"The Cost of God's Last day Revival"

Deu 7:1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

When the Lord saved you! If it was this morning or last week or last year or 30 years ago!
You must realize that you were completely held by your sin!
Seven nations! greater and mightier than you which represents all this world has to hold you in bondage had its grip on you and you could not break loose because you belong with those nations!
But God! Set you free! And only Jesus Christ can cleanse and set the sinner free!.
God's word here is giving the saved a word picture of what has happened and what we are to be!
He delivers those that are drawn by the Holy Spirit who hear the Gospel and who repent of their sins and believe the Gospel! Thank God for salvation! But that's only the beginning!


Deu 7:2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

God delivers our enemies before us but He expects us to slay them! And just as they completely held you, you are to utterly (or completely) destroy those things that would cause you to be brought back into bondage!

The problem with so many today is that they have never truly come out of bondage!

But to those who have been delivered__God says:
"When I deliver these nations before you __you shall smite them! and utterly destroy them!

Don't you make any covenant with them! Don't you have intimate relations with them! Don't regard them!
Eph 5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.


Deu 7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
There's no differance of the divorce rate in the Church than outside the Church today! Why? Because the Church refuses to obey God's word!
Thou shalt not make marriages with these nations! Why? Look at verse 4


Deu 7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
Because for first of all God said not to and we are in rebellion to God when we do it! We wound God's heart!
Because He tells us that the heart of those that persist in this rebellion will be turned away from the Lord and will serve other gods!
Because God's anger is going to be against that rebellion!
Because those that are in rebellion and refuse to repent will be visited by sudden destruction!
To some it may seem like God isn't moved by their persistant rebellion, but sudden destruction will come as a woman in travail! (My pain of kidney stones, doesn't compare to the pain that I would experience if I hold the truth in unrighteousness!)