So we've been so focused on the fact that we were saved that we didn't care about the rest of it.

We thought once we got saved now all we needed was a fully funded retirement. That's the true. We wanted

our kids to get on the travel team where we wanted to play and to get into the schools where we wanted

to go and we wanted to drive a car with the label we wanted and shop in the stores we preferred

because we were saved and there really wasn't anything

spiritual that mattered beyond that. We were deceived and God and His mercy is

awakening us.

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Now it's on to Pastor Allen. Be blessed.

I want to continue a theme I began in a previous session talking about when

revival comes and I struggle with titles more than I do sermons

And I'm not sure revival really incorporates it. It's a word that's too familiar and that brings some baggage

But God is moving in the earth whether we call it an awakening or a

spiritual stirring or revival God is restoring some things to some places we have seen in the past

thus the the subtitle of Back to the Future.

It isn't that God's doing a new thing that he's never done before.

He's doing something that's new in our generation.

There are many generations reflected both in scripture

and in the history of God dealing with his people when. many generations

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