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0:00Praise the Lord, everyone. Why don't you
0:01give him one more hand clap of great
0:04praise today like he's so worthy of.
0:10Give him a praise from the depth of your
0:12heart. Aren't you thankful we're
0:14redeemed today? Aren't you thankful for
0:17the hope of heaven today?
0:19>> [music]
0:22>> Praise God. You may be seated.
0:26Before we go to the [music] word of the
0:27Lord, allow me just to take a moment and
0:30give great honor to your district
0:32superintendent and district board. I
0:34[music] honor you and it is such a
0:37privilege to be here and to speak to
0:40this great great conference, the legacy
0:42of it, and I am just overwhelmed to be
0:46able to share this night with you,
0:49and I thank you for that privilege and
0:51opportunity. [music]
0:52If you were not here today, please do
0:54yourself a favor
0:56and make sure you listen to the
0:58recordings. There was just a tapestry of
1:00the Holy Ghost.
1:02Uh one right after the other, and this
1:05is what I say, he that hath an ear, let
1:07him hear what the spirit is saying
1:09because God is definitely [music]
1:11speaking to us, and I give honor to all
1:15that have spoken before me, that will
1:18speak after me,
1:20not only in this camp meeting, but as I
1:22prayed, I reflected back on my heroes
1:26that have stood in this pulpit and have
1:29[music] preached this great apostolic
1:31message, and I want to honor the past,
1:34and I want to honor the future.
1:37Perhaps it's just four or five year olds
1:40or two or three year olds [music] that
1:42someday they'll take their turn, and
1:45they'll be the link in the chain. I
1:47honor them before they ever get here,
1:49and I know God has [music] great great
1:50things. So happy that my boys are here.
1:54Uh
1:55Simon and Chance are able to make the
1:57trip. I love them. They're my best
1:58friends [music] in the whole world.
2:00Missing my wife and daughter, but so
2:03glad [music] that they're here. So
2:04thankful for my church that is in prayer
2:07for me
2:08and my family that has traveled [music]
2:11from Pearland, Texas to be here. I give
2:13honor to you and friends as well.
2:15God's masterpiece.
2:18A masterpiece
2:20represents the very best of the artist's
2:23creative ability.
2:26The word artist or masterpiece would
2:29come from medieval guilds. It was that
2:32time when apprentice would decide to
2:36move up the chain and desire to become a
2:39master.
2:41He would create his his piece. He would
2:44produce a piece and then present it to a
2:47board and it would be evaluated.
2:51That work that he would present for
2:53evaluation
2:55was to represent a complete mastery of
2:59his craft. Thus, it was the piece of
3:03mastery of his craft. And
3:06when I think about God and God's
3:09masterpiece, I am overwhelmed at the
3:13greatness of it. Would you consider with
3:15me tonight the vastness of God's
3:18masterpiece of space, the billions of
3:22galaxies and the planets that are
3:24arranged
3:25meticulous order and all of the laws of
3:29gravity and all of the planetary motion
3:32that is in perfect harmony with flawless
3:36precision?
3:37Would you consider with me the
3:39masterpieces of God when we think of the
3:42intricate ecosystems of the earth or the
3:46microscopic DNA strands in the human
3:49body?
3:51Would you consider with me the
3:52masterpiece of God when we look at his
3:56divinely designed majestic redwood tree,
4:00the towering Rockies, or the sprawling
4:03valley floors of flowers that make up
4:07that beautiful winding stream complete
4:10in the valley?
4:11When Paul would write to the church of
4:14Ephesus, he said, "We are his
4:16workmanship in Christ Jesus." That word
4:20workmanship says, "We are the
4:22masterpiece of Christ." And as a
4:26painting would reflect the heart of an
4:28artist, as a building reflects the heart
4:31of the architect, a symphony, the heart
4:34of the conductor,
4:36I believe a redeemed life reflects the
4:40heart of the master himself. So, the
4:43greatest masterpieces in all of the
4:46world will not be found in a museum, but
4:49they're sitting next to you tonight. The
4:52greatest masterpiece in all of the world
4:56is redeemed lives that have been touched
4:59by the hand of the master artist
5:02himself,
5:04the Lord.
5:05Michelangelo would spend four years on
5:08his masterpiece painting the ceiling of
5:11the Sistine Chapel, 1508 to 1512.
5:16And he did it in a very unique way. It
5:19was different than his contemporaries as
5:21they would often lay on their back. He
5:23painted differently. He constructed his
5:26own scaffolding, and he stood with his
5:28neck craned back, and there he worked on
5:31that for four straight years painting
5:34and putting wet plaster there. Over 300
5:38figures, over 5,000 square feet, and it
5:42was a marvelous job. He went home, but
5:4520 years later, greater than 20 years
5:49later,
5:50Michelangelo was summoned to come back
5:52once again to the same room and paint
5:56one more time on the wall. It's called
5:59the altar wall and it's called the last
6:02judgement. And after 20 years, he was 20
6:06years older, 20 years perhaps a little
6:09more feeble in his hand motion and
6:11strength. But he reluctantly decided to
6:14come back because of this fact.
6:17Masterpieces
6:19cannot be uncompleted.
6:22Masterpieces
6:23demand completion. There's something
6:27that is haunting about a picture not
6:30fully painted. There's something haunted
6:34about a song that does not ever come to
6:37a completion on the final note. There's
6:40something that is haunting when you see
6:43an auditorium that still stands idle,
6:46that's never been dedicated.
6:49I want to preach tonight under the
6:51inspiration of the Holy Ghost for a few
6:53minutes. I want to preach to you about
6:56an incomplete or an abandoned
6:59masterpiece that God has laid upon your
7:04heart. Sometimes it's not a new vision
7:07God wants to give us, but he wants to
7:10give us a revision of something that was
7:13unfinished in years gone by. And he
7:17wants to bring it to your attention
7:19again, so we can pick up the brush and
7:22paint one more time and bring the
7:24redemptive plan to completion in this
7:28last day. I feel what Paul must have
7:31felt when he looked at Timothy and said,
7:33"Timothy, stir up your pure minds by way
7:37of remembrance. I know the enemy of your
7:40soul because he sits on my shoulder as
7:43well. He whispers words of
7:45discouragement. It's too late. You've
7:48missed your window of opportunity.
7:50Perhaps you missed it in the prophecy.
7:53It was all But I hear tonight the words
7:56that God thundered to Habakkuk when he
7:58gave that promise, "Though it tarry
8:01long, wait for it. It shall come to
8:06pass." I've come to tell this great camp
8:10meeting tonight, revival outpouring is
8:13still coming to your city. I feel the
8:17anointing and I tell you protocols are
8:19still coming home. Yea, even in your own
8:23family.
8:25Come on, your church campus will be
8:28finished. Your manuscript will be
8:31written.
8:36When we talk about masterpieces, we talk
8:39about Da Vinci's famous Last Supper.
8:42It took him 3 years to paint that great
8:45masterpiece.
8:47But he decided when he went into this
8:49project, he would use an new
8:51experimental material and technique.
8:55But unfortunately, with this experiment
8:58in just a few short time spans, it began
9:03deteriorate. In fact, rapidly
9:05deteriorate.
9:07And so in the process of time, this was
9:10toward the end of his life and
9:13unfortunately, Da Vinci himself died and
9:16he could not return to finish and fix
9:20this great masterpiece. He couldn't
9:22return and restore it back to its
9:24original place. And so we still enjoy
9:28the beauty of the great masterpiece and
9:31you find it all over the place. We enjoy
9:34it. Why? Because others returned to
9:38preserve and finish the masterpiece.
9:42What the master began, his students
9:45completed. What one generation begins,
9:48sometimes the next generation completed.
9:52I preach to you what God wants to do.
9:56Our glory days are not 80 years ago. I
9:59am so grateful for the likes of the C.P.
10:02Kilgores and the James Kilgores. I'm so
10:06thankful for my heroes of the faith, but
10:09God's greatest work is not behind us.
10:12They painted on the masterpiece. Now you
10:15must pick up the brush and continue to
10:18paint.
10:20If you feel that in your spirit, I want
10:22you to clap your hands to the Lord.
10:31Acts chapter 1 and verse 1.
10:34The former treaties have I made, O
10:36Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both
10:40to do and to teach, Luke writes. And he
10:45said, "It's not everything Jesus has
10:47ever done. This is just the beginning of
10:50what Jesus did." In fact, John wrote
10:52about it and he said, "If everything
10:54Jesus did was recorded, all of the books
10:57in the world could not contain it. It's
11:00what Jesus began to do and what Jesus
11:04began to do. I'm looking at the
11:06finishers of what Jesus began to do and
11:10to teach. You're not a saint sitting on
11:12the pew. You're not just in you fill in
11:15the ministry title. You are finishing
11:18the greatest masterpiece, the redemption
11:21of mankind.
11:26The church is not a museum.
11:30The church is not just a memorial. The
11:33church is not a history class. The
11:36church is not just a distant memory of
11:40what used to be. Jesus said, "Greater
11:44works than these shall [screaming]
11:49Are there any believers in the house
11:51tonight? Greater works than these." I
11:54believe it's the will of heaven that we
11:56finish this cosmic redemptive
11:59masterpiece with greater glory, greater
12:02power, greater demonstration, greater
12:05outpouring, greater miracles, greater
12:07dominion. It's the will of God.
12:14We're facing
12:16We're facing an uphill battle.
12:19Because when we look at our brothers and
12:21sisters of years gone by,
12:23they haven't been always quick to finish
12:27the masterpiece. Come with me now.
12:30As we journey upon entering the promised
12:32land,
12:33God gives the Jews a very, very
12:36important commandment. It is this.
12:39Destroy all of the high places when you
12:43come. A high place was an open-air
12:45elevated center that was used for pagan
12:48worship. God was so, so interested in
12:52this that he made it an absolute
12:54commandment. Deuteronomy chapter 12 and
12:57verse two says this, "You shall utterly
13:01destroy, completely destroy, all the
13:04places wherein the nations which he
13:05shall possess served your gods, upon the
13:09high mountains, upon the hills, and
13:11under every green tree." Everywhere you
13:13looked, it was there. Verse three, "You
13:16shall overthrow their altars, break down
13:18their pillars, burn their groves with
13:20fire. You shall hew down the graven
13:22images of their god, and destroy the
13:25names of them out of their place.
13:29Archaeologists have discovered these
13:31high places all over when you get to the
13:34promised land. It's because the lights
13:36of scriptures, 1 Kings 14:23,
13:39for they do build them high places and
13:42images and groves. Notice the next
13:44phrase, on every high hill and under
13:47seemingly every green tree.
13:51Instruction that came to God's people
13:53was this, worship the Lord only. Worship
13:57him in the tabernacle. Worship him at
14:00Shiloh. Why? Because our God is a very
14:04jealous God. Exodus 23:13,
14:08he said, I don't even want you to make
14:10mention of the gods of the pagan
14:13religion.
14:15He said, don't even let it come out of
14:17your mouth. That's your God that said
14:20that. He said, I don't I'm not even
14:22talking about serving them. I don't want
14:25you to even mention the gods of pagan
14:29worship. And God warned and said, if you
14:31don't tear down these high places, it's
14:34going to become a snare for you and
14:36you're going to end up worshiping there.
14:39If you don't tear down the high places,
14:41read your Bible, it says this, they
14:43would become pricks in your eyes, thorns
14:47in your side, and they would vex you
14:50while you were in the land. God's
14:53commandment was very clear, tear down
14:56every high place of pagan origin,
14:58destroy every altar and high idol and
15:02grove. And God handed Israel the brush
15:06and said, complete the masterpiece.
15:10However,
15:11the tragic refrain throughout Israel's
15:15history is repeated often and often.
15:19But the high places were not torn down.
15:24The high places were not removed despite
15:27God's warning, despite God's
15:29commandment, the high places were not
15:32torn down. In fact, they even became a
15:35central role in the lives of God's
15:38chosen people. The high place began to
15:41evolve. The high places begin to creep
15:44and become part of a polluted
15:47compromise, if you would, because they
15:50would worship Jehovah, but at the pagan
15:52place of worship and practice. So, now
15:56the high places become a statement of
15:59divided loyalty. The high places become
16:03normalized in the process of time, but
16:06God had absolutely forbidden it.
16:09And now, the next generation of children
16:12grow up assuming that a mixed integrated
16:15form of worship was acceptable.
16:19That as long as we mention the name of
16:21our God, it's okay to worship at pagan
16:25altars. So much that the wisest man in
16:29your Bible, Solomon, the Bible says he
16:32did not wholly follow the Lord. He
16:34married pagan wives, the Bible tells us,
16:37and wanting to please them, right on top
16:41and near the garden of Gethsemane, he
16:44built a high place. And in the process
16:47of time, not only did he appease his
16:50wife by building a high place to Chemosh
16:53and Molech, he himself, the Bible says,
16:56when he was old, began to worship. The
16:59wisest man who had visions and dreams
17:02and stood in the glory of God,
17:05worshipped at a pagan high place.
17:08Because of the seriousness of Solomon's
17:10sin, the nations divided. 10 tribes go
17:14to the north, and two tribes of Judah
17:17and Benjamin make up the south. On the
17:20death of Solomon, one arises by the name
17:22of Jeroboam. He's the first king of the
17:25northern 10 tribes, and his first order
17:28of business is to make an additional
17:31high place. He takes it to Dan, he takes
17:34it to Bethel, and he says, "These golden
17:37calves are your god which brought you
17:40out of Egypt." At first, it was just
17:43political maneuvering,
17:45but soon it became a spiritual direction
17:48for that nation. He set a new feast. It
17:51was at a different time, at a different
17:53location. It was opposite of what God
17:56had commanded and stipulated. I've come
17:59to remind this great group of people
18:01that even here on this 80th night of
18:04celebration, God is still very serious
18:08and meticulous about his place of
18:11worship and his altar of worship and
18:15sacrifice.
18:18Any replacement
18:20is an insult
18:22to God.
18:23So, the Bible tells us in 1 Kings 12 and
18:2630, the sins of Jeroboam. And this thing
18:29became a sin, for the people went to
18:32worship before one even at Dan, and even
18:35made a house of high places, and he made
18:37the priest of the lowest of people that
18:39were not of the sons of Levi. And
18:42throughout scripture, you'll see this
18:43phrase, it is called the sin of
18:47Jeroboam. It's referred to in your Bible
18:4914 times. When God would judge a king,
18:52he would say this, "They walked in the
18:55ways or the sins of Jeroboam." He's
18:58talking about his his idea of replacing
19:02the place of worship with a place of
19:05convenient worship.
19:08So, generation after generation, king
19:11after king, we see that the Lord's
19:14masterpiece,
19:16what he saw, what he envisioned, what he
19:19was trying to chip away everything
19:21around it, so that masterpiece could
19:23emerge. He said, "I wanted a land that
19:26was rid of pagan altars. I want a land
19:30that was completely reserved for worship
19:34of Jehovah only." Your Bible tells us 37
19:38times and they did evil in the sight of
19:43the Lord. But it doesn't stop there. It
19:45even talks about kings that were called
19:48good kings.
19:50But the Bible said they did that which
19:52was right in the sight of the Lord.
19:54Howbeit,
19:56the high places were not taken away.
20:00Some kings had a good heart. Some kings,
20:05they served God,
20:07but they neglected to finish the
20:10masterpiece.
20:12The high places still remained untouched
20:15and unchallenged. They loved God,
20:18but they tolerated what God hated.
20:23You would have to agree they had a love
20:25and a passion for the kingdom,
20:28but they never challenged the real
20:30compromise of their culture.
20:32They promoted a religious worship of
20:35Jehovah,
20:37but they allowed competing altars to
20:40remain the same.
20:43We can learn from their examples that
20:46it's even possible to be a good king
20:49and possible to pursue a noble cause,
20:53but be wrong in our purpose.
20:57So, I pause
20:59to ask you precious people who I love
21:01beyond words today,
21:04what
21:05would the writer say of this generation?
21:13Knowing what God's word explicitly
21:16commands,
21:18what will be said of this age and this
21:21generation? Come with me now. Notice the
21:24likes of Jehu, who was so powerful that
21:27he could exterminate Jezebel and Ahab's
21:30family, but even Jehu wasn't good enough
21:34if you would or had enough courage to
21:37tear down the strongholds and finish the
21:40masterpiece. Asa, he could challenge
21:42some things. He even removed some family
21:45that were in some political positions.
21:47Tough thing to do, [clears throat]
21:49but he didn't have the courage to tear
21:51down the high place and finish the
21:53masterpiece. Joash, he did a lot of good
21:56things, repaired some things around the
21:58temple. He had a good preacher in his
22:00life, but in the process of time, he
22:03neglected the high places. Jehoshaphat
22:06can teach us how to go to battle.
22:08Jehoshaphat can teach us to send the
22:10singers out and praise the Lord for his
22:13mercy endureth forever, but Jehoshaphat
22:17never took down the high places.
22:20Different kings, different strengths,
22:23but the same unfinished
22:26masterpiece.
22:28And then,
22:29the story just dives off.
22:32His name is King Ahaz.
22:35He has the worst backsliding out of all
22:37of them.
22:38His disobedience is in the face of God's
22:41commandment, and we find in 2 Kings 16:3
22:46that even made his children to pass
22:48through the fire.
22:50I don't understand that. Verse 4 2 Kings
22:53chapter 16 says this, "Sacrificed and
22:57burned incense in the high places and on
23:00the hills and every under green tree.
23:05But that's not all King Ahaz did. We
23:08find in his narrative
23:10that he was captivated
23:13by the culture, the sensation, the style
23:16of his culture around him. So much so
23:20that he made a public declaration. He
23:23says these words, "I put my trust in the
23:27strength of the god of Damascus."
23:31To pay off the king of Assyria, he said,
23:33"This is what we'll do. We'll go into
23:35the temple,
23:36and we'll strip off the gold, we'll
23:38strip off the silver, and we'll take all
23:41of the treasures, and we'll pay the king
23:43of Assyria for helping us." And then,
23:46listen what they did on their downward
23:48backsliding. They took God's altar from
23:51the front of the temple, and they
23:53replaced it with a brand new custom
23:56pagan Damascus altar. And then, in the
24:00process of time, they crudely went in
24:04and cut up and destroyed the furniture
24:06of the tabernacle and temple. His crude
24:10dismantling, he was making a statement
24:13on that day. He was deemphasizing the
24:16words of God. He was deemphasizing the
24:19importance of the masterpiece. And he
24:21said, "There's no need for true worship
24:24in God's pattern scripture. You can
24:27worship God anywhere as long as it's in
24:29your heart."
24:31And under his leadership,
24:34it got so bad that they actually turned
24:37the lights out on the church house.
24:40The door shut entirely.
24:43And all they had to worship now is pagan
24:45altars around the country. And remember,
24:49all of this took place in Solomon's
24:52temple that he built, patterned by God
24:54with supernatural glory. History tells
24:58us that the children of Israel came into
25:01the promised land. Are you ready?
25:03700
25:05years before this.
25:08And not one person
25:11finished the masterpiece
25:14and obeyed the word of God. 700
25:18years. From Jeroboam in the divided
25:21kingdom to Ahaz, there were 215 years
25:25that expired there. Combined 31 kings,
25:30and all of them failed to complete the
25:32masterpiece of the Lord. Removing
25:36masterpieces, that's that's great
25:38expenditure in political currency, if
25:41you would. That's costly emotionally.
25:45You know, there could be great backlash.
25:47You could lose popularity. There were
25:50great kings that were greatly uh uh
25:52talented. They could build buildings,
25:55and they could build vineyards, and they
25:57could build cities. They could build
25:59armies, but nobody finished the
26:02masterpiece of heaven. Much like many
26:05churches today.
26:07Uh not here, but in our world today.
26:10They're they're masters at creating
26:12their digital presentation.
26:15They can present brandings and programs
26:18and systems, but leave his masterpiece
26:21unfinished.
26:23Generation after generation, the same
26:26echoing words. But the high places were
26:30not removed. [laughter]
26:32And God kept searching, is there one? Is
26:35there anyone that will feel what I feel?
26:39Is there anyone that can see what I saw?
26:42Is there anyone that would have a
26:44heartbeat for me? And they went from 700
26:47years and 31 kings and 100 priests and
26:52perhaps thousands of sacrifice, and yet
26:55it remained unfinished.
26:58But the story doesn't start there.
27:01Because God finally found a man that
27:04would pick up the brush, and would
27:07scootch off the dust, and would once
27:09again put on his spiritual glasses, and
27:12say, "God asked us to do something." He
27:15looked around, and he saw high places
27:18multiplying everywhere, and he saw them
27:21flourishing, and then he put two and two
27:23together. He realized it was because the
27:26temple altar had been neglected and been
27:29cast aside. They'd not only abandoned
27:32the house of God, they've abandoned God
27:35himself, because the two are always
27:38fused together.
27:41He looked around, and he said, "I know
27:43what we got to do.
27:44We got to restore some things in the
27:46church house. Nothing else is going to
27:49work. Nothing else is more important."
27:52And so, the first thing Hezekiah began
27:55to do is he called the priests together,
27:58and he said, "The plan for restoration
28:01is going to start by restoring people."
28:04And he gave this commandment, "Sanctify
28:07yourselves." He said, "I want you to
28:09return to your calling. I want you to
28:12remember why you were called in the
28:15first place. I come and I feel the help
28:18of the Lord here. I've come to tell some
28:21pastor, he's counting on you to finish
28:24the masterpiece. I know you want it
28:27because you've been praying for it. I
28:29know you want it cuz you said, "I need a
28:31word at camp meeting." I've come to give
28:33you that word tonight. The first thing
28:36always starts with personal
28:38consecration.
28:40We've got to get back to our purpose.
28:43The first church, the the the Bible said
28:46they gave themselves, talking about the
28:48ministry, to prayer and the ministry of
28:52the word. I'm not against you having
28:54side businesses, but I'm here to tell
28:57you your first job is to give yourself
29:00continually day and night to prayer and
29:04the word. We've got to have a sanctified
29:07people. I preach to you away with the
29:10thought that says, "I'm just a saint in
29:13the church." No, you have a divine
29:15calling upon your life. He's called you
29:18to paint the greatest masterpiece. He's
29:21saying, "I've placed it in your hands."
29:24And so, it all starts with personal
29:27consecration.
29:29Who shall ascend into the hill of the
29:31Lord? He that hath clean hands, a pure
29:34heart, no deceit, no guile. We haven't
29:36lifted up our heart. Would you just
29:38raise your hands right now to heaven and
29:41say, "God, sanctify my heart."
29:44Would you say, "I want to be involved
29:46with what you're doing, God, so I
29:48sanctify myself today."
30:02It all starts
30:05with a sanctified
30:07people.
30:08The next thing Hezekiah did,
30:11he restored the temple.
30:14Read your Bible. It took 16 days
30:18to clean out the clutter
30:20and the rubble.
30:22They went back to the sanctuary.
30:25They said, "Oh God, we got to put this
30:27thing back in order.
30:29Somehow we got so far off of the mark.
30:32Somehow we missed what your original
30:35intent and purpose was." They begin to
30:37clean. They begin to clean up. They even
30:39got rid of the bronze serpent. Get rid
30:42of that old old uh you know thing the
30:46idol of the past that traditionalism
30:49that they couldn't let go of yesterday's
30:51miracles of Moses. They said no what God
30:54wants to do we got to restore it back.
30:57We got to restore the house of the Lord
31:11back
31:13in have clean houses once again where
31:16the Holy Ghost feels free to move about.
31:22He said after we clean the house we got
31:24to restore the altar
31:27and restore sacrifice.
31:30I want you to see this because this is
31:31so important.
31:33They began to offer the sin offering.
31:36You know the sin offering is that
31:38complete burning of that animal. It's
31:41that offering of repentance. They're
31:43repenting for themselves personally
31:45individually. They're repenting for
31:47their nation.
31:48And when Hezekiah began to do this
31:52Hezekiah offered more sacrifices
31:55than what the law stipulated
31:57because there was something in the heart
32:00of Hezekiah. He says I know this is what
32:03is required but something in me just
32:06wants to give God a little bit more. I
32:10want to make sure that I give God
32:12everything. And so they did this on the
32:15restored altar in the reinstated and
32:19correct place.
32:21He said I'm going to restore worship.
32:23And so everybody gets involved in the
32:25worship that took place. The Levites
32:28took symbols and they took salteries and
32:30hearts. The priests they got their
32:32trumpets and the singers begin to sing
32:35Psalms and all the congregation,
32:38including the the priest himself or the
32:41king, they all begin to worship. I'm so
32:45glad we have a bishop that gives himself
32:48to worship. I'm so glad you have leaders
32:52today that just don't sit back. Twice
32:55dead, plucked up the roots, but from the
32:57front to the back, there is a spirit of
33:00worship and recognition of the God of
33:04glory. I believe it's the will of God
33:06that worship is once again restored in a
33:10grandiose manner when we come into his
33:13house.
33:17The third thing that Hezekiah did
33:20to restore
33:22the things that were lost is he restored
33:25the broken nation.
33:28He sent out a message.
33:30And he said, "I want everyone to come
33:33back
33:34and worship again." Had a great
33:37celebration.
33:39This hasn't been done for over 200
33:42years.
33:44He says, "I know this year an army came
33:47in. I know there's just a remnant left
33:49of what used to be, but before we were
33:52ever north and south, we were the
33:54children of Abraham. We were the 12
33:58tribes. We were one family before
34:01division ever came and separation. I
34:05preach to this great district, we're
34:07deceiving ourself and playing games. If
34:10ego gets in the way, we've got to let
34:12God bygones be bygones. We got to bury
34:16the axe and come together as the body of
34:19Christ for the sake of unity, so we can
34:22restore the masterpiece of redemption.
34:26You're my brother, you're my sister, and
34:28I need you, and you need me, and
34:31together the gates of hell cannot
34:33prevail. Let us come together as one.
34:42And then the priest begin to teach the
34:44word.
34:45This is very important because as I
34:47mentioned the northern kingdom, it
34:50fallen to the Assyrians. They hadn't had
34:53the word of God anymore. There's just a
34:55remnant that is left. And so the word of
34:57God is always connected to an apostle.
35:00Call it revival.
35:01They begin to celebrate Passover now.
35:04They confess their sins. They confess
35:07their ignorance, and they confess the
35:08goodness of God.
35:10They begin to do this.
35:12Your Bible says that they slayed 2,000
35:16bullocks and 17,000
35:19sheeps. And it was so powerful. The only
35:22time it's done in your Bible, when they
35:24came to the end of Passover, they
35:27decided to celebrate it again another 7
35:32days.
35:33They had back-to-back Passover
35:36celebration. There was such a desire in
35:38their heart. The whole idea of Hezekiah
35:42saying, "I I know this is what's
35:43required, but just just put it all in
35:46there. I want God to be restored to my
35:49land." They said, "We We got to restore
35:51the tabernacle. We got to restore the
35:54glory of God. We got to have a revival
35:56in the church house." And as they begin
35:59to go through these things, and they
36:01restored the people, and they restored
36:03the temple, and they restored the
36:05nation. Second Chronicles 30 and verse
36:0827 says this. Then the priest and the
36:11Levites arose and blessed the people,
36:14and their voice was heard, and their
36:17prayer came up into his holy dwelling
36:20place, even unto heaven. And there must
36:25have been a rumbling in the heavens.
36:27There must have been an open heaven as
36:30the angels rolled back the curtain
36:33because if you go to the very next
36:35verse, 2 Chronicles 31 and verse 1. Now,
36:40when all this was finished and all of
36:43Israel was present as one nation and one
36:47family, the Bible says they went out of
36:50the cities of Judah and they break up
36:52the images in pieces. Has it been done
36:55in 700 years. They cut down the groves
36:59first time in 700 years. They threw down
37:02the high places. They threw down the
37:05altars out of Judah and Benjamin and
37:07Ephraim and Manasseh until they had
37:10utterly destroyed them all. [laughter]
37:15They tore down the high places for the
37:18first time in 700
37:21years. They fulfilled the master piece
37:25of heaven finally.
37:30So, we step back
37:33and we say, "Why did they finally get
37:37it? How did they get it?"
37:40And there is one answer.
37:42When they got it right
37:46in the house of God.
37:49When they restored the altar and
37:52sacrifice in the house of God.
37:55When there was a people that wasn't just
37:57doing it out of duty, but there was a
38:00unified spirit that said, "Let's give
38:03God our very best." Something exploded
38:08supernaturally.
38:10There was an elixir, if you would, that
38:13was infused. There was something inside
38:16of them that just begin to erupt. There
38:20was something that came out of them and
38:24notice with me of the spontaneous
38:27revival that took place. Hezekiah didn't
38:31lead a demolition against the groves.
38:35They didn't start a crusade. Everybody
38:38bring your chainsaw and their acts. No,
38:40what did Hezekiah do? He said, "Let's
38:43restore the temple." And when he
38:46restored the temple, it all happened.
38:51Hezekiah went that day and he didn't
38:54begin with tearing it down. He began
38:57with restoring an altar. He didn't start
39:00with culture reform. He started with
39:03spiritual renewal around the altar. He
39:07didn't start outside of the temple. He
39:09started inside of the temple. So, I come
39:12to preach to you today. Your greatest
39:15revival is not on the outside. I know we
39:19have this saying, "We got to get this on
39:22the outside of these four walls." And I
39:24believe that, but let me tell you how to
39:27do that. There is spontaneous combustion
39:30of the Holy Ghost when we get it right
39:33on the inside.
39:36>> [cheering]
39:40[applause]
39:42>> We are not going to have end-time
39:45revival. We are not going to have seven
39:48times greater in the former and the
39:50latter rain together if we get past this
39:53step and not fulfill it. The answer for
39:57revival in Texas is to have the
40:00household, to have the sanctuary
40:04rediscover intercessory prayer at an
40:07altar.
40:12Can I take you back to Brother Kilgore
40:15and his stories? Would you climb up in
40:18the ceiling with me one more time? Would
40:21you put your phone on hot pause? Would
40:24you not answer the call but get locked
40:26in with Jesus Christ and what he
40:29couldn't do through a program? I'm told
40:32that shortly thereafter there was a 50
40:35soul revival that supernaturally
40:37outbroke. Pastor friend, mom and dad,
40:41your answer is in your prayer closet.
40:45>> [cheering]
40:54>> When the church discovers the power of a
40:58restored altar.
41:00You say, "Well, I don't know." Well,
41:02come with me to the New Testament. Bible
41:04says a week before Jesus goes to the
41:06cross, Passion Week begins with him with
41:09the triumphal entry. He comes to the to
41:12the house of God. The Bible said he
41:14looks around, he grabs a whip, and he
41:16begins to kick over tables, and he run
41:19out the the money changers, and he said,
41:21"My house shall be called the house of
41:23prayer." What's amazing about the story
41:25is this is the second time he's done it
41:27in 3 years. What's amazing about the
41:29story, this is the second time he's had
41:31to do it in 3 years. Everything he run
41:35out at the beginning of his ministry
41:37crept back in. I'm here to tell you even
41:40ministry, so-called title, if it takes
41:43away from your prayer time, it's a thief
41:45and a robber of revival. Doing ministry
41:48with excellence, which I think we should
41:50do, but if it takes the place of your
41:52prayer time, it's a den of thieves.
41:54There's only one purpose of God's house.
41:58There's got to be my house shall be
42:00called a house of prayer for all
42:03nations.
42:09And the very next verse says, "And the
42:12lame came and were healed. And those
42:16that were sick came and were made
42:18whole." That tells me it wasn't
42:21happening until prayer was restored in
42:24the church house. Those that were lame
42:26had to sit at the gate, but once God
42:29restores the altar, the miraculous
42:32happens. When the altar's restored, it
42:35always precedes the supernatural
42:37miraculous from heaven.
42:43So, I look around
42:46and I'm so thankful.
42:48I do not speak despairingly
42:51of previous generations.
42:53I I have the greatest honor for them.
42:57But, I'm here to tell you we haven't
42:58seen the greatest revival yet.
43:03I love your Aunt Aunt Susie and Uncle
43:05Bill. I'm sure they were mighty pioneers
43:08of the gospel. And I honor all of their
43:11labor and sacrifice, but we haven't seen
43:14it yet like God wants to do.
43:21I've heard the stories of this camp
43:23meeting. I'm so honored to be here. I've
43:25been with you in spirit. I've wanted to
43:27be here before. I can imagine what this
43:30thing used to be like before there were
43:32multiple districts, but everybody came
43:35together. I wonder if these walls could
43:38talk. The reverberation of praise that
43:41would ascend in this house. I bet you
43:44some of you elders around here have some
43:47memories when people would crawl on
43:49their hands and knees and lay out around
43:52these floors. I know we don't see it too
43:54much much anymore, but I just feel like
43:58it's coming back again. I just feel like
44:00the ministry of Hezekiah is rising up.
44:04That's what you feel in your belly as
44:07I've been preaching. That's what you've
44:09been feeling in prayer, that God has
44:11called you for this hour. God is going
44:15to do it through you, because you're
44:17saying God, I want everything that you
44:20promised. I want to fulfill
44:23the masterpiece.
44:26So, I wonder
44:28if there's willing hands today.
44:32I wonder
44:33if there's a mom and dad Hezekiah.
44:37I wonder
44:38if there's a youth pastor Hezekiah.
44:42I wonder if there's ministry and ushers
44:45and parking lot attendant Hezekiah's
44:48that says, I want to restore the altar
44:51of the [laughter] Lord.
44:53Jesus began the greatest masterpiece,
44:57the masterpiece of cosmic redemption.
45:01All that Jesus began to do and to teach,
45:07but through the process of time,
45:09sometimes it's been left undone.
45:12It's been abandoned, forgotten,
45:15and it's waiting
45:16on finishers
45:18tonight.
45:20I'm preaching to people. The reason why
45:23we celebrate art is because the next
45:27generation came and finished it. Hebrews
45:3111 says it well. They without us would
45:35not be made perfect. They would be left
45:38incomplete. The sacrifice of CP would be
45:42incomplete if the gavel's been laid in
45:45our hand and we do nothing with it. This
45:48is an hour to have greater glory than
45:51we've ever experienced.
45:53You know what God desires for there to
45:56be a greater sound of praise in the
45:58tabernacle than there has ever been in
46:0180 years. God doesn't move backwards. I
46:05wonder if anyone here feels the call.
46:09The brushes in your pan, paint away.
46:12Paint away. Finish the masterpiece.
47:27First Corinthians 12, 13, and 14. The
47:29gifts of tongues and interpretation. God
47:32has spoken to our hearts.
47:34I have more to preach here, but I
47:36believe God is touching somebody's
47:39heart. Could we fill this house with a
47:42restored altar, with a reinstated altar?
47:45Would you do it like your forefathers
47:47taught you? But would you take it even
47:50higher and greater? Disturb us, oh God,
47:55when we are too well pleased with
47:57ourselves,
47:58when our dreams have come true because
48:02we've dreamed too little,
48:04when we've arrived safely because we've
48:07sailed too close to the shore.
48:10Disturb us, oh Lord, to dare more
48:13boldly, to venture on wider seas where
48:16storms will show your mastery. Disturb
48:20us, oh Lord. I would you would slip out
48:23of your chair and you would come around
48:26this altar like we have done for 80
48:29years. Come on, Hezekiah. The hand of
48:32God is upon you. Come on, Hezekiah. Lead
48:36a revival in this last day. Come on,
48:39Hezekiah. You're one altar-building
48:41experience away.
48:53Keep coming in close. Keep piling in
48:55close.
49:10If history should write,
49:13let it be the 80th camp meeting.
49:17Something exploded in the hearts inside
49:20of the church house.
49:22And when they did,
49:25they went back to their cities and
49:27strongholds came down.
49:31Strong men's were bound.
49:47I believe he's inviting us to an
49:49uncommon altar experience today.
49:53Would you lift your voice and travail
49:56and hunger for this generation? Would
49:58you lift your voice on behalf of those
50:02who are under your control?
50:05This generation is our harvest field.
50:21Not everybody can fit up here. If you're
50:23out in the audience, lay your hand on
50:24your neighbor.
50:26Let's lift our voice together. I push
50:28you in the Holy Ghost.
50:31I gently push you in the Holy Ghost
50:33tonight.
50:36Come on, your greatest years are not
50:38behind you.
50:43Do you hear the voice of the spirit if
50:46my people if my people
50:57Brother Puse not here to pray anymore.
50:59Come on, pick it up.
51:03Lift your voice with a burden.
51:06Let it be imparted to you.
51:10Come on, young generation. Come on, moms
51:12and dads.
51:16We're going to finish this thing.
51:22You're going to finish with greater
51:24signs and wonders.
51:41Finish the masterpiece.
51:45The brush is in your hand.
51:47>> The brush is in your hand.
53:40>> She's got
53:41She's got the fire of the Holy Ghost, I
53:42know.
53:45She's got the
53:46She's got the
53:48She's got

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