1 00:00:00,750 --> 00:00:03,350 I think it's important, friends, as we study 2 00:00:03,350 --> 00:00:06,430 men revival, to see how they came to 3 00:00:06,430 --> 00:00:06,910 faith. 4 00:00:07,410 --> 00:00:10,150 Charles Spurgeon's testimony is worth reading. 5 00:00:10,590 --> 00:00:13,990 As a teenager, Spurgeon went all over London, 6 00:00:14,570 --> 00:00:17,350 hearing the greatest orators of his day, but 7 00:00:17,350 --> 00:00:18,610 he couldn't get saved. 8 00:00:19,050 --> 00:00:21,850 Finally, while making his way to church one 9 00:00:21,850 --> 00:00:25,670 Sunday, a snowstorm forced him into a country, 10 00:00:25,670 --> 00:00:29,130 Methodist chapel, where the pastor had failed to 11 00:00:29,130 --> 00:00:32,770 come, so an uneducated deacon took the pulpit 12 00:00:32,770 --> 00:00:37,050 and preached a simple message from Isaiah 45, 13 00:00:37,370 --> 00:00:42,130 22, which states, Look unto me, and be 14 00:00:42,130 --> 00:00:45,310 ye saved, all the ends of the earth, 15 00:00:45,690 --> 00:00:48,570 for I am God, and there is none 16 00:00:48,570 --> 00:00:49,110 else. 17 00:00:49,510 --> 00:00:52,470 Let Spurgeon tell the story in his own 18 00:00:52,470 --> 00:00:53,050 words. 19 00:00:53,050 --> 00:00:56,250 He did not even pronounce the words rightly, 20 00:00:56,490 --> 00:00:57,990 but that did not matter. 21 00:00:58,510 --> 00:01:00,790 There was, I thought, a glimpse of hope 22 00:01:00,790 --> 00:01:02,070 for me in that text. 23 00:01:02,350 --> 00:01:06,430 The preacher began thus, My dear friends, this 24 00:01:06,430 --> 00:01:08,370 is a very simple text, indeed. 25 00:01:08,930 --> 00:01:09,870 It says, look. 26 00:01:10,210 --> 00:01:12,310 Now, look and don't take a deal of 27 00:01:12,310 --> 00:01:12,830 pains. 28 00:01:13,110 --> 00:01:15,150 It ain't lifting your foot or your finger. 29 00:01:15,610 --> 00:01:16,830 It just says, look. 30 00:01:17,130 --> 00:01:19,790 Well, a man needn't go to college to 31 00:01:19,790 --> 00:01:21,030 learn to look. 32 00:01:21,030 --> 00:01:23,890 You may be the biggest fool, and yet 33 00:01:23,890 --> 00:01:24,730 you can look. 34 00:01:25,190 --> 00:01:28,550 A man need not even be worth a 35 00:01:28,550 --> 00:01:31,130 thousand a year to be able to look. 36 00:01:31,490 --> 00:01:32,690 Anyone can look. 37 00:01:33,050 --> 00:01:34,930 Even a child can look. 38 00:01:35,310 --> 00:01:38,230 But then the text says, look unto me, 39 00:01:38,510 --> 00:01:42,330 I, said he, in broad Essex. 40 00:01:42,770 --> 00:01:46,030 Many on ye are looking to yourselves, but 41 00:01:46,030 --> 00:01:47,570 it's no use looking there. 42 00:01:47,870 --> 00:01:49,910 You never find any comfort in yourselves. 43 00:01:49,910 --> 00:01:52,450 Some look to God the Father. 44 00:01:52,970 --> 00:01:55,310 No, look to Him by and by. 45 00:01:55,650 --> 00:01:58,130 Jesus Christ says, look unto me. 46 00:01:58,550 --> 00:02:00,930 Some on ye say, we must wait for 47 00:02:00,930 --> 00:02:01,890 the Spirit's working. 48 00:02:02,410 --> 00:02:04,690 You have no business with that just now. 49 00:02:05,070 --> 00:02:06,830 Look to Christ, the text says. 50 00:02:07,169 --> 00:02:08,110 Look unto me. 51 00:02:08,750 --> 00:02:11,230 Then the good man followed up his text, 52 00:02:11,270 --> 00:02:12,230 and this way. 53 00:02:13,290 --> 00:02:16,570 Look unto me, I'm sweating great drops of 54 00:02:16,570 --> 00:02:17,030 blood. 55 00:02:17,030 --> 00:02:20,530 Look unto me, I'm hanging on the cross. 56 00:02:20,850 --> 00:02:23,830 Look unto me, I am dead and buried. 57 00:02:24,350 --> 00:02:27,110 Look unto me, I rise again. 58 00:02:27,530 --> 00:02:30,530 Look unto me, I ascend to the heaven. 59 00:02:31,230 --> 00:02:34,510 Look unto me, I am sitting at the 60 00:02:34,510 --> 00:02:35,970 Father's right hand. 61 00:02:36,370 --> 00:02:40,010 O poor sinner, look unto me, look unto 62 00:02:40,010 --> 00:02:40,590 me. 63 00:02:41,510 --> 00:02:43,830 When he had gone to about that length, 64 00:02:43,910 --> 00:02:46,110 and managed to spend out ten minutes or 65 00:02:46,110 --> 00:02:48,150 so, he was at the end of his 66 00:02:48,150 --> 00:02:48,590 tether. 67 00:02:49,170 --> 00:02:51,090 Then he looked at me under the gallery, 68 00:02:51,190 --> 00:02:54,250 and, I dare say, with so few present, 69 00:02:54,710 --> 00:02:56,330 he knew me to be a stranger. 70 00:02:56,770 --> 00:02:59,230 Just fixing his eyes on me as if 71 00:02:59,230 --> 00:03:01,830 he knew all my heart, he said, Young 72 00:03:01,830 --> 00:03:04,130 man, you look very miserable. 73 00:03:05,090 --> 00:03:05,970 Well, I did. 74 00:03:06,210 --> 00:03:09,030 But I had not been accustomed to have 75 00:03:09,030 --> 00:03:11,890 remarks made from the pulpit on my personal 76 00:03:11,890 --> 00:03:13,030 appearance before. 77 00:03:13,030 --> 00:03:16,910 However, it was a good blow, struck right 78 00:03:16,910 --> 00:03:17,450 home. 79 00:03:17,890 --> 00:03:21,110 He continued, And you will always be miserable, 80 00:03:21,790 --> 00:03:24,850 miserable in life, miserable in death, if you 81 00:03:24,850 --> 00:03:26,290 don't obey my text. 82 00:03:26,590 --> 00:03:29,150 But if you obey now this moment, you 83 00:03:29,150 --> 00:03:30,090 will be saved. 84 00:03:30,570 --> 00:03:34,170 Then, lifting up his hands, he shouted, only 85 00:03:34,170 --> 00:03:37,990 as a primitive Methodist could do, You man, 86 00:03:38,370 --> 00:03:43,370 look to Jesus Christ, look, look, look. 87 00:03:43,550 --> 00:03:45,850 You have nothing to do but to look 88 00:03:45,850 --> 00:03:46,570 and live. 89 00:03:47,130 --> 00:03:49,910 I saw at once the way of salvation. 90 00:03:50,550 --> 00:03:52,450 I know not what else he said. 91 00:03:52,810 --> 00:03:54,870 I did not take much notice of it. 92 00:03:55,190 --> 00:03:57,770 I was so possessed with that one thought, 93 00:03:58,070 --> 00:04:01,110 like as when the brazen serpent was lifted 94 00:04:01,110 --> 00:04:04,370 up, the people only looked and were healed. 95 00:04:04,750 --> 00:04:06,350 So it was with me. 96 00:04:07,330 --> 00:04:11,410 I had been waiting to do fifty things. 97 00:04:11,690 --> 00:04:14,690 But when I heard that word look, what 98 00:04:14,690 --> 00:04:16,550 a charming word it seemed to me. 99 00:04:16,829 --> 00:04:19,709 Oh, I looked until I could almost have 100 00:04:19,709 --> 00:04:21,130 looked my eyes away. 101 00:04:21,710 --> 00:04:24,290 There and then the cloud was gone, the 102 00:04:24,290 --> 00:04:27,230 darkness had rolled away, and that moment I 103 00:04:27,230 --> 00:04:29,910 saw the sun, and I could have risen 104 00:04:29,910 --> 00:04:32,870 that instant and sung with the most enthusiastic 105 00:04:32,870 --> 00:04:36,070 of them of the precious blood of Christ 106 00:04:36,070 --> 00:04:39,630 and simple faith which looks alone to Him. 107 00:04:40,170 --> 00:04:42,990 Oh, that somebody had told me this before. 108 00:04:43,450 --> 00:04:46,290 Trust Christ and you shall be saved.