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Jesus Revolution
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| What is revolution? | |
| We'll just start with the title of your book. | |
| And 20 years before the return, I stood in D.C. with several hundred thousand people and we began to talk about Jesus revolution. | |
| Revolution is radical, dramatic, sweeping change. | |
| Revolution is out with the old, in with the new. | |
| Revolution is get rid of the bad system with a better system. | |
| But worldly revolutions are generally bloody. | |
| and violent and destructive. | |
| And you replace one bad thing with another bad thing, like the communist revolution, or in America, in a bloodless way, the counterculture revolution, but that has negatively changed our whole society. | |
| What we need is radical, dramatic, sweeping change in the church of America that impacts society, not with anger, not with hatred, not with violence, but overcoming evil with good, overcoming hatred with love, overcoming lies with the power and truth of the spirit. | |
| And that means seeing Jesus as the leader of God's revolution, that the Great Commission is a revolutionary calling where Jesus says, go, let's change the world together, where Jesus' message is a message of liberation to the captives. | |
| And that's where revolutions start. | |
| People realize they're enslaved and they need to be set free. | |
| We have the ultimate revolutionary message. | |
| It's a message where Jesus says to his disciples, leave everything and follow me. | |
| And the way a revolutionary thinks is life as it is is not worth living, but the cause is worth dying for. | |
| And we say this world, messed up as it is, is not what God intended. | |
| God has something better, and it's for the church to lead the way. | |
| I don't care who's elected. | |
| They can only go so far. | |
| I don't care who's in the court. | |
| Of course, I'm voting. | |
| Of course, the court is important. | |
| Yes. | |
| But ultimately, the change that needs to happen happens when we, the people of God, get so radically, dramatically touched by heaven that we're burning for Jesus, that we're living holy lives and ablaze for God. | |
| We go into our communities and neighborhoods and states and cities proclaiming and living a Jesus revolution. | |
| And we take back some of the moral ground that's been stolen out from under our feet. | |
| It's by the power of the Spirit. | |
| It's by the blood of Jesus. | |
| It's by the Word of God. | |
| And it is the ultimate revolutionary movement. | |