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I often call this talk the Kairos moment. Kairos is a Greek word for time, really meaning an opportune time or a special season. Thank You.

Some pretty clever imagery there as well, if I may say so. So, back in what year was this? Back in 2020, J.K. Rowling became pretty vocal about the whole trans issue and put out a tweet more or less saying, look, if sex isn’t real — I’ll read it actually: “If sex isn’t real, there is no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth.” Now, to that comment, she received this reply from Emma Watson.

Of course, most of you will know that Emma Watson was made famous by starring in the Harry Potter movies that were written by J.K. Rowling: “Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are.” Sharper than a serpent’s tooth is an ungrateful child.

Now, what you see with this exchange is not just an argument on Twitter, but you actually see a revolutionary shift in worldviews here. So, notice what J.K. Rowling says: “If sex isn’t real, reality, there’s no such same-sex attraction.” If sex isn’t real, she goes on, “It isn’t hate to speak the truth.”

So, there you have a kind of objective, objectivist philosophy of reality — that there is a reality out there. We don’t create it, and to speak the truth is to capture this objective reality which exists independently of what we might think. What does Emma Watson reply with? “Trans people are who they say they are.”

That’s a rather inverted view of reality. You see, for J.K. Rowling, when we say something that is true, it is true not because we say it; it is true because there is an objective reality. For Emma Watson, something becomes true, something becomes real, because we say it.

Now, it seems to me there’s only one Person in the universe or in existence who by virtue of saying something, it becomes real, and that is God. And so, in many ways, what has happened, in many ways it really is like the Apostle Paul says in Romans chapter 1, we sort of set aside a knowledge of God and we start worshipping the creation as though it is God. And in this instance, a part of the modern subjectivist and trans movement is that we essentially take on the divine attribute of being able to call reality into existence ourselves, and that is part of the whole trans movement, and it’s a beautiful example of a profound cultural worldview shift that has taken place.

And I suppose the question is how did we get here culturally? That is a very, very long story, and it does involve things like the introduction of the contraceptive pill, which changed our way of thinking about sex and sexuality, changed the way men and women relate to one another. It has a lot to do with the sexual revolution. It has a lot to do with medical technology allowing people to do all sorts of operations on themselves to change their bodies. It’s a very long story as to how we got to the position where if someone says, “I’m a man trapped in a woman’s body,” that strikes us as an intelligible thing that they’re saying, whereas a hundred years ago, someone would not have had a clue what they were talking about. Or the proposition, “A man should be allowed to marry a man.”

Today, that sounds quite intelligible to us. We understand what that means and why a man would want to marry a man, because we’ve redefined marriage as simply an emotional connection between people, whereas a hundred years ago, marriage was understood as a relationship within which children are made. And so a hundred years ago, if you said, “Should a man be allowed to marry a man?” their first thought would probably not have been, “No, that’s immoral.” Their first thought would have been, “Why would a man want to marry a man? You can’t make a baby with a man. It doesn’t make sense.” They would have thought it was just an illogical proposition.

There’s so much more, but I really can’t go into it, but there has been a profound cultural shift, and so the question is, what does the future hold? And I’ve always called myself a pessimistic optimist, and by that, I mean that like so often in our lives as individuals, we can come around and do the right thing and fall at the mercy of God. But very often, given our stubborn human nature, it’s only when things become so bad, when we find ourselves eating with the pigs and envying what they’ve got — it’s at that moment that we decide it’s time to come home. And I think that it’s the same with society and civilisations.

And one of the core doctrines of Scripture is that there is a creational order, there is an objective creational order that we all are supposed to live in accordance to. And one of the promises in Scripture is that if you live in accordance with the creational order, if you live in accordance with the will of God, you will live long.

Now, of course, what that means is that generally speaking, life is going to go a lot better for you individually and as a society if you keep God’s commandments, and also, I would say, if you think the way God would have us think about who we are and who He is as revealed in Scripture. And if that is the case, if the truths of Scripture about who we are as human beings, how we ought to relate to one another — if they are true and they are embedded in the creational order, then what that means is that as individuals and as a society, as a civilisation, if you like, the further we depart from those truths, the more inhuman our society will become. Because again, the moral truths that God has revealed to us are deeply embedded in the creational order, and we are part of that creational order.

And so, when we start to live in such a way that what God says is true isn’t true, things will start to go wrong with us. We start, in a way, living against our nature, our creational nature. We, in a sense, wage a war with creation. And in many ways, what the sexual revolution and so much of the twentieth century has been is a war waged against God’s creational order. And if that happens, things cannot but over time become really bad, or to use a — to sound trendy and pretentious, I’ll use a Marxist term — immiserisation.

Immiserisation is a progressive process of developing misery, and certainly what I think we can say we are seeing is something like this. It is a kind of degradation and dehumanisation of people because we are waging war on God’s creational order — whether that is in the LGBTQ ideology, certain Marxist premises about work, or various expressions of feminism. We are waging a war against God’s good created order.

What I think is that not everyone, but a lot of people, will start to notice that there are some really evil things happening. What I have noticed over the last five years — and I remember this happening during COVID, and some of you would be the same — is that I had non-Christians contact me privately. They would say, “Hey Shavura, I am not religious, but I have started reading the Bible because I am looking around at what is going on in the world and I just cannot make sense of this. There is something really dark going on.” They did not have the vocabulary to express that there is a spiritual battle going on. Therapeutic terms or secular moral terms like “rights” just did not really capture what they were describing, which was evil.

It is like if you were to talk about the Holocaust and say, “The rights of Jews were badly violated in the Holocaust.” You think to yourself, yes, that is true, but it does not capture the evil of what happened. There is something much deeper, much darker, that cannot be captured by secular moral language. It is something so transcendent. That is what people have been noticing — whether it was about some of the COVID responses, the trans movement, the very militant rainbow movement. There is something really strange going on, and it has caused many people to turn to God, to turn to Scripture, to turn to people and ask questions.

What I think is going on is that culturally we are at that point where we have so strayed, and so waged a war against creation, that we are starting to see the evil effects of it in a way that is impossible to argue away. Particularly when we are talking about kids taking puberty blockers, the extreme sexualisation of children, and the growing authoritarianism in the West. I think what we are seeing is a lot of people asking, “Where did we go wrong? What has gone wrong? How can we fix this?” And I think there are signs of it.

You are seeing things like Ayaan Hirsi Ali — a former atheist who was tight with Richard Dawkins and others — now profess what from what I can tell is a deep, sincere Christianity. Interestingly, her husband, who used to be an atheist, Niall Ferguson, is professing Christianity as well. Why? Because certainly for Ayaan Hirsi Ali, she sees that something has gone deeply wrong with civilisation, and the only light she can see that might save her is Jesus.

Jordan Peterson is interesting. I am not going to claim he is a Christian — I do not believe he is — but he is clearly fascinated with Christianity. He gives lectures on the Bible. I am not going to say they are orthodox — maybe parts are, I am sure a lot are not — but he is literally leading millions of people to start reading the Bible. I could probably name five guys right now who have come to me and said, “I became a Christian through Jordan Peterson. He was my gateway drug to church, and now I do not really believe what Peterson believed about the Bible, but he was absolutely instrumental. Something is happening.”

Joe Rogan, recently — the biggest podcaster in the world, I believe — hosted a Christian apologist. That conversation probably now has tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of views. Joe Rogan went from openly mocking Christianity on his podcast — making fun of Christians, mocking Jesus, the lot — to a point now where he has a respect for Jesus. I remember one interesting episode where he said, “Well, you know, the atheist evolutionists say nothing exploded and turned into this,” and then he said, “You know something? I am trusting in Jesus. If that is the alternative, I am with Jesus.” He never would have said that three years ago. Things are happening, ladies and gentlemen.

It seems that young men are finding religion and Christianity again. Among Gen Z and young people, there is a revival in the pro-life movement. I would encourage you all to follow someone like Joanna Howe. There is an Australian group called Bird Flip — it is a provocative name, but it is a very good group, generally spearheaded by women, standing against the abortion industry. Some of the women in it have themselves had several abortions, so they know of what they speak.

There is something going on culturally, and people are noticing it. Just recently, there was a debate on the extent to which churchgoing was increasing in England, or at least that its decline was levelling off. There really is something happening.

There are other signs of pushback against the last fifty years of war on creation and war on life. The overturning of Roe v. Wade was huge. It is probably difficult to explain to those eighteen and under, but I think I speak for pretty much everyone from Gen X and the Boomer generation when I say that none of us thought it would be overturned in our lifetime. Or if it ever was, it would be in fifty years’ time. It was so embedded in secular American culture. It really was a miracle. There was something miraculous about how fast that law was overturned. It was incredible, and I think it has marked a cultural moment in America.

Other things — people are waking up to the trans ideology.

I cannot go into these in great depth, but people are waking up to it all. I am quoting and showing secular papers here that transgender ideology in England is now being exposed as quite harmful — legitimately harmful. The secular paper Quillette has come out against drag queen story time. Again, what is going on? These are papers run by secular humanists who really have no time for any sort of personal Christianity at all, and yet at the same time they are looking at culture and saying something is deeply wrong. Something is deeply wrong. And in all of that, a lot of people are starting to say, “Well, where did we go wrong?” A lot of people are now turning to Christianity, to the Bible, and to Jesus.

I am not saying that we are in a revival yet, but what I am saying is something is stirring. Things now are not what they were ten years ago. Things have changed. And when I look at people’s testimonies, the general testimony is something like, “Things have gotten so weird and so bad we have got to do — we have got to start doing — something new.” And that is, of course, where Christians, where followers of Jesus, come in, because the question really is: what is our role in all of this?

If you have not bought and read this book, I would encourage everyone here to buy and read this book. This is one of the best books I read in 2020. It is called Live Not By Lies. It is an incredible, inspiring book by Rod Dreher and, in all honesty, it is an incredible book. I would absolutely encourage you all to buy it and read it.

I know some of you who have done the download have done just that, and that is a beautiful thing. I am going to read a sort of lengthy passage from it because I think he really hits the nail on the head. He is speaking to us, and to what we need to do in this cultural moment to be agents of cultural change — to be agents of revival.

Here we go:

“A time of painful testing, even persecution, is coming. Lukewarm or shallow Christians will not come through with their faith intact. Christians today must dig deep into the Bible and church tradition and teach themselves how and why today’s post-Christian world, with its self-centredness, its quest for happiness, and its rejection of sacred order and transcendent values, is a rival religion to authentic Christianity.

“We should also see how many of the world’s values have been absorbed into Christian life and practice. Then we must judge how the ways of the world and its demands conflict with what Christ requires of His disciples. Are we mere admirers of Jesus, or are we followers? How will we know? We will know when we act or fail to act as Christians when to be faithful costs us something.

“It may be a small thing at first — a place on a sports team because we will not play on Sunday mornings, or the respect of our peers when we will not march in a parade for a political cause. But the demands on us will grow greater, and the consequences for failing to submit to the world’s demands will grow more severe.

“We serve a God who created all things for a purpose. He has shown us in the Bible, especially the Gospels, who we are and how we are to live — to be in harmony with the sacred order He created. He does not want admirers; He wants followers. As Jesus Christ, the second Person of the Holy Trinity, God suffered with humanity to redeem humanity.

“He calls us to share in His passion for our sake and the sake of the world. He promises us nothing but the cross — not happiness but the joy of blessedness, not material wealth but the richness of spirit, not sexual freedom as erotic abandon but sexual freedom within loving, mutually sacrificial commitment, not power but love, not self-sovereignty but obedience. This is the uncompromising rival religion that the post-Christian world will not long tolerate.

“If you are not rock solid in your commitment to traditional Christianity, then the world will break you. But if you are, then this is the solid rock upon which that world will be broken. And if those solid rocks are joined together, they will form a wall of solidarity that is very hard for the enemy to breach.” End quote.

I think we need to put our own times in the context of the times of the first Christians. We like to say we have entered into a post-Christian age. I prefer to say we have entered into a neo-pagan age, because the default setting for human beings who cast off a correct knowledge of God is not atheism, it is not nothingness. It is the worship of creation. It is paganism, as Paul says in Romans chapter one.

And we are entering into a neo-pagan age where so much of how we think today and the rituals we engage in are very similar to the pagan ways of living that Christians emerged in during the first century. And so we should take some comfort from the fact that the earliest Christians were here before us. And what can they teach us?

Well, there is a great quote from Julian the Apostate, the last pagan emperor, and he is talking about the Christians. He said, “When it came about that the poor were neglected and overlooked by the pagan priests, then I think the impious Galileans — the Christians — observed this fact and devoted themselves to philanthropy.

“They support not only their poor but ours as well. All men see that our people lack aid from us. It is their benevolence to strangers, their care for the graves of the dead, and the pretended holiness of their lives that have done most to increase atheism.”

By “atheism” he actually means Christianity. He actually means Christianity.

And so what did the first Christians do in order to be an effective destroyer of ancient paganism? They were salt and light. They were salt and light, and that is the testimony of the early church and its harshest persecutors. And I think what is often overlooked when we read Matthew chapter five is that there is a very exciting promise there.

Let us read it:

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
“You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.”

Pay close attention here. In the same way, let your light shine before men so that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in Heaven. Do we really emphasise that last part enough? Let your light shine so that people will see our good deeds and give praise to our Father in Heaven. In other words, when we live like salt and light, Jesus promises that there will be some — not everyone, but some, even many — who will see us, and that will be part of a change in their lives, resulting in them giving praise to God.

And so I think that in many ways that answers the question, what are we as Christians to do? In many ways we are to do what the early Christians did in a very similar circumstance, and what Christ Himself encourages us to do — and that is to figure out how to be salt and light in our own cultural context.

Christians need to think very hard and very creatively. What are the problems the world is facing today that Christians and churches are uniquely able to speak into? An obvious one would be loneliness. Other obvious ones would be post-abortion syndrome among women, and you can think of a whole range of others that Christians, far more than the government, can speak into and be agents of salt and light. That is precisely what the early church did.

But there is a lot more than that. What I am suggesting, ladies and gentlemen, is that there are these periods in history that come along, and what you learn is that it was a period ripe for cultural change to happen. It happened in the eighteenth century with William Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect. The same thing happened in America. It certainly happened in the nineteen-sixties — for the worse.

There was this moment in culture where a whole bunch of things were coming together, and culture could have gone one way or the other. I think we are at a kind of cultural kairos moment right now where people are looking for answers because a whole bunch of things have been happening. A whole series of processes have been taking place. They are historically quite unique, and people are trying to understand what is going on. They are looking for answers.

And here is the thing, ladies and gentlemen: it would be nice if it were only us Christians offering answers — but it is not just us. You have other secular ideologies offering answers. Wokeism is offering an answer. Islam is offering answers. Various forms of eastern mysticism are offering answers. And so we Christians need to be living lives such that the answers we give are backed up by the evidence of lives well-lived, institutions well organised.

Again, we need to learn from the early church. No one can control culture, but we can influence it at certain moments. The proof has been that in the past, certain movements — as Mark said earlier — demonstrate that when culture changes, it is very often the result of a small group of highly organised, highly convicted people.

So the first long march through the institutions in modern history might have been the Clapham Sect in England, where a group of wealthy elites — educated too — got together and said, “Right, how are we going to change England? How are we going to abolish slavery? How are we going to bring about better laws? How are we going to improve people’s morals? How are we going to make politics less corrupt?” And they literally conspired with one another.

They produced propaganda, and they had a huge impact not just on the late eighteenth century but all through the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, its satanic opposite happened in the mid-twentieth century when a group of essentially antichrists — some of whom we have named — also decided, “How can we overturn everything?” And again, it is always done by minorities of people.

So we should not think in terms of how we are going to convert the whole of Australia to bring about cultural change. That would, of course, be a beautiful thing, but you do not need that to bring about cultural change. You just need the right people in the right places.

And at this point, I would say this is a great reason to do the Lachlan Macquarie Institute, the Lachlan Macquarie Internship — which you can speak to me or to Josh about — which is a three-month program for people who want to be agents of cultural change. There are some graduates of that program here.

I would suggest that everyone here who has children or grandchildren who are around the age of eighteen to twenty-five encourage them to do the Download program. And if you have the money to pay for it for them — if that will sweeten the deal — then I think it will be one of the best investments you will ever make in your children’s lives, if you could pay for them to do that one-week program where they will be with about one hundred other young people on fire for the Lord. It is a great place to meet a husband or a wife, by the way. They will be on fire for the Lord, getting really solid teaching — really solid teaching — from some pretty solid people.

So as Christians — how then should we live? We as Christians, as Mark was emphasising, have sort of got the message, but we need to be living the message as well. We need to embody it, just as the early Christians did.

Notice that Julian the Apostate did not say anything about their doctrines; he spoke about their lives. We need to be praying for revival. I am almost at the point where, just like the ancient Roman Cato, every time he finished a speech in the Senate — whether it was about the budget, whether it was about the sewers in Rome, whether it was about the next religious festival coming up — he always ended it the same way: Carthago delenda est — Carthage must be destroyed. Every speech. People must have got sick of it.

I am getting to the point where I am saying that every prayer we end — it does not matter what it is about — should begin or end with, “God, bring revival to Australia. Lord, bring revival to Australia.”

The first thing is that we as Christians should not be compromising our own teachings and should not be embarrassed about Scripture. That is so important, and Mark has spoken to us very eloquently about the sad fact that there are a lot of Christians out there who tailor their message to the world in such a way that no one among the popular, educated elite — the ABC, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age classes — will think too badly of them.

That is a recipe for the death of the Church, not the revival of the Church, because in that instance the culture is leading the way, and the kind of culture that is leading the way is a culture that is instinctively anti-Christ. Our own institutions — our churches — need to be animated by love. We need to, in our institutional arrangements, be living up to our message, and there is nothing more beautiful than when people who are ostracised from the rest of the world come into churches and immediately feel the warmth of Christian love.

It is a beautiful thing to behold, and it changes lives. Many of us here have seen people’s lives being brought back from the brink, and it is a miracle to behold when it happens. We need to have integrity in our own institutions. We ourselves need to avoid excessive materialism, not being like the world. If you were to ask me what the most corrupting influence on Western civilisation has been, it is prosperity. It is our success, and I think that is biblical.

I think certainly the ancient historians taught that as well. Western civilisation is in many ways a victim of its own success, and so we as Christians need to avoid the hyper-materialism that has come to so mark Western civilisation. We need to avoid — I mean, there are a whole bunch of addictions going around now — and one of the great things that can set us apart as Christians is not being addicted to our phones.

We underestimate — it is easy to underestimate — the impact that this is going to have culturally: people being addicted to their phones, literally changing their brains and stopping them from being able to think properly. It is creating a sub-literate culture. One of the great things that Christians can do to set themselves apart in this culture, just like the ancient Christians did not participate in the Roman cult, is that we are not enslaved to our phones and social media. I want to say also that we need to be reading deeply and regularly.

Again, if Christians are the great readers in society — I am talking about reading books — that is something that will make us stand apart so much in an increasingly ignorant and sub-literate Western civilisation. We need to be the custodians of deep reading and deep thinking so that when people at your workplace or in your group want to know the answer to a deep question, everyone knows you are the person to go to. And that is quite a burden.

I call it the weight of gravitas, the weight of gravity, because they will see you as the person with gravity, and you can only get that through regularly reading. I talk about that a lot, actually. And this is a very important one.

Pornography is one of the greatest scourges on Western civilisation today, and let me tell you right now, if you want to effect a cultural revolution in the West that shows Christians to be radically different from other people, it will happen if we are the ones that everyone knows are not addicted to pornography. If our men are the men that women know they can go to, to be in a relationship with a man who is not addicted to porn, that in itself will probably bring about a revival. And of course this is absolutely something that afflicts women as well, but boy, if men could take — if Christian men could take — the lead in the anti-porn culture, I am telling you right now, women would follow you.

Women would follow you. And for the men here, what pornography does is it robs you of your birthright. And what birthright am I talking about? Your birthright to be the moral authority in the family that you will create. It robs you of that because you cannot feel like a moral authority over your wife, over your children, over your daughters, when at the same time you know you are addicted to porn. And again, your right to be the moral authority of your household — that is your right by virtue of being a man — and porn takes that from you. And is that not something that Satan would just love to do? To take away that sense of moral authority that you have, which will not just corrode that part of your life but will go on to corrode every part of your life.

Porn is one of the most insidious social forces in human history, and I am so glad that I was born in nineteen seventy-eight and not in nineteen ninety-eight because when you were born in nineteen seventy-eight or earlier, at least in my experience, porn was very hard to find. Now it is hard to avoid. My goodness, I honestly do feel sorry for the younger people here — I really do.

But you know something? It is your burden. Fair or unfair, it is your burden, and you have to deal with it. And for the men and the women, I say here: bury yourself in Proverbs. Bury yourself in Scripture.

Scripture makes promises all the way through. If you keep the Word of God fixed to your heart, if you keep it in your mind, if you are constantly exposing yourself to the Word of God, your life will change, and over time you will come to despise wickedness and love the light. I am not saying it is going to happen straight away.

For some people it does happen straight away. But what I’m saying is this: practically speaking, involve yourself in reading Scripture seriously every day. And I would say that is one of the best remedies to this absolutely satanic, demonic affliction on the West — pornography.

God has given us the means to do it. There’s so much more I can say about that, but I’m actually going to finish up very soon. The final thing that we need to be doing is marrying well, loving well, raising children well, and having children.

And God willing, the overwhelming majority of you young people here will marry and, God willing, will have children. So often I see conservative influencers who are not embodying what a true Christian conservative life would be — one that revolves around family. And let me tell you right now, the state of the family is perilous.

We’ve got some of the lowest fertility rates in the world in Australia, and families are in such a dark state. There is a vacuum of authority in families with the decline of patriarchalism. So who is the authority in families now? The schoolteacher? Social media? Government propaganda? Certainly not Dad. Probably not Mum that much. There is a vacuum — and Satan loves a vacuum.

Nature abhors a vacuum; Satan loves it. Satan loves it. The other thing is this: if we have our families in shape — I know that is an easy thing to say — but if we have our families in shape, the children from our children’s friends’ families, when they come to our homes, will feel a warmth and security that they have never felt. It will feel otherworldly to them, and that is because it is otherworldly.

It comes from a family animated by God’s Spirit. Another way that we can be incredible agents of cultural change is to have our families in order. And again, if we do all these things, then that culture which is looking around and feeling that something has gone horribly wrong — but does not necessarily have the vocabulary to express it — will start looking for alternatives. Woe betide us as Christians if, while they are looking for alternatives, we are looking at porn on the internet. Woe betide us if our institutions are no better than the institutions they are used to. And woe betide us if we are not shepherding our families in a much better way than they are shepherding theirs.

We can do all of these things. All of these things are within our control. And if we do them at this cultural moment, that will lead — I believe very strongly — to a revival in the West. That is what makes me a kind of pessimistic optimist. I do actually think things get better, but so often they have to get really bad before that happens.

But here’s the thing, ladies and gentlemen: I think in many respects they have gotten so bad — and I have tried to show you evidence of that — that people are looking for something. And why are we here today? Because we are going to be the people who show them what they are looking for in our neo-pagan age, just like the first Christians did in that ancient pagan age. You yourselves, says the apostle Paul, you yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody.

You show that you are a letter from Christ. Every one of you is a letter from Christ. What are you telling people? The result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

That is something we need to keep close to our hearts as we leave tonight, desiring more than anything else to be agents of Christ’s revival here in Australia, the Great Southern Land of the Holy Spirit. Let me close that in prayer.

Lord God, bring revival to Australia.
Lord God, bring revival to Australia.
Lord God, bring revival to Australia.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.

Lord God, we thank You that we were able to meet here today, fellowship together, and hear words of wisdom from Your Word, Lord God, and pray together.

Heavenly Father, we pray that the seeds sown tonight have fallen on good soil. We pray that they will be taken to heart, Lord God, and that this will be the beginning of a revival in Australia. Let us all be a part of something, Lord God, that we know You want.

Let us be a part of that from tonight, Heavenly Father — to change our lives and, in turn, to change this country. Because, Heavenly Father, it was not that long ago that this country was quite a Christian country. Lord God, no country was ever perfectly Christian, but Australia once upon a time could have been called a Christian country. And Lord God, it was not that long ago — and it only took a few people, Heavenly Father, to change that.

And Heavenly Father, we have more than a few people in Australia who believe in our Lord Jesus Christ. And Heavenly Father, we pray that You will give us the strength and the fortitude to be agents of revival for You after tonight.

We pray this in the Name of Jesus, our Lord and Saviour, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

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