Characteristics of Revival - Randy Clark

and it was amazing what God was doing with them and during revival and they asked me to speak on so I this is a I've only preached this I think once or twice so I'm gonna try to just kind of give us a get up high about 35,000 feet bird's-eye view airplane view the bigger picture and just try and draw some principles from it all right let's pray father in Jesus name help and come amen alright normally there's an understanding that before revival comes there's it there's this theology of ebb and flow there's some truth in it to it but it's not necessarily that way there have been times we've went we've had no ebb it just revival came and while that wave never went back out another bigger one came in that happened for example 1900 there's a revival 1904 there was another revival with Evan Roberts in 1906 was the Pentecostal revival it wasn't like one ended before the next one took over is that one was overcome by that by the next and just going for from glory to glory but there is in in and there's been revivals like the method's revival lasted at least 50 years somebody's once said it lasted a hundred years of the of just continuous like revival there's places in Africa where the revival has been going for 50 straight years and has not aired and so this idea is more of a Western idea based upon our first great awaking second great awakening and then several others the 1830 revival and so forth that there would be these AB and flow flow and ebb so but first for many times there is being one revival hitch there's the declension in Christian gets where the church is just maintaining or losing ground we're not keeping out the population where the church is actually shrinking there's very few people getting say there's a lot of maybe transfer growth but not a lot of salvation growth and and and this causes the people to become desperate and the desperation causes them to go to their knees in prayer it could cause them to get hungry it rate and as a response that's kind of typical judges God raises up a delivery or we should say a revivalist there is that truth and for many times it does happen that way but I've already said it's not always that way and some of the characteristics of revivals is sometimes the revivals have been and I'll say awakenings and revivals to some people they mean the same thing for other people they don't mean the same thing Awakening is greater than a revival Awakening is what happens when a revival hits the church first and the church gets revived and there's an awakening where you have a out point of God where that it's as one person said evangelism is when we're going after the sinners and an awakening or a sovereign revival is when the sinners have been awakened by God and they're seeking God I mean they literally come seeking God I remember one I was ministering I'd gone to Argentina I had been in several places in Latin America now I went to Argentina in search of revival I'd heard about Argentina was Atlanta revival and I met some of the leaders in Argentina who were their indigenous Argentines and and one of them told me he said you know if you're really really looking for revival you need to go to Colombia that's where they're still killing the preachers you know the the FARC was still you know killing they were there was being murdered and there's a lot of opposition going on so when I got Callie and Bogota and Medellin it was like people that some of these buildings just storefront places and people walking by on the sidewalk and don't know why I did turn in and get saved they just just walk right into the building no no no why they're doing it and get saved it is an amazing thing to see happening there's this history of God waking up whole communities and their crowd what are going down when I went to the police station what do we have to do to get saved and there so we're talking about and sometimes we say revival mean awakening and sometimes because we use revival so we're going to have a revival our revival will be a August the 4th from you know from this week to this week and that's not a revival that's an evangelistic outreach but that's not revival so but not only is it about conviction of sin but sometimes revivals have been because of manifestations of the presence of God and her presence driven the emphasis is to the church and as God's renewing the church because of his presence there are manifestations associated with this presence and it's the renewing of the people of God that often happens and then they began to be used to see the unsaved gets saved sometimes the crowds have been drawn by the novelty of some of the manifestations that that people show up just to see what is this going on God is really good at marketing he knows how to draw draw a crowd often another characteristic of revival is that leaders who were touched in the last move of God who were young became the main leaders about let me say it different young men and young women who were touched in the last move of God never forgot that touch and no normal church could never satisfy them ever again and so when there is the time of the clinching they are the ones because they have tasted and seen how good the Lord is that they're crying out for a visitation it's not that they said we have heard of your report it's like no we live that report I've was young I was in my twenties I was in my 30s and God you've got to do it again this is the desert low Lord we we long to feel you like moving like that in our midst again and and and those people become then the leaders who have been crying out who have had experience and who God didn't raises up in the next revival that happened in the Second Great Awakening any of the people who were the main leaders of the Second Great Awakening had been young guys who were touched in the first Great Awakening another thing is a characteristically revival is that most real revivals are accepted by some of the church and rejected by some of the church John Wesley was actually turned out of the Church of England and was forbidden I've actually stood in York England right across from the the second largest Cathedral of Europe where Constantine was crowned Emperor the Roman Empire because that he was in the farthest out point at the time in England of the Roman Empire when he found out his father the emperor of Rome died and so the bishop corne crowned him whatever right there and but in that right across the street was a Methodist Church Anglican Church that forbid John Wesley to preach they actually locked the doors on him and one time Wesley realized that nobody was speaking bad about him he had no criticism and so he wrote in his journal I need to inspect my soul to see if everything is all right with God because it was like when when there's enough anointing on your life it creates counter-attack from the enemy and sometimes he just uses your brothers and sisters who are misinformed these are some of the characteristics survival another thing is that the power revived and revivals often spread and the pan what bill is taught about the power of the testimony's relationship to healing there's also the power of the testimony in relationship to revival many times it's the testimony whether it's a book or it's you know in our day it could be many different things but it used to be you know a hundred years ago books and things like that report would take months to get there but when it would get there it would create the hunger and the faith and people start god what you're doing in that country we want to see it here and sometimes like between Azusa Street and the Evan Roberts Frank bar Dolman and Evan Roberts were writing to each other about what was happening there was this hunger and so you got this connection there's like a web of connections that cause us revival to spread by the testimony not only so but in the first Great Awakening Jonathan Edwards talks about people who would come to his church and they would be touched and then when they would go to their church that revival would break out in their church as if they were carrying it in shortly after Toronto the British press actually said this this move of God and and actually this was the secular press this is true and it's sad it's also true that said that in the early days of Toronto all of the press was so positive with the secular arena it was about a year later that it became really critical but it wasn't the secular press that was critical it was the church press that was critical whole pages in the in 1995 to revive broke out when eight months long in January 95 year after Toronto and the Florida today like USA Today the Florida version front page opened up the to hope pages just pictures and what God was doing people laying out on the floor and stories and it was so positive and this was a secular press and God will often use the secular press too even if it's bad press to create interest in a revival sometimes it's even being told you shouldn't go that causes especially young people to want to go I want to go see this thing that's happened that I've been told is not of God I want to make my own conclusion so the power of the power of the testimony another thing is associated often with revival me I've already alluded to it but it is impartation on a narrative feature story so the sacred press in Great Britain said this is like the the Hong Kong flu you can catch it and carry it and it breaks out somewhere else because the leader of the vineyard movement in England his wife which escapes me right now Eleanor Mumford John and Ellen run for Eleanor had been to Toronto she went back and it it immediately broke out when she gave her story she had actually made a tape of it and some of the key leaders in England were just together in in this huge most famous Anglican Church and as they're sitting there listening to the cassette tape so how old it is the power God fell in the room and they're all out and they're drunk and they're on the floor and they're laughing and they're rolling and then they call their senior pastors in this very important meeting and he decided i beared go home and see what's going on and it moves and hits cities at certain times this is sovereign and it God gets people praying and then God's visits but it's still it's a sovereign thing you can't organize a revival you can't structure it you can't make it happen it is an act of God and it's a precious thing well anyway for example in Buenos Aires Claudio phrasing who after many years was getting ready to quit because he had just a handful of people and was so discouraged he was professor Assemblies of God seminary and had this church king of King Church and all of a sudden the spirit fell and revival broke out and went for years and he went all over the world and spoken stadiums and Argentina and Germany and filled them up 30 40 50 thousand at a time but after the revival broke out the next night it broke out in colloidal phrases Church version born azari's but the next night it broke out in the oldest Baptist Church in the nation numbers of Argentina and the second largest Baptist Church in the nation Argentina and the cold pastors were both seminary professors for the Baptist International Theological Seminary and one was over the pastoral department pastoral care and the other was church history and also taught teaches at four and was at the time the in the chair of the prestigious missions chair for Princeton Theological Seminary and he resigned it and people getting angry at him because he's the first Hispanic to ever be in such a prestigious position at a prestigious seminary such as Princeton he said I got to go home my church has broke out in revival and when he got there he said I didn't know what to think because to be honest with you it looked like it looked like Toronto and but they had not been to Toronto and so he told me later he said one year after that breakout though they'd sent out more missionaries in one year than the hundred over a hundred year history the church says sent out in a hundred years more church planters it was just the amazing what God could do so another thing just some of these characteristics and things I just wanted to highlight was in several revivals there is a connection between the Lord's Supper and the massive outpouring of the Holy Spirit cane Ridge which has been called by Conklin who wrote a book called America's Pentecost his ph.d for a University of Wisconsin it's a great book by the way America's Pentecost by Conklin anyway they were actually Presbyterians and at the time the Presbyterians had an annual communion service they just did it once a year and they would spend days in preparation and in preparing for the Lord's Supper and this is something this is what I've been thinking about in preparing for the Lord's Supper there was a time when they were to inspect their lives and in preparation to see if they've grown cold' had they been abiding had they'd been remaining in him and you know had had they allowed you know had they allowed a long list of just unrepentant things to or unconfessed things to build up and if they had they were to take care of that in getting ready for communion and I I think it was in my opinion there's something about that calling the people of God to just look into their life introspection now I agree with Bill we look into her life if we look too much on introspection it gets discouraging quick you know it's because the enemy's gonna always going to show you somewhere you may be falling short I don't think I'm talking about that though I'm talking about these transgressions where you purposely disobeyed and I've just left it undone now I believe that you can still be a I'm in covenant godson covered it with me and you can say you know I'm still in the kingdom but you can still have it you can have a broken relationship in the sense of you're not hearing very well shame shame and guilt causes it to be causes that I think causes it to be difficult to hear God speaking and and so I think so it happened at cane Ridge it also happened at canvas laying it in Whitefield after you've been over the United States or the colonies he went back and he's and he's going to this event near Glasgow Scotland and this was even before cane Ridge and it was Presbyterians again the Scottish Presbyterians and are getting ready to have the Lord's Supper and then they're getting in the preparation and solar they're looking in they're praying or confessing and getting ready and God shows up and it lasted I said you could hear the weeping and the wailing and the shouting all night long and the shrieks and some people were under the power all night long and thousands of people are about 20,000 people were there and thousands of people were touched and they wrote about it it was the most controversial thing in the church for about 30 years more books written about it anything and it was also one of the great blessings it was that story the I believe gave that Scottish Presbyterian leader there in Kentucky in the frontier to have faith too we need to do this again and was crying out in praying and so there's this connection to the greatest revivals but there's a third one one of the greatest revivals that lasted the prayer meeting and it lasted 100 years before it into 24 7 was what we now know as the Moravian movement and it was basically born there that night you know as they were getting ready to take communion God fell John and Wesley and George Whitefield being Anglicans believed that one of the greatest means of grace was the Eucharist the sacrament of the Lord's Supper they believed it was more than an ordinance it was more than an order it was a chosen means of grace by which people could be strengthened and they believed that if in taking communion it was a major source for personal renewal in the spirit I know as a pastor the last church I pastored for 16 years I learned a lot from John Westland one of the things was he would use communion as a means of evangelism and so with every service that we we had communion every service and every service I say this is the Lord's Supper it's not too bad your suppers not the Catholic supper it's not the Lutheran supper it's his supper and if you belong to him you're invited to participate with us and but I mean I went ahead and say it's not an automatic thing and you are to examine yourself and try to lay it all out but it was a means of calling people to if there's something keeping you from communion come and confess it and then take communion and ask for more strength and greater power and grace in your life to live more holy this week than you did last week so there is this connection Wesley he and Charles and George John and Charles and George and about I don't know if it's thirty or seventy others 3 o'clock in the morning they're getting ready to take commune by those Mehrabian says at midnight this was at 3 o'clock in the morning or getting ready to take communion and got unzipper to heaven and the Holy Spirit fell and they were undone and it ended up and just kind of when they were able to get off before this praising God for all that happened that happened it's Federer slain i I believe that was a key moment in the life the revival that would become known as the great evangelical revival that many historians said kept England from having a revolution like France did under under Napoleon so as we look at some of these characteristics I I believe that one of the things in the future that young Millennials are looking for is a churches that are have an emphasis on the value and value upon the power of God the gifts of God they want that but they also want it to be a church it has an emphasis on the word of God not that these are contradictory or self excluding cuz they don't have to be at all and sometimes people make these things if you believe one you don't get the other but they can even have both but they want it to be where there's strong emphasis on the word of God and the teaching of the word and grounded in the word this again is where the great revivalist Wesley he wanted not to become so mystical that we didn't have any practical good and neither to become so focused on so rational that we have no room for mystery and so these two things but then there's another third I think that the Millennials are looking for and that is mystery then that our faith is just reason our there's a mystery to our faith there there really is things that we don't understand there's things that God asked us to believe that doesn't make sense to our rational mind that and so we could say it's Pentecostal its evangelical and it's sacramental that there is a belief that we're receiving more than a cracker receive a man and receive a righteous man a name of a righteous man receive righteous man's reward receive a prophet a name of prophecy the Prophet's reward if you go to the next conclusion that depends on what you think you're receiving does I believe impact the amount of grace you're expecting to receive we don't know it doesn't have to be one or the other he could be all three revival is an interesting thing so let's just talk a little bit in next whoa Wow okay gotta go quickly I just realize I probably have five lectures in this one thing here this but anyway first Great Awakening United States Gannon 1735 and it was characterized but people falling under the power deep conviction crying out weeping and laughter second great awakening began in the late 1790s and culminated in the like year 1801 and in it there was again falling and the holy jerks children preaching and preaching in a way that's impossible the telling stories they did not know is amazing it was it was a mystery it was a marvel just like the early the children and the French Huguenots in France the these very uneducated children began to prophesy in perfect high French that they couldn't speak naturally I've actually been to the museum where this has happened and it was and it started out pure but then it got contaminated by people trying to use the prophetic for their own political and religious purposes it contaminated it but it started but the point was often in revival God does something with children that is an amazing marvel and a wonder that you just can't understand because they don't know how to do that they don't know that was stories they it was also true in Roland and Heidi Baker's Rowan's grandfather when the revival broke out and there in China the kids little children that they had in the orphanage began to prophesy about things that was going to come in the Communist revolution and what the church is going to go through and and it was prophesied and I don't just in case I don't get there but in 1949 in in Bell City Argentina our city Bell Argentina there was these children not I'm wrong as mainly teenagers there really and when one of them who was just in his teens met an angel it so freaked him out he was running back to the place and when he came in the angel presence came in with him and everybody woke up under the sense of holiness and all and was just weeping and it was almost terrorizing in a sense of how holy it was and for for days and days and days they just are weeping and crying and reading the presence of God and they began to be one guy was one guy talk to him he's 78 years older and he hadn't talked about it since he's a teenager first time we've got him to come and gave his give his testimony to our group there in northern Argentina and they were shown things prophetically and they prophesied things that to the natural man natural person there's no way that could happen that's never happened this country and they just and they and they begin to pray about it and they had to pray from 49 to 1954 and in 1954 what those children were seen narratives teenagers had seen and prophesied about literally began to take place in the great revival that broke Argentina open to become now known as the land of revival but before that it was the place of death to go there and died pretty much it is very very it was a very very difficult field in which to try to be a a missionary so in in these things that are happening they spread very rapidly for example in the Second Great Awakening in cane Ridge after those what they called motor phenomena occurred with the jerks where the people's passion bondable thrown off their head their jerking you know the crunches in Toronto were like a level-3 in comparison to these holy jerks and they've got they were called Methodists fits because the Methodists at that time were the precursors of Pentecostals and by the way John Wesley's theology is the bedrock upon which Pentecostal theology really is based is in that Wesleyan subsequent experience and what Wesley called sanctification the first forty years of his ministry the last twenty years of his ministry he changed it and called it the baptism in the spirit Wesley did not believe anything was necessary for salvation except faith no experience but he also believed that the only full assurance that you've had real faith that has brought you into the kingdom was this baptism in the spirit now the baptism spirit and his theology didn't cause it but it was the full assurance and once you've had that he had full assurance that you had that you were in the kingdom but he said you're in the kingdom because of the faith in believing now these phenomena that happened these Methodist fits within just a few years 1/4 of all the Christians of the south had had them the Belleville live above the belt Bible but the Bible Belt was birthed literally the Bible Belt was birthed out of the Second Great Awakening and particularly Cain rich it had that much impact it spread rapidly when there wasn't any means of rapid communication the first time someone spoke in tongues is written down that people in American it was it happened in this this meeting at the University of Georgia out some students in University of Georgia out in this place where they were having a revival we ended up falling into the haystack because of the they'd had one there and that's where they put the slain and some of them began to speak in tongues they were seen as a phenomena it would be another hundred years before it would be seen as more than that by the birth of the pink hostile movement now these phenomena are hard to understand and it caused a lot of criticism and also a lot of curiosity and caused hunger the whole thing of some of the characters we have today that are like I've never seen people run around the building but it started and cane Ridge because when they get the holy jerks they found out if you would run it would ease or or if you would pray it ease up and if you resisted they just got worse now we have our way of judging whether or not we think something God or not but one man in this revival who was you know you got 20,000 people there's only two hundred and twenty thousand people in state of Kentucky at the time and you got twenty thousand people that are camped out in the wilderness and wagons and tents and things and you got people there that's that's selling stuff and you got people there that aren't there to be saved just there to mock and see what's going on you know you got a lot of that mystery around the edges a lot of stuff going on one guy is there he's there just see what's going on he's got moonshine and he's doesn't like it and he's mocking it and he starts cursing and the holy jerks came on him cuz they'd come on saint and sinner alike and as he's jerking so hard finally it jerks the bottle out of his hand and it broke on a rock and he saw that he just starts cursing all the worse and as he's cursing God and cursing everything that's going around he begins to jerk so violently that his neck snaps and you heard it pop crack and he felt dead sometimes you can have an anodized Sapphira type situation my mind just went blank I'm trying to think of this famous Methodist circuit writer I read his autobiography is wonderful and he was came under conviction and King Ridge and got saved in another camp meeting just a few weeks later Peter Cartwright and Peter Cartwright was pre even on the greatest preachers evangelist and the Memphis revival that went on after this time and and he went to talk to somebody in a log cabin about his so when a guy gets so mad he starts cursing and Peter Cartwright turns he's walking and the jerks came on this guy and he started jerking he suggests I turned around the corner I heard his next step and another one fell down then there's something about God knowing how to get people's attention and there's things I don't understand about revival - one of them that revival would go for many years and then be hit we'd have another 1830 revival then we had an 1857 fifty-eight revival that went from from Canada the United States don't have time to tell you the story except ours is all laymen and it wasn't based on preaching it was just prayers a prayer revival with lay people and thousands people came into the kingdom in one of the prayer means somebody got and said here they've just reading the prayer because my husband is an unsaved man and I'm praying for him and one of the meanings of that must be my wife I have a Christian wife and I know she's praying for me so I that's me gets safe nothing no less do not judge me I have a Christian wife and and she's praying for me and it's just that just a reading of that prayer request as they're going to agree with men and the meetings that that's me and come under conviction it starts just crying out that God would say their souls this is this is this is what it feels like if we had a revival like that today it there would be 10 million at least 10 million people get saved in one year in the American culture 10 million the the Second Great Awakening caused the Baptist the Presbyterians to double the Baptist to triple in number of churches and members in two years two years following the outbreak of revival the Presbyterians doubled by the way they had the least phenomena they had the least jerks the least falling the Baptist's triple they had the middle the Methodists who had the most quadrupled now I don't know if there's meant to be any correlation there I'm not saying that there is I'm just noting that there was some there appears to be some type of a correlation but maybe not sometimes people say well it can't be God if it causes division I would just like to say that's a very bad argument for a Protestant because if you hold to that you've just destroyed the legitimacy of being a Protestant that cane Ridge revival split the Presbyterian denomination to enter the old lights and the new lights and the the ones who wanted to go for revival because it became known as the Cumberland because the Cumberland revival there Cumberland Presbyterians is their extreme yes often revival there's some that gets into an extreme and it causes discredit of the whole thing as if that few that got into the extreme represented everybody that's also another phenomena or characteristic so we would go first Great Awakening Second Great Awakening well in 1835 1850 750 prayer revival 1900 there was revival hit American went from shore to shore 1901 1902 deal Moody oratory take a tour around the english-speaking world it was a holiness revival Kazik type people who believed in a subsequent experience of consecration it wasn't quite the same as the Methodist emphasis on sanctification but it was a scene as a subsequent experience that was known you could know you've received this experience and as these guys go around Australian and England and America and Canada and gone around the english-speaking world they're in revival and in the middle of that revival God doesn't wait till it ends and wanes the the Wales revival Welsh revival breaks out with Evan Roberts he had believed evidence he had believed there'd be a hundred thousand souls saved in and in less than a year there were a hundred thousand conversions that came into the church that had been stayed and actually was in that area not in a good place and God redeemed it if we could understand I don't have time I'm actually just hitting the highlights of what could be hours of lectures on revival but we're not nearly in as bad of a place as our country has been in times past for seemingly the church was losing ground now I I believe that it's possible that parts of the church can be in revival and other parts of the church be dead as doornail no reason why I believe that is in my search for revival prior or in the last 20-some odd years I told you I went to Colombia and Argentina but what was amazing was there were and today Brazil and there are lots of churches that are exploding with salvations and healings and it's amazing the presence of God and you can go in the same town just two sometimes you can almost go across the street and there'll be another churches just there's a lack of presence of God in it so you can have a national revival and not everybody and then not every Church in the nation is part of it my thing is I don't want to miss I don't want to miss so he had the Pentecostal revival 1901 and then February 13 1948 you have the latter rain revival but right before that or in in a 47th when it actually broke out and then in 48 you have the healing revival now the healing revival and the latter rain revival and Billy Graham in my opinion is all the same revival but I made a mistake of telling somebody from the latter rain that he that there is part of the healing revival know that different move of God we were the lighter rain and that's the healing and here's the difference between them and definitely Billy Graham something else if I don't believe so I believe that there's many of these revivals that if you could go higher and look you would see that out of God's mercy and God's love for people that he will keep pouring things on because there's unending 47 you have a ladder rain that breaks out with emphasis on prophesying and the restoration of all the gifts of the Spirit for today and the office for today and 48 you have the breaking out of this healing revival it starred in 46 with Brandon but then in 48 we got Billy Oral Roberts and Jack Cohen all these guys really we now we got over a hundred tents going around healing revivals in in the United States and then about the same time you have this young man who worked for Campus Crusade for Christ or I forget which one it was one of those youth organizations his name was Billy Graham and he actually stood in the place there's a plaque there where he had determined he was going to believe God and believe God's Word and where he wanted to be a part of it and didn't want to miss he's crying out for God to touch him and he does there by this lake up in the and Southern California up in the mountains in this kemp area and right after that happens he goes down to Los Angeles he starts this meeting 1949 and some very famous people get healed including the the the start the man who was the star of the movie unbroken if you saw that movie that guy who was captured by the Japanese he very famous he got saved and in her healed a lot of good stuff that happened to him in that meeting and some more very famous people were touched and William Hearst who owned the biggest newspaper organization in the United States at the time wrote to his reporters and said this is he god can you Cyrus God can you eat it you don't have to belong to him for him to make you do what he wants you to do if you may not have any idea that's God behind it but he wrote to all his reporters and he said puffs gram puffs gram give him footage cover his meetings and it became famous all over before God told her Stu puffs Graham Graham had an experience up there by that little lake in the mountains where he faced his doubt and faced his commitment levels and said yes and went all out and asked for more and God did it now he's ready and now God's ready I believe that is all part of one move of God those three moves of God next we have an upgrade revival the charismatic movement now this is an interesting one it's called 9 it was in 1960 that clock is not what it still says 3:30 - is that what time it is ok I'm two minutes past time oh no no sorry hey it's all right I get to preach again I don't know I don't take time when I'm tired I want you in this little part Ren and now I'll talk about why the revival ended in another one okay I'm gonna preach again it'd be a not logical place to stop it's real quick - up the G the charismatic movement is very important is important because God was setting the stage for a world revival billions so harvest that's gonna be so big it's gonna take all the church to disciple the new converts it won't be an evangelist it won't be key 73 I'm old enough to remember so many things that we tried on denominational levels National Council churches and all this stuff our desires to go out often God had to wait till we tried it before we moved because we can't organize we cannot make these things happen we can cry out but if we've never heard what God has done we have no faith to cry out we don't know what we're crying out for should we'd never seen God just come and change a culture like he did in the first Great Awakening both England and the United States and all in many of these does I've been talking about they here's here's the thing he takes the Episcopalian priest he gets the gift of tongues God puts it in the newspaper puts it in newsweek i remembers newsweek or timer get which will maybe smoke them I don't remember but I remember being 18 years old was it time I remember being 18 years old reading about this and it said these guys are getting off a heroin addiction by prayer in a matter of minutes and it talked about these hippies getting saved and and I'm saying god I've never seen you do that in the Baptist Church and if it's possible I want to get in on it if this is this is really real I want to get in on it and it's like it God has a way of using the media to create get the word out the testimony and caused people to get hungry and start crying out what was the importance of tongues in this charismatic movement I'll tell you what I think it is in the first century Church in the Apostolic Church just put it that way in the apostolic in the New Testament church you can see that the church is quite prejudiced and quite insular we're Jewish Christianity was seen as a sect of Judaism basically in the earliest days it was the way it was the following the Jewish Messiah and to get the church to be able to welcome non-jews God used the gift of tongues he used that Samaria where you got half Jews he used it it Cornelius house we have Gentiles who who belong to the synagogue and our god-fearers who believed in the God of Israel but they have been circumcised but they're in that connection then he uses for just Gentiles period so you have in these stages God is saying cuz because they knew that Pentecost this was us visible kind of God's presence coming on these people and so he was able to say this is a sign that I've accepted these people now almost 2000 years later not quite but my 1930 some odd years later all of a sudden you have Episcopalians who are speaking in tongues and Roman Catholics and Lutheran's iris race Baptists and we were sure all those people were going to help because we were teetotalers and and especially they can't that can't be really and and and the Pentecostals mainland I remember being 19 cm going to college and my Pentecostal friends that were there some of them there's a few of them they said we don't believe that charismatic movements God because they're not sanctified you can't be sanctified and drink wine you can't be sanctified and baptized in the spirit speak in tongues and drink beer like the Lutheran's and Catholics it and you and you and you can't be sanctified and really beat and be a scotch drink and Presbyterian it really was a cultural shock but what God was saying my church is much bigger what you guys thought it was you guys thought you were the only one that hadn't bowed your kneel to bail but I have billions others around the world and we began to see the church was so much bigger than what we thought and we began there began to be a need to tear the walls down we'd built between each other and began to bless each other a friend of mine honor close this out with this because the Jesus the hip that movement spread then into the Jesus Movement with the hippies and the problem there we didn't believe ache he won't clean and especially the fundamentalists with the real short haircuts which later became a sign of rebellion in my young my son's age God can't be accepting he's barefoot stinking hippies it was who he was getting God has used the gifts and presence of his Holy Spirit to be a sign these are my people so of course well I was one close to this I have a friend who was a businessman in Atlanta Georgia he's retired now but he was at one time the second or third largest builder in Atlanta made millions and in the 2008 crash lost millions and went bankrupt but a lot of builders did and that that crash you know but anyway he's had this dream over and over and over and his background is Baptist Southern Baptist and he said in this dream I see the pastor of the Methodist Church calling the Baptist and saying can you take any new believers were overwhelmed we have so many new believers we don't have any room for them we can't disciple them can we give you a few hundred new believers to help us decipher him we did he's announcing our fault - we don't have any room we're trying to give some away to the Presbyterians and they're calling each other across the city asking can you help us disciple the harvest that's why we need to pray for believe for because I believe it's not going to get terrible I don't think it's gonna be an ebb and flow I think it's gonna be a flow and a greater flow and a greater flow and if we get stuck in that way of thinking oh we can't really God's not gonna give I've got to get bad before he can really come again we're not we got to wait through the way this wave to go out and then it get really dry and then we can pray for the revival know we can we can go from glory to glory it's been done before it can be done again it's the will of the Father and that something about these revivals if you look at him I don't have time if I would have had time to put them all up there on the overhead for you the the distance of time between one great revival and the next great revival shrinks and as we're moving forward the time between them gets less and less and less between the next wave see I believe 1993 rodney howard-browne went to lakeland florida 1994 Randy Clark went to Toronto 1995 Steve Hill went to Pensacola and 1996 God went to a cornfield church in smithston and in the middle of all that he even took a detour and hit the evangelical colleges I do not believe those were separate moves of God I believe that is one big move of God where he in his graciousness and love is trying to create cultural expressions of his presence that would attract some that wouldn't be attracted to another because he loves us all so much and he loves this church so much and so let's week let let there be a hunger for God to move again what would it take what would it look like to see so many people were all of a sudden they just start coming to your church crying and Senate I don't know what this is but I I need Jesus to where every church in the revivals of Argentina under anaconda cities one would have 80 some thousand new believers enter a 50 day or 40 day whatever it was meeting under anaconda another had 47,000 the numbers of people who were actually going to church before the revival and after revival doubled were used to seeing in in our evangelistic outreach 'as we have a harvest it looks like when it come down front but four to six percent actually end up in church and a year later the percentage that four to six percent is not very high that stayed but in these moods of God eighty percent of them end up in church and a year later about 80 percent them have remained faithful that's the difference between a move of God and a move of man let us cry out for a move of God father

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Published: Tue Mar 17 2020