The question that needs to be answered today is this…who is Jesus? In this life…this question must be answered by saints and sinners alike. Is He The Christ? As believers, how we answer this questions determines how live our lives. The question is this--who is Jesus?

This morning I want to talk about cleansing…being thirsty for cleansing! Today’s passage is a head scratcher. I have read it many times and every time I read it…I just can’t believe what I am reading. It is about the necessity of being cleansed. Being cleansed means getting the junk out of your life that is not pleasing to the Lord. Are you thirsty for cleansing this morning? Do you have a desire to be cleansed? Are you willing to get the stuff out of your life that is interfering with God’s blessing?

What if we were genuinely thirsty for revival? Have you ever searched the Bible for the word Revival? Is revival something God desires? The answer is no…at least not in the strictest sense of the word. God would rather you stay vived…than needing to be re-vived! However, God does call His people back to himself…and when He does…what does He call them back to? What is revival? Have you ever experienced it? Could you define it? Would you know it according to God’s word? I hear people who say that they are pressing in after God’s heart as an expression of revival. People call for fire, for anointing, for signs and wonders…here is the good news…God does that stuff…praise God! here is the bad news…that is not the heart of God. God’s heart is and has always been about people.

Intimidation is about making you afraid. It is not fear…it leads to fear. Here are just a few definitions of intimidation: to make timid or to fill with fear, to frighten; to compel by threats, to frighten into submission. A few synonyms are: bulldoze, bully, or browbeat. To intimidate implies causing fear or a sense of inferiority into another...to break the spirit of a person, to cause to someone lose courage… Intimidation uses threats, insults, or aggressive behavior, or to treat someone with contempt.

I believe that most of us understand the concept of having giants in our lives. Giants are those things that are large in our eyes. From time to time we encounter giants. Maybe it is the giant of disease, of finances…or the lack thereof, maybe it is the giant of family problems, or relationship problems…whether it is the in the work place, in the marriage, in school or elsewhere…or maybe the giant of insecurity, or the giant of insignificance (do I really matter…am I important?) giant of low self-esteem, . Maybe you are facing a different kind of GIANT. It takes courage to face these giants…in fact as followers of Christ we are to do more than face the giants…we are to defeat them! We are over-comers…we are more than conquerors