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Church Wardrobe Malfunction
00:03:50
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| There's a warfare. | |
| Yeah, Bobby. | |
| And I don't know how in the world the church people are going to understand faith without works, is dead. | |
| We've dead upon it. | |
| I'll tell you one of the things that's happening, Jim. | |
| The church has suffered a wardrobe malfunction. | |
| You've heard me write. | |
| The church has suffered a wardrobe malfunction. | |
| God woke me up with that phrase one morning. | |
| I sit straight up in bed. | |
| I said, God. | |
| I don't understand what you said to me. | |
| He said, I want you to start announcing prophetically all over the world, the body of Christ has suffered a wardrobe malfunction. | |
| I said, would you please give me some verses for that? | |
| And he carried me to Judges 6, verse 34. | |
| There's a man there named Gideon. | |
| You remember the story? | |
| Gideon was fearful. | |
| He was inferior. | |
| He had this inferiority complex. | |
| He didn't have any perception of who he really was. | |
| And the people of God were in a horrible situation. | |
| The Midianites and the Amorites were coming in stealing. | |
| And they were just trying to, God's people were just trying to get by. | |
| And there's Gideon down in a wine vat. | |
| Remember the story? | |
| He's sifting wheat. | |
| And the angel of God, Jesus pre-incarnate, says, hello there, you victorious warrior. | |
| And Gideon goes, no, you couldn't be talking about me. | |
| I'm from Manasseh. | |
| Manasseh is the smallest tribe in all Israel. | |
| My family is the weakest family in the hall of the tribe. | |
| And besides that, I'm the weakest one in my father's family. | |
| Wow, wow. | |
| He was just told by God, you're strong and mighty. | |
| And he said, no. | |
| But listen, I'm telling you, here's what happened. | |
| Judges 6, 34. | |
| Let me read it to you. | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| This is out of the Amplified Classic Bible. | |
| Verse 34 says, but the Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon with himself and took possession of him. | |
| What? | |
| There's the wardrobe problem. | |
| There's too much flesh being exposed. | |
| It says God clothed Gideon with himself. | |
| You say, well, Bobby, that was Old Testament situation. | |
| I read the New Testament. | |
| Romans 13, verse 14 says, clothe yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision to fulfill the lustful cravings in your life. | |
| So God clothed Gideon with himself, but now we're to be mature enough to clothe ourself with the Lord Jesus. | |
| So we've had a wardrobe malfunction, don't you think? | |
| We need to put on the Lord Jesus Christ. | |
| Make no provision for justifying the flesh. | |
| I want to challenge you and I want to implore you. | |
| We have got to hang on to holiness. | |
| We cannot. | |
| We've got to be pure and clean if we're going to get close to God. | |
| Psalms 24, 3 and 4 says, who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? | |
| He that hath clean hands and a pure heart. | |
| You say, no, Bobby, listen, that's old school. | |
| That's legalistic. | |
| No, the Bible said in the New Testament, pursue peace and holiness, for without holiness, no individual will see God. | |
| Holiness is not optional. | |
| Here's what I tell these millennials and the young people. | |
| I get to preach at some of the largest youth conferences going around. | |
| And here it is, 2 Corinthians 7, 1. | |
| Having, therefore, these promises, dearly beloved, let us purify ourselves. | |
| Let us cleanse ourselves from every bit of the contamination of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting holiness in the reverential fear of the Lord. | |
| Jim, I'm going to tell you a secret. | |
| One of the great things God's about to do to the body of Christ, he's about to release the holy fear of God. | |
| The awe of God is coming back to the people of God. | |
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Reintroduced to Christ
00:00:28
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| The holy, reverential fear of the Lord is going to come back to the people of God. | |
| He said, announce to the church, I'm about to reintroduce myself to my people. | |
| You say, I don't understand that. | |
| In the book of Revelation, there's a guy named John. | |
| It says in the Gospels, he leaned his heart, his head against the very heartbeat of Jesus Christ, but he's about to be reintroduced to Christ in a deeper dimension. | |
| He sees him now as king of glory, and he falls at his feet as though he were dead. | |