1 00:00:04,750 --> 00:00:10,710 Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a 2 00:00:10,710 --> 00:00:15,269 moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. 3 00:00:15,630 --> 00:00:22,730 And today, what will it be, war or revival? Mr. and Mrs. America, what will it be, 4 00:00:23,030 --> 00:00:30,050 war or revival? It's a stark choice that we face. Both phenomena are present in our world today, 5 00:00:30,050 --> 00:00:37,049 war and revival. One represents humanity's way to God, the other man's way to death and 6 00:00:37,049 --> 00:00:43,570 destruction. At important junctures in history, God always places before humanity's vision two 7 00:00:43,570 --> 00:00:50,009 stark choices, God and his ways found in the scriptures, or number two, man and his ways 8 00:00:50,009 --> 00:00:56,310 found in the perversion of his own nature. We have arrived at such a juncture. Let's look clearly to 9 00:00:56,310 --> 00:01:05,329 our choices in war or revival. First of all, war. The evil incompetent administration in Washington, 10 00:01:05,569 --> 00:01:13,689 D.C. has perpetuated upon the American people a cataclysmic conflict that they trumpet as a war 11 00:01:13,689 --> 00:01:21,230 for the freedom and territorial integrity of Ukraine. What a farce. There are several devastating 12 00:01:21,230 --> 00:01:29,390 features of this war, which make it a surefire end of world scenario. First of all, there's the endless 13 00:01:29,390 --> 00:01:35,790 mindless propaganda. The American people have been fed a steady stream of lies and propaganda 14 00:01:35,790 --> 00:01:43,209 meant to gin up hatred for Russia, who is the devil incarnate himself, that is Vladimir Putin, 15 00:01:43,209 --> 00:01:51,790 and unconditional love for Ukraine. Zelensky, who is the George Washington of Ukraine, as I heard one 16 00:01:51,790 --> 00:02:00,030 commentator put it. Well, Ukrainians are ostensibly like us in this scenario, only lovers of liberty who 17 00:02:00,030 --> 00:02:07,849 only want to be free from the domination of a power mad dictator. Therefore, we must shovel billions of 18 00:02:07,849 --> 00:02:15,569 dollars in support and other billions in war material without question or scrutiny. Not even 19 00:02:15,569 --> 00:02:21,270 Rand Paul's amendment to one of the spending bills to audit the billions being spent could be passed. 20 00:02:21,810 --> 00:02:29,069 All of this in order to support these so-called brothers in the cause of liberty and justice. And we 21 00:02:29,069 --> 00:02:35,969 hear it from everyone. Every time we turn on the TV or the radio or click a website, Nancy Pelosi calls 22 00:02:35,969 --> 00:02:43,770 Zelensky, the new St. Patrick. Sean Penn is filming a fawning, slobbering documentary of Zelensky 23 00:02:43,770 --> 00:02:51,090 and the war. And one critic puts it this way. He says, and I quote, Sean Penn's Zelensky documentary 24 00:02:51,090 --> 00:03:00,550 substitutes bromance for storytelling. Bromance for storytelling. And every major news outlet has 25 00:03:00,550 --> 00:03:07,990 their correspondence supporting the war, likening Ukrainians to the patriots of 1776. And most 26 00:03:07,990 --> 00:03:14,490 Americans swallow this diet of pablum direct from the spoon of mainstream media as if it were gospel 27 00:03:14,490 --> 00:03:22,409 truth. Yet for no more than the effort of turning a page, the mildly curious American can find out 28 00:03:22,409 --> 00:03:30,449 these simple facts. First of all, Zelensky himself is a damnable dictator, persecuting the Russian 29 00:03:30,449 --> 00:03:38,990 Orthodox Church, for example. Excuse me, the Russian Orthodox Church, although 60 percent of Ukrainians 30 00:03:38,990 --> 00:03:45,490 belong to it. And the church condemned Russia's invasion, too. And he throws his political enemies in 31 00:03:45,490 --> 00:03:52,210 jails. He censors the media. He appropriates millions of aid to his own personal bank accounts. And he's 32 00:03:52,210 --> 00:03:58,750 always beating the war drums incessantly with NATO and the United States of America to attack, attack, 33 00:03:58,750 --> 00:04:05,370 attack. And when missiles crashed into Poland last year, he hysterically called for an outright 34 00:04:05,370 --> 00:04:12,569 declaration of war by the United States and a nuclear reprisal until it was determined by the 35 00:04:12,569 --> 00:04:19,209 trajectory of those missiles that they were launched within Ukraine. And then the bumbling, grinning B 36 00:04:19,209 --> 00:04:25,970 actor. Did you know that Zelensky was an actor before he became president of Ukraine? Well, he promptly 37 00:04:25,970 --> 00:04:34,170 went on to something else. Well, another fact. Ignorant zealots for Ukraine label Putin, for example, 38 00:04:34,290 --> 00:04:41,230 as a Nazi, when in reality, for a brief reading of a bit of World War II history, one will discover 39 00:04:41,230 --> 00:04:49,310 that Ukraine was a Nazi stronghold during World War II and still is. When Hitler invaded Ukraine 40 00:04:49,310 --> 00:04:58,129 in Operation Barbarossa in June of 1941, much of Ukraine welcomed the Nazi troops and tanks as 41 00:04:58,129 --> 00:05:04,970 deliverers, deliverers from Stalin, who had persecuted and killed millions of Ukrainians over the space of 42 00:05:04,970 --> 00:05:12,550 decades. In fact, in remembrance of those days, Nazi groups have existed ever since 1945. And most 43 00:05:12,550 --> 00:05:19,569 recently, they are called Azov battalions. Azov battalions, excuse me. And they are brutal. The 44 00:05:19,569 --> 00:05:26,589 Azov battalions terrorize their fellow citizens. Who will not join them? They torture and maim and kill 45 00:05:26,589 --> 00:05:32,810 fellow Ukrainians by the tens of thousands. And perhaps you saw the video of Azov troops torturing 46 00:05:32,810 --> 00:05:40,189 Russian prisoners early in the war. We have video of whole platoons of Azov soldiers heiling Hitler, 47 00:05:40,689 --> 00:05:48,949 their arms held high, before Nazi paraphernalia and swastika festooned flags. And yet, our politicians 48 00:05:48,949 --> 00:05:56,029 and media treat the real Nazis in this drama as if they were Minutemen or Navy SEALs or the greatest 49 00:05:56,029 --> 00:06:02,790 generation of World War II. Another fact that's often overlooked when it comes to Ukraine is that 50 00:06:02,810 --> 00:06:11,129 we are being drawn into a region where we have absolutely no security interests whatsoever. 51 00:06:11,470 --> 00:06:18,029 The interest we do have, I will mention, under corruption. But let it be known that we are being 52 00:06:18,029 --> 00:06:25,709 drawn into a region where we have absolutely no security interests whatsoever. Despite the impression 53 00:06:25,709 --> 00:06:32,750 trying to be foisted on us, Ukraine is not a member of the military security pact NATO, which is 54 00:06:32,750 --> 00:06:40,670 North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO was erected right after World War II in order to check the 55 00:06:40,670 --> 00:06:47,170 potential advance of the Soviet Union into the rest of Europe, like, for example, a very vulnerable 56 00:06:47,170 --> 00:06:55,009 Poland at the time. But since the fall of the Soviet Union, NATO has outlived its usefulness to the point 57 00:06:55,009 --> 00:07:02,290 where it becomes difficult to justify our remaining in it at all as we spend billions of dollars there 58 00:07:02,290 --> 00:07:08,389 while the participating nations spend nothing, ostensibly, for their own defense, right? Additionally, 59 00:07:08,930 --> 00:07:16,050 ignorant Americans are clueless as to the long history of conflict in this region. Another fact that 60 00:07:16,050 --> 00:07:24,129 indeed is being propagandized is the playing down of the long history of conflict in this region. 61 00:07:24,129 --> 00:07:31,870 For example, the strategic region of Crimea, which juts out into the Black Sea, has been fought over 62 00:07:31,870 --> 00:07:41,470 for centuries, and most notably, the war between the Ottoman Empire and Russia right there in Crimea in 1853. 63 00:07:41,470 --> 00:07:48,610 And it was hotly contested as well during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. And in reality, truth be told, 64 00:07:49,209 --> 00:07:56,430 Crimea has been a contested piece of real estate from time immemorial. One scholar calls the current 65 00:07:56,430 --> 00:08:06,689 Ukraine war just another in a long line of wars in a perpetual Slavic civil war. He calls the battle 66 00:08:06,689 --> 00:08:15,029 between Ukraine and Russia and all of those elements a perpetual Slavic civil war. That is what we are 67 00:08:15,029 --> 00:08:21,430 sticking our hand into a virtual wood chipper set on high. Would you willingly stick your hand into a 68 00:08:21,430 --> 00:08:27,250 spinning wood chipper? Why then are we getting involved in a vicious civil war in which we have 69 00:08:27,250 --> 00:08:36,129 no business and no security interests? Well, secondly, we must also note the decades of manipulation 70 00:08:36,129 --> 00:08:45,610 and provocation that have existed in Ukraine. American diplomacy did not wake up in February of 2022 71 00:08:45,610 --> 00:08:53,870 and exclaim, oh, Ukraine, look at you, poor, freedom-loving, small country. You know how that 72 00:08:53,870 --> 00:09:02,610 cackling Kamala Harris, our vice president, characterized Ukraine in her puerile comparison. This freedom-loving, 73 00:09:02,610 --> 00:09:09,230 small country, small country being suddenly invaded by a big country, right? No, America did not wake up 74 00:09:09,230 --> 00:09:16,110 to that in February of 2022. America has been clandestinely meddling in Ukrainian politics for 75 00:09:16,110 --> 00:09:22,750 decades. Ukraine has been a pawn in the West's chess game with Russia since the fall of the Soviet 76 00:09:22,750 --> 00:09:29,029 Empire in 1991. We guaranteed Ukraine security. If she would give up her nuclear weapons, 77 00:09:29,029 --> 00:09:35,330 we assured Mikhail Gorbachev that Ukraine would never become a member of NATO. And yet we are now 78 00:09:35,330 --> 00:09:43,710 looking with that, who me look, when Russia today accuses us of stampeding Ukraine towards NATO 79 00:09:43,710 --> 00:09:51,009 membership, which is exactly what we are doing in violating our agreements. Perhaps the most egregious 80 00:09:51,009 --> 00:09:58,330 example that we, the United States of America, have been interfering in Ukrainian politics for 81 00:09:58,330 --> 00:10:06,750 decades now, is that despite the clear terms of the Minsk Accords, excuse me, the Minsk Accords, 82 00:10:07,129 --> 00:10:16,129 M-I-N-S-K, signed in 2014, American agents like Victoria Nuland, who was at the time the Assistant 83 00:10:16,129 --> 00:10:23,230 Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, she worked to destabilize the democratically 84 00:10:23,230 --> 00:10:32,070 elected President Yanukovych and setting up a puppet president friendly to us. That is the United 85 00:10:32,070 --> 00:10:39,090 States in the West. That is Poroshenko. And this all transpired back in 2014, the overthrow of a 86 00:10:39,090 --> 00:10:46,490 legitimately elected president. Additionally, we have been secretly training Ukrainian military forces, 87 00:10:46,490 --> 00:10:54,049 arming them long before the outbreak of this war. Now, there is more to this sordid tale of 88 00:10:54,049 --> 00:11:01,289 manipulation and provocation, which makes us liable and guilty of provoking Russia, not acting as 89 00:11:01,289 --> 00:11:08,490 peacemakers, including the building of 46 bioweapons labs throughout Ukraine. On and on we could go. 90 00:11:08,649 --> 00:11:15,070 The larger point is that we are like the conniving sibling who pokes and pinches and provokes his 91 00:11:15,070 --> 00:11:22,289 brother until that brother hits back in self-defense and we go running to mommy, crying foul. No one 92 00:11:22,289 --> 00:11:29,009 should listen to such a brat. And likewise, no one should listen to the corrupt, warmongering American 93 00:11:29,009 --> 00:11:38,289 diplomats and politicians when they spew their war rhetoric. America is the sibling brat in the larger 94 00:11:38,289 --> 00:11:46,490 human family. And then C, we should also note the decades of corruption, the decades of corruption. 95 00:11:47,029 --> 00:11:53,649 Once more, what few Americans have either the time or the inclination to look into is that Ukraine has 96 00:11:53,649 --> 00:12:00,730 become a giant money laundering machine since the fall of the Soviet empire. Do you remember that 97 00:12:00,730 --> 00:12:06,389 famous piece of film where then Vice President Biden boasted that he had personally got the Ukrainian 98 00:12:06,389 --> 00:12:13,289 special prosecutor looking into Hunter Biden's corrupt financial dealings? He got this prosecutor fired 99 00:12:13,289 --> 00:12:20,389 by threatening to withhold billions in U.S. aid. That was just the tip of the iceberg. Like the Bidens, 100 00:12:20,850 --> 00:12:27,730 others like utterly corrupt Senator Mitt Romney set up dummy corporations. This is the way you do it. 101 00:12:27,730 --> 00:12:36,370 You set up a dummy corporation in Ukraine and you staff it with corrupt Ukrainians into which 102 00:12:36,389 --> 00:12:43,690 corporations then money from the United States taxpayer ostensibly targeted for aid to the Ukrainian 103 00:12:43,690 --> 00:12:51,429 people. That money is then funneled into that dummy corporation. Then that money is paid out to the 104 00:12:51,429 --> 00:13:00,230 officers of that corporation. Ironically enough, men like Hunter and Joe Biden and Mitt Romney. So when you 105 00:13:00,230 --> 00:13:08,830 feel so patriotic, you put in your sticker on your window of the Ukrainian flag and you post it on your 106 00:13:08,830 --> 00:13:16,590 website and on your Facebook page and you feel so patriotic knowing that your billions in tax dollars are going to 107 00:13:16,590 --> 00:13:24,490 support the poor downtrodden Ukrainian people in their striving for freedom just like us. Buying weapons to help fight the 108 00:13:24,490 --> 00:13:32,350 Russians and food to feed the hungry and medicine to heal the sick. Just know, feeling so proud that you're doing 109 00:13:32,350 --> 00:13:40,830 so good, know that behind the scenes, your corrupt government is scamming you, using soaring rhetoric to put 110 00:13:40,830 --> 00:13:49,750 money in their own pockets. And Ukraine is their prize golden goose. D, we must also note the imminence of 111 00:13:49,750 --> 00:13:58,269 nuclear annihilation. Oh, this keeps me up at night. We must be especially wary of the deep state when it begins 112 00:13:58,269 --> 00:14:06,470 beating the war drums of nuclear war. The reckless political Lilliputians in D.C. have backed Russia's 113 00:14:06,470 --> 00:14:12,230 Vladimir Putin into a nuclear corner. He has put Russia on its highest state of alert. The only command 114 00:14:12,230 --> 00:14:19,250 remaining is launch. But his situation is not one which came about in a vacuum. He has been provoked. 115 00:14:19,250 --> 00:14:25,889 For example, the discretionless Senator Roger Wicker, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee 116 00:14:25,889 --> 00:14:31,389 and should know better, said that the U.S. could rain destruction on Russia with nuclear weapons 117 00:14:31,389 --> 00:14:38,289 if Russia invaded Ukraine. Well, Mr. Wicker, Russia has invaded Ukraine. What now? And in response, 118 00:14:38,409 --> 00:14:44,629 the Kremlin said that Russia could turn the United States into radioactive ash if she were attacked. 119 00:14:44,629 --> 00:14:51,070 And of course, with Russia now on high alert, this is not just empty bluster, at least on Putin's part. 120 00:14:51,610 --> 00:14:58,950 And additionally, the deep state lackey Congressman Adam Kinzinger called for a no-fly zone over Ukraine 121 00:14:58,950 --> 00:15:05,590 enforced by NATO and the United States, which tactic has always been seen as an act of war 122 00:15:05,590 --> 00:15:11,389 and would certainly invite retaliation from Russia, perhaps with tactical nuclear weapons and, 123 00:15:11,509 --> 00:15:18,429 God forbid, strategic nuclear weapons on the United States. Now, this is just a small sample 124 00:15:18,429 --> 00:15:25,950 of the rash, foolish talk that has come from deep state progressives concerning nuclear war with Russia. 125 00:15:26,309 --> 00:15:32,429 All of them are clueless as to the terrible consequences of even one nuclear explosion over America, 126 00:15:32,429 --> 00:15:39,769 much less a full-scale war with multiple warheads igniting in every major city and military target 127 00:15:39,769 --> 00:15:46,090 in America. What would be left, I ask you? Einstein, when asked about the kind of weapons 128 00:15:46,090 --> 00:15:50,309 that would be used in World War III, responded, and I quote, 129 00:15:50,450 --> 00:15:57,070 I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks 130 00:15:57,070 --> 00:16:05,889 and stones, Albert Einstein. A state of war, it must be said, only serves as an excuse for domestic 131 00:16:05,889 --> 00:16:13,649 tyranny. There are no sober statesmen to govern us anymore, but only shallow, feckless political hacks 132 00:16:13,649 --> 00:16:22,509 who no longer think deeply, but are only parrots repeating the party line. And we must always remember 133 00:16:22,509 --> 00:16:30,870 what Alexander Solzhenitsyn said about a state of war. He said, a state of war only serves as an excuse 134 00:16:30,870 --> 00:16:37,269 for domestic tyranny. And that's what's being perpetrated on us. The resistance of Ukraine has 135 00:16:37,269 --> 00:16:43,850 no reasonable chance of success, despite the bravery of the Ukrainians. I do not mean to demean them, 136 00:16:43,850 --> 00:16:49,649 but rather, our participation has only escalated the conflict to the brink of nuclear war. 137 00:16:49,649 --> 00:16:56,210 And the ignorant, careless fools in the Biden administration and the lackey Republicans who 138 00:16:56,210 --> 00:17:02,590 go along with them, who keep sending further billions to Ukraine, are only provoking arguably 139 00:17:02,590 --> 00:17:09,369 the most heavily armed nuclear power on the planet. Do you, who blindly follow Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi 140 00:17:09,369 --> 00:17:15,829 and General Milley and Lindsey Graham and Adam Kinzinger and all the rest, do you mean to tell me that 141 00:17:15,829 --> 00:17:24,410 these evil, incompetent leaders, who, everyone else, you as well, freely admit, have destroyed our economy, 142 00:17:24,549 --> 00:17:30,109 we all know that, who have sickened our culture with their perversions, and who have cynically imposed 143 00:17:30,109 --> 00:17:38,029 tyranny on us, do you now mean to tell me that magically, they are suddenly righteous patriots, 144 00:17:38,029 --> 00:17:46,509 who will successfully prosecute an honorable war? Oh, give me a break. Consistent with their character, 145 00:17:46,950 --> 00:17:52,950 they will only lead us to defeat and destruction. If you stand with Ukraine, dear listener, 146 00:17:53,309 --> 00:18:00,970 if you stand with Ukraine, you have fallen for a lie. Well, not only is war going on in America, 147 00:18:00,970 --> 00:18:08,789 but also revival is going on in America, and this is our hope. Number two, not only war, but there is 148 00:18:08,789 --> 00:18:19,910 revival. At the opposite pole of this infestation of evil is spiritual revival. War or revival. In early 149 00:18:19,910 --> 00:18:27,589 February of this year, students at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky gathered to worship and pray and 150 00:18:27,589 --> 00:18:34,529 sing, and they continued around the clock for two weeks. Thousands came to join them. One of the ministers 151 00:18:34,529 --> 00:18:40,769 who preached the sermon, he closed it with this, and I quote him, do not leave here before you learn about the 152 00:18:40,769 --> 00:18:49,829 love of God. Experience the love of God, so that you can pour it out. Ah, Asbury, he goes on to say, that is the 153 00:18:49,829 --> 00:18:58,069 college. Asbury, and the world needs this kind of love, unquote. Thousands of students at that time 154 00:18:58,069 --> 00:19:04,670 were transformed. That characterizes revivals, dear listener. I'm a student of history, and that 155 00:19:04,670 --> 00:19:11,589 characterizes revivals of the past, and God being faithful will characterize this revival too. I hope 156 00:19:11,589 --> 00:19:19,609 so. Many at this revival at Asbury College, many came to know the Savior, confessing their sin, 157 00:19:19,609 --> 00:19:26,869 committing their eternal souls to Jesus. People could be found in groups praying for one another, 158 00:19:27,069 --> 00:19:32,029 or just listening to the stories of their fellow students, perhaps hearing them as never before, 159 00:19:32,430 --> 00:19:40,109 although knowing them on campus previously. Many of the participants remarked on a palpable presence 160 00:19:40,109 --> 00:19:47,329 of the Holy Spirit, not in a frantic, excited way, but with peace and strength and love. It was 161 00:19:47,329 --> 00:19:53,950 compelling and enduring. It was nothing any clever promoter or charismatic preacher could hype up, 162 00:19:53,950 --> 00:20:01,329 but rather something unplanned for, powerful, and unstoppable. I found interesting in particular 163 00:20:01,329 --> 00:20:10,210 the thoughts of Professor Stephen Siemens, who was a senior back in 1970 on this very campus when another 164 00:20:10,210 --> 00:20:16,690 revival sprang up. He's since returned to teach at the school. Siemens said it will take 165 00:20:16,690 --> 00:20:22,210 30 years or so to discern exactly what happened here during this time. Revivals, he explained, 166 00:20:22,549 --> 00:20:28,109 begin with an awakening inside a Christian community. It always starts in the church, 167 00:20:28,230 --> 00:20:34,509 dear listener. And Siemens goes on to say, that's stage one. It begins in the church. Siemens goes 168 00:20:34,509 --> 00:20:39,430 on to say, true revivals throughout history have led to evangelism and missions and reformation of 169 00:20:39,430 --> 00:20:46,609 society and culture at the national and global levels. Siemens closes by saying, it's also clear 170 00:20:46,609 --> 00:20:55,309 that this Asbury revival is about Gen Z and its hunger for genuine worship, unquote. Now, researchers note 171 00:20:55,309 --> 00:21:01,170 that record numbers of young people, the Gen Z generation, if you will, record numbers of young 172 00:21:01,170 --> 00:21:10,529 people are religiously unaffiliated and or have doubts about God. And also, signs of anxiety and depression 173 00:21:10,529 --> 00:21:17,890 are rising. With a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report noting that 42% of high school 174 00:21:17,890 --> 00:21:25,569 students experience persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, and 22% of them seriously considered 175 00:21:25,569 --> 00:21:33,190 attempting suicide. Dear listener, I submit to you that war will only exacerbate this circumstance, 176 00:21:33,430 --> 00:21:41,769 will only drive America and Americans deeper into despair. But revival will begin the healing. 177 00:21:42,349 --> 00:21:49,789 Revival will begin the healing. Now, it must be noted that revival is not the end-all be-all to our 178 00:21:49,789 --> 00:21:55,549 problems. No, no, no, no. It is only the beginning. Historically, it is a beginning. We see 179 00:21:55,549 --> 00:22:02,349 this in the history of revivals and reformation. The First Great Awakening, for example, brought the 180 00:22:02,349 --> 00:22:09,650 revolutionary generation out of frontier despair and alcoholism to spiritual life, and in addition 181 00:22:09,650 --> 00:22:15,670 to the making of the American Republic. Many people do not realize that without the First Great 182 00:22:15,670 --> 00:22:23,509 Awakening, there would be no American Republic. There would be no Revolutionary War and our Constitution. 183 00:22:23,509 --> 00:22:30,410 And there was also then what's known as the Second Great Awakening, historically based, historically 184 00:22:30,410 --> 00:22:36,430 reasoned. We can see what revival does. Yes, the Second Great Awakening brought the Civil War generation 185 00:22:36,430 --> 00:22:46,309 out of greed and expansion and slavery and alcoholism. It's funny how alcoholism is a persistent theme 186 00:22:46,309 --> 00:22:51,950 in American history, isn't it? Yes, the Second Great Awakening brought the Civil War generation 187 00:22:51,950 --> 00:22:59,569 out of greed and racial slavery and alcoholism, brought it then to the ending of that slavery 188 00:22:59,569 --> 00:23:06,829 and a recommitment to biblical principles. And so, dear listener, as conditions worsen in a land, 189 00:23:06,829 --> 00:23:14,509 this is also historically demonstrable. As conditions worsen in any given land, with things like moral 190 00:23:14,509 --> 00:23:21,730 degeneracy and poverty and wars and strife and despair, when all of this grips a people, 191 00:23:22,230 --> 00:23:30,430 oh, God always moves to answer the prayers of His people by granting revival and reformation, too. Yes, 192 00:23:30,430 --> 00:23:36,849 we see this being repeated historically, something I've been praying for for decades. And time will 193 00:23:36,849 --> 00:23:43,529 tell. We may be seeing the beginnings of this phenomena again in our own day. Oh, the prophet 194 00:23:43,529 --> 00:23:51,849 Isaiah, he puts it this way, for thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabits eternity, whose name 195 00:23:51,849 --> 00:23:59,509 is holy. He says, I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit 196 00:23:59,509 --> 00:24:08,269 to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. Unquote. Isaiah 57, 197 00:24:08,490 --> 00:24:16,750 verse 15. Yes, God is with you indeed. If you have a humble and contrite spirit, if you know who you 198 00:24:16,750 --> 00:24:23,329 are in relation to God and you've confessed your sin, understand indeed that you're a sinful creature in 199 00:24:23,329 --> 00:24:28,210 need of salvation and redemption. That's what it means to be contrite and humble. Well, the promise is 200 00:24:28,210 --> 00:24:35,970 that He is there. He is there for you to revive your spirits and to revive of the hearts of the 201 00:24:35,970 --> 00:24:44,450 contrite ones. Dear listener, there is a stark choice facing us. War or revival, which will prevail? 202 00:24:44,869 --> 00:24:51,529 For which do you long and pray? Dear listener, it will begin with you. Our Lord dwells with one of a 203 00:24:51,529 --> 00:24:58,109 contrite and humble spirits. Humble yourself today. With such a one, He revives their spirit and hearts. 204 00:24:58,650 --> 00:25:06,109 How many Americans? I dare say practically every man, Jack, one of us needs that revival in our spirit 205 00:25:06,109 --> 00:25:11,710 and our heart. And hopefully God is moving in such a direction. I pray that He does. I pray that He moves 206 00:25:11,710 --> 00:25:18,369 not only in my heart, but in your hearts and in the heart of all of those around us in this greater 207 00:25:18,369 --> 00:25:26,390 Snake River Valley. I pray that revival will then begin, but not end. That revival will only then bring 208 00:25:26,390 --> 00:25:32,869 on further reformation of our morals and our manners and our way of life, that we might conform it to the 209 00:25:32,869 --> 00:25:40,210 will of God, that we might indeed see a reformation of all things towards God. He loves us. He beckons 210 00:25:40,210 --> 00:25:49,490 us to Him. And I pray that you will respond to this revival of the spirit, to the revival of the heart 211 00:25:49,490 --> 00:25:58,230 of a contrite one. Only then will we be saved. And only then will the church rise to her calling 212 00:25:58,230 --> 00:26:05,349 in this land. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy 213 00:26:05,349 --> 00:26:12,529 worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. Come and join us, 214 00:26:12,630 --> 00:26:17,490 cross our threshold, and see if indeed your heart and spirit might not be revived a bit 215 00:26:17,490 --> 00:26:23,809 by worshiping with us, by fellowshipping with us. You will find a warm welcome and hopefully an 216 00:26:23,809 --> 00:26:30,910 opportunity to worship in spirit and in truth. But in any case, we would love to have you. We encourage 217 00:26:30,910 --> 00:26:36,950 you to visit New Geneva. We meet for holy worship at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th 218 00:26:36,950 --> 00:26:49,569 and Boulevard. And you can call us for more information or feedback at 208-523-0196. 208-523-0196.