Revival starts next week (Sept. 25-28) with Bro. Duane Eller from Nails Creek Baptist Church. I hope you have made plans to be here each service. We need a Revival in our Church. We need to get serious about our walk with the Lord. God has blessed us so much and we are thankful for all he has done, but are we living the way that he wants us to? What is Revival? The synonyms are: revitalization, renewal, restoration, stimulation, reinforcement, recovery, resumption, resurgence, rebirth, rehabilitation. Charles Finney said “It presupposes that the church is sunk down in a backslidden state, and a revival consists in the return of the Church from her backslidings and the conversion of sinners.” Amen to that.
1. The foundations of sin need to be broken up. A revival always includes conviction of sin on the part of the church. Backslidden professors cannot wake up and begin right away in the service of God without deep searching of their heart. The fountains of sin need to be broken up. In a true revival, Christians are always brought under such conviction; they see their sins in such a light that often they find it impossible to maintain a hope of their acceptance with God. It does not always go to that extent, but there are always, in a genuine revival, deep convictions of sin, and often cases of abandoning all hope.
2. Revival is a new beginning of obedience with God. Just as in the case of a converted sinner, the first step is a deep repentance, a breaking down of heart, a getting down into the dust before God, with humility, and a forsaking of sin.
3. Backslidden Christians will be brought to repentance. A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.
4. Christians will have their faith renewed.
5. A revival breaks the power of the world and of sin over Christians. It brings them to such vantage ground that they get a fresh impulse towards heaven; they have a new foretaste of heaven, and new desires after union with God; thus the charm of the world is broken, and the power of sin overcome.
6. When the Churches are thus awakened and salvation of sinners will follow.
7. When a revival can be expected? A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it.
Pastor Tommy
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