♪ In every generation, there have been revivals. Massive moves of the Spirit that changed the course of history. In every revival, there were believers like you who chose to answer the call to become the one in their generation. Discover your call to be the one in your generation. ♪ Welcome back to Revival Radio TV. I'm Gene Bailey, your host today, along with Greg Stephens. Greg, thanks for... - Thank you. - We just got started last week.
I want to kind of dive into what we've been talking about. We were talking about these founding documents of America, whether it's the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights... These were all founded and based on biblical principles. And when I say that, I've had people, other outside media corporations, come after me. And say, "Well, these people believe it comes from God." Well, it's right there in our documents that we believe these truths to be self-evident.
That we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights among these life, liberty, and the pursuit of property. I mean, this is... It's astounding to me how much we've forgotten. - These all weren't the most moral men. - No, they were not. They weren't a bunch of preachers that signed. - No, there's some in there that had seminary degrees. Here's the deal. The minute they signed that... I'll just let this hang here. I'm not going to explain it.
The minute they signed that, they became felons. - They did. And many of them paid the ultimate price for signing the document. But where are those men and women today that are willing to sign a document based in scripture with these truths? I think we're seeing few and far between. - I think they're out there. I think they're out there. But do they have the courage to do what these guys did? See, they didn't just sign their own life.
They signed their children, and their wives, and their fortunes, everything they had. - All right. So you were... When we ended last week, we were talking about the right and the left, and we didn't get to something... You were one to pick up on. - You know, I was reading to you from Matthew 24. Chapter 24, Jesus is talking about the signs of the end. And then 25, he lists some things. And I read to you about the 10 virgins that were ready and the 10 that were not ready.
And then the next one is about some servants with some talents. And then he gets over, and I want to read to you from Matthew 26. These are Jesus' words. And let's begin in verse 31. And he says, "When the Son of Man shall come in His glory..." So now that tells me who we're talking about. We're not talking about the Father here. "When the Son of Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory." Now that's His second coming.
"And before Him shall be gathered all nations, and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from his goats. Now, this is His second coming. This is not the rapture. You could infer that that first one, the bridegroom with the 10 virgins, was the rapture. This is the second coming when He'll rule and reign on the earth from Jerusalem. So He will divide His sheep from the goats. Verse 33. "And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left."
That's interesting. "Then shall the king say unto them on his right hand, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For when I was hungry," he goes on and talks about all this stuff. And they answer that. But I think it's interesting that he uses right and left. I don't hate those on the left. But I think it's not a coincidence that the left supports the killing of babies. The left support, or we call it abortion.
The left supports LGBTQ and some of the other things. They always support something that's contrary to the Word. The left gets mad when you talk about the Christian heritage of these people. The left gets mad and calls you a Christian nationalist. They always want to call you names. But it's not a coincidence that Jesus divides things by left and right. And that's exactly the way that our Congress is. You can find that all the way through Scripture.
So how do I respond to people that don't like me? How do I respond to this? The basic premise that helped me out... I asked my grandfather. This was back during Watergate. And during Watergate, you kind of were a little bit embarrassed to be a Republican. At least I was. And you were catching it from every side. And I said, "Granddad, when did we become Republicans?" And he thought about it for a minute. He looked at me. And he says, "Well, I suppose it, well..."
And he says, "It's when I gave my life to Jesus. It was shortly after that, I got filled with the Holy Spirit that I realized I couldn't be a Democrat." The values, his values had changed from the inside out. - And even the party's value has changed over the years. - Exactly. - Now, the Democrat Party used to be the more conservative party. And without turning too much into politics, 1964 Civil Rights Act, that changed the Democrat Party into a certain direction.
- Now, I'm not saying all Democrats are sinners. - No, not at all. - I didn't say that. - But what I'm saying is even they have changed over the years. You remember elections when we used to look at how to win the 11% in the middle? You weren't trying to get the ultra right. Wasn't trying to get the ultra left. They knew they weren't gonna get them. They were trying to win that 11% in the middle who was undecided. And now we're looking at a culture in America where it's far left and far right.
The further right you can go is best and the further left you can go. It's like, whoa, wait a minute, what's going on? - And independents far outweigh both parties. - Yeah, that's right. - The deal is the left tends to believe, and they had these arguments. Listen, here's the Constitution. As they were getting this going and the Bill of Rights, they had arguments about what kind of government we're gonna have. And you had the Federalist and the Anti-Federalist.
More the Jeffersonian side, the other side. So one side is big government. The other one is limited government. The rights of the individual versus rights of the collective or the rights of everyone. You can find that, you can see that in the Roe versus Wade decisions. - All right, so let's talk about that. Because in human thought solely, you know, there's this, you know what, you kind of whisked right by that comment about the rights of the many outweigh the rights of the few.
You hear that comment the same way a lot of different ways. And it almost sounds right. It almost sounds like that's, well, yeah, we should do whatever for everybody. See, that's the trap that we can get into. Yet Jesus would go, he would leave the 99 and go for the one. You know, it wasn't trying to, well, we just let that guy go because he wandered off on his own. - That's the scapegoat. It was a goat. Here we're back with sheep and goat.
They would send one goat out in the wilderness to prove that the sins were rolled for another year. He's the Lamb. And that's the big difference. There's truth on both parts. He came not to condemn the world, but that the world would be restored unto himself. Yet he came for the individual person. So yes, it's collective. Salvation's available to everyone. He didn't discriminate a race of people or a group of people. So he died for everyone, but yet it's individual. It's offered to everyone.
You have to accept it. The problem with the church is we've not, the salt of the earth has put everybody on a low-sodium diet. - Yeah. - It's because we act in such a way because we see immorality and we see this stuff and we wanna scream and we wanna yell about it and we wanna preach about it. - Or we don't wanna offend. - One of the two. We haven't realized the process. You gotta learn to see people. All people have this in common. We were created.
This goes to that document created by their creator. We were broken. We were redeemed. We've been redeemed. And now we're restored. And so everybody's in a process of that in their lives. And that person that you don't like that sits behind you in the pew at church, they're at some level of the process... how does he know that? (laughs) There is some level in the process of going through that. I have to learn to seize people as being, that's their brokenness. It's okay.
They were redeemed by Jesus. I've got to see them as valuable and precious and see what I can do to help them grow in their understanding. We want people to come in already clean before they come into church. And it doesn't work that way. - Now let's talk about, we've hit on Christian nationalism before. And I love it when people call me that or try to accuse us of being-- - You're a Christian nationalist. - Yeah, yeah. I'm like, well, what are you?
And I'm like, well, you tell me what that means. And most people can't define what it is. However, there is the ones that say Christian nationalism, they will equate the far right to Hitler. And what Hitler was extreme right and a nationalist. And so because of mother Germany and everything, we have to understand this.
We're not trying as our beliefs, they're turning our belief system, our beliefs, our core beliefs in scripture into we want to dominate you and become fatalistic government that we all we do is dominate you and beat you over the head with a hammer. That's not what this was all written about, was it? - No, Hitler feared Stalin. He feared communism. A fascist or Nazi hated the communists, the Bolshevik Revolution. And then you got Spain playing in there and you have a lot of other things.
So Hitler is to the left. He's to the right of a Marxist, but he's still to the left of a constitutional republic of America. So when we talk about the right, Hitler being on the right, no, Hitler was on the left, but he was to the right of Marxism. - That's good. - They were both left. - Right. - So you had this train track going over here, which had Marxism on the left and fascism or Nazism on the right, but they're still left of what America was.
And so when people use that, it's a false argument. And that sometimes we get into caught into that, well, I don't want to be a Nazi. Well, you're not a Nazi. You're actually further right than that. Both of them downplayed the importance of the scripture. Both of them downplayed the importance of a relationship with God. The state was the big thing. See, Nazis were that way. And so were the Marxist over in Russia that same way. And so they're both left.
And so it's a false argument that they do that, but we've bought into it. We use the terms that the world uses all the time in our pulpits. Instead of looking at the values, which is the party platforms, the values of what this, the Bill of Rights gives us what our American values are. And we've gotten away from our own values. Mob rule was the rule of the day of the French Revolution and all of those things.
- Well, and that's, in reality is, most people don't understand, in a democracy, which we're a constitutional republic, there is a big difference. And you have to look that up. The, it's very easily become mob ruled. This is why, when you look back in how our Constitution was set up, it was so divinely inspired. Otherwise we would have mob rule.
Now let's remember, these guys that signed these documents knew where they were coming from, and they were establishing a new government by divine order to not have that ability where you trade one king for another king, or one king and you establish a dictator. That's not what they wanted. They wanted to be able, so to be able to have everyone adequately represented, there had to be some documents, some founding documents. - They didn't want us to be a theocracy. - No, not at all.
We are a secular civil government that has biblical foundings. - Yeah. - That's the core. - So, but theocracy almost sounds like it's a good thing, Greg. - It sure sounds like a good thing. It's a horrible thing. - Why is it a horrible thing? - Because it always is going to spiral out of control at some point. And you see it with, well, you see it with Israel. Israel split over it. You know, they wanted a king. You had the judges, but there was no central government.
When the judges were ruling in Israel, there was no civil government, and the people realized we needed some kind of a central single government, and they wanted a king. And so they got Saul given to them instead of David. David would have been the choice, but there will be a theocracy someday. And that's when Jesus will rule and reign on the earth, but it won't be with a fallen man. It won't be with broken humaneness, you know, our broken human condition. So you've been remastered.
You've been restored into his kingdom now. You're a child of light. You're not of this world, yet you live in this world. And it's learning to live from that perspective. - I think you kind of referred to this earlier, is what we have here in the founding of America really began in the early 1700s with George Whitefield. - Yes. - George Whitefield's really, if we did not have a Whitefield, we would not have had a George Washington.
We would not have had what we had with the government in establishing America and the Constitution. You know, how can you say such a thing? Because it turned everyone back to God. It turned the voices and the faces of America back to Scripture. That's why we have Scripture. We have the two treatises of government for John Locke. You know, these people say, well, no, you're wrong. It's not based in Scripture.
They're taking divine inspiration from Scripture, truths, including from the two treatises of government that came into this to help men understand. Now, this isn't a Democrat versus Republican issue. And that's where the enemy wants to get you focused on. - It's left and right that Jesus was talking about. Here's the deal. Okay, I must step out. This is me, all right, saying this. The left, and I didn't say Democrats, the left has more of a theocracy mindset than you do or the Christians
on the right. They really do. The left has, we know that Jesus is Lord. They worship climate. Climate change is part of their religious 10 commandments, if you will. Another one is social justice. - Well, that's where the whole needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. - Right, and if you don't align with that, you're going against basically their God. It's a humanistic form. Once again, why did Rome fall? They had no absolute by which to base society upon. I didn't write that.
Dr. Schaefer wrote that, Francis Schaeffer, and how shall they live? How then shall they live? And I encourage people, you ought to read that. When absolutism is gone, when there's no absolute authority, absolute truth, then it can be replaced with climate. A normal person can look at things in the weather, can look at climate, can look at some of the social things and went, that's silly. There's no impact there. They can't see it that way because it is a religion.
It's part of what they consider to be holy and... - Well, how many times have we seen over the last few decades, well, the world's going to end in 1990, because there won't be- - I think I'm on my sixth final day. - Final day, yeah, because the polar ice caps are melting and we're all going to die. - Y2K. - Y2K, yeah, it's all horrible, or we're going to be caught in a eclipse and we're going to burn up.
Don't get distracted by the silliness of men's folly, when it comes to developing who we are. So if we are going back to the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, which is really a more progressive liberal idea mindset. If you lay that over what we talk about, why abortion? Well, because my needs are more important than the life of a child. LGBTQ, let's just embrace everybody. Let's forget who they are, who they're created to be. - Don't follow the science.
- Yeah, let's just do this and you can be whoever you want to be. All this seems to do is it continually comes back around and builds pride, builds ego, that says you are the creator of your own destiny. You mentioned something that we hear all the time now, what's my truth, your truth, his truth. And of course, cancel culture is you saying what you are. Well, you're trying to cancel me. Well, no, we're giving you the right to disagree and have your own thought.
This is what America was based on. And if we miss that, we've missed the very foundation. - Three things I cannot change personally about me. I didn't choose my parents. He chose that. I didn't choose what color I would be. He chose that. I didn't choose whether I was male or female. And so in any one of those things, if I try to now, I identify as this, or I'm going to change this, I'm basically telling God to get off the throne. I know better. You made a mistake.
And that's what's dangerous about this whole thing. Here's the deal. They will use cancel culture to try to cancel your voice. Cancel, I don't want to hear you. I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to see you. I don't want you any... I don't want your church to have any influence in our city. What we can't do as believers is to fight the same battle, to use the same weapons. We can't cancel a minister because we don't like his message.
We can't cancel a style of Christian music because, well, the words in that are not faith. You know, you can't do, you're doing the exact same thing. Our weapons are not carnal. The mighty, the pulling down the strongholds. We can't use the same weapons they had where we're going to cancel them. We're all going to boycott this product because they're this. And there's times I want to do that. My family's like, you know, my kids grew up in Southern California.
So they're like, "Dad, we should all take a trip and go to Disney." And everything in me is like, no, I don't want to, I report on Disney on the news. I don't want to support Disney. But do you understand if I just tell my children, no, we're not going there. We're not going to, you see what I mean? Without giving some context to why that is, they see me as being cancel culture to things they like. - Yeah, sure.
Well, and I believe there's something to every one of, here's just the great thing about America. You get to decide. - Yes. - You get to decide what you don't want to do and do want to do. - I didn't have to ask you if I could wear... I didn't have you pick out me wearing a flowery shirt. - Obviously, I would have canceled you in the right way. (laughs) - I've come to Hank Kunneman level now. Where'd you get that shirt? - Yeah, that's right.
You know, let's talk about, you know, my favorite right that's listed is the second amendment right to bear arms, which goes to the very fact of the right to protect yourself. And we don't have to get off into, what does that really mean? But the right to bear arms, the right to protect yourself is the only thing that has kept America different than Europe. - Kept us from being invaded. I mean, the Japanese even said so. You know, everybody you go to, especially if you invade Texas, get ready.
You know, they're all armed. - Yeah, we hand them out at the border. - And that's the last thing. My favorite one, no, you have to be able to, Jesus told the disciples, take a sword with them. - Right. But that, my point, I didn't get to make, sorry. - Yeah, I interrupted you. - You have the right to protect yourself. - Yes, you do. - I don't have the right to say, "No, no, no, no, you're not important." That's the beginning of mob rule.
That's it, well, because me and this person over here, we don't like you, so you need to... - Your rights end at the end of my nose. - Yeah, so you have the individual right. And I think I still go back to these guys that signed these documents, that forged these documents in a hot room. - Yeah, it was. - In Pennsylvania, that they were doing this, understanding that they may die for what they're doing, and many of them did, that this may not work. They did not know.
And you know that famous quote from Franklin as he left, "What do we have? It's a republic if you can keep it." And wow, I mean, we're even to today, understanding how fragile it is to keep this constitutional republic that we've been given. - You've said it before, you're one generation away. Reagan reminded us of it. I'm gonna go to the spiritual side. Kenneth Hagin, I heard him many times say it.
If I don't do these Holy Ghost meetings, there'll be a whole generation that will have never experienced the moving of the Spirit. So he knew, and he said, "I have to go over a little bit toward the ditch in order to pull it back." And so he said, the Lord told him, you have to demonstrate what the move of the Spirit is, how to listen through it. Because I talked to you about when I was a kid, my dad took me to those healing meetings, forever changed my life.
But that had been replaced now, and Brother Hagin said he had to do this. If we don't, we hear it all the time about young people not going to church. Why won't the young people go to church? Because they've been. That's why they won't go. They've never felt that annoying. They've never sensed that. If we don't do the same thing in our own churches, we'll never expect America. We're one generation away from them not experiencing the move of God.
- So really, in light of that, brings us again back to Scripture. Again, back to the Word, the Holy Spirit. If we don't have a revival, something- - Not just a scheduled meeting. - Not a scheduled meeting, but a revival that brings reformation, we're not going to have an America that the next generation will understand. - And I'm excited, Gene, because I'm seeing it. - How so? - I'm seeing it on college campuses. - Oh, yeah. - Tennessee, Auburn, Asbury. What happened at Asbury?
- Water baptisms in the back of a pickup truck. - A pickup truck. See, I saw that in the desert during Desert Storm. I mean, we're in the middle of the desert. There's nowhere to baptize anybody, but the chaplains were wanting to baptize people. And they started pouring water bottles over guys' heads and baptizing them. I remember seeing it when I was standing there. And guys were excited and they were hungry. That spirit's still in America. That's our DNA. That's who we are.
That's the great awakening. That's Whitefield. It's still there. And the prayers that were prayed by saints before us that never got answered are still out there. And God never forgets a seed. He never forgets a seed. And there are wells to be harvested from. There are seeds to be reaped. There's a reaping that needs to happen. And we need to put our demand on our faith for it. That's our DNA. It's in there. And you just got to give the opportunity for the Holy Spirit. Okay, use my church.
Use my life. Use my garage. Whatever it has to be. I want it. I want it more than I want whatever's in this mug. That I don't see a lot in the churches, but he went past the churches. And I see it in college campus. I saw it in a girl's softball game. On ESPN, this girl, she's had a tough game, all game, and she's one of the top softball players. It's the University of Oklahoma. And they call timeout, and she goes over, and her teammate lays hands on her and is praying for her at the at-bat.
And in the press conference, she said, her teammate's name, she said, she called me over and prayed over me that you've got this, and if you strike out, Jesus is still Jesus. If you hit a home run, Jesus is still Jesus. She got up to bat, and you know what she did? - Home run. - She hit the home run and won the game. That happened just recently. And she's declaring it. I don't hear preachers doing that, but I saw that softball player do it. It's out there, Gene.
It's out there. - It is out there. - And it's happening. - All right, so clean out your wells. You wanna re-dig a well, you gotta get rid of the dirty water. And that's what we're doing every week right here is helping you clean out the dirty water. Thank you for joining us here on Revival Radio TV. Father, I just bless every person watching, whether they're watching this live or years from now when they see this video.
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