Sound The Trumpet | Pastor Eoin O'Sullivan

What does the trumpet symbolize in the Bible and why does it still matter today?

In this message from Numbers 10, we discover how God used the sound of the trumpet to gather His people, lead them forward, prepare them for battle, and call them into worship. Those same truths speak powerfully to the Church today.

As believers, we are living in a time that calls for spiritual alertness. God is calling His people to unity, prayer, courage, and unwavering faith. The battles we face are real, but our victory is found in Jesus Christ.

The trumpet is sounding. The question is: Are we listening?

📖 Scripture: Numbers 10:1–10 | Nehemiah 4 | Joshua 6 | Judges 7 | Luke 4:16–21 | 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17

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Well, this morning I've I've got a message that I've entitled Sound the Trumpet. And it is a message that as I was reading through the book of Numbers, I came across Numbers chapter 10, verse 1 to 10. You can turn there in your Bible. I'll pray in just a minute. And then we're gonna go through this message, and then we're all going to rally. We're gonna continue to pray, and we're gonna continue to worship the end of service out this morning. And as going through this, this was a message that God put in my heart for this morning. Uh, on the 5th of July, as we step into a new season, into a new time, even if it's just mentally crossing that threshold for not just us as a nation, but for us really as a church. You know, for me and my household, we shall serve the Lord. I can't I in many ways we've got no influence. I don't have a seat at the White House, I don't have the seat at the United Nations, but I know that I have one who sits at the right hand side of the Father, whoever lives to make intercession for me, and his name is Jesus. And we can come into this place and across this board, we can come and humble ourselves before the Lord. And God gave me this message for us as a church, and then for those who maybe be listening in online today, for us as well as a nation. Numbers chapter 10, verse 1 to 10. God help me to preach this word this morning. God, thank you for Lord, your faithfulness in our lives. God, thank you for those, Lord, that have come in, maybe they're new here this morning. It's our first time at the Springs Church. I pray you bless them this morning that you help them. God, I pray, Lord, for those who are traveling, they're watching it online. God, that you would minister to them uniquely, specifically. Help me to preach this message. There's no superstars here, oh God. You're the one that gets all the glory and all the honor. We're just, as one person said, we're one beggar telling another beggar where the bread is at, and we know where the bread is at. You're the bread of life, Jesus. You're the bread of life, Jesus. Lord, I pray, Lord, give us that manna today. Lord, we need it in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, Numbers chapter 10, verse 1 to 10. Sound the trumpet. It says, and the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Make two silver trumpets for yourself. You shall make them of hammered work, you shall use them for calling the congregation and for directing the movement of the camps. So these are trumpets that are intentionally made for calling the congregation and the movement. Verse 3 When you blow both of them, all the congregation shall gather before you at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. But if you blow only one, then the leaders, the heads of the divisions of Israel, shall gather to you. And when you sound the advance, the camps that lie on the east side shall begin their journey. And when you sound the advance a second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall begin their journey. And they shall sound the call for them to begin their journeys. And when the assembly is uh to be gathered together, you shall blow, but not the sound of the advance. The sons of Aaron, the priests shall blow the trumpets. In other words, what God is speaking through Moses is that there will be people that are given spiritual authority to blow their trumpets. We're living in a time where everybody can blow their own trumpet, if you know what I'm talking about. Everybody can make a noise, everybody can get online and say whatever they want to say. But I believe with all my heart that God has raised up in every generation people with spiritual authority to call the attention, blow the trumpet, and call people back to attention before God. And when the assemblies be gathered, the sons of Aaron, the priest shall blow the trumpets, and these shall be to you as an ordinance forever through your generations. When you go to war in your land against the enemy who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before God, before the Lord your God, and you will be saved from your enemies. Also in the day of your gladness, and your appoint of feasts, and at the beginning of your months you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over your sacrifices, of your peace offerings, and they shall be a memorial for you before your God, I am the Lord your God. God is giving instructions to Moses, to the nation of Israel, as they're going through the wilderness. And he's giving this as an ordinance for them, for them to carry it forward. The blowing of the trumpets would be very intentional, it would be for a few different reasons. One would be to gather the people together. Another reason that they would blow the trumpet is to say, now we have to advance, we have to move forward. We're stepping into a new ground, we're gonna move forward together. Another reason that the day would come and the priests would blow the trumpet is because they would recognize that they're in a time of conflict or war with the battle in front of them, and it would call the people into war. But very specifically, it says, when you blow the trumpet, God will remember, he will fight the battles for you, and he will give you a victory over your enemies. And then you have finally it'll be a call to worship, a time of celebration, remembering the feasts, remembering what God has done, remembering the faithfulness of God. You'll blow those trumpets and it will gather people together. In other words, really what these trumpets is getting the attention of the people. Now, yesterday, the 250th anniversary, I invited Pastor Jane Fiona. Pastor Jay is from Scotland and Fiona's from Ireland, and I invited them over to her house last night because I recognize one thing I've learned is there's no fireworks show like a Clay County backyard fireworks show, if you all know what I'm talking about. Like Disney has nothing on Clay County. I don't know what you guys find, but they're not legal. I can carry, they're they're just not there's they can't be. I mean, there's like these mortar shells going off over my house, like bang! Oh, like what's going on? I mean, I heard stories today and I cannot even repeat on the pulpit of the of the of the fireworks that were going off last night across this place. At four o'clock in the morning, by the way. You know, four o'clock. I mean, it was it was it was a celebration for sure. And I like it. It's uh it's I I I personally I'm just I'm all in for it. I love the fireworks show. I love the just uh you know walking around, the rawness of it, uh, the beauty of it, and and just let me just even say this that as I'm walking around, I'm seeing people from every background, every skin color, every background, they're out in front, garage doors open, they're sitting out and they're talking with each other, they're celebrating together, they're setting off fireworks together, as kids going around with American flags, and they're saying and I love it. I thank God that we've got something to celebrate. I thank God for this nation, I thank God for the United States of America, and I can say that, you know, and if you if if you're new here this morning, I the so my my parents are both Irish, they moved to New York City. I was born in Queens, New York, so uh go New York Knicks, then they win something this year. Anyway, so I I was born in New York, grew up, they moved back to Ireland when I was when I was young, raised in Ireland, and then came here to help pastor alongside uh the the founding pastors here at this church, and we came under this banner authentic people trusting Christ. And we're very grateful for the opportunity to be here and to be a part of this journey. We've had three kids born here in the United States, and so you know, we love this nation, but I can look back and we can look back and we can see in the UK and Ireland now, where even if they fly their national flag, government or council members will come and take that flag down. I mean, I'm not saying I'm not I I very rarely say anything political, and I don't even believe that's political. Some things are just theological, and we've relegated and said only politicians can talk about these things, but some things are just right and what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong. And I want to be careful when I make these statements, but when when when there's been statements even being made recently from the king of England that's talked about he's no longer the defender of the faith, but he's the defender of multiple faiths, we have there has to be a trumpet that goes out, there has to be a sound that goes out and reminds us, reminds us that we cannot take peace for granted, we cannot take blessings for granted, we cannot take what God has given us for granted, and this message, as much as it is an encouragement, it's a warning to us as well. It's a warning to us. Sometimes there needs to be something that just awakens as people, and I want to what in whatever spiritual authority that God has given, I want to speak a message that is uh it's a message to wake us up. Just because we've got peace doesn't mean that we can take it for granted. We are living in a mercy moment, but history tells us that mercy moments don't last forever. We are living in a we're living in in I'm not saying there's not battles, and I'm not saying you're not going through battles, and I'm not saying that the difficulties we're facing are not real difficulties, yes, but I do know that when I came in here this morning, I walked into a church, I seen a worship band freely practicing, preparing for worship. I've seen a police officer in the parking lot getting ready to protect us as we came into service. I've seen a children's ministry team getting ready to serve our kids' ministry, and I recognize that not everywhere in the world gives us this type of privilege, that we can come in here and we can have safety and we can proclaim the gospel. I thank God for that. Little side story before I get into it. I remember when I first moved over here uh almost 13 years ago, and I moved in to a house, and it was uh it was it was not let me put it not the safest area, and I was we were we were living there, we loved it, we were there, we uh we enjoyed our time in in this uh community, we were there, we were uh and I remember but moved there, everybody was telling me about oh America and and guns and all this kind of stuff, and I I I came in and I moved into this house. We had we had nothing, we had just got married and we'd moved over, and Sarah was uh back in Ireland going through a visa process, and so I was living here by myself, and one morning I woke up and I had done this but didn't realize it. I'd locked one of the doors from the inside and locked it and locked it. But when I got up in the morning to open up the door, it was locked, and I couldn't get I thought to myself, somebody's after breaking into my house in the middle of the night and is sleeping on the other side of this door, and here I am by myself. And I'm thinking to myself, I'm gonna so this person's gonna shoot me. I know this, and so I had the most Irish self-defense weapon I had. I had a fog horn that I used for youth ministry, and I had a big stick. And this, I just this was in my mind, this was my self-defense. Is that if anybody ever attacked me, I'd blow the foghorn to stun them, and then I'd get my big stick and I'd karate chop them, and like that would be my thing. And so I remember like I remember busting in through that door, blowing the fog horn, getting my stick out to take the person out, and realizing there was nobody there, and I was just it was there was nobody behind that door. And there is with my foghorn. So, my if there's any point to that story, the point to that story is sometimes we need something to get our attention. Has God got your attention this morning? So in Matthew 13, verse 13 to 14, Jesus is speaking to the religious, he's saying, This is why I speak to them in parables. He's telling the disciples why he's speaking to them in parables, because for the religious that were there, he was saying, This is why speaking parables, though seeing they do not see, though hearing they do not hear or understand, in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, you will be hearing but never understanding, you will be seeing but never perceiving. In other words, God will be speaking, but they don't have ears to hear, or they don't have eyes to see, they'll see it naturally, but they won't be able to by faith receive what God is speaking and what he is saying. I'm praying that God gives us ears to hear and eyes to see, that we're not living in a time and an attention economy that everything has our attention except God, everything has our eye except the Lord's. Now the first thing that was used for this for the trumpet was for this for the gathering. In Nehemiah chapter 4, verse 19 to 20 is an example of how this was used and played out in the Old Testament. In Nehemiah, God called Nehemiah to go back to Jerusalem and to rebuild the walls that had been broken down and torn down, and they go back and they're building together, and people are a part of this great work. And in Nehemiah 4, God speaks through Nehemiah and he says to the nobles, the rulers, and the rest of the people the work is great and extensive, and we are separated far from one another on the wall. Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there, our God will fight for us. Nehemiah recognizes as they're a part of this great work, that as they're working, they're becoming separated from one another. They're so separated, in fact, that now there was a threat that if the enemy came in, that they were they were not united so that they could take on the enemy that will come in through them. And so Nehemiah tells, we gotta blow the trumpet and rally people, that we gotta come together because our God will fight for us. Now, I believe one of the greatest devices that the enemy has used, not just in this nation, but in the church as well, is he wants to divide brother against brother and sister against sister. He wants to divide people because he knows that if he can isolate people, then people are vulnerable to the attacks of the enemy. And there's this lie that's been spoken into culture today that you can do it by yourself, you can do it all by yourself. But God said right back in Genesis, actually, the very first thing that God said that was not good, he said, It is not good for man to be alone, it is not good for you to live in isolation together. I thank God for this church, I thank God for the people in this church, I thank God that we will be able to send kids to UCamp this summer because it is together with all the saints that we experience the heights and the depths of God's love. There's something about doing it together, there's something about going arm in arm and shoulder to shoulder and saying, we're not going to give the enemy a foothold. No, I got your back and you got my back. And when you're down, I'm gonna pray for you that God will lift you up. Listen, division is something that the enemy wants to come in and and and create a division, a cancel culture, if I can put it that way. One strike and you're out, two strikes and you're out. But I thank God that God's not a God of three strikes and you're out. If God was a God of three strikes and you're out, can I tell you I would not be able to stand here and proclaim to you the goodness of the gospel of Jesus Christ? But even though the righteous may fall seven times, I thank God that He's got the power to lift up, lift you back up again. Oh, thank God. Oh, thank God. Don't let the enemy say, You've no right to be in the house of God this morning. You've no right to lift up your hands and worship this morning. Can I tell you he is set before you an open door that no man can shut? You you have a place in the kingdom of God because of the blood of Jesus, not by your works, not by your ability, not by your education, not by how much money you have, not by social class. You have a place in the kingdom of God because of the blood of Jesus that washes away our sins as far as the east is from the west. When we get to heaven one day, there won't be a throne for this church and a throne for that church, and a throne for this denomination, and a throne for there will be one throne. It will be before the Lamb of God, and every tribe, every nation, every tongue, every language, we will go before that throne, and we will say, Worthy, worthy, worthy is the Lamb of God who was and who is and who is to come. Oh, come on, can you give God praise in this house? Every tribe, every nation, every tongue will declare that he is worthy, that he is holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. There will be no media telling us this person against that person. We will look and we will see that God created us in his image, image bearers of him. Thank God. Hallelujah. For too long. People have tried to divide us across this nation, across across political lines and people groups and generations and economics, but not in the house of God, not in this house. The writer of Hebrews says, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is in the manner of some, but exhorting one another as so much the more as you see the day approaching. Can I tell you, if it's your first time at the Spring Church, welcome to an imperfect church. If you stay at the Spring Church long enough, you will realize the closer that you get, the more imperfections that there is. But the closer that I get to you, the more I'll realize there's imperfections in you as well. We are an imperfect people. We don't have it all together. But I thank God. You know, it's been said before when it comes to church, just because you go to Chick-fil-A and they forget your Polynesian sauce doesn't mean you're not going to Chick-fil-A the next week. Don't let the enemy get a seed in there that says, like, oh, this or that. No, no. We come here not for not so that we can look at oh, how great he is or how great she is. We come here and say how great he is, his mercy upon my life, his grace upon my life, the deliverer who's brought me through every season of my life. For those watching online, maybe for it's time to regather again. It's time to come around what's important again. It's a crime to put first things first. C.S. Lewis said, put first things first, and you'll get second things thrown in. If you put second things first, you lose both first and second things. And Jesus said, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and everything else will be added in. Number two, it was for moving. It was for moving. We're celebrating 250 years of America, but can I tell you, we're not going back to 1776 anytime soon. We're not going back there, nor do we want to go back to 1776 either. I thank God. I remember the day I was born again, and I thank God that God has been bringing me from image to image and from glory to glory, and he's been working on me, and he's still working on me, because there's a lot of Noah Sullivan that still needs to die, and a lot of Jesus that needs to be increased in my life. If John the Baptist, whom Jesus says there was no man greater born of woman than John the Baptist, if he knew what it was to look upon Jesus and say, I must decrease, but he must increase, then we're something inside us that we must humble ourselves before God and say there's a lot of work to be done in my life. And I thank God that over 250 years there has been progress that has happened. But we're not going backwards, we must go forwards. The question is not can we go back, the question is can we follow God? Can we follow Him into all that we have? I thank God that this church is multi-generational. We've got young people and we've got old people inside this room. Can I speak to generations in this room across the board today? For our young people, that's here. You must recognize that there is a senior adults population in this church. On our traditional service of Sunday night, I recognize there was people in this room that before there was a building on this property, they they had a vision that God would establish a church here at 900 Park Avenue. And you know what they did? They prayed and they gave and they served and they stood over time to see a testimony established in this place. Some of the freedoms and the liberties we have is because some of the senior adults that have gone before us have worked hard, have built wealth, have built prosperity, and have passed it on to each other. So the next time you hear somebody saying, Oh, it's not like the old days, it's not instead of just going, Oh, the you know, whatever the that that's there, just be thankful. Because they've seen things change, they've seen things go different over time, and maybe there's some wisdom in there. And to some of the senior adults that's in this room, and you think to yourself, man, I've got no purpose in the kingdom of God, I'm past my expiry date. Can I tell you there is no past your expiry date in the kingdom of God? You still have a purpose in the kingdom of God, and by the way, there's no retirement in the kingdom of God, and even if you feel like I can't sing, I can't do the things that I used to be able to do. Can I tell you there is a young man, there's a young woman instead that trust me, they're just looking for an example, somebody that says, I know what it is to have much, I know what it has to have little, but I can stand here and say, God has been faithful every season of my life, in every mountain, in every valley, God has. Be faithful. Hallelujah. We need examples to some of our young people that are in this room. Now is the day for such a time as this. It's time to put foolish things behind us. It's time to stop living for ourselves and start living for something that's greater than us. It's not to lift our eyes just a little bit higher. That God does have a purpose over your life. It's time for our seniors to encourage our younger people. You do have a purpose. God can use your life. You're not a lost generation. You're going to be the new golden generation. You're going to do greater things than we've even done. Greater is the latter. Gonna be greater than the former. Every generation has had its own battles. This generation is battles that no other generation has ever faced before. And I can tell you, pastorally, I have no idea in of myself how we're gonna deal with these battles, but I can tell you something. There is a resolve building within us that we're saying the enemy is not going to take any more of our young people. The enemy is not going to have this far and no further. This far and no further. It's time to move, church. It's time to move out and trust God and move beyond our comfort and all that has. The third thing that the trumpet was sounded for was for war and for battle. We may be living in a time of peace, but we're in a spiritual battle. There is a battle on, there's a battle on for families, for moms and dads and children. There's a battle on for mental health, anxiety, fears, and depressions that's happening all around us. There is a battle that's going on for financial debt that's going on in our nation right now. And it's time we began to put God first again in our nation. This is a wake-up call that we don't take peace and freedom and liberty for granted. It's one thing to celebrate it, it's another thing to walk in it. It's another thing to say, God help me. One of the things though, we as we've been chatting here is how we're living in a time where people are owning, they're almost making a contract with what the enemy is trying to do, and they're claiming it as their own. My my financial debt, my divorce, my battle, my my anxiety, my whatever it is. You put my whatever, and they're claiming it as their own. Can I include a new one in there? How about my God? How about how about my savior? How about my my redeemer? You know, instead of just claiming all of these things and, like, oh, I'm just gonna live with this thing inside of my. If he does not, then what are we doing here this morning? But I'm so glad that there's an empty tomb. I'm so glad that you can't, nobody has ever been able to find Jesus' body. Why? Because he's not in a tomb, he is extended, he's at the right hand of the Father, he has reigned victorious, he is our hope, he is our peace, he is our joy. And even when I don't understand it all, I still put my faith in him, I still put my faith that he will help us. That's why he said it. God said through Moses in verse 9. He said, Then when you go to war in your land against the enemy who oppress you, then you shall sound the trumpet, alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God. In other words, the trumpet didn't just get the people's attention, it got God's attention as well. There's something now. I know we're not living in old covenant. I know this was spoken to Israel, but there is there's something in this that for us as the church, we can take inventory and say there's something about when we call upon the name of the Lord, that the fervent prayers of the righteous still avail much. Oh, I want to say that again today. The fervent prayers of the righteous still avail much. If I had one appeal to you, it's learn to pray again, learn to seek the Lord again. Not just the before your meal, Lord blessed this food, amen. But I'm talking about going in, shutting the door, and spending time with Jesus and saying, God, give me your heart, oh God, give me your mind, oh God, give me your will, oh God. Search me, oh God, find any wicked way within me and lead me in the way of the everlasting. Not God, just prosper me and give me a bigger house and give me a bigger car. But God, if there's any leaven in me, if there's any sin in my life, oh God, would you root that thing out of me? Would you get that? Would you get that root of bitterness out of my life? God, would you do heart surgery? Would get in there, Lord, and God touch me. He said, When you blow that trumpet, you'll be remembered for the Lord, you'll be saved from your enemies. We see this pattern played out in Joshua when God led the Israelites up to Jericho and the this great wall was before them. God gave them the blueprint of the plan to bring the victory, that they were to walk around those walls. And at the end of their time, walking around that wall, verse 20, that they would they would they shouted when the priests blew out of the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat. And this doesn't make sense in the natural, does it? But the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they're mighty in God. It doesn't make sense that our blueprint for the battle is prayer, it's the word of God, it's loving your neighbor as yourself. It's it's it's the love of the lost and the broken and the hearty. But there's something about doing as God says, blow the trumpet, and the walls came crashing down. In Judges 7, you see the pattern of Gideon. Gideon was brought up against an army that that multiplied far beyond his army. He was outnumbered uh completely. And God didn't just send out Gideon and his army, he reduced down the size of his army to 300 men. And he said, When you go up before that army, you're going to blow that trumpet, and you're going to have that torch in your hand, and the people are going to your enemies will flee before you. And what does Gideon do? He takes God at his word, he blows the trumpet, he's got the torch in his hand, and your enemies begin to flee before them. Can I just remind you, greater is he who's in you than he who's in this world? Can I just remind you if God is for you, then who can be against you today? Can I just remind you that we don't serve a weak God, we serve the God Almighty who is strong and strong and mighty? Can I just remind you today that we're not just waiting for a victory, but that we have a victory in Jesus today? So much so that I can bring us down to the final call of that trumpet, which is worship. Worship. When they blew that trumpet, it wasn't just a reminder that God can win the battle, but that God has already won the battle. He's already won the victory for us. And they would take that trumpet out and it would call the people into celebration. It would call people into a time. Now let me bring this down to what is the most important. Let me show you Jesus here. In Leviticus 25, 9 and 10, it's speaking of one of these festivals. It says, You shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the day of atonement, you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout the land, all your land, and you shall consecrate the 50th year and proclaim liberty throughout the land. All the land and all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his possessions, and each of you shall return to his family. Now I cannot pronounce his name. Semi-quint centennial. There it is. We're the semi-quintancentennial of 250 years is what we're celebrating this year. Now I know we're not under the Jewish law and the Jewish calendar, but can you imagine if on the 50th year, on the 50th year, that JP Morgan Chase and the Bank of America and all the banks in the United States of America came and said, on the 50th year for the 250th anniversary, we're going to cancel all the financial debts, we're going to restore no more mortgages, no more interest rates. Would you shout? Would you be like hallelujah? Oh no, if everybody was freed from their contracts, freed from their job, get anything that was lost, any possessions that were taken away or is given back, this is what would happen in the year of Jubilee. They would blow their trumpet. Oh, what a celebration would take place on the year of Jubilee. Well, in Luke chapter 4, verse 16 to 21, Jesus is going up to the synagogue and he's given the book of the prophet Isaiah, and he opens it up. Luke chapter 4, verse 18, and he reads, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he is in me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the recovery of sight to the blind, to set in liberty those who were oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. In other words, this is a scripture that is directly linked to the year of Jubilee. Jesus says this, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. But verse 20, he closes the book, he gave it back to the attendant, he sat down, all eyes were on him in the synagogue. Verse 21, and he began to say to them, Today the scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. In other words, if for some reason last night you fell asleep, which would be a miracle to fall asleep, but like with all that stuff going off in the in the sky, and you happened to miss it, you didn't stay up late enough to watch the celebrations in Washington, D.C. last night. You missed it. And you think to yourself, oh, I'm gonna have to wait another 50 years for this to come around. Imagine you missed the year of jubilee, you just missed it. Can I tell you today is the day? See, this we're not waiting for an event to celebrate our freedom from captivity. We have freedom this morning. Jesus is our freedom. Jesus is the one who sets the captives free. Jesus is our jubilee. And can I tell you, he has freed us from something that no earthly king, no earthly president, no United Nations, all the powers of this world could ever free us from. It's a free us from the power of sin and death. But thanks be to God that God loved us so much. He loved you and me so much. He wasn't just living for 30, 40, 50 years of our existence. He had eternity on his mind and he had you on his mind. And he said, You're never gonna be able to make it in your own strength. You're never gonna be able to do enough good works, you're never gonna be able to make it enough. So I'm gonna live the life that you couldn't live. I'm gonna die the death that you deserve. I'm gonna set the captives free. I'm gonna free people of their sin. I'm gonna free people of their shame. I'm gonna give hope where there is no hope. I'm gonna give joy where there is no joy. I'm gonna give peace where there seems like there is no peace. I will restore everything. Come on, let's give God a big shout of praise across this place if you believe that this morning. Jesus set us free. I'm gonna invite the worship team to come back and we're gonna, before this moving around as much as possible in the sanctuary right here, we're gonna take this time at the end of this service, and we are going to, we're gonna, you know, this thing we we can in some sense, okay, we're we rededicate this nation to the Lord, but I think there's something even more important than that, that we dedicate ourselves to the Lord. There was an old song that we used to sing growing up at conferences was Lord, send revival, but start with me. Sometimes we're looking for somebody to be the hero, but we need to recognize that we have a hero, it's Jesus, and he isn't living in some tabernacle or some temple out there. The Holy Spirit has come and lived inside of us, he's tabernacled amongst us. You know, there is another trumpet that's going to sound one day. There is another trumpet that's coming. You know your scriptures know there will be a final trumpet that's going to be blasted, and the dead in Christ will rise. Those loved ones that have gone to be with the Lord too early, they will rise first, and then we who remain will go and meet them in the sky, and we will be together with the Lord forever. Paul tells us that we're to comfort one another with these words, and it won't be long now, church. It won't be long now. You might as well recognize this sound right here this morning. It's an awakening. Some of you are sitting on giftings that God has given you, you're sitting on them, they don't belong to you. God gave them to you for a reason, for a purpose. Some of you are sitting and you're fighting for a lifestyle instead of believing God, the freedom He's already given you. You're living for this world instead of living for eternity. Listen, you don't employ me here to be the superstar. You're the church, you're the body of Christ, you're the hands and the feet. It's you! Oh God help us when I go to work here at this church, at a pastor of this church, and I go around the staff. You know what? They're all they're all paid to be. Here, they're Christians. I'm not evangelizing to them. Hey, you need to give your life to the Lord. No, they're they're here to serve the body of Christ, they equip the saints to do the work of ministry. We're here to serve you as the body of Christ because you are the ministers on the front line. You need the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you need the power of God, you need the word of God. Oh, and when you don't even have the words to say, the Holy Spirit will give you the words to say. You'll begin to speak things, and you're like, I don't even know where that came from. The Holy Spirit will put them on. Oh, I believe God can do that. Oh, I'm believing for every single believer in this room that this year you're gonna lead somebody to the Lord. Um would you join me in that right here? I'm believing that every person in this room, I'm believing every person in this room you're gonna lead somebody to the Lord. Some of you are gonna lead dozens to the Lord, some of you are gonna lead whole households to the Lord, some of you are gonna lead sons and daughters to the Lord, some of you are gonna lead co-workers to the Lord, but you I'm believing, I'm praying. We want to see 250 more years of America back. You know, sometimes we want to look at all the negative things in history. But can I tell you, I've been reading on the beginning of the United States of America, I've been doing my history, and the people who came to these shores, there was great men and women of God who came to these shores that were fleeing religious persecution, and some of them were coming because they were bringing the light of the gospel to nations that had not experienced the gospel, and they brought the gospel in, and the power of God was with them. That was the foundation of this nation. The foundation of this nation. What's the foundation of your life? What's the foundation of your future? The man who builds his life upon the rock, the storms will come, the winds they do come. Hey, it rains on the just and the unjust. Difficult days will come, but I'm glad I'm standing on a sure foundation. I'm glad that he who began a good work in me, he's gonna bring it all the ways to completion. You may feel like, oh, but a pastor, I'm just hanging on by a thread. Oh, a flickering wick, he will not quench, a brood reed, he will not break. In other words, if you're just hanging on, God has enough strength to hold you and keep you. He'll keep you, He'll give you the strength. Would you stand your feet across this place this morning? We're just gonna do this as a church family this morning. We're gonna worship the Lord here, and I'm gonna invite anyone that wants to to come and just rededicate themselves as an act of rededicating this nation to the Lord, just coming down, just saying, Hey Lord, sin revival, but start with me. I'm gonna invite everybody that would be willing to do that this morning to come as close as you can here to the altar as we sing this chorus of worship. I'm gonna pray, we're gonna seek the Lord, and we're gonna ask God, we're gonna remind ourselves that we're not waiting on a Jubilee, we have the Jubilee in Christ this morning. Come on, that's you right across this place. Thank you, Jesus. If you came here not to be entertained this morning, but you came here to say, Lord, here I am. Use my life for your glory and for your honor, God. God, would you take the little that I have, oh God, and would you multiply it and use it for your kingdom, God? God, would you take the little loaves and fish, oh God, and would you break them for it and feed the multitudes, God, with the little that I have? Oh God, oh God, oh God. Hallelujah, Jesus, hallelujah, Lord. Come on, let's just begin to worship the Lord right now across the place. Hallelujah, Jesus.

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