Ezekiel 42:20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
The sanctuary represents that which is holy, sanctified, set apart... dedicated to God, and his service. The profane is that which is irreverent, ungodly, vile, and blasphemous, and actually stands in direct opposition and contradiction to everything that is pure and holy.
I'm going to say something right now that is so weighty and so heavy duty that to be honest about it, it is scary to me.
First of all I want to say, I believe there is a Clarion call from the glory world, and it is not what a lot of people want to hear. It is in fact an ultimatum to the church.
Please church, I want you to hear my heart in this. I have determined only to say what I hear the Holy Spirit saying, so I'm going to say what I'm hearing, and nothing less, and nothing more.
I was worshiping and just soaking in the presence of God asking him, what is on your heart for your church.
Now I have to tell you, many times I am not really expecting some of the things God speaks to me. Sometimes it's a shock to my system.
As I said, in these next few moments I'm going to tell you what I hear the Holy Spirit saying, and I'm not going to hold back. I'm not going to water it down, I'm going to say it just like I'm hearing it.
First I want us to lift our hands right now, and pray in the Holy Ghost. We have got to prepare the atmosphere for this word.
Are you ready? Ok, here we go... The Holy Spirit is saying to me, to tell his church, it's Revival or Funeral.
This is not my opinion, this is a Holy Ghost ultimatum that is going forth from the throne of God. This is a Holy Ghost verdict that has been issued from the court room of heaven.
The Holy Spirit is making it very clear that there is no more room for luke warm, or half in, half out, half up, half down, half baked Christianity.
Revelation 3:14-17 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; [15] I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. [16] So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. [17] Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
God is drawing a line through the Church, and it is a dividing line that is going to separate the saints from the aint's.
Let me go back to our text:
Ezekiel 42:20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
There is a separation coming to the church, and it is going to be a clear demarcation...
Between professors and possessors.
Between liars and truth tellers.
Between the crucified, and the satisfied.
Between the undecided, and the completely sold out.
Between sanctified and pacified.
Between the consecrated and the constipated.
How many are still with me?
Look at these two verses. This is to me, two of the scariest verses in the whole Bible. This is very serious business with God..
Amos 7:7-8 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. [8] And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more.
What kind of church is it that the Lord has decided, I won't pass by them anymore?...
It's a dead church.
It's a church that God has written over the door, Ichabod... The glory of the Lord has departed.
Friends it is happening all over this country right now, mega churches and mini churches. Big and small churches and in between, size doesn't matter.
The angel of the Lord is marking churches that no longer hold the sacred truth of God's Word in their hearts. Where the gospel is no longer proclaimed over their pulpits, and they no longer host the presence of God.
And God is saying, about that congregation, they will never know my presence in their midst again, because they have bowed their knees to another God.
When I first heard those words, "Revival or Funeral," it sent shock waves through me.
Because I knew God was saying...
I'm through with hypocrisy and mediocrity. I knew he was saying... play time is over for my church.
I knew that he was saying... The Church that doesn't catch fire in this hour, and doesn't represent me faithfully and honestly, is going to be buried.
Did you hear that? The church in this hour that does not love the truth, and does not burn with the fire of God, and is not passionately pursuing God, and hating sin, is going to be buried.
When I first heard that in my spirit, I thought God was saying, if you don't catch the fire of Revival I'm going to bury you. But the Holy Spirit said, I didn't say that I would bury you.
Then he said, I'm not going to bury you, the world is going to bury you.
What he said was, I will spue you out of my mouth, but he didn't say he was going to bury them.
Here's what Jesus did say... let the dead bury the dead.
The Holy Spirit said, the church that doesn't catch fire in this hour, is going to be a powerless church, and they will have absolutely no impact or influence on this society whatsoever, and they will be buried by the very ones they were supposed to minister to and resurrect.
Are you following me?
Are you ready for this? Lift your hands and ask the Holy Spirit to help you hear this word...
The fireless Church is a powerless Church. And the powerless church in this hour is going to be buried by wokeism, by libralism, by humanism, by transgenderism, by sexism, and by satanism. Are you still with me?
Are you following me? In this hour it's all in or all out.
If we're not carrying the fire of heaven, we are going to get swallowed up, and buried by hells fire.
Parents and grand parents, if you don't put something in your kids that is more powerful than the devil, then the devil will swallow them up.
I hate to say it, but many of our schools have become a recruiting ground for transgenderism, woke ideology, and out right satanism.
Friends don't think for a minute this woke ideology, and these drag queens in the schools, and gender bending garbage, and sexual exploration, and exploitation is an end in itself. It's not, it's an invitation for demons to possess our children, and our grandchildren.
The demons of hell have targeted the children and the grandchildren of this generation. They have decided, that if they couldn't kill them through abortion, then their plan is to possess them, and to confuse them, and pervert them, and destroy their lives as well as countless others.
I'm going to say this with no fear of contradiction. The only thing that can turn back the hordes of hell, is a Church that is on fire. These milk toast Jelly back churches, that will no longer preach the cross, and won't preach against sin, and won't preach that only Jesus blood can save you, and you must not only confess your sins but you must also forsake ynour sin... They're afraid of the culture. They're bowing and worshiping at the altar of cultural relativism. And God says, their going to be buried by the very thing they have bowed down to.
The church that is on fire, does not fear a radical woke Satanic inspired and possessed culture. But in fact that woke satanic culture, actually fears the church that burns with holy fire.
God said, I will put the fear and the dread of you upon the nations.
Friends the reason Pharoah brought the Israelites under bondage and slavery, was because he was afraid of them waking up, and walking in their destiny.
Look at this... Exodus 1:9-11 And Pharoah said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: [10] Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. [11] Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Instead of Pharoah that might as well be the devil saying that to his demons about the church. He might as well be saying, we've got to keep them blinded. We can't let them discover that they have more power than us. We've got to keep them beat up, and beat down, and depressed, and discouraged. We've got to force them to worship at our secular altars, and agree with our demon inspired ideology. We've got to threaten them that we'll cancel them, and we'll censor them if they disagree with us.
I'm going to say this with as much love as I have in my heart. I understand those pressures are real, and the threats are real, and there may be a firey furnace in your future if you stand up, and you declare you will not bow to the Gods of this world. But I'm telling you that if you don't stand up for God, and you do bow down and worship these other God's, you are going to separate yourself from God's presence, and you are going to be buried, by the culture.
We are living in a time of separation and distinction, and God is marking those that belong to him. And the devil is marking those that belong to him.
There is no more gray area. Jesus said, you are either for me or against me.
He also said, if you're not gathering with me then you 're scattering abroad.
It is Revival or funeral. You say pastor, do you really believe it is that serious, and that desperate of a season?
Friend, please believe me when I say... I believe it is more critical than I can even express. I can't even begin to articulate to you the seriousness of the hour that were in.
I believe it's as urgent as the earth quake in Turkey that destroyed thousands of homes, and over 30,000 dead and so many missing.
If they could have known the intensity of what was coming and when, and where, they could have made decisions that would have saved thousands of lives.
I can only pray that the Holy Spirit can impress upon our hearts the urgency of this message. We are either going to burn with a fresh Revival fire, or we are going to be buried.
You say, but pastor there might be persecution if I get on fire. Let's just settle that right now. There is no might to it, if you get on fire for God, you will be persecuted.
All that live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution.
There is a choice before us today, and the choice is very simple, but living it out is much harder.
It's Revival or Funeral?
I want to share a few quotes with you by a great revivalist named Leonard Ravenhill.
*—If Jesus preached the same message minister's preach today, He would have never been crucified....Leonard Ravenhill
*—Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life... Leonard Ravenhill.
*— That world outside there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity, it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity... Leonard Ravenhill.
*—The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural... Leonard Ravenhill.
If this generation does not see a great revival in the church, then this generation will see a great funeral of the church, because there is no in between.
The Bible verses that quicken my spirit and make me hopeful for revival in the church, is Ezekiel 37:1-12 The valley of dry bones. God restored a nation at once.
If he did it before, he can and he will do it again.
God is not looking for casual long distance relationships. God is looking for hearts that are on fire, who are passionately seeking his face, and pursuing his presence.
Did not our hearts burn within us, was the way the two disciples on the road to Emmaus described it.
In the natural, when you eat you get full, and then your desire for food is suppressed for awhile.
But in the spiritual it is very different. In the spiritual, the more you eat the hungrier you get. And the more you drink the thirstier you get.The more you get of his presence, the more you want his presence. And the more his fire burns in you, the more you want his fire to burn in you.
In this hour the Spirit of God is searching through the earth, for those who's hearts are on fire for him.
The promise is, in the last days he will pour out his Spirit on all flesh. But that doesn't mean that all flesh is going to receive his Spirit. That means no category of flesh will be neglected in the out pouring. But there is a deciding factor, and that deciding factor is this... only the hungry and the thirsty will be filled.
Wherever God finds hunger in his church, there will be revival.
And where there is no hunger in his church, there will be a funeral.
We need to pray today, that God would birth in us a hunger, that cannot be satisfied with anything less than his manifested presence in our midst.
Spiritual hunger is the single greatest evidence that revival is coming. Spiritual hunger is in itself a prophecy of the filling to come.
King David asked the question...Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? Psalm 85:6
And God answers back... And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13
There are times in a persons health journey that a Doctor may offer the patient options in their treatment. Then if there is no improvement the Doctor may say, we are out of options, it's this particular treatment or guarunteed death.
This is no exaggeration this is where we are in America right now. In this hour revival for the church is not an option, it is Revival or Funeral.
*When schools are encouraging drag queens in every school, it's time for revival.
*When boys are invading girls locker rooms and competeing in girls sports, it's time for revival.
*When children are encouraged to determine their own gender, based upon their emotional state at any time, it's time for revival.
*When pedophiles are not longer called pedophiles but just Adults with attraction for minors, it's time for revival.
*When streets are filled with angry protestors demanding the legal right to murder their babies, it's time for revival.
*When schools are required to put litter boxes in the restrooms, and tampons in the boys restrooms, it's time for revival.
*When transgenders are holding offices in the highest places of our nation, it's time for revival.
*When suicide is at an all time high in our country, its time for revival.
*When sexual deviation, and outright devil worship is glorified on national television, we need revival.
*When we are being told that men can menstruate, and become pregnant, we need revival.
*When the violence in many of are cities has doubled and tripled, theft, rape, and murder is off the scale. It's time for revival.
*When fentanyl poisioning is killing a hundred or more people a day, we need revival.
*When abortions are over 600,000 a year, it's time for revival.
Freind there are no more options, this is it, we are there. We are at that place... either the church has revival or a funeral.
Jesus said, either we get on fire or he's going to spue us out of his mouth, and we're going to be buried by the people we're supposed to be resurrecting.
I believe we are living in the most critical time in the history of this nation and the church.
We are all out of options, it's either revival or funeral.
