1 00:00:01,610 --> 00:00:06,830 We are in the Evangelism Awakening Revival Institutes, 2 00:00:07,230 --> 00:00:09,030 and if you turn in your handouts to 3 00:00:09,030 --> 00:00:15,309 Session 17, Sermons for Revival, pastors in former 4 00:00:15,309 --> 00:00:19,490 times knew how to preach awakening sermons that 5 00:00:19,490 --> 00:00:22,830 singed their hearer's conscience with the fires of 6 00:00:22,830 --> 00:00:23,870 judgment and hell. 7 00:00:24,330 --> 00:00:28,090 They preached primarily to awaken and alarm their 8 00:00:28,090 --> 00:00:32,850 congregations to the danger of damnation in a 9 00:00:32,850 --> 00:00:33,930 crisis eternity. 10 00:00:34,770 --> 00:00:37,750 They made sure that the law of God 11 00:00:37,750 --> 00:00:40,870 thundered in the ears of their hearers and 12 00:00:40,870 --> 00:00:42,790 preached the law before grace. 13 00:00:43,470 --> 00:00:47,690 Both John Wesley and George Whitefield preached the 14 00:00:47,690 --> 00:00:48,950 law before grace. 15 00:00:49,490 --> 00:00:51,850 They believed that a sinner must be confronted 16 00:00:51,850 --> 00:00:55,650 with his rebellion against Almighty God. 17 00:00:56,130 --> 00:00:59,490 In fact, George Whitefield used to comment that 18 00:00:59,490 --> 00:01:02,570 a sinner must first be brought to Mount 19 00:01:02,570 --> 00:01:05,970 Sinai before he can be brought to Mount 20 00:01:05,970 --> 00:01:06,550 Zion. 21 00:01:07,210 --> 00:01:11,930 But today's evangelism says, God loves you, just 22 00:01:11,930 --> 00:01:14,230 believe in Him and you will go to 23 00:01:14,230 --> 00:01:14,730 heaven. 24 00:01:15,250 --> 00:01:18,530 Is there no wonder that our congregations are 25 00:01:18,530 --> 00:01:21,890 mixed herds of sheep and goats who cannot 26 00:01:21,890 --> 00:01:24,990 get along and bite each other's tails? 27 00:01:25,510 --> 00:01:29,610 But preachers in former times were wiser than 28 00:01:29,610 --> 00:01:33,670 we, for they preached the gospel in its 29 00:01:33,670 --> 00:01:35,910 purity and proper order. 30 00:01:36,050 --> 00:01:38,730 They preached the full counsel of God and 31 00:01:38,730 --> 00:01:44,350 proclaiming the great doctrines of ruin, redemption, regeneration, 32 00:01:44,850 --> 00:01:45,570 and repentance. 33 00:01:46,130 --> 00:01:49,390 They warned of a coming judgment and a 34 00:01:49,390 --> 00:01:50,630 returning Christ. 35 00:01:51,150 --> 00:01:54,470 We will examine some sample sermons in this 36 00:01:54,470 --> 00:01:58,650 session today from ministers from Scotland in the 37 00:01:58,650 --> 00:01:59,790 19th century. 38 00:02:00,530 --> 00:02:03,070 I have a book before me here and 39 00:02:03,070 --> 00:02:05,610 I highly recommend it to you friends. 40 00:02:06,050 --> 00:02:08,150 If you can get it, it's worth its 41 00:02:08,150 --> 00:02:09,050 weight in gold. 42 00:02:09,430 --> 00:02:12,910 It was written in 1840 and it's entitled 43 00:02:12,910 --> 00:02:17,130 Lectures on Revival by Ministers of Scotland. 44 00:02:17,790 --> 00:02:22,070 It contains sermons by men like John Bonar, 45 00:02:22,070 --> 00:02:22,670 A. 46 00:02:22,790 --> 00:02:24,430 Moody Stewart, R. 47 00:02:24,450 --> 00:02:24,690 S. 48 00:02:24,770 --> 00:02:28,270 Candlish, and William Burns and others. 49 00:02:29,370 --> 00:02:33,290 Each minister was given the assignment to preach 50 00:02:33,290 --> 00:02:36,770 revival sermon and delivered at a conference on 51 00:02:36,770 --> 00:02:38,050 revival in Scotland. 52 00:02:38,730 --> 00:02:42,130 Listen to the title of John Bonar's sermon, 53 00:02:42,990 --> 00:02:47,310 The Nature of a Religious Revival, State of 54 00:02:47,310 --> 00:02:51,950 Religion Requiring It, Effects Which It Is Calculated 55 00:02:51,950 --> 00:02:55,210 to Produce in the Church and on the 56 00:02:55,210 --> 00:03:00,550 World, Vindication from Misapprehension and Prejudice. 57 00:03:01,010 --> 00:03:04,630 Listen to his opening words, We meet this 58 00:03:04,630 --> 00:03:07,590 evening in very peculiar circumstances. 59 00:03:08,270 --> 00:03:10,830 For some years past, there has been a 60 00:03:10,830 --> 00:03:13,850 growing impression on the minds of many of 61 00:03:13,850 --> 00:03:17,070 God's people that it was time to seek 62 00:03:17,070 --> 00:03:19,910 the Lord that he might reign righteousness. 63 00:03:20,770 --> 00:03:22,850 Some suitable means were adopted. 64 00:03:23,570 --> 00:03:26,650 The attention of the church was earnestly called 65 00:03:26,650 --> 00:03:30,110 to the subject by public discourses. 66 00:03:30,490 --> 00:03:32,070 I will stop there friends. 67 00:03:32,570 --> 00:03:35,450 Notice that he mentions the necessity of the 68 00:03:35,450 --> 00:03:39,350 church to address revivals of religion by preaching 69 00:03:39,350 --> 00:03:40,630 revival sermons. 70 00:03:42,330 --> 00:03:44,530 His contemporary, R. 71 00:03:44,530 --> 00:03:44,670 S. 72 00:03:44,750 --> 00:03:48,270 Candlish, has a sermon entitled, The Word of 73 00:03:48,270 --> 00:03:52,250 God, Character of Preaching Fitted to Produce a 74 00:03:52,250 --> 00:03:52,890 Revival. 75 00:03:53,330 --> 00:03:56,910 This book is over 400 pages long of 76 00:03:56,910 --> 00:04:01,010 wonderful revival sermons by men familiar with its 77 00:04:01,010 --> 00:04:01,590 subject. 78 00:04:02,090 --> 00:04:06,110 We must be familiar with revival and be 79 00:04:06,110 --> 00:04:09,410 able to construct sermons to preach them to 80 00:04:09,410 --> 00:04:10,530 promote revival. 81 00:04:11,150 --> 00:04:15,230 It is important to understand homiletical principles in 82 00:04:15,230 --> 00:04:19,810 sermon preparation as we preach expository sermons true 83 00:04:19,810 --> 00:04:20,690 to the text. 84 00:04:21,310 --> 00:04:25,350 My own homiletical mentor, Dr. Stephen F. 85 00:04:25,490 --> 00:04:31,350 Oldford, learned sermon preparation from his homiletical mentor, 86 00:04:31,850 --> 00:04:32,050 W. 87 00:04:32,210 --> 00:04:35,130 Graham Scroggie, when he studied under him in 88 00:04:35,130 --> 00:04:35,510 London. 89 00:04:36,090 --> 00:04:38,530 I want to pass on the tool he 90 00:04:38,530 --> 00:04:40,930 learned from him to you today friends. 91 00:04:41,710 --> 00:04:45,250 I wrote a book with Stephen Oldford entitled, 92 00:04:45,870 --> 00:04:47,130 Oldford on Scroggie. 93 00:04:47,710 --> 00:04:50,550 In it, I took the sermon outlines from 94 00:04:50,550 --> 00:04:54,250 Graham Scroggie's personal papers, which are in the 95 00:04:54,250 --> 00:04:55,990 possession of Oldford Ministries. 96 00:04:55,990 --> 00:05:00,370 I arranged them thematically and theologically. 97 00:05:00,890 --> 00:05:04,110 Stephen Oldford commented on how to preach them 98 00:05:04,110 --> 00:05:04,830 effectively. 99 00:05:05,510 --> 00:05:09,370 The sermon preparation that Stephen Oldford used, which 100 00:05:09,370 --> 00:05:12,670 he learned from Graham Scroggie, was the Golden 101 00:05:12,670 --> 00:05:13,250 Hammer. 102 00:05:13,910 --> 00:05:17,810 The Golden Hammer is a sermon construction tool 103 00:05:17,810 --> 00:05:22,150 where each message must have a centralizing theme, 104 00:05:22,570 --> 00:05:25,850 unifying thoughts, and a motivating thrust. 105 00:05:26,290 --> 00:05:29,350 So many sermons a day just end flat 106 00:05:29,350 --> 00:05:33,430 without giving our hearers an opportunity to respond. 107 00:05:34,010 --> 00:05:37,370 The Golden Hammer will hopefully aid you in 108 00:05:37,370 --> 00:05:37,810 preaching. 109 00:05:39,410 --> 00:05:42,390 Well, we now have a written assignment to 110 00:05:42,390 --> 00:05:42,770 do. 111 00:05:43,230 --> 00:05:47,510 Between this and our next session, your job 112 00:05:47,510 --> 00:05:51,730 is to construct a revival sermon using your 113 00:05:51,730 --> 00:05:55,270 own originality with the goal of awakening your 114 00:05:55,270 --> 00:05:57,730 audience to their lost condition. 115 00:05:58,090 --> 00:06:00,990 We must give the Holy Spirit room to 116 00:06:00,990 --> 00:06:05,190 operate on the sinner's heart to bring conviction 117 00:06:05,190 --> 00:06:05,830 to sin. 118 00:06:06,290 --> 00:06:09,090 Your sermon should be full of the gospel. 119 00:06:09,750 --> 00:06:11,670 It should have all the elements of the 120 00:06:11,670 --> 00:06:16,870 Golden Hammer, a centralizing theme, unifying thoughts, and 121 00:06:16,870 --> 00:06:18,690 a motivating thrust. 122 00:06:19,150 --> 00:06:22,550 We will review your sermon once you deliver 123 00:06:22,550 --> 00:06:22,930 it. 124 00:06:23,370 --> 00:06:26,130 Our problem today is we don't preach like 125 00:06:26,130 --> 00:06:28,770 we should because we don't want to offend 126 00:06:28,770 --> 00:06:29,450 anybody. 127 00:06:29,910 --> 00:06:33,330 So our messages are nice little sermons that 128 00:06:33,330 --> 00:06:35,030 don't disturb anyone. 129 00:06:35,470 --> 00:06:38,650 The trouble is they don't save anyone either. 130 00:06:39,150 --> 00:06:43,590 Are you more concerned about not upsetting your 131 00:06:43,590 --> 00:06:46,810 deacons or are you more concerned that they 132 00:06:46,810 --> 00:06:47,930 don't go to hell? 133 00:06:48,330 --> 00:06:51,770 In Ezekiel we read, When I say unto 134 00:06:51,770 --> 00:06:55,390 the wicked man, Thou shalt surely die. 135 00:06:55,910 --> 00:06:58,990 If thou dost not speak to warn the 136 00:06:58,990 --> 00:07:02,250 wicked from his way, that wicked man shall 137 00:07:02,250 --> 00:07:06,010 die in his iniquity, but his blood will 138 00:07:06,010 --> 00:07:08,610 I require at thine hand. 139 00:07:09,210 --> 00:07:12,050 I wonder how many preachers will stand at 140 00:07:12,050 --> 00:07:15,830 the judgment with bloody hands for failing to 141 00:07:15,830 --> 00:07:16,830 warn folks. 142 00:07:17,730 --> 00:07:20,410 Well this concludes our session today. 143 00:07:20,730 --> 00:07:23,750 We will now prepare for our last session, 144 00:07:23,750 --> 00:07:27,850 session 18, where we will each preach our 145 00:07:27,850 --> 00:07:29,730 own revival sermon.