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And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever ().
Background - Wilderness…pick up stones…God who had parted Red Sea stops the Jordan River for them to cross.
Stones are a reminder to to them of why they are in the Promised Land…why they are in the Kingdom…how they got to be God’s people…God did it.
God gathered them together…God freed them from slavery…God put them in the place where they will now live…and this was a reminder to them…but why?
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2 reasons…so that they may fear the Lord.
Personal conviction and remembrance of what God had done for them and how much He loves them…personally…that they would love and fear Him and live for Him.
And so all of the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty…how would that happen…through them and the way they live and speak of the Lord…in the midst of all of the people of the earth.
Here God did something unusual, something strange, something marvellous and miraculous.
He had delivered His cosen people, Isreal, from all from their enemies, the Egyptians—he divided the Red Sea and they went through on dry land.
And here they were, they had been in the wilderness for forty years, and there, on the other side of the Jordan River, was promised land of Canaan, the place they were looking for, and longing for, the land of blessing, the land flowing with milk and honey.
And they had been wandering in the wilderness!
I would remind you again that this very question of the need of revival is of vital importance to the Christian Church, and the minds and prayers of Christian people throughout the world should be channelled and directed into the matter of this urgent need.
I am going to quote some words by Albert Barnes, a famous expositor in the last century, because they seem to me to put this thing so perfectly.
He wrote like this:
That day which shall convince the great body of professing Christians of the reality and desirableness of revivals will constitute a new era in the history of religion and will precede manifestations of power like that of Pentecost.
The greatest problem confronting us in the Church today is that the vast majority of professing Christians are not convinced of the ‘reality and the desirableness of revivals’.
As I have pointed out, this is a subject that has scarcely been mentioned.
Men and women have been so busy in other directions that they have not even thought of it, still less prayed urgently for it.
And yet, as Albert Barnes says, it is surely most important that we should do so and therefore, anything that is going to help us to do it is of the greatest value, and one of the best aids that I know of in this respect is to consider the story of the great revivals of the past.
I am certain that that is absolutely right!
The greatest problem confronting us in the Church today is that the vast majority of professing Christians are not convinced of the ‘reality and the desirableness of revivals’.
As I have pointed out, this is a subject that has scarcely been mentioned.
Men and women have been so busy in other directions that they have not even thought of it, still less prayed urgently for it.
And yet, as Albert Barnes says, it is surely most important that we should do so and therefore, anything that is going to help us to do it is of the greatest value, and one of the best aids that I know of in this respect is to consider the story of the great revivals of the past.
Here God did something unusual, something strange, something marvellous and miraculous.
He had delivered His cosen people, Isreal, from all from their enemies, the Egyptians—he divided the Red Sea and they went through on dry land.
And here they were, they had been in the wilderness for forty years, and there, on the other side of the Jordan River, was promised land of Canaan, the place they were looking for, and longing for, the land of blessing, the land flowing with milk and honey.
And they had been wandering in the wilderness!
That is why, in this centenary year, we are reminding ourselves of what happened in 1859, that wonderful year in the history of God’s people.
But let us be clear about this.
We are not interested in all this merely from the historical standpoint.
Our interest must never be merely an antiquarian interest.
There is no point in reading about revivals just for the sake of reading the history in the stories.
No, our motive and our interest must be to read and to study and to consider what has happened in the past, in order that we may discover the great principles that underly this matter, in order, in other words, that we may discover what it is that we should be seeking and praying for in our own day and generation.
It should be a utilitarian, rather than an antiquarian interest and motive, that should govern us.
In other words, I suggest that we should make use of everything that we can find which tells us about a hundred years ago, in exactly the same way as God intended the Children of Israel to use the twelve stones that he commanded them to take out of the middle of the river of Jordan and to set up at Gilgal.
Now I am calling your attention to this interesting incident because it does seem to me to be speaking very directly to us at this present hour.
Here God did something unusual, something strange, something marvellous and miraculous.
He had delivered the Children of Israel first of all from their enemies, the Egyptians—he divided the Red Sea and they went through on dry land.
And here they were, they had been in the wilderness for forty years, and there, on the other side of the river of Jordan, lay the promised land of Canaan, the place they were looking for, and longing for, the land of blessing, the land flowing with milk and honey.
What a contrast to the wilderness!
Yes, but how could they go through the river?
And the answer was that God divided the waters of Jordan, and they went through—again on dry ground.
And God, you remember, gave this commandment to Joshua, and Joshua in turn gave it to the people.
Take out, he said, twelve stones from the very spot where the priests stood as they held the Ark.
Take out twelve stones and then set them up there in Gilgal.
Why?
The reason is given here in our text.
To remember…to remind them what God had already done for them so they would live in a way to show the world how powerful God is.
Not only that…but also to remind them of something God had done before…parting the Red Sea…in other words…God is mighty and He can do it again.
So let me tell you about something God has done before us.
Let me tell you about a Revival in Northern Ireland...
1859…why would we want to know about this…hearing of the 1859 revival is comparable to these twelve stones that are there at Gilgal.
To create in us this same question, ‘What do these stones mean?’
Now it seems to me that our remembering of the 1859 revival is comparable to these twelve stones that are there at Gilgal.
Our position is this, and my whole business, as we study this subject, is, in a sense, just to create in you this very question, ‘What mean these stones?’
What is all this that you are talking about?
What are these books and pamphlets?
What are these meetings?
What is this thing?
We know nothing about it.
As the Jewish Children in their day were going to ask, ‘What mean these stones?’,
so I trust that the main outcome of our study will be to lead the men and women of our day to ask, ‘What is this and what is its relevance to us?’
Or what does revival mean?
What does it look like?
What is all this revival that we are talking about?
The 1859 Ulster revival was a revival in Northern Ireland that began in a small town called Kells.
This is a small town that even today has about 2000 people.
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in County Antrim.
In late 1857, through the encouragement of the minister of Connor Presbyterian Church, John Hamilton Moore, four recent converts began meeting in the Kells National Schoolhouse for prayer and Bible study.[3] 1 January 1858 saw the first person converted as a direct result of the prayer meeting, and by the end of 1858 the attendance was around fifty.
By Spring 1859 there were 16 prayer meetings in the parish.[4]
The revival spread to Ahoghill in March 1859 and then to Ballymena.[5]
which spread to the rest of the United Kingdom.
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In late 1857, four believers began meeting in the Kells Schoolhouse for prayer and Bible study.
With the conviction in in the heart of one of the men...
“You need to do something more for God.
Could you not gather at least six of your neighbours and spend time with them reading and searching the Word of God?
In response James McQuilkin, Jeremiah Meneely, Robert Carlisle and John Wallace began meeting in a school in Kells.
They met beginning in September 1857 through a long and cold winter.
As they read and meditated upon the Scripture their hearts began to burn with an unquenchable fire from heaven.
They began to believed deeply in the sovereignty of God, the sufficiency of the Holy Scripture and the power of Holy Spirit.
They studied the Word and prayed for three months before there were any visible results.
Then two more men joined their group and then on New Years Day, 1858, the first conversion took place as a result of that meeting.
By the end of 1858, about 50 were taking part in the weekly meeting.
In response James McQuilkin, Jeremiah Meneely, Robert Carlisle and John Wallace began a weekly prayer meeting in an old school house near Kells.
They met every Friday night from September 1857 through the long and cold winter.
As they read and meditated upon the Scripture their hearts began to burn with an unquenchable fire from heaven, which set all Ulster ablaze for God.
The revival spread then to nearby towns in March 1859 and then eventually to the rest of the United Kingdom.
The revival spread to nearby Ahoghill in March 1859 and then eventually to the rest of the United Kingdom.
Although the revival started with laymen in a small town, nearby preachers soon got involved.
Our Sabbath services are continuous, from nine in the morning until ten at night.
We are engaged from nine to twelve in prayer meetings for the young, from twelve to two in public service, from two to four in prayer meetings, from five to eight in the evening service, and finally in our evening prayer meeting.[7]
Christian Historian recently commented that the 1859 revival "made a greater impact spiritually on Ireland, than anything since the days of St. Patrick."
That revival which started with just a few "normal” people who lived for Jesus by the power of the Spirit for the glory of God in a small town of just a couple thousand people...has been estimated to have produced 100,000 born again believers and who knows how many more over the next few generations after.
And so we ask?
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