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All right. Beautiful people. How are we doing?

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Hope you guys are doing amazing right now.

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I'm doing the classic and just checking that

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the tech is working the way that it should be.

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But it is fantastic to have you joining in.

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And whether you're joining in with the live

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or whether you're joining the replay,

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it is such an honor to have you here.

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And I want to really honor you for your amazing hunger.

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And who feels like their hunger is being stirred for a move of God?

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And not just any old move of God, but a move of God

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that will release an unprecedented outpouring of the spirit of God

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and raise up sons and release effortless union with the divine nature.

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A move of God that will swallow people up in the divine dance

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like never before.

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A move of God that will see a participation in the divine life

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that our generation has never known.

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A move of God that will come with nation discipling signs

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and wonders on a scale that we just have no comprehension for.

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Let me know if that sets your heart ablaze,

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if that's stirring you up,

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if that gets you burning, gets your heart boiling.

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For me, it does.

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And for me, that's exactly why we are here right now

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in this adventure together,

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just to be a part of the process of allowing God to stir us,

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to grip us like never before,

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to spark a fresh fire in us

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that goes after the plans and purposes that God has for us

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in a completely radicalized, phenomenal, outrageous way

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like never before.

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Who believes that God has got something phenomenal

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for this generation?

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For me, that's why I'm here.

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That's what I'm doing.

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That's exactly what I stand for.

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I'm standing for an unprecedented move of God.

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But that move of God has to start somewhere.

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And by the end of this session,

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I believe that you're going to be able

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to come into agreement with me.

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Because I believe that that move of God,

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that can start with you, right?

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An unprecedented move of God is at hand.

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And that move of God, it can start with you.

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It has to start somewhere.

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It has to start with someone.

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And I just want to tell you that it's not just starting.

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It's already unfolding.

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It's already got massive momentum.

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But God wants to spark something in you

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that produces awakening all around you,

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produces atmospheric shift all around you,

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all around the lives of the people around you.

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He wants to cause you to be raised up

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as someone who releases an awakening,

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releases an open heaven, releases an atmospheric shift

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that changes lives forever

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and becomes a part of this, like a stream,

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if you want, as a part of this massive river

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that God is releasing right now.

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So much momentum building up

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in this massive river of outpouring.

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And God's calling you to be a significant part of that.

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So let's pray.

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Let's get God, let's just get stirred up.

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Let's see what God's going to do.

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It's going to be wild.

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And you pray with me.

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Just put your declarations down there.

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Put in the comments the things

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that you'll believe in God for,

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the things that you're trusting God for,

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the things that you're excited about,

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what has been stewed up in you.

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What do you want to see?

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Let's start making declarations for those things right now.

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Whoa, Papa, Jesus, Yeshua, Holy Spirit.

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We thank you that it's in you.

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It's in your, whoa, thick, rich, beautiful glory

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that we live and we move and we have our being

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in the wonder of, in the wonder of your glory.

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We thank you so much that you have infused us

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with the divine light.

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We thank you for effortless bliss.

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We thank you for radical signs and wonders and miracles.

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We thank you for the wonder, whoa, of who you are.

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Whoa.

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We thank you that you have fixed in your heart

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to take us beyond where we've ever been before.

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We thank you that the hunger that we have

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is because you're stirring it.

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And we thank you right now

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that you are stirring such a hunger in us

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that's beyond any hunger we've ever known.

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So we welcome your Holy Spirit to breathe on the fire.

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Release fresh hunger, kindle a fresh flame in us.

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May there be an increase in the temperature.

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May there be an increase in the intensity.

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May we burn like we've never burnt before.

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If our hearts know what it is to burn,

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then Papa, we ask that you baptize every part of our body,

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not just our hearts, but every part of our being.

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but our feet and our hands, our fingers and our toes,

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We thank you for that.

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We thank you for the power of your love.

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our hair and our eyeballs, that we would be consumed,

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that we would be ablaze with a hunger and a desire

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and a ravenous pursuit for you

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that is beyond, beyond, beyond

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what we've ever walked in before.

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I thank you for fresh fire.

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And Papa, I declare right now

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to these people that are here,

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to those that are hearing my voice,

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and over this generation,

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I declare that you are catalysts

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of an unprecedented move of God.

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And Papa, I thank you for breaking open the heavens

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over their lives like never before.

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And I declare it has to start somewhere.

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It has to start with someone,

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and God wants to spark it in you.

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So Papa, release your desire, release your fire,

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release your anointing, your grace, your mantles.

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Break open the heavens over our lives.

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I decree and I declare, I mandate and I legislate

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a spirit of awakening gripping you

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to the core of your being in Jesus' name.

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A spirit of awakening coming upon this generation

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like never before in Jesus' name.

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I release it on you in Jesus' name.

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May that be ignited in Jesus' name.

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I see fires being sparked in hearts right now.

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Fresh fire in Jesus' name being sparked, a desire.

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I just see it welling up, bubbling up,

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burning up on the inside of you,

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taking new territory in your own heart,

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unprecedented hunger, new dimensions of faith,

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new dimensions of desire.

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Whoa.

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And may you smother people who've never been smothered

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in the sweet kisses of heaven.

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May they be invalid.

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May they be snuggled.

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May they be smothered.

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May they be marinated.

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May they be baptized in heaven's kisses.

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May they know the richness of your love and your goodness.

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May the kindness and the supernatural tangible presence

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of your glory and the supernatural outpouring

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of your love flood through them.

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May bodies be healed and restored right now.

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May hearts be healed and restored right now.

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May minds be healed and restored right now.

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May the heavens break open over lives right now.

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I decree over you a spirit of wisdom and revelation

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taking you to where you've never been in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Beautiful.

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Wow.

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Is that getting you stirred up?

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Is that getting some fire happening in you?

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I know that is causing some fire in me to burn.

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Just say this with me.

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Say this with me.

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It has to start somewhere.

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It has to start with someone.

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And by the end of this session,

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I believe that you're gonna believe

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that it can start with you in an unprecedented way.

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It can happen right where you are right now.

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And I'm so excited about sharing with you

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how awakening has shaped the world that we live in.

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It is wild.

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Now, I gotta say a few things about awakening, right?

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Is that an awakening will produce an open heaven.

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And what's an open heaven, right?

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It's easy access to revelation, right?

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Easy access to revelation.

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That's what an open heaven produces.

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And a closed heaven makes revelation,

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makes truth very, very difficult to access.

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So it produces a defiled mind.

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It produces a corrupt mind, a futile mind.

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Whereas an open heaven opens the doorway

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for us to step into a renewed mind.

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Yes.

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And when we, this is the thing for me

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that changed my world completely

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to going from never knowing what it was

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to even experience the manifest presence of God

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to being able to live effortlessly.

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I just lean in.

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There's effortless union, effortless oneness,

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effortlessness in the divine nature

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just to experience the divine life so effortlessly.

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And it all came out of a renewed mind

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that has produced an open heaven right here.

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It's a world I never knew could exist.

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It's a world I never knew, never believed I could walk into.

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It's a world that God took me beyond

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what I'd ever experienced or imagined.

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Oh, into this world of signs and wonders

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and glory and outpourings and miracles

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and lives transformed in the divine life

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and effortless union with the divine nature

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and oneness with the Trinity

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and being swallowed up in the divine dance.

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Whoa, it's so glorious, right?

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So awakening, awakening opens up the heavens

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and gives us easy access to truth, right?

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That's what an awakening does.

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It cracks open the heavens,

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gives new access to truth

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that we couldn't have received before.

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And a really good awakening

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will always be followed by a reformation, okay?

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Like if you actually implement that truth,

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it will always change your life.

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Whoa, that's what happened for me

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from never growing up in church and religious,

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in a religious world,

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not even knowing that the manifest presence of God

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was a thing to, whoa,

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being swallowed up in a world of effortless union

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with the divine nature.

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Wow, how does that happen?

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The renewed mind is an open.

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heaven. And open heaven is a participation with the divine

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life being consumed in the divine. It's so immersed in

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divine love that it consumes every part of your being. Wow.

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But man, still got a radical journey ahead. Still want to go

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like God into a realm of beyond what I've ever known. Beyond,

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beyond, beyond. Like Paul wrote, you know, not that I have

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achieved all this, but I set my heart, my sights to go after

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that for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

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Right? Oh, so let's get into it. And we're going to talk about

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awakening, reformation, outpourings, all of these things

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that you would expect. Okay, so we're gonna start with a

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scripture, John 3.3, when Jesus is talking to Nicodemus, and he

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said, we must be born again. All right, you know, that

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terminology, be born again. Nicodemus was real confused.

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He's like, well, Jesus, you tripping. He's like, what? What

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do you mean be born again? I can't climb back into my mum

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like this is weird. And Jesus is like, no, no, no, you must be

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born again. But when we read that in English, and we read it

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as born again, we actually do ourselves a major disservice that

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should be translated as born from above. Sorry, born from

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above. The Greek word is anothan. All right, anothan means

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to be born from above. It means to be born from a heavenly

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dimension. It means to access a whole new realm in the heavens,

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like access new revelation from the heavens. How awesome is that

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to be born again. So awakening is actually this, you know,

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anothan is actually a great word for awakening as well, in a

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sense, you know, like, when we have this born from above

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experience or born again, what's happening is we're experiencing

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a whole new awakening to a whole new level of truth. But I want

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to say that that is a progressive revelation. Okay,

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it's not just a one time thing. That's why you hear people

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saying things like, wow, I feel like I've been born again,

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again. Well, that's because you can be now let me ask you a

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slightly interesting question. Can you be unborn again? Right?

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circles would say when someone backslides, or someone walks

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away from Jesus, do they get unborn again? No, you don't get

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unborn again. It's what happened with Solomon's kingdom, right?

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They walked away from the open heaven, and they walked into

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their lostness and their blindness, and they started

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suffering all the curses of, of blindness, right, of chaos and

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dysfunction. So another thing is this process of progressive

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revelation, you get while you've got this amazing revelation, and

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from a good revelation, you'll see reformation. Okay, so let's

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jump in. And I mean, a classic example is Josiah, right? Was

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Josiah running after God? Was Josiah following God? Yes, he'd

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been seeking God for over a decade, when he actually had

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that revelation when they found the law. And it was after a

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decade of seeking God that he had this Adathon moment, right

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where he's born from above, he accessed new revelation, there

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was an open heaven dynamic came upon me like, wow, the scales

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fell from his eyes, blindness fell from his eyes, awakened to

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a whole new realm of revelation and awakening is like, well,

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what is this truth was right there. And it was in that

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moment, he realized, Oh, my gosh, we should not be

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worshipping Asherah, a giant statue of a penis by having sex

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with homosexual prostitutes and male and female prostitutes. We

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shouldn't have these in the temple, right? That's a big

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deal. That's an Adathon moment and awakening moment. Whoa,

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everything changes. So was Josiah seeking God and living

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for God before that? Yes, he'd already been intensely seeking

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God for a decade. And then boom, he has this open heaven moment,

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this whole new Adathon moment, a whole new level of revelation

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comes upon him. And that revelation produces reformation

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and Josiah goes, whoa, he just has such a revelation that he

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just destroys every idol he can get his hands on and converts,

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changes, rearranges, reforms an entire nation and brings them

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back to God. How wild is that? So this process of, you know,

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awakening and then producing reformation, the first

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reformation in the church actually happened only 10 years

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after Jesus ascended, right? 10 years. What was there a

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reformation there? Yes. So in Acts chapter 10, let me read

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this. I'll give you a little bit of context. So Acts 10, Jesus

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goes to Cornelius's house, and God's given him all these

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revelations and visions and a trance and taken him to this to

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show him that it's okay to go into Cornelius's house.

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Cornelius is a Gentile. So normally, Peter wouldn't even

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set foot inside his house, right? So he's like, Oh, my

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gosh, I can't go in there. But God said you can. So he goes in

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there and he does something he's never imagined doing before,

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which is preaching the gospel to a Gentile. Because up until

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that point, they did not believe the gospel was for Gentiles.

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They thought it was only for the Jews. Despite everything that

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Jesus had said, they did not get it right. And so this is the

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moment that they get it. This is an anathema moment.

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is an awakening that produces reformation. Acts 10 44. While Peter was still speaking these words,

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the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter

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were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles. For they

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heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said, surely no one can stand in the

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way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have. So he

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baptized them and that caused absolute chaos in the church. They couldn't believe that Peter was

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preaching to the Gentiles. It caused a huge reformation. And boom, after that reformation,

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they came to the realization, oh my gosh, the gospel's for everyone. This is crazy. So let

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me know if you think that is a big reformation to have, like a big awakening, a big reformation.

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I think so. That's huge. Imagine if they'd never had that. And imagine if the gospel had never

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been preached to anyone outside of the Jewish ranks. It would have been just reserved just

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for Jewish people. Oh my gosh. Not many of us would know about the gospel. So

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before that, were they bad people? No, it's just people, you know, there's a level of, we're born

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into a dimension, right, of revelation. And obviously we want to pursue revelation with

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our whole heart and get, you know, seek wisdom, seek revelation. We want to pursue that. But

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obviously we have to start somewhere. Our journey has to start at some point. And in general,

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you'll find that people work with what they've got. But sometimes what people have got is really

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lacking, okay. So we're going to go into some stuff right now. We're going to listen to some

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amazing testimonies. We're going to look at some amazing people from history. But we're also going

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to look at the dynamic of a curse that was brought into the church over 1500 years ago that has

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plagued Christianity and is probably plaguing you right now. If it is not plaguing you right now,

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I will guarantee that it has been on your case for a lot of your life. Amazing if you've broken

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that curse. It's a huge curse. It's embedded into mainstream Christian theology. We're going to look

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at where it came from. And so to do that, we actually have to look at some of the church

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fathers who actually carried the curse, right. They did beautiful things. They got revelations.

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They saw reformations. But they actually, at the same time, carried a curse. And I'm in no way

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trying to dishonor or disrespect them. But we have to actually analyze history and analyze truth and

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realize, wow, over 1500 years ago, a huge curse came into the church. And we've been suffering.

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And God wants to deal with it. He wants to break that curse. It's the orphan curse, all right.

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He wants to break that curse because that's just what he's about. You know, we cannot step into

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this move of God right now, which is the unveiling of sons, right. It's this unprecedented move of

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the unveiling of the sons of God. It's stepping into oneness with God. It's stepping into the

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divine life. You can't have any of the promises. You can't have your birthright the way it was

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promised to you, designed for you, if you are suffering the orphan curse. The orphan curse

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destroys the divine life. It destroys oneness. It destroys the bliss of sonship. So let's go

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jump into that. And to get into that, we're going to have to go to go way back in time again. So

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we're going to meet another church father. This guy's name is Augustine. OK, so he lived from 354

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to 430 AD. And if you remember from our last session where we looked at a bunch of the

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church history, this was towards the end of the Roman Empire. He was actually alive at the same

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time. He was born before St. Patrick, but he was alive at the same time. So their lives

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overlapped. St. Augustine was in Hippo or, you know, that was North Africa. So he was in North

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Africa and St. Patrick was obviously in Ireland. So they were totally different parts of the world,

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but they were alive at the same time. So St. Augustine was the one who, without a doubt,

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introduced the orphan curse to the church like never before. All right. He basically created a

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whole systematic theology and that systematic theology. We won't look at it all right now,

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but that systematic theology of Augustine that he brought into the church, it didn't exist before

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Augustine. He birthed it. He was the father of this and he celebrated it for for his theology

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and he celebrated as, you know, a patron saint of theologians. But I want to say that while he was,

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you know, we can we can honor him. But actually, if you look at the all the and we're going to look

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at the theology of Augustine as we go through this session here, it is the it is the foundation

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of the orphan curse into the church. And God has been working on breaking it for fifteen hundred

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years. OK, so this is a big deal. So to start unpacking this and to start seeing the effects

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of Augustine's orphanology or orphan theology, we're going to have to

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to fast forward over a thousand years.

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OK, we're going to meet his greatest disciple

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that lived over a thousand years after Augustine.

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So jump with me.

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Well, time travel show.

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There we go over a thousand years forward in history to

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fifteen hundred and seventeen A.D.

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nailed his ninety five thesis on the chapel at Wittenberg in Germany.

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but it was a massive moment of the Protestant Reformation.

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So context on the Protestant Reformation, you had the Catholic Church,

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which like we looked at last session as a universal church.

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There was only one church, which they call themselves the universal church.

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But actually, there had been what was called the East West Schism

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in a thousand and fifty four A.D., which we won't address right now.

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But there had been a parting of the way.

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that there's been a split from the Catholic Church.

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OK, there was a major, major split in a thousand and fifty four A.D.

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with the East West Schism.

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split away from the Catholic Church in a thousand and fifty four.

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And why? Why did they split away?

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They split away because of Augustine's theology, because they're like,

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this is crazy.

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Now, there are some people in the Greek Orthodox

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that still celebrate Augustine.

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But Augustine, realistically, it's his theology.

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It's the core reason that led to the East West Schism in a thousand fifty four A.D.

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Another 500 years forward from that.

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And we were in 1517 with Martin Luther.

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Now, Martin Luther's main contemporary was a guy named John Calvin.

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I'm sure you've heard the name John Calvin.

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So John Calvin really, really loved Augustine like no one else.

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He was just the ultimate follower of Augustine.

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So they saw John Calvin and Martin Luther with, you know,

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they caused a massive reformation, the Protestant Reformation.

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And a big part of the reason for this is because the Catholic Church

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was just so corrupt in so many ways, right?

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There's some beautiful people.

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We've looked at this already. There's all the saints.

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There's the good, the bad and the ugly all happening at the same time.

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But there was a fundraiser going for St.

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Peter's Basilica, which was actually built by Michelangelo.

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pieces of architecture and art.

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And it is today one of the greatest pieces of architecture and art

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on the planet built by Michelangelo

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and a bunch of other amazing guys at the time.

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But they used this thing called indulgences to fundraise for it,

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which is basically telling people you can buy your relatives out of purgatory.

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If you pay us a good sum, we will actually organize a deal for you

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and we'll get them out of purgatory.

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Now, that's a little bit crazy, right?

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and it just got way too much for a lot of these people.

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So they sparked the reformation.

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Martin Luther was like, no, drew a line in the sand.

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John Carl was like, no, they drew a line in the sand

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and they broke away from all the corruption in the Catholic Church.

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was really more a reformation of systems like the Catholic had a way of

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system, had a way of doing things that was really quite corrupt

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and brutal and a lot of bloodshed.

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And obviously there's great people there, too.

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They break away.

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OK, so it wasn't a huge theological shift.

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of the theology that they carry through from the Catholic Church

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is the Augustine theology.

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So let's look at what happened after the Reformation.

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John Calvin, because of his religious

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stature, he gains political power as well in a place called Geneva.

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All right. So he's in Geneva.

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I'll just say as well, like the Reformation, it sparked

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three centuries of bloodshed and war in Europe.

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OK, so tens of millions of people died over three centuries

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as a whole bunch of progressive wars broke out between Protestant

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and Catholic nations and divisions.

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because there's obviously some ambition, some pride, some, you know, some human

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chaos there. But they were a lot of it was actually sparked by the Reformation.

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They fought for three centuries.

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Can you imagine that bloody wars that killed tens of millions of people?

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So what happens to Calvin in the midst of this?

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Calvin gets set up in Geneva.

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Paul Penley wrote about it.

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And we're just going to have a couple of little glimpses of OK.

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We're trying to get inside of what Calvin's Geneva looked like, because inside

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Geneva, you'll see a reflection of Augustinian and Calvinistic theology.

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Calvin authorized beheadings, death by fire and torture rather than exercise

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patience.

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and kindness with his competing theologians. His enforcement of biblical doctrines looked

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more like ISIS than Jesus. In five years as magistrate of Geneva, the church city state,

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Calvin oversaw 58 death sentences and the exile of 76 people. He wasn't the sole decision maker

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in those cases, but personal correspondence and city council records betray his extraordinary

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influence. Let's look at something from Frank Viola. Frank Viola wrote, Sebastian Castelio,

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a friend of Calvin's, who urged him to repent of his intolerance, made the shocking remark,

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if Christ himself came to Geneva, he would be crucified. For Geneva is not a place of Christian

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liberty. It is ruled by a new Pope, John Calvin, but one who burns men alive while the Pope at Rome

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strangles them first. Frank Viola also wrote, she had this quote, that Calvin was the cruel

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and unopposed dictator of Geneva. So what he did is he took Old Testament law to an extreme and

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just created this extremely oppressive city to live in where you had to do every little letter

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of the law was dictated by John Calvin's perspective on what life should look like, what you could eat,

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the colors you could wear, the height that your hair could be done if you were a lady. Coming late

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to church would end you up in prison. And so here's a look list of some of the, some of the

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things that happened. All right, here's another little list from another quote from Frank Viola.

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So in his article, Frank Viola records a number of offenses for which Christians,

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for which people were executed in Calvin's Geneva. Fornication, adultery, blasphemy,

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idolatry, witchcraft, and heresy were just some of the behaviors that received the death penalty.

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Confessions were obtained by torture. Can you think, do you think that this is crazy? Do you

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think that this is carrying the heart of God, right? This is the orphan gospel. This is the

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orphan curse in action. A child of an unspecified age was beheaded for physically fighting with

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their parents. Frank Viola specifies that during a 17, this period of 17 years when Calvin was

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leading Geneva, there were 139 recorded executions in the city. Wow, this is crazy. But I tell you

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what, Augustine, he was quite similar. He would actually, he endorsed and instigated bribery with,

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he was bribing popes. He was endorsing the violent oppression of his theological enemies.

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It wasn't tolerance. He violently oppressed them. He attacked them so brutally that he basically

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smothered out any other voice that opposed his voice. That's what Augustine did, and that's

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exactly what Calvin did. There's a guy, Michael Servetus, who wanted to come and debate with Calvin

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about theology. Calvin had said, if you come here, I'll have you killed, right? What a nice

496
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way to do that. But Michael Servetus, he's like, man, we can talk. I just want to come and connect

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and talk and just hear about theology. But when he gets there, he goes to church, listens to John

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Calvin preach, and immediately at the end of the service, they arrest him. And what do they do?

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They burn him alive at the stake. And it's recorded in multiple places that Calvin ordered that they

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use green wood to burn him. Now, is that crazy or what? So this is what I'm saying. It's the image

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of God, and that is the problem. And so their image of God becomes the mainstay image of God

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in the church. And now nearly every church in the Western world still has roots to this theology.

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Nearly every church that you go to, whether they're an Anglican church, whether they're a

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Pentecostal church, that nearly every church in the world still has roots back to the Augustinian

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and Calvinistic theology, even the places that think they don't. And we're going to probably

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have to take tomorrow to expose some of that. But it is dramatically impacting the church right now.

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It has dramatically impacted the church for over 1500 years. And it is the reason why there's no

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divine life. You don't hear any testimonies like the Celtic testimonies or the testimonies of the

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saints coming from people like John Calvin, right? There is no fruit of the divine life. There is no

510
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ecstasies. There is no, like you do not see them living like St. Patrick, okay? It's a totally

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different version of Christianity. It's the orphan gospel, and it carries the curse of the orphan

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gospel. You don't see this producing massive... We'll move on. We'll move on, okay? But you get it.

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So let's move on, right? And we're going to move on to a guy, like, remember the name Jonathan

514
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Edwards, okay? You'll remember. We're going to talk about him. He's going to give us another

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level of this image of God that is such a curse.

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is on the church. Okay, so watch for that name, he's coming up real soon. But let's

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go let's fast forward now another couple of hundred years, and there's been wars and we've

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still during this time, there's been all sorts of saints happening as well. So St. Maria

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that we talked about, who was the lady in blue, she happened in that 200 year space,

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St. Francis Xavier, he happened in that 200 year space. So there's all sorts of amazing

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things still happening. But we fast forward to 1727 in a place called Hohenhut in Germany.

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And a move of God begins as an outpouring of the Holy Spirit starts taking place on

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the estate of a man named Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. Right. And so it's the Moravians.

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A lot of you will be familiar with the Moravians and with the hundred year prayer meeting that

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started right there in 1727. And so what do you have here, you've got this monastic

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dynamic again, you know, that was birthed by the Desert Fathers, carried by St. Patrick,

527
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carried by David, this one thing desire, this heart that says, our lives are devoted to

528
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perpetual adoration. How beautiful is that? That's the heart of 24-7. That's the heart

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of a monastic movement, is that our lives are devoted to perpetual adoration. So phenomenal.

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Well, the Holy Spirit began to falling on them. They started this prayer meeting and

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then things started shifting. OK, so just it's really important to mark that date, 1727,

532
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because within five years, something shifts, a new breed of missionary starts. OK, so birthed

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out of that prayer, birthed out of that fireplace, just like Isaiah 6, when Isaiah says, whom

534
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shall I send and who will go for us? These guys start catching the heart of God for nations.

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So there's a guy, John Leonard Dover and David Nechman. OK, and these two guys, the young

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guys, they've got families, they sell themselves into slavery. Right. And they take the funds

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raised from selling themselves into slavery. And it's used to start the Moravian Missions

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Fund. They pack their belongings in coffins and they go to the East Indies as slaves.

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They go to the West Indies as slaves. And it's right. It's crazy. They are standing at the dock

540
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saying goodbye to their children and their wives who are begging them not to go. And they're like,

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you know what? We just have to respond to the call of God is telling us to get on the ship

542
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right now. We don't know if we'll come back. We don't know. But God is calling us. We have

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to say yes to go on this massive missionary endeavor. So they go there. They could stay

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in the big houses and, you know, with white people. But they say, no, no, we'll stay with

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the slaves. They end up sparking a move of God that estimates that I've seen is around 30,000

546
00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:46.760
people, 30,000 slaves discovered Jesus in this awakening that they carry. They've got this prayer

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movement backing them while they're there. Eventually, they do actually get to come back

548
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and be with their families. And it's beautiful. It's happy times. They saw a massive move of God

549
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there. And they were part of the breakout of Moravian missionaries who start breaking out and

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going all over the world, carrying this prayer dynamic. And it's wild. So there's a guy, you'll

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know this name, John Wesley. OK, so John Wesley, he actually starts meeting some of these Moravians

552
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and he loves God. He's been serving God. He's been praying. He's been proactive in evangelism.

553
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He's been doing all of these things. But it's not until he encounters Moravians that his heart

554
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really gets set on fire until he really goes like, oh, my gosh, now I know that I know that I know

555
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I've got a relationship with God. I've got a call. I've got a fire burning.

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So the Moravians lit up John Wesley like crazy. And then and then we get to 1742. OK, now this

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is a moment where we get back to the orphan curse, back to Augustinian and Calvinistic theology,

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because in John 4, in 1742, Jonathan Edwards, he preaches a message which is a major

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catalyst of sparking the first great awakening. It's called Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

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It is the most famous message ever preached in America. If you want a copy of it, you can

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actually just go to one of the websites, you'll find a copy of it as a U.S. history website,

562
00:34:10.520 --> 00:34:18.440
right? Because it was so, so foundational in shaping the culture in the nation of America,

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this one message. But what we're seeing here, right, what I'm trying to unpack to you is how

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this orphan curse has been carried through for centuries from Augustine to Calvin, now to Jonathan

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Edwards. And it's something that God wants to smash. But let's have a look, because in this,

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I'll just read one extract to you from this message, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

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But it just carries, you'll see. Let me just read this and you'll get it. You'll get the

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whole dynamic of who Augustine and who Calvin and who Edwards thought God was and what they

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thought he was like. This right here captures the orphan gospel.

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God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect

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over the fire, abhors you and is dreadfully provoked. His wrath towards you burns like fire.

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He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire. He is of purer eyes

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than to bear to have you in his sight. You are ten thousand times more abominable

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in his eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours."

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So what happens? Boom, 1742, Jonathan Edwards preaches that. He goes around America preaching

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that and it sparks the First Great Awakening. Society was in a very terrible, terrible place

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and to be honest anything would be an upgrade on the brokenness and the darkness that they

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were living in. But this really scared people into the kingdom. It scared people into church

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and it birthed again a whole movement of orphan-hearted people who don't know the love

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of the Father. They don't know anything like what Saint Patrick carried, like what those

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mystic saints carried. They don't know intimacy. They don't know the divine life. They don't know

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oneness with God. They don't know this radical intimacy that we were born for, right? It's this

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world of obligation and now you have some people that get birthed in through there but do develop

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a genuine relationship with God. So we've got, you know, like there's meat and bones there as well.

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Some people get scared in but then really connect with God. But multitudes just, and most of them

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00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:40.960
never, never, never develop the intimacy, the seamless union, the oneness that they were

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created for. So in 1742 you have two other guys who just break out as well. You know, John Wesley

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and George Whitfield. In 1742 John Wesley, he preached outside the chapel that his father

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used to preach in. He preached on his father's grave because they wouldn't let him preach in the

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church and he preached to the poor people. Now in England at that time poor people could not afford

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00:37:05.680 --> 00:37:11.040
to go to church, right? Because you had to pay a pew tax. What? That's right. You had to pay a pew tax

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and there was a dress code and poor people didn't meet the cart. So poor people just couldn't go

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to church. And actually John Wesley, when he started out, he thought this is crazy. I can't

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believe it. He thought it was a sin to lead someone to Jesus outside of a church, right? So a major

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shift is happening. But George Whitfield is preaching to thousands of people and then John

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00:37:31.120 --> 00:37:35.360
Wesley gets like kicked out of the church anyway. So George Whitfield is already preaching to

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thousands of people. He's going to the poor people. He's going to the commoners. He's going to the

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people on the streets. He's going to the people at the, you know, at the brick mines and all of

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these places in the industry level areas of industry. And he's preaching the gospel. And you

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know what? Crowds start turning up. This is the first great awakening. Tens of thousands of people,

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up to 20,000 people will gather in the open air for these amazing meetings where John Wesley and

602
00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:08.720
George Whitfield would preach. And there was a supernatural ability for their voice, especially

603
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George Whitfield, for his voice to be projected so everyone could hear him. You imagine a crowd of,

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you know, 500 people try and talk to them, you know, and so they can hear you. They would speak

605
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and 20,000 people would be able to hear what they were saying. You know, that is not just having a

606
00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:28.960
loud voice. There's a supernatural dynamic unfolding there. And the presence of God was moving. Some

607
00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:32.960
people even spoke in tongues, not a lot, but a few people. There was miracles there. People were

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getting slain in the Holy Spirit. They warned people because people would try and get a view,

609
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so they'd hide up, you know, climb up trees. And people said, like, don't climb up the trees

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because when the spirit comes, who knows what's going to happen because the spirit would start

611
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coming. They're preaching. They'd start hearing these thuds as people are getting slain in the

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spirit and just falling out of trees. So it's like with George Whitfield and John Wesley,

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there's a whole different dynamic than what was carried by Jonathan Edwards, but it's a sparking,

614
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this breaking out of the first great awakening that rushes through England and rushes through

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the American colonies. And that goes through pretty much to the end of the 1740s. Then you

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have a pretty dynamic upheaval in history there from about 1775 to 1778. There is the American

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Revolution. So America fights England. And it's not just American England. Actually, it's a world

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war because all the allies jump on board, the Spanish partner with the Americans, and then

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this war breaks out around the whole world. It's actually a world war, the Revolutionary War.

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But that changes. And then let me just show you as well what starts happening next.

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Here's a cool fact about John Wesley. He preached so much on his horse, right? Got on his horse,

622
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traveled, preached. And these guys were preaching almost every day. George Whitfield preached nearly

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00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:58.320
every day. John Wesley, he preached so many times as well. John Wesley rode his horse. They

624
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calculated, you know, an average...

625
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he did on a weekly basis for how long he did it.

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And it was easily 250,000 miles, which put that in context for you.

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That's the same as riding a horse around the world,

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around the equator line ten times. Right. That's crazy.

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They did a lot of preaching.

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They sparked a whole radical move of God.

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It started shifting the mindset about God as well, what they were carrying.

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And then Wesley, his very last letter on his deathbed,

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he wrote to a guy named William Wilberforce.

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And what was his last plea?

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Because he'd been engaged in social activism and helping the poor

636
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and doing so many things that were bringing change to society.

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And his last letter that he wrote was to William Wilberforce.

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And it was just a petition to him to keep going in his pursuit

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to shut down slavery. OK, so

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in 1780, off the back of the first Great Awakening, a guy named

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a group called the Clapham Saints were formed.

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Henry, John Venn and Henry Thornton, they formed the Clapham Saints.

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OK, and this Clapham Saints, they backed people like William Wilberforce.

644
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It was one of the one of the first movements that really focused in on

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Seven Mountains transformation.

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They went really after society from the top down.

647
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They changed things in Parliament.

648
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They completely revolutionized society in England.

649
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So off the back of the first Great Awakening, this group, the Clapham Saints

650
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is born and they revolutionized society in England.

651
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They ended the slave trade.

652
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That's amazing right there.

653
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They birthed the missions movement that sent out has sent out

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thousands of missionaries.

655
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They changed.

656
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There was over 200 things that you could be executed for.

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They brought it down to eight.

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They started the SPCA.

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They helped start the University of London.

660
00:41:51.200 --> 00:41:54.960
They did so much, but they totally changed culture and society.

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This group called the Clapham Saints.

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So that's 1780,

663
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just after the American Revolution.

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And then you start getting characters like this guy, William Carey.

665
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OK, so William Carey, he was a missionary to India

666
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and sort of made like God just do amazing things there.

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But here again with William Carey story, you see Calvin and Augustine

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jumping up there because William Carey is telling people,

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I want to go to India right to preach the gospel, to do missions

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and lead people to Jesus.

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And the response that he got from the church was this.

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They said, but when God pleases to convert the heathen,

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he will do it without you or me.

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All right.

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So it's this dynamic of predestination where now you don't have to preach.

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You don't have to do anything.

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God's going to do it all.

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Never mind actually being involved with your faith.

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So that's the orphan curse kicking in again.

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It was prevalent still in society.

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So God's still working on breaking this orphan curse.

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Then in the early 1800s.

683
00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:56.440
Right. So in the early 1800s, we start having the

684
00:42:57.120 --> 00:42:59.000
the beginnings of the second Great Awakening.

685
00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:02.080
Actually, after the Revolutionary War, people were disappointed.

686
00:43:02.600 --> 00:43:04.880
They started turning to darkness again.

687
00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:05.680
They started getting lost.

688
00:43:05.680 --> 00:43:07.680
Society started going way downhill.

689
00:43:07.680 --> 00:43:10.760
But in the early 1800s, boom, these camp revivals

690
00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:13.440
start breaking out around America and thousands of people

691
00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:14.760
start going to these camp revivals.

692
00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:18.560
There's signs, wonders, miracles, God's moving in crazy, amazing ways.

693
00:43:18.560 --> 00:43:20.800
And this new guy turns up on the scene.

694
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:25.560
And he's not like he is not like Jonathan Edwards.

695
00:43:25.560 --> 00:43:27.600
All right. He's carrying a new move of God.

696
00:43:27.600 --> 00:43:30.360
He starts actually smashing some of the Calvinistic theology.

697
00:43:30.600 --> 00:43:33.240
His name is Charles Finney. All right.

698
00:43:33.240 --> 00:43:35.920
And to get this and to introduce you to Charles Finney.

699
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:40.040
Charles Finney, he traveled with a guy named Daniel Nash.

700
00:43:40.040 --> 00:43:42.440
And Daniel Nash was his intercessor. Right.

701
00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:47.600
So Daniel Nash, what Daniel Nash did is he would go places before Finney

702
00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:48.960
and he would pray.

703
00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:50.560
Now, we looked at the Moravians, right?

704
00:43:50.560 --> 00:43:53.040
The Moravians, 1727, they start praying.

705
00:43:53.040 --> 00:43:54.200
And what do you know after that?

706
00:43:54.200 --> 00:43:58.720
Boom, it's the the just directly after the Moravians

707
00:43:58.720 --> 00:44:00.920
start their 100 year prayer meeting.

708
00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:02.640
You have the first awakening start.

709
00:44:02.640 --> 00:44:04.280
It's that boom breaks out.

710
00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:08.120
And then while they're still praying, the second Great Awakening breaks out.

711
00:44:08.120 --> 00:44:12.080
And you have Charles Finney and Daniel Nash.

712
00:44:12.080 --> 00:44:15.920
And so Daniel Nash would go ahead of Charles Finney and start praying.

713
00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:20.360
This is a real key to atmospheric shift here.

714
00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:23.520
Just one guy that he would know he would, to be honest,

715
00:44:23.520 --> 00:44:25.960
he would take sometimes, you know, a friend or two if he could.

716
00:44:26.160 --> 00:44:29.080
And I would rent somewhere quiet and out of the way.

717
00:44:29.160 --> 00:44:31.760
And they would just go in there and pray and they would pray.

718
00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:35.600
And their prayers, they were in a place of travailing prayers.

719
00:44:35.600 --> 00:44:39.280
So they would sometimes just lie on the ground and groan for days.

720
00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:41.520
That's it. They just came out like they would go into this place.

721
00:44:41.520 --> 00:44:43.520
The spirit of God would come on this line, the ground groaning.

722
00:44:43.520 --> 00:44:46.080
Like, oh, what were they doing?

723
00:44:46.520 --> 00:44:48.040
It's a thing called symphony.

724
00:44:48.040 --> 00:44:48.320
All right.

725
00:44:48.320 --> 00:44:51.840
They were coming into harmony with the sound of the spirit of God.

726
00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:52.760
When you come into harmony

727
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:55.360
with the spirit of God and the sounds of the spirit of God,

728
00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:56.880
you come into harmony with heaven.

729
00:44:56.880 --> 00:44:59.000
You start coming into harmony with the sounds of heaven.

730
00:44:59.120 --> 00:44:59.920
It's this dynamic.

731
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.200
called Symphonia, and it is insanely powerful to allow your

732
00:45:04.200 --> 00:45:07.760
prayer life to harmonize with the sounds of heaven. And so he

733
00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:10.840
would come to this place of great travail, I'd be like, ah,

734
00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:14.120
that would groan and they just roll around sometimes for days

735
00:45:14.120 --> 00:45:16.880
on the floor, not eating, not doing anything, not even going

736
00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:19.520
to the bathroom. And people would get really concerned with

737
00:45:19.520 --> 00:45:21.720
what was happening. And then they'll go, we got the

738
00:45:21.720 --> 00:45:24.240
breakthrough, they would realize that they broke something in the

739
00:45:24.240 --> 00:45:27.720
heavenly realm, and open heaven dynamic had been accomplished.

740
00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:30.640
And then they'd call Charles Finian, and he'd go to preach.

741
00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:33.760
One place he went to preach, you know, it's not many people come

742
00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:37.160
to the meeting that the first night, not that many people

743
00:45:37.160 --> 00:45:42.080
come. And so but Daniel Nash, Brother Nash, he's already said

744
00:45:42.080 --> 00:45:44.080
there's an open heaven. So they, you know, they just know God's

745
00:45:44.080 --> 00:45:47.440
going to do something. Then at one of the local schools, a

746
00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:51.320
little kid starts tearing up in the class. And the teacher's

747
00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:55.800
like, Are you all right? And this little kid's like, I fear

748
00:45:55.800 --> 00:45:59.400
for my soul, she starts bursting out crying. And then like

749
00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:02.280
popcorn, right? Not just her, the other kids start bursting

750
00:46:02.280 --> 00:46:04.080
out crying. And then the teacher's like, what am I going

751
00:46:04.080 --> 00:46:06.960
to do? There's all these kids just weeping. And like with

752
00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:09.480
concern for their souls, they want to get right with God right

753
00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:11.400
there in the classroom. The teachers are I don't know how to

754
00:46:11.400 --> 00:46:14.720
handle this. They run at she runs out into the corridor to

755
00:46:14.720 --> 00:46:17.720
see if she can get any other help to find that other teachers

756
00:46:17.720 --> 00:46:20.200
have got exactly the same thing happening in their classroom.

757
00:46:20.280 --> 00:46:23.200
They're all right. Oh my gosh, what's happening? And there's a

758
00:46:23.200 --> 00:46:26.280
an awakening, right? It's an atmospheric shift of awakening.

759
00:46:26.400 --> 00:46:28.400
So those types of things would start happening. And then people

760
00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:30.840
would come to Charles Finney's meetings and boom, it would

761
00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:34.800
break out crazy outpourings. There's this one story in the

762
00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:38.480
New York Mills where Finney went, Nash has called him in. So

763
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:41.760
he walks there. He's just looking at this one lady. And

764
00:46:41.880 --> 00:46:43.760
she starts getting kind of uncomfortable. And then she

765
00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:46.960
falls to the floor. He's just walking through with the owner.

766
00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:49.520
He hasn't said anything. He's just walking through and he

767
00:46:49.520 --> 00:46:52.240
looks at the stage, she falls to the floor and starts weeping.

768
00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:55.320
And then boom, like popcorn, atmospheric shift has taken

769
00:46:55.320 --> 00:46:57.800
place. And these people just start weeping, breaking like, oh

770
00:46:57.800 --> 00:47:00.760
my gosh. And then the owner's like, oh my gosh, we better

771
00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:03.960
start, we just better stop work at them at this mill. Ladies

772
00:47:03.960 --> 00:47:06.720
were weaving and things like that. And so they stopped work

773
00:47:06.720 --> 00:47:10.040
and they just had an outpouring. They had a revival meeting for

774
00:47:10.040 --> 00:47:13.360
about three days. And nearly every single person there gave

775
00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:17.040
their lives to Jesus, got radically saved. Wow, this is

776
00:47:17.040 --> 00:47:22.480
amazing. The most famous revival or outpouring awakening

777
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:25.800
moment of the great, the second great awakening was in a city

778
00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:30.040
called Rochester. So Finney goes to Rochester with Nash, and

779
00:47:30.040 --> 00:47:32.560
they're praying it up. And then they're like, yep, this is it,

780
00:47:32.560 --> 00:47:37.120
it's on. And this awakening breaks out over the city, right?

781
00:47:37.120 --> 00:47:39.800
They didn't want to go to Rochester because it was so dark.

782
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:42.160
It was such a place where it was so corrupt. And they're like,

783
00:47:42.160 --> 00:47:44.360
God, we don't want to go there. And God said to them, he's like,

784
00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:47.240
isn't that a good reason to go there? And they said, Okay, we'll

785
00:47:47.240 --> 00:47:51.200
go. So God sent them to Rochester. They had an

786
00:47:51.200 --> 00:47:53.560
invitation there. And they started praying and things broke

787
00:47:53.560 --> 00:47:59.040
out in the heavens. In six months, they baptized 100,000

788
00:47:59.080 --> 00:48:03.280
people from all levels of society. Not only that, but

789
00:48:03.280 --> 00:48:06.480
people came to Rochester from all around. And there is over

790
00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:11.480
1500 recorded outpourings, revivals that people came to

791
00:48:11.480 --> 00:48:15.120
Rochester got set on fire and went out and sparked another

792
00:48:15.120 --> 00:48:19.400
outpouring where they were from over 1500 recorded outpourings

793
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:22.040
that got sparked from Rochester from that one place. But it was

794
00:48:22.040 --> 00:48:24.280
the second great awakening wasn't just Finney. And it

795
00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:26.520
wasn't just that one place wasn't just Rochester, boom,

796
00:48:26.520 --> 00:48:30.400
right across America, there is a great awakening, the second

797
00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:34.360
great awakening so massive that it literally shaped the psyche

798
00:48:34.360 --> 00:48:38.720
and the psychology and the foundations of America wild.

799
00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:41.720
Alright, so let's keep moving on, because there's a lot of

800
00:48:41.720 --> 00:48:44.400
other things. So but what you started to see there as well

801
00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:47.800
through Finney is it started to break off this orphan curse, the

802
00:48:47.800 --> 00:48:50.400
Calvinistic Augustinian theology, it started to get

803
00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:54.160
broken off. Is that exciting? Are you loving those stories?

804
00:48:54.160 --> 00:48:57.080
Now, I'm going to share a few more stories with you. Because

805
00:48:57.120 --> 00:48:59.640
these things just started breaking out everywhere. Not

806
00:48:59.640 --> 00:49:02.720
we're not talking like the awakenings, the revivals, the

807
00:49:02.720 --> 00:49:05.560
outpourings, it's not just one or two, it's thousands, I can't

808
00:49:05.560 --> 00:49:08.120
collate them all for you. I'm just giving you a tiny little

809
00:49:08.160 --> 00:49:12.680
dip your toe in the bucket to what your heritage is as a

810
00:49:12.680 --> 00:49:15.880
Christian, right? Your heritage as a Christian is awakening,

811
00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:20.240
it's outpourings, it's revival, it's moves of God, it's mystical

812
00:49:20.240 --> 00:49:23.880
union, it's the saints, it's the revivalists, there is so and

813
00:49:24.080 --> 00:49:26.440
we're not talking like I said, we're not talking just a few,

814
00:49:26.520 --> 00:49:29.080
we're talking hundreds of people talking 1000s of people, I'm

815
00:49:29.080 --> 00:49:32.440
just giving you a tiny little drip in the bucket here. So in

816
00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:36.240
the in the mid 1800s, and right here in Aotearoa, New Zealand,

817
00:49:36.600 --> 00:49:40.280
the Maori people had a an awakening as well. There was

818
00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:43.680
Maori apostles and prophets going right through the nation,

819
00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:50.320
and somewhere between 50 to 75%. Some people say higher, that's

820
00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:54.440
that's just a conservative figure. But 50 to 70% of Maori

821
00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:57.280
people gave their lives to Jesus, and we're following him

822
00:49:57.320 --> 00:50:00.120
amazing, right? 50 to 75% of an entire

823
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:08.720
a people group that's in the mid 1800s. Then you've got a guy Hudson Taylor in 1866. He starts

824
00:50:08.720 --> 00:50:14.320
moving right he start he moves to the interiors of China he sets up something called the China

825
00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:20.000
Inland Mission. Before Hudson Taylor there had not been very many missionaries that actually

826
00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:24.320
reached deep into the interior of some of these big continents some of these big nations that

827
00:50:24.320 --> 00:50:28.800
kind of stayed in the ports as missionaries and those easily accessible places but Hudson Taylor

828
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:37.120
goes into the interior. That's in 1866 and you think about China now and the significance of

829
00:50:37.120 --> 00:50:43.280
China now birthed from people like that who went there all those years ago carrying something

830
00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:51.120
phenomenal from God. Then we have the Welsh Revival 1904 to 1905 the Welsh Revival with

831
00:50:51.120 --> 00:50:56.720
Evan Roberts and I've talked about that briefly but it was in Welsh Revival that Evan Roberts had

832
00:50:56.720 --> 00:51:02.560
this prayer was like bend us Lord bend us bend us Lord bend us and it's such an expression of

833
00:51:02.560 --> 00:51:08.640
humility because he recognizes we can't do we're desperate for you God right we are desperate for

834
00:51:08.640 --> 00:51:14.800
you to take us where we've never been. He understood that and he saw an out the one of the just a

835
00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:21.440
phenomenal awakening right so people see that it was such a geographical atmospheric shift that all

836
00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:28.160
of Wales it was said that if you set foot on Wales on Welsh territory you would suddenly be

837
00:51:28.160 --> 00:51:34.560
hit by an open heaven you would come into an awakening and awareness of the glory of God.

838
00:51:34.560 --> 00:51:40.800
Pubs shut down you know bars shut down society was radically changed some of you might know

839
00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:46.800
the story but the coal miners got so transformed and so converted that they had to retrain their

840
00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:51.520
mules because they were so used to being sworn at that when these guys got touched by God

841
00:51:51.520 --> 00:51:54.720
they weren't swearing at them all they couldn't understand what the coal miners were saying

842
00:51:54.720 --> 00:52:02.000
because they just used to being sworn at but a massive societal just radical change there and

843
00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:10.160
in a huge right this was huge a huge geographical shift of an open heaven where you set foot on

844
00:52:10.160 --> 00:52:15.440
Welsh territory and there was an awareness of God that began to overwhelm people phenomenal.

845
00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:22.080
Then just after that 1906 to 1909 we had Azusa Street now Welsh Revival and Azusa Street there

846
00:52:22.080 --> 00:52:27.920
was a baptism in the Holy Spirit it was at Azusa Street that it really blew up like crazy so 1906

847
00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:35.680
to 1909 for three years nearly every day they had a manifestation of the Shekinah glory

848
00:52:36.560 --> 00:52:41.840
like right there they had flames appearing on the top of the building the fire station was called

849
00:52:41.840 --> 00:52:45.680
because they were like oh my gosh this place is on fire but it was just supernatural flames

850
00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:50.640
they would come into the meetings and step into the meetings and the Shekinah glory would be so

851
00:52:50.640 --> 00:52:54.960
thick that they'd look at the floor and they couldn't see their own feet because the cloud of

852
00:52:54.960 --> 00:53:02.560
his glory whoa there's a prophecy in 1909 from William Seymour and Charles Parham who were both

853
00:53:02.560 --> 00:53:07.920
key in that time and they and the prophecy said that in around a hundred years God will begin

854
00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:13.120
to restore the Shekinah glory back to the church and I played that in a hundred years after that

855
00:53:13.120 --> 00:53:18.720
1909 because God has started to restore the Shekinah glory of church back to the church so I

856
00:53:18.720 --> 00:53:24.000
played that uh that prophecy in our church and someone went home and they as they opened the

857
00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:28.800
door a Shekinah glory cloud appeared in their hallway and just what like moved through their

858
00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:32.880
house into their bedroom they're like whoa and as I prayed into it I was like God what are you

859
00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:38.560
what is this and he said I see the cloud this a cloud the size of a man's fist and after that

860
00:53:38.560 --> 00:53:43.920
there was multiple encounters uh one night one of our guys he's in his room in the middle of the night

861
00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:49.520
and a bright shining cloud manifested this glory cloud appeared in his bedroom in just right there

862
00:53:49.520 --> 00:53:54.160
in his room and he's completely undone by the presence it lit up his whole room in the middle

863
00:53:54.160 --> 00:54:00.080
of the night uh he's like wow God that was amazing it happened twice in one week multiple stories of

864
00:54:00.080 --> 00:54:05.520
the Shekinah glory but listen these guys prophesied that a greater measure of the Shekinah

865
00:54:05.520 --> 00:54:10.560
glory that was ever on Azusa street is coming back to the world before Azusa street there was

866
00:54:10.560 --> 00:54:15.040
hardly anyone just a few people around the world that spoke in tongues that was actually happening

867
00:54:15.040 --> 00:54:20.000
in the moldy revivals as well people were receiving the baptism of the holy spirit but after Azusa

868
00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:25.280
street it blew up tens of millions of people started getting hit by the baptism and the holy

869
00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:30.000
spirit was a brand new pentecost is this awakening is producing a reformation is the birth of the

870
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:35.520
modern day pentecostal movement and now there's claims about you know it's it's somewhere around

871
00:54:35.520 --> 00:54:40.480
over 200 million people that are now baptized in the holy spirit but before Azusa street you just

872
00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:44.800
didn't have that all right so you see these awakenings producing reformations God's changing

873
00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:50.800
things rearranging them um there was just like phenomenal miracles one one miracle story actually

874
00:54:50.800 --> 00:54:55.440
a good book to read on this is they told me their stories it's called they told me their stories all

875
00:54:55.440 --> 00:54:59.760
about Azusa street but one miracle there was a guy with no arm and they watched as a

876
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:06.040
And then muscle and tissue and tendon just covered it and he grew an arm right there.

877
00:55:06.040 --> 00:55:10.880
So many amazing miracles broke out of that place.

878
00:55:10.880 --> 00:55:14.720
The kids, the kids would actually go there and they would play hide and go seek in the

879
00:55:14.720 --> 00:55:16.480
glory as one of the church activities.

880
00:55:16.480 --> 00:55:18.240
Now bring that back, right?

881
00:55:18.240 --> 00:55:20.760
That's got to be one of the best youth group games in the world.

882
00:55:20.760 --> 00:55:23.360
Hide and go seek in the glory.

883
00:55:23.360 --> 00:55:25.680
Yes.

884
00:55:25.680 --> 00:55:28.200
And so let me let me give you another story of another outpouring.

885
00:55:28.440 --> 00:55:34.520
1910, a guy named James Fraser, he goes to Hudson Taylor, who's already in China.

886
00:55:34.520 --> 00:55:38.600
He partners with the China Inland Mission, and then he has a passion to reach this group

887
00:55:38.600 --> 00:55:39.480
called the Lisu.

888
00:55:39.480 --> 00:55:41.080
They really don't know.

889
00:55:41.080 --> 00:55:43.480
Like, they are really deep in darkness.

890
00:55:43.480 --> 00:55:44.520
They're an animism.

891
00:55:44.520 --> 00:55:45.720
They're in the occult.

892
00:55:45.720 --> 00:55:47.400
They're worshiping spirits and demons.

893
00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:51.160
They've got all sorts of demonic supernatural powers going on.

894
00:55:51.160 --> 00:55:56.920
They are right into, you know, they're into the drunks and they're just adulterous.

895
00:55:56.920 --> 00:56:01.000
They sleep around, drink and into satanic occult worship.

896
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:03.240
And he's like, well, I want to reach these people.

897
00:56:03.240 --> 00:56:09.080
And he spent six years trying to reach them in Southern China in the state, Yunnan.

898
00:56:09.080 --> 00:56:09.960
I've actually been there.

899
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:12.360
I've been to where the Lisu live.

900
00:56:12.360 --> 00:56:16.120
And because I was so inspired by the story, I actually wanted to go there.

901
00:56:16.120 --> 00:56:20.680
So I went there just to see where James Fraser lived and where he worked and what he did.

902
00:56:20.680 --> 00:56:23.000
And it's a rugged mountainous country.

903
00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:24.840
It's extremely difficult terrain.

904
00:56:24.840 --> 00:56:25.720
And so he lived there.

905
00:56:25.720 --> 00:56:30.040
He walked all through these mountains, reaching the Lisu preaching to them.

906
00:56:30.040 --> 00:56:33.240
And after six years, he basically had no fruit whatsoever.

907
00:56:33.240 --> 00:56:35.480
But he just really started to engage in prayer.

908
00:56:35.480 --> 00:56:40.280
And he got his prayer warriors back in England who were backing him.

909
00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:41.320
He said, we've got to pray.

910
00:56:41.320 --> 00:56:43.320
And they started praying like never before.

911
00:56:43.320 --> 00:56:48.360
And they saw an atmospheric shift over the Lisu people praying in England.

912
00:56:48.360 --> 00:56:51.160
Atmospheric shift happens for the Lisu.

913
00:56:51.160 --> 00:56:55.400
And what happens is the Holy Spirit starts going up all these mountain valleys and

914
00:56:55.400 --> 00:56:59.480
all these people who they're not connect their long distances away from each other.

915
00:56:59.480 --> 00:57:01.320
But an atmospheric shift takes place.

916
00:57:01.320 --> 00:57:02.840
An open heaven breaks out.

917
00:57:02.840 --> 00:57:05.880
There's this awakening that starts happening for them.

918
00:57:05.880 --> 00:57:08.600
And they start coming by the tens of thousands.

919
00:57:08.600 --> 00:57:12.520
And he baptized over 60,000 Lisu.

920
00:57:12.520 --> 00:57:13.080
Right.

921
00:57:13.080 --> 00:57:20.760
And it was so dramatic that it was recorded that it was at one point 90% of the Lisu group

922
00:57:20.760 --> 00:57:21.800
were Christians.

923
00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:26.920
And they were so influenced by the gospel that they were the only people group that

924
00:57:26.920 --> 00:57:29.080
the Chinese government recognized as Christians.

925
00:57:29.080 --> 00:57:30.120
How amazing is that?

926
00:57:30.120 --> 00:57:30.360
Right.

927
00:57:31.960 --> 00:57:37.640
So after that, 1910, you're like another story is the Hebrides revival.

928
00:57:37.640 --> 00:57:38.360
I love this.

929
00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:40.040
Another atmospheric shift happens.

930
00:57:40.040 --> 00:57:41.640
So there's these two old ladies.

931
00:57:41.640 --> 00:57:45.560
And I don't know where you're at, but these two old ladies, maybe I don't know where you

932
00:57:45.560 --> 00:57:48.280
think you're at with your call of God, but it has to start somewhere.

933
00:57:48.280 --> 00:57:49.320
It has to start with someone.

934
00:57:49.480 --> 00:57:52.120
And it absolutely 100% can start with you.

935
00:57:52.120 --> 00:57:55.640
So Peggy and Christine, they're 84 and 82.

936
00:57:55.640 --> 00:57:56.520
Peggy's blind.

937
00:57:56.520 --> 00:58:00.520
And Christine is so crippled by arthritis that she's basically bent in two.

938
00:58:00.520 --> 00:58:02.200
But they just started praying.

939
00:58:02.200 --> 00:58:03.960
They turned their house into an open heaven.

940
00:58:03.960 --> 00:58:05.160
They started praying.

941
00:58:05.160 --> 00:58:08.040
And then they called a guy named Duncan Campbell.

942
00:58:08.040 --> 00:58:11.640
And they basically instructed him as to what to do as the avengers.

943
00:58:11.640 --> 00:58:13.080
And he started moving around.

944
00:58:13.080 --> 00:58:13.720
Now we're praying.

945
00:58:13.720 --> 00:58:18.360
And then boom, all these people started having prayer meetings all night that they just started

946
00:58:18.360 --> 00:58:20.440
getting gripped by this hunger for God.

947
00:58:20.440 --> 00:58:23.720
And the Shekinah glory would come upon their houses in the night.

948
00:58:23.720 --> 00:58:24.760
They'll be praying through the night.

949
00:58:24.760 --> 00:58:28.680
Shekinah glory was just dotting on these houses through the night.

950
00:58:28.680 --> 00:58:33.960
There's one story where there's such an atmospheric shift that people actually woke up in the

951
00:58:33.960 --> 00:58:34.280
night.

952
00:58:34.280 --> 00:58:39.000
Hundreds of people woke up in the night not knowing what was happening, but just having

953
00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:41.880
this conviction on their lives.

954
00:58:41.880 --> 00:58:43.960
And, oh, my gosh, I've got to respond to God.

955
00:58:43.960 --> 00:58:45.400
I've got to get right with God.

956
00:58:45.400 --> 00:58:49.800
Hundreds of them in the middle of the night at the same time turn up to the police station

957
00:58:49.800 --> 00:58:51.160
going, what do we do?

958
00:58:51.160 --> 00:58:55.000
And the police got like, they're like, they get the police.

959
00:58:55.000 --> 00:58:55.960
I don't know what to do.

960
00:58:55.960 --> 00:58:57.000
This is a spiritual matter.

961
00:58:57.000 --> 00:59:00.440
So they go to the church and they're not going to church to get saved.

962
00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:02.360
They're like, we've given our lives to God.

963
00:59:02.360 --> 00:59:03.880
We want to get right with God already.

964
00:59:03.880 --> 00:59:04.920
What do we do?

965
00:59:04.920 --> 00:59:09.400
In the Hebrides revival, people would be walking along in the open fields and all of a sudden

966
00:59:09.400 --> 00:59:11.160
have an awareness and awakening.

967
00:59:11.160 --> 00:59:15.800
This is what happens in an open heaven is you have access to revelation that you could

968
00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:17.000
never access before.

969
00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:19.480
An open heaven makes it easy to access truth.

970
00:59:19.480 --> 00:59:23.960
So they're just walking along doing nothing different, except the atmosphere is different.

971
00:59:23.960 --> 00:59:26.120
It's supercharged with revelation and truth.

972
00:59:26.120 --> 00:59:28.440
And it's like, boom, have an awakening.

973
00:59:28.440 --> 00:59:33.480
Oh, my gosh, I'm following Jesus now.

974
00:59:34.040 --> 00:59:34.280
Wow.

975
00:59:34.840 --> 00:59:35.240
Right.

976
00:59:35.240 --> 00:59:35.960
Amazing.

977
00:59:38.040 --> 00:59:40.440
So there's just so many stories.

978
00:59:40.520 --> 00:59:41.560
I'll give you one more.

979
00:59:41.560 --> 00:59:42.760
Let me know you want one more.

980
00:59:42.760 --> 00:59:44.600
I'm sure you'll be keen for one more.

981
00:59:44.600 --> 00:59:47.160
I'll give you one more of these stories.

982
00:59:47.160 --> 00:59:49.640
So this is 1965.

983
00:59:49.640 --> 00:59:54.680
And like I said, we can't count them.

984
00:59:54.680 --> 00:59:57.160
There are just thousands of these stories.

985
00:59:57.160 --> 00:59:57.800
They're everywhere.

986
00:59:57.800 --> 00:59:58.920
They're in Africa.

987
00:59:58.920 --> 00:59:59.880
You know, the.

988
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.720
there was a pygmy revival where pygmies started giving their lives to Jesus by the tens of

989
01:00:04.720 --> 01:00:11.280
thousands. There was, actually, I mean, this isn't the story that I was going to tell you, but

990
01:00:11.280 --> 01:00:17.520
Don Richardson wrote a book called Eternity in Their Hearts. And in that book, he details how

991
01:00:17.520 --> 01:00:24.400
entire people groups were giving their lives to Jesus in a missions movement in the last part of

992
01:00:24.400 --> 01:00:31.040
the 1900s, you know, like 60s, 70s, 50s, like all through. So the last part of 1900s,

993
01:00:31.040 --> 01:00:35.120
there was this awakening, just sweeping through entire tribal groups, tribal groups,

994
01:00:35.120 --> 01:00:40.080
and his whole premise was God's already put the gospel in their cultures, in their hearts.

995
01:00:40.080 --> 01:00:44.560
And actually, if you find it in their stories, you actually can open up an entire tribal group

996
01:00:45.600 --> 01:00:50.880
to the gospel. And he wrote another book called Peace Child, which is based in Papua in Indonesia.

997
01:00:50.880 --> 01:00:54.720
And that's actually right near where I was born. But in Peace Child, an entire tribal group,

998
01:00:55.600 --> 01:00:58.960
they just give their lives to Jesus. It happens over and over again.

999
01:00:58.960 --> 01:01:04.160
So millions of people, given their lives to Jesus' atmospheric shift and awakening just

1000
01:01:04.160 --> 01:01:11.680
broke through all these tribal groups. It was wild. So 1965, in East Timor, and, you know,

1001
01:01:11.680 --> 01:01:16.480
in Indonesia, East Timor, here's an example of it. They're out there praying one night,

1002
01:01:16.480 --> 01:01:22.000
I heard this account of it from listening to someone who was there. So 1965, they're there,

1003
01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:27.680
they're praying this one night, and like, they see the church covered in fire, but it's, you know,

1004
01:01:27.680 --> 01:01:32.960
it's out in the villages. So this church is made of, you know, just sticks and thatch, and they're

1005
01:01:32.960 --> 01:01:36.960
like, oh my gosh, so they go crazy trying to put the church down, they realize that it's not

1006
01:01:38.320 --> 01:01:44.080
actual fire, it's the Shekinah glory of God. And that was one of the key moments as they're like,

1007
01:01:44.080 --> 01:01:48.800
oh my gosh, the presence of God comes on them, they get undone, they give their lives to Jesus,

1008
01:01:48.800 --> 01:01:52.800
and an awakening breaks out where this awareness of the glory of God goes,

1009
01:01:53.440 --> 01:01:57.840
starts sweeping through the hills. And, you know, they started, they've got testimonies there,

1010
01:01:57.840 --> 01:02:02.560
I've heard people giving, you know, firsthand account testimonies of walking on water,

1011
01:02:02.560 --> 01:02:07.600
raising the dead, leading thousands to Jesus, the children preaching the gospel with signs and

1012
01:02:07.600 --> 01:02:12.480
wonders. It broke out like crazy. Okay, so I think you kind of get it, that's enough.

1013
01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:18.240
There's so many more stories, so many beautiful ones. But here I think what you're starting to

1014
01:02:18.240 --> 01:02:22.480
catch and what I'm trying to share with you and get upon you is the fact that God doesn't just

1015
01:02:22.480 --> 01:02:27.520
do this every now and then. He has done this hundreds of times, thousands of times. God is

1016
01:02:27.520 --> 01:02:34.320
into awakening, He's looking for someone to be a catalyst of it. Will you be like Josiah and embrace

1017
01:02:34.320 --> 01:02:39.120
hunger, right? You're going to have a hunger, you're going to have a humility like Evan Roberts, where

1018
01:02:39.440 --> 01:02:44.880
I've come to the end of myself with what I know right now, I don't have enough. It's not going to

1019
01:02:44.880 --> 01:02:49.680
come from me, it's not going to come from my good endeavors, but there is something of a move,

1020
01:02:49.680 --> 01:02:55.200
the spirit of God that has to come. And God is especially longing for people right now to stand

1021
01:02:55.200 --> 01:03:00.240
up and be a part of this move because He's about to deal a death blow to the orphan curse, all right?

1022
01:03:00.240 --> 01:03:04.800
So we're going to look at that in the next session, 6am New Zealand time tomorrow. We're going to look

1023
01:03:04.800 --> 01:03:09.920
at how God is getting ready and how He's already in this process of dealing a death blow to the

1024
01:03:09.920 --> 01:03:15.200
orphan curse that has been shutting down the divine life. We're going to look at that tomorrow, but He

1025
01:03:15.200 --> 01:03:21.680
wants you to stand up. He wants this hunger to come upon you that Josiah had, that Evan Roberts

1026
01:03:21.680 --> 01:03:26.160
had, that all of these people had, that William Seymour had, that Charles Parham had, that James

1027
01:03:26.160 --> 01:03:31.280
Fraser had, that Hudson Taylor had, that Charles Finney had, that John Wesley had, that George Whitfield

1028
01:03:31.360 --> 01:03:38.240
had, that Jonathan Edwards had. You know, He wants you to carry the same flame. It's the same flame

1029
01:03:38.240 --> 01:03:43.600
that Jesus sparked at the very beginning. It's a flame of awakening. The apostles carried it. The

1030
01:03:43.600 --> 01:03:48.720
saints carried it. The revivalists carried it. The reformers carried it. And now God is saying,

1031
01:03:48.720 --> 01:03:53.920
will you stand up and say, yes, will you stand up and be counted like Peggy and Christine,

1032
01:03:53.920 --> 01:03:59.200
84 and 82 years old, blind and bent over and hunchback? Have you disqualified yourself? God

1033
01:03:59.200 --> 01:04:04.640
says He's qualified you. Now is your time. Now is your hour. Will you say yes? When God says it has to

1034
01:04:04.640 --> 01:04:11.200
start somewhere, it has to start with somebody, would you say, yes, God, start with me? Would you

1035
01:04:11.200 --> 01:04:17.200
say, yes, God, I'll stand up. I'll receive the fire. I'll carry the flame. I'll spark awakening. I'll be

1036
01:04:17.200 --> 01:04:23.760
that one. Would you be like the Moravians, 1727? They say, we will pray. They devote themselves to

1037
01:04:23.760 --> 01:04:30.400
the perpetual adoration of God, just like David and the people that came around King David devoted

1038
01:04:30.400 --> 01:04:36.640
their lives to the perpetual adoration of God and created an open heaven that had never been seen

1039
01:04:36.640 --> 01:04:43.040
before. Would you say yes? Would you pray? Would you pray? Would you allow a hunger that you've

1040
01:04:43.040 --> 01:04:47.120
never had before, a fire that you've never had before? Would you allow that to burn in you and

1041
01:04:47.120 --> 01:04:51.440
take you beyond where you've ever gone in your prayer life, beyond where you've ever gone in

1042
01:04:51.440 --> 01:04:55.440
your faith life, beyond where you've ever gone in your Christianity, beyond what you've ever

1043
01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:59.840
imagined possible? Would you be one that says, yes, God, send me, here I am, because God

1044
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:06.000
wants. He's calling us out to devote our lives to perpetual adoration. He's calling us to devote

1045
01:05:06.000 --> 01:05:10.880
our lives to prayer. He's calling us to devote our lives to be catalysts and stewards of an

1046
01:05:10.880 --> 01:05:15.520
unprecedented move of God. It's going to deal a death blow to the orphan curse. It's going to

1047
01:05:15.520 --> 01:05:22.880
break open sonship like never before. It's going to awaken, awaken, awaken seamless union, effortless

1048
01:05:22.880 --> 01:05:28.800
bliss, the divine life, signs, wonders, miracles, awakenings, open heavens like we have never seen

1049
01:05:28.800 --> 01:05:35.200
before. And God is calling yes. So my question to you right now is how will you respond to God? Will

1050
01:05:35.200 --> 01:05:40.080
you say yes God? Because if you say yes God, he's going to want to search you out because awakening

1051
01:05:40.080 --> 01:05:44.720
will come with a shakening. Awakening will come with a shakening. There'll be a price. He'll say

1052
01:05:44.720 --> 01:05:50.240
well you have to say bend me Lord, bend me Lord, bend me Lord, go beyond. You have to come to a

1053
01:05:50.240 --> 01:05:56.560
place of humility where you say you know what God? You know what God? I can't do this in my own

1054
01:05:56.560 --> 01:06:00.640
strength. I need you to take me where I've never been before. You step into a place of serenity. You

1055
01:06:00.640 --> 01:06:06.160
say do whatever it takes God. You have to pray prayers like God, do whatever it takes. What you

1056
01:06:06.160 --> 01:06:12.560
have to say God, like this prayer that I pray so often, leave no stone unturned in me. Search me

1057
01:06:12.560 --> 01:06:19.600
out. May the all-consuming fire of love come upon me and consume everything that can be consumed

1058
01:06:20.480 --> 01:06:27.120
so that only Christ may remain. Will you say yes? I know that in your heart there is a

1059
01:06:27.120 --> 01:06:31.200
there is a cry, there is a symphony going on with the cry from heaven that you're like

1060
01:06:31.200 --> 01:06:40.000
yes God send me. Let me pray as we wrap this up. Abba Father, King Jesus, Holy Spirit, whoa

1061
01:06:40.880 --> 01:06:50.000
you have seen the spirit of awakening upon your people and upon geographical areas, upon cities,

1062
01:06:50.000 --> 01:06:56.800
upon nations, upon churches, upon regions, upon individuals, upon groups of people. You have sent

1063
01:06:56.800 --> 01:07:05.520
your spirit of awakening over and over and over and over again. And we're saying Papa,

1064
01:07:06.000 --> 01:07:14.960
we lay our lives down. We lay our lives down completely in total surrender, in total abandonment.

1065
01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:22.800
We give our lives over to carrying the spirit of awakening. We say yes with everything that is in

1066
01:07:22.800 --> 01:07:30.960
us to carrying the spirit of awakening. So we say Papa, do whatever you have to do.

1067
01:07:31.920 --> 01:07:36.240
If there's transformation required, if there's change required, if you have to burn the dross,

1068
01:07:36.240 --> 01:07:42.160
if you need to release the refiner's fire, we welcome it. We say do whatever you want to do.

1069
01:07:42.160 --> 01:07:47.760
Do whatever it takes in us as we surrender, as we lay down on the altar. Bring your refiner's fire

1070
01:07:47.760 --> 01:07:54.800
like never before and spark in us and envelop us and consume us with the spirit of awakening.

1071
01:07:54.800 --> 01:07:59.280
So we can walk with you, we can run with you, we can be catalysts, we can be stewards of an

1072
01:07:59.360 --> 01:08:04.880
unprecedented move of God. And Papa, I thank you that as you release that refiner's fire,

1073
01:08:04.880 --> 01:08:09.840
I thank you that the fruit will be the divine light. I prophesy this over you,

1074
01:08:09.840 --> 01:08:15.360
that you were born to walk into, to live in the divine light. I prophesy that you were born to

1075
01:08:15.360 --> 01:08:20.640
live in seamless union. You were born to live in the ecstasies. You were born to live in the wonders.

1076
01:08:20.640 --> 01:08:26.080
You were born to live in the glory. You were born to carry Shekinah glory. You were born to carry

1077
01:08:26.080 --> 01:08:30.880
the spirit of awakening. You're born to carry signs and wonders and miracles. You're born to be

1078
01:08:30.880 --> 01:08:37.279
a catalyst of an open heaven. You're born to shift atmospheres. Whoa, Papa, Papa,

1079
01:08:39.040 --> 01:08:45.920
do it again. We have heard of your fame. We stand in awe of your deeds. Pour out your fire,

1080
01:08:46.560 --> 01:08:53.279
deal with us, bend us, take us beyond where we've ever gone before and do whatever it takes

1081
01:08:53.279 --> 01:09:00.479
to fashion us as instruments that can be carriers of an unprecedented move of God

1082
01:09:01.120 --> 01:09:08.800
that shifts normal on the face of the earth forever. Wow. Amen. Wow, family.

1083
01:09:13.120 --> 01:09:21.120
Such an honor to be sharing this time with you. So, so beautiful, so powerful to be with you

1084
01:09:21.120 --> 01:09:26.880
right now. So may that love of God, may that divine life may swallow you up. May the glory

1085
01:09:26.880 --> 01:09:32.640
of God consume you. May the wonders of God surround you. And let's go all in. We've got

1086
01:09:32.640 --> 01:09:38.479
two more sessions in this, but two more sessions. And in those two more sessions, we're going to go

1087
01:09:38.479 --> 01:09:44.160
deep on the what has to happen now. OK, what has to happen now to break this orphan curse? What

1088
01:09:44.160 --> 01:09:48.800
do we have to carry? Where do we have to go? What do we have to do to actually step in as carriers?

1089
01:09:48.800 --> 01:09:54.800
What do we have to do to end this curse that's been carried for 1500 years in the church? I'm

1090
01:09:54.800 --> 01:09:59.840
excited to share that moment with you. Love you very much. Be blessed and may.

1091
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:05.360
The divine life swallow you up, may the divine dance swallow you up, may the glory of God

1092
01:10:05.360 --> 01:10:10.360
swallow you up, may His wonders and His goodness and His kindness swallow you up in Jesus'

1093
01:10:10.360 --> 01:10:11.360
name.

1094
01:10:11.360 --> 01:10:12.360
Amen.

1095
01:10:12.360 --> 01:10:13.360
Bless you.

1096
01:10:13.360 --> 01:10:14.360
Love you.

1097
01:10:14.360 --> 01:10:17.560
And I'll see you 6am New Zealand time, two more sessions.

1098
01:10:17.560 --> 01:10:18.560
Session one tomorrow.

1099
01:10:18.560 --> 01:10:19.560
Yeah.

1100
01:10:19.560 --> 01:10:20.560
So I'll see you then.

1101
01:10:20.560 --> 01:10:21.560
Love you.

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01:10:21.560 --> 01:10:21.560