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Happy is the preacher that gets to follow

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Because not only will Stephen Olford warm you

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up, he'll fire you up.

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So are you fired up tonight?

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Well, you know, it's cold outside, but we

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have to be careful to maintain those embers

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on the altars of our heart.

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Make sure that they burn.

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Keep those burning.

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And this whole issue of revival, this whole

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business of revival, is a passion with me.

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I've been studying it for several decades.

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I have gone into deep, deep study on

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it.

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I've had the privilege of talking with great

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men of revival like Dr. Ted Randall.

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Men like that.

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And I'll tell you, when I think of

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revival, I think that it all comes down

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to this.

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It comes down to prayer.

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All revival is birthed in prayer.

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It's not only birthed in prayer, it's bathed

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in prayer.

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You don't have to be somebody famous.

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In fact, in history, it's usually the nobodies

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that walk with God.

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The nobodies that walk with him.

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It benefits, and it's easy.

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Another benefit of walking with God, it's enjoyable.

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It's enjoyable.

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It's a supreme joy to walk with the

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creator of the universe.

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Sidlo Baxter used to say to his friend

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H.D. McCarty in Arkansas, he said, Harvey,

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imagine every morning that the creator of the

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universe deigns to meet with little old Sidlo

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Baxter as I pray.

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Walking with God is enjoyable.

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It's one of the most joyous things in

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And if you're like me, those walks with

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God can be some of the most joyful

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times of our lives.

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It reminds me of that hymn, In the

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Garden.

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You know the one I'm referring to?

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And he walks with me, and he talks

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with me, and he tells me I am

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his own, and what's...

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We share as we tarry there, none other

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I've ever known.

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It's enjoyable.

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There's no other joy like that.

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Another benefit to walking with God, it's exciting.

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and you start walking in the supernatural and

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the extraordinary, there's nothing like it.

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There's nothing like it.

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The Christian life is an adventure.

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Isn't that right?

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There are few things more exciting on this

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earth than those mountaintop experiences that we have

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Nobody can take that from us.

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The devil can't take it from us.

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When we're on that mountaintop, along with the

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Lord, there is nothing like it.

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It's exciting.

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It's a thrill.

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It's a gripping.

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Well, I've mentioned briefly to walking with God.

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to mention some conditions for walking with God.

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There are some conditions to walking with God.

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I'm assuming you already realize that you must

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be born again, right?

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Oh, he won't walk with an unbeliever.

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To walk with God, you have to follow.

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Now, that's important.

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You can't lead the way and expect him

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to follow you.

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You can't move this way in your ministry

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without praying for us and expect God to

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come alongside you and bless it.

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How many times have I moved in my

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life?

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I said, okay, God, I'm going in this

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direction.

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I want you to come alongside of me.

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It was a disaster.

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I know that's never happened to any of

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learn how to follow.

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And I say the word learn, right?

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As disciples, we're learners.

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We have to learn how to follow.

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Jesus, in his earthly ministry, said to his

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disciples, he said, follow me and I will

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make you fishers of what?

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Of men.

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He didn't say, I'll follow you.

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He said, follow me.

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to listen.

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Have you ever had a friend that when

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you get together with talking and the subject

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they love to talk about more than anything

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else is themselves?

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You ever have a friend like that?

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I had lunch with a friend not too

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long ago and for the whole hour, he

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talked about himself.

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He talked about himself, talked about his ministry.

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That's all he wanted to talk about.

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That's kind of a one-sided friendship, isn't

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My wife has a friend who will say

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to her, how are you?

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say, well, enough talk about you.

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Let's talk about me.

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A lot of people like that.

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It's one-sided.

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to apply this to my quiet time.

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one-sided relationship where I'm doing all the

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talking?

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I listen?

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What's my quiet time all about?

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Am I going in there with my list

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of prayer requests?

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It's good to have a list, but is

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that all my quiet time is where I'm

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doing all the talking?

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I'm complaining about this and I'm griping about

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that and I'm asking Him to bless me

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on this or am I listening?

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Be still and know that I am God.

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of the universe, you not only have to

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follow, you have to listen.

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Jesus said over and over again, He said,

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He who has ears to hear, let them

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Let them hear.

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He didn't say those that have mouths to

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talk, let them talk.

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He knew we're going to do that, right?

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We don't have any trouble talking, do we?

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very poor listener and I believe her.

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We have to work at being listeners.

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We have to work at listening to God,

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speak to us.

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obedience.

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After we follow Him, after we listen to

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Him, we must obey what He tells us.

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What good is the servant in the parable

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who buried his talent in the ground?

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He didn't obey his master.

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My Bible tells me that to obey is

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better than what?

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Sacrifice, obedience.

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to a friend, Evan Roberts of the Wales

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Revival of 1904, the last letter he wrote

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at the end of his life, he put

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three words at the bottom of the page

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and it was obedience, obedience, obedience.

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That is what he learned.

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to us and we fail to obey, it's

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sin.

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We've missed the mark.

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So we have to hear what He says.

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There's another condition to walking with God and

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if we fail here, we fail everywhere.

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Stephen Olford to me typified this.

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That's the banner on the wall there in

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the middle, be ye holy.

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If we're going to walk with God, we

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must be holy.

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My Bible tells me that unless two are

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agreed, they cannot walk together.

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Is that not right?

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and God is holy, we have to pursue

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a life of holiness, Ephesians 1.4 commands

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us to be holy and without blame before

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Him in love.

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Holy is the inward man or inward standing.

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The outward man, how we look before man

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and God were to be holy and blameless

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before Him.

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Because we love Him.

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Because we love Him.

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Because of what He did for us to

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save a wretch like me.

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What little can I do then to pursue

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a life of holiness, to pay Him back.

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Holiness, if you want to walk with the

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creator of the universe, be holy.

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I've seen many a man, ministry, fall and

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crumble because he was morally was impure.

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of that.

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I've seen men personally that I've known as

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friends that I consider very strong Christians at

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one point, but they didn't pursue holiness and

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they fell and Satan got a hold of

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them and it ruined their reputation and they're

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Holiness is a command.

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We must be obedient.

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We must learn to listen to God.

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speaks to us.

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Well, there's an additional benefit which He promises

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to all believers as we walk with Him.

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You know, it's kind of neat.

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The more we walk with Him, the more

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we become like Him.

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The more we walk with Him, the more

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we become like Him.

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That's that sanctification process.

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Well, that's the end of my little introduction

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on our lecture on revival tonight.

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We're going to spend a great deal of

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time on studying history, revival history, different aspects

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of revival.

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I believe that in America today, it's very

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similar to the times in the 18th century

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prior to the ministry of John Wesley and

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George Whitefield.

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Spirituality is at a low ebb.

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There's a moral downgrade in our society.

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There's conflicts in the pulpits.

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There's dead orthodoxy.

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but corporately and nationally.

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We're going to talk about that tonight.

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Revival.

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Revival is a passion with me.

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And revival can be a passion with you.

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It really is a passion.

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When God gets ahold of you in revival,

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it turns your life upside down.

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Before I came to Stephen Offred, I was

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a back row bum as a Christian.

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I was useless from what I know now.

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My Christian walk as a Christian.

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And under his preaching, God got ahold of

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me and I went into personal revival.

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Personal revival.

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And my life hasn't been the same since.

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He turned me upside down.

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I mean, God got ahold of me.

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It was painful.

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He flipped me upside down and I went

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into personal revival.

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And I've been pursuing him ever since.

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I pursue him more and more every day.

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He's more lovely to me every day.

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Every day, he's more lovely.

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That walk with God.

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That walk with God.

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You know what I'm talking about.

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Revival.

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Maybe there's someone here tonight that needs a

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personal revival.

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Well, how do you know?

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Do you have dry eyes when you pray?

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Do you become kind of a job?

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Is the passion gone?

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Have you left your first love?

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What's your courtship like with Jesus lately?

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Revival.

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We all need revival.

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I need revival all the time.

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You want to stay in that white hot

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oven with God.

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That white hot oven.

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That walk with God of revival.

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And that's something you have to pursue.

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He's on the narrow road.

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When Jesus goes, he goes on the narrow

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way.

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The wide way is the broad way.

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That's New York City where all those godless

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plays are.

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It's called Broadway, right?

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The narrow way is His way.

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It's a pursuit.

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A pursuit of Him.

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I'm going to read you some quotes of

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men of revival.

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Vance Havner.

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Vance Havner.

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Vance Havner used to say, you know, I

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can't mimic his voice, but he'd say, you

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know, everybody's holding revival.

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It's about time somebody let loose the one.

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Vance Havner had a way of really, you

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know, getting in there.

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Vance Havner used to preach with Stephen Offord

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on the same platform.

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I have a tape at my house where

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Vance Havner says, I do believe that God's

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going to use Stephen Offord in a mighty

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sweeping revival.

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He's a man of revival.

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And Stephen Offord was a man of revival.

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In fact, I read the biography of Vance

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Havner.

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And in that biography in North Carolina, when

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he and Stephen Offord were preaching for a

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week at a pastor's conference, God broke out

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in revival.

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I asked Mrs. Offord about it.

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She said, oh, yes, I was there.

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She said, I was with him.

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I remember it well.

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Revival broke up.

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Preaching on revival one night.

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And this pastor went up to him after

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the message.

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And he said, Brother Havner, he said, you

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know what?

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He said, that message you just preached, that

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really tore me up.

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He said, that really tore me up.

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And Vance Havner said, well, Brother, what do

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you think it did to me?

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You know, revival kind of gets a hold

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of you and it turns you upside down.

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You know, if it's hard on you, how

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do you think I feel?