PREACHED ON MARCH 14th 2021:
PASTOR ANTONIO RUSSO

THE AWAKENING OF THE LAST TIMES (Part I)

We are waiting for the second breath of the Holy Spirit throughout the earth. What we will experience will be a glorious awakening.

We don't know what will happen in the latest times. This does not concern a single city, a single nation, but the whole world. The awakening of the last cycle will be something glorious and special which should not be missed.

The church will be awakened to fulfill the last cycle, the cycle for the FULFILLMENT of all things. What is the purpose of awakening? It is not simply clapping, singing or dancing, but it is much more than that.

What for man can be awakening is not awakening for God. What does it mean to be awakened?
There are various awakenings in history:
- Pensacola (Florida), "Awakening of repentance"
-Toronto (Canada), "Awakening of refrigero"

How is it seen that a person is awakened? Because he allowed the Holy Spirit to do a work within himself.
What does the word "awakening" mean? Go from death to life.

The revival is what the church had before, but it no longer has now.

But why has it changed now? Not because God has changed, but because the church has changed.
God wants to bring it to the original model.
The church is a powerful reality on earth.

In the church there have to be transformations of hearts, thousands of conversions and miracles, but they don't have to be events, but something that always happens.

Atti 3:19-20

¹⁹ Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, ²⁰ and that he may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you—even Jesus.

Before the rapture of the church and the return of Jesus, there will be the restoration of all things.
First there is the restoration, then there will be the rapture and then the second coming.

The restoration speaks to us of reform, of transformation, of a reform in all senses in our life, in our lifestyle, especially in the church.

There will be a return to the genuineness of the gospel, of the Kingdom, of God's will.
When the restoration arrives there is a reform in all things and there is a cry of the remnant. What is the cry of the remnant?

Psalm 85: 6
"Won't you give us life again, so that your people may rejoice in you?"

"Reviving" means bringing the church back to where it was before and for this reason there must be an awakening.

Abacuc 3:2
Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord.Repeat them in our day,in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.

The church is a work of God.
You have to make your work live over the years; today there are dead works, dry works.

When the presence of God goes away from a person, it means that the Spirit of God has gone away from him; He doesn't go away for anything but when the truth is compromised.

The truth frees you from compromise and opens your eyes.

What is awakening? Bringing the church back to the life it lost today, which it no longer has today.
What has the church lost? He has lost something valuable.

It is not an option you can do without. The church has lost the presence of God and the church must return to the presence of him.
How is God's presence lost? It gets lost with compromise.

When you live in sin, in iniquity, in compromise.
When a person is unrelated to God he is spiritually dead and will not be kidnapped unless he repents and repents.
The relationship with God must not be neglected.

Ephesians 5:14
This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper,rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

God is raising up the FOREQUARTERS of Awakening who will awaken the Remnant:

Haggai 1:14
So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the Lord Almighty, their God,

Where there is the presence of God there is the house of God.

Where there is no presence of him there is the house of men.

God does not look at how we speak, but he looks at the fruit that exists in people's lives.

There is an urgent need in the church for a stir. The difference between awakening and rebirth.

A rebirth comes from above. An awakening comes from within.

Personal awakening is a daily choice, it is when you decide not to be dry and conformed but to be transformed to bring God's work to completion.

Awakening changes life because it comes from within. Shedding is one thing, awakening is one thing. The shedding is a divine initiative.

Awakening is one's own desire. Awakening starts from the heart because the heart is the abode of the Holy Spirit.

Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed meto proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisonersand recovery of sight for theblind, to set the oppressed free".

God lives in a purified, healed and liberated heart.

God does not live in a bitter, wounded and offended heart.

So today his Presence wants to heal everyone's heart, as written in Luke 4:18.

Why does Awakening start from the heart? Because your heart is his home.

A free, healed heart brings liberation and healing primarily to one's family, and so on.

God first works inside, and then he sees outside.