Why Jesus Isn’t Finished Yet

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0:01:28 – (Steve Gray): Hello everyone and welcome to another More Faith, More Life podcast. The Voice of Revival. Of course. I’m Pastor Steve Gray, and I’ve got Zion Vieira here with me again as we’ve been doing through the weeks. And we’re going to talk about some great stuff today that’s going to be really helpful to people. Help build their faith. We’re going to talk about faith and we’re going to talk about what are we putting our faith to.

0:01:48 – (Steve Gray): But I want to start with something interesting that I read, I think yesterday, a whole article on it and a guy speaking on it that he’s, you know, there’s such things going on in our country that are so exaggerated. One is one. The group is trying to say at least we’re going to make America greater, better, safer, loving, healthier, all the positive things. And then we have a pretty rough bunch and I’m not necessarily saying the Democrats or Democrat party, but there’s a rough bunch out there that, that celebrate shooting, say we ought to shoot people say this politician should be dead and that leaning is there.

0:02:29 – (Steve Gray): Very violent talking and some of the violence is there, obviously. So anyway, that was his point. He says, before I thought about it, but now I’m really concerned about it. That this violent side and then the other side that he said, I used to think the possibility of a civil war was on a scale of about 4 to 10. 4 in a scale of 10. 4 out of 10. And he said, but now the talk is so vicious and violent that people are saying we should go out and shoot people.

0:02:59 – (Steve Gray): We should shoot politicians. We should shoot if we don’t like something. They’re saying we should go kill them. And he’s going. He says, I now have risen the Civil War possibility at a seven. Gosh. And I started thinking about that because the Civil War, of course, the one in the 1800s, it’s. It’s hard to understand. It’s hard to believe. The old. The old saying where brother fought against brother, stating that Americans would turn on each other, divide the nation.

0:03:26 – (Steve Gray): I don’t know how they divide it since in every state there’s both mixture. There’s a mixture of opinions. So I don’t know how you divide counters. They had it more like, of course, south and north divided. I’m sure there are people in the south that didn’t feel the same way as everybody and people. The north didn’t feel the same way as everybody in the North. But it was clear enough that they could divide the country and the south wanted to secede and leave the Union and all that stuff. And then we. We get it down to thinking that it was mostly about slavery. And it was.

0:03:54 – (Steve Gray): But it was bigger than that. It was. It was just two different worlds and two different thoughts on economy. And, you know, the north was industrial and the south was cotton and things like that. And where they said cotton is K. And so it just. It just boiled and boiled and boiled and boiled until, you know, until shots were fired. And it was shots like, in their case, it would have been soldiers shooting at each other. But people began to shoot at each other and shoot at each other and shoot. And then it just rose. And then our President Lincoln, who, by the way, is hard. This is hard.

0:04:34 – (Steve Gray): I didn’t realize this after I studied this. Read an article on it just the other day, too, if the article’s correct. We think so highly as Lincoln as being one of the best, maybe the best. Some people say Washington, too, of all the presidents, because he did. It was during a Civil War, very difficult time. This article said he was hated by most people. He wasn’t a liked president. Interesting I didn’t know that. Not to that degree. I mean, always there.

0:04:59 – (Zion Vierra): President was not like popular or the.

0:05:02 – (Steve Gray): No. At least in the North, I thought he’s got to be popular. Sure.

0:05:05 – (Zion Vierra): Yeah.

0:05:06 – (Steve Gray): This article, whether right or wrong, I said that’s an interesting thing when you view it in today’s. What’s going on today too. And maybe some of that fed into the Civil War because he was obviously not popular in the south in certain places. But anyway, that it just escalated. And I never even thought of that. To the. To how the thought of violence has escalated. To the regular people saying, I think I’m justified. To shoot that person.

0:05:32 – (Zion Vierra): Kill that person.

0:05:33 – (Steve Gray): Yeah. To kill him. Because I don’t agree with him. And that’s what America is built on is we have people that don’t have to agree, but we all have certain rights of protection, safety. We’re not going to kill each other over it because we have laws and safety, freedom of speech.

0:05:49 – (Zion Vierra): Yeah.

0:05:49 – (Steve Gray): And now you see now with so much violence, I didn’t even put it together. So much violence that soldiers and National Guard, military are all starting to enter the picture because things are so far out of hand. And who are they and who’s out there throwing rocks at them? Civilians. Right. Civilians and military. And you know, whether you agree with what’s going on or not, just amazing thoughts that that is happening and how easily things can escalate.

0:06:18 – (Zion Vierra): Quickly.

0:06:19 – (Steve Gray): Quickly. Yeah, yeah. And the other then side of it is the other side of. And you know, I’ll back up. You know, when I talk about walking by faith and I don’t put it into, let’s just pretend that there’s no violence out there because I’m a faith man, so I just believe God’s going to help us. I think as we talked before on one of the broadcasts, the Facebook broadcast is Abraham the first. King James says he did not consider his body as good as dead, and then he lived by faith. But then the better translations now later say, no, he. He did consider how old he was. He’s old, almost 100 years old.

0:06:57 – (Steve Gray): And he still yet believed and believed. So I think we do need to consider the situation we’re in and realize how volatile it is and imagine that. But I don’t know what’ll happen. I’m not predicting or anything, but I just thought this was interesting. They raised this thing up like it’s looking closer and closer now and then at the same time we have, without trying to think too heavily on it either, is the closeness of an actual war.

0:07:26 – (Steve Gray): And so our military is starting to build up. You know, they got a new. I saw Unmanned jet now f. Whatever. I don’t know. It’s unmanned, it’s fabulous. And it’s all A.I.

0:07:37 – (Zion Vierra): Oh, that’s crazy.

0:07:38 – (Steve Gray): You know, Hitler did that. That’s how he did his big bombings. He made the first rocket that didn’t have to. That flew itself. There was unmanned, huge rocket. Yeah. And he mostly bombed London and cities. Covington. Covington. Where we have friends there, but he was unmanned. And before, you know, they had to fly over with people and then they drop bombs and then they shoot down the plane. People die.

0:08:03 – (Steve Gray): This they shot all the way from Germany. And it’s huge.

0:08:06 – (Zion Vierra): Huge technological advancement. Yeah. Right.

0:08:09 – (Steve Gray): And it was kind of a rocket and unmanned. And now we have AI jets that are supposed to be way out there, and they’re unmanned. There’s nobody in it, and they feed everything they watch, you know, so it’s pretty wild. It’s supposed to be. But I read also, I guess I’ve been doing a lot of reading. I was never a reader when I was in school, but anyway, reading. Where our country militarily is trying to prepare itself for a Chinese attack on Taiwan.

0:08:39 – (Zion Vierra): Oh, interesting.

0:08:40 – (Steve Gray): And they.

0:08:40 – (Zion Vierra): Wow.

0:08:41 – (Steve Gray): The article I read made it feel like. They feel like it’s almost imminent that that day will come. And so this jet was part of the article I think maybe I did read about. But it was so blunt, it was so plain that they say our military is upgrading because of that. Now, there’s other reasons, too, but that was the four. Yeah. And the idea, which is China going to attack us next week, you know, the United States of America. Well, people are getting enough rockets that we can trade them over the seas, but the more likelihood of it is they would try to take over Taiwan and.

0:09:17 – (Steve Gray): And all the AI stuff going on there and the chips and all that that they produce. And then we, as a protector of Taiwan would be drawn into something. Are we going to or not?

0:09:26 – (Zion Vierra): Yeah.

0:09:26 – (Steve Gray): Are we going to. Are we going to stick to our word that if you attack Taiwan, you’ve got to fool with us?

0:09:31 – (Zion Vierra): Right.

0:09:32 – (Steve Gray): Or we’re going to back down and say, oh, well, it’s just an island.

0:09:35 – (Zion Vierra): Yeah. Right. Is it worth getting all.

0:09:36 – (Steve Gray): How many people do they have?

0:09:38 – (Zion Vierra): Yeah.

0:09:38 – (Steve Gray): And. And will I. Will this affect my phone? Yeah.

0:09:42 – (Zion Vierra): Really?

0:09:43 – (Steve Gray): Really?

0:09:43 – (Zion Vierra): My iPhone works still.

0:09:44 – (Steve Gray): Yeah. So I just. Those are just points that lead me now to this next point, which we do hear on the good side, the word revival being used a lot. There’s a campus revival or there’s a youth revival, or there’s a worship revival. Revival, Revival. And you know, I told you that we had a certain publisher call and say, you know, we need you to write and step out, not be so quiet right now. Because they said you’re one of the few living really still alive people that actually experienced a world class revival that the world knew about, not just the local community or my church is in revival or we had a three-day meeting, all the youth showed up and we jumped up and down and really worshiped. And some kids gave their life to Jesus and it’s revival. It wasn’t that. When you think about a revival that lasts three and a half years with five services a week and Time magazine and Newsweek magazine and people, all the networks and all newspapers and people came from all over the world every weekend. You never knew. And there would usually be about people from about, I’m going to estimate 17 states or more, maybe 20 states represented in one weekend.

0:10:51 – (Steve Gray): And then who knows, from around the world just start naming countries. And I didn’t even know they were coming. They fly halfway around the world or more and show up. That’s a lot different than we’re having some good meetings that show promise. They do show promise. I’m really happy for them. And so. And then in 2008, as you know, that’s about when your family got involved, I think 12, 12 ish. And so we were still revivalist then and.

0:11:14 – (Steve Gray): And you. They probably watched it on.

0:11:16 – (Zion Vierra): Yeah, they started around 2010.

0:11:17 – (Steve Gray): Yeah. So it was 2008. It started and it went three years or three and a half years television, three years in 200 countries. And people again came from all over the same thing. It was about that many states, maybe more. Sometimes there’d be 30 states here because we were in 200 countries. And then people from all over the world still talk about it. So that’s what he was referring to. So he’s saying, you know, you led both of those. I preached all of them.

0:11:43 – (Steve Gray): You don’t think of any other preachers. I preached. And that was four services a week in 2008 to then and then and Smith. And then it was five services a week and I preached them all and then traveled and preached too in between. And so that’s not what they’re describing. But that’s okay, it’s good. But that’s what they’re asking about, says somebody that’s lived that many services and they came around the world.

0:12:09 – (Steve Gray): You can’t have people coming around the world and saying oh, that was good. It’s kind of like my church. And then they’re going to tell everybody there’s nothing there and it would end, but they didn’t. They go back and there is something there in that place and it made history. So, anyway, so I’m bringing up the word revival. I’m glad it’s being used. I’m fine with it. But what. What does. What do we mean by revival?

0:12:31 – (Steve Gray): And there’s a lot of good terms, but I like it this way. If we really wanted to sell, what are we trying to revive? If it’s what. What if they say, hey, there was revival this weekend with the. On campus, what got revived.

0:12:44 – (Zion Vierra): Right.

0:12:44 – (Steve Gray): And I think that’s more important than what does it feel like? And because that’s important too.

0:12:49 – (Zion Vierra): What’s the fruit of it?

0:12:50 – (Steve Gray): Yeah, what’s the fruit? I mean, what got revived? And I think the reason that’s a good term is we need to ask ourselves, what are we trying to revive? And for me, we need to revive loving God with all our hearts. So, I mean, okay, it wouldn’t hurt to love our neighbors, ourselves, the second greatest commandment. But right now you have to start with people who know about God. They know God exists. And suddenly, by the power of God and the grace of God and revivaling power of God.

0:13:20 – (Steve Gray): Because it’s got to be a God thing.

0:13:21 – (Zion Vierra): Absolutely.

0:13:22 – (Steve Gray): But it’s got to be a person thing. Like, I want to be revived. I want to become that.

0:13:27 – (Zion Vierra): Yeah.

0:13:27 – (Steve Gray): To where? The love of God, the caring of God, and, you know, wickedness is not just going out and doing bad things. Wickedness is having no caring, no regard for God. I don’t care. I know you say there’s a kingdom of God here. I know there’s a God. I know he created the earth. I know Jesus died for us. But I don’t really. No matter how I act, if I opened your heart and could look inside, it says, I don’t care, or I’m not concerned, or I don’t care. I just. I’m too busy. I’m going to live for myself.

0:13:57 – (Steve Gray): And that would be a revival. If people would start loving God and put him first. Those are the two scriptures. Seek first the kingdom of God, or as Jesus said in Revelation, return to your first love. I don’t know if people ever had it. They did in the Laodicean church, but maybe we didn’t. We’ve never had first love. Maybe we’ve never had first love much, not much. Or at least we had. We’d have to go back 100 years or somewhere way back. Welsh Revival or something, or Azusa Street or whatever, man.

0:14:24 – (Steve Gray): But anyway, that to me settles it where we don’t get into discrepancy of what it sounds like or looks like. But are we coming away with a permanent love for God? First place? Kingdom of God is first. He’s first. And I care that he’s first.

0:14:42 – (Zion Vierra): Yeah.

0:14:42 – (Steve Gray): So what are we reviving, really? Just God is reviving himself in us by answering that call. So it is a power because we’re answering. I want to love God first. I want to put him first. I need to be revived. I don’t have a first love Jesus in me. And so then, then the two connect. And now all of a sudden you have this, what we experience. You have an explosion of both sides at the same time. An explosion of hunger and desperation and heart matched with an explosion of God saying, I’m going to answer that. I’m going to manifest myself. I’m going to even pour out a greater grace. It’s going to be easier than ever to make a commitment because I’m going to be right there in your face or right there at your side, or you’re going to walk into a building and it’s just.

0:15:25 – (Steve Gray): Even if you don’t see, see, see anything, it’s like a haze of God, a presence of God or, or the, the weightiness of God is. The glory of God is described as weight. You know, like. And so people would come in and like, ah, what is this? What is this? And then when the music starts and that, it just. And it just changes you. Yeah, I don’t think we’re there yet with that weightiness, but some people might be in some services experiencing that and the church. But you and I have talked about before, it’s great on college campuses. It’s great if it’s at the high school.

0:15:57 – (Steve Gray): It’s great if it’s at a park or an outdoor arena. But it needs to be in the church.

0:16:01 – (Zion Vierra): In the church.

0:16:02 – (Steve Gray): Yeah. He called it his church. And he called it his house. Even the temple of God, he called it my house. As much corruption or people think that God didn’t like Jews back then. Yeah, that’s not true. But he called the temple. That was corrupt. It was corrupt. My house should be a house of prayer. He called it my house. And then he calls my church. Gates of hell cannot prevail against my church. That church.

0:16:28 – (Steve Gray): So God cares about the church, and that’s where the action really needs to be. And church is Still a part of our country and, and lives of millions. And if we get it the. Then it’s going to affect lives of millions faster than having to spend thousands or maybe a million dollars to have. Go to an arena and set up, set up a revival event, LED screens and, and do all that and spend all that money over here when we already got a church over here that’s got all the lights and sound and everything ready to go, but they don’t have the heart for it.

0:16:57 – (Steve Gray): So anyway, that’s, that’s my revival speech. Now I want to talk about something that is not ever. I don’t know how much I’ve heard of this, but we’re talking about what needs to be revived. This kind of needs to be revived in us. And that’s a concept, a belief, a faith belief that we can put faith to. Okay, So I want to talk about, first of all, the general word atonement. And when you talk about the atonement, almost all the Bible schools and all the churches, they talk about atonement.

0:17:25 – (Steve Gray): Where Jesus died as a sacrifice. He atoned for. For our sins on the cross. Right, okay, no argument there.

0:17:34 – (Zion Vierra): No, yeah, I’ll buy that.

0:17:34 – (Steve Gray): Okay. But here’s where I think my theology is going to help some people. And maybe you’ll enjoy this too. Is. Okay, almost 100% is that is the stopping point of atonement in most people’s minds, doctrines, churches and experiences. He atoned for my sins on the cross. The atonement on the cross. Very true. But we have two kinds. We have atonement that continues. So that atonement was God atoning for our sins.

0:18:04 – (Steve Gray): Well, Jesus atoning for our sins and stepping into our place as a human, basically because he had to die as a human, even though he’s God and he died on this side and then what happened? Then he ascended into heaven. Now, my point is very simple. My point is we have something to apply our faith to because the atonement didn’t stop at the cross. Atonement is still going on. And so I brought that up to you before we started. Like, and get this, it says, so we do have.

0:18:35 – (Steve Gray): And I’ve been looking in Hebrews a lot about faith, you know, and it says, but we do have now a high priest who has gone up and he is now the high priest. We don’t have need for the human ones anymore. After the order of Melchizedek, he’s a high priest after the line of Judah, not Levi and not Aaron. So it’s a whole other line. And we do have a high priest who has ascended into heaven. We have this scripture here, God, and it says, let us hold firmly to our faith because we have a high priest who has ascended into heaven.

0:19:07 – (Steve Gray): Now, I want to switch that. Well, it says. I guess I should keep saying. And it says that he serves in the sanctuary. He’s serving right now. The high priest, he sat down at the right hand of God. It sounds like if he sat down now, he’s not doing anything. But he sat down at the right hand of God and he serves in the sanctuary. The true. I’m reading, of course, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by mere human being.

0:19:30 – (Steve Gray): So it’s. We have an active. He says another scripture says we have a. The priest. I put it my word. That is perfect for us. He’s perfect for us now. So he is atoning. Now. He doesn’t need to atone for sin like he did because he did it. But that was down here. But now he’s up there. And I’m thinking of what would happen if we could keep. If we could build our faith. Oh, the atonement is still going on.

0:19:56 – (Steve Gray): He’s serving before the sanctuary, in the sanctuary on our behalf. So you and I talked about it, and you actually. You actually found the scripture in Romans. So why don’t you talk about that scripture you found? Yeah. So Romans 8 and what that maybe means to you.

0:20:08 – (Zion Vierra): Yeah. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus, who died more than that, who was raised to life, is at the right hand of God, also interceding for us. But the NLT version is kind of what I remembered growing up reading. Oh, I had it here. One second. Gotta love my phone. Okay. Yeah. So this is. That ends on this one. And he is sitting at the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.

0:20:34 – (Zion Vierra): So that kind of. This is. Maybe it’s just me or maybe someone else can relate to this, but I always took that as like a good cop, bad cop. Like Jesus is the good cop, pleading on our behalf that God would spare us or have.

0:20:45 – (Steve Gray): We’re so bad.

0:20:45 – (Zion Vierra): Yeah. Because I’m such a sinner and I have to have Jesus constantly interceding for me. And just to have that shift of.

0:20:51 – (Steve Gray): That.

0:20:51 – (Zion Vierra): That’s not what’s happening. That’s not a reality of. Of. Of the kingdom. So, yeah, I was.

0:20:57 – (Steve Gray): I prayed the other day. And so I started applying. As this kind of revelation came to me, I started applying. My faith is speaking in my prayers. To the high priest, Jesus, and recognizing him as the high priest that I needed. And I have a high priest, as this one says, interceding for us, praying for us, standing for us now. So though he’s not atoning on the cross like he did, he’s still atoning for his people. He’s atoning for Israel. I mean, he’s pleading, he’s praying, he’s speaking.

0:21:25 – (Steve Gray): So I was praying for a person at the time, and I brought this into it. And I, and I said, just high priest. You know, just say the word. You’re standing. You’re before the Lord, right. You’re before God right now. God the Father, right now. If you would just speak the word as the high priest, it will be done. Because I have, I do have a high priest. And then the scripture I almost mentioned a little bit ago, a lot of people know this. When you remember probably growing up to the way most people were, is since we, Since Jesus has ascended on high, let us come boldly to the throne of grace. There’s a lot of other words they use, but that’s a good one.

0:22:01 – (Steve Gray): So come boldly to the throne of grace because he knows our situation. He was sent, he was tempted, just like we are. And find there come by faith, boldly before the throne of grace. Okay, so I’ve known that forever. Just long years, years, years. But I never put it together like I’m putting together now is right before that it’s saying we have a great high priest. So now because you have a high priest, it doesn’t mean so much to us.

0:22:28 – (Steve Gray): Maybe, maybe if I was Catholic, the word priest, you know, in Protestant we don’t have priests.

0:22:34 – (Zion Vierra): Right.

0:22:35 – (Steve Gray): And. But it meant a lot to the Jewish believers of the time because it says you had a high priest, but those priests die. Yeah, but now you have a high priest that lives forever. Well, if you had seen a high priest in action, like at prayer or it’s a. Sacrifices or all the stuff that high priest. And by the way, the high priest went into the holy of holies once a year and they knew that and they went in and interceded for them.

0:22:57 – (Steve Gray): Well, then if I was Jewish and had those roots, which unfortunately I have enough now, but I didn’t before when they say you have such a great. You have a high priest now. Yeah. That doesn’t die.

0:23:08 – (Zion Vierra): Right.

0:23:08 – (Steve Gray): That atoned for your sins. Yeah, but he’s still atoning. Yeah. The action of atoning, interceding, doing something for you, just like he did something before in human, in humanity. He’s doing things for you now. And so if I was Jewish and had those roots, I go, ah, I know what that’s like. I saw that in the temple, you know, I know what it is to.

0:23:26 – (Zion Vierra): Have a high priest feel such an advantage, probably.

0:23:28 – (Steve Gray): Yeah.

0:23:29 – (Zion Vierra): Like I. Yeah, yeah. An overcomer more than a conqueror.

0:23:32 – (Steve Gray): Yeah.

0:23:32 – (Zion Vierra): That starts to come to life out of that.

0:23:33 – (Steve Gray): And all of a sudden. But your, your attitude was good. Jesus is the good cop.

0:23:37 – (Zion Vierra): The good cop.

0:23:38 – (Steve Gray): Yeah, yeah. But we don’t have. But God’s not a bad cop.

0:23:40 – (Zion Vierra): Exactly.

0:23:41 – (Steve Gray): But. But he still. So when he. When he died on the cross, it says the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom, meaning that the holy of holy was just open now where before it was just for the high priest, now it’s open to all of us, meaning we can go to the throne now, boldly to the. To the throne. And so as, as that way is opened then we now know that the way is open now that we can apply our faith to the high priest who is. Now they’re going in before us.

0:24:09 – (Steve Gray): And. And so that’s the human side. It was open now the veil has been torn. That regular folks, not the high priest only. But we do have a high priest. Yeah, we’re not the high priest.

0:24:21 – (Zion Vierra): Right.

0:24:22 – (Steve Gray): The boldness comes because I have a high priest that’s there too. And now I get. So I just wanted to bring that up that it’s a great theology and I think a lot could be said on the continuing atonement. And when I thought about that, you know, we put our faith in what Jesus did on the cross backwards. That’s good.

0:24:42 – (Zion Vierra): Yeah.

0:24:43 – (Steve Gray): But what can we do today? And forward that we do have a high priest who’s going to come back. But now we have a high priest there now and he’s active. I, I think sitting down gives the wrong idea because he’s serving, but how he reserves is not. That’s just comical to even try to figure out is he standing or sitting, you know, but it does say in your version, said that too, that he is pleading on our behalf, stepping in on our behalf. What do you do on the cross? Stepped in on our behalf. What is he doing right this minute today?

0:25:16 – (Steve Gray): Stepping in on our behalf. But you need to. And, but those words are in the. What we call the faith chapters of the Book of Hebrews. So he’s saying, have faith. Have faith. You do have a high priest. Since we have this high priest. Since we have a high priest, you get to go boldly.

0:25:34 – (Zion Vierra): Right.

0:25:35 – (Steve Gray): So that gives me something to say. Okay, so back to revival. And more faith gives more life. What I can put my faith to, what is, what would. What would be a sign of revival today. People recognizing Jesus as our high priest, as opposed to a dead savior on the cross. Still having him on the cross. We celebrate Easter, the cross, and his death, but we don’t have. We don’t have a celebration. I don’t think, like, we should. Of just him being raised from the dead, rising from the dead. And now he’s actively atoning, pleading, working, interceding for us right now.

0:26:12 – (Steve Gray): Now, if everybody could do that. And we put our faith together into the. It’s just putting your faith back in Jesus. But it gives me a visual. He’s a high priest, active.

0:26:21 – (Zion Vierra): I really like. I learned from you guys that intercession and it talks. Romans talks about interceding is bridging the gap.

0:26:27 – (Steve Gray): Yes.

0:26:27 – (Zion Vierra): So like a visual just to really dumb it down, just to simplify it, is Jesus is bridging the gap to the throne room Right. As high priest right now. That way I can walk across this bridge of intercession, boldly approach the right hand of God with Jesus.

0:26:40 – (Steve Gray): Yeah.

0:26:43 – (Zion Vierra): To get what I need to get more even.

0:26:44 – (Steve Gray): Just our discussion here. Build your faith next time you pray. And it’s really something important. You’ll try to bridge that. And you won’t go boldly to the throne of grace. Like, hey, man, help me. But I know I’m a rat. But I get to come. I know. It’s just. It’s just I recognize I get to do this because of who you are, not because of me or anything I’ve done, which goes right back to the reflection of the cross, of course, that we put our faith in. I can’t do this myself. I can’t earn salvation. Salvation.

0:27:13 – (Steve Gray): But we have him active. And then, in my opinion, it pretty much shuts off at that. We look at the cross. That’s our atonement. And we don’t realize atoning for us is still going on, which to me is if we could turn to that love God with all our hearts, put him first. Give him the first love. But let’s give him the title that Hebrew gives him. High priest. Not just savior, not just Lord, but he is a high priest. Atoning.

0:27:36 – (Zion Vierra): That’s great.

0:27:37 – (Steve Gray): Continuing to atone. And not necessarily for our sins, but he could do that for somebody, a new believer or whatever, but. But for our lives. Interceding, pleading, good things. Good things for us before the throne of God.

0:27:48 – (Zion Vierra): Yeah.

0:27:49 – (Steve Gray): And he’s still. You have it absolutely right. He’s still bridging the gap that he bridged from sin to salvation. Now he’s bridging it from the salvation we have to recognizing the high priest is putting the kingdom of God into action in this life.

0:28:05 – (Zion Vierra): That’s so good.

0:28:06 – (Steve Gray): Does that build your faith? More faith? Yeah. More faith builds more life. And then. And then I got to speak on revival. I like being a voice for revival as one who’s been in the trenches and preached that many sermons and traveled the world as a voice of revival. And, you know, I don’t want to sound egotistical about it, anything. I just want to say, you know, we need people who have experiences and then we have new experiences. Maybe the same might be different, but it’s good to have those. So I’m glad today broadcast. Got to get all those things done.

0:28:35 – (Zion Vierra): That was really good.

0:28:36 – (Steve Gray): Go to https://stevegrayministries.com to learn and find out more. Tell your friends about this. I love everybody. Everybody’s doing good. But there are certain corners that you catch that you hear other things that you don’t hear everywhere else. And we’re not treating you like a loser. We’re not talking to you like, I know you’re hurting. I know you’re a loser, and I know you hate yourself, but so let me try to make you feel better.

0:29:02 – (Zion Vierra): Yeah, right.

0:29:02 – (Steve Gray): Let me make you feel better about who you are. We’re moving forward to a greater level of faith, prosperity, blessings, healing, more faith and more life. So I hope you’ll tell your friends and continue to join us again next week. Till next week. Bye-Bye.