Here's How To Be Part Of The Jesus Revolution (Episode 28)

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Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. The whole earth is full of His glory.

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Welcome to Gems for the Journey, Wisdom from the Word of God.

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Hey God bless you everybody. Welcome to Gems for the Journey, Wisdom from the Word of God.

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And we're your host Matt and Stephanie Garrity. And we're founders of River of Heaven Ministries.

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And we have a three-fold vision to rebuild and restore, equip and empower and revive and heal.

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Through these broadcasts you're going to be touched, rebuilt and restored, equipped and empowered,

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and revived and healed. And you're going to be functioning like never before as a kingdom man

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or a kingdom woman. Amen. Great to be with you today for another episode of Gems for the Journey,

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Wisdom from the Word of God. Revival is here. Revival, awakening. Many people are calling it revival.

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Many people are calling it awakening or even great awakening. And when you think about revival,

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the first thing that really comes to mind is when someone dies, right? When someone dies,

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oftentimes they're attempted to resuscitate that individual or the defibrillation panels are broken

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out. And there is a charge that's applied and you hear somebody yell clear and then there's a

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tristly that comes forth. But really in that case, really in either case, resuscitation or

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defibrillation panels, we're trying to again start the heart. In order to acknowledge that there needs

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to be a revival, you first need to acknowledge that something's dead. And if you want to go the

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route of awakening in order to understand that there needs to be an awakening, their first has

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to be an admission that people are asleep. And so there's a lot of people that are saying, wow,

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there's a revival or awakening. Well, that should tell us one or two things either that the majority

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of the church has fallen asleep if we really need a great awakening like that and or that the majority

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of the church, you know, they have reputation of being alive yet they're dead. That's what it says

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in the book of Revelation of the church of Sardis, you've got a reputation of being alive but yet

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you're dead. And so either way, we now realize, I believe with everything that's going on, how

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asleep much of the church has been or how dead much of the church has been. And it takes like a

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awakening or revival at a small college campus in the middle of the, you know, the boonies in

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Kentucky for us to really realize, wow, man, maybe we've been asleep. If this is what normal

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Christianity is supposed to look like, if this is what I should be involved in, many of the church,

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they're looking at that and some are criticizing it, some are saying, oh, well, you know, it's the

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Methodist denomination or, oh, it's this or it's that. There's no signs, wonders and miracles that

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are breaking out really, but there's a lot of people repenting. Beloved, here's the bottom line.

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The bottom line is anytime you've got people come from all over the world to a place that started

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off as a chapel service where the chapel service never stopped. It was not planned. Someone gave

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a little sermonette and I listened to the guy testify who gave the sermonette. He thought he

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had a whiffed. He thought he had given like not that great of a sermonette. In other words, it was

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nothing instituted, organized by man. It was all done by God. See, Leonard Ravenhill used to say

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that when man attempts to start a revival or awakening, man gives the altar call. But when

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the Lord brings forth a revival or awakening, he gives the altar call. In other words, he's moving.

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Holy spirit is bringing conviction of sin. He's been drawing and drawing and drawing the people

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of America from all over on the tail end of this whole thing where the Grammys came out. There's

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all these enduendos and there's all these potential, many believe that it was like almost like a satanic

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ritual going on. And it's just amazing. Isn't it just like God to show everyone, listen,

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you're worried about all this stuff and Satan taking over and all these things. And yet the Lord said,

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let me show you something. Let me show you. You want to see worship if they're worshiping the

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devil for the Grammys or whatever they're doing? I'll show you what real worship is. And he institutes

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this revival or he institutes this awakening where people had traveled within two weeks from all

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over the world. Why? Because God was moving, because God was doing something fresh and something new

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amongst a lot of students there down in Kentucky. And really, interestingly enough, we've got a

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movie called The Jesus Revolution, Jonathan Rumi and others directing and producing this movie that

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deals with the Jesus revolution, what happened in the early 1970s, the end of 1960s, the early 1970s,

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where people were searching. There were all these non-God ideologies out there. These young people

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were searching, many called them hippies, but they were searching and they're trying to explore

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all different types of spirituality and all different types of ways of going about that. But

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yet through all that searching, there was a Jesus revolution. And if you've seen the movie,

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you now know the backstory of it, but long story short, brief synopsis, there was at least one

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church, the well-known church was Chuck Smith's church, Calvary Chapel, and how he took a huge

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chance. He was being persecuted by the religious people and you can't let the hippies in the church

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and all this other stuff. And yet Chuck Smith embraced the hippies. He embraced, especially a

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young man named Lonnie Frisbee, who headed up really or was a big part or one of the key people

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in this searching for Jesus in the hippie movement. And again, he was not free from

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problems or all these different other considerations. People are imperfect people. God is a perfect God.

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Jesus Christ is for everyone. John 3.16 says, for God so loved the world that he sent his only

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begotten son Jesus, that whosoever would believe in him would not perish but receive everlasting

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life. Whosoever means everybody. That means that Jesus died for the hippie. That means that Jesus

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died for the one strung out at drugs. That means that Jesus died for the businessman or the business

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woman. That means that Jesus died for people in other nations. That means that Jesus died for

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people that don't look like you do. People who have a different skin color than you do. People

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who have a different, who may be from a different class of society, if you will, or have a different

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upbringing than you do. Jesus died for President Joe Biden. Jesus died for Kamala Harris. Jesus

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died for Donald Trump. Jesus died for all these political figures over the years. Jesus died for

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everyone regardless of how many people want to elevate individuals and people and political

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officers and political pundits even or heroes in the faith or whatever. Jesus died for everyone.

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And so really that should show us one thing, that our eyes should not be focused on man.

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It should be focused on Jesus. One of the amazing things about this new Jesus revolution, if you

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will, is the fact that this revival or this awakening on the campus of Asbury University in

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Kentucky, they wanted no celebrities. They wanted no one with a big name, no big name worship leaders,

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no big name preachers as if they should be any of those things anyway. But these people that have

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big recognition and fame in the body of Christ and maybe even in the world as well, they didn't

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want any of that. They wanted the focus to be on who? On Jesus. We need to understand that what God

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is doing right now, you know, even with the things that happened with Donald Trump and all these

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things that are happening now with Joe Biden and the administration that's in there, God wants us to

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get our eyes back on him. A president is not going to save us. A wing of the government is not going

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to save us. The military, although great at protecting us, is not going to save us. There is

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one who saves and that is Jesus Christ. And it's amazing how God orchestrates all this to come

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together to show us that he's still the answer. He's still the answer, beloved. He's still the

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answer. And one of the things I've been thinking about lately as we've pondered this was, you know,

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just leadership, leadership in the body of Christ. You know, Chuck Smith took a massive chance. He

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endured persecution. He endured, you know, all these different people talking about him. And again,

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Chuck Smith was not a perfect person. He may not have had perfect doctrine like many people don't

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have, but he wasn't a heretic. And there's a lot of people think this way or that way about Chuck

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Smith or about Lonnie Frisbee. And I realized that. But let's, let's dig a little deeper than that

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and look at, there was a man who was willing where nobody else really was willing to embrace that

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hippie movement. Chuck Smith was. He was willing to say, you know what, Jesus died for those men

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and for those women. And we can't look down upon them. And even though many people might look down

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on people, he said, you know what, we can't do that. And we want to wash people's feet and we want

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to welcome them because that's what Jesus would do. And when he did that, there was an explosion

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in California of Christianity. There was an explosion or I shall say a reinvigoration

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of the gospel, a reinvigoration of people coming to the Lord where things had been stale for quite

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some time. Uh, if, if you look at history, the history of the church. And so, you know, I want

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to talk to the leaders today. If you're listening to this podcast or you've been following us on

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social media, you know one thing that we love to lead leaders. We love to impart to leaders.

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I have a passion to help to strengthen, equip and empower leaders. And so leaders, leadership is not

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Lordship. Leadership is not dictatorship either. This is especially true for five-fold leaders,

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for those who embrace the fullness of the five-fold ministry, the apostle, the prophet,

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the evangelist, the pastor and the teacher. Leadership is laying down one's life for other, other

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individuals. It is serving a group of individuals and in doing so, providing an example for many to

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follow. From a Christian perspective, authentic leadership is demonstrated by fathering from

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the father's heart. And that's the key. We got to have the father's heart for the women, for the ladies,

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it's mothering from the father's heart. The apostle Paul makes a fascinating statement in his first

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letter to the church of Corinth. He writes this in 1 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 15,

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for though you might have 10,000 instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers,

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for in Christ Jesus, I have begotten you through the gospel. Paul looks at this like a family. Paul

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looks at this like I need to have the father's heart to be able to reach anybody. And not just that,

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but I'm a father figure and that these are the kids. This is the body of Christ. This is a family.

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Through this powerful letter that addressed many issues in the Corinthian church at the time,

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he was addressing many problems that were going on. Paul also explained that many individuals,

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instructors will offer to teach the Corinthians, teach God's people information about God.

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But still not many individuals are willing to lay down their life for the church once they finish

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delivering the gospel message or scripture teaching. But Chuck Smith was somebody that was

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willing to lay down his life. He was willing to be one that, you know, maybe he didn't consider

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himself a father, but there was a lot of these kids who had run away from home in the hippie movement.

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And God, I believe, really used him as a father figure to a lot of these young men and young women

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and to bring them to Christ or to teach them and to have them grow in Christ.

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True apostolic ministry will father and raise up strong sons and daughters by laying their own

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life down, even as Jesus did. There's a lot of people these days that call themselves an apostle

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or say they have an apostolic function. Okay, but there also needs to be fruit that coincides with

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that. Amen. And one of the strengths that we see or one of the predominant characteristics that we

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see about apostolic ministry is what Paul says here. It's laying down your life for people.

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He laid down his own life and he said, I'm not just going to be an instructor. I'm not just going

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to be a teacher to you, but I'm going to be a father to you. I'm going to lay my life down for

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you, even as Christ laid his life down. Paul makes a powerful distinction that his example among the

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church was not that of just an instructor, but one of a father. Paul depicts fathers as different

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than mere instructors or teachers. Fathers will not only minister the gospel, but they'll invite you

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to repent and believe in Jesus Christ, but also provide other valuable teachings. They will also

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provide a covenant relationship, accountability, and a godly example to follow starting from the

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point of the individual's conversion to Christ or their spiritual birth when they're born again

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and continuing on. See, fathers will love you. They'll equip you. They'll empower you. They'll

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train you. They'll rebuke you and they'll walk with you all the way to the place of full maturity

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in the faith. We know that Ephesians chapter four starting in verse 11 talks about that Jesus gave

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some to be apostles, prophets, some evangelists, pastors, and teachers, right? For the equipping,

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for the equipping of the saints, for the edification of the church, amen, and so that they wouldn't

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be tossed to and fro by the winds of doctrine, false doctrine, but that they might mature

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in the things of the Lord in Christ, amen? Whereas fathers are called to be much different than

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instructors on the other side of the spectrum. They're also not to exercise the Lordship as

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Pharaoh over God's people. Chuck Smith never decided he was going to be a Pharaoh. A Pharaoh would have

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said, get these people out of here. I'm the king here and these people are going to dirty up the

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church and they're going to, you know, you know, cause me to have to work extra hard or whatever.

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That's not what he did though. He embraced them as a father and not a Pharaoh. God has called us to

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be servants. He's called us to be fathers for those of us who are leaders and not pharaohs.

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In the book of Revelation, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the head of the church,

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remember it's his church, specifically revealed that he hated the false doctrine, the practices

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of men lording over, dominating, and acting as a Pharaoh over his church. Although Jesus had

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some things against the church of Ephesus, he commended them for their hatred of the false

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doctrine and not allowing any dictatorship. He said this in Revelation two, six, but you have

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this in your favor that you hate the doctrine and the practices of the Nicoladians, which I also hate.

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You know, amongst other idolatrous issues, the doctrine, the practices of the Nicoladians

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were terrible. They were such that they exalted knowledge above God like Gnosticism or like

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the Gnostics did, but they also instituted a hierarchy of spiritual men ruling and reigning

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as lords over God's people. The Nicoladians comes from the Greek word Nikos, which means victory

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ruling over or destroying, and the Greek word Laos, which speaks of a group of people or the

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Laity, Nikolaitans, Nikos Laetit. Today, we must guard and altogether reject any idolatrous notion

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that having power, influence, and all this puffed up knowledge makes us a leader. This is how the

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world thinks, and this is not how kingdom-minded people or leaders especially should think.

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See, leading in the kingdom must be different. It must look different than leading in the world.

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To successfully lead in the kingdom of God, we must have the Father's heart and lead by Christ's

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example of serving others, not by dictating or manipulating others. Leading in this manner,

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fathering will produce sons and daughters and not slaves. Isn't that what we want? We want a family

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of believers, and we want people, pastors, and leaders of those congregations that act like

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fathers and mothers, especially to this next generation who is searching. They might be

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searching more than they were in the late 60s, early 70s. People are struggling in their identity.

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All these young people, they don't know if they're a man, they don't know if they're a woman,

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they don't know if they're an animal, they don't know if they should believe in Mother Earth or

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Father Time, and all these different crazy things going on. I believe in the universe, right?

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That energy just seems weird to me, or your energy is great. They're so confused.

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Romans talks about a reprobate mind because people have chosen to worship the creation

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and not the Creator. And so many have a reprobate mind. Many don't know who they are. Many are

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searching, and so we need leaders to arise as fathers and mothers in the house of God, amen?

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And if you do leaders, if you choose to arise with the Father's heart and you choose to welcome

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those who may not look like you and may not act like you and may not dress like you, I'm telling

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you that you're going to produce sons and daughters and not slaves. Many churches these days are full

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of pharaohs and slaves. They're full of people that are under the task master's whip. Do this,

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or I'm going to do this to you. Do this or else. Do this, or I'm going to punish you and your

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family. Do this, or we'll never talk to you again. If you leave this church, we'll blacklist you to

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every church. You will not, no one will want to receive you because we'll just, we'll just spread

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all these things about you. See, that's pharoic nature. That's manipulation. That's acting like

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you're a Lord over people. Many immature leaders who are not fathered themselves are infatuated

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with the idea of having power, authority, and or a title. If this behavior goes unchecked for too

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long and these individuals do not mature, they will begin to act as though they are Lords over a

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group of people instead of actually serving the people as a true leader. Remember, if anyone

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could have acted as a Lord over people, it would have been Jesus. But remember what Jesus said.

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He said, I don't come to be served, but I come to serve and to lay my life down as a ransom for many.

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So here's a little stock taking that I like us to go through today. There's some questions that I have

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or some statements rather to determine whether you're a father or you're a pharaoh. And this might

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shock you. But let's, let's go through these. Pharaohs want to be served. Fathers serve. So if

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you love people, the idea of people serving you and coming and serving you all the time, like you're

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some kind of a king that sits above everyone, you might be a pharaoh. Okay. But fathers are called

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to serve. Now people can still serve, they can still honor you, they can still serve in the ministry.

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All those things are valid. It's just that's not, that's not the main focal point. The main focal

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point is that as a father, as a leader, you're to set the example of service. You're not wanting

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everyone. Everyone's got to serve me, but I'm never going to serve. Second statement. Pharaohs love to

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rule, but fathers submit to God's rule. See, pharaohs, people that love having authority, they love to

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tell people what to do. Go here, do that. And people will listen. Why? Cause they have authority.

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Okay. And authority is okay. Authority is good. We see many teachings about that in scripture,

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but again, there can be manipulation in that authority. Pharaohs love to rule, but fathers

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submit to God's rule. Pharaohs emasculate. They cut off the productivity of people,

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but fathers circumcised. They cut off what needs to be cut off so that their sons and daughters

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can be productive for work in the kingdom. Pharaohs enslave, they manipulate, they try to make people

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be afraid of them so they'll listen to them, but fathers emancipate. Fathers set people free.

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They teach people that in Christ you're free, that Christ breaks the chains of the, of the devil and

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the chains of sin. Pharaohs hold grudges, but fathers forgive. The Bible says if we don't forgive

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others, God can't forgive us. Pharaohs restrain, but fathers train. Pharaohs are not interested at all

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in someone taking the torch and carrying it. They're interested in their rule, in their reign,

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in their dominion, but fathers want to train. They want to see their sons and daughters do more than,

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than they could ever do for God and for the kingdom of God. Pharaohs are full of idolatry, but fathers

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are full of humility. See, pharaohs, you know, they're not really serving the Lord. So they

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are full of all kind of, you know, compromise and all these other things, sinful behavior,

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but fathers are full of humility. They have the fear of the Lord. Pharaohs seduce and flatter,

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but fathers bring correction to the matter. Pharaohs will say whatever they need to say

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to whatever group of people they need to say it to in order to get money to come in to the church

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or in order to gain prestige or influence or rank, but fathers will bring correction in love if

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things are out of order, regardless of how much money people have, regardless of how influential

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people are. Pharaohs dominate, but fathers liberate. Pharaohs love to dominate, but fathers will

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liberate God's people. Pharaohs punish, but fathers replenish. Now, fathers can correct people,

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but it's never one of these things of condemnation. Fathers replenish. They, they correct, but then

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they restore, amen, with the father's heart. Pharaohs walk in divination, but fathers walk in

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consecration. Again, the, just the understanding that, you know, that people will fill themselves

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with all manner of compromise and all manner of counterfeit if they're not truly in love

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with Jesus Christ, if they're not truly in love with the father, if they don't have a relationship

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with him. Pharaohs condemn. They produce condemnation, but fathers redeem. There is therefore no

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condemnation to those in Christ. So we don't want to condemn people as a father. Our heart is not

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to condemn people. It's to liberate people. It's to point them to the redemption of the cross,

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to redemption of Christ. Pharaohs consume, but fathers give. See, Pharaohs think that all the

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people in the church are just to give to them, to them, to them. They just want to keep consuming.

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They look at people like a consumer good and everything that people are bringing up, it's all

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for me. It's all for me. It's all about me, but fathers don't have that heart. Fathers give. The

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Bible teaches that the apostle Paul, he was a tent maker and he didn't even take that much money for

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himself from offerings and things like that, but what he did was he tried to do something that would

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be enough money so that him and his sons, Timothy and Titus and others could serve in the ministry

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and have more than enough. See, father's heart is to give. It's to make a way for their sons and

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daughters. It's not to consume and take from them. Pharaohs destroy lives, but fathers lay down their

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lives. We talked about this earlier. Pharaohs, by their manipulation, their domination, their

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coercion, they actually destroy people's lives because those people, they look at them as a

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mean to their end, but fathers lay down their lives. And when fathers lay down their lives,

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people then can thrive. They will thrive. When you lay down your life for someone, it's putting

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yourself in a very vulnerable position, but you'll allow others to thrive when you do that. You don't

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always have to have the front seat, pastor, leader, apostolic minister, prophet, evangelist,

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teacher. Let somebody else have a chance. Let somebody else teach sometime. Let somebody

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else lead worship sometime. Train people, train others, train other leaders, give them an opportunity

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that's what Chuck Smith did with Lonnie Frisbee. And again, neither man was perfect, but it produced

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a great spark out there in California for the kingdom of God that ignited a flame and not just

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there, but other places. And here in our time, we see this great spark, this great fire that's

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burning at Asbury University, but it's spreading other places. And God did it in a nameless and a

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faceless way so that only Jesus would get the glory. And now I believe that, that we're catching the

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father's heart in this. That's not about us. It's about Christ. It's not about us. It's about Jesus

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Christ. So let's minister from the father's heart. Let's be fathers and not pharaohs. Amen.

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So I just want to pray for you today, Father, we thank you in the name of Jesus, Lord, for all of

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the listeners, Lord, for those who are tuning in from across America, from across the United

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States of America and all over Lord, all the nations of the world. I thank you, Lord, that you are

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raising up true fathers and mothers that have the father's heart and Lord that we just see a new

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Jesus revolution. We see instead of people turning to drugs and alcohol and gambling and

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pornography and all manner of just disgusting filth that people are turning to you, Lord Jesus.

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And we are saved by your grace through faith. I thank you, Lord. I just see many who are listening

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to me that don't know Jesus. Maybe you've just watched that Jesus revolution movie. Maybe

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you haven't seen that movie, but maybe you're feeling a tug on your heart. Maybe you think you

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came across this broadcast by coincidence, but I want to tell you it was the hand of God that

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caused you to come across this. And this is your time, my brother. This is your time, my sister.

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Just say this with me, Lord, I repent. I don't want to live this life anymore. Lord, I believe in my

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heart. I believe that you died for my sin. I confess with my mouth that you are raised to life.

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I believe you, Lord Jesus. I repent. I give my life to you. I ask you to come into my life.

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I ask you to be Lord of my life. I ask you to forgive me for my sins. I ask you to take my sins

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away, carry them away as far as the east is from the west. And Lord, I ask you to save me, Lord Jesus.

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Friend, if you prayed that prayer or you prayed in your own way and you made it personal and you've

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repented and trusted in Jesus Christ, trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ, then you're saved,

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my friend. You're saved, my brother. You're saved, my sister. Welcome to the family of God. God bless

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you. We love you. If you want to connect with us, reach out to us on social media. We would love to

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hear from you and we just want to see more and more and more people, millions and millions and millions

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of people saved. And what many believe could be the last harvest before the return of our Lord

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and Savior, Jesus Christ. God bless you guys. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May his face

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shine upon you. May he be gracious unto you. May he lift up his countenance upon you. And may the

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Lord give you his peace and shalom until next time on Gems for the Journey. Goodbye.