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Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 20-22 CEV, Ch. 23-24 NCV

Chris Hamilton, Timothy LaFontaine

It’s History Tuesday, and we’ll complete the book of  2 Samuel with the reading of chapters 20-24. I’m calling this episode “A Clean Slate” 

I’m also going to talk a little about what’s been going on at Asbury University and God’s perfect timing.

Chapter 22 is David’s wonderful song of praise to God, whom he had served his entire life.

As David wrote this, he included the highs and the lows from his life. How God had delivered him from his enemies, and how he was blessed. He gave praise for who God is and how incomparable He is. He acknowledged that God was his source of…everything.

Did any particular part stand out to you? The section from verses 21 to 25 certainly did to me. Let me read it again: 21You are good to me, Lord, because I do right, and you reward me because I am innocent. 22I do what you want and never turn to do evil. 23I keep your laws in mind and never turn away from your teachings. 24I obey you completely and guard against sin. 25You have been good to me because I do right; you have rewarded me for being innocent by your standards.

Wait, what? David was not blameless, was he? He was an adulterer, a schemer, a murderer. How could he say he was innocent?

Because God had forgiven him. In 2 Samuel 12:13, Nathan the prophet told David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.” Beloved, When God forgives, He forgets. He no longer holds it against you. It is as if it never happened. David wrote in Psalm 103:12, “12As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.”

Beloved, David put his faith in God, and he trusted God’s mercy, and he was called the friend of God. 

So what does that mean for us? It means that when we remember our sins, it is only in our memory, not God’s, if we are in Christ. If you have confessed your sins to God and if you have trusted Jesus as your savior, you can join David in this song and say, “You reward me because I am innocent.” 

This is literally the definition of a clean slate, isn’t it? That’s the best news you will hear all day!

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What he has, this is the Lifespring one year Bible coming to you from Riverside, California and podcasting since 2004. I’m your og Godcaster. Steve Webb. This is the daily podcast where we’re reading through the entire Bible in a year. Go figure. Hope you’re doing well today. It’s history Tuesday. And we’ll complete the book of Second Samuel with a reading of chapters 20 through 24. I’m calling this episode a clean slate. I’m also going to talk on the show a little bit about what’s been going on at Asbury University and God’s perfect timing. But before we get started, let’s pray. Our gracious heavenly father how we love you and are just so thrilled to know that we are yours. Thank you for your word. And I asked that as we read today, you would bless our time together. I pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Okay, are you ready? Let’s begin.

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Second Samuel chapter 20. A troublemaker from the tribe of Benjamin was there. His name was Sheba the son of big cry, and he blew a trumpet to get everyone’s attention. Then he said, People of Israel, David, the son of Jesse doesn’t belong to us. Let’s go home. So they stopped following David and went off with Shiva. But the people of Judah stayed close to David all the way from the Jordan to Jerusalem. David had left 10 of his wives in Jerusalem to take care of his palace. But when he came back, he had them taken to another house, and he placed soldiers there to guard them. He gave them whatever they needed, but he never slept with any of them again. They had to live there for the rest of their lives as if they were widows. David said to a mesa three days from now, I want you and all of Judas army to be here. A Mesa started bringing the army together, but it was taking him more than three days. So David said to a by Shai Shibo, will hurt us more than Absalom ever did. Take my best soldiers and go after him. We don’t want him to take over any walled cities and get away from us by Shai left Jerusalem to try and capture Sheba. He took along Joab and his soldiers as well as David’s bodyguard in best troops. They had gone as far as the big rock at Debian when a mesa caught up with him. Joab had a dagger strapped around his waist over his military uniform, but it fell out as he started toward a mesa Joab said a mesa my cousin, how are you? Then Joab took hold of a mesas beard with his right hand so that he could greet Him with a kiss. A Mesa did not see the dagger in Joe ABS other hand Joab stuck it in a mesa stomach, and his insides spilled out on the ground. Joab only struck him once but a mesa was dying. Joab and his brother Obi Shai went off to chase Shiva, one of Joab soldiers stood by a mace and shouted, if any of you are for Joab and David then follow Joab. Amasa was still rolling in his own blood in the middle of the road. The soldier who had shouted notice that everyone who passed by would stop, so he dragged a mace off the road and covered him with a blanket. After this, no one else stopped. They all walked straight past him on their way to help Joab capture Shiva. Shiva had gone through all of the tribes of Israel when he came to the town of Abel, Beth maca. All of his best soldiers met him there and followed him into the town. Joab and his troops came in surrounded able so that no one could go in or come out. They made a dirt ramp up to the town wall and then started to use a battering ram to knock the wall down. A wise woman shouted from the top of the wall. Listen to me, listen to me. I have to talk to Joab tell him to come here. When he came, the woman said, Are you Joab? Yes, I am. He answered. She said, please listen to what I have to say. All right, he said, I’ll listen. She said, long ago, people used to say, if you want good advice, go to the town of able to get it. The answers they got here were all that was needed to settle any problem. We are Israelites and we want peace. You can trust us. Why are you trying to destroy a town that’s like a mother in Israel? Why do you want to wipe out the Lord’s people? Joab answered, No, no, I’m not trying to wipe you out or destroy your town. That’s not it at all. There’s a man in your town from the hill country of Ephrem His name is Sheba and he is the leader of a rebellion against King David. Turn them over to me and we will leave your town alone. The woman told Joab we will throw his head over the wall. She went to the people of the town and talk them into doing it. They cut off sheep his head and threw it to Joab Joab blew a signal. Elon, his trumpet and the soldiers returned to their homes. Joab went back to David in Jerusalem. Joab was the commander of Israel’s entire army Bonanza, the son of Jehoiada was in command of David’s body guard. A dorm was in charge of the slave labor force. Jehoshaphat, the son of a pilot kept government records. Shiva was the secretary, ze doc and Abiathar with the priests, Ira from Jr. was David’s priest.

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Second Samuel chapter 21. While David was King, there were three years in a row when the nation of Israel could not grow enough food. So David asked the Lord for help. And the Lord answered, Saul and his family are guilty of murder because he had the Gibby knights killed. The Gibby. And knights were not Israelites, they were descendants of the Amorites. The people of Israel had promised not to kill them. But Saul had tried to kill them because he wanted Israel and Judah to control all the land. David had to give the Knights come and he talked with him. He said, What can I do to make up for what Saul did so that you’ll ask the Lord to be kind to his people again, they give you an idea answered. Silver and gold from Saul and his family are not enough. On the other hand, we don’t have the right to put any Israelite to death. David said, I’ll do whatever you ask. They replied. Saul tried to kill all our people so that none of us would be left in the land of Israel. Give us seven of his descendants. We will hang these men near the place where the Lord is worshipped in Libya, the hometown of Saul, the Lord’s chosen King. I’ll give them to you. David said, David had made a promise to Jonathan with the Lord as his witness, so he spare Jonathan son Mephibosheth, the grandson of Saul, but Saul and Rispa, the daughter of Ava had two sons named are Monet and Mephibosheth Saul’s daughter mihrab had five sons whose father was Adrian, the son of Barzilay. From a Hola. David took risk his two sons and me RABs five sons and turned them over to the Gibby knights who hanged all seven of them on the mountain near the place where the Lord was worshipped. This happened right at the beginning of the barley harvest Rizz pa spread out some sackcloth on a nearby rock. She wouldn’t let the birds land on the bodies during the day, and she kept the wild animals away at night. She stayed there from the beginning of the harvest until it started to rain. Earlier the Philistines had killed Saul and Jonathan on Mount Gilboa, and it hung their bodies in the town square at Beth Shan. The people of Jay bash and Gilead had secretly taken the bodies away. But David found out what Saul’s wife Rispa had done, and he went to the leaders of Jay bash to get the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan. David had their bones taken to the land of Benjamin and buried in a side room in Saul’s family burial place. Then he gave orders for the bones of the men who had been hanged to be buried there. It was done, and God answered prayers to bless the land. One time David got very tired when he and his soldiers were fighting the Philistines. One of the Philistine warriors was this by phenom who was a descendant of the Rephaim and he tried to kill David ish by Bina was armed with a new sword and his bronze spear head alone weighed about three and a half kilograms, but a by Shai came to the rescue and kill the Philistine. David’s soldiers told him, We can’t let you risk your life in battle anymore. You give light to our nation, and we want that flame to keep burning. There was another battle with the Philistines at Gob, where syba Chi from Hugo killed a descendant of the Rephaim named SAF. There was still another battle with the Philistines at God. A soldier named El Hainan killed Goliath from GAF, whose spear shaft was like a weaver’s beam. Albanians father was jer from Bethlehem. There was another war this time in gaff, one of the enemy soldiers was a descendant of the Rephaim. He was as big as a giant and had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. But when he made fun of Israel, David’s nephew Jonathan killed him. Jonathan was the son of David’s brother shimmy AI. David and his soldiers killed these four men who were descendants of their fam from GAF.

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Second Samuel chapter 22. David sang a song to the Lord after the Lord had rescued him from his enemies especially Saul. These are the words to David song, our Lord and our God, you are my mighty rock, my fortress, my protector. You are the rock where I am safe. You are my shield, my powerful weapon in my place of shelter. You rescue me and keep me safe from violence. I praise You our Lord. I prayed to you and you rescued me from my enemies. Death like ocean waves surrounded me and I was almost swallowed by it’s flooding waters. ropes from the world of the dead had coiled around me and death had set a trap in my path. I was in terrible trap But when I called out to you, but from your temple you heard me and answered my prayer. earth shook and shivered. The column supporting the sky rocked back and forth. You were angry and breathed out smoke, scorching heat and fiery flames spewed from your mouth. You opened the heavens, light curtains and you came down with storm clouds under your feet. You wrote on the backs of flying creatures. You appeared with the wind his wings. Darkness was your tent, thunder clouds filled the sky, hiding you from sight, fiery coals lit up the sky in front of you, Lord Most High, your voice thundered from the heavens, you scattered your enemies with arrows of lightning. You roared at the sea and its deepest channels could be seen. You snorted and the earth shook to its foundations. You reach down from heaven and you lifted me from deep in the ocean. You rescued me from enemies who were hateful and too powerful for me. On the day disaster struck, they came and attacked me. But you defended me. When I was fenced in, you freed me and rescued me because you love me. You are good to me, Lord, because I do right. And you reward me because I am innocent. I do what you want and never return to do evil. I keep your laws in mind and never turn away from your teachings. I obey you completely and guard against sin. You have been good to me because I do right. You have rewarded me for being innocent by your standards. You are always loyal to your loyal people. And you are faithful to the faithful with all who are sincere, you are sincere, but you treat the unfaithful as their deeds deserve. You rescue the humble, but you look for ways to put down the proud. Our Lord in God, you are my lamp. You turned darkness to light. You help me defeat armies and capture cities. Your way is perfect Lord, and your word is correct. You are a shield for those who run to you for help. You alone are God. Only you are a mighty rock. You are my strong fortress, and you set me free. You make my feet run as fast as those of a deer and you help me stand on the mountains. You teach my hands to fight in my arms to use a bowl of bronze. You alone are my shield. And by coming to help me You have made me famous. You clear the way for me. And now I won’t stumble. I kept chasing my enemies until I caught them and destroyed them. I destroyed them. I stuck my sword through my enemies and they were crushed under my feet. You helped me win victories and forced my attackers to fall victim to me. You made my enemies run and I killed them. They cried out for help. But no one saved them. They called out to you but there was no answer. I ground them to dust and I squashed them like mud in the streets. You rescued me from my stubborn people and made me the leader of foreign nations who are now my slaves. They obey and come crawling. They have lost all courage and from their fortresses they come trembling. You are the living Lord, I will praise you. You are a mighty rock. I will honor you for keeping me safe. You took revenge for me and you put nations in my power. You protected me from violent enemies, and you made me much greater than all of them. I will praise you Lord, and I will honor you among the nation’s you give glorious victories to your chosen King. Your faithful love for David and for his descendants will never end.

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Second Samuel chapter 23. These are the last words of David. This is the message of David son of Jesse. The man made great by the Most High God speaks. He is the appointed king of the God of Jacob. He is the sweet singer of Israel. The Lord’s Spirit spoke through me and His word was on my tongue. The God of Israel spoke the rock of Israel said to me, whoever rules fairly over people who rules with respect for God is like the morning light at dawn like a morning without clouds. He is like sunshine after a rain that makes the grass sprout from the ground. This is how God has cared for my family. God made a lasting agreement with me right ensure in every way he will accomplish my salvation and satisfy all my desires. But all evil people will be thrown away like thorns that cannot be held in a hand. No one can touch them except with a tool of iron or wood. They will be thrown in the fire and burned where they lie. These are the names of David’s warriors. Josha Bathsheba, the tequila Knight was head of the three he killed 800 men at one time. Next was Lea aser son of dough die the OHo height Eliezer was one of the three soldiers who were with David when they challenge The Philistines, the Philistines were gathered for battle and the Israelites drew back. But Eliezer stayed where he was and fought the Philistines until he was so tired, his hand stuck to his sword. The Lord gave a great victory for the Israelites that day. The troops came back after Eliezer won the battle, but only to take weapons and armor from the enemy. Next there was Shama son of Ag, the HERA height, the Philistines came together to fight in a vegetable field. Israel’s troops ran away from the Philistines, but Shama stood in the middle of the field and fought for it and killed the Philistines, and the Lord gave a great victory. Once three of the 30 David’s chief soldiers came down to him at the cave of Adullam. During harvest, the Philistine army had camped in the valley of her fam. At that time, David was in the stronghold. And some of the Philistines were in Bethlehem. David had a strong desire for some water. He said, Oh, I wish someone would get me water from the well near the city gate of Bethlehem. So the three warriors broke through the Philistine army and took water from the well near the city gate of Bethlehem. Then they brought it to David, but he refused to drink it. He poured it out before the Lord saying, May the Lord keep me from drinking this water. It would be like drinking the blood of the men who risked their lives. So David refused to drink it. These were the brave things that the three warriors did. Abishai, brother of Joab, son of Zeruiah was captain of the three, a by Shai fought 300 soldiers with his spear and killed them. He became as famous as the three and was more honored than the three. He became their commander, even though he was not one of them. Binya son of Jehoiada was a brave fighter from capsule who did mighty things, he killed two of the best warriors from Moab. He also went down into a pit and killed a lion on a snowy day, B’nai a killed a large Egyptian who had a spear in his hand, but Neha had a club, but he grabbed the spear from the Egyptians hand and killed him with his own spear. These were the things Binya son of Jehoiada did. He was as famous as the three. He received more honor than the 30 but he did not become a member of the three. David made him leader of his bodyguards. The following men were among the 30 Assa held brother of Joab l Hainan, son of dodo from Bethlehem, Shama the erudite, the Leica, the erudite, he loves the Powell tight, Ira son of a cash from Tekoa a by easer, the nfo thight. My Banai that you should fight, Zalman the whole height, may arrive in a tougher fight, he led son of BANA than a tough night, if thy son of Rabbi from Libya and Benjamin B’nai of appeareth tonight, hid it from the ravines of gash a by Albin the arbor thight, Asma VEF of a bar who might the liable the CHE Alba night, the sons of Jason Jonathan son of Shama, the hero right, a Hiam son of sharer the hero, right Eliphalet that son of a has by the macrophyte Eliam son of a HIPAA fell the gala night has row the Carmelite Payra the Arbeit I gal son of Nathan from zuba, the son of hair gray Zelich, the Ammonite Neha Rai the beer thight, who carried the armor of Joab, son of Zeruiah, Ira, the birthright Ghareeb, the birthright and Uriah the Hittite. There were 37 in all,

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Second Samuel chapter 24. The Lord was angry with Israel again, and he caused David to turn against the Israelites. He said, Go count the people of Israel and Judah. So King David said to Joab, the commander of the army, go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people, then I will know how many there are. But Joab said to the king, may the Lord your God give you 100 times more people, and may my master the king live to see this happen? Why do you want to do this, but the king commanded Joab and the commanders of the Army, so they left the king to count the Israelites. After crossing the Jordan River, they kept near Aroer on the south side of the city in the ravine, they went through gat and onto Jazer. Then they went to Gilead and the land of taught him Huchuy and to Dan Jn and around to Sidon. They went to the strong walled city of Tyre into all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Finally, they went to Southern Judah to Beersheba. After nine months and 20 days, they had gone through all the land. Then they came back to Jerusalem. Joab gave the list of the people to the king. There are 800,000 men in Israel who could use the sword and 500,000 men in Judah. David felt ashamed after he had counted the people. He said to the Lord, I have sinned greatly by What I have done, Lord, I beg you to forgive me your servant, because I have been very foolish. When David got up in the morning, the Lord spoke his word to Gad, who was a prophet and David seer. The Lord told Gad, go and tell David, this is what the Lord says, I offer you three choices, choose one of them, and I will do it to you. So get went to David and said to him, should three years of hunger come to you and your land? Or showed your enemies chase you for three months? or should there be three days of disease in your land? Think about it, then decide which of these things I should tell the Lord who sent me. David said to get, I’m in great trouble. Let the Lord punish us because the Lord is very merciful. Don’t let my punishment come from human beings. So the Lord said a terrible disease on Israel. It began in the morning and continued until the chosen time to stop from Dan to Beersheba. 70,000 people died. When the angel raised his arm toward Jerusalem to destroy it. The Lord felt very sorry about the terrible things that had happened. He said to the angel who was destroying the people, that is enough, put down your arm, the angel of the Lord was then by the threshing floor of Araunah, the Jebusite when David saw the angel that killed the people, he said to the Lord, I am the one who sinned and did wrong. These people only followed me like sheep, they did nothing wrong. Please punish me and my family. That day, God came to David and said, Go and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of a run of the Jebusite. So David did what God told him to do just as the Lord commanded. A Rana looked and saw the king and his servants coming to him. So he went out and bowed facedown on the ground before the king. He said, Why is my master Thy kingdom come to me? David answered, to buy the threshing floor from you, so I can build an altar to the Lord, then the terrible disease will stop. Iran has said to David, my master and King, you may take anything you want for a sacrifice. Here are some oxygen for the whole burnt offering, and the threshing boards and the yolks for the wood, my King, I give everything to you. Ron also said to the king, may the Lord your God, be pleased with you. But the king answered a Rana No, I will pay you for the land. I won’t offer to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing floor in the oxen for one and 1/4 Pounds of silver. He built an altar to the Lord there and offered whole burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then the Lord answered his prayer for the country, and the disease in Israel stopped.

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Well, beloved, let’s talk a little bit about chapter 22. This is David’s wonderful song of praise to God who of course, he served his entire life. As David wrote this, he included the highs and the lows from his life, how God had delivered him from his enemies and how he was blessed. He gave praise for who God is and how incomparable he is. He acknowledged that God was his source of wealth, everything. As I was reading this chapter, did any particular part stand out to you? What stood out for me was verses 21 through 25. Let me read that to you again. David said, you are good to me, Lord, because I do right and you reward me because I am innocent. I do what you want and never turn to do evil. I keep your laws in mind and never turn away from your teachings. I obey you completely and guard against sin. You’ve been good to me because I do right. You’ve rewarded me for being innocent by your standards. Wait a minute, what? My guess is that part grabbed you as well? Because we know that David was not blameless was he? He was an adulterer, a schemer a murderer. How could he say he was innocent? Here’s how, because God had forgiven him. In Second Samuel 1213. Nathan the prophet told David, The Lord also has put away your sin, you shall not die. Listen, beloved, when God forgives, He forgets. He no longer holds it against you. It’s as if it never happened. David wrote in Psalm 103 12, as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us, beloved, David put his faith in God and he trusted God’s mercy. And he was called the friend of God. So what does that mean for you and me? It means that when we remember our sins, it’s only in our own memory. It’s not coming from God if we’re in Christ, if you’ve confessed your sins to Him, and you have trusted Jesus as your savior, you can join David in this song and say, you reward me because I am innocent. Oh, wow, this is literally the definition of a clean slate, isn’t it? That’s the best news you’ll hear all day. What do you think? Call the Lifespring family hotline and let me know at plus 1-951-732-8511. Comment via boostagram or go to comment.lifespringmedia.com where you’ll find a little box, you can type stuff into do that. I’d like to hear from you. Tomorrow, we’ll be Psalms Wednesday, and our reading will be chapters 60 through 62. We’ll also have a time of praise and prayer requests because it’s Wednesday, Wednesdays and Sundays, as you know, if you’ve got a prayer request or a praise that you’d like to share with the Lifespring family, let me know at prayer.lifespringmedia.com or call that Lifespring family hotline that I just gave you to a couple of seconds ago. Do it now while you’re thinking about it.

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You’ve probably heard about what’s going on at Asbury University in Kentucky right? But if not, here’s a brief synopsis. On February 8, a revival began at what was supposed to just be a normal 10am chapel service at this Christian school. It started with the students. And as I record this right now, I think that the university has ended it because of how the influx of people from around the country and even the world has affected the surrounding community. Traffic and Parking has been a problem and in cooperation with the residents and law enforcement, I think they’ve decided to wind it down. It might even still be in a bit of a flux. But anyway, that’s my understanding at this time. Now, a very interesting fact about this phenomenon at Asbury is that this isn’t the first time this has happened there. Previous revival of occurred there in 1905 in 1950, and in 1958. And on February 3 1970, a revival erupted at what was then Asbury college, that one two began into mourning chapel service in lasted 185 hours non stop continuing for weeks. That was in 1970 1970 was when the Jesus movement began that I’ve talked about several times on the show, and have been talking about recently with the Jesus revolution movie which will be coming out this week. Beloved, I believe that God right now is doing a great work that many of us have been praying for for literally years. Now right now I want to share a few minutes of audio from a conversation my pastor Greg Laurie had with one of the producers of the Jesus revolution movie, listen to this.

Greg Laurie and Jon Erwin 29:14
Hey everybody, Greg Laurie, with my friend John Irwin. John, this is it. This is the week it’s finally happening. Jesus revolution is opening. Here’s what’s amazing to me. Seven years ago, we had our first conversation about this film, you tried to get the film made before the date that it’s been released, which is this week. And there were various obstacles and we couldn’t get it done. But now it’s coming out. And it just so happens that God’s Holy Spirit seems to be falling on young people on college campuses, specifically at Asbury College in Kentucky and how we heard it spread to other campuses. You’ve heard the expression of life imitates art right? So this movement happened the art the film was made the show it happened, but now we see it happen burning again. So it’s almost like all of this is coinciding, it’s almost as though the Lord is saying, I want you all to know I’m here, if you see Jesus, in Superbowl ads, you see Jesus, portrayed so beautifully by Jonathan Rumi and the other actors in the incredible series called The chosen. Now you see Jesus revolution, opening in a theater near you what’s going on with all this? I God’s timing is amazing. And I, you know, we made the movie because I read this time magazine article called The Jesus revolution. And that was when we first met as I wanted to meet someone that lived this story, and just began to study the last sweeping revival in our nation’s history that became known as the Jesus movement. And the more I learned about it, the more I thought, can this please happen again? Yes, can this happen in our time, and that’s why we’ve been trying to make the movie and we’ve been trying to make it over and over again, we were almost there when COVID shut all productions down. And God just had a timing. For this movie, a big part of the Jesus movement in 1970 Was this revival of Ashbury and huge auditorium. And it lasts like 160 hours, and it was a big part of the Jesus movement in the south. So for that to be happening again, right now is unbelievable. And I was talking to Dallas about it, Dallas Jenkins, who created the chosen, we didn’t plan to have the chosen season three, as he gets his campaign, and then Jesus revolution all in the same month, but February has become this month of Jesus, you know, we’re in the entertainment industry, which is insane. And so, about a week and a half ago, I guess, I was wrapping another movie in in Kentucky. And so I was in Kentucky. And it was like day, two or three of this revival. And my wife was with me, and we were 60 miles away. And I’m like, I saw a post on social media. And I’m like, let’s just go Yeah. And so we went over and just sat at that point, it was early. So you just walk right in and sit down. And I just wanted to listen, and, and we sat there and listening to the stories that these college kids were sharing is so much of everything that we’ve been praying for. And then also so much of what we dramatized in the film, I think you called me and said, What did it feel like? And I’m like, it was exactly like the scene movie. So I just think, for my, for this time. In the research, I heard the word desperation come up a lot. You said the late 60s was a desperate time. So similar to the times that we’re in now. And I just think we’re back in that moment of desperation. And I really think that this could happen again. And that’s why we made the movie that’s been the heartbeat of the film the whole time. So for the timing to be what it is, God’s timing is perfect. And to see this begin to happen is unbelievable. So make some noise as them as the movie comm comes out. But I was just so encouraged and inspired by listening to the college kids their stories, Beth and I both were, and you could feel God in the room in a powerful way. And that’s what we’ve been praying for this whole time. So I just think we’re back in another moment of desperation. And that’s the last time God broke through in our country. And I think he can do it again. Yeah, I think of the Jesus revolution film as a tool, not just a movie, it’s a tool for you to use. It’s a tool for you to take a non believer to check this out. You can even get an evangelistic conversation going by simply asking someone, have you heard about this movie, Jesus revolution? Good chance they have, you can say Google it right now. And the point is, you can start a conversation about Jesus. It’s been said that the theme of revival spreads the flame of revival. Jesus revolution is a true story of what happened to me and my wife, Kathy, how we met. It’s a love story. It’s a story of a pastor who was struggling Chuck Smith, a hippie evangelists that came to him and Chuck opened his heart and the doors of his church, to this preacher and an explosion happened. And we’re praying that this movie will inspire all of us to pray for another spiritual awakening. Get your tickets. Go see Jesus revolution, February 24, at a theater near you.

Steve Webb 34:11
You know, we’ve talked here on the show about God doing things in the fullness of time, haven’t we? God is never late. God is never early. God does things at just the right time, or in the fullness of time, the chosen Asbury University, the he gets us ads on the Superbowl, the Jesus revolution movie. I believe that God is just getting started, beloved, praise his holy name. Let’s continue to pray for God to pour out His Spirit on men and women, boys and girls around the world. We need Jesus beloved. Now, I do encourage you to take an unsaved friend to see the Jesus revolution movie. I promise it isn’t cheesy. Really. It’s a good film. And after you watch it with your friend, it’ll be easy to talk about what Jesus has done in your life and to ask them if anything in the movie spoke to them. It really is a wonderful evangelistic tool. I’m going to be walking across the street to my neighbor in his wife’s house tomorrow and ask them to go with us. And I want to remind you that I’m giving away three copies of the Jesus revolution book this Saturday, send an email to me at st***@*************ia.com with a subject line I WANT TO JESUS revolution, or send me a boostagram With those words, to be entered into the drawing. Do it now while you’re thinking about it. pause the podcast right now. I’ll be here when you’re through. Go ahead. I’ll see you in a minute. Go ahead and send that email or boostagram. Good, Thanks. I’ll put you in the drawing.

Steve Webb 35:46
My Thanks to Scott Snider today’s artists also Thanks to Sister Denise Michael Haner, Jason Paschall and Brittaney I appreciate you guys. Remember that tomorrow was Wednesday and we’ll have a time of prayer together. If you have a prayer request or a praise go to prayer.lifespringmedia.com or call the Lifespring family hotline. Let the Lifespring family rejoice with you or pray for you. Until tomorrow. May God bless you richly. It’s been great seeing you today. My name is Steve Webb. By Lifespring media bringing the message of hope, love and good news since 2004 Boost

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