstly, everything happens because of the Holy Spirit. 163 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:59,440 The church has come and will be under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. 164 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:02,560 A great revival has come already. 165 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:05,920 We have already been in the midst of revival. 166 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:11,000 Maybe not as much in Australia, but across the nations of the world. 167 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:20,400 Between 1987 and 1997, more people were one to Jesus Christ since the days of Jesus to 168 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,040 that day. 169 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:24,320 Incredible growth. 170 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:31,440 I told you the other day, now at that stage I knew that about 80% of the world was charismatic, 171 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,440 one billion Christians, sort of. 172 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:39,360 They're speaking now with a professor who has written an amazing book in America, won 173 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:42,000 the great university, scholarly work. 174 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,920 In my matter of decade there will be one billion Pentecostals, I told you that before in the 175 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:46,920 world. 176 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:47,920 I said one billion. 177 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:53,000 By then two thirds of Africa will be spirit filled. 178 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,120 The whole of Asia is being touched. 179 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,080 I don't know, somebody said in Indonesia 35 million. 180 00:12:58,080 --> 00:12:59,480 Do you know that Jeff? 181 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:00,480 I don't know. 182 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:04,040 Pentecostals are over there in the midst of a Muslim country. 183 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:07,560 There are things being shaken. 184 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:11,600 The Pentecostals are growing faster in the world in Muslim countries and the Muslims 185 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:12,600 are growing. 186 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:13,600 Amen church. 187 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:19,440 God is doing something unbelievable and it's all to do with the Holy Ghost. 188 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:24,400 This is Pentecost that is literally since the beginning of the previous century has 189 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:26,160 swept across the world. 190 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:27,160 Literally swept. 191 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:32,280 I've been often to South America as you know and across that nation I've been to a church 192 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:41,320 and so if I was for a while, one of the 12 that has went from nothing to 310,000 in a 193 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,520 decade or so. 194 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:46,360 Apart from Dr. Cho you know it's got 750,000. 195 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:52,280 Korea and all those countries but South America is just exploding in God. 196 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:54,120 It's all to do with the Holy Ghost. 197 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:55,840 We haven't seen it up in Australia. 198 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:58,440 Somebody said please help us Lord. 199 00:13:58,440 --> 00:13:59,600 But it's happening. 200 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,320 Come on church. 201 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,080 And somebody prophesied that this would be the last country. 202 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,240 We're getting pretty close to the last country. 203 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:08,240 And what will happen? 204 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:09,960 Can somebody say amen. 205 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:16,480 The Holy Spirit has totally changed the world and has totally changed the church. 206 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:17,960 It has. 207 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:23,840 And even denominational people now are getting on the bandwagon because I mean ministers 208 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:26,480 and so on because they're missing out. 209 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:31,360 And so those that are Pentecostals they're no more anti-Pentecostals. 210 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:33,800 So they are on Trinity broadcasts. 211 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:39,640 They're on all those broadcasts and they talk on Billy Graham was on Trinity broadcast the 212 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:40,640 other day. 213 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:44,960 And you know I know Benny Hinn told me not so long ago that coming to him and saying 214 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,000 can we be on your Billy Graham son? 215 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,720 Can we be on your program and share? 216 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:52,120 And it's another world that is taking place. 217 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:57,160 An incredible escalation of growth is taking place and it's exciting. 218 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:58,960 Somebody said amen. 219 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:00,600 A man prophesied over my life. 220 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:06,560 It was Peter Castellanos says what used to take six years will take one year. 221 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:09,560 What takes one year will take one month. 222 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:13,880 In other words there will be great escalation of growth. 223 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:19,080 And there is literally a change of understanding of the things of God. 224 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:23,040 For example everybody was called pastor. 225 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:26,280 You know that's the traditional way of the church we are talking. 226 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:29,400 The word pastor is only mentioned once in the Bible. 227 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,120 The word bishop is mentioned much more. 228 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:32,120 You can call me bishop. 229 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:33,120 No, no, no. 230 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:38,800 What I'm saying and then there's more of an apostolic understanding of the church now. 231 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:40,360 Apostolic leadership. 232 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:44,200 More understanding of the prophetic voice in the world. 233 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:48,040 The great message of faith is exploding around the world. 234 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,120 Things are happening in the most unusual way. 235 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,640 Come on church. 236 00:15:53,640 --> 00:16:00,680 And growth is just taking place beyond almost our wildest dreams and expectations. 237 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:04,280 I'm over in Ozzy land and I'm here for a purpose. 238 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:07,000 I want to see God move here. 239 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,600 But there are conditions in which I'll be touching on in a moment. 240 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:13,040 But these are exciting times. 241 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:18,080 I told you the other day when I was preaching that our theology, our basic theology came 242 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:21,680 from Thomas Aquinas who influenced the world. 243 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:25,560 He wrote a book called Summa Theologia, The Summation of Theology. 244 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:26,720 Just hold on. 245 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:31,120 Out of which we build our theology. 246 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:37,000 And he was very much influenced by Aristotle, our Sartanian philosophy. 247 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,480 So it wasn't as pure as we think it is. 248 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:45,680 A lot of stuff which we have traditionally had, I thank God for the Holy Ghost, that 249 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:47,080 we think is right. 250 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:48,080 Get back to the word. 251 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:49,080 Can you say amen? 252 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:50,080 The book is the key. 253 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:55,600 When he was dying, he had a vision of eternity and he said, oh, I've written a straw. 254 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:59,960 So he saw stuff that he twice in the works I've read. 255 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:01,560 It speaks that. 256 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:03,960 So no more can we walk just in traditions. 257 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,480 We need to be what God wants us to be. 258 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:08,680 Can you say amen? 259 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:15,520 So it's firstly a church that is being greatly touched, worked by, influenced by the Holy 260 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:16,520 Ghost. 261 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,400 The Holy Ghost is the answer. 262 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:19,400 Can you say amen? 263 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:23,440 Now notice secondly in Job where it talks about the army of the Lord. 264 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:30,040 I remember a great prophet, Paul Kane, spoke about that God is raising up an army. 265 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:36,560 At the beginning of this chapter, it talks about an army and it mentions the army like 266 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:40,360 an army that will bring destruction. 267 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:47,240 But then suddenly it says in verse 25, I restore to you the years that the locusts have eaten, 268 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:55,760 the cankerworm have eaten and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. 269 00:17:55,760 --> 00:18:00,360 So there's not only a natural army, but a spiritual army. 270 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:09,040 God is preparing in these last days an army and it's going to be great. 271 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:14,840 You know, we've got the concept that the church should be hidden behind four walls, 272 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:19,160 worshiping in hotels. 273 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:25,160 But God wants to push the church out and do something great for him. 274 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:26,880 Can you say amen? 275 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,400 Do something powerful for him. 276 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:33,680 You know, I was so moved, it maybe didn't move you, but when Shevchenko, when Shevchenko 277 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:38,760 was appointed president in Ukraine, I think that's his name, isn't it? 278 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:45,160 How the youth, the brother was shared with us on Trinity Broadcast, the past of a church 279 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:54,360 of 20,000, but when they had that seemingly time of stirring, that literally it was a 280 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:57,680 revival meeting in the center of the city there. 281 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:58,680 Correct there? 282 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:04,520 For two hours they would pray before they did this, from about from eight to 10 or something. 283 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:06,880 It was a great prayer meeting. 284 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,400 The whole Shevchenko is a Christian. 285 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,600 That whole, now they say thank God America has brought democracy. 286 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:13,920 No, this is God did it. 287 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,080 But I want to tell you God did it. 288 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:17,160 Amen, church. 289 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:24,440 And God is, the church in that country is alive and awake and moving in awesome power. 290 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,120 Can you say, I've heard about that man for a long time. 291 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:29,000 He's the only Nigerian in the church. 292 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:36,560 But he's filled the church with at least 20,000, at least that. 293 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:42,880 And what I'm saying is that whole thing is just rocking that part of the world. 294 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:44,560 God is doing something. 295 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:45,560 Can you say amen? 296 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:49,160 But he's pushing people beyond the four walls. 297 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:53,920 For example, in Acts chapter eight, the church was very comfortable living in the four walls 298 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:57,840 in Jerusalem until persecution came. 299 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,280 And then God pushed them out. 300 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:04,160 So what kind of army is God preparing? 301 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:08,720 He's preparing an army of great authority and power. 302 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:12,600 He's preparing an army of effectiveness and invincibility. 303 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,600 Amen, church. 304 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,360 An army of swiftness and penetration. 305 00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:20,400 That's you. 306 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:26,600 Prepare to release in the lives the gifts of the spirit and become something of excellence. 307 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:28,320 We want excellence. 308 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,760 And somebody say amen. 309 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:36,200 And you don't realize how God is preparing you even now in this family for a reason. 310 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:37,360 We're not just having church. 311 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:40,520 I'm not interested in just having church. 312 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:42,040 I really want to see God. 313 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:43,040 I'm crying out. 314 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:46,800 That's why we've had fasting and prayer for several weeks. 315 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,640 Now, one more Friday before we do other things. 316 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:50,640 We may do even more. 317 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:51,640 I don't know. 318 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:53,400 But at this stage, I've just felt the burden. 319 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,720 We must continue because something is going on. 320 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,920 Can you say it's prepared itself for warfare? 321 00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:01,600 Amen. 322 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:07,240 And we must understand that revelation and grasp it. 323 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:11,400 The church will be militant much more than it's ever been before. 324 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,160 The church must get into authority. 325 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:18,120 And sometimes we'll have some music that is we're just preparing worship, but there'll 326 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:20,480 be a little bit more militant at times. 327 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:22,120 And harmony speaks of commitment. 328 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:28,060 You see, you can preach what people want or what God wants. 329 00:21:28,060 --> 00:21:30,800 I went to one church and I know that's all over Australia now. 330 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:35,200 They tell me, don't preach longer than 10 minutes. 331 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,040 People can't contain it more than 10. 332 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,040 I tell you what's happened. 333 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:43,400 We literally have an illiteracy concerning the Word of God. 334 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:48,600 There's no understanding anymore of the Bible, of the Word of God. 335 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:49,600 Amen. 336 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,800 And I will not preach what you want. 337 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:54,480 I'll preach what you need. 338 00:21:54,480 --> 00:22:00,680 It's so easy, it's so easy to let, like in the Old Testament, that there were prophets 339 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,280 that told them what they wanted to hear. 340 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:04,960 I want to hear what God is saying. 341 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:06,360 Can you say amen? 342 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:07,360 I long for it. 343 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:08,360 I want it. 344 00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:10,120 I want to be a vessel. 345 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:14,280 And I want us to take you, if you want a 20-minute sermonette for Christian Nets, you won't 346 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:15,280 find it here. 347 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:16,680 I'm sorry. 348 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:20,520 And I hope the time will come when you have your Bible and your notebook open and get 349 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:25,480 hungry for the Word of the Lord and get thirsty, don't starve, get thirsty for what God wants 350 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,920 to say to us at this present hour. 351 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:29,400 Can you say amen? 352 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:34,760 And hear what God is doing at this hour and be the vessel that God wants us to be. 353 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:35,760 Amen. 354 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:39,880 I believe this is different and I thank God for you that people are now slowly owning 355 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:45,760 this place and feeling that something is happening here to the glory and with anticipation of 356 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:50,200 the future and of the blessing of God that God has for us in Jesus Christ. 357 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:51,840 Can somebody say amen? 358 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,480 In an army there's loyalty and commitment. 359 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:55,960 It's different in an army. 360 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,200 You don't say, well, I'll do my own thing in an army. 361 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:00,960 You know, like somebody says, where do you belong? 362 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,960 Well, I belong to the great chief of Canberra. 363 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:04,400 Well, where do you serve? 364 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,400 Well, I serve everywhere. 365 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,960 You're useless like that. 366 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,400 And there's people like that that's happening in this generation that's going to break. 367 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:13,400 Can you say amen? 368 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,400 There's got to be commitment. 369 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,000 You can hardly live in once a week Christianity. 370 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,600 I'm sorry. 371 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:26,800 You just barely get out of heaven, out of hell into heaven like that. 372 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:33,400 You see, we have our church ways and our church language and that must change. 373 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:34,600 Come on church. 374 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:41,040 I'm talking about a new generation, a new generation that God wants to break forth in 375 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:42,040 Australia. 376 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:47,880 If you truly want to see revival, it's not going to be that we do nothing and revival 377 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:49,240 will come. 378 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,280 It starts in here. 379 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:56,360 It starts in our spirit and our being and our heart and our life until we feel it and 380 00:23:56,360 --> 00:24:00,040 we possess it and we cry out until God does it. 381 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:04,080 And if something happens to us, you don't flip from church to church. 382 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:05,080 I'm glad you're here. 383 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,320 If you're just flitting, that's okay. 384 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:08,320 But maybe you'll stay. 385 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,480 But what I'm saying is it's got to be bigger than that. 386 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:12,480 Come on. 387 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:16,320 You'll soon die on the vine if that's what you think life is. 388 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:20,840 Even the army in Iraq, one fellow said, the sergeant said, I'm just going to go to heaven 389 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,320 and have a sleep there. 390 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,080 You're supposed to be watching as a sentry. 391 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,880 The enemy comes in and destroys. 392 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,720 No army can function like that. 393 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:37,680 And we're sometimes, forgive me, we're not, the church, the world doesn't believe us. 394 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:43,360 But we truly believe, what we truly stand for because we don't reflect it in our lives 395 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:44,360 enough. 396 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:47,560 We're not passionate enough about the stuff. 397 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:48,560 Amen. 398 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:55,400 In Joel chapter three, it tells us in the next chapter, verse 10, beat your plowshares. 399 00:24:55,400 --> 00:25:01,680 It says in verse nine, proclaim among the Gentiles, prepare war, wake up mighty men, 400 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,920 that the men of war draw near, let them come up. 401 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:12,800 Beat your plowshares into swords, your punahooks, into spears, that the weak say, I am strong. 402 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:17,040 In other words, we've been plowing a lot of time. 403 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,920 We've been gathering and be blessed and plowing and getting healed. 404 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:22,960 But some of we've got to say, I'm strong. 405 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,560 Can you say amen? 406 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:29,640 Some of we have to take those plows and beat them into swords so that we can fight the 407 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:36,480 army of God, that we can do what God wants us to do, that we can fulfill our destiny 408 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,560 in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. 409 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:39,560 Amen, church. 410 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:43,360 That's the true, what God has told us to do. 411 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:49,440 Also, another thing that's very obvious in this chapter, he and Joel chapter two, a bit 412 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:55,040 earlier, that a church that will be transformed by God. 413 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:59,640 This is the thought that came to me when that word came on Friday night, so strongly. 414 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:04,320 When he was preparing this, I felt this was the direction God wanted to go. 415 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,680 Deep repentance is coming. 416 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:13,400 Another transformation is coming, beginning with me and with everyone else. 417 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:23,120 There was a lady on Benihim this week from America, not in the programs here, that reached 418 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:27,800 my heart because when I went home, I said, God, what are you saying to us? 419 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,040 What are you trying to do with us? 420 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,960 What is your spirit saying to our hearts? 421 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:39,280 What are you trying to achieve in our lives? 422 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:45,520 She started something in my spirit and it grew from her, but I felt she was like a prophetic 423 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,360 voice to America, to me. 424 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:55,320 I don't know if you heard her, but it was awesome. 425 00:26:55,320 --> 00:27:01,160 We are entering into the most important hour of history, I believe that. 426 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:06,960 We must work in righteousness before God. 427 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:11,560 We must come into righteousness. 428 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:17,560 This is an hour where great responsibility must come to Christians. 429 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:23,960 I told you when I started this church that God has a divine design for all of us, but 430 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:31,200 we have in the midst of this a tremendous responsibility for this hour. 431 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,600 We are a special generation, I believe that. 432 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,680 It's happening everywhere else, but they're recognizing it. 433 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:41,480 I want Australia to recognize it. 434 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,120 Can you say amen? 435 00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:45,920 With destiny and purpose. 436 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:51,800 God is speaking to us, I believe, as we go on in a very deep and powerful way. 437 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:59,040 We must be a generation that truly manifests Jesus Christ. 438 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:04,160 We must have a people that will learn one day to govern with Jesus. 439 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,800 We have to be prepared for the kingdom of God. 440 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:12,840 We are not just a church, we are a kingdom of God. 441 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:18,920 Jesus told us to preach the kingdom, to bring in the kingdom. 442 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:24,800 We are literally the kingdom of God working upon this earth. 443 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,080 For example, turn to Ephesians chapter 1, please, in your Bible. 444 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:29,080 Where am I? 445 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,040 Ephesians chapter 1. 446 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,840 Turn to it, please. 447 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:43,160 It says in verse 9, having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to the 448 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:50,480 good pleasure which he has purposed in himself, he wants us to know the mystery of that perfect 449 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:59,800 will of God which he purposed in himself, that in the fullness of time he might gather 450 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:06,560 all things in one, being one, all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which 451 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,600 are on earth. 452 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:14,320 Both heaven and earth will come together. 453 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:22,760 Your rulership, your reigning powers do not start one day, they start now. 454 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,240 You are being prepared now for rulership in Christ. 455 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:32,000 You just don't finally leave earth and you freeze dry to perfection when you get to heaven 456 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,280 and you know your Bible instantly. 457 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:41,080 There is more to this than we realize and then it goes on to say, having made known 458 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:45,360 unto us, and then it says that in the dispensation of, yes, in heaven and in earth, the mystery 459 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:46,360 of his will. 460 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:51,800 Now then go on to chapter 2, please, in your Bible and see this for a minute here. 461 00:29:51,800 --> 00:30:00,840 It says, but now in Christ Jesus, verse 13, ye were afar off and made nigh, how? 462 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:06,400 By the blood of Christ, for he is our peace. 463 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:11,760 This is a very important, we read this and we don't grasp the power of this. 464 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:18,280 He is our peace that has made both one and has broken down the middle wall of petition 465 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:25,160 which is between us, having abolished in his flesh the commandments contained in ordinances 466 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:29,800 to make himself one new man so making peace. 467 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:36,440 But he might reconcile both what to and to God. 468 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,840 His purpose is to reconcile us to God. 469 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:41,440 Hello church. 470 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:51,720 To bring us to God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity, thereby having preached 471 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:56,360 peace to which ye were far off and temperate, which are near. 472 00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:04,840 For through him we have access by one spirit unto the Father, now that we are no more strangers 473 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:11,400 nor foreigners, but fellow citizens of the saints and of what? 474 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:12,400 The household of God. 475 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:21,440 These are a lot of words, but incredible depths of meaning that the purpose of God is to reconcile 476 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:30,240 us, to reconcile us to himself, to bring us into the place with God where we should be 477 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:34,120 to the glory of his name. 478 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:40,440 You see, to truly enter the kingdom we must see and we must enter the kingdom. 479 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:44,320 Let me tell you what the heart of God, this is what our sisters shared a little bit. 480 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:54,560 The heart of God is to cut off the separation from God and man and to reconcile us back 481 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:55,880 to God again. 482 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:56,880 Amen. 483 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,960 That is what God made us for himself. 484 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:03,040 Can somebody say amen? 485 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,560 And some, he wants to bring us back to God. 486 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:10,440 God's love is bigger than just God's love of the world. 487 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:11,880 He felt the pain of that. 488 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,320 He felt the pain of that separation. 489 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,120 He feels the pain of our sin. 490 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,480 He's not a God that bounces on the head. 491 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:24,160 He's a God that wants to bring us to himself. 492 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,120 But we have to deal with our sins. 493 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:31,040 We have to deal with the things that stand in the way of the purpose of God. 494 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:37,480 We must get hold of what it means to come into the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ 495 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,120 and be transformed. 496 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:47,800 This woman saw the pain of what it costs the Father, not just Jesus and the cross. 497 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:56,120 Notice these words, to reconcile us, that we have access by one spirit unto the Father. 498 00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,680 Amazing words, incredible words. 499 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,320 Don't lose them in theology. 500 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,720 This is relationship with God. 501 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:11,040 God bringing us to himself to reconcile us unto himself. 502 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:12,840 God can't stand this separation. 503 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:19,880 This is an ongoing work that God is constantly doing to bring us to himself. 504 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:24,000 And God comes with deep conviction, the Holy Spirit has been sent to convince us, to convict 505 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:31,240 us of our sins, of our need of righteousness that goes on all the time with us. 506 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:36,560 To bring us to the place where we can be divinely effective for him. 507 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:42,280 Where we can be the vessels that God wants us to be for his glory. 508 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:43,280 Amen church. 509 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,800 It's like a commitment in marriage. 510 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:51,560 When you're committed, you don't live in adultery, you don't live in uncleanness. 511 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:52,800 We're married to him. 512 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:53,800 Amen church. 513 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,600 We're reconciled to God. 514 00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:02,600 And in the Old Testament, in Israel God often said you are living in adultery, not physical, 515 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:03,600 but spiritual. 516 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:08,400 I'm married to you, I'm one with you, to Israel he said. 517 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:12,200 But you've stepped away from me time and time again. 518 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:17,360 And likewise in this generation, forgive me, but we have to make sure that he is the center 519 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:18,360 of our lives. 520 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:22,280 That it's not churchy, Hannity, that it's God. 521 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,040 Amen church. 522 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,480 And totally wants to transform us. 523 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:32,480 That is desire, he hates separation. 524 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,320 Separation is horrible to God. 525 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:40,120 He wants us close to him because he loves us. 526 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,240 You don't understand the love of God. 527 00:34:43,240 --> 00:34:46,800 Because he loves us unconditionally. 528 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,600 And totally has given himself to us. 529 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,520 We might be one with him. 530 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,520 Can somebody say amen? 531 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:59,920 He saw the heart, Jesus saw the heart of the condition of separation and sent his son. 532 00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:05,080 And as much as Jesus suffered, there was suffering with the father. 533 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:11,760 To bring us to himself, sin is the most terrible thing in the world. 534 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:15,840 The most horrendous thing in the world. 535 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:21,560 We must see not that God wants to belt us on the head, but that God wants to bring us 536 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,640 to himself as glorious sons. 537 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,720 Can you say amen? 538 00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:30,720 He needs a generation that will truly manifest the glory of God. 539 00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:34,400 This is the hour of the great manifestation of the presence in him. 540 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:40,120 Imagine many hymns in India, two million people, three million people in meetings. 541 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:41,720 We need this kingdom mentality. 542 00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:46,160 We need to enter into the kingdom the way God sees it. 543 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:47,520 And feel his heart. 544 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,240 And feel his burden. 545 00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:51,120 And feel his vision. 546 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:56,080 To Jeff mentioned a bit about the heart of God on Friday night. 547 00:35:56,080 --> 00:36:01,760 And feel that heart that God has for a world that so desperately needs him. 548 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:10,880 You see, in the Hebrews, go to Hebrews with me, chapter six. 549 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:15,680 Hebrews chapter six. 550 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:22,920 He says about the impossibility of when you touch God, you go back into this world. 551 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:28,920 It says verse four, you've tasted the heavenly gift. 552 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,960 You made partakers of the Holy Ghost. 553 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:39,200 You've tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come. 554 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:40,200 Imagine these words. 555 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:41,960 What have you tasted of? 556 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:49,160 The powers, the powers of the world to come. 557 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:50,160 Imagine what that means. 558 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,160 We are tasting it now. 559 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:54,160 Amen. 560 00:36:54,160 --> 00:37:00,720 And we should truly manifest the glory of God. 561 00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:06,640 Truly reveal what that means in God's heart and God's purpose. 562 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,040 He wants to give you more than you've ever had when somebody says amen. 563 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:20,400 But you must grasp this, how God feels about sin and longs to reconcile us to himself. 564 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,680 Not to destroy us, but to make us. 565 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:27,160 To rule with him one day, can somebody say amen? 566 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:31,000 To be those powerful vessels unto God. 567 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,760 Amen. 568 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,480 I think some part of the world where they suffer more, they understand this more. 569 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,960 But you see, that's why, that's what repentance is. 570 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:40,960 It's not a negative thing. 571 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:41,960 It's a glorious thing. 572 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:42,960 It's not a cosmetic thing. 573 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:47,960 Sometimes we have cosmetic changes, you know. 574 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,840 But against women having cosmetic changes, thank God for that. 575 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,560 But that's how some Christians operate. 576 00:37:54,560 --> 00:38:01,480 They have a little cosmetic change, but no real heart change. 577 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,240 We need more than cosmetic change. 578 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:05,040 Can somebody say amen? 579 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:06,040 We need real heart. 580 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:07,440 We all have need of God. 581 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:08,440 I have failed. 582 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,960 I need God more every day of my life. 583 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,520 I need him more than ever. 584 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,040 And I want him more than ever. 585 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:21,320 The church must prepare itself in holiness. 586 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:22,320 Must prepare. 587 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,160 And righteousness, it's a positive thing. 588 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:29,480 A deep supernatural cleansing from God. 589 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,720 Grashing the power of that blood of Jesus. 590 00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:34,720 The power of God's righteousness. 591 00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:37,160 Can somebody say amen? 592 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:41,360 Do you still love me? 593 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:46,480 See the heart of God this morning, church. 594 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,360 See how much God loves you. 595 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:53,000 Longs to bring you to himself. 596 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,160 He's paid everything to reconcile you. 597 00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,760 To make you one with him. 598 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:05,480 But by one spirit, you have access under the Father. 599 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,680 Because of the cross, can somebody say amen? 600 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:15,280 It's also a church that has prepared itself in the midst of darkness. 601 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,560 Never let the darkness, he talks about cross darkness. 602 00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:24,520 Never let the darkness of this world be the criteria of what God wants to do. 603 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:31,440 Too many people measure the works of God by the darkness of this world. 604 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,680 But to God that's nothing. 605 00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:35,680 Hello. 606 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:43,760 In Psalm 2, when the heavens range and the people imagine a vain thing, the Bible says 607 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:49,120 he that sit on the earth, sit in the heavens shall laugh. 608 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:57,560 You know when God sent Moses to Egypt, unbelievable, incredible, impossible darkness. 609 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:04,760 But one man took that nation and shook it to its very foundation, the people even gave 610 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,760 their finances to Israel. 611 00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,280 Shook it to the very foundations. 612 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:14,800 You see in Isaiah 59, turn to it with me for a moment. 613 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:23,680 Actually that's to me, the chapter starts earlier than chapter 60 which we often like. 614 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:29,080 It's chapter 59, it says in verse 19, when the enemy shall come in, like with the comma 615 00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:34,920 summarized, like a flood, the soul shall raise up a standard against him. 616 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:35,920 Like a flood. 617 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:41,320 When the enemy comes in like a flood, the redeemer shall come out of Zion. 618 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,600 And he says to the big household, salvation. 619 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:50,000 Then he says in chapter 60, arise, shine, for the light is come. 620 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:54,720 The glory of the Lord is risen upon you, behold darkness shall cover the earth, gross darkness 621 00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:56,080 to people. 622 00:40:56,080 --> 00:41:02,120 But the Lord shall rise upon thee and his glory shall be seen upon thee. 623 00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:05,920 No matter what darkness there is, life is there. 624 00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:13,040 The Gentiles shall come and the light in thy light, say light, and kings to the brightness 625 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:18,880 of thy rising, lift up thine hands, run about and see, oh they gather themselves together. 626 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:23,120 And the country thy sons shall come from afar, this is to me revival, thy daughters shall 627 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:24,960 be nursed at thy side. 628 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:29,440 Then thou shalt see the flowing together of thine heart shall then be light because the 629 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:35,080 abundance of the seas and the forces which means money, the gold of the Gentiles shall 630 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,880 come unto thee. 631 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:44,160 Now notice here, see, even the apostles when they were first called and stood by the cross 632 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:49,320 couldn't understand, they saw too much darkness to understand the glorious light that was 633 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:50,320 coming. 634 00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:54,400 They couldn't grasp the amazing resurrection of Christ. 635 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,240 They couldn't grasp what God could do at that moment. 636 00:41:58,240 --> 00:42:01,840 Don't measure the church by the condition of the world. 637 00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:02,840 God can do anything. 638 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:09,960 He can raise up people that will be willing to hear his voice and become the vessels that 639 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:15,760 God has planned in these last days for his divine purpose, can somebody say amen. 640 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:20,560 And they're the ordinary people who would have thought that those bunch of apostles 641 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:24,640 could have been anything for God. 642 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:30,680 Fishermen, ordinary people used to gather fish and Jesus from now on you're going to 643 00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:31,680 catch a man. 644 00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:36,480 But they revolutionized the world. 645 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:42,360 And now over generations, over a decade or so, the world shook under the power of God 646 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:43,360 Almighty. 647 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:49,040 But to be that you have to lay a life on the altar. 648 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,080 Everything begins at the altar. 649 00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:54,080 Your salvation begins at the altar. 650 00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,720 The Holy Spirit's work begins at the altar. 651 00:42:57,720 --> 00:43:04,680 Remember the tabernacle which is a type of the eternity and also the church, it all starts 652 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:06,680 at the altar. 653 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:10,160 Have to pass the praise in the altar first. 654 00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:11,600 Your money is laid upon your altar. 655 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,720 Your reputation is laid upon your altar. 656 00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:17,400 Your decisions are laid upon your altar. 657 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:21,080 Your purpose of life, your body is laid upon the altar. 658 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,080 You bring everything. 659 00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:25,800 When they came back from captivity under Ezra, the first thing they did was not build the 660 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:30,280 walls or temple, but build an altar. 661 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:37,280 Now some of us, we feel that when you come this way that I'm guiding you that God's 662 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:38,640 going to just sort of tear us apart. 663 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,480 He's not a tearing God, he's a healing God. 664 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,200 But he wants to help us. 665 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:51,560 And notice when you go to Exodus chapter 20, when it talks about the altar, it says in 666 00:43:51,560 --> 00:44:01,560 verse 26, neither shall they go up by steps unto thine altar, that thy nakedness be not 667 00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:04,200 discovered thereon. 668 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,760 God never exposes nakedness. 669 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:11,440 He's a God that wants to take you and make you something great. 670 00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,160 Can you say amen? 671 00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:16,840 We tend to expose nakedness. 672 00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:22,800 The world's system loves to tear people to pieces and tear them apart. 673 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:30,760 At the moment presidents, they've gone through presidents and they want to expose the weaknesses 674 00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:32,120 of the presidents. 675 00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:38,240 The newscasters are all designed to bring, for example, they tell you how bad it is in 676 00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:39,240 Iraq. 677 00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:41,240 They never tell you the good things of Iraq. 678 00:44:41,240 --> 00:44:42,960 They never tell you what wonderful things are happening. 679 00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,320 They never tell you much about the greatness of the soldiers. 680 00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,160 They don't tell you what's happening with these men. 681 00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:51,400 They want to expose weaknesses. 682 00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:56,600 You know, they say, well, there's never any weapons of mass destruction, yet we know that 683 00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:01,680 massive trucks went from Iraq to Syria with that stuff. 684 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:06,200 We know that even now when they're going to underground, they found things that indicate 685 00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,080 the weapons, but they don't talk about that. 686 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:15,880 They tend to just mention and move on because they don't want this present to look good. 687 00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:20,920 So they're going to have something to gripe against the leader of God. 688 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:21,920 Come on church. 689 00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:27,880 They want to expose the previous presidents and expose their nakedness. 690 00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:31,080 I want to tell you that is not God's business. 691 00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:32,080 Somebody say, amen. 692 00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:37,120 God says when you go to the altar, you cover. 693 00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:42,160 Christians should come to this church with the worst kind of conditions and we should 694 00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,400 cleanse them and what? 695 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:49,000 They should be able to rise to greatness in God. 696 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,100 Can somebody say amen? 697 00:45:51,100 --> 00:45:55,960 Become something powerful in the name of Jesus because that's the business of God. 698 00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:56,960 Amen. 699 00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:02,280 That's his way to break, to make us something powerful. 700 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:06,800 So children don't uncover the nakedness of your parents. 701 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:12,280 You could or parents, children or whatever. 702 00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,120 God covers, God will, we deal with ourselves. 703 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:22,960 Yes, we've come into holiness, but not to destroy, but to become something great. 704 00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,280 We are now have become the righteousness of God in Christ. 705 00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,320 Can somebody say amen? 706 00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:29,320 Hallelujah. 707 00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,200 But there's an altar. 708 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:39,480 In Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 10, it says we have an altar that we have no right to 709 00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:40,480 eat. 710 00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,640 So we still have an altar. 711 00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:50,680 We still come before God in preparation and cleansing and all that God has for us in Jesus 712 00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:51,680 Christ. 713 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:52,680 Hallelujah. 714 00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,200 He's a good God. 715 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,200 Can somebody say amen? 716 00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:01,960 If you understood how God works, we would work differently. 717 00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:02,960 How much God loves. 718 00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:08,800 He picks up people today that have been drug addicts, that have been living prostitutes 719 00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:12,360 and makes them some of the greatest servants of God. 720 00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:17,040 And we somehow accept it because they came out of that world, but we should cover each 721 00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:18,040 other all the time. 722 00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:19,040 Can you say amen? 723 00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:22,280 I want a better amen than that. 724 00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:23,280 Come on. 725 00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,560 That's how this church should be. 726 00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:29,320 That's how this church will be. 727 00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:36,400 We have learned also church only much longer than we've learned the power of the decession. 728 00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:42,240 And I believe the transfer of wealth could clear all those scriptures that God wants 729 00:47:42,240 --> 00:47:44,880 to bless his people. 730 00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:48,600 And the churches are exploding, have an understanding of that. 731 00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,440 Australia doesn't have it yet. 732 00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:56,200 And I'm careful because people don't understand it. 733 00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:58,620 But you've got a grass, but God wants to do. 734 00:47:58,620 --> 00:48:00,080 Come on church. 735 00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,160 We never do much without money. 736 00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:06,800 We finally need, God's going to finally give us the wealth of Egypt. 737 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:08,360 We can build great churches. 738 00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:09,360 Amen. 739 00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,240 We can explode for God. 740 00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:16,480 We can see the kingdom of God, not for ourselves, but for his kingdom. 741 00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:17,480 That's my mentality. 742 00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:18,480 I believe that. 743 00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,920 I know Pastor Jeff believes that. 744 00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:28,040 I hope you believe that and see God working in your life to the glory of his name, to 745 00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:32,760 the honor and praise of his name. 746 00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:39,400 Finally a church that has been prepared, and I wanted you to just touch on this. 747 00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:45,000 It's a deeper truth these days, but that's okay. 748 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,800 Go to Genesis chapter one. 749 00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:55,240 I told you about darkness that comes into light and that we don't, that God is bigger 750 00:48:55,240 --> 00:48:56,240 than any darkness. 751 00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:57,240 Amen. 752 00:48:57,240 --> 00:49:01,520 You never estimate the darkness to be the criteria of the light that God wants to shine 753 00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:04,720 into your hearts powerfully. 754 00:49:04,720 --> 00:49:10,120 But it says in Genesis one verse five, and the Lord called the day night, the darkness 755 00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:14,120 he called night, and then says evening and morning. 756 00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:15,120 Say evening and morning. 757 00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,440 Evening and morning was the first day. 758 00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:21,480 Notice verse eight, and God called the firmament heaven. 759 00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:24,360 Evening and morning was the what? 760 00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:25,360 Second day. 761 00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:30,640 Verse 13, evening and morning was the third day. 762 00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:37,280 When God begins, he doesn't begin with light, he begins with darkness. 763 00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:44,840 The Sabbath in Israel began at the time when the sun set. 764 00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:51,800 We ourselves begin the day at midnight in the midst of darkness. 765 00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:57,840 There's a principle here that I believe we should understand because some of you have 766 00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:01,480 been in that and you can't maybe grasp it. 767 00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:06,400 Before the light will shine, there's darkness. 768 00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:15,520 Before the glorious day will dawn, there are things that come upon us that we don't understand. 769 00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:22,320 He starts not with the sun rising and the birds chirping, excited with the day. 770 00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:28,280 His day starts in the midst of the darkness of the night. 771 00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:35,280 Most churches and most people, before God uses them, go through times of darkness before 772 00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:38,560 the light shines. 773 00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:47,000 Some of you have been there and I don't want you to give up because soon the day will dawn. 774 00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:48,000 Amen, church. 775 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:52,240 Soon the sun will shine. 776 00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:59,560 The darkness should do something in you of preparation, of cleansing, of understanding 777 00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:07,360 the ways and the works of the Lord, of understanding what God is saying to the church at this present 778 00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:10,000 hour. 779 00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:17,200 Most times if a revival comes, there are times like this that you go through and then suddenly 780 00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:20,720 it breaks and the glory of God comes. 781 00:51:20,720 --> 00:51:27,720 Remember, never measure the future by the darkness you're going through. 782 00:51:27,720 --> 00:51:29,200 Measure it by the light of God. 783 00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:30,200 Can you say amen? 784 00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:40,360 Measure it by what God has planned for your life and for your future. 785 00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:46,680 Let me say to you, this will be a different generation than we've ever seen before. 786 00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:52,760 He's preparing a bride for the husband. 787 00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:59,960 He's preparing for that bridegroom, the bride of Jesus Christ, sparkless and pure, prepared 788 00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:04,800 by God for this day and for this hour. 789 00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:09,920 He's reconciling us and I want you to see this because the danger is that we tend to 790 00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:16,880 see this in the wrong light and we lose the perspective of what God is saying, what God 791 00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:17,880 is doing. 792 00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:23,560 Please remember, he's a holy God that loves you. 793 00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:28,640 His heart is broken because we're separated from him. 794 00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:31,880 We've got to get out of our church language into God's language. 795 00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:32,880 Can you say amen? 796 00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:36,080 Into kingdom language. 797 00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:44,800 To come to God through his heart and be reconciled to God and to God can do with us what he's 798 00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:52,120 planned to do with us because this is a new day and I want that day. 799 00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:54,400 Can you say amen? 800 00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,760 I want that day. 801 00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,920 I want that day. 802 00:52:59,920 --> 00:53:04,680 Thank you again for tuning in to today's powerful message from Dr. Reginald Klimanov. 803 00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:07,640 We hope this has touched your heart and inspired your spirit. 804 00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:13,040 Stay connected with Logan City Christian Church for more uplifting sermons and spiritual guidance. 805 00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:18,360 Follow us on social media to join our community and stay updated on all our latest happenings. 806 00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:21,440 Remember, together we grow in faith and love. 807 00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:27,440 Until next time, may God's blessing be with you always.