God's Unexpected Moves in Hopeless Moments

Hi, I'm Ellie Johnson, and today I'm going to talk about the Jesus Revolution movie.

I just saw it, and I have to say that it is one of the best Christmas movies I've seen in a while. It's not one of those cheesy Christian movies; it's actually well done, and it's really good. It has laughs, tears, and is inspiring. I won't go into all the details, but I will talk about some scenes in the movie. At the end of the movie, there is a Jerry Maguire-level love speech given that had me going for a second. It's not as good as Jerry Maguire, but it's close.

The Jesus Revolution movie is about the Jesus movement in the 70s, mainly focused around Lonnie Frisbee, Chuck Smith, and Greg Laurie. Chuck Smith was a pastor at Calvary Chapel, and Lonnie Frisbee was a traveling guy who was in love with Jesus and partnered up with Chuck Smith to start a movement. After that, many people started getting saved, mainly focusing on the hippies that nobody else wanted anything to do with.

There are a couple of things that stood out to me while watching the movie. The first is that when we think it's so bad that it could never be improved, that's usually when God shows up. God only needs one person to show up and do what He wants to do or to stop what He wants to stop. The second is that God always moves in the unlikely moments.

Pastor Chuck Smith was talking about how he would like to meet a hippie so he can ask him about them, but he really didn't mean it. His daughter just happened to see Lonnie hitchhiking, and she picked him up, and that is how Chuck Smith met Lonnie Frisbee. This is what God used to start the Calvary Chapel movement. Pastor Chuck had a wall, an issue with the hippies, and him dealing with that wall was the only way that the Lord was going to be able to get him to the next level.

God uses unlikely people and situations to move. Lonnie said when he was having the first meeting with Pastor Chuck, he asked, "How can you not see it? There's a whole generation of people searching for God." They were searching for the void to be filled with God, but they thought it was the drugs and everything like that. But it wasn't the drugs; it was their search for God. This is the same thing that is happening with this generation.

If you look at Philadelphia, you can see people searching for God. People are searching for something, but what they don't see is that God sees them. They are searching with drugs, alcohol, and by putting their identities in certain movements. The church may look at them and think they are disgusting, but God sees them differently.

The movie showed the process of salvation. It showed that even if someone has to go to jail for three months, the Lord will still be there and walk them through it. There is a danger of becoming self-focused. Whether it's thinking you are too great or too weak, neither is true. We have to stay focused on God, Christ, the Cross, and what the Holy Spirit is telling us to do.

It is all about His grace, and without it, we couldn't do it. He must love to focus on Himself, but it's not about us. We're supposed to die to ourselves; that is one of the keys.

I would tell everybody to go watch the great movie I just watched. I'm going to talk to my sister and see if she can get her church to go and watch it. It's a phenomenal phenomenon.

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