Speaking notes:
Podcast clarification
Episode 0 – my wake-up call
Episode 0.5 – my approach to the Bible
Purpose:
1. Wake people up to what is happening in our world.
2. Wake people up to what God is doing about it.
3. Help people find their place in the renewal that God is bringing to the world.
1. Wake people up to what’s happening
Difference between conspiracy theory and real facts? . . . About 6 months.
The Matrix – glitches
The reality we think we know isn’t holding together.
Questions multiply.
What is the truth?
If you know me – I’m not afraid to ask questions.
I have been asking questions about my faith for 25 years.
That’s how I grew.
I ask questions about the world & society, and our government.
Today: Questions are not allowed! (Only questions we approve.)
What is happening in our world?
Prophets & Patriots
“Things are not what they appear to be.”
2. Wake up to what God is doing in our world.
Battle between good and evil.
This battle has been going on since Adam & Eve got kicked out of the Garden of Eden.
God: “I will put enmity between woman & serpent.”
Hebrew: hostility . . . root: to be an enemy
God declared war between us and Satan
Good news! We win. Jesus won it for us.
Promise he will return and set the world right.
He gave us the Holy Spirit & told us to “occupy until I come.”
Whenever things get bad: “Jesus is about to return!”
End-times prophecy – principality and powers trying to bring it on before it’s time.
Jesus – only my Father knows the time of the end.
THEREFORE: Satan has to have an Antichrist ready to rise in every generation.
This is not the time of the end.
[Eph 5:27 KJV]
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Jesus is not coming for a rescue party.
Jesus is coming for a victory party.
And that means we as followers of Jesus have a lot to do.
Prophets: Another great awakening/revival is coming.
Revivals thru American History
1. Great Awakening: 1730
Johnathan Edwards, Wesley Bros.
2. Second Great Awakening: 1820 – 1850
Charles Finney.
“Crying Bench” – Come forward and accept Jesus
===>> Anti slavery & women’s rights
3. Third Great Awakening: 1875 – 1885
D. L. Moody – Moody Bible Institiute
4. Azusa Street Revival: 1906
William J. Seymore – The Pentecostal awakening – power & gifts of the Holy Spirit
5. 20th Century Revivals: 1910 – 1975
Billy Sunday
Billy Graham
The Jesus Movement
Today’s prophets are hearing from Holy Spirit that the awakening that is coming will bring over 1 billion souls into the kingdom of God.
GREAT NEWS!
I see two issues we as followers of Jesus need to address.
1. The church isn’t ready for what is coming.
This move of God is going to fundamentally shift the way we do life in the country and the entire world.
The church has preached the “gospel of salvation” for about 2000 years.
That’s great! Avoiding eternity in hell is wonderful!
But the gospel of salvation is not the gospel of the kingdom of God.
Jesus: “The gospel of the KINGDOM will be preached to the whole world before the end will come.”
Jesus taught the gospel of the kingdom.
But he also showed it through his power to heal and cast out devils.
“You will do even greater works.”
Lord’s prayer: Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as in heaven.
Prophets: We transitioned from the Church Age to the Kingdom Age.
And we are at the tipping point right now.
2. Most followers of Jesus are not aware of how close we’re coming to losing this war.
Every generation has an Antichrist ready to act.
Bible: God’s people were in hopeless situation. When all hope was gone, God steps in and wins the day for his people.
The difference between then and now ===>> they knew they were in deep trouble.
Prophets: Our situation is like that of Israelites in the Exodus.
The difference is that we’re living in the Matrix & unaware that we are trapped in a system designed to keep us pacified and compliant.
Look at the last two years.
What did most people comply with so they could still buy and sell?
How will the tribulation work any differently?
When I started this podcast I didn’t have a grand plan.
It came out of a conversation I had with Holy Spirit.
Years ago I wrote a mission statement that went like this:
My mission is to live free and set others free from the spirit of religion and from sickness, poverty, and disease.
Since that time God has been working to get me ready.
As I’ve watched events unfold. And as I’ve listened to prophets and patriots. I’ve been asking Holy Spirit what to do.
For the past two years the answer has always been “wait.”
A month ago, I ask again. And Holy Spirit asked me, “What do you want to do?”
I said, “I like podcasting.”
He said, “Start one.”
So here we are.
I started. And I’m going to build as we go along.
I know God will bring the people who will be on my team and part of what we build here.
And I know it is an amazing privilege to be alive at this time in history.
We are going to see things that have never been seen before.
And we’re going to see the kingdom of God come through his people.
I’m grateful to be part of what God is doing and will do for us.
[Eph 1:17-19 KJV]
17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19 And what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
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