Teaching text, we're in 2 Timothy chapter 2, verse 20 to 21.

In a large house, there are articles not only of gold and silver but also of wooden clay some are for special purposes

and some for common use those who cleanse themselves from the ladder will be instruments for special

purposes made holy useful to the master and prepared to do any good work this is the word of the

lord well good morning folks you are here for a to do any good work. This is the word of the Lord.

Well, good morning, folks. You are here for a historic day because we are wrapping up the longest series we've ever done in the history of the church. Seven months in, come on.

We have been in a series in one way, shape, form or another, built on the idea of historic revivals with this big idea.

God comes where he's wanted.

Secularism is doing a reverse exorcism, wherever it sees the presence of God, it wants to kick it out so secular humanism.

Man can be the measure of all things. And revival is when God shows up in power and God is the

measure of all things. And one of those great keys when you study moves of God in history

is that God shows up when people want him there. God comes where he's wanted.

And so we are wrapping this up today. And I want to sort of do a capstone talk. I want to mark this

off with one idea. Here's the title of my talk today. Consecration in a time of compromise., consecration in a time of compromise.

Consecration in a time of compromise. Do you know you live in a time that in many ways

the church is defined by compromise? Almost every denomination, large denomination, small denomination,

is shrinking in the Western Church.

The majority of this, not just the effects of secularism, is because we live in an age of

compromise.

David Well says this worldliness is what any particular culture does to make sins seem normal

and righteousness seem strange. So to be in a in a world like ours,

to live in an age like ours, you will experience the shift that took place, what that God

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