1 00:00:01,540 --> 00:00:05,940 Vance Avner once remarked, Everyone seems to be 2 00:00:05,940 --> 00:00:06,980 holding revivals. 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,420 It's about time someone let loose of one. 4 00:00:10,780 --> 00:00:14,820 But the mightily used evangelist, Sam Jones said, 5 00:00:15,379 --> 00:00:18,380 The need of revival is a proof that 6 00:00:18,380 --> 00:00:19,460 we are not right. 7 00:00:19,780 --> 00:00:23,360 It's an abnormal state of things that makes 8 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:24,780 revivals necessary. 9 00:00:25,460 --> 00:00:27,920 And we are in sad shape today, friends. 10 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:30,740 If you only look around us, we'll see 11 00:00:30,740 --> 00:00:33,720 we're desperately in need of revival today. 12 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:39,880 In Isaiah 64, 1, God's Word declares, Oh, 13 00:00:40,480 --> 00:00:44,980 that thou wouldst rend the heavens, that thou 14 00:00:44,980 --> 00:00:49,000 wouldst come down, that the mountains might flow 15 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,780 down, that the mountains might flow down at 16 00:00:52,780 --> 00:00:54,020 thy presence. 17 00:00:54,580 --> 00:00:57,260 This speaks of the dreadful presence of God, 18 00:00:57,260 --> 00:01:00,940 the awful presence of God that's seen in 19 00:01:00,940 --> 00:01:01,480 revival. 20 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,740 I know it's easy to get discouraged if 21 00:01:05,740 --> 00:01:07,920 we've been praying for revival for a long 22 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,020 time and are yet to see God send 23 00:01:11,020 --> 00:01:11,620 us one. 24 00:01:12,020 --> 00:01:15,100 But we must remember the wise words of 25 00:01:15,100 --> 00:01:19,080 Jonathan Edwards, who wrote, We see that God 26 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:22,740 is faithful and never will forget the promises 27 00:01:23,260 --> 00:01:26,080 that he has made to his church and 28 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,260 that he will not suffer the smoking flax 29 00:01:29,260 --> 00:01:33,080 to be quenched even when the floods seem 30 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,960 to be overwhelming it, but will revive the 31 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:40,340 flame again, even in the darkest times. 32 00:01:41,540 --> 00:01:45,540 Well, I appreciate those observations of Jonathan Edwards 33 00:01:45,540 --> 00:01:49,360 because we sure are in some darkest times 34 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:49,960 today. 35 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,120 And when one studies the history of the 36 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,680 church, it's usually against a backdrop of darkness 37 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,060 where God comes down in revival. 38 00:02:00,420 --> 00:02:06,260 In England, in the times of Wesleyan Whitfield, 39 00:02:06,740 --> 00:02:10,400 one sees such a dark background of sin 40 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,860 and debauchery in society. 41 00:02:13,180 --> 00:02:16,180 For in London at the time, every sixth 42 00:02:16,180 --> 00:02:20,460 house was a gin shop, prostitution was rampant, 43 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,560 and public drunkenness was so common that even 44 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,620 members of parliament showed up for work dead 45 00:02:27,620 --> 00:02:28,200 drunk. 46 00:02:28,660 --> 00:02:32,940 And against this dark velvet background emerges these 47 00:02:32,940 --> 00:02:37,640 two brilliant diamonds, these two brilliant evangelists, and 48 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:42,120 revival commences and God comes down and society 49 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:46,360 is preserved while other countries, like France, are 50 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,900 in chaos and tumbling down. 51 00:02:49,860 --> 00:02:54,180 But although we today live in dark days, 52 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,300 what concerns me most is that we're about 53 00:02:57,300 --> 00:03:01,440 to lose a generation of individuals who actually 54 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,040 know what real revival is. 55 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:08,640 They spent their lives studying revival and experiencing 56 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:11,660 revival, and now they are aged. 57 00:03:11,660 --> 00:03:14,640 They're closer to heaven than they are to 58 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:15,120 earth. 59 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,440 I'm thinking the three men in particular. 60 00:03:17,980 --> 00:03:20,020 Each one is 94 years old. 61 00:03:20,380 --> 00:03:23,720 They can't be replaced when they're gone, and 62 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,720 their combined knowledge of revival is unmatched in 63 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:28,620 this generation. 64 00:03:29,340 --> 00:03:32,840 I'm speaking of Ted Randall, Richard Owen Roberts, 65 00:03:33,220 --> 00:03:34,260 and Ian Murray. 66 00:03:34,660 --> 00:03:38,660 These men have dedicated their lives to the 67 00:03:38,660 --> 00:03:41,040 serious study of revival. 68 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:44,460 They've prayed for it, preached for it, written 69 00:03:44,460 --> 00:03:47,780 wisely on it, and my fear is we'll 70 00:03:47,780 --> 00:03:51,040 end up with a rising generation of believers 71 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:55,580 who really don't know what genuine revival really 72 00:03:55,580 --> 00:03:57,760 is or what it entails. 73 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:02,240 We'll see some religious excitement on a campus, 74 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:05,760 and we'll call that revival, even though it's 75 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,660 missing the marks of genuine revival. 76 00:04:08,660 --> 00:04:12,940 Few pastors today know what it's like to 77 00:04:12,940 --> 00:04:15,959 experience the power of God in a meeting. 78 00:04:16,660 --> 00:04:20,820 Somehow, we've convinced ourselves that we can get 79 00:04:20,820 --> 00:04:23,940 the job done quicker with money and manpower, 80 00:04:24,740 --> 00:04:28,220 but in former times, the church operated by 81 00:04:28,220 --> 00:04:31,000 prayer and holy ghost power. 82 00:04:31,500 --> 00:04:34,900 But we are more obsessed with church growth 83 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:38,700 today and expanding our campus rather than the 84 00:04:38,700 --> 00:04:41,000 spiritual growth of the members. 85 00:04:41,540 --> 00:04:45,800 Samuel Chadwick said it best when he commented, 86 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,400 When a church is run on the same 87 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,300 lines as a circus, there may be crowds, 88 00:04:53,860 --> 00:04:56,300 but there is no Shekinah. 89 00:04:57,020 --> 00:04:59,900 And I'm afraid, friends, the church in America 90 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:03,400 today is under the remedial judgment of the 91 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:05,040 withdrawn presence of God. 92 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,280 We have grieved the Holy Spirit away. 93 00:05:08,820 --> 00:05:11,960 We may have crowds, but there is no 94 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:13,080 Shekinah. 95 00:05:13,820 --> 00:05:17,760 And now that AI technology is taking over 96 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:22,160 everything inside and outside of the church, there'll 97 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,580 be little room for the Holy Spirit of 98 00:05:24,580 --> 00:05:25,660 God to work. 99 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,200 So I fear we'll end up with a 100 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:33,680 younger generation of Christians who define revival quite 101 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,220 differently than what history does. 102 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,900 So it's critically important, friends, to be able 103 00:05:39,900 --> 00:05:43,720 to distinguish between the true and the spurious 104 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:45,220 in revival. 105 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,740 For Satan always has his counterfeit works to 106 00:05:49,740 --> 00:05:50,820 deceive the masses. 107 00:05:51,700 --> 00:05:54,540 He appears as an angel of light. 108 00:05:55,180 --> 00:05:57,620 Some years ago, I was in a megachurch 109 00:05:57,620 --> 00:06:01,700 where the female worship leader was saying, the 110 00:06:01,700 --> 00:06:02,720 Spirit is here. 111 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,200 The Spirit is here. 112 00:06:04,580 --> 00:06:05,700 Put your hands up. 113 00:06:06,020 --> 00:06:07,840 You can feel the Spirit is here. 114 00:06:08,300 --> 00:06:09,460 And she was right. 115 00:06:09,820 --> 00:06:11,620 You could sure feel it. 116 00:06:11,860 --> 00:06:13,980 And it even gave you the warm fuzzies. 117 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,960 But it was a lying spirit, a false 118 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:17,380 spirit. 119 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,140 If you can't recognize the real from the 120 00:06:20,140 --> 00:06:24,360 false, then you will be deceived as well. 121 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:29,420 I've studied historical revival for four decades. 122 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,500 I've written many books on the subject of 123 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:34,100 revival. 124 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,180 And my Ph.D. dissertation was on the 125 00:06:38,180 --> 00:06:42,760 revival of religion in England under Wesleyan Whitfield. 126 00:06:43,260 --> 00:06:47,400 And through my studies of historical revivals, I've 127 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:51,880 identified certain marks of genuine revival. 128 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,660 And I want to list these marks of 129 00:06:54,660 --> 00:06:58,360 revival today and talk about them, friends, because 130 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:02,060 we must pass on to a rising generation 131 00:07:02,060 --> 00:07:06,760 what the earmarks of real revival are to 132 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:10,360 distinguish between the real and the false. 133 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,540 The title of my message today, friends, is 134 00:07:14,540 --> 00:07:18,000 Five Marks of Genuine Revival. 135 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:21,900 There are five marks to a true move 136 00:07:21,900 --> 00:07:25,800 of grace in a revival of religion and 137 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:27,300 a sovereign work of God. 138 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,980 You'll have all five of these characteristics. 139 00:07:30,780 --> 00:07:34,600 I will first list them, then elaborate upon 140 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:35,360 each head. 141 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,580 The first mark of a genuine revival is 142 00:07:39,580 --> 00:07:45,160 a felt and conscious awareness of the awful 143 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:49,500 solemnity of a holy God in His manifest 144 00:07:49,500 --> 00:07:50,480 presence. 145 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:56,200 The second mark of genuine revival is a 146 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:01,520 consciousness of one's sinfulness in need of repentance, 147 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:08,460 reformation, and in some cases, restitution, combined with 148 00:08:08,460 --> 00:08:12,720 a heightened awareness of the malignity of the 149 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:13,980 evil of sin. 150 00:08:14,500 --> 00:08:21,020 The third mark of genuine revival is inactivated 151 00:08:21,020 --> 00:08:26,360 desire for a pursuit for holiness and personal 152 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:31,220 consecration in a consistent walk with God under 153 00:08:31,220 --> 00:08:34,299 the reign and rule of Christ's Lordship. 154 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:39,240 The fourth mark of genuine revival is a 155 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:45,040 heightened spiritual vitality in prayer and joyful, energized 156 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:47,460 worship from glad hearts. 157 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,500 The fifth mark of a genuine revival is 158 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:55,780 a people gripped with eternity in the last 159 00:08:55,780 --> 00:08:58,860 judgment where there is a renewed heart burden 160 00:08:58,860 --> 00:09:02,780 for the souls of man in evangelistic enterprise. 161 00:09:03,860 --> 00:09:06,760 Well, let's talk about the first mark of 162 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:11,120 a genuine revival, a felt and conscious awareness 163 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,940 of the awful solemnity of a holy God 164 00:09:14,940 --> 00:09:17,220 in His manifest presence. 165 00:09:17,900 --> 00:09:22,340 During the Lewis revival of the Scottish Hebrides 166 00:09:22,340 --> 00:09:28,300 of 1949 to 1952 under the ministry of 167 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:32,360 Duncan Campbell, this was said of the atmosphere 168 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:33,860 on the island. 169 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:39,000 The awful presence of God brought a wave 170 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,160 of conviction of sin that caused even mature 171 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:48,000 Christians to feel their sinfulness, bringing groans of 172 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:53,300 distress and prayers of repentance from the unconverted. 173 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,560 Strong men were bowed under the weight of 174 00:09:57,560 --> 00:10:01,340 sin, and cries for mercy were mingled with 175 00:10:01,340 --> 00:10:04,880 shouts of joy from others who had passed 176 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:06,160 into life. 177 00:10:06,900 --> 00:10:10,740 And in Edinburgh, Scotland, at Charlotte Baptist Chapel 178 00:10:10,740 --> 00:10:14,840 in the 1920s, under the pastorate of Joseph 179 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:18,640 Kemp, a revival suddenly broke out in the 180 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:22,240 middle of the service, and he wrote, Quite 181 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:27,500 suddenly, one upon another, came an overwhelming sense 182 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:32,620 of the reality and awfulness of His presence 183 00:10:32,620 --> 00:10:35,140 and of eternal things. 184 00:10:35,780 --> 00:10:38,880 So the first mark, friends, of a genuine 185 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:43,760 revival is the felt, manifest presence of God. 186 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:48,500 The second mark of revival is a consciousness 187 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:52,380 of one's sinfulness and need of repentance. 188 00:10:53,340 --> 00:10:58,000 There is also reformation and at times restitution, 189 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,320 where items that are stolen are returned to 190 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:03,420 the rightful owners. 191 00:11:04,060 --> 00:11:07,260 This was the case in the Canadian revival 192 00:11:07,260 --> 00:11:13,820 in Saskatoon, 1970 to 1971, under the ministry 193 00:11:13,820 --> 00:11:17,480 of Ralph and Lou Sutera, the Sutera twins. 194 00:11:18,100 --> 00:11:21,180 There was a large amount of restitution made, 195 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,340 so much that one of the local merchants 196 00:11:24,340 --> 00:11:26,900 took an ad out in the local paper 197 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:30,560 stating they could no longer accept any more 198 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:33,200 stolen goods at this time, for they had 199 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,500 run out of room to store them. 200 00:11:35,940 --> 00:11:39,580 So if you have a revival without repentance, 201 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:41,260 then it's questionable. 202 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,840 True revival isn't a movement of laughter where 203 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,040 you're rolling in the aisles in hysterical laughter. 204 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:52,140 Would you laugh in the face of a 205 00:11:52,140 --> 00:11:52,580 king? 206 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:55,740 A lot of what we call revival is 207 00:11:55,740 --> 00:11:57,640 just worked up emotionalism. 208 00:11:58,060 --> 00:12:01,180 It's like the Baptist deacon praying after a 209 00:12:01,180 --> 00:12:04,460 series of vibrant evangelistic meetings. 210 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:07,280 Oh Lord, we've had us a time at 211 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:08,440 church this week. 212 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:10,960 There's been nothing like it. 213 00:12:11,220 --> 00:12:12,620 You should have been here, Lord. 214 00:12:13,540 --> 00:12:16,700 But in times of revival, there's a sense 215 00:12:16,700 --> 00:12:19,920 of one's sinfulness in the need for repentance. 216 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,520 This is clearly seen from George Whitefield's journal 217 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:28,520 of his preaching in New York in 1740. 218 00:12:28,780 --> 00:12:32,080 At the height of the Great Awakening, he 219 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:36,920 writes, I was dejected before the evening sermon, 220 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:40,620 and when I came into the pulpit, I 221 00:12:40,620 --> 00:12:43,560 could have chosen to be silent rather than 222 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:44,160 speak. 223 00:12:44,820 --> 00:12:48,680 After I had begun, however, the Spirit of 224 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:52,160 the Lord gave me freedom, and at length 225 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:56,820 came down like a mighty rushing wind and 226 00:12:56,820 --> 00:12:58,440 carried all before it. 227 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:03,460 Immediately the whole congregation was alarmed. 228 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:08,520 Crying, weeping, and wailing were to be heard 229 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:12,600 in every corner, men's hearts failing them for 230 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:16,120 fear, and many were to be seen falling 231 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,720 into the arms of their friends. 232 00:13:19,180 --> 00:13:22,860 My soul was carried out till I could 233 00:13:22,860 --> 00:13:24,780 scarce speak anymore. 234 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,540 A sense of God's goodness overwhelmed me. 235 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,140 A little boy was much concerned on the 236 00:13:32,140 --> 00:13:33,020 pulpit stairs. 237 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,060 One of my friends asked him why he 238 00:13:36,060 --> 00:13:36,680 cried. 239 00:13:37,420 --> 00:13:39,160 Who can help it, he said. 240 00:13:39,700 --> 00:13:43,480 Mr. Whitefield's words cut me to the heart. 241 00:13:44,060 --> 00:13:47,000 So we see even little children are affected 242 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,040 with a sense of sin and revival. 243 00:13:49,980 --> 00:13:53,840 The third mark of a genuine revival is 244 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:59,260 an activated desire for a pursuit of holiness 245 00:13:59,260 --> 00:14:04,460 and personal consecration in a consistent walk with 246 00:14:04,460 --> 00:14:08,120 God under the reign and rule of Christ's 247 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:08,880 Lordship. 248 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:12,840 David Brainerd, during a move of God among 249 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:16,620 the Indians to whom he was preaching, wrote 250 00:14:16,620 --> 00:14:21,040 in his journal, In the morning, felt exceedingly 251 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:24,420 dead to the world in all its enjoyments. 252 00:14:25,100 --> 00:14:29,480 My homiletical mentor, Dr. Stephen Oldford, would say, 253 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:33,340 God can only bless with the anointing of 254 00:14:33,340 --> 00:14:37,180 His Spirit those who pursue a life of 255 00:14:37,180 --> 00:14:37,720 holiness. 256 00:14:38,620 --> 00:14:42,060 In times of revival, friends, it's like heaven 257 00:14:42,060 --> 00:14:45,740 on earth, and personal holiness is a top 258 00:14:45,740 --> 00:14:46,340 priority. 259 00:14:46,340 --> 00:14:50,520 Well, the fourth mark of a genuine revival 260 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:57,100 is a heightened spiritual vitality in prayer and 261 00:14:57,100 --> 00:15:01,420 joyful, energized worship from glad hearts. 262 00:15:01,820 --> 00:15:07,040 During the Welsh revival of 1904, singing hymns 263 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,780 took on a new level in and out 264 00:15:09,780 --> 00:15:10,440 of the churches. 265 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:13,760 It was like the New Testament church was 266 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:17,680 birthed once more with joyous singing and praises 267 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:19,960 of God for what He had done. 268 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,600 Miners would swing their lunch buckets as they 269 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,220 walked the streets on the way to the 270 00:15:26,220 --> 00:15:28,940 mines at six o'clock in the morning, 271 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,620 singing hymns so loudly that no one could 272 00:15:32,620 --> 00:15:35,600 sleep past six o'clock in the village 273 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:37,880 in Rhondda Valley in Wales. 274 00:15:38,140 --> 00:15:41,440 We have the following report of the revival. 275 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:46,800 A scene which may be witnessed any morning 276 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:50,700 here at 5 a.m. Scores of miners 277 00:15:50,700 --> 00:15:54,660 hold a service before going home from the 278 00:15:54,660 --> 00:15:55,720 midnight shift. 279 00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:00,640 The superintendent starts a hymn in the deep 280 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:04,040 and mighty ocean, and then the pit re 281 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:05,160 -echoes the song. 282 00:16:05,580 --> 00:16:08,720 An old man whose gray head is tinged 283 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,480 with coal dust falls on his knees to 284 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:11,940 pray. 285 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:13,720 Others do the same. 286 00:16:14,220 --> 00:16:17,780 The service attracts men from different workings, and 287 00:16:17,780 --> 00:16:23,020 flickering lights are seen approaching the improvised temple. 288 00:16:23,540 --> 00:16:27,400 Now boys, those of you who love Christ, 289 00:16:27,700 --> 00:16:30,780 up with your lamp, cries a young miner. 290 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,340 In a second, scores of lights flicker in 291 00:16:34,340 --> 00:16:37,660 the air, and another song of thanks sets 292 00:16:37,660 --> 00:16:38,700 the mine ringing. 293 00:16:38,700 --> 00:16:43,480 A revival brings a breath of New Testament 294 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:45,700 atmosphere into the church, friends. 295 00:16:46,740 --> 00:16:49,400 Well, the fifth mark of a genuine revival 296 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:50,120 is this. 297 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:54,560 A people gripped with eternity in the last 298 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:57,760 judgment, where there is a renewed heart burden 299 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,840 for the souls of men in evangelistic enterprise. 300 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:07,000 Outreach and evangelism will spread like a prairie 301 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,819 fire in times of revival. 302 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:13,460 John Wesley said, give me 100 men who 303 00:17:13,460 --> 00:17:16,359 fear nothing but God and hate nothing but 304 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:20,339 sin, and I will shake the gates of 305 00:17:20,339 --> 00:17:20,760 hell. 306 00:17:21,260 --> 00:17:22,800 And he did just that. 307 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:27,140 During the Second Great Awakening in America, it 308 00:17:27,140 --> 00:17:30,360 was sparked, and it sparked the great missionary 309 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:33,220 movement that gripped the hearts of young adult 310 00:17:33,220 --> 00:17:37,240 converts, young college graduates who gave their lives 311 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:41,660 sacrificially on foreign fields, spreading the gospel to 312 00:17:41,660 --> 00:17:43,160 distant lands. 313 00:17:43,340 --> 00:17:46,920 In the basement of Hartford Seminary, when I 314 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,720 was doing research there on Azahel Nettleton, there 315 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:54,700 is a wall of fame, of plaques with 316 00:17:54,700 --> 00:17:57,660 the names of these young missionaries who died 317 00:17:57,660 --> 00:17:58,900 on the foreign field. 318 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,940 Most of the martyrs were under the age 319 00:18:01,940 --> 00:18:02,580 of 25. 320 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:04,800 One died in India. 321 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:06,520 Another in New Guinea. 322 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:08,040 One in Tahiti. 323 00:18:08,580 --> 00:18:10,400 Another in the Hawaiian Islands. 324 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:13,620 They lined up like dominoes to bring the 325 00:18:13,620 --> 00:18:17,180 gospel sacrificially to the unsaved. 326 00:18:17,500 --> 00:18:21,940 Many losing loved ones, children, and spouses to 327 00:18:21,940 --> 00:18:23,120 reach the lost. 328 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:27,000 So these five marks must be present in 329 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:31,460 some degree or capacity before you can denominate 330 00:18:31,460 --> 00:18:33,440 it a genuine revival. 331 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,620 Well, I hope this little study, friends, has 332 00:18:37,620 --> 00:18:39,480 been of some help to you. 333 00:18:39,860 --> 00:18:43,060 I urge you and encourage you to do 334 00:18:43,060 --> 00:18:45,140 all you can to read as many books 335 00:18:45,140 --> 00:18:47,620 on revival as you can get your hands 336 00:18:47,620 --> 00:18:52,000 on and to study historical revivals so you 337 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,200 will be able to recognize one should it 338 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:55,720 come. 339 00:18:56,180 --> 00:18:59,120 It's important to be familiar with how God 340 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:03,600 has moved in former times during revival and 341 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:04,720 spiritual awakening. 342 00:19:05,660 --> 00:19:09,560 And I'll close with this call to revival. 343 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:19,040 The Apostle Paul, Luther, Wesley, Whitfield, Knox, Edwards, 344 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:24,440 Finney, Spurgeon, Moody, each shared a common denominator, 345 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:26,980 a fire in their belly. 346 00:19:26,980 --> 00:19:30,220 They each were so eaten up with the 347 00:19:30,220 --> 00:19:33,900 gospel and thirsty for Christ and filled with 348 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:37,600 the Holy Ghost they could not stand idly 349 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:39,860 by while others perished. 350 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:44,920 They saw nothing but eternity, worshiped a holy 351 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:49,340 God, and served a risen Christ, living not 352 00:19:49,340 --> 00:19:52,740 for earth nor its gains but living only 353 00:19:52,740 --> 00:19:55,180 for heaven and its rewards. 354 00:19:55,180 --> 00:19:58,600 When they preached, they linked the devil with 355 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,060 sin and the cross with salvation. 356 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,400 They preached hell and its fire and Christ 357 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:06,640 and Him crucified. 358 00:20:07,460 --> 00:20:10,880 Not one of them feared king, queen, or 359 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,780 pope, and not one of them sought the 360 00:20:13,780 --> 00:20:15,680 compliments of men.