Bridge Church Fredericksburg - Sermons - Israel & The Coming Revival (Part 2) | Tod McDowell

0:00All right, if you've enjoyed the so far, can you just make some noise and please welcome Todd back up to the stage as he continues with us tonight? We're so glad to have you brother. Yeah, somebody mentioned is it already been 10 minutes that goes by fast, doesn't it? But hopefully this, I'm going to look as I share, let's pray for a second. Father, I thank you so much for everyone in this room that you've brought tonight and just thank you for the privilege and honor to be able to be here again to serve your bride and Fredericksburg and thank you so much for the bridge church and calling the destiny on this body, this house, for this region, for the nation, for the nation. So I just bless each one, hearing this, even those that may hear it later online, I just pray Holy Spirit, would you teach us, would you bless us with your revelation as we look at your word in Jesus name? Amen.

1:06Amen. So when we teach about Israel and the other, when we teach the intensives that are forced for for our sessions, six sessions, eight sessions, we pair the word of God with history because when you want to know truth and you know, I love the word for truth in the Greek is al-Athia. Al-Athia means that which is real and genuine. So we don't have to try to convince people, the Bible is true, convince people that Jesus is the way the truth in life. You know what? The Bible is the only religious document, Christianity, biblical Christianity is the only religion that agrees with reality. The only, you look at the world, scientists still don't understand how the eyeball works. Did you know that?

2:09Millions of nerve endings, they don't understand. There's an intelligent design, there's a creator that's beyond us that's more wise than us. That is the most solid, like it takes way more faith to believe in evolution than to believe in creation. Way more faith. It agrees with reality that there's intelligent design, there's a creator. And that the world, the seasons and the cycle of life with trees, winter, spring fall, the animal kingdom, the cycle of life, you know, the lion king cycle of life. That is amazing, it just keeps going. That is so crazy, the world was created like amazing, no one could understand it, but there's mosquitoes. And there's malaria and there's anger and there's death and murder and there's lying and cheating and adultery. Like there's something falling in the world. Biblical Christianity is the only religion that gives you understanding of that reality. The God created the world perfectly, there was rebellion, there was sin, there's the earth was falling, creation and mankind.

3:22No other religion, it takes, it's crazy when you think about the reality of Buddhism and Hinduism, all the isms. It doesn't agree with reality. So when we talk about Israel and talk about the word of God and promises of God, we look at history. Does that, does reality back up, what we're looking at? Do you see that? And that's what we're going to do this session. So that session, we talked about this Isaiah's promise, you're going to return to the land and then you're going to return to the Lord because those are the two promises God gave as an eternal covenant and everlasting promise. That we saw in Genesis 17, do you see that? And that connects to their fullness, the fulfillment of God's promise to the Jewish people is I'm going to be your God.

4:25I'll give you this land. Do you see this? So this is the progression that we're looking at. So I want to show you that Don Finto and Todd McDowell and Caleb Global are not the ones that originally thought of this at all. It actually goes back. If you look, if this is working, I got to turn it on maybe. Oh, got it. I hope I didn't turn it off. Okay. It goes back. Look in the 1500s. The first commentary ever written after Luther brought the Bible back to the common man was the Geneva Bible commentary. And this is what they said concerning Romans 11, 12 and 15 when they return the world would be restored to the new life. This is in the 1500s. Just reading the scripture saying, this is what it says. They're going to return.

5:27Then you have in the 1600s Robert Layton and he had that he was a he this isn't from his whole works of the most reverend fathering God Robert Layton. He was one of the amazing scholars and preachers 1600s. He said the return of the Jews shall be the riches for the Gentiles. And that shall be a more glorious time than ever the church of God did yet behold. He's connecting their return to the most glorious time that the church of God did ever behold. Just reading the scripture. This Israel is in the Ottoman Empire. No Jews there when he wrote this. This is just taking the word for what it says.

6:27And then you may have heard more of you may have heard of Charles Spurgeon. He was the Prince of preachers. I mean, this is just a fun fact. I actually have the date October 7th 1857 Spurgeon preached at a place called the Crystal Palace to and they counted the people 23,654 people that he preached to they all heard him with no amplification. The guy had a booming anointing and a booming voice. He was called the Prince of preachers and he was in the 1800s, you know, mid 1800s. And then he was teaching on Ezekiel 36 and 37 and this is what he said in his sermon. The day shall yet come when the Jews who were the first apostles to the Gentiles, the first missionaries to us who were who were a far off shall be gathered in again.

7:38And then he goes on and says until that shall be the fullness of the church's glory can never come. Matchless benefits to the world are bound up with the restoration of Israel. They're gathering in shall be as life from the dead. So in the most anointed preachers in history is just reading the Bible and saying what it says. And then he goes on because some people to emphasize that it's not just coming to the land or just coming to the Lord. He says they are to be restored and they are to be converted to. So when he says restored he means back to the land. Let the Lord send these blessings in his own order and we shall be well content whichever way they should come. If they're supposed to come to the Lord first or come to the land first. Do you see that.

8:39So let's look at history. Did this happen? We have two things I'm wanting to bring together here. The first thing is the fulfillment of God's promises which is the fullness of the Jewish people. Do you see that? It's the fulfillment. What does their fullness bring greater riches to the world? Trying to see is their evidence of a connection to the fulfillment of them coming back to the land and coming back to the Lord and any greater riches released to the nations to the church. Thus does Israel have a role in world revival? When I was teaching this just from just like Charles Spurgeon, I wasn't teaching it as strongly as Charles Spurgeon probably did, but I'm teaching it just based on the word.

9:45I was teaching and I was teaching and I was up throughout the night and I was like they want evidence. They don't just want theology. They don't just want me to say look at the word and look at the Greek and the Hebrew. They're very like how does that affect my world and my society? That's just a bunch of great theology about Israel. That's kind of weird. I was like God does this have evidence? So I started just googling and searching. How do I know when they came to the Lord? It was really hard and I found some things but it was a little more abstract to find out because no one documented 100 Jewish people got saved today and a thousand and there's just a few times where there was a big but then I was like when did they come back to the land? And if you googling it's not that difficult looking at history of the modern history of Israel. They came back in three distinct times and majority and that's these three times.

10:53The first Allia which is Allia means to return. It means to go up. It's returning to the land. And that was 1882 and 1903. There's no no one made a plan for this. It was sovereign. It was like from Northern Africa, from Eastern Europe, 30,000 came. I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm giving away my next slide. But then 1948 against all odds. They are voted to be a nation in 47, raise a flag in 48 against all odds. Tons of Jewish people come back. All of a sudden they have a homeland. And then in 1967 again against all odds, Jerusalem had been trampled on by Gentiles for thousands of years and all of a sudden they have Jerusalem back. They're ancient capital. The city of the king of David the king. It's back in the Jewish people's hands, not until 67. And so I was like, okay, these are clear fulfillments of God restoring the land, restoring the nation and bringing the people back to the land. That's part of the promise from giving this land forever.

12:05And I'll be your God, them coming to the Lord. So was there great or riches? So I looked at the first one, the farmers all the odds called. And because they just came and they had to start farming in the Ottoman Empire with all the wild east, I call it, from Europe and North and Africa. And what happened around that time in the 1880s, the end of the 1880s to the beginning of the 1900s? It was crazy when I looked at what was God doing. All of a sudden there's a group in England that beginning the Anglican group that started this magazine right there is from the beginning of 1900s. And there's this group there called the London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews. Sovereignly, the Anglican church said, let's reach the Jewish people with a gospel.

13:10They renamed it to CMJ, the church's ministry among the Jewish people. After they founded this in 1809. But by the late 1800s, there's a huge offering given. And today would be worth millions of dollars given to reach the Jewish people. Like, is this fulfillment? And at the same time, 30,000 Jewish people are just going back to their homeland. Under Ottoman Empire, a Muslim caliphate, Muslim controlled land. God is saying, my name will not be profaned anymore for the sake of my holy name. I'm going to bring you back from all the countries. Do you see that? That started happening here. And he's like, I'm going to restore you. I'm going to clean you from your idols. I'm going to put my spirit in you.

14:16The Gentile church gave millions of dollars. That's showing mercy. And it brought 60 to 80,000 Jewish people to faith. First time in like 1800 years. That many came to the Lord. This is what I'm talking about. This is the cycle of revival. The Gentile showing mercy and generosity in this provoking a jealousy blessing. Them getting saved and then them coming back to the land. All happening together. Then you have the end of the Allia was 1903. So then I'm looking what else happened in church history right after 1903 after this whole huge thousands. And most of these ones that got saved were saved as they went through Europe.

15:27The ones that the CMJ was reaching. So what happened after 1903? The Welsh revival in 1904. I'm like, what? Just after this first huge group went to Israel. The next year in Wales. You know, Evan Roberts was 25 years old. He, they said he never just, he was a coal miner that was in Bible school, just started. And the Holy Spirit came on him and he said, he just preached from visions he got. And then it mainly hit young people and then all the society. And it was the signs and wonders. It went the reputation or the news of the Zuzis street rule. If I went around the world literally.

16:31It went there's an outbreak just like what happened in Wales in India because of the news that came to India. And that are same signs and wonders. Holy Spirit outpouring in Pyongyang, North Korea, the capital of North Korea before it was divided. The revival that spread all over that region, the same anointing. Then you had the guys in the Zuzis street. There was particularly, let's see what's his name. Frank Bartleman was an evangelist but he was an intercessor. He started praying with several others. Bring the Wales revival to LA. Bring the Welsh revival to LA. It happened. And in that day, there was several people that boy-cotted it. Why? Because blacks and whites and Latinos who were so divided and so much prejudice were arm and arm worshipping.

17:34And all these the white Caucasian, all the LA guys submitted and were under William J. Seymour, African American who was just crying out to the Lord for signs and wonders. The Zuzis street and the Welsh revival are the foundations of the Holy Spirit moving in the church till this day. Whole Pentecostal movement that is nearly hundreds and hundreds of millions was birthed here. Is that greater riches? So I'm looking at the first thing. You have this Allia, this return of Jewish people to land. You have this huge thrust to reach Jewish people to the gospel and they get saved and they return to the land and what happens? One of the greatest riches to the church and all our church history happened same time. And spread around the whole earth.

18:40This is the Word of God. I'm not making this up. The history is affirming it. Now just humbly submitting this, I believe the restoration of Israel and the Jewish people is a key to global revival. And it's right to do it because the Word of God says to do it. It's a bless to give to go. But it's also imperative for the end time harvest. When I told you this is the message that got me to embrace Israel. I have so much self control not to bring this message first. I told you all it's about God's heart. It's about His faithfulness. I'm like, but it's about revival. So I'm so glad you let me come back because this is not it's not a trick. This is not just pull something on my back pocket. This is the Word of God.

19:45But the church, the missions movements don't know this. They don't get this. The bride does not get this. So I'm so thankful that I can share it with you. The other great moment of fulfillment for the Jewish people was all between these two years here. You have in 47 miraculously the United Nations votes, two third majority vote to make a homeland for the Jewish people after thousands of years. They're on sovereign state. And they raise the flag. And then all of a sudden the very next day. So May 14th they raise the flag. Truman affirms their nation. Other nations slowly do. But the next day May 15th all the five Arab nations try to wipe them off map. And they have to fight the war of independence the day after they raise their flag. Usually you raise your flag after you have independence.

20:52Their nation just said you're we're not you're gone from the river to the sea. God's sovereignty. They were protected. They got their independence back after that is fulfillment. He brought them back. They're under the Ottoman Empire and now all of a sudden they have a nation state. That's fulfillment. And at the same time there's a huge amount of returns. You see in the two years 250,000 return in 49, 110 and 48. And those three and a half years yet nearly 688,000. So you have the nation but then the returning to the land. And then what happened at that same time in 48 you have the world council of churches. It was the first global ecumenical movement in 48.

21:52Came together for the first time and they came together to formally declare anti-semitism is a sin against God and man. Happens to be in 48 talk about Gentiles provoking the jealousy and showing mercy. The whole reason that the world council of churches formed the whole reason was to say anti-semitisms is sin. And say we're not going to let another whole cost happen on our watch as a church. That's mercy. Isn't that amazing? And that they acknowledge the church's historical failures towards the Jewish people and they affirm that evangelizing the Jews remained part of the church's mission. That's bringing mercy. Letting them experience the mercy of God the gospel. All in 48. Same time as they were stored as a declared a nation.

23:00Yeah, there's the Protestant Anglican. Any I have a lot of notes. I don't need to go to that. What happened in the world? What about world revival? What about greater riches? So I looked at that. I'm like, okay, what happened 47, 48 became a nation and then independence and then one the war of independence. What happened? This is the first thing that came up. Billy Graham started his ministry. His first crusades were in 47 and 48. Billy Graham, while he was still alive, with Billy Graham ministries reached 2.3 billion, 2.2 billion people with the gospel. Is that greater riches? The greatest evangelist of world history starts when Israel became a nation. And when the church unified together to say, we're sorry. That's a sin anti-Semitism and let's reach them with the gospel.

24:10This is not coincidence. I'm not just pulling something out of like, hey down in San Antonio, there's this church that started blessing Israel. Now this is Billy Graham starting his ministry right when Israel became a nation. Greater riches. Your fullness brings. And then the healing revival movement, the thing that, so it's like evangelism reaching the loss but also this power. Like there was the group, I don't know if you know the healing revival movement. It was the beginning of mass crusades in auditoriums and emphasis on miracles, faith and evangelism. It was the beginning of media being used in bringing the gospel. Some of the ones who were part of this, William Branham, you heard a really William Branham oral Roberts, T.O. Osborne, A.A. Allen, Jack Cogue, Gordon Lindsay, if you studied church history, you'd know those names.

25:18They were basically revivalists, all started in 47. That's greater riches. Bringing power of God. Then what else happened? The back to Jerusalem movement, you may not know this, but the back to Jerusalem movement in China is one of the largest movements in church history. There, there's a vision of taking the gospel from China back to Jerusalem through the Silk Road, through the Muslim world. And it's the vision started in 48 with three young leaders in jail because they're a jailed for being Christians and the Lord spoke to them back to Jerusalem. Today, the vision is to take 100,000, they're bringing 100,000 evangelists across the Silk Road. Do you know there's about 100 million Christians in China? Most Christians in the world are in China. Believe it or not, very closed, very hard to be a believer.

26:24But by the way, gospel spreads when there's persecution. Sorry to say that, but all this heat should bring some people in here. Come on. Then you have the latter-rain movement, started in Canada, but the Flanley Influence Charismatic Apostolic Prophetic Movement globally gives the Holy Spirit, especially prophecy laying on the hands, prophetic restoration. I mean, as I say, there's some, some of us are like, ooh, those things got messy, but, you know, families are messy, right? So it's not the net, let's not focus on those who misabuse that, but the Holy Spirit poured this out genuinely, the beginnings of this. How man stewarded it is another issue. But God poured it out, Creator Richies. Like, you know, when there's healings pouring out or Holy Spirit pouring out, bringing words, like that's God saying, I want to speak to you, I want to touch you, I want to restore you.

27:28That's God saying, I want to bring greater riches to you, I want to blow your mind. This is what happened. Let's keep going. So the next one, that map is showing the back to Jerusalem. The next one is probably, you have this deliverance, the freedom that came to Jerusalem was unexpected. I don't know if you understand the Six Day War that Jewish people never had an advantage with numbers or weapons. In six days, they defeated the Six Nations coming at them miraculously, that had been supplied by Russia, all these more advanced weaponry, planes, tanks, guns, all that. But God just miraculously used the few things that Israel had to overtake them many around them.

28:32And in Jerusalem, the day before the liberation of Jerusalem, the troops experienced the most deaths they had, the whole, that far in the Six Day War, they had experienced the most deaths. And there was, the council they got was let's pull back. We don't want to, it's just like the Jordanians who had controlled Jerusalem for all those years since 48. New all the alleyways, new all the places to hide, and it was like guerilla warfare, it was super dangerous. You have these Israelis that climb in the walls and just, but exposed and don't know all the ways to hide and don't know where all the booby traps are and everything. But the general said, a rabbi came to him the night before and said, God wants us to get this city back. And like felt like it was a word from God, this rabbi, not a believer in Jesus, told the general and the general's like, I don't want to sacrifice my troops, but he was up all night and he decided we're going to take Jerusalem.

29:39The next day, they get up, meanwhile the Jordanian journals, journals are feeling so intimidated like the Jews just kept coming at them. And they heard reports that all the air forces taken out in Egypt and like the tanks are taken like they started getting afraid. Geo terrorism, terrorists, greatest weakness is fear. Like what they propagate is what they're intimidated by. So the generals in Jordan in the middle of the night turned and marched their troops out of Jerusalem towards Jordan. The general gets up in Israel, they're like, we're going to sacrifice ourselves, we're just going to die, we're going to go for it, start going, where are the Jordanians? There's only a few. And they got back to Jerusalem miraculously after 2500 years.

30:40And what happened? So you look, let's look at what happened. You have, this is wild, in 67, right when Jerusalem's being liberated, it's the birth of the Jesus revolution. This time magazine, three times in this time magazine, says that Jesus revolution started in 67. The most Jewish people that have ever been saved since the book of Acts saved in Jesus revolution, the Messianic movement was birthed. You have, in that same time, you have what's called the US, US student missions movement explosion. Intervarcity missions conference is started, Urbana, the campus group saved for Christ started actively going navigators and YM. There was this explosion. YM started in 60, it wasn't until 67 happened to be 67, YM and Lauren did stuff with Mercy's ministry in Africa and out of few people.

31:5167, God said, focus on young people and do short term training, which ended up exploding. Now there's been millions and millions gone through since 67. Then you also, this is, I don't know, how many you know that there's charismatic Catholics? Man, I had a counselor in college when God spoke to me to go from, I was going to go to Stanford and go in business law and the Lord said go do missions. I went to my counselor who was helping me transfer to Stanford from junior college in California and I said, hey, I know this is going to sound super crazy to you, but God has been speaking to me and I feel the fear of God I'm supposed to go to missions. And then he goes, Todd, I'm a charismatic Catholic and I want to pray with you and he prays and he goes, I feel like that's the Lord and he blessed me.

32:51And then he was like, you're white. He goes, yeah, we go on these retreats and we pray in tongues together and we do, he's like, you're still going to mass and yeah, we do. I was like, this is crazy. But I didn't know it started in 67. It started in Pittsburgh at a university. It spread to 160 million around the world. Is this greater riches? God's like, I want to bless the Catholics. Israel just retook Jerusalem. How about a little Holy Spirit over there? Greater riches on the Catholics. 200 nations, 160 million. Is this coincidence or is it greater riches for their fullness bring? And then you have, we talked about that back to Jerusalem movement but that house church movement is what has made the 100 million believers in China.

34:02There was the cultural war, cultural revolution happened in 66 where the government changed and they started oppressing all the people. And in 67, the underground church went underground because of the persecution and all of a sudden the fastest going church in the world. Now the largest going church in the world started in 67. And then this is just something like not as major but I just had to put it because right now, Bunky bless him. He's with the Lord and glory. He held the largest evangelist meetings in history like a million people in one meeting and he happened to take his first trip to Africa in 1967. So I just want to submit this to you. I believe Israel is a key to global revival.

35:06I believe God wants to bless us by blessing them, praying for them, giving, going. But it's not just about my family, my church, it's about the whole earth receiving greater riches. So that the whole earth could be activated to reach the lost ends of the earth. So I just want to bring this back together. We have this cycle of revival. And I want to submit to you the very first thing in the cycle of evil is activating the church. It's why Caleb Global does what it does. When the Lord showed me this, I'm like, I'm giving myself to that. And I felt I was confused why I was moving to Nashville from the largest mission in the world and why I was walking with his guy was nearly 80 years old. I'm kind of my young 30s. I'm like, what am I doing? And this one guy prayed for me and said, Todd, and he used a surfing imagery which I was so grateful for.

36:13He could picture it, but he said, you know, this, you could stay in world missions and short term missions. And he said that wave, crested and it broke. And it's like white water going to the shore. And you know, when you're not a good surfer, you catch the white water. And I was picturing going, I don't want to ride white water. He goes that that wave's already broken. This wave of the church being activated to bless Israel is just cresting. And he said this, this was like 20 years ago. He said, Todd, if you're willing to jump into this wave, it's going to break and take you all over the world. Because the world needs this. That's why I'm standing with you today. I got that word from the fast 21 years ago. And I'm still riding this wave because the church still doesn't get it. But I want to invite you onto the wave.

37:14I want to invite you not just to be activated, but let's pass this on to others. Let's activate the bride to bless Israel. And that's Romans 11-11. Salvation's come to us to provoke the Jews to jealousy. Let's do this provoking. And then when we bless Israel, we start showing it looks like something, showing mercy. Giving what people don't deserve. They don't deserve it. But we're going to bless them anyway. That's Romans 11-30. The mercy we've received is how they're going to receive it. We start giving them mercy. But that means we have to receive love. We have to receive blessing. You know what? You cannot bless people financially unless you have finances. That's a novel thought. I talk to people. They want to give all the money away and they have no money. Like, wait till you have money and then talk to me. That's really easy to say.

38:18You know, I'm being serious. We need entrepreneurs to make billions to be able to do this. You might go, well, they're just in business. They're trying to make a profit. I'm like, hallelujah, finally. I mean, come on. Serious. It's been like super spiritualized of this sacred and secular. That is not in my Bible. There is the Lord and everything in it. The world and all it like it's the Lord's. He gives wisdom to create wealth from Him. You look at all the church fathers. They were wealthy. I'm not teaching them prosperity. I'm saying, let's make money and give it away. Let's invest it. Even giving. Let's invest. We get the most return. ROI is okay in the kingdom too. Let's not just throw it. It's like I gave money. That's great. What is it?

39:19I don't know. They just spent it and they bought something and now it's no one's in it. Let's see where there's fruit and let's invest there. Like when we work with our partners in Israel, it's really hard, but I've learned I can't just, you can't have a good old boys club. Like every year, I'm like, what's the Holy Spirit doing this year? Wow. My friends are killing it last year. They're kind of on the edge. They're just cruising. But look what God's doing here. So we invest where the Holy Spirit's moving. Where there's fruit. And I still, I'm loyal to my friends there, but I, we're very intentional with resources because we want to see the gospel proclaimed. I want to say good news to the poor. Trying to find the poor every year. Where are the most afflicted? The other word poor and Hebrew is afflicted.

40:22So I just want to encourage you. Let's be proactive with this. Amen. And then we're going to see the salvation of the Jewish people. What will their acceptance be but life from the dead? It's one of the most glorious things to behold Jewish people coming to faith. And then that's this. I just quoted that scripture. And then we're going to see greater riches to the nations. And that's this scripture. If they're transgressing, I mean riches for the world. Their loss, riches for the Gentiles or the nations. The word is ethnos. How much greater riches will their fullness bring? And I hope I've shown you that. I'm just going to end with the story. I was teaching actually in the mission school in Africa where I was like, God, these young people need evidence. And that's when I started looking at church history. I'm like, oh my gosh. There's evidence that this really has his historic evidence for this theological promise of greater riches in their fullness spring. And then so I was going back. I was actually teaching their Bible school. And they had five years in their Bible school.

41:38And the fifth year was to specifically for those that were called to church plant. They'd already done the four years. They already had churches. And they were going to multiply. They're called M E M A's is what the that was most and beacon missionaries. So I was praying in the Bible college president knew me well. And I loved teaching them. And a third of them were illiterate. So I had to be really, you know, I just made sure I was simple and clear. So I was praying one time and they were about to graduate. And the president said, Todd, these guys are about to do all this church planting, but they still struggle in their marriage. They have a hard time staying with one wife. They have a hard time with the money. They have a hard time not stealing the money. They have all these things. I'm like, oh my goodness. This is crazy after five years. But this is, you know, in, you know, the bush bush. And they're like, yeah, there's a Muslim overlay over them. Then there was all the idolatry and spirits. And you know, they just, it was their culture. You have five wives. And you get tired of one. You go to another.

42:51So they were trying to be faithful. So I was praying, okay, Lord, what do I, what do you want me to speak? You know, share. And I wanted to honor the president. And the Lord said, I want to teach him on Israel. Like, Lord, these are bush pastors. They're illiterate. And they're Muslim also. They don't, Muslims don't really like Israel. They're never going to go to Israel. They don't have any money to gift Israel. And the Lord just said, and so I prayed again, I prayed three times. Just clear my mind. Okay. Walking, you know, doing some push-ups. Okay. What do you want me to say now? Israel. I'm like, what? And finally the third time, I'm like, okay, okay. And so I just did Genesis 12, three. God says, you know, bless those of bless you and curse those who dishonor you. And they're looking me like, what? They've never really been taught from the Old Testament.

43:52Because all those teachers and leaders that like me that came just taught from, which is good, taught about Jesus, taught the New Testament. They never like, is it what? Who is this? I'm trying to explain some north of you. And, you know, and then I read someone 226, pray for the piece of Jerusalem. And they're looking at me again. I said, well, come on, let's pray. And, you know, and put your hands up towards them. And then I talked about giving. And, you know, I said, they're coins. They're basically worth nothing. But I was like, give me coins. I'll take it. I was going to Israel after them. And so I said, even write things down on paper, prayers, blessings. And I'll put it in this wall where you put stuff, you know, I'm starting about the Western wall. And, and they're looking at me again. And I'm like, God help. And then I said, let's pray. And so we start praying. And then all of a sudden they start the Holy Spirit comes on them.

44:53And they start blessing Israel. And I could just feel the wind literally in this little hut, just start blowing. I'm like, oh, thank you Lord. They're getting this. And then they're pulling all their money out of their pockets and giving it to me and writing notes, prayers, and blessings. And then I'm done. And it was like, thank you Lord. That was crazy to speak to these bush pastors. But thank you Lord. And then that night I was with, there was the once a week they did the big crusade. And they went to the way unreach bush bush. It takes several hours to drive out there. And they, and we do a big Jesus film. And it's like a crusade. It's like pray people come up for healing. And a bunch of people get healed. There's about 2000 people show up because there's never any lights or any movies or anything. So they're just blown away. Seeing that Jesus film and hearing the gospel. So there was a group. The vans all went. The trucks all went with all their equipment. And some of my team then went with them. And I was with a few of the leaders. And we went later. And we have one kid who is the GPS sitting on top of the roof of our Jeep.

46:03And was supposed to navigate the GPS failed. We missed the turn. We ended up going way off track. All of a sudden there's a bridge that's like a bridge that's destroyed. And the rivers there were like we can't and we realize we're lost. This village. So we turn around this village saw us a few of these cars pass. And the kids started running out on the road. So we came back through there. And the leader of this ministry is like we need to bless this village. And we're like, oh my goodness. And some of you may know Heidi Baker. That's the ministry. And she she has the famous line stop for the one. So she always wants to stop and bless. So we stop. And we do this. Get the goods of merit and skit. And I'm the proud like boastful fat American preacher. So I'm like doing this kicking dirt in the Samaritan. You know, he's laying on the ground and then you know what we did the whole skit under one light bulb in this village. Just one light bulb. And they had one boom box. That was the disco. The whole anyway, we're doing it about a hundred come around us. And we give it the alter call and we start praying for the sick.

47:18Kid you know, I saw more miracles out in that little village personally than I've ever seen. I saw there. I felt the Lord say go pray for these ladies and they had hunchbacks. You know, the women do all the work there. Women's not only in Texas in Africa. You know, they carry all the wood. They carry all the water. Their backs are all hunched over. I was praying for these women. They just all said. Like just straightened up. And then a couple of others that were on the log. I still remember they're on this log are shaking and sweating from malaria. Malaria is just common and start praying for them. And you just see there. They settle down. Like the sweating dissipates. And I'm like, are you kidding me? And then I felt the Lord say, I want to heal a blind right eye. And I'm locked. And I don't I don't speak the local language that and this young man walks right up to me and points to his right eye. And like can't see out of it.

48:24And then I just walked out for him. Instantly healed his right eyes healed. So I'm like, what just happened to this little village with one light bulb. And you know, it was crazy. There was about 30 people that radically gave their lives to Jesus out of the hundred a third of the whole village. So I was just like, I'm not sure who said 2000 people. It wasn't as it was like it was good, but it wasn't like wasn't that little village. So I stay the night. The leaders all go back the ministry leader. And but I was staying with my team one more time like I went all the way out here. I want to stay another night. And you know, I love missions. So I'm like, let's do this. And so I was asked to lead the next day. And but can you go back to that village. I told the pastor we would come back and do whatever you feel the Lord say to do. So I'm going, okay, that was amazing. So I was praying all morning. Do we do food outreach? Do we give out beans and rice? Do we do door to door? Vangelism?

49:27Prain for people? Do a kid show? I had all these options. And the Lord said, just bless the pastor. Just bless the pastor. So. And I felt fear the Lord don't do anything else. So we threw the chance letters. They told them go to this just clay hut church that's kind of broken down the roof to look like it was broken down some wasn't in good repair. And the wife is on one end of the church. The husband's on the other. I'm like, what's going on? And the wife had this friend with her. We start praying this friend manifest a demon didn't know Jesus. And she's getting the gospel shared with her and getting deliverance. The wife also gets deliverance and starts crying and repenting. And then the husband just gets the power of God hits him. He's on the ground just crying and laughing. Like the Lord's just loving on him. And we keep praying and keep praying and I'm back and forth and I have my team there and those other leaders there. And we're just in this little clay church. And after 45 minutes, I just feel like, okay, I think we're done. And I just feel the fear the Lord let's we're done.

50:35So I start going and also and I hear my name being yelled out. God. And then he starts speaking Makua. It's the pastor on the ground. And looking and then translate runs over there and he starts translating. He said, Todd taught me about Israel two days ago. And my marriage was broken. My wife left me because I was in Bible college too much. My church was empty because of what happened. And I blessed Israel two days ago. When I forgot to tell you when I told them the blessed Israel when they start when the Holy Spirit came, I said, your marriage will be blessed. Your villages will be blessed and your churches will be blessed. I just felt the Lord say this. And he said, and he said, so you repeat. I said, Todd said, my marriage, my village, he said, more people got saved. They can't even fit in his church.

51:40And so he's and I'm just looking and I'm going, what? Really? He said, I got on a motorcycle. And for the whole day and a half walked and you know, he hitchhiked and walked and got rides. And it took him like eight hours and got to his village. And he said, I wanted to see if what Todd said was true. That if I bless Israel, my marriage will be blessed, my village, my church. And I'm standing there going, it's true. Like I had preached it up to that point. And at that moment, I just said, God, I am so sorry. I'm never going to apologize for sharing about Israel. I'm not going to say no. I'm not going to ask you to speak three times. And so I just want to leave you with that. The word of God says, you know, the we're chosen, just like they were. We're bought with a price. He's, his faithfulness to them makes his faithfulness to you even greater.

52:53He's going to fulfill every promise he's given you. All his promises are yes. We say to amen. And I just want to encourage you, will you be willing to be activated? To let this not just be a cool thing in July and another little injection in August. But what are you going to do? Jimmy has been doing what God spoke to him to do. Brian, what are you going to do? What is your family going to do? You don't have to have a million dollars. You can give $10. And a hundred thousand people doing that give a million dollars. What are you going to do? So I just want to leave you with that. God is faithful. He has a cycle of revival. And he wants us to respond to his invitation.

53:53So if you could just stand up for a moment, I'm just going to pray. Holy Spirit, I just thank you so much for the opportunity that we could be together tonight. I thank you for your word that puts a fear of God at me. It's the year where it is so rich. It's, it's so true. And we just honor you God for this opportunity to partner with you in our day. To see your firstborn come back into the family. To see the first missionaries. The activated with the gospel again. The first believers. They're family coming back. Lord, I just thank you. There's no burden. I lift off any. I pray no guilt or ungodly burden, but I pray for Holy Spirit activation.

54:57Like could I? Like I pray for a creativity, ingenuity, entrepreneurship. And even earlier when I was pre speaking about God wanting to bless financially, I don't know if anything quickened in any of you. But if it did, could you raise your hand? I'm just going to ask God, would you give supernatural favor to create wealth? Not as the world looks at it as insurance or self protection, but as kingdom investment. And I just pray for a spirit of wisdom and revelation of knowing when, when and how, how much and where to invest. But I bless you. And I pray God would you, whatever would be invested in seeing the Jewish people come to faith, just like that movement in the Christian mission to Jews in the late 1800s. I ask God, would you do that again? So I, I just pray the Lord bless you. It's only he can bless you. The Lord keep you. Hold you close. The Lord make his face shine on you, radiate with that father's joy over your his beloved son and daughter that you are.

56:19May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and be gracious to you. Give you power, give you grace. And may he lift up his countenance's shining face of favor and blessing over your life and give you shalom that secures the protects that fulfills. And Jesus name. Amen. Bless you. All right. Well, before we go, I'm going to ask a favor because I felt the Lord say something simple, but can we be still and be quiet for a moment, wait on the Lord? And would you extend your hands towards Todd as a sign of blessing? And I want you to with your sanctified imagination, release faith, release grace, release faith.

57:25Release favor, release timing and understanding of strategies as Caleb Global continues to seek the Lord and how to impact influence how to be a blessing to Israel. Release still for a minute and just by faith, release that. Father, we by faith release faith, we release grace, your grace is your power, your strength, your ability, your authority and your favor to do what we cannot in and of ourselves to release that upon Todd upon Caleb Global and the team there.

58:30We thank you for their investment them pouring into us this treasure trove of information and revelation. I pray that it would move from information to revelation and all of us as a church body as we look for opportunities and ways to bless Israel. And we trust you that we'll order Todd steps and you will order our steps and you will delight in the details of our lives. According to Psalm 137, verse 23, we trust you and we welcome Lord that which you want to bring to us to shape us, to form us into a Linus with your heart, your will in your ways. We speak this blessing over Caleb Global, we declare open doors of favor. We declare greater things, greater blessings as they continue to pioneer as they continue to forge new paths into Israel and ways for us to partner with them and align with them to do the same.

59:46So Lord bless them as they continue on. We honor you in all of these things in Jesus name, God's people said amen and amen. God bless you. Love you. Thanks for being here. Todd, thank you for that.