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Women in a Man's World
00:03:46
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| I just believe the Holy Spirit's going to use women in the last days, don't you think? | |
| I do. | |
| When Catherine Coleman stepped up into her role and she was the brazen, rebellious woman of the church because she wore high heels and jewelry and flowing gowns, she had the audacity to speak of the Holy Spirit. | |
| You know, because the women back then, they weren't supposed to talk at all. | |
| But if they did, they weren't supposed to touch theology. | |
| That was for the men. | |
| So she was a woman in a man's world. | |
| But not only did she do these things, she stepped up and did them with authority. | |
| And what ended up actually happening was that her voice had so much power and authority behind it, but it was still gentle. | |
| And it didn't have this pow pazam bang in your face thing that the men, you know, that the men were pulpit pounders for so many generations prior. | |
| I mean, even back as far as far back as Jonathan Edwards of the First Great Awakening, sinners in the hands of an angry God. | |
| Okay, Jonathan, in Jonathan Edwards' defense, he was actually written, documented as a very mellow man. | |
| But I mean, think about that. | |
| That's a title of one of the sermons that came out of the First Great Awakening was sinners in the hands of all angry God. | |
| So you got Catherine Coleman, and she's up there, and she's talking about the Holy Spirit in her 70s gowns and her jewelry and all of this stuff. | |
| And I mean, she blew away every single wall standing between a woman and the spreading of the gospel and the preaching of the gospel. | |
| Further on, right after that, comes this wave of hippies and all of this countercultural, radical revolution of Christ, right? | |
| But since then, there has not been a revival or a great awakening. | |
| And now we have technology and now we have girls out there with their own YouTube channels doing makeup tutorials that are going to catch the wind of the gospel. | |
| They're going to be the first ones out there in their gowns and in their heels and they're going to pull a Catherine Coleman. | |
| I love it. | |
| Youth. | |
| When you go back. | |
| Come on, women. | |
| When you go back to... | |
| I think you're one of them. | |
| Oh, I think so. | |
| Oh, man. | |
| When you go back to the Second Great Awakening, and you look at the three major denominations that were running, were centrally behind that awakening, the Methodists, the Baptists, the Presbyterians. | |
| They were not emotional denominations. | |
| Actually, they were quite resistant to certain movements of the Holy Spirit because, you know, anything that was overly emotional. | |
| In fact, if you read through the James McGready story, especially the information I documented in the book, there are moments where he's at a tent revival and people are starting to cry and they're pouring their heart out to the Lord and he's standing at he and his, and, you know, the people that he's with are watching and looking and who's getting overly emotional? | |
| Well, that woman's getting overly emotional. | |
| Let's move in and just make sure that we don't let this get out of hand so it doesn't become an emotional phenomenon. | |
| What ended up happening every single time it's documented in the book, these same men that went to move in on that were struck by something they couldn't explain and they were on their knees. | |
| Well, they were sometimes slain in the spirit, but they were also sometimes just slain to the floor. | |
| Almost like, guess I'm not going to intervene. | |
| Do you know what I'm saying? | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| That's God. | |
| That went from there. | |
| All of a sudden, this movement continued to the younger, younger, younger generations. | |
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Amazing Child Prophets
00:00:53
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| And by the time you get to the end of the Second Great Awakening, documented at the very end, there's two stories that are really amazing. | |
| One involves a couple of really, really tiny little girls, and another one was a little boy they hoisted up on a man's shoulder. | |
| And he had to preach from a man's shoulder because I think he was, I don't remember his age exactly, eight or nine. | |
| And they preached with not only the anointing, but an articulation that can't be described. | |
| The words that came out of their mouth were words that you couldn't train a child to say those words. | |
| You couldn't have them memorize those words, and they would come out memorized at best. | |
| These little kids were preaching. | |
| And what ended up happening, this is the coolest part. | |
| The children came out and they started to prophesy and speak, not speak in tongues, but speak the word of God that they weren't even familiar with. | |