Thank you so much, Alyssa. We come to perhaps one of the most powerful commands and messages in the book of Ezekiel. We come to this command of the Lord to Ezekiel in the middle of the Valley of Dry Bones. Ezekiel 37. If you'll turn there with me. Ezekiel 37, 1 through 14. The title of this message is, Come from the four winds, O breath. Come from the four winds. And I'd like to read verse 9. Then the Lord said to me, Prophesy to the breath. prophesy, Son of Man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God, Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life." Let's ask the Lord now to speak to our hearts in this message this morning. Precious Heavenly Father, We come into your presence this morning and Father if we could speak this message to hundreds of thousands It would be the same message. It wouldn't change. Come from the four winds, O breath. O breath of heaven. Breath of heaven, come down among us. Please come down among us today. And we give you all the praise. Anoint your servant. Anoint these lips. Anoint our hearts. Don't let any of us leave here without your breath in us. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. It's always a mysterious phenomenon when we find dead things and study them to try to learn their significance. Today's text is about a valley of dry, dead bones. An image God gave to His prophet Ezekiel describing the nation of Israel in the last days. When God put on my heart to preach on the book of Ezekiel, I was intimidated by that assignment. I can tell you, it is perhaps one of the toughest books in all of the Bible to preach from. And I remember what I did immediately is I said, God, I will look into that, but I'll preach on a dozen hymns first. And you remember, I preached on a dozen hymns that were a hundred years old or older. And I know that was part of God's training time for me to begin to study the book of Ezekiel. And as I began to study it, I began the messages back in late January of 2009. So it won't be long and we will have been along in this series for two years. Then of course, as you know, starting in May for quite a few months, I did a wilderness series in which we interrupted the Ezekiel series. I felt God wanted me to do that for me and for you. And yet, when I did that, that drawing of resources to preach through the book of Ezekiel, one of the things I did is I looked through all my files, I looked through everything I had, all my books, and I said, Lord, bring to this study everything that you want in this study for your glory. And one of the things he brought to my attention, and perhaps the greatest artifact I found, was that back Way back in February of 1972, I had received a prayer letter from a Regions Beyond Missionary Union executive director, Joseph F. Conley, and I had kept it. And I had written on it, Ezekiel 37. And this is that letter. It's almost 39 years old. And you may say, who in the world is Regions Beyond Missionary Union? Well, I want to tell you that this director in this old prayer letter is basically writing after that mission was started many years before. You see, evangelical missions and revival, the history of them is synonymous. The two function together. You can't have a mission without a revival, and you can't have a revival without missions. A line from William Temple says, No one can possess or be indwelled by the Holy Spirit of God and keep the Holy Spirit to himself. He flows, and if he's not flowing, he's not there. That's a wonderful, wonderful quote. If God the Holy Spirit is in your life, he is flowing. It's therefore no coincidence that the Regions Beyond Missionary Union was birthed along with many other mission agencies quite a few years ago in the second half of the 19th century as a response to an evangelical awakening in America. There were three great preachers that were well known back then. Two of them you know, and one of them I don't know if you know. First of all, in that second half of the 19th century, there was Dwight L. Moody, there was Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and thirdly, there was the founder of Regions Beyond Missionary Union. His name was H. Grattan Guinness. H. Grattan Guinness. And Guinness, in 1866, listened to a message of Hudson Taylor, who came to the class he was teaching in Dublin, Ireland. And when he came there, he spoke to twelve men about the call, the plea for China. and for missionaries in China. And as a result, Guinness himself started the Regions Beyond Missionary Union, today known as World Team. And I want to tell you that they have three sending agencies, Australia, Canada, and the United States. They have 350 missionaries in 28 countries, in 59 distinct people groups, all the way from places like Toronto, Canada, to Haiti, to Tibet, to Papua New Guinea. And now, if I could have your indulgence, I've never heard of anyone using an almost 39-year-old prayer letter to begin a message, but God wants me to do so. Here is his letter to the co-laborers that are part of this mission, Regions Beyond Missionary Union. He writes, Dear Co-Laborer, February 1972, Have you seen the catacombs? My missionary friend, he queried over dinner, I was in Lima, Peru for Regions Beyond Missionary Unions field conference. So the question evoked raised eyebrows. Catacombs in Rome I had heard of, but in Lima, Peru? The next day found me gingerly following my guide through the cavernous subterranean vaults beneath the church of St. Francis in downtown Lima. It seems this church has served as the first and only burial ground for the city of Lima for perhaps hundreds of years following the city's founding in 1535. Until 1948, the existence of this massive and lugubrious crypt had remained a secret. Here, an estimated 70,000 people had been buried under this church. And the skeletal remains of this host now lie exposed to view, skulls, tibias, femurs, and clavicles, without number, blackened by time. I was unprepared. Ezekiel's contemplation of the valley of dry bones could hardly have been any more overwhelming to the prophet. I found my mind boggling as I reflected on these thousands of human skulls, each one representing a human life with all of its failures and all of its aspirations, and each one symbolizing an infinity of thoughts and motives of deeds, good and evil, and each one to be brought to account before God someday. Each deed rewarded, each motive brought to light, for all my academic and biblical certainty as to the infinitude of our God, infinite knowledge is still more than finite mind can comprehend." Discussing that thought later with my friend, I mustered the comment, what an infinite data bank God must have. If that truth has its sobering aspects, it also holds great cheer for the Christian. Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? That was the deep certainty behind Abraham's rhetorical question. Perfect retribution is based on perfect knowledge. Likewise, perfect recompense. God's data bank continues its sure storage processes. Put thou my tears into thy bottle, are they not in thy book, David affirmed? And John, in like symbolic language. And Revelation spoke of these vials full of the prayers of the saints. And it is our Lord Himself who assures us that the least of our efforts performed out of love to Christ shall not go unrewarded, even to the cup of cold water." Dan? God is not unrighteous to forget. That brings us to saying thanks again for your fellowship with us in prayer and in gift. Many of you we've never seen. We often wish that we might remedy that so as to express our thanks in a more personal way than this letter will permit. But God keeps the records. He forgets neither widow's might nor a cup of cold water. And he will yet thank you for your labor together with us in the gospel. Yours faithfully, in Christ, Joseph F. Conley, Executive Director. And now it has fulfilled its mission in 39 years in my files. Beloved, from a visit to the cavernous subterranean crypt and vault beneath a church in Lima, Peru in 1972, to a visit of Ezekiel back in 585 B.C. to the valley in the middle of the Valley of Dried Bones. It's startling either way. 70,000. or disconnected bones in the middle of a valley by thousands. The picture is the same except those that are under the church wait for two resurrections that are coming. The first resurrection for believers and the second resurrection for unbelievers. But for this picture that Ezekiel has, this valley of dry bones, there's already stuff happening going on today. There's motion in the valley. There's commotion, there's stuff going on in the valley of dry bones. Ever since 1948, when God whistled to the nations from the four corners of the earth, Jews have been coming back to Israel. And the skeletal bones have come together, they're reconnected, sinews, flesh growing back on these reconnected bones. And yet all these bones are laying lifeless on the valley floor. I want you to understand today what we're going to be talking about ultimately is redemption of dead bodies, regeneration. And that happens the moment when God turns our hearts of stone into hearts of flesh. It's when God brings out of our spiritual death, He brings us into life eternal. It's the moment we are born again. Now, in Ezekiel 36, 26 and 27, I preached on it last week. There, God says, moreover, I'll give you a new heart, I'll give you a new spirit within you. I'll remove the heart of stone from your flesh, I'll give you a heart of flesh, and I'll put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you'll be careful to observe my ordinances. Now, there's a little word here I want to talk about a lot today. I'll put a new heart and a new spirit. And the Hebrew word is ruach. Like you're cleaning out your throat. Clearing your throat. Ruach! That's the way you say the word. Ruach! What does ruach mean? It means breath, wind, spirit. Ezekiel is saying that God is saying to Israel, I'm going to put my ruach in you. Now he's prophesying to them something back in 585 BC that is even more, even more developed today because already we see that it's coming to pass. But he's saying back then, a new day is coming. A new day is coming to you exiles here from Judah at the River Kibar in the Babylonian concentration camp. A new day is coming. The day is coming when my relationship with you is going to change and be more intimate. Since the very beginning I gave you laws. In the Garden of Eden I gave you one law and you broke it. At Sinai I gave you ten laws, the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments and you broke them. I gave you the ceremonial laws to keep you clean and to keep you pure and you broke them. But the day is coming when I am going to I'm going to breathe my laws into you, and I'm going to put my ruach into you, and when I put my ruach, my law into you, you no longer will disobey, but you will follow the Spirit within you. What an incredible thing. By living in them, God is promising to change their cold, stony, callous, hardened, rebellious hearts into hearts and spirits alive with God the Holy Spirit. These are hearts and spirits now that were dead to all bones that are going to be beating and pulsating with the very rock of God. In this way, God is telling Judah's exiles, I will enable you to live in my will. and please me and walk in my ways." Beloved, it's not until we acknowledge that we have come as far to God as we can get that we realize what Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3. He told him, that which is born of flesh is flesh. I don't care how far you try to get to God. I don't care how many church services you go to. I don't care how many Sunday school lessons you've heard. I don't care how much Christian radio or how many Christian CDs you've got. I don't care how many times you read the Bible. I don't care what you do. There's only so much you can do in the flesh and that which is born of the flesh is flesh. But Jesus went on to say that that which is born of the Ruach, the Spirit, is Spirit. The miracle of being born again is the miracle of God's wind. It's the miracle of the Ruach of God. God's Spirit we cannot tame. We cannot make Him do our wills. To be born again we must be born of the wind, the breath, and the Spirit of God. To be right theologically is very good, but it's not enough to be born of the Spirit. You can be as theologically correct even as the demons who know it all right. And the Bible says that they believe and tremble, but they do not have within them the rock of God. They will go to hell forever. Nothing is better than being right and being dead right. Dead orthodoxy. In so many cases, the people that are hardest to bring to Christ are people that know all the right answers. They have been to church all their life, and yet they don't have the ruach of God in them. They do not have the breath of God flowing into them. Nicodemus was very orthodox. But Jesus told him, even though he was very orthodox, an orthodox Jew, he says, unless you are born again, you cannot see the kingdom of God. Unless the breath of God comes into you, there's no hope for you. You remember, it was his own colleagues, his fellow members of the Sanhedrin that cried for Jesus to be crucified. It was their cries that went away in crucifying the author and the prince of life. I ask us today, then before we look at this valley of dry bones, I ask us a personal question. Have you been born of the breath of God? Has the breath of God breathed into you eternal life? Do you know that you have been born again of the Spirit of God? Beloved, the Lord is here today. He's breathing on us, His church. He's breathing His wind and His Spirit in this place. But there's no guarantee that His breath and that His anointing breath and His wind and His Spirit will blow in your direction or mine again. It is something we have to know that while He's blowing, blow on me, Lord. Blow your breath on me today, He says in Hebrews 3 and 4. If you hear my voice, harden not your heart. Now, look at our text. The hand of the Lord was upon me, verse 1. He brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord, and he sent me down in the middle of a valley, and it was full of bones. In case you want to know what this may have looked like, this valley of dry bones, it must have looked like a place a little ways west of Casper. Rattlesnake hills. Hell's half acre. Poisoned Spider Creek, Sand Draw. And if you don't know that area, maybe you've been out hunting out in the Red Desert Basin. Maybe you've been out there to Greasewood Flat or Alkali Flat. Or if you haven't been there, maybe you've been up there to the Jonah Field. That's where you got your elk, Shawn. And all I can tell you is it was a valley, It was a dead, dry valley. And the Lord said to Ezekiel, take a walk. You know, amongst all these dead bones, they're not connected. Just go walking among the bones. And notice verse 2, He caused me to pass among them round about. And behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and lo, they were very dry. Wow. They were blanched to a creamy white by the sun. They were bare bones. They were scattered bones. They weren't attached to each other. The Lord never said go walk among the skeletons. There were skeletons underneath that church. This is not skeletons. This is bones that have been strewn by coyotes and every other animal that could come out there. Here are all these bones. And they're all over. Who knows what belongs to what? The Lord said to me, son of man, can these bones live? He answered well. And I answered, oh Lord, thou knowest. It's a good thing to say to God when He asks you these kind of questions. Oh Lord, you know. I don't know. I don't know. The picture for us today, beloved, is that God is specifically speaking to the nation of Israel. Though what He's saying to Israel is good for us in the church, it's good for us to know that His plan is to bring spiritual life to dry, dead bones. Dead men's bones. Dead women's and boys' and girls' bones that are living spiritually in sin. Dry bones that cannot breathe or feel or think or act spiritually. What's God's cure then for dry bones? What is God's cure for the valley of dry bones known as Israel today? Within this text I see God's call of breath to the spiritually dead. It is a fourfold call. What is this fourfold call, this cure for dry bones? Number one. God's call is for us to prophesy, or foretell, to prophesy over dry bones, telling them God's plan for the dead. Can you imagine preaching to dry bones, Barry? That's what God says to do. All dry bones, verse 4. Again, He said to me, prophesy over these bones and say to them, all dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Speak out the word of the Lord, and the word of the Lord is clear in verse 5 and 6. He says, Thus says the Lord God to these bones, Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, that you may come to life. And I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin, and put breath in you, that you may come alive, and you will know that I am the Lord. Wow. Beloved, we must call the spiritually dead to hear the Word of the Lord. That's what that billboard out there is doing. Richard, I saw it. It's just calling dead people to Jesus. That's all it is. Just talking to the dead. And there's dead all over Rock Springs and Green River and Granger and Point of Rocks and Superior. And everywhere around here, there's dead people. And we're to speak to the dead and say, hear the word of the Lord. It's in the Great Commission. Go into all the world, Mark 16, 15, and preach the gospel to all creation, to every creature. There's no guarantee and there's no promise and it won't happen that when we preach that everybody will be saved or that anybody will be saved. We have no promise that's going to happen. But I can tell you one thing. When you speak and when you preach and when you prophesy and forth tell the Word, something will happen because the Word will not return void. Paul says in Romans 10, 8-10, what does the scripture say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. That is the word of faith that we're preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made known unto salvation. So what does Ezekiel do when given this command? He does what we should do when God gives us a command. What does he do? He prophesies to dead bones. Notice verse 7 and 8. So, I did what God said. I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a noise. There's going to be stuff going on when you preach and teach, and when you witness of God, stuff will go on. There was a noise, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together. Bone to its bone. All of a sudden, these bones are flying around, and he's looking around. Bones are coming together. Can you believe it? That's what happened. The bones came together. There's a rattling, And I leapt, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh grew, and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them." Have we gone this far, beloved, as God's people? Have we preached to the dead bones around us at work? Have we preached to the Bones at the mines. The bones in our offices, in the hospitals, in the schools. Have we brought the Word of the Lord to the dead bones? Have we gone that far? Because if we have, there will be motion. There will be an inkling, a tinkling, a clicking. There will be a rattling. Things will start to fit together. People will say, you know, I never really thought about that like that before. I thank you for telling me that. But let me get this straight. Dry bones can hear and obey the preached Word of God. The prophesied Word of God. Don't believe for a moment the teaching today that dead men and their trespasses and sins cannot respond to the Word of the Lord without being regenerated first. No, he's talking to dead dry bones and they're not regenerated. They're moving. They're moving around. And they're coming together. Wow! In fact, they've been coming together since 1948 from the four winds. They've been coming from the four corners of the earth. Here are dry bones moving and linking together, skin growing on them, covering them, and they are now more than bones. They have become dead bodies of men and women, boys and girls, but there's not one ounce of regenerating breath in them yet. The call of God has awakened the bones to be convicted of where they belong. They need, the hip bone needs to be connected to the neck bone of the right person. All of a sudden, things are starting to fit. They're starting to understand. They're coming together. They're convicted of where they belong and where they ought to be, but they're not. They seek the right bones that belong to each dead skeleton among them. And God's word of faith prophesied, foretold, and preached, spoken to dead men, women, boys, and girls, awakens them in their deadness and convicts them of where they seek to be. Now the bones want to come together. The effect is amazing, but it is still limited. It's limited. It's not enough for dead sinners, once careless in sin, to be awakened and convicted. It is a crucial beginning, and we are to be like John the Baptist. We are to prepare the way of the Lord and make His path straight. We're to tell folks, you need Jesus. You're dead in your trespasses and sins. You're dead dry bones. But the Word in itself, faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. And so by that Word, motion starts to happen. The Word doesn't return void. People start getting interested, start reading their Bible. God starts drawing them together where they belong. But they're still dead. Men, women, boys and girls. When dead sinners hear God's voice, they begin seeking and groping after God. Do you remember in your life when you began to seek and grope in your blindness after God like a little blind puppy before ten days come? You began looking, looking, looking! In fact, Paul on Mars Hill, the Areopagus, spoke to the Athenians in Acts 17.27. He says, This God, who made the world and all things in it, made man from one that they should seek God, if perhaps they might grow up for Him, and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us. You see, when God gives us His Word, and we are His messengers, people start growing up for God. But only the touch of God, the breath of God, can open blinded eyes. Only the breath of God can regenerate dead sinners to become new creatures in Christ Jesus. Secondly, the call is, God's call is for us, this gets even weirder, to listen for dead bones and bodies to admit they're dried up and perished. God's call is for us to listen for dead bones and bodies to admit they are dried up and perished. Notice verse 11. He said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they're talking, they're saying, our bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off. These bones and bodies are talking, Richard. Is that something? They're dead, but they're talking. You need to listen to dead bones when you're preaching to dead bones. You need to be listening to them and hear what they're saying. When God starts moving by His Spirit, dead bones and bodies are not fully impressed by the fact that they've come together and that now they're closer to God than they ever were. They still know they're utterly perishing. They're utterly hopeless. Dead men are not only dead when they talk, they talk dead. They talk hopeless. They have no dream of ever living again. They have no hope of a future. They know they're dying and going to hell. They now have been awakened to that. They've been convicted of that. They're dead in their trespasses and sins. I want you to know God only raises the dead. He never saves a living person. He saves dead people. He breathes into dead people. It's impossible for regenerated people to be born again. No, that's what regeneration is, is being born again. It's dead bones, dead bodies that are born from above. New birth comes by regeneration, by the wind of God, the work of God. When I witness to the lost, I know there is no hope for them. I know there is no hope until they admit They're a sinner until they admit they're lost. Until they admit they're going to hell. They admit there's no hope for them. They admit that that is their case. They are perishing. If you want to win someone to Jesus Christ, you need to know that they can't come to Christ until they know they're lost. Until they know they're dead. When they admit they're lost, hopeless, and hellbound, then they're on the way for God's breath. There's a third call. God's call is for us to bring hope to the hopeless and tell them of God's plan to raise the dead from their graves. Verse 12 and 13. Therefore prophesy, Ezekiel, prophesy, church, and say to these dead bones, thus says the Lord God, these talking dead bones that are headless, that are perishing, say, thus says the Lord God, behold, I will open your graves. I'll cause you to come up out of your graves, my people. I'll bring you into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people. Wow. God is telling Israel, I'm going to bring you back to the land of Israel. And when you see me bringing you back in 1948, you're going to begin to think of Ezekiel. You're going to say the Old Testament is true, even if I don't believe in it. The Old Testament is true. What Ezekiel said is true. And it's happening to us. And do you know what happened recently? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking on the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland. He proclaimed he was before his eyes in Israel seeing the fulfillment of the prophet Ezekiel's vision of the Valley of Dry Bombs. He's the prime minister. And what's he saying? He's saying something's happening over here. There's motion! There's commotion! And I want to share with you what he says. And I want you to hear the deadness of it, but yet the living part of it. I want you to hear the stuff happening. I want you to hear the motion and commotion in his voice. And yet I want you to see it's not enough. This is what he says. Armed with the Jewish spirit, the justice of man, and the vision of the prophets, We sprouted new branches and grew deep roots. Dry bones became covered with flesh. A spirit filled them and they lived and stood on their feet." That's Benjamin Netanyahu recently. That's amazing as far as it goes. He thinks it's happened. But you know what? I want to just say, Benjamin Netanyahu, may God bring you to Jesus Christ. What a great man. I just enjoy listening to him. You can tell he's being drawn by the Spirit of God. You can tell he's being pulled. You can tell the Word is doing motion and commotion in his life. But all of Benjamin Netanyahu can be our brother in Christ. All for the Spirit of God to born him. Because up to now, the motion and the commotion and the stuff going on is a fulfillment of God's whistling to the nations. He has come that far, but He's wrong about it being complete. He's right about it being in process. Lots of things are happening in Israel, but it is not enough, verse 8, but there is no breath in them. That brings us to our final call This is the one that everything hinges on. Oh beloved, hear the word of the Lord. God's call is for us to prophesy to the breath of the Lord. For us to prophesy to the breath of the Lord God to come from the four winds and put His breath into dry bones. Don't mix up motion and commotion for God's breath. Thank God for Netanyahu's words and that Israel has gone back by the millions to her land. But help us to know it's not enough. It's not enough. Put yourself in Ezekiel's shoes. He's out there in the middle of this valley. And now God tells him to keep on preaching. But now he's telling him to change his focus. Don't preach to the dead bones anymore. There's a time when it's time to quit preaching to the dead. You preach, they're awakened, they're convicted, but they're not converted. They don't have the breath of God. And when you come to that place in the testimony, you cannot, by persuasion, push them in. You must call for the breath. You must call for the breath of God. And we find in verse 9, Then he said to me, Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God, Come from the four winds, O breath, and bring on these slain, that they may come to life. As Kelly and Patty sing every Christmas here, Breath of Heaven. Breath of Heaven. Oh, how we need the Breath of Heaven. Now Ezekiel is standing here among this congregation of scattered, blanched, white, dead, rye bones that have now become dead corpses and bodies. He must have felt like a preacher speaking to the sidewalk. What is a sidewalk going to do? But there's a crack in the sidewalk. Something's moving. He was like a man preaching to a Jew that's in Jerusalem. He's a modern Jew and he doesn't even know why he's there. He doesn't know that God is bringing him there and has brought him there for a purpose. But there's movement. And Ezekiel saw movement, but this man doesn't have breath. Let it be certain, the word of the Lord will not return void. Something starts happening when we preach and prophesy and witness the word of God. There's noise, there's rattling, there's clinking, like what our Lord caused, linking together, bones attaching, sinews coming on bones with muscle. Skin is coming together and covering the bones. What a commotion in the valley! What a commotion in Israel! But, It stops there. There is no breath in them. So Ezekiel keeps prophesying, but this time he changes his focus. It's no longer to the dead bones and bodies. These people who look like men, women, boys and girls that are still dead. They have no heartbeat. They're utterly and totally dead. It's a straight line. There's nothing there. They're dead in their trespasses and sins. They're hellbound. There's no hope. And now God says, prophesy to the four winds. Call to God Almighty. Call for the breath of God to come down on them. And when we ask you to receive Jesus, you're calling for the breath. You're calling as a dead man for the breath of God to come. So Ezekiel changes his focus. Verse 10, So I prophesied as God commanded me, and the breath came into them. Oh, it's an incredible thing. I called for the breath and the breath came. And they came to life and stood on their feet an exceedingly great army. Oh beloved, when we call for the breath of heaven, And the breath of heaven comes into dead bodies and they come to life and they stand on their feet. It's no longer what they were before. They were dead in their trespasses and sins. Now they're new. They have His Spirit, His Ruach in them, verse 14. I'll put My Ruach, My Spirit within you. You'll come to life. I'll place you on your own land. And then you will know that I am the Lord. When I place you on your own land, you'll know that I, the Lord, have spoken and done it, declares the Lord. We come to the end of this message, beloved. It's only the breath of God that can save dead people. It's only the breath of God that can resurrect dead Israel. Come, breath of God. Come breath of God. The love of this work for Israel comes when we summon the breath of God and pray for the peace of Jerusalem. When you pray for the peace of Jerusalem, you're praying for the Prince of Peace. You're praying for the Prince and Author of Life. You're praying for the breath of God to come to Jerusalem. You're praying God, summoning the wind. Oh God, save Israel. And the Holy Spirit is more eager to come than we are to ask Him. God help us to summon the wind of God or our church will die. God help us to summon the wind of God or our Intermountain West District churches. Chuck prayed over this morning in the first service. They will die. God help us to summon the breath of God or our children, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren will die. God help us to summon the wind, the breath, the wrath of God or our unsaved loved ones will die. And if we fail to call out, if we fail to prophesy to the breath, if we fail to call out for the breath of God, for the healing physically and spiritually of ours whom we love and our friends and our loved ones, someday this generation will rise up and condemn us. Because we have been called to summon the breath of God and we failed on behalf of our atoning Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Well beloved, I'm asking us today to call for the breath of God. Have you ever come in your witnessing to the place that you just get frustrated and you say, I'm so close, they're so close to the kingdom. Have you been there? I'm so close, they're so close to receiving Jesus, but they don't. That's time to quit talking and call for the breath. Call for the breath of God. And as the breath of God starts coming, it's a simultaneous event. That person, that dead person, cries out for the breath. And they're regenerated. They're born again. And the thing that we couldn't affect, God can affect by His breath. So if you're at that point where people are awakened and they're convicted but they're not converted, call down the breath of God. And they will call for the breath. And the breath will save them. Would you bow your heads? As your heads are bowed and your eyes are closed. Church, I want to talk to you for a moment. Are you speaking to dead bones? Are you prophesying to dead bones? If you are, there's motion and commotion and stuff going on. And it's exciting to watch. But remember, it's not enough. It's not enough. Sometimes we say, so-and-so is close. But you know, an inch is as good or as bad as a mile. If our loved ones come close and miss heaven, it's because they don't have the breath of God, the ruach of God. Oh, church, come to the place when you say, I've done all I can. I've obeyed you, Lord. I've prophesied to the dead bones. But, oh God, breath of heaven, come down. Come down. Come down. Come down. I summon you. Beloved, let us learn the lesson. that nothing is affected without the breath of Almighty God. And now I ask you to be honest with me. Are you here in church today trying to live for Jesus? That which is born of flesh is fresh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Are you trying to do it? And you found you can't do it. It's because you need His breath. Only by His breath in you can His laws be written in you. Otherwise, you just want to do your own thing. Oh beloved, how many of you are here that would say, I'm not sure I have His breath in me. I want His breath in me. Would you lift your hand and I'll share with you and I'll summon with you the breath of God to come into you. And you can summon the breath and He'll come into you. May it happen. If you're here and you say, that's what I want, just raise your hands. Yes, yes. Are there others? Just call right now. Anyone else? I need the breath of God. I want to know I'm born of the Spirit. Anyone else? I want to know for sure. Yes, ma'am. Three of you. I want to know. Yes, ma'am. There's four of you. I want to know for sure. Just raise your hand. Make it clear. Show me your hand. I want it to be clear. Yes, anyone else? For these four and anyone else that needs to pray this, we're going to summon the breath of God for you. And you can summon Him as well with me. Just pray out to God and just say, I am a dead, dry bone, God. I'm a dead, dry body without You. I'm hopeless. I'm undone. I'm headed to hell without You. But you sent your Son to die for me. And He rose for me. I admit I'm hopeless. I admit I'm a sinner. I repent. I turn from my sins. I believe in you. And now I summon you. Come to me with your breath. Come from the four winds. Come Spirit of God into me. Come into me. Come into me. Live in me. Write your laws on my heart. Make me your born again child. Do it today. Thank you Jesus. I will live in the power of your breath the rest of my life. I'll live in the fellowship of your church. If you meant that prayer, as we sing our final song, I want you, right now in your heart, to let Thanksgiving break out on your face. Let Thanksgiving break out in your life. Tell somebody afterwards, I have His breath in me. His breath, His Spirit is pulsating in my spirit. He is mine. I am His. I belong to Jesus. In His name we pray. Amen. What's that final song?