I Will Pour Out my Spirit
Scripture: Joel 2:28Devotional Series: God's Strength
Teaching: God's Strength pt. 1 (SUN_AM 2021-10-31) by Pastor Star R Scott
You might be able to clarify your definition of “revival,” and that might change things and make things a little closer. “In the last days I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh” (Joel 2:28). “In these last days, God’s going to just—there’s going to be a last day, and He—” That happened two thousand years ago. That prophecy was fulfilled two thousand years ago on the day of Pentecost. Amen? We’ve been in revival for two thousand years. “Well, it doesn’t look like much of a revival.” You’re looking at the wrong things. Revival takes place in here (the heart). Amen?
There’s a remnant of God. There are a holy people that are set apart, God’s holy people, His royal priesthood that are showing forth the praises of Him who’s called us out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9). There’s a great revival of people beginning to understand in a way they never have what justification really is, the full work of the redemption in the cross of Jesus Christ, who we are as the righteousness of God.
What a great understanding is coming in this last hour that causes us to stand, that causes us to not faint when things around us are going bad, when we, in fact, in ourselves fail, and our flesh gets preeminent in our lives, and the next thing you know, we have that tendency to want to go back to works, and we start judging ourselves and others that are around us instead of confessing our sin and believing that He’s faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from—? all unrighteousness, praise God!
No more works needed. Faith, by faith are you saved. Amen? Grace through faith, not of works, lest any man should boast, so we rise back up, knowing immediately that these sins have been blotted out. There’s no record of them. We’re in right standing with God and fully prepared for the war that’s at hand. I don’t have to go spend a week beating myself and feeling down. I’m ready to fight right now, praise God! I’m putting on the whole armor of God right now. I’m taking up the Word of God, the sword of the Spirit, and I’m praying right now, effectually. Hallelujah! That’s revival.
Revival just means to be refreshed. So, if we’re talking about the refreshing of the church, that’s one thing. They’re primarily talking about—because it’s in the context of what they’re sharing—a great effect on the world of reintroduced morality… that tendency to come back to these humanistic thoughts that have dominated the church for thousands of years.
God is going to deal with the nations; amen? And God raises up, and God brings down. You don’t read anywhere in Scripture that America has some special covenant with God that will cause it to live like Sodom and Gomorrah and not pay any consequences. I’m grieved by what I see in our country.
I, like any other American, you have, and it’s in everybody—you have that patriotic relationship with that country of which you’re a citizen. I understand those things. Sometimes it’s a little irritating. We have many immigrants that come in. And whether it’s social events, sporting events, whatever, they like to come with their past national flags and do all of this, and I can understand that. That’s your heritage. We, as Christians, are citizens of another nation. “I’m Afro-American.” “I’m an Asian American.” “I’m a Christian American.”
How ironic it is that so much confusion today by racism in America. There is no such thing as racism. It doesn’t exist, because there’s only one race: Adam’s race. Everything else are cultural differences. Beloved, there’s only one blood. There’s not a different—we all came from Adam! It’s man trying to categorize. And, of course, Darwin was the greatest offender in this who—Darwin concluded that the Caucasians were the superior race. That’s a false conclusion, because we’re all the same race. Amen?
At the dispersion at Babel, when people went into all different regions because of the confusion of language, over many of these years, there were adaptations to environment. There were cultural differences, etcetera, that began to establish in these language groups. They all came from the same place, and we’re all going back to the same place. So, in your thinking, as Christians, if you’re going to think biblically, you have to think that way. There’s not Jew, Gentile, male, female, and so how do we pray? “Thy will be done in Earth as it is in heaven.”
There’s a remnant of God. There are a holy people that are set apart, God’s holy people, His royal priesthood that are showing forth the praises of Him who’s called us out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9). There’s a great revival of people beginning to understand in a way they never have what justification really is, the full work of the redemption in the cross of Jesus Christ, who we are as the righteousness of God.
What a great understanding is coming in this last hour that causes us to stand, that causes us to not faint when things around us are going bad, when we, in fact, in ourselves fail, and our flesh gets preeminent in our lives, and the next thing you know, we have that tendency to want to go back to works, and we start judging ourselves and others that are around us instead of confessing our sin and believing that He’s faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from—? all unrighteousness, praise God!
No more works needed. Faith, by faith are you saved. Amen? Grace through faith, not of works, lest any man should boast, so we rise back up, knowing immediately that these sins have been blotted out. There’s no record of them. We’re in right standing with God and fully prepared for the war that’s at hand. I don’t have to go spend a week beating myself and feeling down. I’m ready to fight right now, praise God! I’m putting on the whole armor of God right now. I’m taking up the Word of God, the sword of the Spirit, and I’m praying right now, effectually. Hallelujah! That’s revival.
Revival just means to be refreshed. So, if we’re talking about the refreshing of the church, that’s one thing. They’re primarily talking about—because it’s in the context of what they’re sharing—a great effect on the world of reintroduced morality… that tendency to come back to these humanistic thoughts that have dominated the church for thousands of years.
God is going to deal with the nations; amen? And God raises up, and God brings down. You don’t read anywhere in Scripture that America has some special covenant with God that will cause it to live like Sodom and Gomorrah and not pay any consequences. I’m grieved by what I see in our country.
I, like any other American, you have, and it’s in everybody—you have that patriotic relationship with that country of which you’re a citizen. I understand those things. Sometimes it’s a little irritating. We have many immigrants that come in. And whether it’s social events, sporting events, whatever, they like to come with their past national flags and do all of this, and I can understand that. That’s your heritage. We, as Christians, are citizens of another nation. “I’m Afro-American.” “I’m an Asian American.” “I’m a Christian American.”
How ironic it is that so much confusion today by racism in America. There is no such thing as racism. It doesn’t exist, because there’s only one race: Adam’s race. Everything else are cultural differences. Beloved, there’s only one blood. There’s not a different—we all came from Adam! It’s man trying to categorize. And, of course, Darwin was the greatest offender in this who—Darwin concluded that the Caucasians were the superior race. That’s a false conclusion, because we’re all the same race. Amen?
At the dispersion at Babel, when people went into all different regions because of the confusion of language, over many of these years, there were adaptations to environment. There were cultural differences, etcetera, that began to establish in these language groups. They all came from the same place, and we’re all going back to the same place. So, in your thinking, as Christians, if you’re going to think biblically, you have to think that way. There’s not Jew, Gentile, male, female, and so how do we pray? “Thy will be done in Earth as it is in heaven.”