The Cure for Chaos - Call a Sacred Assembly — Shane Idleman

The Church Must Reclaim Its Voice

The silent pulpit is not God's pulpit. You didn't come to hear you did not come to hear a man. You came to hear a message and we need to let God speak again boldly through our Pulpits and pastors should not be scared to say listen this person stands for this this person stands for this these people want to murder Children these people don't it's okay to speak truth into the life of people and we and we put we put people in positions of leadership that really matters.

We're done being politically correct. We never really were but we've got to take a stand and say listen. God has given us a republic. God has given us a voice and we need to put people in positions of Office that want to honor his word and people say Shane.

We can't be political. I'm really not being political. I'm being biblical. The Bible has something to say. The Bible has something to say about murdering children. It has something to say about gay marriage.

It has something to say about teaching our children perversion. It has something to say about these foundational issues. See we're not pushing. We are holding the line. They crossed the line many years ago when they begin to remove God from the schools and begin to remove prayer from the schools.

Did you know that the schools began in the 1600s to teach kids to read the Word of God? Talk about how far we have drifted don't even get me started on that topic. I'll get back on tracker. We're gonna be in trouble.

Calling a Sacred Assembly in a Chaotic World

So the title tonight as many of you know is the cure for chaos. Call a sacred assembly the cure for chaos what's going on around us? God gives us a remedy primarily in the Old Testament to call a sacred assembly.

And you might say well Shane why preach this now if the sacred assembly is next weekend. And the answer is really simple. It's because we need to sanctify ourselves beforehand. The bride prepares for the groom and many times a couple times throughout the Old Testament God would say so sanctify yourself today for tomorrow.

I would do great works among you and there's there's something special when we come To church when we come to a sacred assembly and our hearts are already, right? We've been praying we've been fasting.

We've been seeking the heart of God and then the Spirit of God will fall upon that atmosphere. And I believe you can create an atmosphere that is pleasing to God or create an atmosphere that where his spirit withdraws.

Think about our homes we begin to put on ungodly entertainment and things like that and and God's Spirit is quenched and grieved. Can you feel a difference and then when you put on worship music and you begin to pray in your house?

Can you feel a difference or just me. I can walk into houses and I can feel the heaviness. I can feel the demonic oppression and I guarantee that they have been fostering an air at an atmosphere of darkness.

Or I can walk in a home and you feel the life there. Because there's something about the atmosphere of holiness. And so I'm gonna look to Joel chapter 1. I'm gonna be a little bit throughout Joel chapter 1.

The Prophetic Call to Repentance

I looked at this when the kovat Pandemic I mean pandemic started. I'm sorry, there might be some Freudian slips in there. But with When this when this started I looked at Joel and we talked about this a little bit but I think it's important for you to hear because many of you probably didn't hear that message and God says in chapter 1 through the prophet Joel and what's interesting about the prophets Joel Amos Obadiah, you know Jonah and you have Micah Nahum and the minor prophets and you have what's called the major prophets Ezekiel Jeremiah and Daniel and some of the major prophets and what these people would do is they would go to the children of Israel.

And what would they do? They would call them back to God. They would call that to repentance. And so the God still uses prophetic voices today and you can usually tell when a voice is prophetic because they're not popular.

I thought of giving a message entitled unpopular prophets. Or a prophet is not popular. They aren't are they because they go against the grain. They take it's like taking that sandpaper and and they get to the heart of the issue and they were never called to be popular.

They were called to be powerful and speak God's truth and God actually told Jeremiah Jeremiah was just a young man and Jeremiah said I can't go. I'm too young and God said Jeremiah go to who I send you.

Speak what I speak to you. Would you pull down and you will root out you'll build up and you will destroy and you will replant. Let the Word of God go forth and convict the heart and that's what we need today.

We need that conviction again that draw to holiness and and righteousness and and being filled with the Spirit of God. I don't know about you, but I don't want to play church. We didn't come to play church.

We came to hear from the Living God. The power of the Holy Spirit. Have you ever experienced that when God breaks you when God? Humbles you when he removes your pride and now you're full of the Spirit of God and there's joy and speakable.

There's boldness and adversity. There's there's peace that that you just cannot describe because the Holy Spirit of God is moving through you. That's what we need. He said hear this you elders. Hear this you elders and give here give an ear it means listen all you inhabitants of the land has.

Anything like this happened in your day or even in the days of your fathers? Well, what is happening? Well, guess what? It's pretty similar to now. Pestilence locusts swarming locusts all kinds of locusts came and they devoured the crop so the provision work was gone and then fire was scorching the land and The people were in.

There was distress and there was chaos and confusion and talk about a parallel. Today and so God said tell your children about it. Let your children tell their children and their children another generation.

So God is saying don't be embarrassed. Let them know what happens when the judgment of God falls upon a nation that there is a judgment that can happen. But God's call is not to the to cry about its call.

The call is to come back to him. And I want to encourage you before revival ignites a nation it first ignites a group of people. Before God brings revival fires. He's going to ignite a group of people.

He's going to Ignite certain leaders and they bring that refi the revival fire of God's of God's a fire into the church and into the community. And so he's saying here pass down God's words to your kids let them know about the goodness of God, but also The judgment of God, I know that's not popular but it's powerful.

Warning of Judgment and Proclaiming Hope

Do you know Jesus spoke about judgment? He said do not fear him who can kill your body. But fear him who can cast both body and soul in hell. Jesus wanted us to warn because in that warning you can wake people up and What we're doing instead is we're lulling them back to sleep.

Right, like you put a baby back to sleep. Have you ever done that moms, you know? You don't jump up and down and wake it up you blow it back to sleep. And that's what many churches are doing pastors are doing and what we're in America go back to sleep.

Just go back to sleep. Let me lull you back to sleep but at some point you got to wake them up and and throw some water on their face or something and get the church wake a Woke again and and to get up and strengthen themselves in the Lord and begin to get back on the right track.

We cannot dumb down God's Word to make it taste better. It's not supposed to taste good. It's supposed to convict. Now in case you think I'm just being mean-spirited. I'm not because at the end of the day.

It's not about condemnation and judgment. It's about hope and redemption. But how do you appreciate the good see what I've noticed is have you ever seen maybe you've done this if you weeped during worship.

Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me and you've experienced God and and you begin to Just weep before worship and thank God and it's often those people who understand what they've been saved from that worship the most.

They understand the bad news. So they more appreciate the good news. That's why we're to deliver hard topics and talk about the bad news is to give people the good news. So God paints this grim picture look at what's going on.

Then he says there's only one answer. There's only one remedy. There's only one cure one cure for chaos. He goes on to say awake awake you drunkards. Boy, oh boy. Basically awake you who are comfortable you who are lazy you heart who are asleep awake get up and weep consecrate a fast call a sacred assembly gather the elders of all the inhabitants of the land and come into my house says the Lord and cry out to God and there's a Desperation you see desperate people do desperate things.

Repentance, Fasting, and Spiritual Renewal

I talked about that I think last week or the week before that when you're desperate you do desperate things. So in a nutshell, he's calling people to repentance and I've used that word a lot and I want to give you a definition.

It's it's used over a hundred times in the Bible. If something you it's used over a hundred times in the Bible it's probably pretty important and the Strong's exhaustive concordance says when one repents he exerts strength to change and he Regrasp the situation and he takes a different course of action.

In other words, he wakes up. He sees listen, this is not the right direction I need to foster the strength to change with the power of the Holy Spirit and I regrasp the Gravity of the situation and I take a different course of action.

So the actual definition of repentance is I'm walking this way. I see the danger I turn I repent and I walk this way. It's turning from that sin. And that's what God is saying here consecrate a fast call the sacred assembly.

So, what's he trying to do here. I believe the whole point is to get the heart right first. Let's talk about this for a minute. This might not be popular for many people, but it's going to be very powerful if you grasp it.

He says consecrate a Fast who's already turned off. What about if it said call us a fellowship a potluck with fried chicken. And In and out is catering and so is chick-fil-a and Then come into the house of the Lord.

Well, have you ever tried to pray really pray after Thanksgiving dinner? It's not possible. Because you have two competing appetites. The flesh and the spirit and I discovered something amazing many years ago the power of fasting and And this is this was a jewel in the church for about 1700 years.

You read the early church fathers such as Irenius or polycarp or ignatius Justin Martyr Augustine you and you go into the Reformation period or even before that people like John Huss who was burned at the stake for simply Translating the Bible.

William Tyndale the Tyndale Bible. These people gave their life often for the Bible that we have and they would fast. Martin Luther would fast and John Calvin and and fasting was was a great great spiritual weapon and Sometimes you have to apply extra pressure to the demonic realm.

Sometimes just just regular getting through the day. Is it going to cut it? Sometimes you have to apply extra pressure you have to bring in that right hook and and and hit the enemy a couple times and Just keep keep attacking the enemy and somebody named Jesus Christ said this kind does not go out except by prayer and Fasting and I know some translations don't have that in there others do.

I don't want to get into that but it is a biblical Principle that this kind does not come out except by prayer and fasting and I want to talk to you about this topic. For a minute because it's so important.

Consecrate a fast it means to dedicate something to a higher Purpose and our hunger for food often outweighs our hunger for God, correct? Often there's so there's nothing wrong with food. God has given us an appetite for a reason but it's when that appetite begins to control us and begins to Pull us in a certain direction.

We begin to allow the fleshly appetites. And if you give in to these appetites, it's easier to sin anytime we get in trouble. It's often because of the flesh. Amen. So what by feeding the flesh and constantly feeding the flesh and never starving it.

We are actually empowering it and giving it more strength. Now I know many of you cannot repeat cannot relate to this I'm sure. But let me tell you how my flesh works. I get up early in the morning and I want Dunkin Donuts and a big coffee and then a couple hours later, I want to I want a a chicken or a egg McMuffin and Then a few hours later.

I want In-N-Out burger and then later Domino's and then Baskin Robbins. Constant the flesh is caught and many people cave into that and cave into that and the flesh begins to Control them. What fasting does.

It rips that strength from the flesh and it begins to allow you to be filled again with the Spirit Of God because anytime you can tell the flesh know it begins to lose strength. I'm not talking about this idea of a monk in a monastery and you're you know, you're you're you're you're starving yourself.

And it's self. It's it's weirdness. It's actually very biblical very biblical. Moses fasted. For that he received the Ten Commandments. Elisha fasted and went 40 days on the strength of the food. He consumed.

David fasted. Esther Esther fasted and said if I perish I perish for such. I've been called for such a time as this. Call a fast. Joel says call the Sacred Assembly begin to starve the flesh. Jesus went out.

It's interesting. He was baptized in the Jordan River and The Bible says the Holy Spirit came upon him very clear direction. The word is Epi in the Greek EPI upon overwhelming power of the Holy Spirit came upon him and led him into the Wilderness and he began to fast for 40 days and 40 nights and the devil began to tempt him and Jesus came out.

It says in the power and in the fullness and in the filling of the Holy Spirit and then he begins to his ministry. Isn't that interesting? We don't even hear of Jesus doing anything. Until that endowment of power until that filling a spirit until that starving of the flesh and fasting.

Our hunger for God often outweighs our hunger. I'm sorry hunger for food often outweighs our hunger for God and what fasting is it's a Disruption to our normal life it disrupts it and we can see what's really important.

You want it you want to know how strong the flesh is. I Challenge any of you any of you try to give up coffee all day tomorrow. Go just go 24 hours. You will turn into a monster. Try to just get. I'm not gonna eat sugar.

I'm not gonna just keep watch what that flesh is. It's just it just begins to pull. It begins to dominate everything. Fasting also the represents mourning. That's why I believe he said call a fast. There's there's mourning.

Fasting would often be a sign of mourning and repentance. But don't be discouraged because after the morning there's great. Hope God says humble yourself, and that's really what fasting is. It's humility.

It's humbling ourselves. God our nation is in this predicament. Our children are being used and abused your word is being ridiculed. You're being mocked. Jesus is being scorned and I'm going to go on a fast and I'm going to mourn for a nation.

I'm gonna pray for a nation when that hunger comes. I'm gonna do a hunger strike against hell and I'm gonna begin to pray and be filled with the Spirit of God and the more I tell the flesh no and you yes, I go out in the boldness of the Holy Spirit.

Fasting as a Spiritual Discipline

You know, it's funny the the critics the critics of fasting are those who have never missed a meal. You'll die. You'll die if you don't eat in a day or two. Now granted there's a lot of practical steps that need to be taken if if God is calling you to that do that.

But a lot of times that's why I want to give you my book on fasting free when you leave here because there's practical steps too. Do you know why fasting is so hard? Because 99 of you will be weaning off of withdrawing from caffeine nicotine alcohol processed foods and sugar.

Of course you feel like garbage. Because we've been on all of these things and that's why fasting is so hard. So you have to get your body ready for these things and I believe God has given us our health for a reason I believe he is.

I realize this is all I got when this goes I'm done. When this goes I'm done and I begin to fast about eight years ago. And I wouldn't eat all day and I would come and I could just feel I felt the Spirit of God more heavily because I was Denying the flesh throughout the day.

That's a biblical principle. I'm not talking about works based and pleasing God and and I found and I know and you know God doesn't love me more when I fast. But I sure love him more because I'm denying these appetites because I want the filling it.

I want to be closer to God. Now it's okay to eat and of course and God designed us to do that. But when it begins to control us and we can't stop that's why he said awake you drunkards. What often went when drunkenness in the Old Testament?

Gluttony they run hand-in-hand because you give into one appetite. Here's another and this image is you comfortable and you're lazy your sleep your gluttonous. God says you need to come out of that awake and consecrate a fast the mightiest weapon we have.

Did you know the white mightiest mightiest weapons? We have as Christians? Are our humility prayer and worship. Did you know that and all of those are fulfilled in? Fasting so I'm going to I'm going to Throw a challenge out there today.

My wife came up with a great title called fasting for freedom. Fasting for freedom. It's what we're gonna fast. We're calling a church fast between now and November 3rd. Between now and the election our elected officials are under attack like never before.

Darkness is starting to rear its ugly head and just now losing a Supreme Court justice they're saying there will be burning and riots in the street if if our president appoints someone too soon and and There's just this upheaval you can you can tell that things are tense and this is a time to fast for freedom.

So I know a small minority of people will only listen. But I'm talking to you. Even if it's a mill even if it's changing your diet completely even if it's going on water only or juice. Whatever God calls he doesn't engage.

He doesn't measure success, but perfection. He wants to see the condition of a heart and say Lord. I'm willing to give this up for you. There is a price to pay when seeking God fasting pays that price.

Basically, what I'm saying is Lord Mike my hunger for you is greater than my hunger for food. But when I when I feel that desire coming Lord, I'm gonna take it to prayer and fasting. This is not a weight loss program.

This is a spiritual weapon program when you're calling down heaven. You're praying for your children. You're praying for your spouse. You're praying for what's going on. God wants to know how bad do you want it?

Do you want it bad enough to deny yourself so that the Spirit of the Living God can work through you? I love what a W Tozer said I want the presence of God himself, or I don't want to have anything to do with religion.

Can you imagine if our kids at 12 13 14 or 15 were filled with God's Spirit oh. In that day, I will pour out my spirit your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream visions and or have visions your your young men will dream dreams or vice versa.

I'm not sure on that one but he says I will pour out my Spirit on your men servants and on your mate servants and they will prophesy in that day. Because the Spirit of God is being poured upon a broken and humble vessel and Fasting is one of those mechanisms.

It's a great treasure. One of the shocks of my life was 20 years ago when I started to read books. John Wesley prayed and Fasted. He actually wouldn't ordain people to the ministry unless they fasted on Wednesday and Friday.

I thought of that, but I don't think I'll be able to get away with it. If you want to be I won't go there. But but there was a desire for their David Brainerd who ministered among the Native Americans in his journal tons of fasting and prayer.

Robert Murray McShaney, he died at age 29. But he was Scotland's one of Scotland's most anointed preachers. When he would walk to the pulpit people would begin to weep. They said where is that anointing coming from all.

I just read his journals the day spent in prayer and fasting because see that's when you're Loading the gun. We've got we've got people straight as a gun barrel theologically, but they are empty. You need to put a shell put around in that chamber and be filled with the Spirit of God through the power of prayer and fasting and I want to just share this for a minute, but Anytime God calls you to do something spiritually there are physical benefits as well.

There's enormous physical benefits of fasting. God might speak to you right now to some of you in this message just from this part. Fasting has been known fasting is not a cure what it does. Let me just tell you let me switch from preacher to teacher for a minute.

Fasting what your body does throughout the whole day is it takes 50 60 percent of your energy to convert food and to? Convert food it's called your metabolism your metabolic rate the process of converting food into energy and it's exhausting and it's doing that all day long there's it's your it's just Exhausting and converting energy and converting energy you add to that all the junk food all the processed food all the dead food.

That does nothing for your body and there and you we begin to gain weight. We begin to get disease and issues and so fasting Withdraws the poison and allows the body to begin to cleanse itself. That's why it's so hard at first because it's called detoxification and your body switches from burning glucose now to burning your stored fat tissue and in that is a lot of Toxins and and that's where your energy becomes it comes from and as people begin to fast it begins to heal their arthritis.

It begins to help their ulcers their high blood pressure heart conditions gallstones Tumors colitis and neuromuscular diseases overfeeding is killing us and Fasting fasting can help with that. I Know it's really convicting, but we need to be convicted from time to time and because of this I believe there's a mighty filling of the Holy Spirit, so I believe that's why one of the reasons God says first consecrate a fast call a fast get the flesh into submission if.

What happens if we come next Saturday? We've been watching Netflix all week. We probably saw some things on the internet. We shouldn't we've been we'll listen to music. That's not edifying. We've been eating too much.

We've been gluttonous. We've been drinking too much and we come here next Saturday. And we expect that the Spirit of the Living God is going to descend upon us and change us from the inside out. When we haven't been consecrated and set apart for him first Call the Sacred Assembly, but first consecrate a fast and then he says call the Sacred Assembly.

So he says now once you're set apart once you're fasting once you're once you're maybe hungry for food. But more hungry for God. He said call the Sacred Assembly and begin to cry out to God. Is that interesting?

Cry out to God. There's a there's a passion like I said desperate people do desperate things. We read about the blind man. I love that story. He cried out all son of David have mercy on me. And what did the crowd say be quiet be quiet, and he said he cried out all the more.

Oh son of David have mercy on me. I'm a blind man and I need your redemption and he began to cry out and the woman would go after Jesus. Fighting through the crowd moving people all the way and if I could just touch the hem of his garment I would be healed or they lowered the man down through the roof and they removed the shingles and lowered him down if we can.

Just touch Christ or the weeping the weeping prostitute that came before Jesus and begin to clean his feet with her tears. Oh desperate people do desperate things where they want to find the heart of God.

They might fast they might remove godly. I remove ungodly entertainment. They might seek God with all their heart with all their strength and begin to move things that God is convicting them about. Because I must find God desperate people do desperate things.

Worship, Brokenness, and the Presence of God

I'm sure there's people saying I wanted to hear a teaching tonight. Well, you needed to hear a preaching tonight. Listen, I'll never forget this and I kind of hope this person hears me when I tell this story.

But we're in Lancaster five six years ago. And I tell it often when it fits things like this. It just blew my mind. The the Spirit of God was so thick people were at the altar people are weeping and crying and.

And the worship is just it's incredible one service. Our first service actually flowed into the next service without any interruption and I came up there. I felt the the heaviness of God. I felt just the weight and I said I said guys we just got to keep worshiping.

We just got to keep worshiping. I'm not gonna give a message tonight and a man left upset. He walked out he told the usher I came here to hear a message. I Thought that poor man the very thing he needs is the very thing He's running from the very thing he needs is the very thing he is running from.

He needs to find himself on the altar. Broken and humble before God because of worship upsets you there's something going on with your heart if you're not a worshipper. There's something wrong in your heart.

Oh, I'm a lover of his presence. I'm a lover of his presence. 25 years ago I would have laughed at you worshipers. Until God fills you with the Spirit that changes everything. Oh god. I'm a lover of your presence.

The proud Bible thumping critical heart must become a lover of God's presence. Examine their hearts and then after that it says something interesting then come together. Consecrate a fast Call a sacred assembly like we're doing now, but I'm glad he didn't forget this then come together.

Unity, Holiness, and the End of Divisive Quarrels

Do you know what he's talking about their unity? Unity gather all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God. You know what? I've noticed when all hell is breaking loose right now.

Not too many people are debating non-essentials. Not too many people are poking fun at this ministry or poking fun at this or you're not a Calvinist or you're not Armenians. Or you believe in this or you know, no, there's no now we're in battle together.

We are in battle together and the small little battles the small little essential things need to fall to the side and we need to come Together in unity because often what is behind division is pride. Let's call it out.

Let's call out those people who like to debate and like to put down others and like to highlight non-essentials. They have a critical arrogant spirit. They are haughty that propulses that they are proud and unteachable and eager to dispute that kind of person will never experience spiritual revival.

Hebrew says pursue peace with all people and holiness without which no one will see the Lord and that word see is to see. Spiritually to perceive there's an inward spiritual perception. When you're desperate trivial things don't matter.

Does it? Listen when I'm in battle with you, I'm not. I'm not real concerned what denomination you're with. I'm not concerned with what church you're with. I want to know do you love Jesus? Do you believe in the inerrancy of Scripture.

Is he your Lord and Savior? Do we agree on the essentials great? Let's go into battle. That's what God wants. We got to get back to that part of that point of unity. I Mean, I'm not. I'm not for or against division denominations.

I'm not sure where God, you know, I Biblically speaking of a hard time with them sometimes because most of the time. Do you know where denominations spring up because people leave and think I'm gonna do it the right way I'm gonna be this denomination and we believe this and we're the right denomination this this this denomination believes this and this is the right Domination you got you guys I promise myself.

I wouldn't say so forgive me if it's wrong. I'm just asking for forgiveness now, but the guy in the corner the heckler right the guy in the corner. He's mad because I don't use the King James only. My lord, is There anything more important?

Yes, the salvation of souls. Have you ever led anybody to the Lord that have you ever led anybody to Lord screaming at them? Of course not. You have to be broken and humble and all this bickering and complaining over what translation do you use brother?

And I've had emails to say you don't wear a suit and tie. You're not a real preacher. Really? I didn't know that I'm sorry. Check my wardrobe next time. The arrogance is amazing. The critical spirit in the church is amazing.

Oh, I don't like those songs. I like these songs. Why are they doing that? Why are they standing? Why aren't they standing? Why are they sitting? Why aren't they sitting? Why are they raising hands? Why aren't they raising their hands?

They're too charismatic. They're not charismatic enough. Why do they act like that? Why do they get all sappy? Why are they crying critical spirits? And we wonder why we're not experiencing revival. I'm trying.

I'll never forget there was a guy At the church in Lancaster's well a lot happened. Lancaster praise God for that. But he was he was at the altar and weeping uncontrollably and I could tell people like little bothered by it, you know.

You know the people in church like this. What's a Laker game? You know. And they're just people emotional people bother them and I went up to pray for him and I just I started weeping. I don't know why.

And come to find out he found his son who hung himself into the garage. Oh Folks we got to be careful. We got to be careful to judge others. You don't know what they went through. You don't know the pain they're carrying.

Many times those who are emotional and worship. It's because they've they've meant the risen Savior. They've experienced God and I love when guys tell me Shane. I'm just not emotional. I'm just not emotional.

Will you express anger very well. Is anger not emotion. You can yell at your kids and throw the cat and kick the dog and punch a hole in the wall. You're very emotional. Sir, the problem is you have not been humble and broken by Almighty God and begin to worship him and it comes out Oh God, and that's why I cannot even that song.

Amazing grace. How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me if that doesn't penetrate your heart. He says I was blind but now I see Spiritually blind on my way to hell if it was not for the grace of God to reach down to grab me.

There go I but by the grace of God there go I. I was lost but now I'm found and God found me. He saved me. He set me free. You might get a little excited. You might want to worship. You might not want to be in a hurry.

If you're a clock watcher be careful, and then I love what God does. He shouts it again in case. I'm not clear blow the trumpet and Zion and sound the alarm on my holy Mount. In other words call a battle call call believers to the forefront.

Call them to boldness. Tell them to come out of them. Could their complacency shame when I've given you a voice wake them up. And that's why I said you didn't come to hear a man. You came to hear a message and that message is God trying to trying to wake up the sleeping giant.

Returning to Holiness and Wholehearted Repentance

Known as a church of Jesus Christ. Can you imagine if the church would wake up and come back to holiness and righteousness? And love and unity and being filled the Spirit of God you cannot stop the move of God's Spirit.

Let all the inhabitants of the land Tremble before me for the day of the Lord is coming now therefore says the Lord turn to me with all your heart. With fasting there he goes again. Just when I was looking for it in and out afterwards.

With fasting with weeping with mourning so wrench your hearts and not your garments. I love that picture because that what they would do in Israel. They would take the shirt and rip it. They would all look how sorrowful.

I am look how broken. I am look how humble I am. I'm rending my hearts and all God says I see your hardness. I see your callous hearts. Don't just rend your heart rend your garments. Branch your heart break your heart.

Let your heart cry out to God. Men who are arrogant look how you're hurting your family. Oh God. We need you in our homes. God our schools need you Spirit of the Living God would you begin to minister to us tonight?

So I want you to come spiritually prepared on September 26th. And we're gonna worship. I Don't know what that sermon looks like if I'm gonna service if I can give a quick sermon at or a sermon or mainly.

Just worship. I don't know. I'm seeking God in this. I I will be fasting. I guess I should have told you that earlier. I'm gonna start fasting and this is a corporate call to fasting for those who can if you're not sure how if you have questions.