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#246 The Church United (From the 2026 Revival Roundtable with Pastor John Durham) · The OneCry Podcast

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God, what's my role in it?
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What's my part in it?
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How do I become a catalytic part in my church, in my city, on my college campus, in my ministry
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because of tonight's moving forward?
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Welcome to the One Cry Podcast, a nationwide call for spiritual awakening.
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The goal, accelerating the movement of God through sharing revival truth, stories, and
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reports.
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Well, welcome back to the One Cry Podcast.
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My name is Ben Dishner and I am the producer of the podcast, also the global ministries
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director for One Cry.
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This week, we're going to continue in this mini series where we are sharing some snippets
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with you from our recent Revival Roundtable, which we do in conjunction with the Collegiate
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Day of Prayer.
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This year at Liberty University, we had many ministry leaders come together and share about
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what God was doing in their area.
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They were sharing about what they're seeing as a move of God across our nation.
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And also we had some who shared on how God has led them as they unite others toward the
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same goal.
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One of those speakers is John Durham, pastor of Highland Baptist Church in Waco, Texas.
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Pastor John has been so instrumental in bringing leaders together in the Waco area.
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Not only that, but making his church a house of prayer.
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As you listen today to the content, we want you to listen from John chapter 17 in Christ's
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High Priestly Prayer on how the Lord calls us together in unity and how you can help
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be a catalyst toward that.
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So listen in and take note, and we'll see you in a few minutes.
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I think this is well-crafted because probably all of us as ministry leaders have that temptation,
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probably something that we really need to, not just as a temptation, but as the book
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of James says, a temptation that gives birth to sin, that when that sin then matures,
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leads to death.
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One for us would be, I think, arrogance and pride and division.
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Oh, my ministry is better than their ministry or the way we do it is better.
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And so this last session that we have here this afternoon is all about unity and sort
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of the opposite of that.
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And so I think there's going to be an opportunity, I think, maybe for some of our
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sin to be exposed.
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Pastor John Durham from Waco, he's my lead pastor.
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He is going to be giving us this message on unity.
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And I want to just brag on him in a couple of ways because, number one, I don't get to
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do that very often at our church, but mainly because our staff and our church is so used
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to this.
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I want to just share testimony about a couple of things that God put on my heart about
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John as I'm introing him today is that, you know, this last year there were 200 baptisms
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at our church just in one calendar year.
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And the way that Pastor John and the elders have coordinated that is to happen during
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gatherings on Sundays.
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So as they pop up, as they're needed, as that has happened over the months and, you
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know, they meet with pastors and leaders before all that.
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And so the place where that ends up taking up time away is his sermons.
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So he's basically willing to say, hey, I'll preach a five-minute-less sermon so we can
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get a couple of baptisms in on a Sunday.
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That's average of four a Sunday, you know, over the course of 52 weeks.
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But the other thing, and I think this is a real example to any of you who are ministry
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leaders, is that we have a prayer meeting that happens every Sunday morning at 8 a.m.
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before our gatherings begin.
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And the person who leads that prayer meeting is Pastor John.
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He doesn't outsource it to an associate pastor or to the prayer leader or to the volunteer
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super prayer warrior in the church.
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The lead pastor who's preaching, you know, three or four times that day and gonna have
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all the altar moments and all the heaviness and all the, you know, sleepless night, that's
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the person who's leading the prayer meeting at 8 a.m.
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And so I just want to challenge you that the Lord's really blessed us through John's leadership,
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his humility, his willingness to lead us in prayer and the Word and a lot of things.
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And so will you welcome John up here as he leads us during this time?
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Well, I've had the joy of serving with Drew on staff for almost 13 years now.
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And so Drew knows my two or three strengths and he knows my two or three thousand weaknesses.
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So it's humbling for you to get to introduce me, Drew.
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Thank you for that.
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And Kyle, let me just say thank you for your, your word from God to us today.
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I mean, I admire you so and respect you so.
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And there's a lot of things in your life that I want in my life.
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There's a lot of things in your heart that I want in my heart.
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So thank you for sharing with all of us today.
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I hope you have a copy of God's Word with you.
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Would you mind turning with me, please, to John chapter 17, which probably is not a surprise
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when you heard that the message is going to be on unity.
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Let me also give you some really, really good news.
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Byron gave me 40 minutes to talk.
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My worship pastor at Highland gives me 31 minutes on Sunday morning to talk.
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And I'm probably just going to speak for 25 minutes.
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So there, no one has ever complained about a short sermon before.
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So I'm going to cut this short, keep us on time, make sure we're ready to go.
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So if you're thinking about, I mean, just check out if this is going to be a 40 minute
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sermon, it's not going to, not going to be, I want to share some things from God's Word
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to you.
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I want to share one or two personal things and then give you something to consider as
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we leave this place.
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You know, I'm upset that the modern church is starting to get really dark in the congregation
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and really bright on the pulpit.
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I'm not upset because it's a spiritual thing.
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I'm just upset because my 57 year old eyes, almost 57 years old, I can't read stuff in
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the dark anymore.
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So I hope that it's bright enough for you to see God's Word or to have a digital device
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in front of you.
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Or maybe if you don't have a smartphone in front of you or a Bible with you, maybe you
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could share with someone next to you that has a Bible.
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Surely there's someone really nice next to you that'll be glad to share a copy of God's
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Word with you.
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If there's no one nice at your table, you may want to move tables.
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That might be a good suggestion to move to some nice people, see it around.
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Let's go to John chapter 17 together.
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This is the living active Word of God.
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Does God still speak to his people?
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Yes.
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And he speaks to us through his Word.
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He has given us this Word.
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It is true for all people, all places, all times.
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So let's go to John chapter 17.
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Now I'm going to kind of back up and get a running start into the main portion of what
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we're going to be today.
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So let's back it up to, let's go to verse 16.
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Verse 16 of John chapter 17, they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
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Verse 17 of the disciples, verse 17, sanctify them, the disciples, in the truth.
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So what is truth?
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I love that Jesus tells us this, God, your Word is truth.
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That is where truth is found.
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We have heard several times from our Gen Z brothers and sisters today, that's what this
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generation longs for, is truth.
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They've been sold a bill of plastic for years now.
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We have tried to hand them things that do not last, and they're searching for truth.
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I love that almost all eight of our Gen Z panel earlier at some point or another said
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something to the effect of, give us truth.
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We want truth.
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Well, Jesus tells us what truth is.
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God, your Word is truth.
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Then Jesus says, as you sent me to the world, so I have sent them into the world.
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Still speaking of disciples specifically in front of him or around him, also we can take
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that as disciples today.
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For their sake, for the followers' sake, I consecrate myself.
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This is Jesus setting himself aside.
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If you want to write in your margins there, Hebrews chapter 10, it's in Hebrews chapter
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10 that we see when Jesus did set himself aside.
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There's a really interesting conversation that we get to eavesdrop in on in Hebrews
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chapter 10, where Jesus tells his father, I'm ready, you've prepared a body for me,
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so I'm going to go and do your will, oh God.
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Your will is not the temporary sacrifices.
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Your will is that I would lay my life down once and for all.
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This is that consecration where Jesus is consecrating himself.
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We see that happening in Hebrews chapter 10, so that they may also, again speaking of disciples,
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may be sanctified in truth.
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Now, that's all runway.
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Verse 20 through 23 is my main passage today.
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I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their
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word.
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So it went from present tense in the garden to future in the garden, and you and I are
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in that future right now.
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That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they may also
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be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
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The glory that you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one, even
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as we are one.
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I in them, and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know
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that you sent me, and love them even as you love me.
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Okay, I'll stop right there.
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I think Jesus' prayer in John chapter 17, specifically verses 20 through 23, is one
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of the most powerful.
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We can do something with it today, passages in John's gospel.
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Because Jesus prays in verse 20, I do not ask for these only, again, speaking of the
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disciples in the present, but also for those who will believe in me through their word.
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It jumps down a little bit later on, that they may be one, so that the world may believe
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that you have sent me.
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So John 17 might be one of the most raw and intimate moments in the entire gospel, because
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it's not a sermon, it's not a parable, it's not a miracle, it's not a conversation that
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Jesus is having with a massive group of seekers, and really, it's not even a conversation he's
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having with his ragtag group of disciples.
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This is Jesus praying to his Father.
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And it's the longest prayer we have of Jesus in the scripture, and again, it almost feels
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a little like we're dropping in on the sacred, and eavesdropping on this private conversation
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between the Son and the Father.
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But praise God, the Holy Spirit required and instructed John to write this down for us,
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that we can see how Jesus was praying to his Father.
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And what is astonishing to me is this, that Jesus is not praying for himself in this passage.
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Even though he's hours away from being so horrendously brutalized, that he's gonna be
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beaten beyond human recognition, he's not praying for himself.
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He's about to be tortured.
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He's not praying exclusively for the disciples standing in front of him.
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He is praying for us.
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Do you see that in verse 20?
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I do not ask for these only, present tense, but also, future tense, for those who will
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believe in me through their word.
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I know you know this, and let me just remind you, we know of the gospel because of these
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faithful men who took the gospel.
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It began to permeate through the Middle East, it began to permeate through Southern Europe,
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and then some disciples went east to India, some disciples went north to England.
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All of a sudden, the epicenter of Christianity moved from Jerusalem to the Diaspora, where
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it began to spread among the Middle East and parts of Southern Europe.
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Then the epicenter of Christianity began to be built in Europe, and specifically in England,
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and then it sailed across the sea to Virginia and to North Carolina, and eventually, thank
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you Virginians and colonists, you brought it to Texas, and the gospel made its way to
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Waco.
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So when I was seven years old in Waco, Texas, I believed upon the saving gospel of Jesus
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Christ because these disciples took the word.
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This is why the baton of the gospel is so important.
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It is why the older generation, and I'm just going to say you're old if you're over 50.
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How about that?
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I'm with you.
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I'm 56 and a half, almost 57.
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Our opportunity right now is to pass the baton to the following generations, and we've got
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to be faithful and encourage our disciples behind us to be faithful because Jesus encouraged
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his disciples to be faithful, and you and I know the gospel because they were faithful.
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Just hoping for a few more amens, but that's fine.
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It's the end of a long day.
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So I do not ask for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word.
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Now this means, I love this, before the cross, right, the cross has not happened yet.
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Before the resurrection, before Pentecost, Jesus already saw the church.
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He knew what was going to happen on the other side of the cross.
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He knew what was going to happen on the other side of the resurrection.
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He knew that the birth of the church was going to happen at Pentecost, and so Jesus
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begins to pray for those who believe in Christ because of the word of the disciples.
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Then he had one great request to the Father on our behalf, and I love this.
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It wasn't safety.
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God has not called any of us in this room to be safe.
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God did not pray for our comfort because we're not called to be comfortable.
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This may bother our American sensibilities, but he did not pray for our success, nor did
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he pray for our popularity, nor for power.
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What did he pray, verse 22, for unity?
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The Son went to the Father and asked that we would be united, verse 22, that they may
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be one.
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And so one of the greatest apologetics for the reality of Christ, one of the greatest
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apologetics that Christ has come as a rescue missionary, one of the greatest apologetics
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that Jesus is the only way to God is the unity of believers.
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This is what Jesus said, may they be one so the world will know, God, that you have sent
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me.
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So our unity with one another is an apologetic for the reality of Jesus as the Son of God.
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The unity of believers, Christ followers that love one another, you heard that earlier,
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that it's our love for one another that gives that signal to our world that we belong to
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Christ as we pray for one another and as we pray with one another.
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Notice that Jesus does not say, Father, help them to learn to get along.
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I pray that for my church, and I probably should stop praying that for my church.
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Look what he says instead, verse 21, that they may be one, not just that they'll get
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along with one another, but that they will be one just as you, Father, are in me and
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I in you.
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So Revival Roundtable, this is so staggering.
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Jesus compares our unity with the relationship inside of the Trinity.
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So our unity should be just as divine and just as sweet and just as harmonious and just
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as loving and just as powerful as the relationship that the Father has with the Son and the Spirit.
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The Son has with the Father and the Spirit.
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The Spirit has with the Son and the Father.
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The moment a person is saved, the moment you were saved, you were not only just brought
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into unity with Christ, we were also brought into unity with one another.
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Because you see, we're saved by the same Father, which means that we're brothers and sisters
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belonging to the same family.
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So when there's a division within the body of Christ, I'm sure you don't have divisions
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in your city or in your church.
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I see divisions in my city and even in the church to which I belong.
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I'm sure your churches aren't like that at all, but every now and then I see some divisions
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in the believers in my city, see divisions in believers in my church.
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So when there's a division within the body of Christ, those who are truly redeemed, it's
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not just a relational break, it's a theological break.
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Because it's God who has united us with one another.
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Because when believers refuse one another, when we refuse to love one another, forgive
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one another, pray with one another, we are contradicting something that God has already
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made true.
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You see, the church is not a collection of individuals.
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And again, this is where the Bible comes up really quick up against our Western sensibilities
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here.
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Because here in America, we believe that we are a collection of rugged individualists.
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And we've been taught that since birth.
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And I know that we preach against it, but it's so ingrained inside of us that our country
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is made up of a group of individual, rugged individualists, but that's not the church.
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The church is not made up of individuals, it's made up of the body of Christ.
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And we belong to one another.
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So a body cannot or should not, well, a body cannot attack itself without being sick.
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Once the body begins to attack itself, it means that there's a sickness or a lack of
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health.
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But when a body is spiritually connected to one another through prayer, there's only health
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and there's only strength.
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So the College Day of Prayer was held in Waco, I think you've heard this already a few times,
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so it's going to be repeated one more time.
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It was held in Waco, February 29th of 2024.
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And it was an exciting time.
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Y'all know the history, right?
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College Day of Prayer, it's been going on for almost 203 years now, a time for a day
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set aside to be praying for students, be praying for college, be praying for a college generation.
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And when we heard that it was going to be held in Waco, we were really excited about
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it, heard it at Beta, really excited about it.
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So it's February the 29th, leap day, right, February 29th of 2024.
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For some reason, Byron gave me about a minute and a half at the very end of the Collegiate
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Day of Prayer to get up to the pulpit and kind of say something kind of toward the end.
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They put out the good speakers first, and I got to come at the end.
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So I'm having deja vu all over again here right now.
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And I was about to go out and I had a few little pithy words to kind of wrap up the
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evening.
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And before I went out, I thought I heard God say something to me.
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And I'm Baptist, I don't hear God say much to me at all, right?
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And so I thought, what did I just hear?
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And I felt something really impressed in my heart, that God was calling us to continue
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on with something that we had started in August of 2025, and it's called Last Thursdays,
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for me it was Last Thursdays, most in this room, right?
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Last Thursdays, the last Thursday of the month, we were getting together to pray for
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the Collegiate Day of Prayer.
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So beginning in August of, I said that date wrong, August 2023, the city of Waco began
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to gather on the last Thursday of the month and began to pray for the College Day of Prayer.
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We prayed for revival, spiritual awakening, Gen Z, unity, all the great things that are
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going to happen.
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And so backstage, I'm about to come up and kind of wrap the evening up there in Waco
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Hall, heard the Lord very clearly say to me, you need to keep Last Thursdays going
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beyond Collegiate Day of Prayer.
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I wasn't real sure what to do with that.
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I felt a little isolated, like I was about to get the microphone, and I wanted some testimonies
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of other spirits around me that would say, yes, that is what you heard.
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So I actually turned to your pastor, to JP, and said, who spoke here yesterday, right,
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Jonathan?
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I said, Jonathan, I thought the Lord just told me we're supposed to carry on Last Thursdays.
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And JP said, I'm all in on that, until when?
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And I said, well, I think until Jesus returns, we're supposed to, as a city, continue on
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with Last Thursdays.
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So then Evan, I turned to your pastor, to Jimmy, and I said, Jimmy, pastor of Antioch
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in Waco, I feel like the Lord, I mean, you're charismatic, you hear the Lord all the time.
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Like what, I thought I heard, I thought I heard God tell me, we're supposed to carry
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on Last Thursdays, and JP just helped me clarify that, I think until Christ returns.
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And Jimmy got all excited, right, hands in the air, may have danced around a little bit,
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may have said some other languages, I'm not sure.
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He just got really excited when he heard that, and he said, yeah, go on stage and tell them
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that.
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All my little pithy statements that were very safe and very comfortable to wrap up collegiate
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day of prayer two years ago, got on stage and said, I feel like the Lord is telling
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me, and I've had it confirmed with the testimony of two brothers backstage, that we're to carry
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on Last Thursdays until the Lord returns, and maybe we'll just be on a Thursday when
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he does return, and we'll just be praying.
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And that was two years ago this week.
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This morning, I started getting text messages with pictures from two and a half years now
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of every Last Thursday in Waco, of the church coming together to pray.
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I was so sad that I had to fly in last night to make it here today, because that meant
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I missed Last Thursdays in Waco this morning.
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So for two and a half years now, the Capital C Church in Waco has been gathering on the
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last Thursday of the month, from 6.30 a.m. to 7.30 a.m., and we're praying for three
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things.
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I'll let you clap at the end.
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Praying for three things.
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And it's the only three things, I tell them often.
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We're not praying for President Trump today.
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We're not praying for current affairs today.
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We're not praying for needs in your church, or even, hear me correctly, even in your life.
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We're gonna pray for three things.
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We're gonna pray for Generation Z, that they would spiritually wake up.
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We're gonna pray for unity of believers within our city, because it's an apologetic for the
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reality of Christ, and we're gonna pray for revival in the greater Waco area.
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We're not gonna pray for anything else.
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I mean, there's a thousand other things we could pray for, but just those three things.
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Sometimes, I'll be honest with you, there's 35 people that show up.
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Other times, there's 350 people that show up.
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This morning, it was like a medium crowd to me.
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I'll tell you what's interesting.
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It has rained on about 80% of the last Thursdays in the last two and a half years.
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So when I woke up this morning, it was raining here.
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I love that for a couple reasons.
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One, Hosea says, the Lord comes to us like the rain.
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He revives us.
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Number two, have you noticed that sometimes rain weeds out the week, so that only those
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who are really prepared to pray show up?
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And I can say that.
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I'm Baptist.
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When it rains in Waco on a Sunday morning, our attendance drops 20%.
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We're baptized by water, but we get scared of rain when it comes down.
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Maybe the Presbyterians and Methodists do better with that, but Baptists don't like
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that for some reason.
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So I love that this morning, driving in to campus, it was raining.
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I thought, God, thank you that you come to us like the rain, like the spring rain.
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You come, and you refresh our hearts.
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God, would you refresh our hearts today?
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So for two and a half years, including this morning, Waco has been meeting to pray.
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The Capital C Church has been meeting to pray, and the goal is to do so until the return
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of Christ or until Christ calls us home.
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So I just have two things for you.
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Number one, our unity makes Jesus visible.
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We're united with one another and to one another.
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Our unity makes Christ visible.
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That's what it says in verse 21.
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So that the world may believe that you, Father, you have sent me, that I am the sent one,
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that I am the missionary from heaven.
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And again, this is shocking that Jesus ties the credibility of his mission to our unity
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with one another, with between believers.
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The citizens in the Roman Empire who are beginning to hear about Christianity, they did not convert
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because Christians had political power.
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They did not convert because Christians had a monopoly on the social media.
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Instead, they converted because the pagans saw something they had never seen before.
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They saw Jews and Gentiles eating meals together as brand new believers.
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They saw slaves and masters worshiping together.
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They saw the rich and the poor calling one another brother and sister.
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And they saw diverse gatherings in upper rooms across the Middle East and Southern Europe
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of people praying.
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And that unity made the gospel so desirable because it impacted people.
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You know, the gospel at its core is more than theological.
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The gospel at its core is theological and biographical.
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It's how God's gospel to save us impacts us, right?
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What's beautiful is not just God's gospel.
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What's beautiful is that God's gospel saves sinners.
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And so it's that picture of the connection, the intersection of the beautiful,
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powerful gospel of God through Christ Jesus, but also lives who have been forever changed.
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And my first thing is our unity makes Jesus visible.
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Here's my second thing, and I'm done.
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Our prayers moves God's hand.
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That's what praying people do.
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Now, let me be very clear, not against His will.
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When we pray, we don't make God our puppet.
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The prayer moves the heart of the Father as His children pray.
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And as His heart is moved, His hands are moving to work His goodwill, His glory, our good.
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So that's really the whole point of John 17.
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I mean, Jesus, of all people, knows the heart of the Father, but He's still praying.
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He's still asking.
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He's still pleading with the Father and asked Him to move, asked the Father to act and to
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do things for the glory of His own name.
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You know, few things complete the prayer of Jesus more than Christians coming together
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to share a meal, to share life, to confess sin, but then to pray with one another and
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to pray for one another.
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So my challenge is this.
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There's three parts of the Collegiate Day of Prayer.
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First part is the runway that gets you there.
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It's where we are right now, right?
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We're a few hours away from the Collegiate Day of Prayer event.
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So there's three portions of the Collegiate Day of Prayer.
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There's the journey that brought us to this evening and churches around Lynchburg,
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ministries around this campus have been praying together, meeting together,
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strategizing together.
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I saw all the signs around campus today about the Collegiate Day of Prayer,
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pray for revival, you know, come this evening, be a part of this.
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There's that runway and then there's the event and the event's tonight.
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And I think things will shift in the heavenlies because thousands of people in this
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location and around the world are going to be praying for Generation Z, praying for revival,
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praying for great awakening, worshiping the Lord together in spirit and in truth.
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Then the third part of the Collegiate Day of Prayer is the backside.
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God, what did you teach us?
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God, what now?
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What strategies?
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What do we start?
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What do we stop because we are here together tonight?
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Now, when I say this, I may never be asked to speak again at Revival Roundtable,
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but I think tonight is the third most important thing.
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And the second most important thing was the journey that brought us here.
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I think the most important thing of Collegiate Day of Prayer is what happens
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after tonight moving on.
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Will there be a sustainability of prayer movements around our nation because of
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what God did tonight?
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So, the number one thing, I think, is what happens after tonight.
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The number two thing, I think, is what led up to it.
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I actually think the number three thing and the importance level is actually what
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happens in a few hours tonight.
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It's what happens on the other side.
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And what we saw God do in Waco on the other side is once a month,
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believers in a city continue to gather.
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Could it be that God's going to reveal something to you?
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Maybe not right now, maybe He already has.
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Maybe tonight, maybe it's fresh and early tomorrow morning.
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To answer this question, God, what is my role in the sustainability of prayer
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after this evening?
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God, what is the strategy of the sustainability of revival after tonight?
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And God, what's my role in it?
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What's my part in it?
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How do I become a catalytic part in my church, in my city, on my college campus,
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in my ministry because of tonight?
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Moving forward, let me pray for us.
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God, I love you, you love us, and we'll rest in that.
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Would you do something this evening, God, that goes beyond all the things that we
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have prayed for?
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And I would imagine this room has prayed for big things tonight.
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Would you surprise us and go beyond our prayers, our imagination, our thoughts?
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God, what's on my heart tonight is that the biggest part of revival isn't tonight,
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it's what happens after this evening.
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God, help us to be a part of your kingdom's work in carrying on what you
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start tonight.
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We trust you, we rest in you, we are confident of this very thing,
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that the one who began a good work in us will be faithful to complete it until that
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day of Christ Jesus.
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Do a work tonight that we will not forget, but do a work tomorrow that is
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greater still.
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In Christ we pray, amen.
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Wow, what a great message.
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And Pastor John has modeled that so wonderfully in his congregation.
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The question is, Lord, how do you want to use us in a catalytic way where we are
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for the next revival and spiritual awakening?
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How do you want to use us to model this type of prayer in our own church,
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in our own community?
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At OneCry, that is our hope and our desire around the world.
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And we have groups that meet in many countries that have the same focus and the
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same heart to pray for their nation, for their community, for their church,
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their family, and starting in their own heart.
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So let me encourage you to press into that.
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Ask God how he wants to use you.
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Seek him together in unity.
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Reach out to someone in your community to start praying together for a mighty
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awakening, a mighty revival in the church, that God may use you,
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that the gospel may go forth in power.
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As always, check out OneCry.com for many resources toward that.
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You can take our seven-day personal revival journey and let God begin in your
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own heart as he bursts this desire to move in a mighty way through his people
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in your heart.
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God bless you.
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Hope you have a wonderful week, and we'll see you next week.
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