Revival: Rekindling the Holy Spirit's Fire
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Revival is the return of the Holy Spirit to his rightful place in the Church of Jesus Christ and in the lives of his followers. Revival is a new sense of God. Why are things changing? Why? Because the Holy Spirit has come. Remember, the Father sent the Son, but before Jesus left this Earth, before even doing his work on the cross of dying for our sins, he said it's good for you that I go because I'm going to send the helper, the Holy Spirit. [00:02:52]
Revival is not evangelism. It's not going door to door telling people about Jesus. We need that, but Revival doesn't mean that. It comes from revivify, revive. Something was alive, something was burning, it's going out now, and now it blazes again. So prayer, confession of sin, making right with other people that you're fussing with, that were ING with, has to precede that because how can God come and bless when there's discontent, gossip, slander, lying, stealing, all those things, hatred, prejudice? [00:04:49]
The Holy Spirit is the key to a healthy Church, a vibrant Church, effective evangelism, vibrant Christians, Victorious Christians. Without the Holy Spirit, as Samuel Chadwick said, Methodist preacher of a long time ago, Christianity is hopeless without the Holy Ghost. Did you hear it? Christianity is hopeless. You can have correct Doctrine, you go to church, you can sing hymns, oh no, we're not into hymns, we're into new choruses, sing new choruses, sing hymns, it doesn't matter unless the Holy Spirit comes and does his work in us and Among Us. [00:07:49]
Fire is a symbol of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has several symbols in the Bible. One is wind. In fact, the same word for wind and Spirit in the Greek. So wind, remember what Jesus said, the wind blows where it wants and you don't know when it's coming, going, so is everyone who's born of the spirit, capital S. So there's power in that wind, there's unpredictability, you can't confine the wind. Then there's oil as a symbol of the Holy Spirit. [00:11:15]
Fire penetrates. See this Bible, if I pour water on it, it'll be a wet Bible. If I pour oil on it, it'll be an oily Bible. If the wind blows on it, it might move it or flip the pages, but you set this Bible on fire, in Fuego, you take a match and set these pages on fire, fire penetrates. It cuts down to the essential. In other words, in the sense of this Bible, there'll probably be nothing left but ashes. [00:13:05]
When Revival comes, people stop talking Baba and stop talking about nonsense. They start talking about spiritual things. Read about every Revival that ever occurred, Finny's revivals in Upstate New York in Utica and those other places. The fire of God so burnt in the city, spiritually speaking, that people would meet in the street and start to cry and pray for each other in the street. Why? The fire had burnt away everything Superfluous, and now they were like, oh God, I need God, I want more of God. [00:15:18]
Fire is contagious. Fire sets other things on fire. Water doesn't do that. Water could seep and drip to other things, and oil can make some other things close by a little bit oily maybe, but fire, I'm sitting in a beautiful church, God forbid this, this whatever happen would ever happen, it won't, but if nobody was in this building and the fire alarms didn't work, just start this set one Pew on fire, get it going, all right, so you burn a Pew. [00:20:44]
When the fire of the Holy Spirit comes, you don't have to energize and give people a kick in the back end to go out and share Christ. Did you ever notice that? I've noticed that since I went in the ministry. In the New Testament, there is so little admonition and encouragement like, come on guys, what are you doing, come on, we got to win souls, come on, let's go door too, let's hold Mass meeting. It's mentioned, do the work of an evangelist is given to Timothy, and we're all workers for the gospel. [00:21:31]
The Holy Spirit makes the things of God so joyous and full with peace, you got to tell people about it. You know, I talked to someone the other day who went to a store and they got something on sale, tremendous price on something. No one had to tell them, now listen, go out and share with everyone how you got a % off on that. No, they did it because they were excited. The Holy Spirit makes us so excited about Jesus, we're going to talk. [00:22:56]
Your fire does more in five minutes than our efforts could do in 5 years. So Lord, we say humbly, help us to repent, turn away from anything you convict us about, take it out of our lives, and we humble ourselves before you, and we confess that we are hopeless and helpless without the fire of God. We cannot do it, we cannot do it, we humble ourselves, we cannot do what needs to be done on our own. [00:26:19]
We need his fire to penetrate our hearts, illuminate our paths, and spread his love and truth to others. Let us open our hearts to the Holy Spirit, allowing him to do what no human effort can achieve, and let his fire transform us and our communities. [00:27:39]
Lord, send the fire. I know, but there might be excesses. Yeah, there always are excesses, and we got to teach and be patient with that, but I'd rather have the fire with problems than no fire, and then what do we have? Same old, same old, boring church. I was bored with church when I was 10 or 11. I was like, same old, same old, this thing so predictable. [00:24:18]
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Revival is not evangelism. It's not going door to door telling people about Jesus. We need that, but Revival doesn't mean that. It comes from revivify, revive. Something was alive, something was burning, it's going out now, and now it blazes again. So prayer, confession of sin, making right with other people that you're fussing with, that were ING with, has to precede that because how can God come and bless when there's discontent, gossip, slander, lying, stealing, all those things, hatred, prejudice? [00:04:49]
The Holy Spirit is the key to a healthy Church, a vibrant Church, effective evangelism, vibrant Christians, Victorious Christians. Without the Holy Spirit, as Samuel Chadwick said, Methodist preacher of a long time ago, Christianity is hopeless without the Holy Ghost. Did you hear it? Christianity is hopeless. You can have correct Doctrine, you go to church, you can sing hymns, oh no, we're not into hymns, we're into new choruses, sing new choruses, sing hymns, it doesn't matter unless the Holy Spirit comes and does his work in us and Among Us. [00:07:49]
Fire is a symbol of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has several symbols in the Bible. One is wind. In fact, the same word for wind and Spirit in the Greek. So wind, remember what Jesus said, the wind blows where it wants and you don't know when it's coming, going, so is everyone who's born of the spirit, capital S. So there's power in that wind, there's unpredictability, you can't confine the wind. Then there's oil as a symbol of the Holy Spirit. [00:11:15]
Fire penetrates. See this Bible, if I pour water on it, it'll be a wet Bible. If I pour oil on it, it'll be an oily Bible. If the wind blows on it, it might move it or flip the pages, but you set this Bible on fire, in Fuego, you take a match and set these pages on fire, fire penetrates. It cuts down to the essential. In other words, in the sense of this Bible, there'll probably be nothing left but ashes. [00:13:05]
When Revival comes, people stop talking Baba and stop talking about nonsense. They start talking about spiritual things. Read about every Revival that ever occurred, Finny's revivals in Upstate New York in Utica and those other places. The fire of God so burnt in the city, spiritually speaking, that people would meet in the street and start to cry and pray for each other in the street. Why? The fire had burnt away everything Superfluous, and now they were like, oh God, I need God, I want more of God. [00:15:18]
Fire is contagious. Fire sets other things on fire. Water doesn't do that. Water could seep and drip to other things, and oil can make some other things close by a little bit oily maybe, but fire, I'm sitting in a beautiful church, God forbid this, this whatever happen would ever happen, it won't, but if nobody was in this building and the fire alarms didn't work, just start this set one Pew on fire, get it going, all right, so you burn a Pew. [00:20:44]
When the fire of the Holy Spirit comes, you don't have to energize and give people a kick in the back end to go out and share Christ. Did you ever notice that? I've noticed that since I went in the ministry. In the New Testament, there is so little admonition and encouragement like, come on guys, what are you doing, come on, we got to win souls, come on, let's go door too, let's hold Mass meeting. It's mentioned, do the work of an evangelist is given to Timothy, and we're all workers for the gospel. [00:21:31]
The Holy Spirit makes the things of God so joyous and full with peace, you got to tell people about it. You know, I talked to someone the other day who went to a store and they got something on sale, tremendous price on something. No one had to tell them, now listen, go out and share with everyone how you got a % off on that. No, they did it because they were excited. The Holy Spirit makes us so excited about Jesus, we're going to talk. [00:22:56]
Your fire does more in five minutes than our efforts could do in 5 years. So Lord, we say humbly, help us to repent, turn away from anything you convict us about, take it out of our lives, and we humble ourselves before you, and we confess that we are hopeless and helpless without the fire of God. We cannot do it, we cannot do it, we humble ourselves, we cannot do what needs to be done on our own. [00:26:19]
We need his fire to penetrate our hearts, illuminate our paths, and spread his love and truth to others. Let us open our hearts to the Holy Spirit, allowing him to do what no human effort can achieve, and let his fire transform us and our communities. [00:27:39]
Lord, send the fire. I know, but there might be excesses. Yeah, there always are excesses, and we got to teach and be patient with that, but I'd rather have the fire with problems than no fire, and then what do we have? Same old, same old, boring church. I was bored with church when I was 10 or 11. I was like, same old, same old, this thing so predictable. [00:24:18]
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