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The Church's Role in Glory's Arrival
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| What time are we in right now? | |
| I think the scripture tells us clearly where we're at. | |
| I do believe that we're at the end of an age as we know it. | |
| Psalm 102 talks about the emergence of Jerusalem. | |
| And the scripture says about the emergence of Jerusalem that when you see Jerusalem being built up, Zion being built up, then the Lord will appear in his glory, right? | |
| But if you go down to verse number 18 in Psalm 102, it says this, and this shall be written for the generation to come, a generation that is created to praise the Lord. | |
| So if you notice in Psalm 102 there, verse 18, when it says the generation to come, it literally, the Hebrew word is Acharon, the final generation. | |
| So with Jerusalem coming to the platform like it is, with the onslaught and the attack against conservatism as we see it, I do believe that we're at the end of an age as we know it. | |
| I believe there's an entire shift that's going on, but at the end of the day, I do believe, Pastor, that God's waiting on the church to be the church and do what we're supposed to do. | |
| We know that things are going to wax worse and worse. | |
| The Bible tells us that. | |
| But the Bible also tells us, here's what I believe. | |
| I believe before the Lord comes in glory for his church, he's going to come in glory in his church. | |
| Yes, has to. | |
| Now, let me explain that. | |
| He's going to come in glory for his church. | |
| But the Bible says he's not coming for a weak, emaciated, sick church. | |
| He's coming for a church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish, a church that is a glorious church. | |
| So before Jesus comes in glory for his church, he's going to first come in glory in his church. | |
| So what I'm looking for is I'm looking for the church to rise up. | |
| I'm looking for, I'll be honest with you, I'm looking for the greatest revival in the history of the world to start sweeping across. | |
| For me, this is not about politics. | |
| Politics is just something that we're having to deal with as an issue. | |
| The overarching issue is the glory of the Lord needs to cover the earth like the waters cover the sea. | |
| And God wants to be famous in the earth. | |
| And this is the church. | |
| Again, I'm going to say it, when the world is at its worst, they deserve to see a church at its best. | |
| And the only way we can do that is to have an outpouring of the Holy Spirit like never before on the church. | |